3 JUNE 1916, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE have dealt elsewhere with the battle of Verdun. Here it is only necessesy to say that the latest news shows that • the German attacks grow daily more desperate. The artillery preparation is more severe than ever, and it is in a " blacker, ineessanter line " that their infantry divisions press on to the attack. Though the heads of their formations are so often swept away by the French field-pieces and by the wild fury of the French assaults, and though these counter-attacks have again and again been successful, still, on the weekly, though not on every daily, balance-sheet there is a definite though small gain of ground for the Germans.
