NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AS we ventured to anticipate last week, the attack on Verdun was the beginning of the groat German push, the charge with the bridle off, the assault to be pressed through at all costs. At the time we write on Thursday afternoon, the first effort in the great attack has failed. The Germans have fought themselves to a standstill. As we have said elsewhere, the effort may very well be renewed at Verdun, though we hold it as more likely that, having knocked at that door and received so terrible an answer, the Germans will try to discover a softer place somewhere else. Here, while expressing once more our admiration of the splendid way in which France has held her ground, we must say something as to the details of the struggle, as far as they are known.
