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In the Western theatre of war the lull still continues.

Wo say this in spite of the fact that the Germans made an attack on a considerable scale on a part of the French line, and claim to have taken a long stretch of trenches. - In all probability.

however, they lost more than our allies over the transaction, and in any case it proved entirely infructuous of real results.- They may have advanced a quarter of a mile locally, but they are not the millionth part of an inch nearer Paris or Calais than they were. Meanwhile all the world waits to catch the first sounds of the cannonade which will echo in the great push which must come, whoever begins it, when the ground ceases to be waterlogged.

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