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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

filHE news from the western theatre of the war is this week distinctly good. Though on the British front there has been very little fighting, there has been considerable activity on the part of our allies. On the left the Belgians drove back some German raiders who had ventured to cross the Veer, while in the region between the Meuse and the Moselle the French have made real progress. As almost always happens, the French advance was answered by furious counter- attacks—the official rommunigui speaks of them as of 'extra- ordinary violence "—but happily these did not succeed. Further, the unsuccessful German counter-attacks resulted in enormous losses. Over one thousand German bodies were counted. Thus General Joffre's "nibbling" goes on.

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