NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rums has been a glorious week for British arms. In Flanders
Sir Douglas Haig has completed the work of months of hard fighting by the capture of Passchendaele, the crowning point of the famous ridge that blocked the road to Bruges. Faraway in Palestine General Allenby has won a great victory, smashing the Turkish line across the plain of Philistia and taking Gaza. In still more remote Mesopotamia, General Maude has advanced twenty miles up the Tigris, driving the Turks before him. The Navy, too, has shown in the Kattegat affair its unsleeping vigilance, and its readiness to profit by the few opportunities which it has for attacking enemy ships. These positive successes do more than counterbalance in any reasoned view of the military situation the reverse which our Italian Allies have suffered.
