NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ALTHOUGH there is no dramatic progress to record from the various fronts such as stirred enthusiasm last week, the military unity of the Allies continues to yield excellent proofs of its reality and ample promise of results to come. The Germans have massed all their available men on the Western front, and yet have been unable to make the British and French lines yield ground at any point for more than a very short time. Even where some trenches have been temporarily lost simultaneous gains else- where have more than counterbalanced the loss. If anyone com- plains that the " push " is slower than he had hoped, he should reflect that even if we did not go forward at all in the West we should be serving a most profitable end in holding fixed to the ground such vast numbers of Germans. But for this German troops would have been rushed to the assistance of Bothmer and the defenders of Trieste.
