NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THOUGH during the past week there have been no military events of great importance, the whole tendency has been distinctly in favour of the Allies. In the first place, the gloomy prognostications which were rife last Saturday as to the German successes at Verdun have not proved well founded. The Germans, it is true, have gained ground. But though, when the results of the attacks are balanced against those of the counter- attacks, the enemy may be found to have the better side of the account, their gains are not substantial enough to cause anything in the nature of alarm. They make progress, but it is so slow and the cost so terrible that we feel sure that the wiser minds in the German High Command must be bowed down with apprehen- sion. At their present rate of advance, Paris must be reckoned to be two years off, and the cost of reaching it placed at the least at four million lives. Truly may it be said of the German military policy at Verdun :—
"Each fatal triumph brings more near The inevitable end."
And the end is death and destruction.
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