22 DECEMBER 1917, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
f HE Western Front is now snow-bound and operations on a 1 large scale have ceased. The enemy has, however, shown considerable activity along the whole front, making continual trench raids and a few local attacks. The most serious affair was an attack on Friday week upon our positions east of Ypres, near Polderhoek. At one point the enemy occupied three hundred yards of our front trenches, but he was driven out of nearly all his gains the same night.. His attacks on our lines east of Bullecourt, and on our new lines before Cambrai, have invariably failed. With the Hindenburg line behind them, our troops are well placed to resist any offensive.
