23 OCTOBER 1915, Page 2

The position on the Western front has not greatly changed

since we last wrote, but what change there is has been dis- tinctly for the better. One important event of the week took place in our portion of the line. On Tuesday the enemy made a 'very determined attack from the Quarries to Mullin* an attack which had to be carried across open ground. This offensive movement was completely stopped, as Sir John French tells us in his report published on Thursday, by our combined artillery, machine-gun, and rifle fire. This un- successful attack was next followed by a number of bombing attacks in the neighbourhood of the Hohenzollern Redoubt and Fosse No. 8, but all these attacks were successfully repulsed.