NEWS OF THE WEEK
TN our leading columns we have reviewed the military situation .1 at length, and will only repeat here the most salient facts. They are that the French during the week have been holding their own at Verdun as gallantly and as persistently as ever. If they were essentially safe, as we have always held they were, even when faced by the first fury of the German onset, they are doubly or trebly safe now They know what the Germans can accomplish, and they know that they can beat it. At the same time, the Germans have learnt the terrible lesson that the very most and the very best they can do is not enough. There is nothing more shattering to the nerve of an Army, and so to its ' moral, than constant attacks constantly repelled. German discip- line is no doubt little short of a miracle, but even it cannot endure unshaken such an ordeal as that of Verdun during the past five weeks.
