26 DECEMBER 1914, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
OWING to Christmas Day falling as it does, and the Boxing Day Bank Holiday being on a Saturday, we are obliged this week to close our review of events on the Wednesday instead of as usual on the Friday. Though no man can, of course, say what the next few days have in store for us, it looks as if in the western theatre of the war there would be no very great change in the last days of December. There has undoubtedly of late been a great deal of activity all along the line from Belfort to the sea, but there is nothing to show that this activity is more than the putting into practice on a considerable scale of General Joffre's policy of " nibbling." On the whole, that policy up to Wednesday had produced very satisfactory results.
