NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON the Western front there is little to report, except that there has been a good deal of liveliness in the air. That liveliness, however, in no way supports the panicky suggestion that the Germans have got the mastery because they have put into the air a new, fast, and powerful combatant machine—the Fokker. We are holding our own quite satisfactorily. At the extreme left of the Allies' line near the coast the Germans made during the early part of the week what looked as if it were meant for a serious attack. They bombarded the Allies' trenches with great vigour, using, it is said, as many as twenty thousand shells ; but the attack that should have followed proved abortive. In other parts of the line, and especially in Artois, there has been a good deal of cannonading and mixed fighting ; but though the artillery fire of both sides has been violent, there has been not much giving or taking of ground.
