2 JANUARY 1915, Page 9

Though Christmas has coloured the news from the front, there

has been a good deal of activity all along the line from the Swiss to the Dutch frontiers. Not much progress counted in mileage can be claimed, bat such as there has been is wholly in favour of the Allies. On their extreme left the Belgians carried out a remarkable feat of arms in tine capture to the north-east of Nieuport of the village of St. Georges. At the other end of the line— namely, in Upper Alsace—the French have taken, or at any rate half taken, the village of Steinbach. In the rest of the line there have been a good many small actions and a number of trenches taken, but nothing that requires special mention.