NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TIIELD-MABSHAL HAIG resumed the offensive on a large I scale early on Tuesday morning.- With a French army under General Anthoine on his left, he broke out of the Ypres Salient on a front of fifteen miles from the Lys northward to the Yser. The Allies advanced successfully all along the line. The French on the left crossed the Yser and took Steenstraate, and then, splendidly over- running their mark by more than two miles, captured Bixschoote. In the left centre our troops stormed two defensive lines and the villages of Verlorenhock, Frezenbcrg, St. Julien, and Pilkem. In the right centre we took Hooge and Sanctuary Wood, and, pushing forward against "a very obstinate resistance" in difficult country, carried Westhock by assault. On the right, further south, our men took Hollebeke and also La Besse Ville, on the Lys, which had been taken and evacuated four days before. In a few hours the Allied line was advanced two miles along the northern half of the front, and a mile along the southern half. Over five thousand prisoners, including ninety-five officers, were captured, with some gene.
