On the French front the enemy has again concentrated his
atten- tion upon the Verdun lines Fearful lest our Allies should advance still further, widening their salient east of the Meuse, the Germans began on Monday a eeriest of attacks on the French positions on Hill 344, close to the liver, and as far emit as Bezonvaux. Here, as in Flanders, they won a few outlying trenches, but they could make no impression on the main line of defence. The enemy's attacks in the West always share the same fate nowadays, because their troops are of inferior quality, and because their artillery is overwhelmed by the Allied guns and therefore cannot support the infantry at the eritioal momenta. They never recover important positions that they have lost. They can only hope to delay but not to arrest any offensive that the Allies choose to make.
