There is no mistaking the plain. tiveness of the cry of the "Courrier de Généve? thay "Our guns have been booming; our soldiers dying, and nothing has been done." This journal says frankly that the German people are anxious; their eyes Ihave been fed on shadows; Paris, Calais, Nancy, Riga,—Dvinsk, Balonika and Valona have dis appeared, and now "Verdun has been flashed before our eyes for twelve days." On the other side we have a picture of the growing confidence of the Allies, and the weight of foreign opinion believing in the success of the French arms. The enemy found it impossible, in spite of his preponderance in heavy guns, to reduce Verdun by way of Douaumont, and so abandoned these costly attacks and initiated another powerful thrust on the west bank of the Meuse, But he has not been able to gain an inch of ground: and Lord ~ak North fife, who has returned from the battlefield, says that the French feel that they have the measure of the enemy both in men and material. This, indeed, is good news; it means that our Ally can remain in his formidable position, shattering—the enemy's attacks, until it pleases him to go forward in an irresistible wave against the broken army of the German Emperor.
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