Militarily there is very little to report on the past week in Europe, for, though there was considerable activity along the Siegfried Line be-{ween the Rhine and Luxembourg, in which the French appear to have obtained the better of the exchanges, comparatively little progress has been made, German counter-attacks designed to Jdrive the French from noyly-occupied positrons met wi and the fack re: maine that while substantial French gains German territory have been made not one German soldier is fighting on French soil. Much Speculation has been aroused over the reports of German concentrations near the Belgian and Netherlands: boundaries, and also in the vicinity Switzerland, but there is very little to suggest that the German command at present cone template breaching the neutrality of any of those countries. They will not fancy a winter campaign in the mud and wet of Flanders, while there is probably no very real desire to add to the number of their enemies by infringing Swiss neutrality, One of the gratifying features Jot the week on sea has been the success which has attended the Allied efforts in the convoying of ships, and the hunting down of German 'During the past week only two British ships were accounted for, demon ing that the good progress made'
Usbost™ menace since the commune! hostilities is being maintalfied. Reports about half the German. submarine probably form any Criterion for judging, and the reports of sub: marines being seen much further afield ests that the waters around Europe have been made decidedly uncomfortable for them. It natural that questions as to how they are receiving their supplies will be asked, but, if What happened during the last war is any promise of what is likely to happen in this, the probabilities of this evil being adequately dealt with are imposing. Nor need any undue alarm "be felt over the reports of a German pocket battleship being active in the Atlantic. She will very likely have a period put to her career within a reasonably short time, for history shows that the British navy have been able fo strike swiftly and secretly in the past, Though there will always be some speculation as to how, if Indeed so. important a surface Wessel is abroad, she managed to escape through the blockade,
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