NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TIRE chief military event of the week from the British point of view has been the considerable local success obtained by the British force in the western theatre of the war. On Wednesday, in the region of Neuve Chapelle, the 4th Corps and the Indian Corps advanced for three- quarters of a mile on a front of over two miles, and captured all the intervening positions and trenches. The corps on the right and left of the attacking parties were also engaged. More than seven hundred prisoners were taken. At the same time British aircraft were active, and succeeded in destroying the railway junctions at Courtrai and Menin- an episode which must cause considerable embarrassment to the enemy when bringing up their supplies. The action at Neuve Chapelle was followed as usual by German counter- attacks, but they appear to have been successfully repulsed with considerable lose to the Germans.
