In Flanders, though there is no very great change to
report, the situation has unquestionably improved from our point of view since last Saturday. During tile week the Germans have been making violent attacks in this region, but though they have inflicted heavy losses upon the Allies, none of their attacks has been successful—with the result to themselves, usual in repeated unsucc,essful attacks, of a vast wastage of men, and, what is worse, considerable disheartenment among the troops. The German troops are very brave, and their moral is very good, but no matter how brave men are they cannot be thrown again and again against trenches without
feeling it. They get war-weary, to put it at the very lowest. Though our progress has been slow, there has been progress. Not only are the Belgians across the Yser, but our line has been distinctly pushed forward.
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