The news from the North during the week can only
be described as very good indeed. The greater part of East Prussia has been overrun by the Russians. Konigsberg, it is true, stands out as an island in the flood of advance, but we shall not be astonished if we hear by Monday that the Russians have occupied everything east of the line of the Vistula. At the same time they are said to be pressing hard upon Posen, while on the Austrian frontier Lemberg is threatened, if not occupied. No doubt here things will go a good deal more slowly than the public imagines, but we should be by no means surprised if by the middle of September the Russians were able to threaten Berlin. The accounts from Servia show that the defeat of the Austrians there was far more complete than any one had ventured to hope for. The Servians are now invading Bosnia, and rumours are afloat that the Monte- negrins, assisted by the Allied Fleets, will soon take Ragusa. The Japanese are attacking Kiao-chau, but no details have come to hand. In all probability it will take a month or two to reduce so strong a place.
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