Serbian and French troops attacked the Bulgarian hill-positions on either side of Dobropolye, the peak over five thousand feet high which is, we are told, a familiar eastern...

good gunnery as well as to hard fighting, led to the retreat of the enemy, east of Verdun and down the Moselle from Pont-b,-Mousson, upon a new fortified line covering the...

ri'HE American Army, under General Pershing, undertook its first independentoffensivein France on Thursday week and achieved a swift and brilliant success. The Americans,...

on both sides of the Bapaume-Cambrai road, a few miles 'west and south-west of Cambrai, where the Canal du Nord and the Hindenburg line form serious obstacles to our advance. On...

west of Cambrai, made a whirlwind attack upon its outworks between Cambrai and St. Quentin. The Third and Fourth Armies, with two Australian divisions in the right centre,...

week its tremendous struggle in the hills north of the Aisne, where it is slowly approaching the western end of the Chemin des Dames. The enemy has fought hard for every inch of...

at the defences of La Bassee, the southern pivot of the German lines before Lille. Fosse 8 and the "Dump," famous in the fighting of 1915, were captured on Friday week. The...

TO . OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator " with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

Within half-an-hour after the receipt of the Austrian Note at Washington on Monday, Mr. Lansing was authorized to state the American answer:— " The Government of the United -...

that Germany had niatte a secret proposal to Belgium, offering to restore her ". independence " after the war if Belgium would at once resume her neutrality—so that the Allies...

harangue to Krupp's workpeople ,with an address at Stuttgart, remarkable alike for its admissions and its peace pro- posals. He admitted German depression, attributing it less...

brief speech in the Trench -Senate -on Tuesday. Germany, ,he saki, had bullied France for half-a-century and boasted of her " mailed ,fist " and her " sharp sword." Nowthat-the...

with an undefeated Germany must le clear, even to our Paoifioista, from her extortion of Z00,000,000 from the Bolshevik Government, in spite of her abjuration of indemnities by...

by Mr. Balfour, speaking without formal consultation with his colleagues, at a lunoheon to the Oversee Press representatives on Monday. He said that irresponsible- conversations...

? It was the enemy. . . . This war is the product of a great ne,;ation, the negation of the German people's right to existence. . . . Envy induced our enemies to fight, and the...

was torpedoed and sunk on Thursday week, two days ,after leaving port under wort. The enemy submarine was not seen. Most of the thousand people on board, mostly invalided...

inthe,unotatous rhetorio dear to the Vienna Foreign Office, to the belligerent _States,,inviting them "-to send delegates to a confidential and. non-binding .disouaolon. .on...

and her four daughters, as the Daily Telegraph stated on Friday week, have been murdered by their Bolshevik gaolers at Ekaterinburg, in the Urals. M. Lenin's paymaster and...

to attack Eastern Karelia, the Russian province adiseent to Petro- grad, if the Allies will withdraw their -troops--from that province and from the Murman coast. As Germany -has...

Rule Bill has been drafted by the Cabinet Committee appointed for that purpose. If anything could surprise us about the policy of the Government towards Ireland, this would...

Southern Slav problem, we are particularly glad to record that the Italian Government have asked the Allies to accord their recognition to the Southern Slays, in the same way as...

thousand miners daily from the Army. A greater out put of coal is an indis- pensable sinew of war for all the Allies, and the G overnment have no doubt acted quite rightly in...

light on the conflict of opinion between Lord French and Mr. Shortt. As we pointed out, according to their public statements, Lord Frenoh wants to enforce Conscription in...

without hard labour for bigamy. It will be remembered that this young woman who has just been convicted of persistent and disgraceful lying was one of the principal witnesses In...

at the collieries. Mr. Smillie and his friends of course will object, but if the resolution of the Government to win the war is not strong enough to overcome the objections of...

the Times of Tuesday which pressed for the publication of the Rowlett Report on the criminal conspiracies in India. As the Times points out, the information contained in this...

his most epigrammatic vein about the war and its lessons. Vietory was essential to a sound peace, which must not be dictated by extreme men on either side, whether Bolsheviks or...

call the attention of our readers to "Italy's Day," which will be celebrated in London next Wednesday, September 25th. On that day appeals are to be made for the Italian Red...

April 5, 1917.

W E believe profoundly that the time has now come when the aheltered existence which we have given India cannot be prolonged without damage to her national life . • that, in...

THE PEACE PROPOSALS. ERMA.NY is said to be in dire need of peace, and the jf - combined manceuvres of Germany and Austria during the past few days are good evidence that this...

S TRIKES in various branches of production continue to succeed one another almost without a pause, and It is worth while to consider some of the- causes of this -strike fever....

rilllE " Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and - their Treatment by Germany " by Mr. E. H. M. Gorges, Administrator of the conquered territory for the Union of South...

luck in it, but it was the luck that gallantry deserves and wins for itself and turns to account. The Turk was cornered and hemmed in with the cavalry astride the Aleppo Road to...

ri lHE Prime Minister's speech at Manchester was character- istic in its buoyancy, its enthusiasm, and its happy choice of phrases. With all these qualities we are quite...

[COMMUNICATED.] G REAT is the art of misquotation, at once amusing by being wrong and edifying by setting right. Of the patriotic numbers who rm . & with equal. ardour to...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, then those ushicJi fill treble the space.] THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR...

official White Papers Cd. 8168 and Cd. 8390, both issued in 1916. taken in conjunction with the figures of Lord French's present recruiting scheme, give all the facts. The first...

Sre,—I am sure that all who have any knowledge of the V.A.D.'s must be grateful to you for taking up the question of their treat- ment. I have been mewing until recently in...

in your article on this subject, and thankful that you have brought the matter so prominently before the public. I can from personal knowledge confirm almost every one of your...

SIK, — i should like to say a few words in reply to your article in the Spectator of September 7th on V.A.D.'s entitled "The Woman's Senior War Service." I think you either do...

or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Will you allow an Armenian to express his gratitude for the frank and fair review of Mr. Philips Price's book, War and Revo- lution in Asiatic Russia,...

ISSUES. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE" SPECTATOR.") r35,—We have many great issues before us to-day, besides the war itself, with which speakers and the Press feel compelled to deal an...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Si,—The internationalization of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles is a hackneyed topic. In view, however, of the numerous projects on foot and...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " EISICTIT011."1 STR,—It has been an excellent habit of the members of the Society of Friends to discuss their differences within their own meetings and...

[To THE EDITOR or rem " SPECTATOR."] Fefer0/101) to the correspondence in the Spectator on of the usual nvinher of a swan's brood, it may be Sia,—With the subject a interest to...

(To THE EDITOR OF rag" SPECTATOR.‘1 SIR,—Very telling at the present juncture is the following excerpt from Whittier's poem "To Englishmen," published in 1863 :— "0 Englishmen!...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Perhaps you will kindly allow me a little space to tell the " Fuel Overseer that his hopeful forecast as to my allowance of coal has not been fulfilled....

SER,—In a divinity examination at Oxford, the passage was set from the Gospel of St. John viii. 44: " 671 lfree'CrInS /arts sal 6 varitp adroD. Nine candidates for Honour Mods...

PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY.. ADDRESSING the Graduating Class at West Point in June, 1916, President Wilson observed : "We love that quiet, self-respecting, unconquerable...

correspondents to know that a pair of swans here hatched out nine cygnets this year. They are all still living. The proud father has certainly had no opportunity of bagging any...

[Torn EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—An English writer, who may have been Burke or Dyer, describes three beautiful Welsh rivers. The Clwyd and another, which I have forgotten,...

WHEN PEACE COMES. WOULD we have peace? That would we all t As parched men dying for the stream. The nations boil on, stumble, fall, Yearning to that great dream. Yet if,...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOE."3 BIR,—In a mathematical examination I once asked the boys to define the word " prism." One boy answered : "A prism is a kind of sphinx," and...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not netessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

poems, with a number of prose passages relating to the sea, is a remarkable book. It appears opportunely now that our whole future is being decided on the sea, and victory is...

for experts—and others. What- ever the experts may think of it, to the " others " it will certainly prove exceedingly interesting. The writers, sixteen in number, deal with the...

McAndrews, that he "started as a boiler-whelp—when steam and he were low, I mind the time we used to serve a broken pipe wi' tow." Cyprian Arthur George Bridge, whose...

(Liverpool : The University Press. London : Constable and ('o. 3s.)—These sketches are concerned with the intimate private life of a discharged officer with his wife and babies....

Notes by Francis Arkwright. Vols. V. and VI. (Stanley Paul. 12s. 6d. net each.)—Mr. Arkwright may be congratulated on the completion of his scholarly abridgment of Saint-Simons...

books of the Aeneid, Virgil' e " Gathering of the Clans" aid Aeneas at the Site of Rome (Oxford : Blackwell ; 4s. 6d. net each), have evidently pleased many readers, since they...

LOVE ETERNAL.• SIR RIDER HAGGARD, who has already some fifty volumes to his credit, shows no falling off in vigour or inventiveness in his new romance. In She, one of his...

Wolk. in this column does noi necessarily preclude subsequent reotaal The Foundations of Germany. By J. Ellis Barker. (J. Murray. 12s. net.)—In this second ed i tion of his...

V. Crowe. (John Murray. 10s. 6d. net.)—This book is by far the best account yet published of the East African campaign of 1916, in which the author commanded the artillery. It...

Co. as. 6d, net.)--Readers of M. Maeterlinck's works knew already that the mystics could turn jester when he chose, though he used his satiric humour sparingly. AL Maeterlinck...

"tkl. net.)—Mra. Kenneth Brown, an American author who is Greek by birth, went to Greece early in 1917 to find out for herself the truth about the Greek imbroglio. At the outset...

Is. 6d. net.)—This. admirable little book contains about fifty choice pieces fairly representing the best- of Victor Hugo's _poetry, with a connecting commentary, biographical...

Mann. (Glasgow : The City Librarian. 5a. net.)--Any book about Mau Queen of doote is interesting. Mr. Mann's book is a special study of her last battle and of her Right to...

Author. 1 rupee 8 annas.)—The author of many well-known and useful Indian guide-books has written a highly interesting history and description of Poona, which might, as he says,...

Murray. 69. net.)—This interesting account of our governing insti- tutions,imperial, British, and local, may be commended as a useful outline of a very large and complex...

Cable's sketches of war on the Western Front are excellent, and this new volume will be welcomed. In the Preface, dated from the front itself, he tells the workmen at home very...