an attack on a ten-mile front from the Ancre at Beaucourt northward to Moyenneville. The Germans, holding some of their old positions in front of the strongly fortified...

steadily by a series of resolute attacks along the whole line to the Oise, and, beyond it, to the Aisne. With their left flank resting on the Canadian lines, the French First...

The British Armies from the north of the Ancre down to the neighbourhood of Roye have exercised a heavy pressure on the enemy, who has vainly tried by violent counter-attacks to...

during the week. Persistent nibbling by our patrols, with an occa- sional bite by larger forces, has driven the enemy several miles back all along his western front—an...

T HE Allied Armies in France continue their triumphant career. We might say, with Horace Walpole in 1759, that " we are forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for...

Soissons, now took up the running between the Oise and the Aisne. The great counterstroke of July 18th was made south of the Aisne ; this month's offensive commenced north of...

vigour that the enemy could not make a stand anywhere. By the afternoon the French were holding the main Noyon-Soissons road from Pontoise on the Oise to Pommiers on the Aisne,...

the Mere and beaten off heavy counter-attacks than General Rawlinson began a new offensive south of the Mere. On Thursday morning the Fourth Army attacked oa the five-mile front...

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...

that has long exercised the minds of our sailors. The Crown waives its ancient claim to part of the value of captured prizes. The whole proceeds are to be paid into the Naval...

the past week the British, French, and Japanese troops at Vladi- vostok have been joined by some American regiments. Corre- spondents on the spot are sounding a note of alarm at...

a Congress Committee at Washington on Monday that on August let 1,801,000 men were in France or on their way there, that there were 1,432,000 men in training at home, and that...

troops in Lorraine had captured the village of Frapelle, on the road six miles east of St. Di6. The Lorraine sector of the Vosges front has long been regarded by the enemy as a...

at a luncheon given in Dublin last Saturday to Colonel Arthur Lynch, M.P., in recognition of his work for voluntary recruiting in Ireland, described that movement as the only...

published in Zuktinft a stinging rebuke to the authors of tire Breet-Litovsk and Bucharest Treaties: According to the extracts in Wednesday's Times, he tells them that they "...

causes amounted to 176,479 tons. The new ships built in British yards last month were of 141,948 tons. It is profoundly to be regretted that, while the Navy is reducing the...

to want a General Election. " He expected, however, that when the new Register was made up, new voters would want to exercise their vote. As a democrat, he would certainly not...

of Wednesday said that, though its disadvantages were obvious, a General Election was inevitable as soon as the new Register was complete. The gravest question, he thought, was...

recruiting meeting at which a General stated that the Irish divisions were now only Irish in name. Southern Irish battalions, which fought at Paasohendaele and were praised for...

and are co-operating with Armenians and Russians under a Russian General in the defence of the oil city against the Turks. Another detachment is at Kraaaovodsk, on the eastern...

that in future each Dominion shall be represented by a Minister permanently stationed in London, and that the Imperial War Cabinet shall meet, with these Ministers as members of...

propose an epitaph for the numerous soldier-Friends " who in Flanders, France, and at the Dardanelles, obeying the inner light, died in defence of their country and her cause:...

strike last Sunday, and were followed by women employed on the trams and tubes, did so to enforce their demand for the bonus of 5s. per week recently given to the men by the...

numerous and influential Quakers in America have thrown themselves heart and soul into the fight for liberty. A recent article in the New York Tribune described the active part...

pression that may be created by an " Appeal to the Conscience of the Nation " recently issued by the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. The appeal is made on behalf of...

the British Miners' Federation Conference at Southport on Tuesday is clear evidence that the Government during recent months have underestimated naval, military, industrial,...

expressed to the Burgomaster of Frankfort regarding the latest air raid on the town, " which claimed many victims." We do not doubt that the All Highest will have many...

Spanish ships are torpedoed by German submarines they will be replaced for the duration of the war by some of the Germane ips sheltering in Spanish harbours. The Spanish Note,...

Henderson assured our Labour Party that the German Socialists had repented of their Imperialist aims, has now repudiated Mr. Henderson's interpretation of his message. i1I....

about three hundred orders for the internment of enemy aliens have been handed to the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police for enforce- ment. A first list of fifty-four persons...

April 5,1917.

PREPARATIONS FOR PEACE. " In November, 1914, Wangenheim [the German Ambassador to Turkey] told me it was part of Germany's system not only to be completely prepared for war,...

I T is evident from the German Press that the enemy is becoming more and more anxious about his Eastern Front. We are naturally absorbed in the Allied victories on the Western...

rr HE American Press, which has always shown itself receptive of new ideas, is to be made the subject of an interesting experiment. The late Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the owner...

conductors on the omnibuses and trams of the London Companies raises in an acute form the whole problem of payment for women's work. The strike began in consequence of a demand...

T is curious but true that, while we all start life by being children, 1 and have had, even the dullest of us, a love of adventure, a rapacity in acquiring new experience, and...

13EIVATE It—, lying in the shell-shock ward of a. hospital, would tell you that he knew men who had not been able to stand the war. For himself, he was glad to say that it...

LIFE STILL IN TILE BUFFER-STATE. (To THE Ennui, OP THZ " SPECT8T011...] Sui, — Ever since the collapse of Russia, disciples of the Indian Frontier School have been watching...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE MONTAGU REPORT. [To THE...

SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Do British people really understand what America is doing for the cause, not only by bravery in the battlefield, but also by self-denial at home? The...

TELE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—More than once recently your pages have referred not merely to the food but to the great revenue possibilities of the ocean if scientifically...

SIR, I have read Dr. Nair's letter in your issue of the 10th inst. with no inconsiderable degree of amusement. This gentleman's hame was not known in India outside Madras, and...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—You will, I think, find the enclosed of interest. It is taken from a letter written by one of the many young members of the Society of Friends who...

THE "SPECTATOR.") 5IR,—I shall be obliged if you will publish the enclosed memorial addressed to the Government by this Society praying for the abolition of slavery in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—I have been a reader of the Spectator for the past fifty years. Your article in last week's issue, "How Not to Do It," is one well...

THE "SPECTATOR."3 S/R,—A resolution will be moved at the Annual Trade Union Congress, which meets at Derby on September 2nd, in favour- of establishing a bond-fide Trade Union...

ITo rim EDITOR or rnz " Sezerwroa."7 cannot help thinking that an unfortunate little misprint has crept into Lord Esher's graceful article on "Translations" in last Saturday ' s...

DR. MUEHLON'S DIARY.• Is is an odd thing that a director of Krupp's armament works should be a Pacificist, but there is no reason to doubt the existence of Dr. Muehlon or the...

SURREY SHEPHERD IN FRANCE. THERE'S some chaps is goia' to sing, playin' tunes and everything; Whiles I'd like it, but I'm middlin' short o' sleep; I can hear them anywhen in a...

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Studies," ten were delivered at Cambridge, two have appeared as Introductions in the " World's Classics " series, and two are reprinted from the Edinburgh and the Times Literary...

Miss Ouvic HOCKIN went to work on the land in the days before the women land.workers had come under their present organization, and " when a shilling a day (without one's food)...

THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF.• THE industrious and ingenious Mr. Stacpoole has given us a new and entertaining set of variations on one of the oldest themes in fiction, the...

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