a hopeless position. Our infantry, pivoting on theirleft, advanced last Saturday north-eastward through the rugged Samaritan hills towards Samaria and Shechem, driving the Turks...

Turkish left, strongly posted in the wild hills round Shiloh, west of the Jordan. Our infantry made slow but steady progress, and gained command of all but one of the roads...

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...

where Cceur de Lion's Western knights defeated Saladin in Septem- ber, 1191, rode hard for the north, accompanied by armoured cars. By midday they had forced their way through...

us by this victory, that the further north we go the more Allies we shall find on the way. Deraa is the station for the Hauran, inhabited by our old friends the Druses, some of...

forces of the King of the Hedjaz, which swooped upon Deraa, in the desert east of the Lake of Galilee, and destroyed the railways radiating from that junction to Damascus,...

occupied Es Salt in Gilead on Monday, and next day were approach- ing Amman, the chief Turkish base on the Hedjaz Railway east of the Dead Sea. The Arabs had cut the line north...

• ENERAL ALLENBY'S offensive in Palestine will go down to history as one of the most brilliant and successful operations of modern warfare. We may express its effect in terms...

were fighting in an historic country like Palestine, instead of in an unknown wilderness of hills which the map-makers have neglected, we should all realize that their...

comment on President Wilson's magnificent promptness and decisiveness in answering the Austrian proposal of a non-binding effort in secret diplomacy : " Mr. Wilson will not have...

Vendhuille, on the Cambrai-St. Quentin Canal, further south in the Australian sector east of Hargicourt, and immediately to the north- west of Hargicourt, where a successful...

Milne's divisions and the Greeks to deliver a holding attack on the Bulgarian left in the seemingly inaccessible hills east and west of Lake Doiran. A hard day's fighting gave...

the Franco - Russian Alliance, to show that it was from first to last a purely defensive Treaty. The Military Convention signed in December, 1893, opened with the statement that...

and 151,275 tons of Allied and neutral shipping were lost from all causes in August. The British losses were the lowest yet reported, save in June, since the enemy submarine...

all the week in front of the Hindenburg Line from the west of Cambrai to the west of St. Quentin. The British and French troops, in a series of local attacks, have occupied one...

to join him in a solemn protest against the Bolshevik ,Terror in Russia, so as " to impress upon the perpetrators of these crimes the aversion with which civilization regards...

Baku at the end of July at the request of the new anti-Bolshevik Administration had to abandon the town on September 14th and return - across the Caspian Sea to Enzeli, in...

Thursday week, two days after it had been lost to the enemy. When the attaokers entered the place, they were astonished to find a corporal and six men of the 1/5th Battalion...

that " deep discontent had seized hold of wide circles of the population." If it was influenced by the Western reverses, " it far exceeds justifiable limits " ; " the situation...

employ as a kite-flier, has been good enough to work out and publish a draft Constitution for a League of Nations, which shall come into existence when " Germany, Great Britain,...

recruiting in Ireland has been extended from October 1st to October 15th. It is added that " should voluntary recruiting fail "—as it almost certainly will, as only a small...

H. E. Chubb of Salisbury, who bought it for £6,600 in 1915, at the sale of the Amesbury Abbey estate. Mr. Chubb's generous action satisfies at last the general desire that our...

to use interned German ships to replace Spanish ships illegally sunk was made by Admiral von Hintze on Tuesday. Germany has refused to give ship for ship, as Spain required. For...

inexcusable strike of engine-drivers and firemen on several of the railways. Last week the Government arranged for a handsome increase of th to than t i th tend rd d f f rth...

Slays was published in the Times of Friday week. Italy, it runs, " regards the movement of the Southern Slav peoples for the conquest of their independence and for their...

priest in the South of Ireland announced lately that he had enrolled " five hundred men of military age who had sworn not to enlist and fight for England." The priest added that...

policy in the Reichstag on Tuesday. He said that the border States had implored German help and would be recognized as independent ; but Herr von Payer, who followed him in the...

THE EASTERN SUCCESSES. T "glorious news from Palestine and Macedonia has exceeded all expectations. The annihilating victory of Sir Edmund Allenby in Palestine, and the rapid...

the only right thing in refusing to parley further with the railway strikers, it would be flattery to say that they did a meritorious thing • for if they had not done what they...

quantity of petroleum oil has been produced from shale in Scotland, but hitherto no petroleum has been produced in England. It is therefore a matter of special interest to learn...

have appeared in our columns during the past three weeks show that we were neither premature, nor unduly alarmist, in directing public attention to the crisis which has arisen...

have often. heard it said that none but fools and paupers are ever cold. A man rich enough not to be hungry is rich enough to be warm ; i.e., if he really desires warmth he will...

M UCH is being written and more is being talked about the possibility of obtaining a better relationship between employers and Trade Unionists, and securing thereby a measure of...

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

OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Ssn,—Mr. R. Christie Burn " fights as one that beateth the air," and while repudiating my figures corroborates them by his own. If, as he tells us, his...

[To THE Emma or THE " SPECTATOR."' SLR,—I have read with much appreciation your article of September 7th commenting on the curious suggestion of Sir Theodore Morison that the...

THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Will you allow a reader of your paper for about twenty years to say how much I agree with your criticism of the Prime Minister and his Government ? It is...

Sm,—Has it never occurred to " V.A.D. Commandant " that till quite recently the British Army was a " voluntary " Army ? Yet no one ever suggested that, being " voluntary," it...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There appears to be a movement afoot to abolish saluting in the Army except on duty. Such a suggestion could only emanate from a...

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is generally felt that among the after-war problems the encouragement of agricultural life holds a foremost place. The Church of England holds land in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sna—We have lately been reading of the use of dogs in the present conflict, and it strikes me that it may be of interest to state that this...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECIATOR."] Six,--Yon suggest (p. 271) that "the gas companies charge an unduly high percentage of the cost of distilling coal to the con- sumer of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have only just read the Spectator of August 17th, but I feel I must write and say how much interested I am in " C. C.'s" letter on "...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may help some of your readers who have fruit-trees, and are trying to do with little sugar for preserving, if they make what we call...

/To TER EDITOR or TEl " SPECTATOR."] Sna—The disease of Pacificism would appear to be of long stand- ing, and the following lines from Bonduca, written before 1619 by John...

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

THE FAR-OFF INTEREST. Si.ow through the war-vexed centuries had grown A code that tribal slaughter lacked; Our fathers builded, stone by painful stone, A beacon-tower of Pact....

A STANDING ARMY OR A MILITIA ? GENERAL TON FREYTAG-LORn GHovIM P s new book reinforces the true moral of his Deductions from the World-War—namely, that the real rulers of...

BECAUSE of this book there will be many searohings of heart. It is a blow aimed at the hereditary.principle over the back of the war. The American writer, be it understood, is...

Ma. PUTNAM WEALE'S very interesting book is announced as a " semi-official " statement. This is borne out by his extensive use of official documents, which he claims as a unique...

THE conspicuous merit of "Centurion's" book is that it could not possibly be called a " plain, unvarnished tale." We are most • Castlemen-afeinse By "Centurion." London: W....

FIVE TALES.• VIEWED from the standpoint of vital statistics, Mr. Galsworthy's Fire Tales do not minister to exhilaration. The first grows out of a murder and ends in two...

(Nelson. 2s. Gd. net.)—Colonel Buohan's new volume describes the summer campaigns of 1917—Messines and Passchendaele, the French offen- sive on the Aisne and in Champagne, and...

II. F. B. Wheeler. (Harrap. 5s. net.)—Mr. Wheeler's selection from the in- numerable true stories of the heroism displayed by merchant seamen and fishermen during the war makes...

(G. Philip. 2s. net.)—This little handbook supplements the author's earlier work mainly in respect of foreign decorations, such as the Italian war medal, with its very gay...

(Constable and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—In these stimulating lectures, delivered at the Royal Institution, Professor Flinders Petrie outlines the problems that may be solved by...

(Glasgow : MacLehose. 3a. 6d. net.)—John Lennox was a plucky bookseller and printer, first at Dumbarton and then at Greenock, who between 1832 and 1853 published local...

Co. 7s. net.)—A rather grim attempt by an English author to describe the conditions of German life. The hero is unable to pass his examination, and has to serve during the war...

7s. Gd. net.)—These unpretentious letters, written in 1912 by a young clergyman who is now chaplain to the Bishop of Jerusalem, are concerned with Jerusalem and some of the...

Maio in ibis column does eel necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Highfiyer ' in 1913 and at Keyham since the outbreak of war. It contains a record of the entries—complete...

It. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6d. net.)--AL Carton de Wiart, the Belgian Minister of Justice, in a Preface to this collection of eloquent protests of Belgians in Belgium against the...

Poetry as Illustrated by a Little-known Anthology, lately read before the British Academy (H. Milford, Is. 6d. net), is of great interest. The anthology is the eighth-century "...

drastic redistribution of seats under the new Repre- sentation of the People Act is shown on this valuable new map, on a scale of eleven and a half miles to an inch. London and...