16 MARCH 1918, page 1

Mr. Lloyd George, Addressing The National Free Church...

Wednesday, warned his fellow-Nonconformists not to mistake phrases for facts. He had often spoken about the League of Nations ; if he did not say more, it was because the......

The Enemy, For His Part, Has Been Equally Active In

the air. He made a raid on London on Thursday week, favoured by a brilliant display of the Aurora Borealis in a moonless sky. Two machines dropped bombs, killing twenty persons......

The Admiralty Return Of Mine Or Submarine Losses For Last

week is again very grave. We lost fifteen large merchant ships over 1,600 tons and three smaller ships, as against twelve large and six smaller ships in the previous week. Six......

With Our Lines Resting On The Sea On The Northern

and southern coasts of Europe, there is no possibility of finding a way round in the old-fashioned manner. The density of modern systems of defence, again, seems to have......

Between The 6th And The 12th Inst., According To Sir

Douglas Haig, British airmen destroyed sixty-five enemy aeroplanes and six balloons, while losing twenty machines. They also bombed Mains last Saturday, Stuttgart last Sunday,......

General Allenby In Palestine Resumed His Advance...

on Monday week. Moving his centre on a wide front astride of the Shechem road, he pushed steadily through the rough hill-country of Judaea. Last Saturday he advanced his right......

News Of The Week.

B Y far the most striking military events of the past week, as indeed of the preceding fortnight, have been the successes of the Allied airmen. The disproportion between our own......

The Attacks On German Towns Are An Odious Necessity, But,

since the Germans forced this kind of fighting upon us through debasing the whole currency of military practice, we do not think it possible to argue that we should forfeit the......

The British Front In Flanders Was Subjected To Two Sharp

local attacks on Friday week. In the morning, south of Houthulst Forest, the enemy at first captured some advanced posts ; the Yorkshire Light Infantry in a counter-attack not......

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