11 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
ON Tuesday the Tsar assumed the supreme command of the Russian forces. The Grand Duke Nicholas has been transferred to the command of the Caucasus. General Yanusbkevitoh, the Grand Duke's Chief of Staff, also goes to the Caucasus, and the new Chief of stag is General Alexeiev. We have written elsewhere of the Tsar's dramatic decision, and of the happy results which, for various reasons, not of a ,purely military nature, are likely to flow from it.
