We admit that it is not a matter of very
great importance that newspaper readers should get the name of the landing. place at the earliest, possible date. At the same time, if the Press Bureau policy is persisted in, we may expect some day— we trust in the near future—to see an official announcement in the following terms: "A certain town situated in Europe, but with suburbs in Asia, the name of which cannot at present be divulged, has been taken by a mixed force of British and French." Two days later we shall find in the German wireless an admission that the Turkish troops have been temporarily withdrawn from Constantinople and Scutari, but that it is hourly expected that the weak forces of the Allies now in possession will be driven out by the Turks. The next news will be the discovery of a new play by Sophocles in the cellars of the Seraglio.
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