18 AUGUST 1917, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ONCE again the British Army is advancing in Flanders, and the results reflect the precision of the Staff work, and the strong conviction of our troops that they are better men than their enemies, with which we are happily familiar. The advance, if not in the present direction, then in another, will successfully continue—that is as humanly certain as anything can be. But we must not allow the obvious fact that we are winning the war to cause us to forget that the very important question remains whether we are winning it quickly enough to anticipate the effects of the exhaustion of resources which are settling down like a heavy cloud upon the whole world.
