Two new maps of great value to newspaper readers have
been pub- lished by Messrs. G. Philip and Son. One is a .Large-Scale Strategical War-Map of Europe: The Balkans (2s. (id. net), on a scale of eighteen miles to the inch, which includes the whole of Galicia and most of Hungary as well as the Balkan States, and thus illustrates the extension of the Russian front southwards to the Danube and the relation between the Rumanian battlefield and the Allies' advance from Salonika. The other map is a Large-Scale Strategical War-Map of Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2s. (id. net), on a scale of forty miles to the inch, including the Delta and Palestine, Western Persia and the Caucasus. It helps one to realize the enormous area of Asiatic Turkey, of which Armenia and the Lower Tigris Valley, now in the hands of Russia and Great Britain, form but a small part. Both maps are clearly printed, contain many place-names, if not all that appear in the official bulletins, and seem to has e been brought up to date. It should be added that the mountains of Asiatic Turkey are far more complex and difficult than the map-maker suggests, and that the roads which he marks are as a rule the merest tracks. The recent account of the adventures of the British armoured cars in Armenia, even in the so-called plain of Mush, has shown that for wheeled traffic the country in its existing state is almost impossible.
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