NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rlITE splendid results of Sir Douglas Haig'e latest advance 1. have come at a fortunate moment. They will impress themselves not only upon the mind of the enemy but upon public opinion here. We have written at length elsewhere on the Prime Minister's defence of his Paris speech, and need not return to the subject here, except to say that the justification of British strategy which we behold in the latect reports from the Western Front will most happily remove any lingering doubts that may remain in people's minds about the wisdom of the strategy to which Sir William Robertson and Sir Douglas Haig have committed them- selves. In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Lloyd George so far unsaid his Paris speech as to give an assurance that our military chiefs should not be interfered with. That assurance has been given in much more explicit language, charged with strong and loyal feeling, by Sir Edward Carson. This week the nation has the best of all proofs—the proof of facts—that in holding to the campaign on the Western Front as the one sure way of beating the enemy, our military chiefs axe not leading the British nation astray. The Germans cannot divert large forces to Italy without feeling the want of them elsewhere, and when we rush into the gaps where that want is chiefly felt, we are helping Italy in the speediest and most effectual manlier.
