26 MAY 1917, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE situation in Russia, and a most interesting announcement of very significant political changes in Hungary, must take precedence in our thoughts this week over purely military news. The Coalition Government in Russia seem to have established themselves, and there is now a fair prospect that the inevitable paralysis which overtook a,ll the work of the administrative Depart- ments after the Revolution will disappear. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding and talk at cross-purposes here about the Revolution which it would be both difficult and useless to follow in detail. Some persons say that Britain has failed in sympathy towards the Revolution, and that the sympathy can never be complete so long as most of the Allied Governments are more " Imperialistic " twin the Russian Government in their eemands on Germany.