NEWS OF THE WEEK.
BY far the most important event of the week has been the progress of the Russian armies in Poland. The Russian official communications, it is true, have refused to talk either of surrender or of victory, and have confined themselves to abstract expressions, such as " favourable developments," and so forth. But the unofficial telegrams have been far more explicit, and mention the capture of large numbers of prisoners—some say as many as forty thousand —the hurried flight, if not rout, of the Crown Prince's army, and the perilous position in which other portions of the German forces in Poland are now placed. Perhaps the best way in which we can bring home the reality of the situa- tion to our readers is to quote the words used by Lord Kitchener in his speech in the House of Lords on Thursday afternoon. He declared that the Russians, after a hotly contested battle, had been able to "check and defeat the Germans with, I believe, heavier losses than they have ever sustained before."
