28 OCTOBER 1916, Page 1

Ignorant and unfair critics may declare in their impatience that

we are only creeping on, but it is a kind of creeping which we are bound to say would, if we were Germans, distinctly get on our nerves. There is something appalling in the inevitableness with which the Commander-in-Chief works. In this context we desire to congratulate Sir Douglas Haig upon his unanimous election to the Rectorship of the ancient University of St. Andrews. Here is a prophet honoured in his own country, for the Commander-in- Chief is a Fifeshire man.