from the Marne, leaving machine-gun detachments at every point of vantage in the rough wooded country to delay the pursuit. The French and Americans followed him up quickly....

Near Morlaneourt last Sunday they captured two lines of trenches with one hundred and forty-three prisoners, thus advancing our lines once more between the Ancre and the Somme...

compelled the enemy to evacuate the Marne Valley. The Franco-American troops, attacking from the west the road from Soissons to Chateau- Merry, and advancing also from the south...

T HE Second Battle of the Marne has developed most favourably during the past week. General Foch pressed his advantage with such vigour that the enemy last Saturday retreated...

resistance, and heavy fighting developed on the west and south of the salient, now little mo'e than ten miles in depth from its northern base on the Vesle. Near Soissons a...

in Germany, especially in Baden and Wurttemberg. Our airmen visited Offen- burg by night on Thursday week and Monday and in daylight on Tuesday. They attacked Stuttgart by night...

by a strong bombardment, on the French lines east of Oulchy on Tuesday, coupled with the reference in Tuesday's German report to " our new lines north of the Ourcq," seems to...

add that General Gouraud in Champagne, net content with having smashed the enemy offensive on July 15th, began at once to recover by local attacks the broad outpost zone that he...

TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator" with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

the position of enemy aliens. He is assisted by five other members of the Aliens Advisory Committee. His task is to inquire into the circumstances of twenty-four thousand...

They have had numerous proofs that whenever they take deter- mined • action an appeasement immediately follows. The truth is that a large part of Irish popular opinion is...

about Conscription Mr. Shortt talked only of trying to avoid it. He appealed for the help of the Nationalists to make voluntary recruiting a success is order that Conscription...

Rowlatt's Committee on sedition in India. The .Report, whioh-ds unanimous, shows the association of the Bengal seditionists with German plots, the abortive effort to ship arms...

was assassinated at Kieft on Tuesday. A bomb was thrown at him and his adjutant while they were in the street; both died from their injuries. The assassin is said by the Germans...

forward a motion to the effect that the Irish policy of the Government was inconsistent with the principles for which the Allies were fighting. It would be vain, even if we had...

The Irish Nationalists-have often been misled, but we do not think that they have ever had so bad a leader as Mr. Dillon. He beats the air with his phrases about the insults and...

blunders in their treatment of Ireland. But if there had been the least sign of steady and loyal helpfulness on the part of Mr. Dillon and his friends, the worst of the blunders...

come to the oonclusion that the inquiries of the Committee must be secret, for the simple reason that much of the evidence would be given by agents of Intelligence Departments,...

professed to give certain facts about the Ministry of Informa- tion under Lord Beaverbrook. The chief officials of this Ministry, which is a Ministry just as much as - the...

problem to President Wilson. Yet another effort ought to be made at home to achieve an Irish settlement. Mr. Boner Law was well justified in saying at the end of the discussion...

steel manufacturer, a former Lord Mayor of Sheffield, was fined £2,000, and his clerk, C. A. Vernon, £1,000, with the costs of their prosecution, for the misdemeanour of...

whioh was published last Saturday, tells the strange a story of the efforts of the War Office, the Admiralty, and the Ministry of Munitions to obtain a British supply of...

at the moment not ready. Disaster would await any one who wished to give Home Rule to India to-day. . . . So far as he could discover, the whole of India was opposed to Home...

Austria last week, and on Saturday obtained a majority of 19 votes in the Lower House for his Provisional Budget. The new Premier made vague promises, of the Austrian official...

the House on Wednesday, accepted in principle the changes recom- mended by the Royal Commission. The officials of the Foreign Office and of the Diplomatic Service should, he...

more proved its capacity to deal with the most complex problems of Empire by determining the long dispute between the Chartered Company and the Legislative Council of Southern...

Cave made a brief and guarded statement upon the Hague Agreement for the exchange and better treatment of prisoners of war. It provides for the repatriation of all combatant...

of his Report on India had made attacks on the educated Indian people. He did not know what was to be gained by libelling the progressive part of the people of India. " Let us...

in the munition factories at Coventry, or those who were threatening to strike in other places, were absent from work on Monday, they would be called up for military service....

April 5,1917.

BRITISH SHIPBUILDING. 'T HE statement by the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of Commons on Tuesday was delivered in a more optimistic manner than the facts warranted....

I T seems that the opening of the fifth year of war will coincide with a definitely new phase in the field. The effect of General Foch's brilliant counterstroke is that the...

LESSONS. T HE Marconi Libel Case ended (July 25th) in a verdict for the defendant, Sir Charles Hobhouse. Counsel on both sides admitted that the issue was " which of two men,...

T HE publication by the Bolsheviks of a Treaty made by Great Britain, France, and America with the Murman Regional Council—the accuracy of which cur Foreign Office neither...

WINTER IN A FRENCH CHATEAU. Y OU who write to Captain Blank, Nth Brigade, H.Q., B.E.F.. France, can you picture your gallant correspondent's lodging ? If the Censorship and the...

G RANNY AMPUTEE sat up and cried ! She was called Granny Amputee by that inevitable habit of all hospitals which labels all old ladies " Granny " and other patients by their...

Sts,—May I be allowed space in your columns to comment upon Mr. Roberts's letter which appeared in your issue of July 20th? Mr. Roberts remarks that his visits to Delhi and...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs arc often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE MONTAGU REPORT. [To rez...

SIR, — Evidently there is to be considerable discussion, both in your columns and in the country generally, of the changes con- templated in the administration of India....

[To TRY EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—After many months of discussion of the question of a capital levy, it seems clear that no satisfactory conclusion can be reached on...

" SPECTATOR.") Sia,—I understand that the Austrian postal authorities have for- bidden the circulation and delivery of the Leipziger Nette.sle Nachrichten owing to an attack...

(To THZ EDITOR or TEL " SPECTATOIL.n] SIR, —Is "S. W." right in ascribing the depressing effect of hills on his friend to her growing old P I well remember my first experience...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have found to-day (July 29th) in the North China Daily News—as telegraphed from Shanghai—what I have been looking for in our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Thomas's letter in your issue of July 20th and your comments thereon put the matter so clearly that there is little more to add....

" SPECTATOR.") hold no brief for the German nation—God forbid! This war has cost me a son. Though of genuine British stock, this son was born over twenty-three years ago in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Pis,—I venture to think that the tone of your paragraph in the last issue of the Spectator on the murder of the ex-Emperor of Russia...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Eni,—My amazement is deepened by Pr - ofessor Hazel's letter in your issue of July 27th. Bowman v. The Secular Society decided that a...

to see that you are not among those who have let pass the murder of the ex-Tsar without a few words of pity and commiseration in your last number. Those who think at all about...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your interesting article the other day on the subject of soldier settlement you lay stress on a point which is constantly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] " What is a fool's paradise ? " A. " Please, Sir, a lunatic

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture once more to ask for your valuable support in appealing for help for the Women's Holiday Fund. We are not now assisting...

THE FALSE BRETHREN. [" Seamen never forget and seamen never forgive, and they have looked upon their deed not once but a hundred times. . . . In every foreign port the Germans...

GOVERNMENT AND THE WAR.* PROFESSOR SPENSER WILKINSON has collected in this volume son s Oxford lectures delivered before the war and other lectures and essays written since...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

could not be better described than in the words of Id. Paul Cambon when he speaks of " the admirable work of the men and women of Great Britain who have come, as in a holy * For...

This is a " good book "—in every sense of the phrase. It is well written, it is realistic, it is humorous, and it is edifying. All this does not affect the fact that it is...

A CERTAIN metaphysician recently misanthropically remarked (a propos of Euclid) that it appeared impossible for any book to combine accuracy with intelligibility, still less...

[Notice in Chit column doe, not necemarily preclude subsequent review.] TICE AUGUST MONTI:MIDS.—The Nineteenth Oentury has a timely article on " The Greatest ' League of...

KAREN. * MRS. SIDGWIOIC'S new novel is the story of a high-spirited English girl who marries a German officer of rank before the war, remains in Germany for two years after his...

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Co. 6a.)—A decidedly original story of life in an old "Pale" in the extreme North of England. The author contrives to introduce exciting adventures without their becoming...

to students of all ages in issuing two cheap and well-printed pamphlets containing Selections from Matthew Paris and Selections from Giraldus Cambrensis (9d. each), edited, with...

Gregory the Great. By Edward Spearing. (Cambridge University Press. 13s. net.)—Miss Spearing has done well to edit this scholarly essay by her brother, a young Cambridge...

mann.. 2s. 6d. net.)—Of these essays new and old, edited by Sir Ray Lankester for the Committee on the Neglect of Science, the most suggestive are the Master of Balliol's plea...

will be found an admirable address on " America's Entry into the War," by Professor A. C. McLaughlin, of Chicago University. His account of the slow crystallization of American...

history of Ypres, with a plan and photographs arranged in pairs to show some of the famous buildings before the war and their remnants at the present time, will interest both...

the Rhodesia Munitions and Resources Committee, formed in 1915 at the request of the Ministry of Munitions to take stock of the country's resources and to see how they could be...