on Monday, when he spoke on behalf of the effort to raise another thousand millions by the sale of War Bqnds. "The German dream of a German Middle East," he said, "Is gone, &nil...

already depressed by the Allied victories in France and Palestine. There was a panic on the Berlin Stock Exchange. The Foreign Secretary, Admiral von Hintze, tried to reassure...

demand for some kind of a League of Nations, and his desire to establish it when Germany has been defeat.d. But Mr. Balfour urged with great force that a territorial...

position. The Allies were advancing rapidly northward on a wide front in Macedonia. The Serbians and French had broken the enemy's centre, scattered his German reinforcements,...

T HE dramatic surprise of the week has been the capitulation of Bulgaria. At noon on Monday the Bulgarian envoys at Salonika met General Franchet d'Esperey, the Conunander-in-...

the solidity of which had been procla:med anew by the German Chancellor and his colleagues a few days before, reached London on Friday week. A Bulgarian officer, under a flag of...

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...

lost in two days the barrier-ridges of Flanders, and the plain, defended only by its watercourses and its mud, lies open to the Allies. The attack threatens the German hold of...

Wednesday, when Sir Douglas Haig announced the enemy's retirement on a wide front north and south of La Mimeo, the southern bulwark of Lille. That implies the evacuation of...

Army on our right broke into the Hindenburg Line to the north , and south of St. Quentin and captured the town. On our left, after hours of very violent fighting with strong...

began a powerful offensive on a twenty-two-mile front in unison with the American Army at Verdun, west of the Meuse. The plan was to attack on either aide of the Northern...

of Le Catelet was widened and deepened. At Levezgies the 82nd Division were three miles east of theSchelde Canal, and the Austra- lians on their left bombed their way above and...

ridge compelled the enemy last Saturday to abandon Fort Mal- maison and the western end of the Chemin des Dames. He attacked last Sunday, with the help of the Italian corps...

of clearness, we begin with Flanders. Here last Saturday the Belgians and General Plmner's veterans attacked on the wide front from Dixmude to the south of Ypres, while our...

had captured 123,618 prisoners and fourteen hundred guns in the last two months. The French, Italians, Belgians, and Americans have also taken an equal number, raising the total...

was faced by the Canal du Nord running due south from the Senses to Mceuvres, by the Hindenburg Line drawn south-eastward from Mceuvres to Le Catelet, and, from that village due...

Verdun. This week has seen the hardest fighting of the war. Marshal Foch has launched not one offensive but a whole series, in one sector after another, BO that now the battle...

Government have apparently decided that the Arctic Islands, rich in coal and iron deposits which are laeing.worked by a British company, can no longer be regarded as No Man's...

to war, ended in the early part of the week by the return of the Clyde shipyard malcontents to work, as a result of the Government ultimatum, published last Saturday, that the...

General Allenby began his offensive in the Plain of Sharon. Our advanced guards had occupied-Tiberias and Semakh, on the Sea of Galilee, on Thursday week. The following day the...

in connexion with the annual meeting of the National Liberal Federation, outlined his policy as "an unrepentant fellow-Liberal." He deprecated a General Election in war time, as...

Norwegian naval authorities. The territorial waters of Norway, off the south-western coast between Stavanger and Haugesund, are to be mined and "closed to ordinary traffic." It...

German lines of supply and retreat by the Meuse Valley, Montmedy, and Metz that the enemy rapidly brought up reserves to stop them. Furious counter-attacks, the difficulties of...

a tonnage of 144,772. In the same month our shipping losses amounted to 178,401 tons. The shipyards are undoubtedly doing better, but they are still unable to replace our...

April 5, 1917.

Tuesday indicated that the German Government have finally refused to ratify the Hague Agreement about the exchange of prisoners between Great Britain and Germany. We fear the...

Allies' terms should be agreed upon and published as soon as possible. Then we shall be ready to dictate them if Germany asks for peace suddenly. Let us not forget that Germany...

follow the clarified common thought or be broken." "It would be folly to leave the guarantee for the security of peace to the subsequent voluntary action of the Governments we...

the subject of a General Election. A month ago we were told that a General Election in November was inevitable ; a fortnight ago we were told that the Prime Minister had either...

THE SURRENDER OF BULGARIA AND ITS SEQUELS. T HE capitulation of Bulgaria is the most startling and obvious sign yet given to that part of the world which is unable to read more...

R CENT events have given a retrospective importance to the efforts made by Austria a week or so back to induce the Entente Powers to open up negotiations for peace. The concise...

" Abbb Sieyes has whole nests of pigeon-holes full of conatitutiont ready-made, ticketed, sorted, and numbered, suited to every season and every fancy : some with the top of the...

W HILE dwelling on the subject of the Montagu Report we should like to draw our readers' attention to the useful little parable contained in an article in another column...

[COMMUNICATED.] I T may seem strange to speak of Germany in Portugal nearly three years after Germany declared war upon Portugal and all Germans were either expelled or...

B UCKWHEAT is tough. Fag-hooks are blunt. Mankind is fickle. Realizing these fundamental truths, I stopped working. Unfortunately " Hobden " did not. He therefore continued to...

Sia,—As a Commandant of a Voluntary Aid Detachment since 1918, and as President of the North Riding Branch of the British Reel Cross Socieby since its formation in 1907, the...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading -paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the apace.] THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR...

SIR.—Your columns have been so full of V.A.D. criticisms, cul- minating in an article with "Specific Suggestions," that, as the person responsible for the development and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] propos of your interesting article on the search for new oilfields, it must be of interest to recall that to Lord Kitchener is directly due...

Si,—Sir George Beatson's idea of a Red Cross Nursing Reserve to supplement or replace the Voluntary Aid Detachments seems an excellent one. As it is presumably to include...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Some time ago Mr. T. P. O'Connor, on his return from the United States, informed a credulous audience (I think the House of Commons)...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Wintour's removal from the appointment of Perma- nent Secretary in the Ministry of Food should not be allowed to pass without public explanation....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. T. Ernest Jackson in the communication which appeared in your last issue states his belief that the National Alliance is the only...

[To THR EDITOR OF TIER " Spacrkron."1 SIR,—When the war began so many girls and young women offered their services that the woman of fifty did not get a chance of working except...

[To TEL Kerma or me " Sracrrroz."1 SIR,—The suggestion of Colonel 'fate about the channels leading into the Baltic would seem to require the sanction of Denmark and Sweden as...

will he grateful for the article by "H. C." in your issue of September 21st. May one who has tried to teach our language, while thanking "H. C." for his protest against the...

on "Dad Language" was full of interest and amusement. The criticism, in most cases sound, in a few cases tinged perhaps with pedantry, was surely in one case, if I rightly...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The final cause of "bad language," in the sense in which " H. C." uses the term, seems to be the fact that the English lan- guage, of...

Sin,—If not belated, may an old schoolmaster detail instances from his own experience ? Q. "What were the provisions of the Treaty of Bretigny ?" A. a The provisions of this...

THE "tilesarsma."] Sur,—The interesting letter by "A. M." which you publish in your number of September 7th under the heading "The Household Fuel and Lighting Order" contains a...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEX " SPECTATOR.") reference to the letter from Miss, Jessie Spurrell which appears in the Spectator of September 21st, I have in my recollection an...

Sni,—I send you a " howler " which is probably new to your readers. Q. "What is meant by 'the Chiltern Hundreds ? " A. " The things you see with a microscope in a cheese "!—I am,

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A link with the past has been broken by the death of my mother, Mrs. Longworth-Damee, at St. Leerier& on the 18th of last month, and a...

Bushnell records the singular fact that at the gone examination for Honour Mode. no fewer than nine candidates concurred in aesdering the familiar passage (John viii. 44), "He...

[To rue EDITOR OF EILE " SucuToa."3 Brie—Surely the rendering of sal 6 Tarim) .airrog liven by the candidates in the Honours School cannot have been accidental with all of...

LORD CLIVE.* AT last we have got a Life of Clive which is worthy of its subject. Hitherto Clive, as great and as memorable in character, in intel- lect, and in the power of...

FULFILMENT. Wins wars are done, And when the splendour of the setting elm Goes down serenely on a quiet shore, Whose faithful tides forevermore Bring in the memory Of those who...

or initiats, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree. mem* teeth the views therein expressed or with the mode...

SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH recently declared, "sadly, resignedly," that man, even of his years, had no right to speak, or very little power to speak usefully, of contemporary...

M. gTIENON, the well-informed French writer whose articles on the war in the Revue des Deux Mondes have attracted much attention, has written an interesting book on the...

To read suoh books as Miss Day's record of relief work in the war zone is to be reconciled at once to all the hardships that the war has brought to us in these islands. Compared...

OUR ADMIRABLE Bk.1.1:Y-t Ma. 1'Am...1'm, in his new tale remains faithful to the aims and methods which won him his first resounding enemas, and gives agreeable proof that he...

[Notice in this column dos not n000ssarily products ouboopoont rovitio.1 THE OCTOBER MONTELIES.—The Nineteenth Century is a highly interesting number. Mr. J. R. Fisher, writing...

most interesting scenes of this novel are those describing the heroine's experiences in a French hospital in 1914. The earlier part of the story deals with her struggle between...

an observer, and would have become a regular pilot had he not set discipline at defiance by going off alone and without leave on a successful scouting expedition. The Commander...

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Porritt's short history of Canada, with a full account ef the Dominion system of government, is a valuable handbook, which will be found useful for reference....

6d. net.)—Mr. Symons has collected a number of prose "im- pressions." The most serious of them relate to Spain—to its painters like the mysterious Theotocopuli (El Greco) or...

(Clarendon Press. 5s. net.)—As a compendium of the main facts and dates in the long history of France from Roman times to the present day, Mr. Hassall's book will be useful,...

Loram. (Longmans and Co. 6s. 6d.)—This valuable and suggestive book by a Natal school inspector who was born and brought up in the Colony deals very thoroughly with a subject of...

Vol. VI. (Madras : Government Press. 5s. 6d.)—The diary of the confidential Tamil servant of Dupleix, the great French Governor of Pondicherry, grows in interest with each...