10 NOVEMBER 1917, page 1

General Cadorna Has Continued His Retreat In Good Order. He

was unable to hold the line of the Tagliamento, partly because the river was low, partly too because the enemy pressure from the northern hills on his left flank was too great.......

Sir Eric Geddes, The First Lord Of The Admiralty, Made

in the Commons on Thursday week an important statement on the work of the Navy, in a maiden speech which received universal praise. He began by describing the reorganized......

Our Losses Of Merchantmen From Mine Or Submarine Last Week

wortthe smallest recorded in any week since the enemy opened his new campaign in February. The number of ships entering and leaving British ports increased by one hundred and......

The First Lord Said That, While Our Defensive Measures Had

steadily reduced the toll taken by the enemy submarines, our offensive measures had become much more successful. In the three months ending at Michaelmas the Navy sank as many......

General Allenby's Advance In Southern Palestine Was...

Turks held a long line running from the sea-coast near Gaza south-eastwards to Beersheba, at the foot of theJudaean hills, and the valley running up to Hebron and Jerusalem.......

The French Victory At Melmaison On October 23rd And The

rapid advance which followed it compelled the enemy, as we ventured to anticipate last week, to evacuate all his remaining positions on the northern slopes of the Chemin dos......

News Of The Week.

rums has been a glorious week for British arms. In Flanders Sir Douglas Haig has completed the work of months of hard fighting by the capture of Passchendaele, the crowning......

The Canadians, Who Had Taken Crest Farm And Planted Them-

selves on the outskirts of Passchendaele a week before, finished their task on Tuesday by taking the whole village and the adjacent hamlets of Mosselmarkt and Goudberg. The......

The Paper Shortage.—we Trust That Readers Of The...

give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.......