17 FEBRUARY 1917, page 1

Another Well-planned Stroke In Western Egypt Has Cleared...

out of the remote oasis of Siwa, three hundred and fifty miles west of Cairo, and driven their main body into the waterless desert. Sayed Ahmed, the Senussi leader, was brought......

Finally, Sir Douglas Said That If The War Were Not

finished this year, the Allies must not hesitate to continue it. We must regard the question of an inadequate peace " with a square jaw " :- " For the sake of our own......

NEWS OF THE WEEK We are threatened with Food Shortage of a most serious kind. That being so, the Government should surely say : " Not a grain of food shall be turned into......

We Have Not Space To Record In Ectlil The Unceasing

raids on the Western front, all of them flattering to British . arms. On the Ancre we have advanced since the New Year an average distance of three-quarters of a mile on a front......

Sir Douglas Haig Went On To Say That He Was

convinced that the decision would be reached on the Western front :- " Do you think," the correspondent of the Haves Agency asked, " that the decision can be reached by breaking......

Meanwhile The United States Is Still Waiting For The "

overt act." It may be that it will come as aresult of the voyage of the unarmed American merchantmen into the death zone mentioned later. This passive challenge by America is......

The Situation At Sea May Be Summarized By Saying That

though the submarine threat is of course serious, the increase of losses among Allied and neutral merchantmen does not anything like reach the figure the Germans contemplated.......

Sir Douglas Haig Is The Last Man In The World

to boast. We may be perfectly sure that he did not say a word more than he felt the situation entitled him to say. There is a kind of courage which does not shrink, however,......

Sir Douglas Haig Said That We Had Already Complete Security

in munitions, but we still needed more guns and more railways. The need of more guns will always remain, for we can never have too many. If we could make the sky dark with......

W E Must Mention First In Our Record Of Military Events

the remarkable expression of confidence which Sir Douglas Haig has used in speaking to several French journalists. Although this " interview " was not a military event, it has......