18 DECEMBER 1915, page 1

Sir John French Has, In Our Opinion, Shown Great Good

sense and patriotism in asking to be relieved before his work suffered from the tremendous strain to which he has been exposed. The most difficult thing in the world is to know......

The Writer Of A Very Interesting Communication From The...

published in Thursday's Morning Post adds a curious piece of information. It is that the Germans in high command in France and Flanders have won so few laurels that they are......

There Is Little Or No News To Record From The

French front, except that the weather conditions could not be worse, and that our men in the rain in waterlogged trenches are in a position of extreme discomfort. No doubt......

Posmawm Abroad Lin. On Thursday The War Office Announced...

General Sir Douglas Haig has been appointed to succeed Sir John French in command of the Army in France and Flanders. Sir John French has felt the " sixteen months of severe and......

From The Eastern Russian Line There Is Little Or Nothing

to report, and the same must be said of Bessarabia. The reasons for this in the two cases named are, however, very different. Things are quiet on the main Eastern line because......

News Of The Week.

O UR first duty this week is to offer our most hearty congratu- lations to Lord Derby. He has done the nation a great service, and done it in the best possible way; that is,......

In Writing As We Have Just Written It Must Not

be supposed that we imagine that the success of his scheme has been so great as to warrant the assumption that there will be no need to fall back upon compulsion No one at the......

While Congratulating Lord Derby We Must Also, As He Would

be the first to demand, congratulate the nation. Compulsionista as we am in ordinary times on the ground of national defence and national moral, we cannot refrain from......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Situation In The Balkans,

but may record hero that the French and English troops carried out their retreat without precipitation and without -serious loss, and are now holding a prepared position within......