1 JANUARY 1916, page 9

News Of The Week.

B Y far the most important event of the week has been the announcement made on Wednesday unofficially, but, we take it, on ample warrant, that the Cabinet have come to the......

We Should Like Here, In Justice To Our Profession, To

say a word as to the newspapers which played the better part and refused to encourage the attempt at crisis-mongering. Chief among these has been the Daily Telegraph. That is a......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The General Military...

the beginning of the New Year. Here we Will only say that Thursday's papers print a report from British Headquarters recording a successful enterprise by our men near......

The Situation On The Eastern Front Remains Somewhat...

regards the North, and actually mysterious in respect of the South. What apparently is happening in the North is this. The Germans have entirely abandoned any idea of a further......

While Dealing With The Russian Situation We Desire To Con-

gratulate the Government of the Emperor upon the successful opening of the railway route to the new Russian port of Alex- androvsk, in the extreme North of European Russia,......

The News From The Balkans Is Distinctly Reassuring. Day -by

day the position of the Allies at Salonika, and in the lines, fifty miles long, which now surround it, becomes firmer and better. Probably these lines, bristling as they do with......

Though This Is The Situation On The Russian Right And

in the centre, on their left wing—that is, the extreme Southern front— there comes through Austrian channels an account of a big battle. In the region of Bessarabia on the West,......

The Daily Telegraph Has Taken Up A National Position. It

has done its very best to support the National Government, and to prevent that Government from breaking up, and thus exposing us to most serious dangers. Again, it has condemned......

The Only Point In Which The Germans Can Claim Advantage

over us is in the nature of the ground occupied. Owing largely to accident, their trenches tend to be a little above ours, and therefore are rather easier to drain and keep dry.......

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