1 JUNE 1918, page 1

News Of The Week

• A FTER a rather longer delay than had been expected, the German offensive was resumed on Monday. It has come to be regarded as inevitable that the preliminary onset by either......

On Wednesday The Enemy Continued To Expand His Advancing...

The French report of that night recorded the lose of the Vregny Plateau, and the taking of Soissons from the west ; while on the other " horn " of the thrust the enemy was......

We Have Alluded Elsewhere To Mr. Lloyd George's Courting Of

the Irish Nationalists, a courtship which has been echoed with equal ineptitude by a great portion of the Radical and Official Press. We do not wonder that the stomachs of the......

The Paper Shortage.

TO OUR READERS.—The shortage of paper has obliged us to adopt the policy of refusing to allow the " Spectator" to be "on sale or return." All that it is necessary for readers to......

The German Assault Was On A Wide Front Between Reims

and Soissons, whore both British and French troops were attacked. The British divisions held a front of fifteen miles in the bend of the line across the Aisne towards Reims,......

In The Course Of Monday Night And Tuesday The Pressure

of greatly superior numbers enabled the forces of the German Crown Prince to sweep beyond the Chemin des Dames, and carry the northern heights of the Mane east of Soissons, on a......

Some Newspapers Extend Their Courtship Almost As Much To The

Sinn Feiners as to the Nationalists. A correspondent sends us a " Limerick " which aptly fits the situation :- " There were some young men of Sinn Fein, Who proclaimed......

We Desire To Call The Attention Of Our Readers To

an admirable letter contributed by Mr. J. R. Fisher, of the Ulster Unionist Council, to the Northern Whig of May 24th. His letter is an answer to the Home Rule paper which......