21 JULY 1917, page 1

Important Ministerial Changes Were Announced In The...

Sir Edward Carson leaves the Admiralty and joins the War Cabinet without portfolio. Sir Erie Geddes becomes First Lord. Dr. Addison leaves the Ministry of Munitions and becomes......

Our North Sea Patrols On Monday Intercepted A Number Of

German merchantmen off the Dutch coast. The enemy vessels refused to stop and were fired upon. Two were driven ashore, but four were captured and brought into harbour. These......

Tho Admiralty Announced In Last Saturday's Papers That...

' Vanguard,' a Dreadnought of 19,250 tons launched at Barrow in 1909, was blown up at anchor on the previous Monday night as the result of an internal explosion and sank......

The French Have Had Another Week Of Very Heavy Fighting,

especially in Champagne and at Verdun. They celebrated the fall of the Bastille on Saturday last by capturing half-a-mile of the enemy positions north of Mont Haut and the......

In Petrograd Lenin And His Anarchists Attempted En Monday...

to oust the Provisional Government by means of an armed demonstration. Mutinous soldiers and workmen on strike paraded the streets all night, but loyal troops used their rifles......

News Of The Week.

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG reports this week a series of raids and counter-raids in every sector of our Western Front. From the sea to St. Quentin, the enemy is being kept in a state of......

General Komiloff, The Russian Commander On The Dniester...

been checked in his advance beyond Halle; partly by the arrival of heavy German reinforcements for the broken Austrians, and partly, as his reports show, by the July rains,......

Mr. Lloyd George Must Knew All This Perfectly Well. He

braves public opinion, and we fear that he has thereby shaken the position of the Government. In hie very act of accepting office Mr. Churchill gives a new token of his......

But There Are Some Reservations To Be Made In The

ease of most general principles, and we must say at once that Mr. Lloyd George is stretching the patience of many of his supporters to the breaking- point by his appointment of......

Noires.—with This Week's Number Of The " Sem - V.1,3a" Ie...

gratis, an Eight-Page Suprlement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Tide-Page—i.e., from January 64 to June 30th, 1917, inclusive.......

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.......