22 AUGUST 1914, page 1

Having Got As Far As Brussels, What Are The Germans

to do next ? We sincerely trust that they will yield to the tempta- tion to push on westward till they reach the sea and overflow the whole of Belgium. It is to be feared,......

The Russians Have Not Yet Advanced Very Far, But They

are moving from a great many points, and on a tremendously long front. It may well be, therefore, that at the end of another fortnight the Germans will be obliged to bring back......

News Of The Week.

D URING the early part of the week there was little apparent progress in the theatre of war. The players were getting ready for the parts assigned to them. On Thursday, however,......

The Operations In Lorraine And Alsace Are The Mysterious...

of the war. In Lorraine the French have been steadily gaining ground, and, as the Times Military Corre- spondent points out on Friday, an army with a front of nearly forty miles......

Possibly Their Object Is To Bait A Trap And Draw

the French on. That may be good strategy, no doubt, but at the same time there is always a danger of the French doing so well as to be in a position to threaten the German left......

The Trouble Of This Is That The Great Flank Movement

towards the west, now extending in an unbroken line from the Dutch frontier near Antwerp to Metz, may be forced by dream. stances into becoming a main action, to which both com-......

• „• The Editors Cannot - Undertake To Return Nanuscrizt In

any case.......