24 FEBRUARY 1917, page 1

On The Western Front Attack And Counter-attack Have...

importance, and we must expect them to do so week by week, if the weather permits, till they pass almost imperceptibly into the great, and possibly the decisive, struggle of the......

The Next Important Fact Is That " Ruthlessness " Has

made no startling difference to our losses. Sir Edward Carson took for comparison the first eighteen days of December, January, and February. The table of losses is as follows......

News Of The Week.

We are threatened with Food Shortage of a most serious kind. That being so, the Government should surely say : " Not a grain of food shall be turned into intoxicants till that......

S Ir Edward Carson's Statement On Submarine Warfare In...

of Commons on Wednesday turned on the electric light in a dark room. It was thoroughly informing, bracing, and reassuring— always with the reservation that the power to mar as......

The Fact That The Forty Encounters Described By Sir Edward

Carson occurred within eighteen days is itself evidence of the harrying to which the German submarines are exposed. But there was more and weightier evidence than that. Let us......

A New British Blockade Order Has Been Issued, Altering The

procedure in response to the now German ruthlessness. This was inevitable. Neutral vessels plying to and from countries which have open communications with enemy countries must......

Mr. George Lambert, M.p., Civil Lord Of The Admiralty In

Mr. Asquith's Administration, made a somewhat hysterical epcech in the House of Commons oa Thursday week, clamouring for the recall of Lord Fisher to the Admiralty as the only......

No Question Is More Familiar In General Conversation Than :

" Why don't the Government toll us the number of German sub- marines sunk ? " The common belief is that our own people would be encouraged and the Germans would be depressed by......