25 NOVEMBER 1916, page 1

On The Western Front There Has Been Little To Report

during the week other than the cleaning up and consolidating of the battlefields of the Ancre. The more that splendid victory is looked at the more satisfactory it becomes. The......

To The Bulgarians, If They Have Any Power Of Thinking

left, their defeat here must appear of the blackest ill-omen. If they were wise they would even now throw over the worthless monarch who has made them tread the dark path that......

The Most Important Piece Of War News Recorded During The

week is the capture of Monastir, which took place on Sunday last. Whether the statement is true that the Bulgarian losses in the battle were thirty thousand men, and that one......

One Has Only To Look At The Map To See

why Monastir has always played so great a part in Balkan affairs, or to study history and tradition to realize why the problem of its possession so greatly inflames Bulgars,......

Where All Units Have Acted Splendidly One May Yet Fairly

single out the Naval Division for special mention. It was they who took the German front line from Beaumont-Hamel to the Ancre, and, later on, the village of Beaucourt. What......

News Of The Week

• W E have dealt elsewhere with the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and will only say here that the House of Hapsbarg cannot be said to have gone down in......

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If The News From The South Balkans Is Good, That

from the North is bad. We regret to record that the Germans are making rapid progress south-east of the Carpathians, and that the waves of invasion, so far from being stayed,......

But Even If Things Are Really As Bad In Rumania

as they look at the moment, it is absurd to talk as if the intervention of our latest Ally had been a blow rather than a benefit to the common cause. Unquestionably it has been......

We Record With Deep Regret That The Largest Ship That

ever flew the Red Ensign, once the White Star liner Britannic,' and then the British hospital ship of the same name, was sunk by a mine or torpedo on Tuesday, November 21st, in......

If A New Isaiah Were To Arise Among Us, Surely

he would depict the entry of the shade of Francis Joseph into the underworld in much the same words as he used to the King of Babylon :— " Hell from beneath is moved for thee to......