28 APRIL 1917, page 1

We Shall Be Told, No Doubt, That It Would Be

impossible because at many places from which ships sail there are no food supplies available. Nonsense ! If you take the trouble to look for them, there are food supplies of......

News Of The Week.

T HE Food Problem remains the question of the hour, and the public aro at last beginning to realize this fact, and to understand why we have worried, as they once thought, so......

The News From Mesopotamia Is As Good As The News

from the Western front. General Maude by a most skilful piece of strategy has taken Samarra Station, and no doubt will soon be in Samarra town, which, however, is on the......

We Have Pointed Out Elsewhere That Even Now The Government

could, if they liked, bring home to the nation the peril in which it stands by a complete reversal of their policy as regards the destruc- tion of Food by the Brewers—i.e., by......

The News During The Week From Sir Douglas Haig Has

been alto- gether admirable. On Monday, true to plan, we renewed our attack in the Arras region on a front of about ten miles. That attack went on throughout Monday, Tuesday,......

We Have Criticized Elsewhere The Ideas Which Unhappily...

policy at Whitehall, but how little they affect action at sea is shown in the thrilling account of the fight in the Channel which took place on April 20th in which two British......

In Addition To The Conservation And Proper Usage Of Such

food supplies as we have already got in the country, a great deal of help can be accomplished by " tapping " fresh supplies of food in all quarters of the world, and proving......

What Irony It Is That A Newspaper Like The Spectator

should, in a year of famine, be pleading on its knees to the Government not to destroy a million quarters of grain, and a Government who at the same moment are telling us, and......

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.......