28 JULY 1917, page 1

News Of The Week.

A MILITARY disaster has befallen our Russian Allies. That is a plain fact, and it would be absurd to try to explain it away or pretend that it makes no difference to us. A grave......

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.......

General Van De Venter In East Africa Is Now Rapidly

drawing tight the cordon round the messy troops. His small columns, moving from all points of the compass between Lake Nyasa and the sea, are steadily driving the Germans......

The French Have Had Yet Another Week Of Desperate Fighting

on the blood-stained ridge north of the Aisne. The Crown Prince made a series of violent attacks on the plateaux between Hurtebise and Critonne, where at its eastern end the......

The Enemy Began An Offensive In Galicia On Thursday Week,

and some of the Russian troops refused to hold the lines against them. The mutiny, planned by Lenin's followers in concert with their German paymasters, began in the 607th......

Russia Has Thus Lost Eastern Galicia With Its Crops Ripe

for the harvest, a great quantity of new artillery, munitions, and transport, and probably many thousands of prisoners. It is a great calamity for her, but it is not......

To Help Russia In Her Hour Of Peril, The Rumanian

Army, reorgan- ized by French officers since the disasters of last autumn, has assumed the offensive. Striking hard on Tuesday in the Susita Valley, in the Southern Carpathians,......

Nor Is The Mischief Confined To Galicia. On Sunday Last

the Russian commander ordered an offensive at Krevo, east of Vilna. Thanks to the bravery and self-sacrifice of the officers, the troops broke the German lines and took a......

Sir Douglas Haig's Reports Have Shown A Certain...

the whole British line from the sea to St. Quentin. Two slight gains of ground have been made in the tactically valuable neighbourhood of Monchy-le-Preux, south-east of Arras.......