31 MARCH 1917, page 1

A S We Go To Press Splendid News Comes From Syria.

The British troops were heavily engaged on March 26th and 27th with a Turkish army twenty thousand strong. Our troops advanced fifteen miles nearer to Gaza and inflicted heavy......

In Connexion With This Record Of Losses We Must Mention

the statement by Lord Beresford in the House of Lords on Tuesday that in February the losses were 281 vessels and over 505,000 tons, and for March, up to date, 225 vessels and......

Where Do The Germans Mean To Stand, Or To Try

to stand ? We hear much of the " Hindenburg Line." We must not regard it too gravely. It may be an imaginary line, like the equator. We may be sure that if the Germans succeed......

The Events Of The Week On The Western Front Ought

to have silenced all who supposed that the Germans were leading Sir Douglas Haig's forces into a trap. It was not really a difficult thing for the Germans gradually to withdraw......

The Character Of The Return Of The Losses From Submarine

warfare varies little week by week. The return published in Thursday's papers showed that the arrivals of merchant vessels in the week ending March 25th were 2,314 and the......

The Russian Revolution, We Are Very Glad To Say, Proceeds

satisfactorily towards a stable State. The Petrograd correspondent of the T imes states in Thursday's paper that " seditious propaganda is fast losing its sway over the minds of......

But If Sir Douglas Haig And General Nivelle Can Go

on calling the tune, the German High Command will have to dance to it. We used to have to conform to the German initiative. Why should our sceptics think it unlikely that the......

News Of The Week

• THE PAPER SHORTAGE--We trust that readers of the "Spectator" will give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week......

The Middlesex Regiment Will Always Be Proud Of The Behaviour

of one of its battalions, which has conducted itself with the same cool bravery that distinguished the troops who perished In the Birkenhead ' in 1852. The transport ` Tyndareus......