6 OCTOBER 1917, page 1

The Airmen Have Been Very Active. Our Naval Men Have

bombed the Flemish aerodromes and submarine bases army day or night during the week. They inflicted great damage on St. Donk; Westrem, near Ghent, while the military airmen paid......

On The French Front The Enemy Has Again Concentrated His

atten- tion upon the Verdun lines Fearful lest our Allies should advance still further, widening their salient east of the Meuse, the Germans began on Monday a eeriest of......

Last Week We Lost Merchantmen Over 1,600 Tons And Two

mailer vesses ; nine ships beat off their asitailants. in the previous week we had lost twelve large and two small ships. The Admiralty announce for the first time the 103.1 of......

Several Air Raids Have Taken Place Since Our Last It18119.

On the night of Friday week German aeroplanes visited Suffolk. Essex, and Kent, but none of them reached London. Last Saturday night groups of German aeroplanes reached the......

On The Russian Front Nothing New Has Happened. The Germans

are presumably not yet ready to move upon Dvinsk. From the Russian headquarters it is announced that, despite all the mis- fortunes of the past summer, the Russian armies are......

General Sir William Robertson, Who, Like Lord Kitelle;wr,...

seldom and measures his words very carefully, gave a notable little address last Saturday at Hampstead, when he opened a now hospital for the disabled. He contrasted the first......

We Have Written Elsewhere On The Whole Subject Of Air

raids, but may repeat here that the word " reprisal " is being put by some people to a ridiculous 'Misuse. Our whole problem is purely a military one. The true object is to hit......

News Of The Week.

rilHE British Army resumed its offensive, for the third time in a fortnight, on Thursday morning east of Ypres. All that is known as we write is that the attack was made on a......

On The Isonzo Front The Italians, On Friday Week And

Saturday last, made two vigorous local attache to the north-east of Monte San Gabriele, in which they captured some mere of the high ground at the eastern edge of the Bainsizza,......

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.......