NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SINCE our last issue every day has been to packed with incident and emotion that it is difficult to see events in their right perspective. The diabolical crime of sinking the Lusitania ' is, from a military point of view, of course much lees important than the development of large and critical movements on both fronts of the war. The battle raging in the western theatre is probably the greatest which has yet been fought, and, measured by the employment of artillery, it is probably the greatest battle in history. But the passions roused by the murder of the `Lusitartia's' passengers—feelings powerful enough to transform the outlook of the whole world upon the war—and the political events, abroad and at home, which are likely to flow from those feelings, are of such importance that we most write first of the ' Lusitania.' That is, indeed, the preoccupying subject. It is now admitted in effect by the neutral countries—we ought to say by the people of those countries lather than by their Governments in moat cases—that "neutrality" cannot possibly remain the mere attitade of a detached spectator.
