NEWS OF THE WEEK
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OF war news during the week there has been practically none. The Daily Mail on Friday, however, published a telegram from its correspondent, Mr. Ward Price, dated Tuesday and described as being sent by 'wireless from the steamer 'Principessa Maria,' in the Black Sea, to Costa.nza, Roumania. From this message it seems that a. Greek attempt at landing at Besika Hay, on the coast of Asia Minor, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, is imminent. Thirty-five Greek transports were, when the message was sent, waiting off the island of Mitylene to bring over the troops. They had been so far delayed by a northerly gale. Nothing is said as to whether there were, or are, any plans for selecting and sacrificing an Iplligenia, from among the Grecian maidens, but considering the splendid patriotism and pluck displayed by, the Greek. Red Cross nurses we do not doubt that it the classical sacrifice were demanded there would be plenty of volunteers. Anyway, it is interesting to remember that the t occasion—if wo omit Alexander's naval and military pa de—on which Greek transports were prepared for a simi ar objective, i.e., the coast of the Troad, was the expedi- tion commanded by Agamemnon. It is to be hoped, however, that the operations will not be quite so prolonged as on that occasion. The world in these days could not bear a ten years siege. It is even tiresome to read such a telegram as that from Constantinople, dated Thursday, which also appears in the Daily Mail, in which we are told that it is practically impossible that fighting can take place at the Tchatalja lines for three weeks. As, however, we have said elsewhere we think it most unlikely that the war will last much longer. Of Adrianople there is practically no news, and Scutari still holds out.
