NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE military situation continues to be satisfactory. Though we fully recognize that one must not exaggerate the effect of the Russian advance, it is none the less not only a very splendid feat of arms, but one which may be fraught with ultimate conse- quences of the first moment. The walls of the German Jericho will not fall down immediately in front of General Brushoff and his gallant troops, but in spite of that fact the work of the Russians is the beginning of the end. As we write on Thursday a fierce battle appears to be proceeding in front of Hovel, the Russians trying to cw.pturu the place and the Germans to defend it by their furious counter-attacks. Kovel, we may remind our readers, is a railway centre, and if the Russians can take it they will he in a position to prevent the Germans reinforcing their Austrian allies to the south. Meanwhile the Russian successes around Czernovitz and on the Reumanian frontier continue. If the number of prisoners taken since the Russian offensive began on June 4th is reckoned up, it would appear that something like two hundred thousand have been captured. That is a tremendous haul, and if to them are added the dead and wounded, something close upon half-aamillion Austrians have been put out of action.
