In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Lloyd George
wound up the debate on the motion for adjournment by a very striking survey of the war. Though he did not want to give a military estimate of the situation, he asked the House of Commons to look at the state of things a few months ago and contrast it with the sonditions at the present moment. Then, the fate of Verdun hung in the balance ; the Austrians appeared to be about to overrun the plains of Italy ; the Russians seemed to be held in the East, while our lines were being worried along the whole front by deter- mined German attacks. What was the position now? East and West the initiative had been wrested from the enemy almost for the first time along the whole front. There was only one possible exception, and that was Mesopotamia, where, owing largely to climatic reasons, our Army had to be quiescent. The whole situa- tion had completely changed.
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