News Of The W Eek.
HE most important event of the week has been the fall of T the great Austrian fortress of Przemyal in Galicia, after a siege which, with one short interruption, lasted nearly......
The Controversy As To What Should Be Our Future Military
policy in the west still goes on, and calculations are made on the basis of the inquiry— If it cost us so many thousand men to advance two miles on a front of four, how many men......
For Ourselves, We Are Inclined To Believe That Our Military
interests will not suffer if we allow the Germans to break their heads on our lines of defence. There seems a good deal of probability that this is what they are now preparing......
In The Western Theatre Of The War There Is Comparatively
little to recount. Both armies appear to be resting after the engagements at Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi. The detailed accounts of those operations which are now reaching this......
The Russians, We Are Glad To Say, Have Not Been
content with congratulating themselves on the fall of the fortress, but with the true military instinct have instantly followed it up by a more vigorous offensive in the......
It May Be Said: "the Germans Surely Know This Feet
as well as we do, and therefore they will not attack." Thoae who argue thus, however, forget that all German military policy favours taking and keeping the offensive, and,......
It Is, However, Inadvisable To Push These Considerations...
at present. The military authorities, who know ail the facts and not merely a portion of them, and on whom the responsibility rests, will do what they think right and will not......
