27 MAY 1916, page 1

The Question Of Attrition Is A Very Difficult One, And

much may be said about it on both sides. It is quite possible to maintain with a show of reason the apparently mad paradox that Verdun has not been a very bloody battle. No......

This May Seem To Be A Rather Cold Analysis Of

the battle of Verdun, but we can assure our readers, British and French, that we have never for one instant forgotten the splendid heroism of the French soldiers, their......

We Confess That We Wrote Too Pessimistically Of Italy's Open

door. The splendid gallantry and enduranc3 shown by her troops prove that she can shut the dour, but that dons not alter the fact that when Austria holds the heights the door is......

But Though At First Sight A General Survey Of The

week's war seems disappointing, only those who judge at short range can really be disturbed by the recent setbacks suffered by the Allies. Take the case of Italy, in which the......

Some Two Years Before The Beginning Of The War We

attempted to show what that danger was by describing the view seen by the tourist who looks out from the railway carriage window at the bridge of Peschiera. That passage we may......

The News From Verdun Is Also Superficially Disappointing,...

good. Last Sunday began a new battle, or rather a new chapter in the three months' struggle which promises to be the most desperate and most bloody of them all. The Verdun......

News Of The Week

• IF we judge matters superficially, the week has been one of disappointment—we had almost said of encouragement for the pessimist. On the Italian front, at Verdun, and on the......

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