6 JANUARY 1917, page 9

The Most Important Question Of The Moment Is What Will

happen at the Sereth line. Here the Sereth crosses the neck of Rumania at its narrowest point, and as the fortified line reaches nearly to the mountains at one end and to the......

We Shall Not Enter Into Any Of The Details Of

the Army Inquiry of which the two Reports were published in the newspapers on Thursday. On that unsavoury subject the less said the better. Unless our feelings are no guide to......

The News From Rumania Is Decidedly Not Cheerful Reading. But

in reading it we should remember that unless the Germans can dispose of the Rumanian and Russian Armies, which they have not yet done, or can fill their depleted granaries and......

Are We Really To Suppose That When Women With No

sense, or small sense, of decency and propriety attempt to pull strings and flutter their petticoats at the War Office, that great Department has no means of protecting itself......

We Must Add A Few Words About The Part Played

by Mr. and Mrs. Birch, for we fear that the judicial language of the Court may disguise from some readers the magnitude of the courage they displayed. They found that Mr.......

News Of The Week.

T HE shortage of food remains the question of the hour. " We are a beleaguered city." Yet we continue to turn foodstuffs into intoxicants. Does such a state of things satisfy......

France, Great Britain, And Russia, The Three Protectors...

have presented a new and drastio Note to King Constantine, requiring him to guarantee the safety of their forces at Salonika by removing his troops from Northern Greece into the......

At Present King Constantine's Government Seems To Be Ful-...

the demands of the Allies as little as possible. The evacua- tion of Epirus, for instance, proceeds in a leisurely fashion. Not many soldiers come in the steamer which makes an......

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General Mud Still Controls The Situation On The Western...

But this eminent dispenser of military fortunes has not prevented a fair amount of activity from being displayed. Raids and mutual artillery strafing are more or less......