The Spectator at war: Calm before the storm

From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 3 April 1915:

Whether it is the lull before the storm or only an accident we do not know, but in any can there is a most curious absence of news both from the western and the eastern theatres of the war. In the western sea area we read of a certain amount of Zeppelin activity, but not of a very important kind. Of fresh news from the land there is very little except from the Argonne, where as neual the fighting sways backwards and forwards, but with a slight inclination in favour of the French. In the eastern theatre the reports from the centre show that the Russians are holding their own still in the Carpathians, and that their offenaive continues to gather strength and volume. On Monday, for example, there was an action in that region in which nearly two thousand prisoners and five machine guns were taken.