4 DECEMBER 1915, Page 14

The House of Commons on Tuesday indulged in a long

and heated debate upon the misdirected and injurious actions of the Northcliffe Press—i.e., the Times and Daily Mail. We cannot attempt, in the space which we can afford to so barren a discussion, to deal at length with the various speeches. We can only say that, after a careful and impartial study of the indictments of the Home Secretary and of Lord Robert Cecil, we agree generally that the tone adopted of late by the two papers has undoubtedly been calculated to have an encouraging effect upon our enemies, and a depressing effect at home, and, still worse, was likely to prevent balancing neutrals, who above all things wanted to be on the winning side, from joining us and our allies.