12 FEBRUARY 1916, page 2

Here We Must Unfortunately Return To The Daily Mail Again

and say a word about the wild and wavering campaign which it seems to be conducting in regard to something vaguely called reprisals. A good deal of this howling for reprisals is......

Though The Change Is Momentous, It Is In Our Belief

well justified as a war measure. Sir William Robertson has by far the best head for dealing with strategic problems in this country, or perhaps we should say in any country in......

It Is With Great Regret That We Read The Statement

made in Thursday's papers that General Smith-Dorrien has been obliged owing to ill-health to resign ids command in East Africa. But though we regret that so able and so gallant......

On Monday A Most Important Order In Council, Involving .

momentous changes in the functions of the Secretary of State for War, was published in the London Gazette. The date of the Order is January 27th. The operative part states that......

We Desire To Congratulate Our Contemporary The Daily...

the pluck and public spirit with which it has been protesting day by day against - what - it very properly terms " the strange privilege of beer." For example; in a leading......

From This Duty Of Regarding A Prisoner Of War As

sacred and inviolate there can be no exception, unless, as wo have said, in the case of some conspiracy by prisoners or some insurrec- tionary movement among them. The notion of......

The Notion Of Reprisals Against Prisoners Is A Perfectly...

thing, and is really part- of that futile and diabolic policy which we as a nation have condemned, and rightly condemned, in the slaughter of hostages. :In no possible......

Without, As Far As Wo Can Sec, Any Correction Or

protest in the editorial columns shows to what a mental condition those who control the Daily Mail have reduced themselves by these " Thyestean banquets of clap-trap." We are......

Even If The Belgians Had Reason To Think That German

scraps of paper were worth their face value, we feel sure they would have indignantly refused the offer. Considering, however, what happened in August, 1914, what possibility......