13 DECEMBER 1913, page 4

Topics Of The Day.

MR. ASQUITH'S ULSTER SPEECH. I N our opinion, Mr. Asquith's speech at the Manchester Reform Club on Friday, December 5th, marks a very real advance towards a solution, we will......

The Interpretation.

ri 0 IV are we to interpret this speech ? What is its practical bearing on the question of the avoidance• of civil war, for that is the only way in which we care to consider it,......