14 APRIL 1917, page 2

The Controversy As To Why The Germans Have Retreated On

the Western front still continues. The only explanation that we have seen put forward by the Germans is incredible, or, rather, would be incredible in the case of any other......

Meanwhile The Rupture Of Diplomatic Relations With...

seizure of all Austrian vessels in American ports—fourteen in number and of a total tonnage of sixty-seven thousand—are believed to portend a speedy declaration of war. Cuba has......

We Have Received From The Secretary Of The National...

for Relief in Belgium a statement rebutting the assertions made by Mr. Whitaker in the Times and Daily Mail as to the food supply in Belgium and Northern France. We are unable......

The Present Writer Recalls How One Of Tle Most Warm-hearted

kindly, and courteous of Englishmen used to confess that he never drove up to a friend's door to stay or to dine or to lunch without feeling what he described as the chill of......

Among The Measures Which Immediately Followed This...

note the seizure of the German ships in American harbours, representing upwards of half-a-million of tonnage, and the intern- ment of their crews, while the work of repairing......

We Are Not Suggesting For A Moment That Because The

Americans arc our flesh and blood and because they talk English they must necessarily be incorporated in the British Army. If they prefer to serve with the French or the......

No. 2 Is A Time-table To Be Carried Out At

Bancourt, a village just east of Bapaume " In the village , of Bancourt it 18 . 121Q1)3 important to set fire to the houses than to blow them up. 11th Maroh.—Straw will be......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Ardent Desire Felt By

so many friends of America that the United States should at once be repre- sented at the front by at least a brigade. Here we wish to meet one more objection to the despatch of......

Forthe Moment The Most Important Proof Of America's...

co-operate with the Allies is to be found in the Americas_ of the £1,000,000,000 Loan authorized on Tuesday night by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of......

What Has Filled The Hearts Of Frenchmen With Bitterness And

rage has been the meticulous brutality, the sublimated dirtiness, the vagaries, as of some type of .nauseous ape, which have dia- graced the German retreat. Here are the......

These, However, Are Details. It Is America's D R Ag We Want,

and we say frankly that we arc not going to be deterred from saying so by any ridiculous punctilio that it is not our business, or that America will resent such unwarranted......