15 AUGUST 1908, page 3

During The Past Week The Greater Part Of The Territorial

Army has been under canvas, some in large camps, such as that on Salisbury Plain, and others in smaller brigade camps. On the whole the quality shown by the troops has been......

Mr. W. Beach Thomas, A Most Careful Observer Whose Judgment

is trustworthy, writes a very interesting article in the Daily Mail of Thursday on the possibility of enormously increasing the yield of our corn crops. The prospects of such an......

During The Past Few Days Mr. Wilbur Wright, The American

inventor, has given some extraordinary demonstrations of flying in his machine at Le Mans. The reports of the successes of the brothers Wright in America were generally......

All This Would Be Cured By The Adoption Of Universal

training. In the first place, the whole youth of the country would get the benefits and advantages, moral and physical, now enjoyed only by a few. At the same time, the......

According To The Monthly Board Of Trade Returns For The

foreign trade of the United Kingdom, which were published on Monday, the decline for July as compared with July of 1907 was 212,181,345. That is a very serious fall taken alone,......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Times, In A Message Pub-

lished on Wednesday, states that in an engagement fought on the 7th of this month at Dar-el-Ayad in Morocco, the troops of Abd-ul- A ziz inflicted serious losses on a meballa of......

Meantime We Gladly Acknowledge That Mr. Haldane Has Done...

service in giving us a force of home guards which, if not raised on the proper principle, is at any rate excellently organised. In other words, he has provided a frame of......

Though The Sacrifices Made By The Men Who Have Joined

the Territorial Force is most creditable to them, and though in many cases employers have shown great public spirit in giving their men leave to go to camp, even when that was......

Bank Rate, 24 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

May 28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 864.......