15 AUGUST 1914, page 3

The Accounts Of How The German Crowds And German Officials

lost their beads and insulted foreigners after the declaration of war are painful reading. The British Embassy in Berlin was attacked and the windows were broken. Englishmen who......

On Monday Mr. Asquith Moved The Adjournment Of The House

till August 25th. He hoped that in the interval some- thing might be done that would enable them to dispose of the rest of the business of the Session with something like......

The Offers Of Help From The Dominions Have Been A

cause of intense pride and satisfaction in the United Kingdom. Canada, besides placing her ships unreservedly at the disposal of the Admiralty, is raising an Expeditionary Force......

On Friday Week The British Forces In The Gold Coast

Colony seized the port of Lome, in German Togoland. No resistance was offered, and South Togoland up to one hundred and twenty kilometres north from the coast was simultaneously......

As We Write On Friday The Subscriptions To The Prince

of Wales's Fund amount to £863,000. That is a good week's work, and we have no doubt that the million point will be reached by the time these pages are in our readers' hands.......

The Times Of Tuesday Printed The Vital Passage In The

speech which the German Chancellor delivered in the Reichstag on August 4th on the events that led up to war :- "Gentlemen, we are now in a state of necessity, and necessity......

The National Reserve, And Small Blame To Them, Are Strain-

ing at the leash, and asking why they are being forgotten when everybody else is being employed—they are all trained men, with half of them in full bodily vigour, and, best of......

The Times Of Monday Published From Its St. Petersburg...

a striking account of the manner in which the members of the Duma, on the eve of war, sank all their differences in a common purpose. The Cadet leader, for instance, was seen......

In The General Eagerness To Help We Hope That The

sound advice given this week by the writer of a letter to the Daily Mail will be taken to heart. He suggests that the nation's motto at the present moment should be "Business as......

It Is Understood That The Home Rule And Unionist Leaders

will :luring the adjournment make an attempt to settle the Home Rule problem by agreement It is greatly to be hoped that they will succeed. If, however, they fail, it seems to......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

Aug. 8th.......