15 DECEMBER 1917, page 2

General Kaleclin, The Hetrnan Of The Don Cossacka, Is...

by the Anarchists to have taken arms against them, in conjunction with General Komiloff, who recently escaped from prison. Another Cossack, General Dotal, has occupied Orenburg......

Although Although We Are Hard Put To It To Find

space to record all the important events of the week, we must make room to pay a Well- deserved tribute to the frank, honest, and valuable speech made in London on Friday week......

Affairs In Russia Have Gone From Bad To Worse. The

Anarchist gang in Petrograd, styling themselves the "Commissioners of the People," threaten to abolish the Constituent Assembly if, as seems probable, the electors have not......

The Conclusion Of This Remarkable Speech Did The Utmost...

to one who represents Labour " Lot every one," he said, " subordinate personal considerations so the gene-4 intereete of the State. Let Capital realize its responsi- bility to......

We Fear That It Is Impossible Todeny Mr. Thomas's Account

of the situation. The trouble is that Cabinet government, as we used to know it, has disappeared, and few Ministers feel that they owe any loyalty to their brother-Ministers. In......

Mr. Asquith Spoke At Birmingham On Tuesday For The National

War Alms Committee. He recalled the anxious days of 1914 when he, as Prime Minister, had to decide between war and a shameful neutrality, and declared that he did not regret his......

In The House Of Commons On Tuesday Mr. Balfour Stated

that Germany had informed the British Government last September, through a neutral source, that she world be glad to make a com- munication relative to peace. The Government......

We Are Not Fighting, Continued Mr. Asquith, To Annihilate...

and the German people. We sought to destroy not a people but a system, "which has used as its instroment, first in Prussia, then in the rest of Germany, 'that two-handed engine......

One Would Be Tempted To Say That Lord Northcliffe Was

mainly rerponsible for this underestimate, were it not for the curious.fact, which an American correspondent brought to our notice the other day, that Lord Northcliffe tries to......

Mr. Thomas Next Dealt With The Extraordinary Contrast...

furious outcry which was raised before the war when a few millions were added to the national expenditure upon social reform, and the quiescence with which the nation now......

No Peace, Mr. Asquith Continued, Would Be Worth The Name

if it permitted the continuance of a" veiled war." "A clean peace ! That is what the people of this country and all the Allied peoples desire." To attain it, and nothing less,......

Mr. Thomas Went On To Say That There Had Been

a continual belittling of the saorifiece made by the British people. This also is absolutely true He found that the American people were astounded when he told them exactly what......