16 OCTOBER 1909, page 2

On Saturday Last General D'amade, The French Officer Who...

the campaign in the Shawia with so much success, was placed on the unattached list of the French Army as a punishment for the indiscreet remarks which he made for publication in......

The Times Correspondent At Peking States In Monday's...

overtures have been made by the Grand Council to Yuan Shi-kai to induce him to return to office. His abrupt dismissal by the Prince Regent on the pretext that he had rheumatism......

Commander Peary's Reasons For Declaring That Dr. Cook Did...

reach the North Pole were issued on Tuesday night by the Peary Arctic Club in New York. The document is accompanied by a chart on which the two Eskimos who Dr. Cook alleges went......

Mr. Lloyd George Made What His Admirers Call "the Speech

of his life " at Newcastle on Saturday last. He had not time, he explained, to prepare a speech, but had come for a plain, straight talk about the Budget. As to the plainness of......

The Greek Chamber Is Trying To Save To Itself Some

remnants of independence, and has demanded time to consider the programme which the Military League required it to pass without delay. M. Mavromichaeli, the Premier, no doubt......

The Daily Telegraph Of Tuesday Published A Letter From John

Bright (written in 1882) on the subject of Henry George's book on land nationalisation. The letter begins with the very characteristic sentences :--" If you think it can be just......

The Peroration Of The Speech, Which Appears To Have Been

delivered throughout with perfect coolness and without the slightest indication that the speaker was yielding to momen- tary impulse, took the form of a highly emotional appeal......

The Attitude Of The Liberal Press Towards Mr. Lloyd George's

speech is significant. The Daily Chronicle places him in the same category with Abraham Lincoln,—anamazing com- parison, for Lin' coln was a. Conservative in the truest sense,......