17 MAY 1913, page 1

In The United States There Has Been Much Talk Of

universal peace during the week. Last Saturday at a banquet given to the foreign delegates to the International Peace Conference Mr. Bryan was the chief speaker. He said that......

- On Monday The Balkan Allies Sent A Reply To

the Note issued by the Powers on May 1st. While recognizing the intention of the Powers to settle the question of Albania and the Islands over their heads, they profess......

A Reuter Telegram From Sofia In Wednesday's Papers Gives The

official returns of the Bulgarian losses in the war as 33,000 killed and missing and 53,000 wounded. Apart from the high proportion of dead to wounded, the figures become even......

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Although We Cannot Believe In The Probability Of War On

a serious scale among the Balkan Allies, there has unquestion- ably been an ugly tension during the week. It was reported from Salonika on Monday that in the Pangeon district......

News Of The Week.

T HE preliminary treaty of peace between Turkey and the Balkan Allies has not yet been signed, but there is no unfavourable turn in the negotiations. As we have pointed out in a......

"for Heaven's Sake Let Us Be Practical L " We

cannot help exclaiming on reading Mr. Bryan's speech. We desire peace every bit as much as he does, but we remember the words of Burke that " those things which are not......

The Protocol Between Bulgaria And Rumania For The...

of the frontier was signed last week at St. Petersburg. Rumania gains a small new tract which contains the important Danubian fortress town of Silistria. Students of the Crimean......