19 JANUARY 1907, page 2

The Strong Line Taken By President Roosevelt In His Message

to Congress, and his recent action in connexion with the Brownsville riots, led to an extraordinary speech from Senator Tillman last Saturday. The galleries of the Senate were......

On Monday Was Published The Special Army Order To Which

Mr. Haldane referred in his speech at Glasgow last week, and which contains the revised organisation for the Regular Field Army both in peace and war. Henceforward the model of......

The Amir Of Afghanistan Was Entertained At A State Banquet

by the Viceroy on Friday week, and proposed Lord Minto's health in cordial terms. On the following day he witnessed a review of thirty thousand troops at Agra. Two entire......

Soudan,• Taking For His Text The Slight• Increase—less...

all told—in the Budget of the Egyptian Ministry for War for 1907. The relations" of the Government with Abyssinia are excellent, nor is any trouble feared from Dar Fur, but the......

On Wednesday Afternoon Mr. Haldane Presided At A Meeting Of

the Royal United Service Institution at which Major R. A. Johnson (1st V.B. Hampshire Regimentl delivered a lecture on the Swiss Militia system. Major Johnson in his most......

On Wednesday A Great Exhibition Of Australian Products...

was opened at Melbourne by the Governor- General. In his speech Lord Northcote congratulated Australia upon her great present prosperity,• and urged the necessity of a......

On Friday Week Mr. Asquith Delivered His Address As Lord

Rector to the students of the University of Glasgow. He chose for his subject "Ancient Universities and the Modern World," and discoursed on the true functions of the Uni-......