20 AUGUST 1910, page 1

Further News From Brussels Points To Gross Carelessness...

part of a night-watchman as the cause of the fire, and complaints of the inadequacy of the fire brigade service are apparently well founded. The attendants on the British......

On Thursday The Eightieth Birthday Of The Emperor Francis...

was celebrated throughout Austria-Hungary with much enthusiasm. The Emperor passed the day at Ischl, and received telegrams of congratulation from all over the world. Nowhere......

News Of The W Eek

• T N the United States there are reports that attempts are being made to heal the breach in the Republican Party by a surgical operation. According to one report, Mr. Taft will......

Evidence That Mr. Roosevelt Is Doing What We Have Described

is provided by the fact that the old-fashioned " bosses " of the Republican Party at New York have refused to accept the pro- posal that he should be temporary Chairman of the......

Last Sunday Night At 9 P.m. A Fire Broke Out

at the Brussels Exhibition; and by the time the flames were got under, some . Eve hours later, the British section was wholly destroyed. The Belgian and French sections were......

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An Instructive Comment On The Disaster Is That Of Mr.

Cloudesley Brereton in Wednesday's Times. He maintains that not a little of the talk on the Continent about British commercial decadence was due to the haphazard way we have......