20 DECEMBER 1913, page 2

M. Caillaux, The Minister Of Finance And The Principal...

in the new French Ministry, has arranged, says the Times correspondent, for the issue of two decrees withdrawing the Bills for a £52,000,000 loan and for a new succession duty.......

Mr. James Bryce Was Entertained At A Banquet Given In

his honour by the National Liberal Club on Friday. the 12th inst. Replying to the toast of his health, which had been proposed by Sir Edward Grey in a genial speech, Mr. Bryce......

The Deputation, We Are Told, Afterwards Held A Meeting At.

the Whitehall Rooms and consulted whether they should send a communication to Mr. Asquith, but "in the end nothing definite was decided upon." The deputation seems to have......

A Dangerous Issue Has Been Raised Between Austria-hungary...

as to the future of the Orient Company's railway in the newly acquired Servian territory. During the Balkan War Servia and Bulgaria took over the administration of the lines in......

The Death Of Cardinal Rampolla At The Age Of Seventy

removes the greatest of the statesmen-clerics of the Vatican during the last thirty years, with the sole exception of Leo XIII. The son of a noble Sicilian house, he entered the......

On Wednesday, At The Whips' Office In Downing Street, Mr.

Asquith received a large deputation of Liberal Members to urge upon him the existence of uneasiness in the Liberal Party at the anticipated increase in the new Naval Estimates.......

On Friday Week Leonardo Da Vinci's Masterpiece " Monne...

which was stolen from the Louvre two years ago, was recovered in Florence. The thief is an Italian named Perugia. Perugia wrote to Geri, a picture-dealer of Florence, stating......

One Really Cannot Help Being Touched By The Position Of

the Little-Navy men, they are so much in earnest and so hope.. lessly impotent. The Government do not fear them in the very least, for they know that if it comes to voting on......