21 APRIL 1917, page 2

We Are Not Asking For Tumid Rhetoric Or Grandiloquent...

logy. On the contrary, what we should have liked was language of the kind to which South refers in his famous sermon on " Plainness of Speech." " There is a certain majesty in......

From The Same Source We May Record An Acknowledgment Of

the splendid work done by the tanks. The Germans tried very hard indeed to get to grips with them, but these good-humoured moving castles roamed about quite undismayed,......

On Wednesday The House Of Commons With One Dissentient...

that of Mr. Ginnell, the Nationalist member, and the House of Lords unanimously, passed identically worded resolutions giving utterance to the nation's " profound appreciation "......

Tuesday's Papers Contained The Text Of President Wilson's...

to his fellow-countrymen for unstinted war service. There was not a single selfish element in the cause they were fighting for— the rights of mankind and the future peace and......

We Have Asked .elsewherewhates The Use Of The House Of

Commons, and urged that it should .apply _itself to the great problems : of the. hour. Instead of doing this, it occupied itself when it met on Tuesday with a futile and......

The Correspondent Of The Berlin Lokalanzeiger Has,...

shocked the whole world by his jaunty reference to " the great Corpse-Conversion Establishment " of an army group at Evergnicourt, where " nothing is to be allowed to go to......

Lord Bryce Was In The Chair, And His Speech Was

full of sound sense and wise policy. We are sure, however, that he would be the first to admit that the speech of the evening was that made by the Ambassador, a speech worthy of......

While Insisting That The Fate Of The War, The Fate

of nations, rests in large measure on the farmers of the United States, Mr. Wilson lays stress on the great opportunity afforded to middlemen of every sort. The Government were......

We Were Unfortunately Unable Last Week To Say Anything About

the luncheon of the American Lun cheon Club and the dinner of the Pilgrims' Club at which honour was done, and done in super- lative fashion, to the President of the United......

The Spirit In Which The President' S Appeal Has Been

met may he judged from the action of the chiefs of the railways and the great Meat Trust at Chicago, as reported by the New York correspondent of the Times in Wednesday's issue.......

The Admiralty Returns As To Losses By Submarines Issued On

Thursday are a little worse than last week, but not specially bad. In all forty vessels, great and small, were destroyed. The number of unsuccessful attacks remains good—namely,......