21 JANUARY 1905, page 4

T He Fall Of M. Combes Is Not A Catastrophe, Because

the electors of France evidently desire to continue his policy ; that is, to suppress the religious Orders, to separate Church and State, to adopt certain social reforms which......

-w -e Are By No Means Sure That Mr. Balfour Was

wise when in his speech at Glasgow he declared with such epigrammatic force that " the problem of the British Army is the problem of the defence of Afghanistan." The words are......