22 APRIL 1916, page 2

The Rapid Break-up Of The Ice In Northern Waters Will

soon make the Baltie once more a live sea. If the Germans understood affairs of the sea as well as they do those of the land, they would surely make a real effort to bring the......

To This We Would Reply That, As Their Fleet Is

in any ease so greatly inferior to ours that they cannot safely risk a trial of strength in the North Sea, a reduction of that strength does not very much matter. If you are too......

The French Senators And Deputies Who Have Been Ving-da...

returned...to France on Monday. Their sojourn among ut has, we believe, been of real value to the caused the Allies. Their object as set forth in the statement issued by If.......

It Is A Mistake To Suppose That A Diplomat In

the position of Captain von Papen is immune from the legal consequences of his acts. Except by courtesy, immunity from prosecution only belongs to the Ambassador as was asserted......

General Pershing's Advance Has Met With Very Little...

to penetrate four hundred miles into so difficult a country snot a safe proceeding unless the troops guarding the lines of com- manication are numerous and well supplied. That......

Monday's Times Contained A Very Strfldng Map Of The Order

of .battle of the German armies north of the Somme, to which river, as is well known, our line now extends. We see displayed, not only the troops that are in the first line, but......

Mr. Massey, The Times Correspondent In Eastern Egypt,...

some interesting particulars as to the way in which the defences covering the eastern side of the Suez Canal are progressing. Every one who has been through the Suez Canal knows......

On Tuesday Mr. Hughes, Primo Minister Of Australia, Was Made

a freeman of the City of London. He responded to the honour in a speech of _lofty eloquence, which will further add to his reputation as a spokesman of the Empire. "In this......

. The Mexican News Is Involved In A Good Deal

of mystery. In the tzst place, there seems some ground for the belief that Villa is dead. At any rate, the agents of Carranza's Government appear to be latent on suggesting that......

When The Times Correspondent Comes To Consider The Plan...

underlies the German concentration in the North, he refuses, in effect, to attempt a detailed answer, on the ground that we are here in the region of guesswork. Still, the......

It Looks, However, As If They Were Going To Play

towards Russia the same naval game that they are playing towards us. They will hoard their trumps for some future event instead of playing , them boldly and at once. When the......

In The House Of Lords On Tuesday Lord Milner Moved

his resolution in favour of compulsion. It afforded, he declared, the only possible way out of a mass of difficulties in which we had been landed by dealing with the recruiting......