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The Pope Was A Man Of Great Personal Charm Of

character as well as of great goodness of heart, but no one but a flatterer could suggest that he had the intellectual qualities requisite for his great office. His theological......

On Tuesday The Period Of Secrecy With Regard To The

Expeditionary Force was ended, and it was announced in the papers that the Force had been landed at Boulogne without a single casualty. Thus within a fortnight of the......

The Paris Press Of Thursday Reproduces A Letter Of Very

great interest, which was published in the July number of the Revue des Deux Monde; written in 1870 after Sedan by Emile 011ivier, Prime Minister of France, to the King of......

The Press Bureau Issued On Wednesday A Narrative Of The

loss of the Amphion.' On August 5th she was with the Third Flotilla when information was given by a trawler that a suspicious ship had been sighted " throwing things over-......

The Colonial Secretary Issued On Tuesday A Communication...

preliminary steps the Government are taking for capturing for British manufacturers the trade with the Colonies and with neutrals which before the war was carried on by Germany.......

Pope Pius X. Died At Twenty Minutes Past One On

Thursday morning. In a moment of lucidity, just before his death, his Holiness is reported to have said: "Now I begin to think the end is approaching. The Almighty in His in-......

The Message From The King And The Instructions From Lord

Kitchener to the Expeditionary Force were both admir- able—simple, practical, and likely to be carried in the memory. The King said:— " You are leaving home to fight for the......

Under The Unemployment Section Of The Insurance Act...

the building, engineering, shipbuilding, works of construction, and saw-milling trades (roughly speaking, three million workers, or more than one-quarter of the total workers in......

Lord Kitchener's Instructions Are Printed In Such A Form...

they can be kept in every soldier's Active Service Pay Book. No Army could go to war in possession of a better brief code of manly and self-respecting conduct :— " You are......

Japan Has Sent An Ultimatum To Germany Demanding (1) The

withdrawal of all German armed vessels from the Far East; (2) the unconditional surrender of the entire territory of ,Kiao-chau. Germany is given till noon to-morrow to reply.......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

Aug. 8th.......