25 NOVEMBER 1905, page 3

Any Disaster To A Cross-channel Steamer Strikes Painfully...

imagination ; but the disaster which last Satur- day night befell the London and South-Western Railway's passenger steamer Hilda ' would have been terrible any- where. It has......

On Wednesday A Minute Was Published, Addressed By The...

of State for War, to the Chief of the General Staff, dealing with the functions of that body. The Minute follows closely the suggestion of the Esher Commission, and contains the......

As Our Readers Will Notice In Another Part Of Our

issue, the Duke of Bedford has most generously subscribed 21,000 to the Spectator Fund raised to enable Colonel Pollock to carry out his proposed experiment in Militia training.......

Again, We May Ask How Was It That Mr. Balfour,

who is 80 strongly in favour of Colonial Conferences, was not willing to call a Colonial Conference, and refer to it a question which the participation of the Colonies in the......

Lord Rosebery, Who Has Undertaken To Address A Series Of

meetings in Cornwall, spoke at Penzance on Wednesday night, and criticised Mr. Chamberlain's policy with a happy mixture of seriousness and raillery. He suggested that the......

The Newspapers Of Friday Publish A Letter Addressed To Mr.

Balfour by a number of well-known persons, headed by the Bishop of Hereford, and including Mr. John Burns, Mr. Burt, the Master of Balliol, and Major Seely, asking that the......