26 JANUARY 1918, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

A NORTHCLIFFE MINISTRY. " Security was their ruin. . . . If they had been aware that such a thing might happen, such a thing never could have hap- pened."—(Iimum's " LETTER TO A......

The Attack On The Military Leaders. T Hose Persons Who Have

any power of political anticipa- tion, or any appreciation of the presages and portents of Press campaigns, must have known that something was going to happen when they noticed......