27 FEBRUARY 1915, page 3

It Is Not For Us To Distribute The National Favours,

but we may remark, in regard to the second part of Mr. Horne's first question, that but for the influx of some thirty or forty thousand National Reservists from Class I. into......

On Wednesday A Statement Was Published Explaining Why The...

are enable to accede to the request of the Belgian Relief Commission for a monthly subvention. The fact is that the Government would like nothing better than to aid this......

It Was Only To Be Expected That The New Criminal

policy of the Germans at sea would yield its results, for it is the most difficult thing in the world to guard against assassination. But the number of ships sunk by torpedoes......

Another "crab" Of The National Reserve May Be Noticed....

who are driven by farts from every other form of belittling the Reserve any that after all it was quite useless because the men would all have come forward just the same even if......

On Wednesday The Admiralty Announced That There Would Be A

new mined area in the Irish Channel. All vessels wishing to go through the North Channel must pass to the southward of Rathlin Island between sunrise and sunset. In other words,......

We Cannot Help Expressing Deep Regret That The War Office

are unable to give these figures. We do hope that the matter• will not be left here, but that the Government will at any rate make some general statement of what has been done......

Things Being As They Are, We Are Anxious That The

War Office and the Government should not be deflected from their work of beating the Germans into financial side-issues, how- ever important. These bad better wait till the war......

The Following Question In Regard To The National Reserve Vas

asked by Mr. Horne in the House of Commons on Monday :— " How many members of the National Reserve in Class I. have joined the colour., either in the Special Reserve or other......

We Regret To Record An Unfortunate Affair At Singapore,...

a portion of the 5th Light Infantry—recruited chiefly from Mohammedans of the Eastern Punjab—mutinied and caused a serious riot. Thirty-five persons, including civilians, were......

It Is A Little Bard That These Good Offices, Amongst

others, should not be credited to the National Reserve, while at the same time a series of stories, often apocryphal, of old and decrepit National Reservists fly about the......

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

Aug. 8th.......