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Mr. Long, The Colonial Secretary, Announced In A Speech On

Wednesday that the War Cabinet had approved of "a clearly worked out scheme for the adoption of Preference within the Empire," which had been drafted by a Committee over which......

Lord Newton Told The House Of Lords On Wednesday That

the details of the recent agreement with Germany for the exchange of prisoners would require much consideration by both Govern- ments. The Agreement, which he could not......

Mr. Hoover, The American Food Administrator, Speaking At...

House on Tuesday, said that "all anxiety as to the great essentials of food was passed." America, with Canada, could send the Allies twice as much food this year as America sent......

Mr. Henderson On July 18th Told A Labour Conference That

the German Majority Socialists "accepted practically all the general principles" of the Allied Labour Conference on War Aims. We felt sure at the time that Mr. Henderson, whose......

The Bolsheviks Announced Last Week That They Had Refused A

German proposal to send a German battalion to guard the Embassy at Moscow. "In no case," said the Bolshevik message, "could the Russian Government permit the presence of a......

Lord Robert Cecil Last Week Resigned His Post As Minister

of Blockade in order, as Assistant Foreign Secretary, to take "a larger and more responsible part" in the work of the Foreign Office. He was succeeded as Minister of Blockade by......

The Times Correspondent At Tokio States That, In Response To

a proposal from President Wilson, the Japanese Government have decided to send troops to Siberia. Japanese opinion is by no means unanimous on the question, but the Government......

The Issue Has Been A Good Deal Complicated By Complaint.,

often only too well founded, that the wrong sort of grassland has been brought under the plough. To plough up rich old pasture when the inferior or middling grasslands are still......

The Nature Of The Allied Expedition To The Murman Coast

of Northern Russia is defined in an Agreement between Great Britain, America, and France on the one part, and the Murman Regional Council on the other, which was circulated by......

The Ex-tsar, Nicholas Romanoff, Was Shot On July 16th By

order of a body calling itself the Ural Regional Council, which has an- nounced ominously that "the wife and son of Remand( have been sent to a place of security." The Russian......

A Misleading Paris Telegram Caused Us Last Week To Do

an injustice to General Cadorna, his Assistant Chief of Staff, General Porro, and General Capello, who commanded the Second Italian Army at Caporetto. It seems that these......

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

April 5,1917.......