27 MARCH 1909, page 2

At The Present Moment Thousands Of Patriotic Men And Women

are asking whether there is anything practical and immediate that they can do to help the nation, and to mark their determination to maintain our naval supremacy at all costs.......

M. Clemenceau In His Interviews With The Strike Leaders Con-

sistently refused to dismiss M. Simyan, round whose person the controversy has raged, as for some reason he has excited extraordinary personal animosity among the employees. On......

Meantime The Public Is Beginning To Understand—and In Such A

case to understand is to condemn—the reason why the Government have not taken the simple course of asking Parliament to enaction eight capital ships. The obstacle to that course......

The American View Of German Naval Expansion Can Be Best

expressed as follows :—" We are not at all hostile to Germany, and want to be at peace with her. We mud, however, remember the temptation to which she will be exposed. Sirppose......

There Is One Point In The Tremendous Acceleration Of...

building programme which deservei notice, though, as far as we have seen, it has yet received none. We talk as if the sudden and tremendous advancement of the German programme......

We Have Dealt So Fully With The• Naval Crisis In

our leading columns that we shall only note here that the public anxiety is still maintained, and that though happily there are no signs of the country losing its head, or being......

For Ourselves, We Extremely Deprecate All These Attempts...

the German Government to statements as to their inten- tions in regard to shipbuilding. Even if the German Govern- ment were willing to be perfectly frank in the matter, their......

In The House Of Commons During The Past Week The

debate on the Navy Estimates came to a conclusion, the heart having been taken out of the discussion by the knowledge that all the questions concerned would be reopened in the......