28 OCTOBER 1916, page 2

Lord Grey, Who Was The Guest Of The Foreign Press

Association in London on Monday at a public luncheon, made one of the most sagacious, and also one of the Most vsei0I, speeches delivered since the beginning of the war. Not......

Mr. Smillie Endorsed The Prime Minister's Statement By...

there was a serious shortage which must be made good. Every stroke of the miner's pick was a blow at the enemy. In the end a resolution was carried pledging the representatives......

Ctri Wednesday The Prime Minister Addressed A Conference...

of the coal industry at the Central Hall, West- minster, on the importance of increasing the output of coal. Nearly three thousand representatives of the industry were present.......

We Have Only One Criticism To Make Of Lord Grey's

speech. We wish that in dealing with the League to Enforce Peace which has sprung up in America, he had advised those who founded that well- meant orgariiiitticin to read,......

We Are Unable To Say Much About Parliainentary Activities...

the week, but may note one or two points. In' the first place, Lord Rothermere, who appears to be doing very well as Director-General of Clothing Supplies, announced that the......

As For The Neutrals, The Beat Thing That They Could

do now for the peace of the world was to develop public opinion in favour of such a general agreement among the PoWera as might prevent war for the future. tut though Lord Grey......

The Admiralty Has Announced That A German Cruiser Of The

Kolbers ' class (about 4,000 tons, built about 1907) was torpedoed by a British Submarine in the Nerth Sea on Thirtaday week. When last seen the cruiser was " steaming slovoly......

Next To This Passage Follows Another Which Is Equally Honest

and equally luminous :— " We must never forget, es we go through this war, that an offer was made to us to keep out of the war. We were asked by the German Government to engage......

The Serbians Have Realized, Apparently, That It Is Their...

to counteract that impression. Accordingly they have had post- cards printed showing rows of Bulgarian prisoners drawing rations— the men in file with a loaf of bread in one......

The Volunteers Will Soon Occupy The Position Which Those Who

took a long vie* always foresaw they must reach. Such a prophecy was not really bold or rash. It was fairly obvious that if the war went on long enough the War Office would not......

Count Stiirgkh, The Austrian Premier, Was Shot Dead In...

last Saturday. The assassin was Dr. Friedrich Adler, a Vienna journalist, who - is a son of Dr. Victor Adler, the well-known Deputy and founder of the• Austrian Socialist Party.......