29 AUGUST 1903, page 2

M. Combos Would Seem To Have Finally Adopted Gambetta's Idea

that the real enemy of the Republic is Clericalism. At a banquet given him at Saintes on Sunday last he declared, amid loud applause, that "he would continue the fight [with the......

The Evidence Taken As To The Qualities Of The Men

of the Regular Army goes to show that although in moral they left little to he desired, the physique of the later drafts was poor, while as a whole they were lacking in......

The Great Humbert Trial Ended Last Saturday In A Verdict

of " Guilty " against all the defendants, though with the rider of "extenuating circumstances," which means in France that the crimes alleged do not call for a crushing......

The Report Of The Royal Commission On The War Was

issued on Tuesday, and is a most formidable indictment of our whole system of national defence on the military side. The first part of the Report deals with the military......

With The General Observations Of The Commission In Regard To

the true lessons of the war, and the attention that is being paid to them, we deal in another column. The results of the inquiry into the supply of materiel make deplorable......

The Times Of Thursday Publishes A Long And Very Temperate

account of the recent Labour movement in Odessa, from which it would appear that the Government acted with more moderation than has hitherto been reported. The strike there......