2 JUNE 1917, page 3

An Example Of The Work Of The German Plotters In

America is given by the Secretary of the Navy. He states that, despite the efforts of the Navy to keep their plans secret, the position and destination of the American destroyer......

Mr. Arthur Henderson, It Was Announced On Wednesday, Has...

on an important mission to Russia, and has been replaced in the War Cabinet by Mr. George Barnes, another very able representative of Labour. Mr. Henderson's great personal......

In View Of These Statements, What Could Be More Natural

or more reasonable than that loyal and Ministerially instructed persons like ourselves should suggest that we should only use grain and sugar and other foods for food purposes,......

A Correspondent Informs Us That The Glasgow Herald Of May

16th published a letter from a manufactu er of sweets who applied to the Ministry of Food for permission to use one hundredweight of malt which he had in his possession for the......

M. Veniaelos Has Definitely Abandoned All Hope Of...

with King Constantine. In an interview with the Times corre- spondent, he said that Constantine, " having once been a King, has become no more than a party leader. Between him......

The President Has Made It Clear That, Like Lincoln, He

will stand no nonsense from the agitators against conscription, whether they are German agents or Pacificists, or mere politicians fishing in troubled waters. Riots organized by......

The Impatient People Who Ask : " What Is America

doing to. win the war Y " should be soothed by the impressive statement in Tuesday's papers. Within seven weeks of declaring war, Ameries has -adopted a Selective -Draft law......

We Agree ; But We Are Afraid That His First

victims would have to be the Ministry. After all, it was not " fanatical " advocates of War Prohibition like the Spectator, but the Minister of Agriculture, who told us that we......

Next, Beer Somehow Got Hitched On To The Trade Union

movement, and it was fiercely hinted that the Prohibitionists might have to be regarded as the very worst kind of " scab " or " black- leg." Then beer suddenly appeared in the......

Assuredly One Of The Curiosities Of The Food Shortage And

Drink problem is to be found in the protean character of Beer. At the very beginn ing beer was discovered to be a kind of milk, and piteous appeals were made for the poor cow......

The Problem Of The Miner And His Beer Has Been

during the past week exercising the minds of newspaper writers and readers—the immediate cause of this perturbation of spirit being a letter by a working collier, Mr. Meadows,......

We Are Sure Our Readers Will Agree That For Official

ineptitude it would be difficult to find a parallel to this wonderful letter. Apparently at the Ministry of Food they consider that malt is much too precious to enter the mouths......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 51 Per Cent.

April 5th......