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The Present Plague Of Influenza And Its Attendant And Much

more serious diseases has become a pandemic rather than an epidemic, and is exciting the utmost concern. It has spread with astounding rapidity almost all over the world, and in......

The Three French Armies, Forming The Allied Right Centre...

the Upper Oise south of Le Cateau and the Upper Mane at Bethel, began a combined offensive on Thursday week. The enemy had constructed strong lines from the Oise to the Berm and......

On Friday Week Mr. Arthur Henderson, Accompanied By His...

and Mr. Huysmans, travelled to Folkestone with the intention of crossing to France. The crew of the steamer in which they had booked their passage refused to carry them. The......

General Allenby's Cavalry Entered Aleppo On Saturday Last...

on, occupied Muslimie, where the Syrian line joins the Baghdad Railway. The Turkish communications with Mosul on the Tigris were thus interrupted. A week earlier General......

Meanwhile The French Armies To The West Of Sissonne Advanced

rapidly, crossing the Oise and the Serre, and clearing the district between these rivers. Guise, one of the pillars of the enemy's resistance, was almost encircled on Wednesday.......

Lord D'abernon's Suggestions For The Control Of The Drink...

after the war were conveyed, in his absence through illness, to a meeting of the Women's Total Abstinence Union and Church of England Temperance Society Women's Union at the end......

The Housing Bill, Read A Second Time In The House

of Commons on Monday, was described by Mr. Hayes Fisher as only an instal- ment of the Government housing programme which he unfolded in May, during the discussion on Local......

The Ninth Report Of The Select Committee On National Expen-

diture (White Paper 121), published on Monday, concurs in the general opinion that Parliamentary control over expenditure is inadequate. The House Committee on Supply " has the......

Serbia Is 'now Almost Entirely Freed From Enemy Control. The

Serbians, who have marched and fought like supermen, were on Wednesday within forty miles of Belgrade, and were also nearing their western frontier on the road to Sarajevo.......

B Ank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per

cent. April 5.1617.......