31 JULY 1915, page 3

The Daily Casualty Lists Overshadow Most Accidents And...

with the war, but a word of sympathy is due to the United States for the heavy loss of life suffered in the Chicago river disaster on Saturday last. The excursion steamer......

The British Note In Reply To The American Protest Of

March 30th against the British blockade has reached Washington. It maintains that Britain has held steadfastly to the broad principles of international law, and that if a......

The Latest American Note To Germany—the Text Of Which Was

published in the papers of Monday, and about which we have written fully elsewhere—was followed almost imme- diately by another outrage against an American vessel. On Sunday......

In The Lords On Friday Week Lord Midleton Unfolded A

lucid case for adjourning the second reading of the War Pensions Bill. He pointed out that in the Commons the whole , financial basis of the Bill had been cut away, and such a......

In The Lords On Monday, When The Debate On The

War Pensions Bill was continued, Lord Balfour moved that the Bill be postponed. The critics were not satisfied with Lord Crewe's proposal that two representatives of the......

We Regret To Have To Record The Death, In His

seventy-ninth year, of Sir James Murray, the editor of the New English Dictionary. Though it was not permitted to him to complete the great work to which he devoted•the last......

In The Papers Of Wednesday It Was Stated That Sir

Edward Grey had telegraphed to Washington asking that the Note summarized above should not be published at present, as the British Government are preparing another Note. At the......

Bank Rate, Ti Per Cent., Changed From '6 Per Cent.

Aug. 8th.......

An Intercession Service Was Held Last Sunday Afternoon On...

steps of St. Paul's Cathedral. Detachments of the City regiments from the various camps, to the number of between three and four thousand men, marched from Trafalgar Square with......

We Cannot Refrain From Saying That, Though We Recognize The

great importance of arranging for the administration of pensions as quickly as possible, the critics were justified in their contention that not nearly enough consideration had......

But Let Us Be Clear That Our Government In That

case would have resorted to an accommodation for diplomatic, or, as we may say, brotherly, reasons. We cannot admit that the Order in Council under which cotton is at present......