3 JANUARY 1914, page 10

No Good Can Be Done By Pretending That Mr. Lloyd

George's declaration is not a direct challenge to Mr. Winston ChnrchilL The matter has become a duel between Mr. Asquith's two chief lieutenants. How Mr. Winston Churchill will......

In A Financial Debate In The French Chamber On Monday

M. Cadieux, as we read in the Times, made some interesting comparisons between French and British taxation. The present French system, he said, did sot exempt the financially......

As The Rebels Spare Neither Women Nor Ehildren, People...

in lonely places have been warned by Sir Lionel Carden and Mr. Lind to move into the towns, or send away their wives and families. Mr. Lind, it appears, has ex- pressed the hope......

The Reply Of The Triple Alliance To Sir Edward Grey's

recent Note an the Aegean and Albanian questions was delivered on Tuesday. Beyond the fact that the reply has taken this concerted form, and thus superficially suggests that in......

At All Events, We Are Sure That He Will Stick

to his guns and his ships, and not tamely submit to have the Navy Estimates reduced because a atateliman who always has his ear to the ground has become convinced that for the......

Meanwhile The Near Eastern Problem Has Been Complicated...

act which the Powers did not foresee and for which they cannot be blamed. Turkey has bought a new battleship and Is apparently making a bid to turn the scale of naval strength......

The Times Special Correspondent In Mexico, Writing From...

November 30th, gives a deplorable account of the operations of the rebel bands. Regular employment has been destroyed; many of the peons have no choice but to join the Revotosos......

Yet When The Duchess Of Bedford Now Adds To Her

great services the minor service of announcing a meeting, the Weeeninster Gazette talks with fatuous inappropriate- ness of her "rushing into print." We agree that it ought to......

The Times Of Tuesday Published A Letter From Adeline,...

of Bedford, announcing that a meeting on behalf of the Portuguese political prisoners will be held in the first week of February under the thairmanthip of Lord Lytton. The......

Sir George Buchanan. The British Ambassador At St....

reviewed the events of the year in a speech delivered at the annual dinner of the New English Club and reported in Thursday's papers. Speaking of Anglo-Rtmairin relations, be......