3 NOVEMBER 1917, page 15

On Thursday Week The House Of Commons Passed The Clause

of the Franchise Bill which will legalize proxy voting at a General Election. Sailors and fishermen at sea and soldiers serving on stations so far distant that their postal......

We Have Written Elsewhere On The General Expenditure, But...

say here that the new Vote is to supply the necessary funds up to the first week in January. Mr. Boner Law made a handsome acknowledgment of the great financial assistance which......

An Amsterdam Correspondent Of The Times States That The...

Admiralty, early in 1916, advocated an unrestricted submarine war, affirming that it would compel Great Britain to conclude peace within six months. Herr Hellferich, in a secret......

In A Thin House On Thursday Week The Government Proposal

to pay landowners a royalty of ninepence a ton for petroleum found under their land was rejected by 44 votes to 35. The Bill vesting all discoveries of petroleum in the State......

The Italian Ministry Led By The Veteran Signor Bosch Was

de- feated in the Chamber on Thursday week by 314 votes to 96, and resigned. Its fall occurred on the morrow of the greet enemy offensive on the Isonzo, but was in no way......

Spain, Like Italy, Had A Cabinet Crisis At The End

of last weak, but has not been equally fortunate in solving it. Seiler Date, the Conservative leader, who brought the country through the industrial disturbances of August, was......

Brazil, Which Severed Relations With Germany In April...

war upon her on Friday week. The President had drawn the attention of the Brazilian Congress to the fact that four Brazilian ships bad been sunk by German submarines and that......

It Is Stated By La Maropok, The Belgian Journal Published

in London, that Germany recently made an offer of peace to the Belgian Government, through a Belgian manufacturer who was sent to Paris by Baron von Lanoken, the German......

The Simi Fein Party Held A Convention At The Dublin

Mansion Howie on Thursday and Friday of last week to formulate a consti- tution for Ireland. Seventeen hundred delegates attended from twelve hundred Slim Fein clubs, which are......

In The House Of Commons On Tuesday Mr. Boner Law

moved a Vote of Credit for 1400,033,01). Though the financial figures which Mr. Boner Lsw passed in review were indeed alarming, he made them seem appreciably better than had......

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

April 5the......