5 APRIL 1913, page 1

While Events Are Thus Being Precipitated By The Refusal Of

the Montenegrins to abandon the siege, preparations are being rapidly pushed forward for a naval demonstration off Monte- negro's port on the Adriatic, and as we write the ships......

On Monday In The Commons The Naval Debate Was Continued,

when Mr. Churchill answered the criticisms of his recent statements. It was untrue to say that the Navy was short of its proper complement by twenty thousand men. Such......

As To The Methods Of Raising Money, The Government Con-

fesses that the yield of the levy on incomes "cannot be even approximately estimated "; and the yield of the more important levy on capital is hardly more definitely predicted,......

*,* The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript In Any

case.......

-the Most Menacing Feature Of The Whole Situation Is The

proof given by the stubbornness of Montenegro that she intends ultimately to defy the Powers and, if she can, to negative their determination that Scutari shall go to the new......

Mr. Walter Hines Page, Who Has Been Appointed American...

at St. James's, is a Southerner by birth and education, a Democrat in polities, but first and foremost a man of academic and literary distinction. He is a Fellow of Johns......

Last Saturday The New German Army Bill And The Proposals

for extraordinary taxation to meet the huge increase of expenditure were laid before the Reichstag. The addition to the numbers of the army, and the various changes involved,......

News Of The Week.

T HOUGH the Turks are stated to have agreed to the terms proposed by the Powers, the war is not ended nor has the European tension been relaxed. Indeed it may be said, as we go......