5 APRIL 1913, page 2

After A Discussion On The Same Day On The Administration

of the law in Ireland—Mr. Birrell's critics showing that the administration was virtually in the hands of the Nationalist members, and that the present state of affairs was a......

Mr Lloyd George, In The Course Of His Speech And

during his examination, dwelt upon his poverty. Such poverty is, of course, nothing but honourable to him, and no one, we venture to say, has ever made any suggestion that it......

On Wednesday In The Commons Mn Mckenna Moved The Second

reading of his Bill for preventing successful hunger strikes by allowing prisoners to be released temporarily on licence. A released prisoner would be liable to rearrest if the......

The Marconi Inquiry Has Been Continued Throughout The...

Friday, March 28th, the examination of Mr. Lloyd George was begun. He prefaced it with a long and eloquent speech defining his position. We have dealt at length elsewhere with......

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......

One Might Have Thought That The Chairman Of The Com-

mittee would at once have sharply reproved Mr. Lloyd George for what was so obvious a threat, and have reminded him that the business of the Committee was to conduct their......

One More Fact Remains To Be Noted. The Chancellor Of

the Exchequer chose, very inadvisedly we should have thought, to insist that his double transaction in Marconi shares—it will be remembered that he first bought a thousand......

On The Same Day In The Commons Sir F. Low,

the Liberal member for Norwich, moved a resolution to the effect that to impose duties on manufactured goods while admitting agricultural products free would be indefensible.......