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Mr. Pemberton-billing, Like A New Elijah Pogram, Goes On To

advocate a policy of attack and defiance and of " fearless aggression," and we are treated to a fine example of invective by ironical question : " Ingenuity and the skilful......

The German Official Telegram Describing The Raid Is More...

and absurd than usual. It represents our assailants as dropping bombs on " the docks, harbour, and factories in and near Liver- pool and Birkenhead, on Manchester factories, on......

.. We Should Like To Register Our Protest Against The

preposterous article on the raid published by the Daily Mail of Wednesday from the pen of Mr. Pemberton.Billing. A more ridiculous piece of injurious and inflammatory balderdash......

In The Western Theatre Of War The Lull Still Continues.

Wo say this in spite of the fact that the Germans made an attack on a considerable scale on a part of the French line, and claim to have taken a long stretch of trenches. - In......

A Hurricane, A Flood, Even A Small Earthquake, Would Have

done far more damage than was done on Monday. Even if, instead of defending ourselves, we do nothing but shrug our shoulders, Zeppelin raids are, from the military standpoint,......

Every Sensible Person In The Country Must Be Very Much

in favour of the peroration in the Daily Mail's Wednesday leading article. We have not forgotten, and are never likely to forget, " that most famous of Pitt's sayings :......

In Fairness To The Daily Mail, We Ought To Add

that we fully recognize the great public service it did in years past by forcing the need for aircraft preparation on our Government. It is a pity that this fine work should end......

We Have Dealt With The Whole Subject Elsewhere, And Will

only ' repeat hero that the failure of the German raid—and failure it . was on a great scale—is most satisfactory. Though all the air conditions were ideal, though the raiders......

News Of The Week.

O N Monday evening the Germans made an air raid on England on an extensile scale, in which six or seven airships are said to have taken part. No attacks wore made on London and......

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