6 FEBRUARY 1915, page 2

The Applications For The Badge Have Not Been Abused, And

the greatest gratitude has been shown by its recipients, who now number over a thousand. In an appreciable number of cases rejected men, encouraged by therecognition of their......

That The Grand Attack Will Be A Failure, And That

large numbers of the enemy's troops will be made prisoners is our forecast, but we are not going to be so foolish as to count our chickens before they are hatched. In war there......

Friday's Papers Contain A Most Interesting Official...

Cairo. On Wednesday Toussoum, a post near the middle of the Suez Canal, was attacked at 3 a.m. by the Turks, and a determined attempt was made to cross the Canal by means of......

In The Lords Lord Lansdowne, Who Was Sincerely Welcomed Back

after his illness, stated that though be and Mr. Boner Law had been shown many confidential communications freer the Foreign Office and Sir John French, there had been nothing......

The Times Of Friday Contains An Interesting Letter From Lord

B,oaebery, asking why a man who has offered himself as a recruit and been refused should not have a certificate record- ing that he has done his best to serve. We are delighted......

A Second Attack Was Made At The Ismailia Ferry, Where

at daylight the enemy were found digging entrenchments some seven hundred or eight hundred yards from our poste, and two battalions of the enemy fired on our men with rifles.......

Mr. King's Incongruous Remarks Fell On The House Rather As

though some one on a great domestic occasion, such as a wedding or a funeral, should worry the life out of the staff and the guests because he had lost a hairbrush or a stud. It......

In The Commons On Wednesday Mr. Asquith Moved To Take

all the time of the House, while allowing private Members an extension of their daily period of debate on the adjournment from half an hour to an hour. He pointed out that it......

Parliament Reassembled On Tuesday, And Both Houses Were...

in defining the relations of the Government and the Opposition in view of the task before the nation Mr. Boner Law explained that there was a mistaken impres- sion in the......