6 OCTOBER 1917, page 2

Mr. Lloyd George, In Announcing The Decision, Promised...

improve the position of the junior officers in the Services. It is high time that something wee done for them. We ought no longer to hear of cases in which a promising soldier,......

The Navy And The Army Have Received, By A Derision

of the War Cabinet, a long-delayed increase of their pay. Sailors and **Idiom are to l'OCOlve more pay in proportion to the length of their service, and are to be wholly or......

Mr. Roosevelt Last Week Revealed The Imssr History Of The

pitiful Venezuelan affair of Decenffier, 19114 when Getienany inveigled us into a joint naval expedition to obtain ottildection of various trifling claims against President......

Viscount Ishii, The Head Of The Japanese Mission To America,

made a speech of great importance in New York on Saturday last. Re- ferring to the persistent German efforts to cow dissension between Japan and America, as well as between......

The German Ambassador Returned A Week Later And Told Mr.

Roosevelt that he had not dared to fiend the message. Upon this the President said that he would order the Admiral to sail within forty-eight hours. "It will be an awful thing......

The Farmers' Agitation Against The Prices At Which They Are

to be compelled to sell their beasts has continued in various forms during the week. We must again express our sympathy with this move. ment, because we believe that on the......

Herr Michaelis The German Chancellor, Addressing The...

Friday week, declined once more to State Germany's war aims. "Any such public statement at the present time "could , only have a confusing effect and harm Germany's interests.......

Sir Auckland Geddes Made An Important Speech As Minister Of

National Service at Edinburgh on Wednesday night. He laid it down that the demands of the Army must be dealt with in relation to the whole field of man-power strategy. In......

General Sir William Robertson, Who, Like Lord Kitelle;wr,...

seldom and measures his words very carefully, gave a notable little address last Saturday at Hampstead, when he opened a now hospital for the disabled. He contrasted the first......

Baron Von Kithlreann In A Speech To The Reichstag Committee

on Friday week declared that the German Government and the, representatives of the German people were entirely agreed in regard to foreign poliey. He spoke as if the summoning......

That Was The Whole Anise Of The Corn Production Act,

and it oannot be right to take back with one hand the encouragement that was given with the other. If the present plan remains, the farmer is only too likely to roll off his......