7 DECEMBER 1918, page 3

Dr. Percival, The Late Bishop Of Hereford, Died On Tuesday

at the age of eighty-four. He had won fame as the first Head-Master of Clifton, and, after an interval in which he was President of Trinity College, Oxford, as Head-Master of......

The President's Message Seems To Us In Every Way Sound

and wise. Reading between the lines, we see there his ever-present consciousness of the fact that the majority in both Houses of Congress is now against him. For good or for......

The Admiralty Is Now Able To Say With Certainty That

over two hundred German submarines were sunk in the desperate effort to starve us into surrender. A hundred and twenty-two U '-boats had been surrendered up to Sunday last, and......

President Wilson In The Message Which Be Read To Congress

on Monday said that American industry was returning quickly to peace conditions. Shipping, however, must be controlled, " perhaps for a long while," and Belgium and Northern......

The W Hole Marconi Business Is So Distasteful To Us,

and the raising of it just now involves consequences so disagreeable from the national point of view, that we are loth to enter into details in support of the line we have......

We Had Hoped To Be Able To Avoid The Supreme

humiliation of publicly protesting before the civilized world that the Lord Chief Justice of England was not a worthy representative of the Empire on so great an occasion as the......

It Now Appears That The German Emperor Did Not Abdicate

on November 9th, as Prince Max of Baden gave the world to under- stand, and that when he took refuge with his Dutch friends he was still Emperor and War Lord. A Berlin telegram......

France Has Lost A Brilliant Poet-dramatist In M. Edmond...

who died on Monday. He was only fifty, but he had been famous the world over, for more than twenty years past, as the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, that tragi-comedy in which......

The Contempt Of -the Navy For The Toasters Of "

Der Tag I " was pithily expressed by Admiral. Beatty in a speech to the company of H.M.S. Lion,' before the First Battle Cruiser Squadron went stately forth to sea, to shepherd......

Marshal Foch And M. Clemenceau, Signor Orlando And Baron...

arrived in London last Sunday to attend an Allied Con- ference, and had a wonderful reception from the dense crowds that assembled in the streets. At the French Embassy on......

Before He Slunk Across The Frontier The Emperor Told A

correspon- dent of the Cologne Gazette that he had not wished for the war, and had not taken part in the Councils of July, 1914, at whioh the fatal decision was reached. Herr......

The Allied Armies Crossed The German Frontier Last Sunday...

began their march to the Rhine. By the end of next week they are to occupy the bridgeheads on the right bank east of Cologne, Coblenz, and Mainz, as well as the whole left bank......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From Ii, Per Cent.

April 5, 19174......