5 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 3

Mr. Asquith has written to the Lord Mayors of London,

Dublin, and Cardiff, and to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, proposing to hold meetings in order to stimulate and organize public opinion and public effort " in the greatest conflict in which our people has ever been engaged." Mr. Asquith says : "I propose, as a first step, that meetings should be held without delay, not only in our great centres of population and industry, but in every district, urban and rural, throughout the United Kingdom, at which the justice of our cause should be made plain, and the duty of every man to do his part should be enforced." The earliest meetings will be held in the four capitals, and that at the Guildhall is taking place as we go to press.