11 DECEMBER 1909, page 1

News Of Tiie Week.

'DARLIAMENT was prorogued on the afternoon of Friday, December 3rd. The King's Speech contained no surprise, but the passage in which regret is expressed that the provision to......

We Should Like To Draw Attention To A Sensible Letter

in thc Morning Post of Friday in which Lord Portsmouth, thr Under-Secretary for War under Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman points out that the Peers are not fighting for obsolete......

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The Excitement Of Party Politics, Continued The...

be overlooked, but "what our people desires in the first place is not to be disturbed in its actual work, whether economic or intellectual, either at home or abroad, in the......

The Times Of Monday Publishes From Its Berlin Corre-...

some information about the negotiations between Great Britain and Germany as to the Belgian Congo. It is not astonishing that there has been much false rumour on this subject,......

Herr Von Bethmann-hollweg Made His First Appearance As...

in the Reichstag on Thursday. The special note of his speech, which was well received by the Conservatives, was his refusal to be drawn into any detailed programme or any......

Meanwhile The Electoral Campaign Has Been Fast And...

the week. The Liberals were the first to take the field in force, and Mr. Churchill in Lancashire has been performing feats of physical endurance comparable with those of a......

The Liberals Want The Carriage Of The State To Be

driven without a brake,-;--neither more nor less than that. No sensible or cautious person in ordinary life cares to take steep hills without a brake, and we shall be greatly......