15 MAY 1915, page 3

The Italian Government Offered Their Resignation To The...

Thursday. Signor Salandra, the Premier, was believed to hold strong views in favour of intervention in the war. Those who advocated neutrality were no doubt more powerful than......

The Terms Of The Compromise On The Drink Question Arrived

at between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the representa- tives of the trade were announced on theevening of Friday week In place of the proposed new whisky duties, which......

General Botha Has Had A Notable Success In German South.

West Africa. He has occupied the capital, Windhoek. He found the town undamaged and three thousand European residents remaining in their homes. The great -wireless station was......

Tuesday's Papers Contained A Despatch Recently Received...

Grey from Sir Alan Johnstone, the British Minister at the Hague, describing the shooting of British prisoners of war by German troops. The despatch contains the declarations......

A Central Board, Representing The Admiralty, War And Home...

employers and working men, would administer the scheme, but while localities would be consulted and measures worked through local Committees, the whole supply of liquor in the......

Early On Monday Morning A Zeppelin Dropped About Eighty...

on Southend. One woman was burnt to death in her bed, her husband was injured, and considerable damage was done to property, a timber yard and a boarding-house being burned out.......

In The Commons On Thursday Afternoon Mr. Asquith Made His

promised statement as to the treatment of alien enemies in this country. The Government propose that of the forty thousand non-naturalized aliens at present at large, all adult......

Evidences Of The Acute And Widespread Anti-german...

of the sinking of the • Lusitania ' and the employ- ment of poison-gas in Flanders, have accumulated throughout the week. On the more legitimate expressions of this feeling, as......

On Saturday Last The Admiralty Announced The Loss Of The

Maori,' a turbine-driven torpedo-boat destroyer of 1,035 tons of the " F " or " Tribal " class, which struck a mine while operating off the Belgian coast on the previous day.......

Mr. Boner Law Cordially Approved Of The Policy Of The

Government. Though they bad up till now lagged behind the feeling of the House, and still more behind the general feeling of the public, he did not think any better plan could......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

Aug. 8th.......