19 JUNE 1915, page 1

There Are Three Ways Of Doing The Thing, And Doing

it promptly. In the first place, the Government might go into the insurance business, as they did in the case of marine insurance, and insure for, say, eighty per cent. of the......

News Of The Week.

O N Wednesday afternoon the Admiralty announced that a Zeppelin visited the North-East Coast on Tuesday evening, dropping bombs. "Some fires were started, but they were......

In The French Section There Has Been Some Very Satisfactory

work during the week in spite of the usual German wireless talk of "heavy French defeats," which means of course nothing more than the usual attacks and counter-attacks. In the......

The Only People Who Are Worried, And Very Naturally Worried,

are the owners of large warehouses and other commercial and industrial property in London. There is not the slightest fear of any fire spreading in the residential parts of......

It Appears To Us That The Risk Is One Which

can only be dealt with by the Government, and that they ought to deal with it at once and give cover "from to-day" to the business men who are placed in so cruel a predicament.......

In This Context We May Mention That Altogether The Zeppelin

raids have caused fifty-six deaths. Considering that they began on December 25th and that there have been fourteen of them, the loss of life must be admitted to be extremely......

In The British Section Of The Western Theatre Of War

our troops have taken the offensive to the west of La Basses and to the east of Ypres. In the La Bassee district on Tueed.y evening they won several trenches, but these trenches......

Economically It Would Not Very Much Matter Which Of These

plane was adopted. Our own predilection is for the third, but since the Government adopted the principles set forth in the first for marine insurance, it would perhaps be more......

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To Our Readers.—the " Sracrexos" Is Now Published En Friday

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