20 JANUARY 1917, page 3

During The Engagement A Turkish Relief Force Was Located...

from Shalal, sixteen miles east of Rafa. This force was engaged about four miles from Rafa and entirely destroyed. It appears that sixteen hundred unwounded prisoners and four......

The Great Meeting At The Guildhall On Thursday Week Gave

an enthusiastic send-off to the new Loan. Mr. Bonar Law explained the terms in a very direct and lucid manner, and Mr. Lloyd George roused his audience with eloquence and good......

The General Result Of This And The Previous Operations Is

excellent, and has no doubt had a very good effect throughout Egypt and the Moslem world. It is characteristically British that the great Turco-German offensive upon Egypt,......

We Must Now Briefly Record The Terms Of The Loan.

There are two issues—one at 5 per cent. subject to Income Tax, and the other at 4 per cent. not subject to Income Tax. The issue price -of the 5 per cent. Loan is £95, and it is......

A Propos Of Our Remarks Last Week And The Attitude

we took up in regard to Austrian possibilities, there comes a curious rumour vid Switzerland that the Austrian Emperor and the Imperial family generally have been transferring......

The Criminal Activities Of The Gorman Agents In America Have

been once more exposed. Bopp, the German Consul-General- at San Francisco, his Vice-Consul, and a military assistant have been convicted, with two Americans, of plotting to blow......

Lord. Devonport As Food Controller Has Made Some Useful New

orders. Millers are to extract another 5 per cent. of flour from wheat, making 81 per cent. in all, or may add flour from other grain to make up the required percentage.......

We Deeply Regret To Record The Death On January 11th

of Count Alexandre Benckendorff, the able and popular Russian Ambassador in London. He had lived here since 1903, and had co-operated most assiduously in the building up of the......

During The Past Week We Have Received Details Of The

very spirited action which took place on January 9th in what is roughly called the Sinai Peninsula, but which in its northern extremity should more accurately be called the......

General Smuts Has Been Released From His East African...

in order that be may represent the Union of South Africa at the coming Imperial War Conference. General Botha is unable to leave South Africa, partly because the Parliamentary......

Remember That The Hapsburgs Feel Towards The Hohenzollern...

of feeling , which a Devonshire- country gentleman might have for a 'Manchester or Glasgow millionaire who not only was deter- mined to ran him, but had 'actually run him into......

Bank Rate, 51 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

Jan.18th.......