21 DECEMBER 1918, page 3

A British Airman Last Week Flew From Egypt To India.

This pioneer of air travel was Major-General W. G. H. Salmond, who commands the Air Force in the Middle East, and who is the brother of the commander of the Air Force in France.......

The Baghdad Railway, Mr. Ward Price Stated In Monday's...

has been completed during the war as far as Nisibin, a hundred miles west of Mosul The great tunnels through the Taurus and Anti-Taurus are finished, so that there is railway......

As We Write On Thursday, London Is Giving A Most

hearty welcome to Sir Douglas Haig and his Generals. Under their superb leading the British Armies broke the enemy's spirit in a series of the greatest battles in our history,......

Lord Haldane's View Was That We Ought To Encourage The

German peace party to become stronger, and that it was well worthy of encouragement. Such encouragement, in his view, probably required that we should not seem to provoke......

The Times Of Monday Published An Important Letter From Lord

Haldane, in which he explained the military policy of the Liberal Government before the war. The reasons, says Lord Haldane, why universal military service was not adopted......

We Have No Wish To Revive An Unhappy Controversy At

this moment, but we really must protest against the character and tone of a singular communication issued to Tuesday's papers by the Press Bureau. It began thus ; " In connexion......

Probably The Delay Caused By The Necessity For Awaiting The

votes of the absent millions was the true came of last Saturday's dull- ness. The Englishman, with his sporting instinct for a contest, wants to know the result forthwith. If......

It Was Announced Last Saturday That The Government Would...

sailors and soldiers, when demobilized, to resume and complete their University and professional studies. This will be an act of justice to the many thousands of our ablest......

Oxford, So Often Contemned By Bustling Moderns For Its...

sleepiness, was the first of the Universities to complete its Parlia- mentary polling and the first constituency to decide a contest under the new Reform Act. The result was......

The General Election Held Last Saturday Was The Dullest...

living memory. The newspapers made a gallant effort to pretend that the country was deeply stirred by the first contests under universal suffrage, but in the average......

As Regards Lord Roberts's Intentions, We Cannot Think...

Haldane is perfectly just to them. Lord Roberts of course always understood that the defences of this country would not necessarily lie on our own coasts. As every one sees......

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

April 5, 1917.......