23 JUNE 1917, page 2

Tuesday's Papers Contain A Full Account Of The Torpedoing Of

the hospital ship ' Dover Castle ' by a German submarine in the Mediterranean on May 26th, when on her homeward voyage from Salonika. Fortunately most of the wounded were......

But The Attitude Of The Army Is Only One Factor

in the situation, though its revolt brought down the Garcia Prieto Ministry and led to the formation of a new Conservative Government under Senor Dato. The extreme Conservative......

Sir F. Banbury Moved An Amendment Resisting The Grant Of

the vote to women under any conditions Whatever. He denied that the House had any mandatO to act in the matter, and argued that women had never suffered through want of the......

The Intensity Of The Feeling Excited In Switzerland By This

incident was illustrated by a large demonstration at Geneva on Tuesday. ' The crowd, after passing a resolution that Herr-Hoffoutmrsbotiit be indicted for abusing his powers,......

Our Own Feeling Is That In The Circumstances The Decision

of the House was quite right. In the abstract we have never been favourable to Woman Suffrage, for reasons—not intellectual reasons—which we have often stated. But we are faced......

The Best News From Russia This Week Is Contained In

the reso- lution of the Duma to which we have referred above. This declares that a separate peace with Germany would be ignoble treason towards the Allies, for which future......

Herr Hoffmann, Member Of The Swiss Federal Council And Since

1914 Minister for Foreign Affairs, has resigned his office as a direct consequence of his endeavour to intervene in the German interest at Petrograd. At the request of the Swiss......

The British Nation And Empire Are Full Of A Very

deep sense of gratitude to the American people and Government for roming to the side of the Allies and showing so high a spirit in their deter- mination to fight the war through......

There Has Been A Great Dearth Of News From Spain

since the fall of the late Ministry, and a corresponding wealth of disquieting rumours. Some light, however, has been thrown on the situation by a telegraphic despatch from the......

In The House Of Commons On Tuesday The Principle Of

Woman Suffrage was accepted-by the large majority of 385 to 55. The House, as had been arranged under the terms of the Reform Bill, was left free to vote without party pressure.......

This Interference Was, Of Course, Through No Wish Of The

British people or arbitrary action of our Government. It was solely due to the fact that unless we interfered with neutral trade we could not exercise pressure upon Germany,......