27 MAY 1916, page 9

The People And The War.

P RESIDENT WILSON is reported to have said a few days ago that though Germany apparently desired peace, it would be obviously absurd to suppose that there was any similar desire......

Correspondence.

STATE CONTROL OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.—IV. (To THE EDITOR OF T® " SPEOTATOR."1 Srs„—The extent to which the State should monopolize the manufacture, as well as the distribution......