30 JULY 1904, page 6

T Hough Mr. Balfour's Statement In The House Of Commons On

Thursday was on the whole reassuring, the situation created by Russian naval action must still be regarded as grave. In view of this fact, and of the com- plicated issues......

France Has In This Department, So To Speak, Stripped Herself

for battle. She has relieved herself of a multitude of burdens which in any great emergency would have hampered her free action. She has maintained her Treaty with Russia so far......