General Joffre Is Popular Because He Is Trusted. Yet He
dislikes and avoids the ordinary methods of winning popularity :— "Junior officers sometimes take up the cudgels for him in a newspaper — for Joffre has made enemies like most......
Arrangements Have Been Made, As We Are Informed By The
Times of Wednesday, by which the chance of grain being conveyed into Germany from neutral countries will be reduced. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, which at the outbreak of war......
A Good Deal Of Concern Has Been Expressed Recently That
the Government should have allowed enemy reservists to be con- veyed to Europe in the ships of neutral Powers. The Government have now decided that reservists thus conveyed......
We Much Regret To Record The Death Last Sunday Of
Sir Charles Douglas, Chief of the General Staff, in which position he succeeded Sir John French. He had seen service in the Afghan War, the Sudan War of 1884-5, and both Boer......
The Question Which Power Has Got The Largest Number Of
prisoners is being generally asked at the present moment, but it is by no means easy to answer. A Reuter tele- gram from Petrograd, dated Wednesday, says that the number of......
An Officer's Letter, Published In The Daily Mail, Gives An
amusing account of how he obtained volunteers for a special and very dangerous service :— " When I asked my section, which consists of sixty, for volun- teers, I left them for......
The Italian Government Have Sent Four Men.of-war To...
the Albanian coast. They announce that their intention is to support the neutrality of Albania proclaimed at the London Conference, and to help the inhabitants, who are said to......
The Times Of Tuesday Published From Its Bordeaux Corre-...
an extremely interesting appreciation of General Joffre. We have presented to us a short, stout man, confident in his own judgment, free of all ostentation, and contemptuous of......
Last Saturday Lord Kitchener Appealed To Both Men And Women
to refrain from treating the recruits in the training camps to drink and from putting any other sort of temptation in their way. Lord Kitchener suggests that local Committees......
The Professional Classes War Relief Council, Whose Pro-...
is Major Leonard Darwin, whose honorary secretaries are Mr. Theodore Chambers, Mr. Alexander Goddard, and Mrs. A. 0. Gotto, and whose offices are at 13 and 14 Prince's Gate,......
Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.
Aug. 8th.......
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