News Of The Week.
T HE King has done a big thing, and done it with chaise. teristio modesty and freedom from sensationalism. On Thursday there was published a letter addressed by his private......
Mr. Lloyd George, Considering The Sweeping Character Of...
made to him, went much further in his answ,r than might have been expected. He showed plainly that he. at any rate, is on the side of the sliipbuilders and of total prohibition.......
We Need Hardly Say That We Are Delighted At The
King's action, and there will, we are sure, be the keenest satisfac- tion throughout the nation. We are delighted not merely because the King's action will have a potent effect......
No Doubt Through Prohibition A Good Many Men Will Be
asked to make what will seem to them an unnecessary sacrifice. B, who has nothing whatever to do with the pro. duction of munitions of war, is to have his whisky and beer out......
The Immediate Cause Of The King's Message To The Nation,
for so in fact it is, was the deputation from the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation which waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary for Scotland on Monday......
The Men Who Approached The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Put
forward a purely business proposition. The Government say that they must have supplies of the munitions of war at the very quickest rate which it is humanly possible to produce......
Though We Must Face The Fact Just Expressed, It Would
be monstrous to frame upon it a moral indiotment, or condemna- tion, of the men. To begin with, they are not conscious that by drinking more they are diminishing the country's......
