In The Other Theatres Of The War There Is Little
to report except one or two interesting items of news from the Near East and the Middle East. For example, it is said that reinforcements for the Allies are constantly pouring......
Mr. Mckenna In His Speech Declared That The Well-to-do Must
desist from expenditure on mere luxuries, and the loss wealthy must postpone till the war was over the spending of their savings on things which, though it would not be fair to......
Mr. Tennant Very Frankly Admitted That He Had Used Words
unhappily. As the recruiting offices had not kept lists of those rejected since August 14th, the " yellow form " had been sent out indiscriminately. As for the latest poster on......
We May Well Be Wrong, But It Would Be Just
like the Germans to argue : " It would be better to add three hundred thousand Swiss troops to the enemy forces than to lose perhaps double that number of men in failing to......
Possibly The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Was Right Here, But
is it not just one of those cases in 'which human nature prevents your taking the best way and forces you to adopt one less theoretically excellent 7 It would be very much to......
Sir John Simon Revived The Subject On The Third Reading
of the Consolidated Fund Bill on the same day. The tribunals, he asserted, had failed to give effect to the promise that single men who were " sole supporters " should be......
In The House Of Commons On Tuesday Mr. Tennant Said
that the Government would do their best to transfer attested married men to reserved occupations in order to take the place of single men in those occupations. The single men......
Every Day That The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Delays The
imposition of the needful taxes is a dead loss. As our readers know, wo believe the time has come, nay, is overdue, for the imposition of a general tariff. And here we desire to......
Look At What Has Happened With The Richer Classes, From
whom the tax-collector now takes close upon half their incomes. They have been obliged to take action which we can only describe as " heavy saving." They have no choice. Money......
In The House Of Commons On Thursday Week Mr. Asquith
gave a rather different version of tho facts which Lord Kitchener recently described when he said that the manufacture of anti. aircraft guns had been given priority over other......
We Shall Not Deal With The German Threats Of Greater
frightfulness at sea, except to say that up till Thursday evening there was no news of the now sea campaign, which was timed to begin at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night. Of......
Tho Groat Guildhall Meeting In Favour Of National Saving...
place on Wednesday, but unfortunately the Primo Minis- ter, owing to a bad cold and temporary hoarseness, was unable to attend. The chief speaker, as was of course right and......
Lord Kitchener And Mr. Balfour Also Spoke At The Meeting,
and said just the things that one would expect able, sensible, and patriotic men to say on such an occasion. We fool, how- ever, that their speeches, like that of Mr. McKenna,......
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