5 JULY 1913, page 10

As We Write On Friday Morning There Has Been No

declara- tion of war in the Balkans. At the same time we must record exceedingly heavy fighting in Macedonia, the Bulgarian troops being engaged both with the Servians and the......

Before We Leave The Subject Of Mr. Lloyd George's Speech

we must note that though the opportunity was so good a one, and though he found it so easy to heap personal abuse upon Lord Robert Cecil and Lord Lansdowne, he made no attempt......

On Monday The Reichstag Passed The New German Army Bill

and adjourned till November 20th. This important measure, which involves radical changes in German finance, increases the peace strength of the army by 4,000 officers, 15,000......

An Incident Which Has Created Special Animosity In Sofia Has

been the capture after heavy street fighting of some thousand Bulgarian soldiers who were in the occupation of barracks in Salonica. When summoned to surrender by the Greeks......

It Is Not A Pleasant Thing To Use Such Words

of the second Minister in a British Government. It is even more unpleasant to reflect that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer has placed himself in such a position that he......

Of The Attorney-general's Speech At The National Liberal...

we can only say that it was the kind of utterance which the candid critics of the eighteenth century would have called "a spaniel speech," so fulsome was its adulation of Mr.......

Lest The Orgy Of Self-righteousness, Vituperation,...

the National Liberal Club should have been incomplete, Mr. Churchill rose at the end as a sort of irascible " heavy father " with the conventional " Bless you, my children"—"......

The Washington Correspondent Of The Times Described Last...

activities of lobbyists in Congress. He says that the investigation which is being held by Congress has produced "sensational revelations" of what Mr. Roosevelt has called the......