7 MAY 1898, page 5

The Capture Of Manilla. T He Inefficiency Of Which We Have

repeatedly spoken as the note of modern Spain comes out to the full in the accounts of the defence of Manilla. Though the Spaniards had months of warning, nothing except the......

The Fate Of The Philippines.

W E take it to be certain, in spite of interruptions in the telegraphic service, that Manilla has sur- rendered ; that the Tagal population will hold the larger Philippine......

Topics Of The Day.

" OUR HELPLESS GOVERNMENT." " O UR helpless Government,"—so runs the phrase of the Daily Chronicle, and the Daily Mail is hardly less condemnatory when it talks about the......