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Lance-corporal Joseph Dowling, Of The Connaught Rangers,...

from a German submarine on the West Coast of Ireland in April last, was tried. by Court-Martial at Westminster on Monday and Tuesday. It was btated in evidence that Dowling was......

To Begin With, They Said In Effect That The Firm

of Messrs. Harris and Dixon was only one of several which were receiving pre- ferential treatment. Firms doing occasional Government work, we were given to understand, might......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 571- Per Cent.

April 5,1917.......

In The House Of Commons On Wednesday A Resolution Was

passed condemning the principle of associating war pensions with political parties. Sir Montague Barlow, who brought forward the resolution, is to be congratulated on the energy......

Mr. Clynes, As Every One Hoped And Expected, Has Been

appointed Food Controller in succession to Lord Rhondda, whoae lieutenant he had been for the past year. Mr. Clynes, like his late chief, has won general respect by his......

Our Readers Know That We Think Hardly Any Criticism Too

severe for the manner in which Mr. Lloyd George has in practice played with the vital interests of the nation while he has in form and in language kept up an appearance of......

It Cannot Escape Notice That The Prime Minister And The

whole Government have themselves to blame for this tone of the Press. The situation is that the Northcliffe Press is now in effect reminding the Prime Minister that that Press......

Although Those Who - Have Led -the Anti-alien Agitation...

be delighted with the - recoramendations of the House of Commons Committee, it is impossible to believe that they will -be satisfied when the recommendations are put into......

We Do Not Ourselves Believe That Mr. Leverton Harris Had

any evil intention whatever in asking for special facilities for the firm in which he was a large shareholder. He had already proved his good faith by great personal sacrifices......

'although A Pensions Bureau Has Been Established By The...

Party, we have no assurance that it will be abolished. The MancliesterGuardian, which has very great influence with the Liberal Party, protests, we are glad to see, against the......

Sir Auckland Geddes Informed The House Of Commons On Monday

that the grading of recruits between forty-three and fifty-one years of age would be modified, as the result of his conference with Sir Donald Maclean and other Chairmen of......

Lord Robert Cecil In The House On Tuesday Made A

statement PA to the Dutch convoy to the East Indies which causes us much anxiety. We do not doubt that the Foreign Office has obtained from the Dutch Government as full an......