17 APRIL 1915, page 1

In A Verxstriking Letter Published In Our Issue Of To-day

the Bishop of London emphasizes from his own experience at the front the need for national concentration which we have insisted upon with special reference to the drink......

News Of The Week.

I N our leading columns we urge the Government to adopt the policy of State purchase in regard to the whole of the liquor trade. We urge it as the only solution, short of total......

How Great Is That Need Is Also Brought Out By

a statement made in Parliament on Thursday evening. Since the war began the British casualties have been all told up to April 11th 139,347. Up to the end of October we had lost......

As We Have Pointed Out Elsewhere, The Only Real Obstacle

is the trade. There may be a little grumbling amongst individuals, which will be spread amongst all classes and by no means, of course, confined to working men. But such......

Moved As We Are By These General Social And Moral

considera- tions, we must once more remind our readers that we are advocating this tremendous step of State purchase as a war measure. The other arguments that we see in its......

We Have Also Come To The Conclusion, Though Most Reluc-

tantly, that, considering all the eircumstances, we shall not be able to deal adequately with a situation fraught with con- sequences so tremendous unless the nation has the......

The Numbers Are Huge, But They Will Soon Be Very

much greater—became we shall have so much greater a for,* in action. They show in terms which must go to the heart of every man and woman in the land what is the sacrifice that......

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