18 DECEMBER 1897, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

A PLAN FOR ARMY REFORM. T HE interest excited by the proposals for Army reform remains as great as ever. Almost every recent public speech touches on the problem in some form or......

The German Emperor's Joke.

W AS it altogether a joke ? The story, which is not denied as other incidents of the same conversa- tion have been, is that the Emperor William IL, talking recently to Count......