March 1 . , I9IS• concluded its case the prisoner is allowed to make a statement , but he is often so flustered by this time that he is quite unable to do himself justice. The magistrate then passes sentence and the prisoner is rushed out of court. Very often the result of the f

matter in which I am afraid many of the public are little interested. The police court is an unsavoury place, and they wish shut it out of their lives altogether. Bu it is of vital importance they should lear more about it so that this serious blot o our social system should be

And behold the Children of the Nations played on the edge of the abyss, and there was laughter in their eyes, for was not the world very beautiful? How should they perceive that the foundations of all things crumbled beneath their feet, and the horrors of death and blood and fam

Mr. Hogge asked to-day whether there was to be any change in the practice in notifying the death of men shot at the front—that is, shot for cowardice or desertion—and whether the dependants of such men will in future receive any pension. In the answer to his first question he go

In a circular submitted by its committee to the Interdenominational Conference of Social Service Unions it is laid down as a principle of social reconstruction that " every man on coming into the world has a God-given right to life." Is this to be understood to apply to Germans,

were honest in their love of peace—that she is placed in such a light that she apappears to be bent on forcibly uprooting and stamping out every thought of peace. This is a shameful state of things, a deep disgrace to us. By prohibition, by suggestions, by censorship, and by sup

: its Principles and Works," on Monday, December 3, at 7-30, at the Friends' Institute, Moseley Road (opposite Leopold Street). Chairman : Mr. John H. Barlow.

For full particulars, names of all speakers, etc., see this week's Herald, or apply to Hon. Secretary, Leonard S. Howard, North London Labour Demonstration Committee, Liberty Club, 318, Green Lanes, N. 4. The Christian Peace Crusade Banner will start from the Highgate Archway Ta

has been sentenced to 28 days' Field Punishment No. 1 (crucifixion) " somewhere in France."—The Tribunal.

Niewe Courant (The Hague, Liberal), Sept. 5, writes on the obvious significance of the suppression of peace p r opaganda in England. The sentence of six months' Im prisonment for a nominal offence, passed on a man ..identified with all that is finest and purest in English Li ber