Statement by Prime Minister, [52]. Vote of Censure, [53]. Expected Military

Action in Ulster, [55]. Sir A. Paget in Dublin: Officers Object to Serve, [56].

Ministerial Explanations and Debate, [57]. Labour Views, [59]. Army

Council's Minute, [60]. Naval Movements, and Further Explanations: Debates,

[60] Resignation of Sir John French and Sir J. S. Ewart, [63]. New Army

Order, [64]. War Minister Resigns, Mr. Asquith Succeeding Him, [64]. Further

Debates on the "Plot," [65]. The Arms Proclamation Invalidated, [66]. Royal

Visit to Lancashire and Cheshire, [66]. Home Rule Bill: Resumed Debate,

[67]. Hyde Park Demonstration, [68]. Mr. Asquith at Ladybank, [68]. Home

Rule Bill Debate Concluded, [69]. Suffragist Outrages, [71]. Labour Troubles,

[72]. Report on Urban Land Reform, [72]. Commons' Resolution on the South

African Deportations, [73]. Minor Legislation, [74]. Colonel Seely at Ilke-

ston, [75]. The Ulster Appeal to Germany, [75].

CHAPTER III.

FROM EASTER TO WHITSUNTIDE.

Easter Conferences, [76]. Report on the Civil Service, [76]. The Session Resumed,

[77]. The Dogs Bill, [77]. Proposal to Shorten Speeches, [78]. Housing in

Ireland, [78]. Welsh Church Bill: Second Reading, [78]. Ulster Unionist

Council on the "Plot," [80]. Demand for a Judicial Inquiry, [82]. Further

White Paper, [82]. Army (Annual) Bill, [82]. Royal Visit to Paris, [82].

Plural Voting Bill, [83]. Gun-running into Ulster, [84]. Motion for Inquiry,

[85]. Division, [89]. Army (Annual) Bill Passed, [89]. Lord Lansdowne at the

Primrose League, [89]. Report on the Charges against Lord Murray, [90]. Post

Office Estimates, [91]. Civil Service Estimates, [91]. Budget Introduced, [93].

Budget Tables, [96]. Reception of the Budget: Debate, [97]. Women's Enfran-

chisement Bill, [99]. Debates on Capture of Private Property at Sea and State

Provision of Grain in War, [101]. Visit of King and Queen of Denmark,

[101]. Guillotine on Parliament Bills: Debate, [102]. Grimsby Election,

[103]. Welsh Church Bill: Financial Resolution, [104]. Government of Scot-

land Bill, [104]. Welsh Church Bill: Third Reading, [105]. Home Rule Bill:

Financial Resolution, [107]. Storm in the House, [109]. North-East Derby-

shire and Ipswich Elections, [109]. Home Rule Bill: Third Reading, [110].

Division, [111]. Traffic in Titles and Hereditary Titles (Termination) Bills,

[111]. Suffragist Outrages, [112]. Labour Unrest, [113].

CHAPTER IV.

THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE AND ITS CLOSE.

Whitsuntide: Political Situation, [114]. Chancellor of the Exchequer at Criccieth,

[114]. Recess Speeches, [115]. Parliament: National Insurance Amendment

and Milk and Dairies Bills, [115]. Post Office Vote again, [116]. Foreign

Companies Control Bill, [116]. Home Office Vote: Militancy, and the Remedies,

[116]. Outrage in Westminster Abbey, [119]. Further Home Rule Agitation,

[119]. Plural Voting Bill, [120]. The Irish Volunteers and Mr. Redmond, [121]:

Debates, [121]. Oil Fuel for the Navy, [123]. Board of Agriculture Vote, [126].

Local Government Board Vote, [126]. Great Trade Union Alliance, [127].

Suffragist Deputation to the Premier, [127]. Chancellor of the Exchequer at

Denmark Hill, [128]. Liberal Opposition to the Budget, [128]. Finance Bill:

Second Reading Debate, [129]. Division, [134]. The Lord Chancellor on the

Budget, [134]. The Amending Bill Introduced, [135]. Welsh Church Bill

Referred to a Committee, [136]. Their Majesties in the Midlands, [137]. Foreign

Office Vote, [137]. Address on the Murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand,

[138]. Denial of an Anglo-Russian Naval Agreement, [139]. Attempt to Revive

the Marconi Scandal, [139]. Finance Bill: Committee, [139]. Amending Bill:

Second Reading, [140]. Division, [144]. Death of Mr. J. Chamberlain : Tributes

to his Memory, [144]. Finance Bill Guillotined, [146]. Board of Trade Vote,

[147]. Foreign Office Vote: Further Debate, [147]. Council of India Bill, [148].

Amending Bill Transformed in Committee, [149]. Strike at Woolwich Arsenal,

[150]. Further Suffragist Outrages: Successes of the "Women's Movement,"

[151]. Their Majesties in Scotland, [152]. The Agitation in Ulster, [152].

Amending Bill: Third Reading, [153]. Plural Voting Bill Rejected, [154].

Government Plans, [154]. Finance Bill: Committee, [155]. Chancellor of the

Exchequer at the Mansion House, [157]. The Government and the Amending

Bill, [157]. The Fleet at Spithead, [157]. Conference on the Ulster Problem,

[158]. King's Speech on Opening It, [159]. Finance Bill: Report Stage, [160].

Third Reading, [160]. Failure of the Conference, [161]. Gun-running at Dublin:

Troops Fire on the Crowd, [162]. Debate in the Commons, [163]. Report on

the Affray, [165]. Demonstration in Favour of the Government, [165]. Colonial

Office Vote, [165]. Education Vote, [166]. Report of Welsh Land Committee,

[166]. The European Crisis and Great Britain, [167]. War Preparations, [168].

Liberal Attitude, [169]. Postponement of Payments Bill, [170]. Sir Edward

Grey's Speech, [170]. Promises of Support by Party Leaders: Debate, [172].

Further War Measures, [172]. Ministerial Resignations, [173]. Definitive

Anglo-German Rupture, [174].

CHAPTER V.

GREAT BRITAIN AT WAR.

En-

More War Preparations, [175]. War Legislation, [175]. White Paper on the

European Crisis: England's Action, [175]. Prime Minister on the Vote of

Credit, [178]. Debate, [180]. Measures for the Relief of Distress, [180]. War

Funds, [181]. The Königin Luise and Amphion, [181]. Press Bureau Estab-

lished, [181]. War Legislation: First Instalment, [181]. Current Controversies

Suspended, [182]. Lord Kitchener's Army, [183]. Naval Combats, [183].

Successes in Africa, [183]. Charitable Aid, [183]. The Supply of Food, [184].

Spy Scares, [185]. Treatment of Alien Enemies: Relief Measures for Tourists,

[186]. Day of Intercession: British Feeling on the War, [187]. The War

Extends, [188]. Arrival of the British Expeditionary Force in France: Message

from the King; Lord Kitchener's Instructions, [188]. The Retreat from Mons:

Sir John French's Despatch, [189]. Earl Kitchener's Statement, [190]. Address

to Belgium: Speech of the Prime Minister, [191]. Indian Troops to Come,

[192]. Precautions on the East Coast, [193]. The "Scrap of Paper" Despatch:

Naval Warfare; Engagement off Heligoland, [193]. Destruction of Louvain :

British Recruiting Campaign, [194]. The Retreat from Mons: the Press and

the Press Bureau, [195]. Further War Legislation, [195]. The War and the

Parliament Act, [196]. Recruiting Campaign, [196]. Myth of Russian Troops,

[196]. The Prime Minister and other Leaders at the Guildhall, [196].

couragement to British Hopes: Agreement of the Allies not to Conclude Peace

separately; Further Operations in France, [198]. Naval Sweep of the North

Sea, [199]. Chancellor of the Exchequer on Local Loans, [200]. Parliament

Reassembles: Offers of Help from India, [200]. King's Message to the Domin-

ions, [201]; to India, [202]. Further Vote of 500,000 Men: Prime Minister's

Statement, [202]. Recruiting Movement: Speeches by the First Lord of the

Admiralty and Others, [203]. Treatment of the Home Rule and Welsh Church

Bills: Party Controversy; Debates, [203]. Earl Kitchener on the Military

Situation, [207]. Prorogation of Parliament, [208]. Legislation of the Session,

[209]. Bills Dropped, [210]. Mr. Asquith at Edinburgh, [210]. Mr. Lloyd

George at Queen's Hall, [211]. Other Speeches, [212]. Sinking of British

Cruisers Air Raid on Düsseldorf, [212]. From the Marne to the Aisne: Sir

John French's Despatch, [213]. Protection of London against Air Raids, [214].

German Responsibility for the War: Fresh Evidence, [214]. The Prime Minister

at Dublin, [215]. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at Criccieth and Cardiff,

[216]. Ulster Day Celebrated, [216]. German and British Theologians on the

War, [217]. Recruiting Campaign, [218]. The Prime Minister at Cardiff, [218].

Recruiting in Ireland, [219]. Incidents of the War, [219]. Fall of Antwerp,

[220]. Effects, [221]. Labour Manifesto, [221]. British Operations in Flanders,

[222]; on the Belgian Coast, [224]. Incidents of the Naval War, [225]. Turkey

Enters the War, [226]. Prince Louis of Battenberg Resigns, [226]. British

Naval Defeat off Chile, [226]. Ministers at the Guildhall, [227]. Mr. Lloyd

George at the City Temple, [229]. Opening of Parliament, [230]. Debates,

[231]. The Press Bureau Criticised, [232]. Allowances to Soldiers' Dependents,

[233]. Vote of Credit, [233]. Funeral of Earl Roberts, [234]. War Budget,

[235]. Table, [237]. Concessions, [237]. Further Debates, [238]. The Bulwark

Blown Up, [239]. The Spy Peril, [239]. Earl Kitchener on the War, [240].

Financial Position: Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, [241]. The

First Lord of the Admiralty on the Naval Position, [243]. Further War Legis-

lation, [244]. New Departure in Recruiting, [245]. Progress of the War:

Flanders, Friedrichshafen, the Persian Gulf, [245]. The King at the Front,

[245]. The Prince of Wales at the Front, [246]. Continuance of Football, [246].

Naval Warfare: Battle off the Falkland Islands, [247]. A Turkish Battleship

Sunk, [248]. German Raid on Hartlepool, Scarborough, and Whitby, [248].

Mr. Balfour on the War, [249]. The Opposition Leaders and National Unity,

[249]. Liberal Friction at Swansea, [250]. Gifts of the Colonies, [250]. Egypt

a British Protectorate, [250]. Mission to the Vatican, [250]. Committee on

German Atrocities, [251]. Mr. Bonar Law at Bootle, [251]. Treatment of

Soldiers' Wives, [251]. German Air Raids on Dover and Sheerness: British

Raid on Cuxhaven, [252]. British Grounds of Hope of Victory, [252].

RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND THE MINOR STATES OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE .

CHAPTER IV.

LESSER STATES OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN EUROPE: BELGIUM-THE

NETHERLANDS-SWITZERLAND-SPAIN-PORTUGAL-DENMARK-SWEDEN-

NORWAY

CHAPTER V.

(By Sir CHARLES ROE, late Chief Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab.)

ASIA (SOUTHERN): PERSIA-THE PERSIAN GULF AND BALUCHISTAN-AFGHAN-

ISTAN THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER-BRITISH INDIA-NATIVE STATES-

TIBET

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CHAPTER VI.

(By W. R. CARLES, C.M.G., late H.M. Consul-General at Tien-Tsin and

(By H. WHATES, Author of "The Third Salisbury Administration,

1895-1900," etc.)

AFRICA (WITH MALTA): SOUTH AFRICA-EGYPT AND THE SUDAN-NORTH-

EAST AFRICA AND THE PROTECTORATES-NORTH AND WEST AFRICA

[418

CHAPTER VIII.

AMERICA: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES-CANADA

-NEWFOUNDLAND-MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA (by H. WHATES) —

THE WEST INDIES AND THE GUIANAS (by H. WHATES)—SOUTH AMERICA

(by H. WHATES)

.

CHAPTER IX.

AUSTRALASIA: AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND-POLYNESIA

PART II.

CHRONICLE OF EVENTS IN 1914

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RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR'S LITERATURE (by Miss ALICE Law),

SCIENCE (by J. REGINALD ASHWORTH, D.Sc., and others), ART (by W. T.

WHITLEY), DRAMA (by the Hon. EVELINE C. GODLEY), and MUSIC (by

ROBIN H. LEGGE).

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OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS DECEASED IN 1914

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