In that year the Lords had rejected the Franchise Bill, and it was then that Mr. Bright, in a speech at Leeds dealing with the deadlocks between the two Houses, sketched a plan which was really the essence and origin of the principle adopted in the Parliament Act that has just become law.

" KEEPING THE GERMANS ON THE RUN The trench deadlock in northern France and Belgium was broken by Ludendorff's fatuous drive in March, 1918.

I submit that the German thrust through the wooded wilderness of Serbia is really no part of the war that has ended in the deadlock of 1915.

While things were at a deadlock on the Avenida, critical events were happening on the Tagus.

Once we had come to a deadlock as to the kind of vehicle from which it was proper to accept such hospitality.

I have really done nothing this last month but look at my flowers, superintend the gathering of my plums, put up a few pots of confiture, mow the lawn, and listen to the guns, now and then, read the communiqués, and sigh over the disasters in the east and the deadlock at Gallipoli.