The ongoing fighting around Hill 60 at Ypres was the main war story today (page 9), with Sir John French’s despatch revealing the Germans were now using two methods for delivering what was elsewhere described on the page as a “dastardly poisonous gas trick.” At home it was the Budget that was headlining the news, with Lloyd George expected to announce tax increases to prevent a deficit at the end of the financial year (pages 9 and 10, with a leader on page 8)