6 AUGUST 1937, Page 6

Speculation as to the future of the Morning Post, flaw

that Lord Camrose has bought it, has been given a little stimulus by the discovery that a company was registered last year, with the Morning Post and the editor of the Morning Post as shareholders, for the purpose of producing, under the auspices of the Morning Post or independently, a paper to be known as the Evening Post. The publication of what would in effect be an official Conservative evening paper by Lord Camrose is by no means impossible. Meanwhile, the fact that (according to the World's Press News) the circulation of the Post for the first six months of thii year stood at under 120,000 shows how difficult the paper's position has become. * * * * '