The Naval Treaty A FTER a session of three months the Naval Conference on Tuesday, with appropriate ceremony, signed the Five-Power Naval Treaty. The heart of the Treaty is, of...

the United States and Japan is the under- taking not to replace obsolete capital ships and to reduce the number of effective capital ships. Great Britain and the United States...

the safeguarding clause, which gives each of the three Powers the right to increase its naval strength indefi- nitely if the building of some other Power should make such an...

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are for the definite removal of naval affairs from,the field of competition, but she can reflect joyfully upon this vitithout being so much troubled as Great_ Britain inevit-...

two countries which makes a slightly unreal, calculation as good_ as any other. Great Britain is allowed a slightly larger total tonnage fok cruisers in recognition of the...

minimum of disturbance from the Treaty and this is now generally recognized by Americans. Mr. Borah, who as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has immense...

in the structure of international peace is in place. On Tuesday the Adminis- trative Council of the new Bank for International Settle- ments held its first meeting. Mr. Gates...

April 18th, and at Peshawar on Wednesday. At Chittagong revolutionaries with modern firearms raided the railway and police armouries. They had taken the precaution of cutting...

restoration of Wei-hai-wei to China. This port, once a symbol of the struggle for the balance of power, has had little naval value since the Treaty of Washington stereo- typed...

Russian Soviet seems to be what was required by the circumstances, It is to last only till a full Commercial Treaty has been negotiated. It has been widely noticed that -...

Mr. Gandhi's make-believe policy of civil disobedience, has spread to many parts of India. The Viceroy has responded by tightening the reins of authority, bit without doing...

was in great glee because French intransigence in regard to a tariff on motor cars and motor parts had induced the American tariff-mongers in Congress to yield up the scalps...

which every experienced person told him must be the result of his policy. He has not gone so far on this occasion as to seclude himself and fast ; indeed, he has partly unsaid...

the text of the Government's Hours of Industrial Employment Bill was issued. Labour has not found it by any means plain sailing to redeem the promise of ratification of the...

deploring the Government's lack of Socialist fervour, and specifically Mr. Snowden's tight hand on the purse-strings. Certainly the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by his virtual...

the age of 61, was a magnificent type of colonial administrator. He was extremely intelligent, he was a fine player of almost every kind of game, and he had great powers of...

the National Union of Teachers at Bournemouth and made a declaration about the future of elementary education which was not at all to the liking of most of his audience. The...

the annual Conference of the Independent Labour Party at Birmingham, With -Mr James Maxton in the Chair, his perennial rival of the Scottish branch of the I.L.P., Mr. P. J....

grants of public money to enable them to carry on and to recondition their buildings. The only other change he would make in these schools would be that the appointment of...

on March 20th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 108} ; on Wednesday week, 1081 ; a year ago, 108 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901; on Wednesday...

I T is a great pleasure, after having written so often about the Naval Conference, to be able at last to write about the results of the COnference—" The London Naval Treaty of...

[Continuing our series of articles on the restoration of Britishpros- perity without recourse to the tariffs and embargoes which are, in effect, economic war, we welcome this...

" Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair And what may quiet us in a death so...

[This is an extract from a lecture which is published in full in the Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies for 1929. The author, A. H. Allcroft, who...

W HEN I first read the news that China was applying to the Health Committee of the League of Nations for help in putting her sanitary house in order, I admit that I thought of...

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I T was about the turn of the century that the trouble began. It did not come from the rebels or the radicals ; for we see now clearly enough that Hardy and Shaw and even Wells...

con q uer : but his victories are those of peace and involve no sheddin g of blood unless he belon g s to the pestiferous clique who collect skins or e gg s. To find a bird that...

as the play : it certainly deserves to be. . There is nothing that Mr. Sherriff wished to say in the play, which cannot be equally well expressed in the talkie. And in this...

[COSMOPOLIS OR FLORENCE?] WHITHER are we going in architecture ? Is our ideal to be sculptural building or pure engineering ? Are we to concern ourselves with beautiful...

THE " SPECTATOR," APRIL 24TH, 1830. INDIA. The last arrivals from Calcutta bring an interesting account of a meeting held in that city, to petition Parliament against the re-...

[A LETTER PROM PARIS.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One begins to wonder if the Naval Conference, from the French point of view, was a failure after all. For France...

g0"71. 8'eoticOs 4p.ei.av ye IleNetez&op p) TriX6Oev'flapicova veioOac. (PrNDAR) This Storied Isle IT is difficult, when you live day by day against the back- ground, and in...

Many people hold that the jackdaw is tha cleverest. of all birds. They will find support for their belief in the following authentic instance from the experience of a retired...

his gun and shot the jackdaw, who by this time had emerged from his chimney, where he had presumably disposed of his bunch of feathers. Whether that bird was the ring- leader or...

It is a rather melancholy fact that the damaged trees and the gaps in the trees are due in many cases, not to the neglect that Mi. Guy Dawber deplores, but to aimless vandalism....

WATCH THE ROAD. Most holidays nowadays are spent in part, if not wholly, along the roads ; and some holiday-makers at' any rate did not travel so fast that they were unable. to...

A spaniel of mine usually accompanies me to the golf links, and seems to have a very fair idea of the game—knows the order of the holes and never touches the ball, though he...

THE SWEET 0' THE YEAR. Easter fell perhaps a week, but little more, before the English countryside was at its best. Spring is late ; but even in late years April, not May, may...

Something like genius has marked the recent activities of the Milk Publicity Council. The ingenious little containers. supplied for schoolchildren have done more than increase...

• In a neighbour's garden stood a large sycamore some one hundred and fifty years old. The top was blown off in a gale two years ago and a round hole, such as a woodpecker...

THE INDIAN TRAGEDY . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—An article on " The Indian Tragedy," in your issue of April 19th, contains some surprishig statements and some not...

is now raging round the situation in India there seems to be a tendency to leave in obscurity two or three facts which lie at the root of the situation. 1. No one of the...

article on "The Indian Tragedy" and liked it. At last you have said something which is as important for Englishmen to know as it is for Indians to remember. My letter is an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Bishop Gore gives the empty tomb and the appearances as the joint cause of the change wrought in the Twelve, and then goes on to show the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Unlilce " Orion," writing on Science and Democracy in your last issue, I believe that Science (in the wide sense) will be our saviour,...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,—I , am prompted to write this letter after reading the letter over the signature of R. R. Thompson in your issue .dated March 29th. Your editorial...

SPECTATOR.] -- Sin,—Mai I suggest that your-two articles (" The Budget " and " The Epidemic of Protection ") imply that the majority of the voters in . this country may continue...

Stn,—Your contributor, Lord Tavistock, commits the common error of supposing that the moral issue in this question is bound up with the scientific, and, indeed, dependent on it....

article by Sir - Herbert Austin in your issue of 5th inst., he says :—" All the industries which at the present time are operating under safeguarding duties in this country are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—I was very much interested in Sir W. Beach Thomas's remarks on the trapped partridges which he has recently seen in Spain. When I was in...

THE SLUM PROBLEM. Mr. Leigh in his comment on Mr. Townroe's article has clearly missed the main point of the Government's Housing Bill. Mr. Leigh is not correct in stating that...

HERE, in the night, The black is mothed with stars, Where fire-fly sparks are playing Over the shadow bars The trees are laying Across the wind-stirred pool, Where a thousand...

of Charles H, entitled the Memoirs of the Comte de Gramma, which Anthony Hamilton wrote, assisted probably by the reminiscences of his brother-in-law, the Comte de Gramont, has...

us—pretty much as we used to know him, but wearing a few new clothes. Mr. G. M. Trevelyan's Clio, A Muse (Longmans, 7s. 6d.) was first born as long ago as 1913, reborn in 1919...

. We cannot be grateful enough to John Maplet, " M of Arte and studente of Cambridge," who in 1567 produced a natural history, or to the Hesperides Press for reprinting the...

Low, 12s. 6d.) Captain D. J. Munro, R.N., puts forward a fervent but we fear useless plea (although Lord Jellieoe endorses it in his preface) for entering our merchant seamen as...

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been : FicTrox :—The Woman of Andros, by Thornton Wilder ; The Town of Tombarel, by W. J. Locke ;...

though not of the poet himself, is enlarged by Mr. E. A. B. Barnard's patient study in New Links with Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, '10s. 6d.). From some deeds...

that the patron saint of England was a native of Palestine, and in George of Lydda (Luzac, 12s. 6d.) Sir E. A. Wallis Budge has made a further contribution to the study of the...

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The World in 2030. By the Earl of Birkenhead. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. ed.) , Loan BIRKENHEAD has diversified that comparative leisure which retirement from active politics...

The Reign of the Emperor Francis Joseph. By Karl Tschuppik. (Bell. 21s.) The Empress Elizabeth - of Austria. By Karl Tschuppik. (Constable. 12s.) The Life of the Crown Prince...

The Russian Crucifixion. By F. A. Mackenzie. (Jarrolds. 2s.) Religion in Tsarist and Soviet Russia. By W. P. Coates. (Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee, -Robert Street,...

The Expansion of Italy. By Luigi Villari. (Faber and Fabei- 15s.) " Il Duce." By L. Kemechy. Translated by Magda Vamos. (Wil- llama and Norgate. 12s. 6d.) COMMENDATORE VILLARI...

PROFESSOR CONDLIFFeS Short History of New Zealand is one of the most useful text-books on New Zealand, but we think that his new work will have an even greater reputation. Most...

Romance of the Machine. By Michael Pupin. (Scribners. 4e. 6d.) THE object of the conversations between Mr. Ford and Mr. Trine is to help young men and women along the road to...

Great Demands Gallows' Orchard By Claire Spencer. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) mann. 7s. 6d.) , THERE are some stories which because of some potent quality of inevitability in them, go to...

7s. 6d.)—Mr. Francis Beeding has again presented us with an entertaining political thriller. The League of Discontent is, like The Five Flamboys and the others, a burlesque, but...

Cousens, the late Superintendent of the Western Circle of the Archaeological Survey of India (obtainable from the same address, £3 8s. 9d.). The researches here discussed were...

It is good-to see that Dr. Gladys A. Thornton's History of Clare, Suffolk, has passed into a cheaper edition (Cambridge, Helfer, 10s. 6d.), for it is a most interesting and...

publication of a book of seven hundred and fifty-four pages of humorous matter is a brave adventure, for even though that matter is already a proved laughter- maker, how many,...

Vocabulary) of Sir George Grierson's monumental Linguistic Surrey of India (obtainable from 'the "High Commissioner for India, 42 Gros- venor Gardens, £1. Os. 8d.), which will...

(Continued from page 708.) Among the new publications coming in for review none is more welcome than the bi-monthly Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions Submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. C. E. Newman proitwich, Worcestershire, for the following :— Questions...

Into My Scottish Sketch Book (Country Life, 21s.) that capital artist and sportsman, Mr. Lionel Edwards, has collected sixteen sketches of Northern scenes not hitherto used up....

Red Army, (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.), was certainly_ thrilling in the extreme. though the diary is rather spoiled by its hysterical style The later chapters, giving an account of...

told dispassionately by Bagwell. It is now rewritten in fuller detail, but with a strong Irish Roman Catholic bias, by Father Myles V. Ronan in The Reformation in Ireland under...

Bury, whether in person or through his brilliant writings, will welcome the Selected Essays of J. B. Bury, which Mr. Harold . Temperley has put together and prefixed with a'...

regular use, by motor-car from Damascus. But in the eighteenth century a longer and more perilous way from Aleppo direct to Basra was taken by many hardy travellers going to or...

Why Not Canada ? [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at hoMe and abroad. They are written by correspondents who...

A nursing sister, Miss K. E. Luard, gives a moving account in Unknown Warriors (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.), of her experiences in various hospitals. The heroism of the wounded...

Byron (" Bride of Abydos ") referring to Homer.-4. Milton, " Sonnet to Cyriack Skinner."—S. His feathers and motto from the King of. Bohemia who fell at Crecy.-6. The Cyclopes....

Mrs. Suzanne St. Barbe Baker's A Wayfarer in Bavaria (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) tells you the right things to see in that historic country, and how best and when to see them. If she has...

A thousand miles by motor-boat provided the material for Mr. C. S. Forester's delightful book, The Annie Marble in Germany (Bodley Head, 8s. 6d.). We can recommend these travel...

MARKET CONDITIONS. BUSINESS on the Stock Exchange after the Easter holidays opened in quiet fashion, but with a fairly good tone. The general views of the City with regard to...

Mr. Evelyn S. Parker, in his reference at the recent annual meeting of the Cunard Steam Ship Company to the retirement of the chairman, Sir Thomas Royden, expressed not only the...

I had written my article on the Budget before having had the advantage of perusing Lord Ebury's admirable speech to shareholders of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society. In...

The latest figures published in the annual Report of Imperial Chemical Industries are again decidedly impressive. The total net profit for 1929, after making provision for...

of the Yokohama Specie Bank made up to December 31st last is a good one, and thanks to Pee conservative policy so long pursued by this bank, the tArectors are able,...

Shareholders in Austin Reed, Limited, have had a pleasant surprise in the shape of a share bonus. The annual Report itself was a very good one, the accounts made up to February...