11 APRIL 1931, page 2

Wages And Tariffs Last Saturday Mr. A. V. Alexander, First

Lord of the Admiralty, made a speech which has got him into trouble. He said that the Economic Council had been advising the Government to put a tariff on the goods which the......

The All-india Moslem Conference In Delhi Followed The...

at Karachi. It will be remembered that as the Round Table Conference in LOndon failed to settle the minorities question the settlement was left to the Hindus and Moslems......

Reports Were Given To The Conference Of A Meeting Last

Saturday between Moslem leaders and Mr. Gandhi. Mr. Gandhi—so runs the Moslem account—had promised to concede in writing whatever safeguards the Moslems might desire, but when......

American Finance It Is Calculated That For The Year Ending

June 30, 1931, the United States Treasury will face a deficit of about £160,000,000. The facts require a breadth of treatment which Congress, compelled by the imminence of the......

Chicago The Citizens Of Chicago Have This Week Elected A

Democratic mayor, Mr. Cermak, by a majority of 190,000 votes over the Republican ex-mayor, Mr. W. H. Thompson. The new mayor, who as a boy emigrated from Bohemia to the United......

The Nazi Mutiny On April 1st, Captain Stennes, Commander Of

the North German group, one of the most important of the Nazi storm detachments, was dismissed from his post for heterodoxy. Like many of his fellow-soldiers of fortune in the......

The Revolt In Madeira The Bloodless Coup D'etat Which Left

Madeira in the hands of a revolutionary military junta last week-end appears to have been a politically-inspired gesture against the Portuguese Dictatorship. The High......

The Earthquake In Nicaragua The Nicaraguan Earthquake...

to the ground killed about 5,000 of its inhabitants. Pity and horror are almost numbed by disaster so swift and appalling. The subsequent distress was alleviated, so far as that......