11 OCTOBER 1924, page 3

The First Walter Page Memorial Lecture, Founded By The...

Union in memory of the great American Ambassador, will be delivered by Sir Auckland Geddes, late British Ambassador at Washington, at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Armistice......

Meanwhile The Interest Of The Fund Is Being Used For

the furtherance of Anglo-American understanding by the founding of the Memorial Lecture and the two Page Travelling Scholarships for British Secondary and Elementary teachers. A......

In The House Of Lords On Tuesday Lord Grey Of

Fallodon made a characteristically courageous speech on the Irish Boundary Bill. He said plainly that previous Governments had unfortunately entered into two-contra- dictory......

He Urged Everyone To Refrain From Entertaining The...

any British Government could make an Irish settlement. If settlement -did not come between the Irish factions themselves it would not come at all. The Free State was in great......

Lord Grey Then Went On To Develop The Idea Of

an Irish Republic, and in our opinion he spoke with real insight. He thought that, if the necessity arose, this country would lose nothing by letting the Free State call itself......

King Husein, The King Of The Hejaz, Has Abdicated, And

his son, the Sherif Ali, Emir of Medina, has suc- ceeded him. The Wahabis who were threatening ilusein's capital, the Holy City of Mecca, had apparently made no movement for......

The Prime Minister's Reply To The Demands Of Zaghlul Pasha

has been published as a White Paper. For the first time we learn exactly what Zaghlul Pasha has been asking for. His demands were impossible, and the Prime Minister's "......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

July 5th, 1923' 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102 If; Thursday week, 1021; a year ago, 1024. 84 per cent Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 771 ; Thursday week, 774} a......