12 JANUARY 1924, page 9

On His Return To South Africa Last Month General Smuts,

in an important speech on the Imperial Conference and the effect the British elections would have on it, expressed the opinion that the decisions of the Imperial Conference......

Since The Yellowstone Park Was Made Into A National Reserve

some fifty years ago it has had many emulators. A Johannesburg correspondent of the Times announces that the Minister of Lands will introduce in the Union Parliament during the......

Assuming That 40 Per Cent, Of The Land Surface Of

the world is fit for food production, Mr. Johnson estimates that there is room in the world for about 5,200,000,000 people. In less than a hundred years, therefore, we shall......

. As The New Year Opens, The Clouds On The

Irish horizon seem to be diminishing, and as far as it is ever possible to be optimistic in Irish affairs there would appear to be some justification for such an attitude of......

The

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. T HE appointment of Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador at Washington has once more raised the question as to the desirability of......

In Its First Flush Of Its Gratitude To The American

people for their wonderful generosity at the time of the earthquake, the Japanese Press anticipated that Japanese-American relations were entering upon an entirely new phase,......

The Rand Daily Mail Publishes A Carefully Argued Leading...

on this subject. In the British Common- wealth of Nations the will of the people must remain supreme, or, as the Rand Daily Mail has it, "There is no alternative save the......

The New York New Republic Contains An Interesting Article By

Mr. Alvin Johnson, entitled" Are We in Danger of Over-population ? " The writer makes several refer- ences to Professor East's recent book, entitled Mankind at the Cross-roads.......