News Of The Week.
T HE Imperial Conference ended on Friday, August 5th, and the Dominion Premiers have returned, or are returning, to their various continents. Although there has been no precise......
On The Other Subjects The Report Of The Premiers Is
very frank and very interesting. After careful consideration it was found that the Japanese Alliance was not about to expire, and therefore did not need renewal ; then came......
As To The Future Of Runnymede, We Suggest That The
Govern- ment should turn a prime example of bureaucratic ineptitude to " glorious gain " by a public act of co-operation with those people on both sides of the Atlantic who......
We Print Elsewhere An Appeal Made By The Imperial War
Relief Fund on behalf of the starving people of Russia. In half the great derelict Empire the population is in the grip °Lone of the most terrible famines of which the world has......
In 1917 The Imperial War Conference Suggested A Consti-...
Conference to be summoned to work out what almost amounted to a Constitution for the Empire. The present Conference reports, however, that " having regard to the Consti-......
The Second Cause Was That Which Has Dealt So Severe
a blow to our own agriculture—the drought. That " Act of Cod." as the Insurers would call it, has left its mark upon all Europe, but mostly on Russia. Such crops as have come up......
In The Commons On Wednesday It Was Announced That Runny-
mede is to be withdrawn from auction . It appears that it was actually put up for sale in July, but that there was no bidding. We presume that the auction-room frequenters......
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