15 MARCH 1924, page 3

With Mr. Leach's Homilies About The Awfulness Of War We

all agree, and we can sympathize with his personal statement about his reluctance to raise money for fighting purposes. It is evidently necessary, however, for Mr. Leach to be......

Mr. Leach's Statement On The Air Estimates Which Were...

to the House of Commons on Tuesday was a great improvement on his earlier speech. He made it plain, as Lord Thomson had made it plain last week in the House of Lords, that the......

In The House Of Lords On Tuesday Lord Buckmast,er Carried

the Second Reading of his Matrimonial Causes Bill. The Bill provides that marriage may be dissolved on the ground of desertion for three years, cruelty, drunkenness, insanity,......

Lord Daryngton's Objections Were Based Almost Entirely...

literal interpretation of texts in the New Testament. His speech was as able and as earnest as such a speech could well be. We heartily agree that the religious objection is the......

The Government Can Hardly Be Congratulated, And Probably...

not congratulate themselves, upon the debate on Unemployment in the House of Commons on Monday. The usual Nemesis overtook those who had pretended, while they were in......

The Army Estimates Which Were Issued On Thursday, March 6th,

are for 245,000,000, and show a decrease of 17,000,000 on those of last year. The reduction is due to the withdrawal of troops from Constantinople, and to the ending of other......

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

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, Mk ; Thursday week, 100 ft ; a year ago, 101g.......