16 AUGUST 1924, page 2

The London Correspondent Of The Manchester Guardian...

issue of Friday, August 8th, how the negotiations for the Russian Treaty—wittily described as "ati agreement 'to agree if' and' when' the parties can agree "—was saved from......

Surely There Can Be Nothing But Danger In The Retention

of French troops in the Ruhr when once the economic eontrol of that district has been restored to Germany. As everyone knows, the position of occupying troops in a foreign......

. We Are More Hopeful Than Ever Before Of Peace

in Europe.' 'As we recorded last week, the knotty problem of settling by .what means Germany should be declared, if necessary, 'in default" was settled With a rush at the last......

It Is Curious And Rather Amusing To Notice The Distress

of the Riga correspondent of the Times at the tremendous jubilation in Russia over the provisional signing of the Treaty. Soviet newspapers speak of this formal asso- ciation......

Till There Is A Settlement On This Point The Allied

Conference can do little more business, and interest is really transferred for the time being from the Conference to the bargaining that is going on between France and Germany......

Alrthe Evidence Indicates That The Riots, Which Occurred...

at places far distant from' one another, were due to external influences. It is natural to suppose that the' White 'Flag Society, which is -sub- sidized from Cairo and whose......

Serious Riots Occurred In The Sudan Last Saturday And...

At Atbara an Egyptian railway battalion held a demonstration and destroyed a good deal of property. On Monday they were prevailed upon to return to barracks, but when they were......

Finally We Trust That Germany As Well As France Will

not forget for an instant what terribly important issues depend upon the success of the Dawes scheme. From the German point of view it 'would be wholly gain for Germany to have......

The Government Here Will Only Be Confirmed In Their Opinion,

which has been already plainly expressed. The Sudan is not Egypt, and Egypt has no right whatever, legal, trioral or historical, to govern '('or rather to mis- govern), it.......