16 JANUARY 1926, page 2

The German Reichstag Reassembled On Tuesday. The....

by a large majority not'to join the " Grand Coalition." In other words the attempt of the Centre and the Democrats to build up this Coalition has failed.. The- President is......

M. Briand, For His Part, Having Only The Other Day

boldly saved his Finance Minister from dismissal, is bound to stand by him. How can he do that without shattering -his Government ? He can, of course, appeal to the Chamber over......

The Forgeries Of French Bank-notes At The Hungarian...

continue to excite- Europe, especially. Hungary's suspicious neighbours of the- Little . Entente. We have seen no estimate of the value of the notes successfully uttered ; it is......

Meanwhile Peking Is Without A Government. How Is -- One

to explain it- all ? Gossip suggests that if Feng is trying to come to an understanding with the Russian Soviet, Chang may have come to a similar understanding with Japan. It is......

The New Canadian Parliament Was Opened, By The...

Friday, January 8th. The speech. from the Throne indicated a great deal of new legislation; and reduetions of taxation. Mr. Lemieux was elected' Spefiker. A vote of confidence......

* * The Situation In China Has - Taken A New

turn and one can only repeat that - it is - impossible to predict events in - a country where 'strange things happen - so quickly and so - irrelevantly. Three - weeks ago it......

The French Parliament Reopened On Tuesday, And The Result Of

all the recent party negotiationS is that the future is as doubtful as ever. The National Socialist Congress by a small majority decided not to co-operate with M. Briand's......

Altogether, If Great Britain Accepts As Low A Sum As

£9,000,000 a year from Italy our debtor will have escaped lightly. These are hard and (let us repeat the word) unpleasant facts. We are certain that the settlement will,......