16 JULY 1927, page 1

News Of The Week

A FTER a period of painful doubts, which are not yet dispelled, a plenary meeting of the Naval Limitation Conference at Geneva was called for Monday, but it was put off till......

Great Britain Has Shared With Southern Ireland The Shock Of

horror with which both countries heard that Mr. Kevin O'Higgins was brutally shot on Sunday by a band of men who waylaid him as he was walking alone to Mass from his house at......

The Experts, While Still Unable To Put Forward Any Agreed

figures . for cruisers, issued on Friday a report in which they recommended that for destroyers the maxi- mum displacement should be 1,850 tons for leaders and 1,500 tons for......

On Thursday, July 7th, The Upper House Rejected The Liquor

(Popular Control) Bill. Lord Dunmore gave it the best support that it received. We are not blind to the objections to measures that favour forms of local option, the......

To Him More Than To Anyone Else Is Due The

successful establishment of the Civic Guard, and he had to bear the terrible responsibility for firm action in 1922 and 1923, when possibly Southern Ireland was saved from worse......

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