17 MARCH 1928, page 2

In China There Is, As We Expected, Every Appearance Of

active preparation for a new campaign. Chiang Kai-shek is north of Nanking and one-third of the way to Peking with armies and equipment. Chang Tso-lin has his troops a long way......

The News From The East Has Been Less Exciting Than

it was last week From the frontier of Iraq there is scarcely anything to record. In Egypt King Fuad has received the President of the Wafd Party, Mustapha Pasha Nahas, who, is......

On Monday The Home Secretary Presented The New Franchise...

The effect of it is reckoned to be that on the next Register will be twelve and a quarter million men and fourteen and a half million women. Five and a quarter million women of......

On Friday A . Second Reading Was Given To The Private

Member's Bill which embodied the recommendations of the Shop Hours Committee, regulating the hours of opening shops in the interest of the assistants. (It leaves unanswered the......

In Parliament On Thursday, March 8th, The House Of Commons

took the Army Estimates, in which . the reduction . of half a million was attributed by . the Secretary of State to economies, to the reduction in the cost of living, and to a......

In India Sir John Simon's Commission Continue Their Tour...

satisfactorily. They reached Lahore last - Week and are being very well received in the Punjab. The Moslems there are almost united in favour of co-operation. The Hindus are......

On Tuesday In The Upper House The Agricultural Produce Bill

received a second reading. This is mainly concerned with the *marking and grading of eggs, fruit and other produce. Lord Stmdbroke explained that it enacted the recommendations......