18 AUGUST 1928, page 3

Mr. Robert Lyttelton's Little Book, Published This...

Longman, suggesting changes in the laws of cricket, has borne fruit. The M.C.C. have issued a circular to the county committees on the question of slightly altering the balance......

* * This Week London Has Heard At Night The

droning of aircraft, engaged on mimic raids and their repulse. Reports from the Air Ministry are vague, for the lessons cannot yet be deduced from the reports coming in over a......

At These Sports, As Upon Bank Holiday And In The

holiday season so far, we must be grateful for very good weather, not least for the breezes in the Solent, where the regattas, culminating in the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta,......

The Very Friendly Athletic Match Between Representa-...

British Empire and the United States ended last Saturday in a narrow victory for the Americans. The teams that represented both sides had returned from Holland, where the......

The Colonial Office, Too, Has Had To Advise His Majesty

upon several new appointments. Lord Plumer, after gallantly serving a valuable term in Palestine, has come home. As the first Christian High Commissioner under • our Mandate, he......

The Recently Appointed Or Transferred Ambassadors And...

Courts or Chanceries of Europe,bivre now taken up their duties. Lord Crewe has left Paris and Sir William Tyrrell has presented his credentials there. Sir Horace Rumbold has......

Bank Rate, 41 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.,

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102-1, ; on Wednesday week 102t, ; a year ago 10111, Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on Wednesday......