18 DECEMBER 1920, page 3

It Cannot Be Disguised That The Country As A Whole

has received the contemptuous destruction of Dr. Addison's handiwork with delight. This is a good sign in itself, not because we think for a moment that people are indifferent......

In The House Of Lords On Wednesday The Agriculture Bill

was debated, and the Lords rejected the clause which gives Ministers power to enforce certain methods of cultivation. In vain Lord Lee argued that there was too much bad farming......

Germany Makes It Difficult For The Allies To Display A

con- ciliatory spirit towards her. By the Peace Treaty she agreed to reduce her army to 100,000 men and to deliver up all surplus arms. But, while reducing the regular army, she......

The Third Volume Of Bismarck's Memoirs, Which The German...

suppressed, was described and summarized in a Berlin paper last Sunday. It seems that the ex-Kaiser, though an exile, is still influential enough at Berlin to prevent the book......

The House Of Lords On Monday Took The Report Stage

of the Government of Ireland Bill. The two Courts of Appeal for the North and the South were retained on a division by 88 votes to 53. The House accepted a new clause, moved by......

The Ex-king Constantine Arrived At Venice On Wednesday,...

on board the Greek cruiser Averoff,' in which he is returning to Athens. The Italian Government gave him a royal reception, as if to show that they did not agree with their......

The Assembly Of The League Discussed On Tuesday The...

question of reducing armaments. In view of Germany's suspicious behaviour in enrolling " volunteers" and of Bolshevik military activity, it is not surprising that the Allies and......

The Ministry Of Health Bill, After Being Severely...

much curtailed in the House of Commons, was rejected on Tuesday by the House of Lords, on the motion of Lord Strachie. The Bill, like all Dr. Addison's measures, was badly......

At A Luncheon Given To M. Paul Cambon On Thursday,

December 9th, by the Foreign Press Association, Mr. Boner Law expressed very happily the respectful admiration with which we all regard the veteran French Ambassador, who is now......

Bank Rate, 7 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 821 ; Thursday week, 83 ; a year ago, 91i.......