19 AUGUST 1922, page 3

Lord Strathclyde Has Dono A Patriotic Thing In...

pension, granted to him as an ex-Lord President of the Court of Session, on the ground that he cannot any longer assist In the judicial work of the House of Lords. It is not......

The Case For The Trade Unions Act Amendment Bill, Which

awaits its third reading, was well stated in the Morning Post last week by Mr. James Walton, the ex-miner who sits for the Don Valley as a member of the National Democratic......

Lord Northcliffe Died At Twelve Minutes Past Ten On Monday

morning. We can here do little but record our deep regret and refer our readers to our leading article. Lord Northcliffe was born in 1865 at Chapelizod, near Dublin. His father......

We Much Regret To Record The Death Last Week Of

Lord Heneage. He was eighty-two, but he had retained his powers unimpaired to the end. The last of his many vigorous letters to the Spectator appeared not so long ago in our......

The Prime Minister, It Is Announced, Has Written His Memoirs

and, what is more, has sold them for an immense sum. The Press Association says that the price is £90,000, while the Sunday Times, Mr. Lloyd George's most faithful supporter,......

The Times Of Wednesday Reproduces A Photograph Of A Proposed

national War memorial for Italy. The design, which has been accepted by a " national Committee," is of a " Via Cracis "—and is to be erected on Monte San Michele, overlooking......

Brigadier-general Groves Has Contributed Some Admirable...

on Air Power. There seems to be nothing to be said for the Government's policy. And yet it is terribly easy to understand how it has been adopted. The alarm and agitation which......

The Trade Returns For July Were Apparently Encouraging....

valued at £60,418,626, were 15 per cent. higher than in June and 40 per cent, higher than in July, 1921, when the disastrous miners' strike had paralysed industry. The imports,......

In Fine, What Is Needed In The Present Conditions, With

aircraft developing and changing with lightning rapidity, with no immediate prospect of war, and with a dominant Navy, perhaps obsolescent, but certainly not obsolete, is not a......

The Truth Is That, As We Do Not, Like France,

run our finances exclusively by the anticipation of bad debts, we simply cannot afford a mobilized Air Force large enough to afford us protection, and that any money spent on......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001s; Thursday week, 1001 ; a year ago, 871.......