1 FEBRUARY 1919, page 3

Fresh Strikes Have Occurred During The Week In The...

and shipbuilding trades, especially in Glasgow, Belfast, and the Port of London. The Trade Union Executives, which recently agreed with the associated employers to introduce a......

The Energetic Company Which Has Shown That Disinterested...

be applied with success to public-houses has changed its name from the Home Counties Public-House Trust to Trust Houses, Limited. It has also made a daring new move by taking......

It Was Appropriate That The Dispersal Of The Victorious...

Fleet should be marked by the conferring upon Admiral Beatty of the freedom of Edinburgh. Mr. Kipling wrote, in a different context, many years ago :— " Far - called our Navies......

The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition Is Perhaps The Most...

collection of pictures that has been seen In London since the war. The selection is extraordinarily catholic, ranging from the late Mr. Byam . Shaw's hundred square feet of......

Forecasts Have Been Published Of The Government Scheme...

soldiers on the land. It is proposed to settle soldiers in three different ways—on small-holdings, in cottages with an acre of land each, and on copartnership farms.......

We Rejoice To Hear That On February 9th At 3

o'clock a memorial service for the late Mr. Roosevelt will be held in Westminster Abbey. Such a service will give the greatest possible satis- faction not only to the......

In Belfast The Shipyard Workers Struck On Monday For A

forty- four-house week. The men employed in the municipal gas, electricity, and tramway undertakings ceased work also, and thus stopped many of the mills and factories, which......

The Announcement Of The Completion Of The New Ministry Was

made in Tuesday's papers. Lord Lytton becomes Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. C. A. McCurdy Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, Mr. James F. Hope Financial......

Perhaps The Most Striking Quality In The Exhibition Is...

an unexpected one, for it is an effect of poignant realism. Nothing could be further removed from photographic ideals than moat of these pictures, and yet, whether we like it or......

As For The Copartnership Farms, They Will Be Managed By

really expert farmers, so that no soldier who joins one of these farms will be backing his personal ability against fate. It is to be hoped that these farms, run by experts,......

Mr. Clynes, Speaking On Friday Week, Attributed The...

to various causes—the reaction after the strain of war, the fear lest the return of peace should mean a reversal to lower wages and worse conditions, the high prices of food,......

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

April 5, 1917.......