20 MAY 1922, page 2

The Sinn Fein Gunmen Continue To Terrorize Belfast. A...

postman on his rounds was murdered last Saturday. When his funeral was passing to the cemetery on Tuesday, the Sinn Feiners fired on the mourners, who had to be protected' by......

In The House Of Commons On Monday The Solicitor-general, Sir

Leslie Scott, moved the second reading of the Law of Real Property Bill, which had come from the Lords. The subject of the Bill is so amazingly complicated that several speakers......

The Tendency Of The Great_ Municipalities To Go On Absorbing

their• smaller' neighbours was sharply checked last week, when the House of Commons rejected -by .199 votes to 57 a Bill for the .aggrandizement of Leeds and Bradford. The......

The Labour Party Once Again Showed Its Lack Of Practical

statesmanship in the Prevention of Unemployment Bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons on Friday, May 12th, by 172 votes to 82. The -avowed - object of the Bill was to......

The. President Of The Board Of Trade Gave The House

of Com- mons on Thursday, May 11th, a cautious review of the commercial situation. He detected signs of improvement in South America and the United States, and-thought that we......

The Admiralty Issued Last Week The Fleet Orders Providing...

the retirement of 1,835 officers who would not be needed in our much reduced Navy. The list includes 119 captains, 200 commanders, 407 lieutenants (ex-cadets) with less than......

A Committee Of Dail Eireann, After Sitting And Arguing For

a week, has failed once more to arrange a compromise between the Free State and the Republican factions. Both were, it seems, prepared to hold " an agreed election without......

Lord Carson, In The House Of Lords On Thursday, May

11th, invited the Government to say what they proposed to do for the unhappy victims of the anarchy in Southern Ireland. The Lord Chancellor, in reply, admitted the facts,......