22 APRIL 1922, page 2

On Monday Night The Allies Were Unpleasantly Surprised By...

announcement that the Germans and the Bolsheviks had concluded a treaty at Rapallo on Sunday. Germany recognized the " Federal Republic of Soviets " and agreed to enter into......

One Of The Very Few Good Signs In Ireland It'that

here and there people who want to lead quiet- lives and not to be ruined, what- ever their-politics may be, are turning against a continued state of anarchy. In Dublin on......

The King Has Fulfilled Public Expectation By Conferring...

on Sir Arthur Balfour, in recognition of his great services to his country. For forty-eight years—with an interval of a few weeks in 1906—Sir Arthur Balfour has sat in the House......

It Might Be Supposed That When A Duty Has Been

mistaketity levied the duty could be recovered, but Mr. Baldwin declared that he had no power to refund any payment. Mr. Asquith dealt particular with the trade in fabric......

The Treaty Went On To Provide For A Kind Of

alliance against the Allies. " The two Governments undertake to give each other mutual assistance for the alleviation of their economic difficulties in the most benevolent......

Mr. Lloyd George On Tuesday Tried To Reassure The French

public by declaring that he was anxious to work in harmony with France. He said with truth that Great Britain had in fact given up many points on which she set store in order to......

The Proposals Of The Allies For An Armistice In Asia

Minor, and for peace on terms very favourable to the Turk, were received by Mustapha Kemal at Angora. Re made it a con- dition of an armistice that the Greeks should imMediately......

On Tuesday The Allies, Great And Small, Met In Private

and drafted a severe note to the German delegates. They described the secret negotiation of the treaty with Moscow as " a violation of the conditions to which Germany pledged......

On Good Friday And Saturday, It Is Reported, The Bolsheviks

had the audacity to put forward counterclaims for £5,000,000,000, on the theory that all the opposition to their despotic rule had come from the Allies and not from the saner......

The Publication Of The Treaty Caused Much Unfavourable...

at Genoa and Paris. The German delegates professed their astonishment and declared that Mr. Lloyd George had known all about these negotiations with Chicherin. The Prime......

The Real Masters Of China, Chang Tso-lin Of Manchuria And

Wu rei - fu of the Central Provinces, are reported to be massing their troops for a battle to decide which of them shall control Peking and the shadowy Republican Government.......

The Chief Subject Of Discussion In The House Of Commons

on Wednesday, April 12th, before the House rose for a fortnight, was the Safeguarding of Industries Aot. Mr. Asquith made the best speech which has been heard from him for some......