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The New Planet The Lowell Observatory Is To Be Heartily

congratulated on the discovery of a ninth major planet. The planet is beyond Neptune and is probably larger than the earth, but smaller than Uranus. No such important......

Lord Coventry Lord Coventry, Who Has Died At The Age

of ninety-one was once described by Mr. Baldwin—so the Times tells us—as the ideal of what an English gentleman living in Worcestershire should be. The only objection to that......

The Sugar Industry The Government Have Done Well To...

the recom- mendations of Lord Olivier's Commission, which has recently investigated the conditions of the sugar industry in the West Indies and Mauritius. Instead of waiting for......

French And British Naval Views An End Of The Franco-british

psychological conflict, to which Professor de Madariaga does justice elsewhere in this number, is not brought nearer by the continual misrepresentation in the Paris Press of......

General Primo De Rivera Last Sunday General Primo De Rivera

died suddenly in Paris. Of the ex-Dictator of Spain it may truly be said, as in the tragic case of Dr. Stresemann, that he died for his country. In the judgment of posterity he......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 4} Per Cent.

on March 6th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021/ ; on Wednesday week, 102 4 ; a year ago, 1021 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday. 91i; on Wednesday......

The Tariffs Conference At Geneva Despite The Increasing...

industry, the European Conference at Geneva for concerted economic action has done little more than illustrate how far social and political thinking has failed to keep pace with......

President Hindenburg And Germany On Thursday, March 18th,...

Hindenburg signed the principal Young Plan Bills. The Hague Agreements, the German-American Reparations Agree- ment, and the new Reichsbank and Railway Laws, are, therefore, in......