22 OCTOBER 1937, page 3

Air Raid Precautions One Of The First Questions To Be

discussed by the new Parliament is that of air raid precautions. The recent Government announcement that only some ro or 12 per cent. of the cost of measures of protection......

" Lancashire's Remedy " The Lancashire Cotton Industry...

many attempts in the past, by reorganisation, to improve its condition. But these have, in the main, failed owing to the extreme hetero- geneity of the industry, with the......

* * * * The Question Of Colonies The Correspondence

that has broken out afresh in The Times on the subject of German colonies is adding, and could add, little to a discussion that was long since worn thread- bare. The sound......

The Greatest Physicist The Death Of Lord Rutherford Has...

the world of perhaps its greatest physicist. Rutherford, while creating the modern view of matter, yet adhered to the nineteenth- century tradition of expressing his ideas in a......

* * * * Geography And Birth-rate Although The Probability

of a declining population is by now a well-worn topic, Sir William Beveridge, speaking at Oxford last Saturday, dealt with a new and impor- tant side of the problem when he......

Czechoslovakia's Germans It Is Well To Estimate At Its...

accurate value the outcry in the German Press about the election-meeting fracas at Teplitz-Schoenau in Bohemia on Sunday between the Sudetendeutsch supporters of Herr Henlein......