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The Negotiations Thus Far Broke Down. There Is, However, To

be another stage of negotiations. An arbitrator will •be appointed 'by the Government - of India, and the- Non-Brahmins. are naturally extremely anxious that an arbitrator whose......

Sir Eric Geddes, Speaking At Cambridge On Tuesday, Said That

the new permanent wages-bill of the railways would be £110,000,000 a year, as compared with £47,000,000 before the war. He was not speaking of the present wages-bill, which is......

What Happened At Thurles When The Policemen " Ran Amok

" was that the indignation and resentment of a certain number of men in the Force which has been marked down for regular extermination by assassins at last boiled over. It is......

We Trust That The Scheme Will Come To Fruition. It

would be a splendid thing if there were a prosperous factory run in the conviction that restriction of output does not pay. The ex- officers would no doubt enter upon their work......

Sinn Fein And Its Allies Continue Their Campaign Of Murder

in Ireland. On Wednesday evening Mr. Redmond, Deputy- Assistant-Commissioner of the Dublin Police, was shot and killed in Harcourt Street, one of the main thoroughfares of the......

We Are Greatly Interested In An Announcement Which...

the Morning Past of Wednesday to the effect that something like a " middle-class factory" is to be sot going by the Ex-Officers' National Union. The Union is the outcome of a......

The Paisley Liberal Association On Wednesday Unanimously...

as its candidate in the by-election occa- sioned by the death of Sir John McCallum. The Association had voted by a narrow majority for Mr. Asquith in preference to a Coalition......

The Comment On These Affairs By The Labour Party Deputation

who are visiting Ireland is enough to make one despair. Mr. Adamson, who leads the Labe& Party in the House of Commons, is one of the deputation, and he stated in an interview......

Proportional Representation Was Applied In The Irish...

week. It is admitted by most people to have worked well. Very few votes were spoiled, and the counting occasioned no difficulty. The minorities obtained some representation,......

Mr. Chamberlain, Addressing The National Savings Assembly...

said that their advocacy of thrift had con- tinued to yield good results, and that the War Savings Certifi- cates still had a ready sale. For those small investors who had......

It Is Fair To Add That " P.r." Has Not

ensured an absolutely accurate representation of the minorities in proportion to their estimated strength. The Belfast Telegraph points out that in Dublin, where the Unionists......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent.,changed From 0 Per Cent.. Nov.

6, 1919.......