25 AUGUST 1923, page 2

The American Government Are Considerably Worried By...

Cuba and the Philippines. Last autumn Cuba raised a loan in America on condition, among other things, that she should make her Budget balance and abolish lotteries. She has not......

A Correspondent Of The Manchester Guardian, Writing From...

has described how Senator Johnson (the most prominent • figure in the Republican Party), since his return from Europe, has denounced the idea of America joining the League of......

It Was Agreed Among The Allies At Spa That The

pay- ments made by Germany should be divided in the follow- ing manner: 52 per cent. for France, 22 per cent. for Great Britain, and the rest for Belgium and the other Allies.......

Even If This Arrangement Were Admissible—and We Believe...

substantially rejected by the British Government on previous occasions—how would the money be collected from Germany ? M. Poincare will not even hear of an impartial......

Speaking At Edgbaston Last Saturday, Mr. Austen...

he found little appreciation on either the British or the French side of the difficulties of the European situation, and, in his opinion, the British Note was "couched in......

In The First Annex M. Poincare Replies Paragraph By...

to the British Note of August 11th. The general effect of it is to give specific instances in support of the arguments already advanced. The manner is often acid and severe,......

Although The World Court May Be Said To Be An

American idea in origin, Mr. Johnson attacks it as pointedly as he attacks the League. "It is a dreadful thing to tell our .people that the International Court will stop war. It......

The Registrar-general Has Issued His Statistics For The...

of the present year. The infant mortality rate (66 per thousand) is the lowest recorded for the time of year, while the birth-rate and death-rate are both falling. Though these......

The Second Annex Underlines The Previous Argument That...

of the French debt depends entirely upon what can be recovered from Germany. "If no suggestion," remarks M. Poincare, "was made when the loans were incurred that their......