25 AUGUST 1923, page 3

. * As In The Case Of Vegetables And Fruit,

upon which the Departmental Committee recently reported, a great deal could be done by the producers themselves if only they would co-operate and organize their own machinery.......

Soon Afterwards, Colonel Henry, Who Had Succeeded...

French War Office, was accused of having forged one of the letters used against Dreyfus. He was rather reluctantly arrested, but he committed suicide in prison. At last the......

In 1891 Esterhazy Accused His Brother Officer, Captain...

tile French artillery of having handed over a bordereau containing military secrets to Schwarzkoppen, the German military attaché in Paris. The bordereau was found in......

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......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011}; Thursday week, 101i ; a year ago, 100k.......

The Village Of Harpenden In Hertfordshire Has Made The...

discovery that a certain M. Jean de Voilement who died and was buried at Harpenden three months ago was really Major Esterhazy. Ester- hazy may or may not have been a German spy......

The Report Of The Departmental Committee Which Has Been...

into the prices of meat was sum- marized in the papers of Wednesday. It is a noticeable fact that the ratio between retail prices and wholesale prices is now much higher than it......