26 JULY 1919, page 3

Many Of The Engine-drivers On The North-eastern Railway...

week, causing great inconvenience and loss to the Industrial districts which the railway serves. The pretext for this strike was the suspension of ten drivers who had failed to......

Lord Newton Gained A Handsome Verdict In His Libel Action

against the Daily Mail on Friday week. Sir John Simon, for the defence, though he ingeniously tried to make the jury follow false scents, could not offer any serious......

The New Scale Of Pay So Long Awaited By The

officers of the Navy was published on Friday week. The men's pay was sub- stantially increased some months ago, and the officers are to be paid on the new scale from the same......

The Jury Evidently Took The View That Lord Newton's Real

offence in the eyes of the Daily Mail was by no means that he had failed in his labours for the prisoners but that he had reproved the Daily Mail. Other men in public life, Mr.......

There Is Some Mystery About The Speech Which Mr. Churchill

made at a recent dinner, advocating the formation of a per- manent Centre Party. On the one hand we have been told— and Mr. Chun:thin has said this more or less himself—that the......

The Times Said That "no Explanation Was Given [of This

postponement], but it was obvious that some higher authority had stepped in with an absolute veto." Those who cared to guess who the higher authority might .be received a......

Delegates Of The "triple Alliance" Of Miners, Railwaymen,...

workers, meeting privately in London on Wed- nesday, decided to ask the members of their Unions whether they would take "industrial action " to " enforce " certain political......

Again, In The Times Of Wednesday Dr. Leonard Hill Says

:- " It is estimated that with the present use of raw Goal 90 to 95 per cent. of the thermal energy is wasted,. By carbonisation, use of gas and poke, and saving ot by-products......

The Inclination Of Mr. Lloyd George Against...

been sufficiently marked, we take it, to make the Daily Mail feel that it must have heard wrong when it put its ear to the ground some time ago and rose up and encouraged the......

The Victory Loan Was Successful. Mr. Chamberlain...

week that the new subscriptions for Funding Loan or Victory Bonds amounted to E539,000,000. This represents about £450,000,000 in cash, to which must be added £9,600,000 from......

The Return Of The Government Candidate, Mr. Matthews, In The

East Swansea by-election shows how very far the Labour Party is from representing the working classes. East Swansea Is a typical industrial constituency. The Socialists are......

Bank Rate,5 Per Cent.,changed From 5i Per Cent.april 5,1917.

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