26 JUNE 1920, page 1

Extravagance Was Again The Subject Of Debate In The House

of Commons on Wednesday night when Mr. Churchill defended tho proposal to re-clothe the Army in red. Little unreserved support was forthcoming for the Government. Mr. Churchill......

News Of The Week.

T HE expenditure of the Government has become the greatest danger and by far the most important question of the day. The one word "economy" includes the whole of the Law and the......

Apparently The Last Thing The Government Under Mr. Lloyd...

leadership can do is to be practical about expenditure, although it is plain that if expenditure continues at its present level it will ruin the country and wreck the......

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Finally, Mr. Lloyd George Predicted That Mesopotamia...

self-supporting and prosperous community, and that our expenditure there would decrease. Yet the truth remains that we are already spending the enormous amount of thirty. five......

The Refusal Of The Shin Fein Railwaymen In Southern Ireland

to work on trains carrying troops or police or to handle muni- tions has at last Wen taken seriously. On Monday soma police- men entered a train at Cloughjordan, in Tipperary,......

We Shall Be Asked, No Doubt, What We Propose As

an alternative to Mr. Lloyd George's plans. Our answer is that we cannot leave the district which is roughly described as the Head of the Persian Gulf, but that Mesopotimia as a......

In That Case, Mr. Lloyd George Went On To Argue,

the cost of re-conquest might be two hundred million pounds. He could understand the policy of leaving the country altogether, but he could not understand Mr. Asquith's policy......

Already The Annual Expense Of Running Mesopotamia Is...

35 millions. Mr. Asquith challenged the whole policy of the Government in Mesopotamia, add suggested withdrawal and a concentration on Basra. He pointed out that Mesopotamia had......