27 FEBRUARY 1948, page 3

Service Estimates

The Service estimates, published this week, show considerable re- ductions in expenditure ; £98,000,000 for the Army, £41,000,000 for the RAY. and £43,000,000 for the Navy. In......

Coal's New Danger

Before the fuel crisis of a year ago the danger of insufficient coal production was obscured by ignorance and the mental confusion of Mr. Shinwell. Since then it has been......

- Yemenite Mystery

There is no country in the world, not even Tibet, which is so remotefrom the rest of the world as Yemen, and it is still impossible to say for certain what has really been going......

At Westminster

I HAVE referred before in this column to the tendency of the week-end's events to dwarf and dominate - the scheduled busi- ness of the week. Last week-end provided a sad and......