28 AUGUST 1936, page 3

Flying-boat Accidents The Accident To The Imperial...

Scipio,' in the Mediterranean, in which two lives were lost and the lives of all the passengers and crew were imperilled, inevitably recalls the recently issued report on the......

Dr. Schacht In Paris ' • The Resourceful Dr. Schacht,

who finds means of improv- ing Germany's economic position even in the unlikeliest places, began a visit to Paris on Wednesday. Officially, he is merely returning the call paid......

Strike Action In South Wales On Monday 120,000 Miners In

South Wales handed in notices to cease work in fourteen days' time. Their decision was due to the threat of the Bedwas Colliery Company to dismiss 1,000 of its employees who......

• * * The Placing Of Arms Contracts The Announcement

that a new acro-engine factory is to be built at Coventry has aroused many doubts whether the Government is being wise or fair in the allotment of rearmament contracts: The new......

The Great American Drought President Roosevelt And His...

Mr. Alfred M. Landon, are meeting this week in Iowa. Such encounters between presidential candidates in the cam- paign are almost unheard of, but this year the great drought......

Folly On The Roads The Ministry Of Transport's Annual Report

on fatal road accidents this year analyses the causes of the 6,477 deaths which occurred in .1935. As our motoring correspondent points out on another page, the surprising and......