28 MARCH 1931, page 16

The Prime Minister At By-elections.

In your News of the Week columns last week you stated "Mr. Baldwin's appearance at St. George's by-election was not so startling to the modem mind as it would have been to Mr.......

Points From Letters

CRUELTY ON THE FILMS. I should like to protest with all my heart against the inhuman cruelty in the film called Trader Horn now being shown at a West End theatre. It is......

Scholarships For Women.

We are informed that the Bryn Mawr and Affiliated Summer Schools for Women Workers in Industry are offering two scholarships in America for British Industrial Workers. For each......

Legless Birds

[To the Editor of the SPECTAT0R.1 SIR,—In relation to your correspondence of late with regard to "Legless Birds ", it may interest your readers to hear of a curlew we had in......

The Elgin Marbles

[To the.Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can you find room for a few lines of protest from one of an older and less enlightened generation against the proposals for returning the......

.humane Rabbit Catching

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I ask your readers, when buying rabbits in shops, to ask for netted ones ? This Would do much towards lessening the tortures of......

Pit Ponies

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Gardner asks me to withdraw the charge of exaggeration against her. I shall be pleased to do so if and when she withdraws the......

Reversed Bird Migration

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,-- z -In your issue of March 21st, Sir W. Beach Thomas writes : "It has not perhaps happened before within our memory that March weather,......