29 JUNE 1934, page 2

A Hope For Cotton An Important Step Has Been Taken

in the spinning section of the Lancashire cotton industry, the General Committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners having so far endorsed the reorganization scheme......

M. Barthou's Balkan Tour The French Foreign Minister's...

Belgrade and Bucharest, following his visits to Poland and Czecho- Slovakia, have developed into a triumphal progress through the capitals of States which, if all goes according......

• The National Government Victory In The Weston-super-...

was alwayS expected. But that Mr. Orr- Ewing should have achieved it with a majority of 13,000 surprised even his supporters. Admittedly in 1931 the seat was held by Lord......

The Forty-hour Week At The I.l.o.

The forty-hour week for all nations, desirable as it appears in the abstract, is in the concrete full of difficul- ties which time may overcome ; but if it is ever to do so, one......

Poison Germs In War The Nineteenth Century For July Opens

Ha' pages to an article by Mr: Wickham Steed in which he quotes from certain documents that have come into his - possession emanating—he is convinced—from a secret deptuithent......

Fusion In South Africa The Success Of The Party Fusion

in South Africa under General Hertzog and General Smuts seems 113W well assured, the dissentient groups remaining on a small scale. That of the Dutch extremists under Dr. Malan......

By-election Succeeds By-election And Still Sir Oswald...

enter the battle. On paper Twickenham should have provided a first-class opportunity kir the first of the Fascist candidates. It is a lower-middle-class constituency, it has......