2 FEBRUARY 1929, page 1

This Is The Last Session Of The House Of Assembly

in South Africa, and it promises to be lively. With the defection of half its Labour supporters the Government would seem to have little chance of weathering the storm provoked......

Confusion Reigns ,in Afghanistan. . A Daily _telegraph...

speaks of a fourth would-be Amir, Ali Ahmad Jan, who is marching on Kabul from the north-east. This gentleman was formerly a hench- man of Amanullah, and it may be that he is......

The Delayed Debate In The .french Chamber On Alsace-...

has given a welcome air of reality to discussions which, to an outsider at least, have for.some time sounded very empty. M. Poincare intervened on Tuesday with a defence of the......

News Of The Week

r ro E Vicey, at the opening of the Budget SesSiOn of the Indian Legislative Assembly, on Monday made some important statements. The Governor of Kenya, he said, had offered, "......

General . Hertzog, Besides, Making Wild Charges Against...

of the South African' party, ,puts forward fantastic scheme for represeutation_ of the natives by white settlers in the Senate by means of. special con- stituencies. - While......

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