30 MAY 1931, page 2

On Friday, May 22nd, The Lower House Received The Land

Bill, and Dr. Addison said of it on the motion for adjournment that " they would not get a satisfactory policy which would be permanently successful unless it inspired public......

Lord Rutherford's Speech Last Week Evoked A Letter To The

Times of the 22nd from Sir Harry McGowan, giving the view of an international industrialist. He wrote that it was now possible to undertake this-hydrogenation of coal on any......

China The Constitution Unanimously Passed By The Peoples'...

broke up at Nanking last week is well termed provisional. If the Convention itself cannot be said to have been deliberately " packed," its results, outwardly so flattering to......

Parliament The Whitsuntide Recess Relieved Parliament...

Friday, May 22nd, until the Members return to Westminster on the eve of Derby - Day. On Thursday, the 21st, the Upper House passed the Agri- cultural Land (Utilization) Bill as......

, India There Is Rather Less Hope, But As Yet

no certainty, ' that the Federal Structure Committee will meet in , London as early as June 29th, the date suggested by the Secretary of State in a dispatch which electrified......

British Industry The Ministry Of Labour Issued Last Week Its

report for 1980, which it describes as an " outstandingly bad year "—that is no worse news (though -worse Englisl) that we have learnt to expect The Ministry tries to offer some......

Mineral Oil Has Been Prominent At Home And Abroad. The

disposal of the Iraq supplies has been settled for the time, greatly to the advantage of that country's revenues, which will benefit long before those who have spent £4,000,000......

More Troops Have Gone To Burma, Where The , Rebels In

the jungle continue to emulate gangsters in everything save in making irresponsible bloodshed profitable. Much practical spade-work is being done in India, if not behind the......

Egypt To • Those Who Remember The Struggles Between The

Egyptian Liberal Party and the Wafd there must be something cynical about their alliance against the predent Government. They gambled before the election on the tactical......