3 AUGUST 1918, page 3

The Times Of Wednesday Summarized The Report Of Mr. Justice

Rowlatt's Committee on sedition in India. The .Report, whioh-ds unanimous, shows the association of the Bengal seditionists with German plots, the abortive effort to ship arms......

At The Central Criminal Court On Monday, Sir Joseph Jonas,

steel manufacturer, a former Lord Mayor of Sheffield, was fined £2,000, and his clerk, C. A. Vernon, £1,000, with the costs of their prosecution, for the misdemeanour of......

The Select Committee On National Expenditure In Its Fifth...

whioh was published last Saturday, tells the strange a story of the efforts of the War Office, the Admiralty, and the Ministry of Munitions to obtain a British supply of......

Happily Mr. Montagu Made His Own Reservations. " India Was

at the moment not ready. Disaster would await any one who wished to give Home Rule to India to-day. . . . So far as he could discover, the whole of India was opposed to Home......

Baron Von Hussarek Succeeded Dr. Von Seidler As Premier Of

Austria last week, and on Saturday obtained a majority of 19 votes in the Lower House for his Provisional Budget. The new Premier made vague promises, of the Austrian official......

Lord Robert Cecil, Speaking On The Foreign Office Vote In

the House on Wednesday, accepted in principle the changes recom- mended by the Royal Commission. The officials of the Foreign Office and of the Diplomatic Service should, he......

The Judicial Committee Of The Privy Council On Monday Once

more proved its capacity to deal with the most complex problems of Empire by determining the long dispute between the Chartered Company and the Legislative Council of Southern......

In The House Of Commons On Thursday Week Sir George

Cave made a brief and guarded statement upon the Hague Agreement for the exchange and better treatment of prisoners of war. It provides for the repatriation of all combatant......

Speaking At Cambridge Last Saturday, Mr. Montagu Said...

of his Report on India had made attacks on the educated Indian people. He did not know what was to be gained by libelling the progressive part of the people of India. " Let us......

The Government On Friday Week Announced That If The Strikers

in the munition factories at Coventry, or those who were threatening to strike in other places, were absent from work on Monday, they would be called up for military service.......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 54 Per Cent.

April 5,1917.......