3 AUGUST 1929, page 2

Great Britain And Russia The Soviet Ambassador In Paris, Mr.

Dovgalevsky, has come to London, and the conversations on procedure for re-establishing diplomatic contact between the two countries are fairly launched. In reply to the British......

The Miners' Decision On Thursday, July 25th, The Delegate...

of the Miners' Federation at Blackpool passed a resolution in favour of the immediate repeal of the Eight Hours Act and a return to a National Wages Agreement. Custom was......

Lancashire In Confusion The Most Serious Industrial...

has plunged Lancashire into confusion—despite the strenuous efforts of mediation made by Sir Horace Wilson on behalf of the Ministry of Labour. The lock-out is effective in......

The Whole House Was Deeply Impressed, Friend And Fee Alike.

Mr. Baldwin seemed to speak thus because he could not help doing it, though nobody had breathed a word about the possibility of war with Egypt, or about war as a remote reaction......

It Appears That Habit Is Still Very Strong Among The

opera- tive spinners and cardroom workers, who seek salvation in independent negotiations with their own firms, and even accept the principle of a reduction in wages, as long as......

The Free State And The Treaty In The Dispute Between

the Free State and Northern Ireland, over the fishing in Lough Foyle, the Free State relies upon a strange reading of the Treaty of 1921. The Treaty defines the Free State as "......

The Resulting Parliamentary " Crisis " In France Has Been

overcome by the simple expedient of a Briand Ministry—all the same Ministers as before, minus M. Poincare, whose Premiership without portfolio has devolved on the Foreign......

France And M. Poincar4 At A Special Meeting Of The

French Cabinet late on Friday, July 26th, it was announced that M. Poincare had resigned on account of his failing health. This time, apparently, the doctors are inexorable. We......