3 JANUARY 1920, page 10

The Withdrawal Of British Troops From Syria,.leaving The...

the coast and the Hedjaz Arabs At Damascus and Aleppo, has led to. some difference of opinion.as to the boundary between the French and Arab spheres of influence. A French......

In Spite Of That Consideration, There Is A Good Deal

else that we read with regret in the evidence. According to the latest reports, curiously ingenious punishments were invented. A public scaffold was raised by order of the......

In . Southern Russia General Denikin Holds Little More...

the coast districts of the Black• Sea. No doubtwhat policy is to be adopted by .the Allies towards Russia .will again be discussed by Mr. Lloyd George in Paris. We hear -less......

All Doubt As To The Extent Of Turkey's Complicity In

the German war-plans has been removed by the publieation in Berlin of the text of the secret Turco-German Treaty signed at Constantinople on August 2nd, 1914. Turkey agreed to......

M. Klotz, The French Minister Of Finance, Told The Chamber

on Monday that ,new and heavy taxes must be imposed, to the extent of six or seven thousand million francs. The total deficit for the current year was twenty-five thousand......

Sir,john Hewett's Report On Mesopotamia Has Been...

out to inquire into the schemes for irrigation and for developing agriculture ; to inquire whether the expenditure charged against Army funds was confined to services necessary......

The Russian Constitutional Forces Have Suffered Very...

Admiral Koltchak's force, making a terrible winter retreat through Siberia, has experienced something -like a disaster. One can hardly imagine the conditions under which this......

The Allies Last Week Informed Germany That She Must Sign

the Protocol relating to the, Scapa Flow episode. The Allies were, they said, prepared to reduce the demand for 400,000 tons of floating docks, dredgers, and tugs if it could be......

He, Points Out That The Net Revenue Receipts In Mesopotamia

were £130,000 'in 1915-1916, £270,000 in 1916-1917, and £100,000 in 1917-1918. As the cost of running Mesopotamia was of course far higher- than that, these , figures. must......

M. Clemenceau Told The French Chamber Last Week That He

had discussed the Turkish question with Mr. Lloyd George, and that the bases for an agreement had been fixed. -Mr; Lloyd George had said to him : " Our two countries must keep......

Signor Nitti, The Italian-premier, And His Foreign...

spoke in the Italian-Senate on Monday .concern- ing the Adriatic question. They took exception to: M. Clemen- ceau's recent reference to the matter. They claimed Dalmatia under......