3 OCTOBER 1931, page 3

The Swallows When Noah Saved A Pair Of Swallows On

board the Ark he was, we are told, acting under orders and had the definite purpose of preserving the species. In saving some thousands of these and other birds out of the......

The Spanish Constitution The Spanish Cortes, After A...

sitting, last Saturday adopted a compromise between the federal and the centralized 'constitutions which - were submitted for its approval by the Catalans and Basques 'on the......

Sir Gregory Foster We Deeply Regret To Record The Death

of Sir Gregory Foster, formerly Provost of University College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Sir Gregory, who was sixty-five, devoted almost his whole life to......

• * * Lord Byng Lord Byng Of Vimy Retired

on Wednesday from the Commissionership of Police for the Metropolis after three years of strenuous and invaluable work. Despite a long spell of ill health, Lord Byng has......

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American Wages The United States Steel Corporation and two other large steel-making concerns, employing 300,000 persons, have reduced wages by ten per cent. from October 1st.......

Professor Wilaniowitz -m 311endorff Professor Ulrich Von...

in Berlin on September 25th at the age of 83, was unquestionably the leading Greek scholar of our time. He was the son of a Prussian squire in what was then the Prussian......

Bank Rate 6 Per Cent., Changed From 44 Per Cent,

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 941; on Wednesday week, 96; a year ago, 1042. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 81s.d. ; on Wednesday......

A New Series We Propose To Begin Next Week The

publication of a new Theological Series, " Problems of the Christian Conscience " ; in which it is hoped that light will be shed on some of the most disputed questions of......