4 JANUARY 1930, page 7

But Mr. Henderson, Of Course, Never Contemplated The...

of the Treaties. China, as a member of the League, necessarily subscribes to international law under which . Treaties can be ended only by giving the prescribed notice or by......

The Government Are To Be Warmly Congratulated On Their...

of the British Delegation for the International Labour Office Conference on wages, hours, and working conditions in the coal industry, which opens at Geneva next Monday. The......

Before The Hague Conference No Pains Have Been Spared To

make the second and final Hague Conference fireproof. The German delegation, appointed at a Cabinet meeting last Saturday, is impressive. It contains the heads of the four......

The Honours List The New Year's Honours List, Contrary To

expectation, has not appreciably added to the list of Labour Peers. Six new Peerages are created and of these only two go to members of the Labour Party—Mr. Arthur Ponsonby and......

A Cinema Disaster On Tuesday There Occurred One Of The

most terrible panics ever known in this country. In a cinema theatre in Paisley a film caught fire in the operator's room and the smoke was blown into the hall. In the ensuing......

Bank Bate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 5/ Per Cent.

on December 12th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Tuesday 100*; on Tuesday week, 100; a year ago, 102k; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Tuesday 851; on Tuesday week, 851......

Mr. Snowden And Safeguarding On Monday, December 23rd,...

made his statement in the House of Commons with regard to the Safeguarding Duties, and, as was expected, he delivered sentence of death. Taking his stand on constitutional......

The .german Referendum The Referendum On December 22nd...

"enslavement of the German people" was the fiasco that it was expected to be. Only about six million people were prevailed upon to record a vote. This result has provoked wry......

The Coal Industry It Is Admitted, Not Only In The

Labour Party, that the fireworks "and the voting in Parliament on the Coal Bill set up a smoke screen which has obscured the country's opinion of that Bill. Mr. Graham has lost......