5 APRIL 1924, page 3

Death Has Taken A Heavy Toll Lately Of Our Most

dis- tinguished musicians, and we much regret to record the death of Sir Charles Stanford, following within a few days on the deaths of Sir Walter Parratt and Sir Frederick......

An Interesting Debate Took Place In The House Of Commons

on Tuesday, when Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, introduced the " Treaty of Peace (Turkey) Bill." The Lausanne Treaty contained a clause which......

It Is Difficult To Understand Why Anyone Should Object To

such a policy, but Sir Samuel Hoare and Mr. Fisher seemed to do so. Really, of course, it is a procedure to which we have been tending for some time past, and it will be all to......

In Tuesday's Times Sir Reginald Blomfield Wrote A Letter...

the present plan of widening Waterloo Bridge as necessary and as by no means " vandalistic," since the present appearance would be, in the main, preserved. He states......

Meanwhile The Disputants Only Make Passing References To...

bridge which is proposed, and we take it is practically decided upon, at St. Paul's, although many of the best opinions consider it useless in that position. It is alleged, we......

Some American Men Of Science Have Apparently Decided To Fire

a rocket at the moon. The rocket will contain a group of charges, which will be fired auto- matically in succession at regular intervals so that the rocket will continually......

The New York Correspondent Of The Times Stated, In Tuesday's

paper, that the American Chemical Society had confirmed the importance of Dr. Walter Eddy's claim to have isolated vitamins. According to the Chemical Society's statement, the......

Could Not The Government, Which Has Had Such Con- Siderable

success with its Committees of Inquiry, set up a new one who would regard the problem of London bridges from the point of view of the community as a whole, both as national......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

July 5, 1928 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102ir ; Thursday week, 101} ; a year ago, 102*.......