5 DECEMBER 1931, page 3

The League And Manchuria

The League Council is still in session over Manchuria. If the general situation is not appreciably better it is not appreciably worse. And in one respect, at any rate—the......

The Price Of Milk The .hard-pressed Dairy Farmers Have Found

a measure of relief in the decision of the Joint Milk Committee of the National Farmers' Union to 'raise the price paid by the distributor for milk by fourpence a gallon for......

The Traffic In Drugs The Great Drug Trial At Basle,

a city frequently notorious in connexion With the illicit traffic, demonstrates the success of the international co-operation in drug traffic suppression initiated by the League......

In The Service Of Humanity Major-general Sir David Bruce,...

died last week at the age of seventy-six, will always be remembered for his discovery of the cause and nature of three widespread diseases that worked havoc among men and......

Bank Rate 6 Per Cent., Changed From 41 Per Cent.

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 95 ; on Wednesday week, 981 ; a year ago, 102 ff. . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 821 ; on......

The " Guardian" Our Old Contemporary, The Guardian, Is, We

learn, to reduce its price to twopence with this week's issue. The Guardian was founded in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, when the Oxford Movement was still......

The Canadian Census Canada Has Now Over Ten Million People.

The precise total yielded by the Census just completed is 10,853,778, showing a gain of 17.82 per cent. in ten years. Of the total increase of 1,565,295 nearly a third is......

Ancient Manuscripts Of The Bible . Many Others Besides...

of biblical texts and ancient MSS. were thrilled a few days ago by the news of the discovery of 190 new leaves of Greek biblical papyri, fragments of the Old and New Testaments,......