7 AUGUST 1926, page 3

Lately The Foreign Office Came To An Agreement With The

Italian Government that they would' act together without any rivalry in two schemes—the one, the British dam of Lake Tsana and, the other, an Italian railway between Eritrea and......

King John Brought Upon Our Own Country The Same Horror

when " all administration of the sacraments . . . ceased over the length and breadth of the country : the church bells were silent, the dead lay unburied on the ground." What......

We Regret To Record The Deaths Of Three Distinguished Men

whose careers illustrate the comprehensiveness of the British Empire. Mr. Zangwill was as English as any Jew could be while keeping his pride of race. As a man of letters he......

We Are Sorry That Friction Has Arisen With Abyssinia, A

country with which we have been on friendly 'terms for sixty years and which from the days of Dr. Johnson has always made a romantic appeal as a 'remote' and isolated people......

There Has Been Great Activity Among The Disturbing...

and other, in China. The joint attack by the troops of Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu upon the Kuominchun army has not been a success since that army seems to have reached an......

The Royal Commission Appointed Two Years Ago To Inquire Into

the law and treatment of lunacy issued its report last week. It makes a great advance along the line of the theories that lunacy is generally a curable illness and not to be......

We Beg To Endorse Heartily The Appeal Made By The

Prime Minister, by representatives of Oxford and Eton, and by others for support in raising a memorial to Lord Curzon. As they say, it is due from the gratitude of his......

We Regret To Record Another Of Those Disastrous Hurri- Canes

which periodically burst upon the 14-itudes where lie our West Indian Colonies. Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, has been terribly damaged and lives were lost. At present......

While The Rest Of The Roman Catholic Church Is Happily

celebrating the seventh centenary of St. Francis of Assisi, Mexico is plunged into the agony of a violent religious struggle. It is with great regret and considerable curiosity......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 4 Per Cent.

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 100*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday bat ; on Wednesday......