7 FEBRUARY 1936, page 2

Makalle And Ogaden The Nature Of The Italian Success In

Southern Abyssinia is becoming clearer. Ras Desta's men, half starved in the barren scrub between the Ganale Doria and the Dawa, with their commissariat service—such as it was—......

The Increase In Unemployment The Latest Statistics Of...

disquieting. Between December 16th, 1935, and January 26th, 1936, the number of unemployed rose by 291,157 to 2,159,722. Even though that total is less by 165,651 than the......

Pool Betting The Christian Social Council's Deputation...

impressed the dangers of football-pool betting on the Home Secretary had a case which deserves more immediate attention than Sir John Simon seems likely to give it. In 1934 it......

To Speed Up -the Law The Most Important Recommendation Of

Lord Peel's Commission on the " state of business in the King's Bench Division " is that a new post should be created at the Law Courts, whose holder, a " well-paid whole- time......

The Spindles Bill It Is The Cotton Spinners Themselves Who

have given the strongest support to the Cotton Spinning Industry Bill, which was read for a second time on Tuesday, and that. is its chief justification. Opposition has been......

M. Sarraut's Debut There Seems Now Only One Reason Why

M. Sarraut's Ministry should not last comfortably until the elections. On his first contact with the Chamber he received the support, unfamiliar lately to a French Prime......

The Murder At Davos The Assassination Of The German Nazi

agent Herr Gustloff at Davos by a young Yugoslav Jew has naturally aroused intense indignation in Germany, and reprisals against Jews in that country are to be feared. That......