The police have seized some stooks of revolutionary pamphlets in
London and Glasgow. The samples published in the news- papers with official sanction illustrate the criminal folly of the conspirators. A " Programme of the Clyde Workers' Soviet Committee," for instance, proposed a " Red Terror " on the Russian plan, with the abolition of Parliament, the confiscation of private property, the "arming of the entire labour population as a Red Army," and the creation of a revolutionary Tribunal. It may be said that only madmen could put forward such schemes. But madmen with large sums of money from Lenin's treasury might do a great deal of mischief if they were not exposed.
The belated list of honours conferred in celebration of the King's birthday was published on Wednesday. Sir Edward Russell, the former editor of the Liverpool Poet, and Colonel Hall Walker, the Member for Widnes, have been raised to the Peerage. Sixteen baronetcies and twenty-four knighthoods were conferred. Among the new Knights we are glad to see Professor Boyd Dawkins, the venerable geologist, who was a pioneer in the study of primitive man in Britain.
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