to the Labour Party, who had got up an agitation ostensibly against war in defence of Poland and had had an interview with Mr. Lloyd George earlier in the day. He reminded them,...

to discuss the situation with Mr. Lloyd George. On Tuesday the Prime Minister informed the House of Commons of their conclusions. The Polish offensive, he said, had not been...

letters subdtitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return oantributions in case of rejection.

would not stop their advance into Poland. They were, however, prepared to sign an armistice when Polish delegates authorized to negotiate for peace reached the appointed place...

already made the situation critical enough. Mr. Lloyd George informed the House of Commons on Thursday week that the Bolsheviks had not replied to the Allied Note proposing a...

should declare a truce from midnight on Monday, on condition that neither side should make any military movements and that the Allies should abstain from sending troops or...

sole desire was to obtain peace for an independent Poland. They would not intervene if the Poles could make an agreement at Minsk with the Bolsheviks, nor if the Poles rejected...

• A S the speedy restoration of peace depends, above all, upon the cordial agreement of the Allies in a common policy, we regret to record, when we write on Thursday, that a...

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of the Trade Unions Congress met on .Monday and resolved that the conference "feels certain that war is being : engineered between the Allied Powers and Soviet Russia on the...

of Hillah on July 24th was roughly handled by the insurgent tribesmen. Mr. Churchill stated in the House on Thursday week that three companies of the 2nd Maneheaters sustained a...

Home Rule involved an army and a navy. Would Mr. Asquith give Ireland the power to set up these things ? Would he, again, concede to an Irish Dominion Parliament-control over...

had criticized the Bolsheviks, anddeclared that Poland was only reaping what she had sown. He deolined to believe that the Bolshevik army was anything but a national Russian...

could speak with authority and accept Dominion Home Rule on behalf of the Irish people ? As a matter of fact, the Sinn Fein members had distinctly stated that they would not...

Ireland was taken in the House of Commons on Thursday week. Mr. Asquith declared that of all the Coercion Bills be had seen applied to Ireland this was the worst. He recalled...

been conducting a violent anti-British campaign in America, was taken out of the liner ' Baltic ' and landed at Penzance on Monday by the destroyer Wivern.' The Sinn Fein...

All the Allies took part in the ceremony except Serbia, which objects to bearing a part of the Turkish Debt proportionate to the former Turkish territory, which she has...

the armistice terms proposed by the Bolsheviks. Poland was to demobilize her army within a month, retaining only 60,000 men under arms, delivering up her surplus munitions and...

contemptuous than is usual in the exchanges of opinion between Parliamentary leaders. We do not say that the Prime Minister was unjustified. " A more inadequate and futile...

the hypothesis was incredible, but he had to admit that, if the Poles were really seen to be struggling for their liberty, " Labour " would have- to " consider its position."...

announced this week. In the Woodbridge division of Suffolk, Sir A. Churchman, a Unionist, held the seat for the Coalition, defeating Mr. Harben, a new recruit to the Labour...

to comprehend the point at issue. Very likely, just because the principals in the transaction were brothers, they behaved with special scrupulousness, feeling that their...

on behalf of the unemployed ex-Service men which was made by Lord Haig in Tuesday's Times. Lord Haig stated that 153,893 ex-Service men were drawing unemployment donation on...

our comment on the case of Leaman v. The King in our issue of July 31st. We are assured that it was an " entire mistake " to say, as we did, that Mr. Leaman, having been...

is what happened—was grossly unfair to him. When Ministers become careless about the nature, or even about the appearance of their transactions, they open the gates to...

should not feel justified in resisting any wide measure of self-government for Ireland provided that the Sinn Feiners undertook to allow self-determination to the Protestant...

an appeal to the Churches, especially the Reformed Churches, to strive for reunion and common fellowship. The signatories of the appeal expressed the belief that the Anglican...

stages in the House of Lords on Monday. Lord Parmoor described the planing of oivilians under a military force as a most reactionary move. Lord MacDonnell followed on the same...

debate on the Restoration of Order Bill was continued. Sir Donald Maclean tried unsuccessfully to impose a time limit upon the operation of the Bill. Mr. T. P. O'Connor in his...

letter on behalf of the Leyland Motors Co., Ltd., with regard to the Report of the Select Committee on the disposal of the St. Omer dump and the ensuing debates on that subject...

say :— " Much mud has been slung and many base insinuations have been made because Lieutenant-Colonel Spurner, as adviser to the Disposal Board, , dealt with his brothers in...

Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 84i; Thursday week, 84i ; a year ago, 941.

THE ONLY WAY TO PEACE. W ORLD-WIDE Peace is by far the most crying need of us all. It is necessary for both East and West, for Great Britain, France and Italy, for all the...

declared his belief that there were " sinister influences " behind the railway strike. The Morning Post last week published three articles by the Duke of Northumberland in which...

F T is well that the Restoration of Order (Ireland) Bill 1 has been placed on the Statute-book this week. But the sole value of this measure lies in the application of it, and...

T H E time has long gone by when Proportional Repre- sentation could be dismissed as the fad of amiable theorists. Many of its old opponents must have come to see that it is a...

hours." This is the motto engraved upon the dial of many men's minds. So far as their work is concerned, they only enjoy and only remember the hours of high pressure ; for them...

H ISTORIC ecclesiastical architecture and the problems of its treatment have been brought into some prominence during the last few months. A Commission appointed to report to...

been sought after and captured in Southern waters. The capture of these valuable animals has in the past largely been carried on by American whalers operating in the open sea....

A PRESSING PROBLEM. [TO THE EDITOR, OP THE " SPECTATOR "] Sm, — I must leave to the political expert the task of deter- mining whether the Government has taken a wise course...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE ITALIANS IN DALMATIA. -...

SIR,—In your issue of July 24th, referring to the firing on the crowd in the Jallianwalla Bagh at Amritsar, you say : " As a matter of fact, it was the same mob, or a mob of...

Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Colonel Reid asks where I got my figures from. The "30,000 rebels at Amritsar " refers to the number of the insurgents on the days preceding the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I can quite understand Colonel Reid's difficulty about the Report of August, 1919, on which we were told in the House of Lords that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—You wrote truly enough a short time ago that the Govern- ment in Ireland had ceased to govern. It is also true—and this is perhaps...

(To THE EDITOR OFT= "Sirscreron."l SIR, — While not dissenting from your contention that ordinary land under the plough will yield more produce than the same land under grass,...

article on the above in your issue of August 7th I am in -entire agreement with the policy advocated and so forcibly and clearly expressed, but, "in proof of what ordinary farm...

to the Spectator and a firm believer in the Policy of the Plough. I am also a farmer, and keep careful farm accounts of my trading each year. May I there- fore suggest that the...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " - SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Quite by chance a few minutes ago I happened to read Mr. Sydney Brooks' letter in the Spectator of Tune 5th on the Plumage Bill. I...

Sni,—In your article under this heading in last week's issue you set out to show " what ordinary farm land will produce under the plough," and as evidence in support of your...

to say that the balance-sheet published on p. 165 of last - week's issue is incomplete in that no allowance is made for depreciated fertility of the ninety sores by one year's...

Six,—Mr. Jennings has evidently a very superficial under- standing of the controversy regarding the supply of " moulted " feathers of the Venezuelan egret. The point raised by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Recent reports of Bolshevik raids into Armenian territory in the Caucasus focus attention on an urgent matter, namely, the attitude...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.' '] SIR, I am sending you a copy of a prayer offered at the gather- ing of what is known as the Farmer Labour Party when they met in Chicago...

of August 7th Mr. Massingham claims to have received a report of a meeting of South African ostrich farmers and traders at Port Elizabeth which declared unani- mous and hearty...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The account in your note of the Campbell strike (Spectator, July 21st) is the beet hearing there has been for a long time. The best...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra, — You have favoured with publicity my suggestion of a Civil Advocate for the Services, based on the idea that discipline and...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—AS a regular reader of your paper, and knowing your desire for accuracy, I beg to point out the following in reference to the artiele...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In his remarks upon Miss Deanesly's book of the above title in your issue of June 12th your reviewer says that in the Middle Ages, in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR!"1 Sta,—In your issue of July 31st Mr. G. Boileau Reid, after lamenting the decay of Greek at Harrow, expresses the hope that Eton and...

" SPECTATOR."' Ste, —Reading " The Good Soldier " in Fuller's Holy and Pro- fane State, I happened on a passage which, omitting a few words, would, I take leave to think,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEcrnoa."] Sia,—The inauguration of the Lincoln statue at Westminster on July 28th was, by general consent, one of the most memorable days in the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The history of the above Division—the first Territorial Division to serve overseas—is nearly completed. A quantity of material has been received...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am extremely glad that my letter on this subject, which you were so kind as to publish, has drawn the attention of many . people...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] • enclose two " epigrams " based on the amusing lines you quoted on July 31st. -" Yes, water is the best of gifts," lipierov Air Cdiep....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' • have read the letter of " E. P. D." on above subject in your issue of July 31st. The use of bracken for the manufacture of paper is no...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In your kindness you have allowed me to appeal for years past for contributions towards the Necessitous Ladies' Holiday and General...

SIR STANLEY MAITDE.* Sin Cinemas CaLLWELL has written an admirable account of Sir Stanley Maude's life, for he has combined a study of personality with lucid military...

THE MOON. WHAT have you not seen Old White-face, looking down Since the heaven was hollowed out And winds were blown? You saw White Helen On the walls of Troy Town, You...

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THE most sensible thing that the German Republican Govern- ment have done since the Armistice was to publish last winter the documents, from the Foreign Office, showing how the...

often have wondered at the obscurity which veils the origins of our greatest industry, the Lancashire cotton-trade, and at the contradictory theories put forward in default of...

has lately seen him in Petrograd), is dying. The " present martyrdom of the Russian people" is unbearable to him. " He has done all that one man could do to preserve the...

was Chief of the Fourth Army Staff during the last seven months of the war, now gives us an ably written and wholly admirable history of the achieve- ments of that Army during...

first-class cricket have any idea how complex is the art of really good batting. The players themselves can rarely tell you how they produce their strokes ; their actions have...

a much wider field than is indicated by our title ; but as a nation is by far the most important of the groups whose social life is analysed in it, we have put forward its...

with this monu- mental work through Vol. II., which was published some few years ago, will accord a ready welcome to the third volume, which now makes its appearance. The...

MISER'S MONEY.• DARTMOOR is once- more the theme of Mr. Phillpotts' pen, but it is Dartmoor in a more genial aspect than in some of his earlier stories. The different veins...

THE MOON.* Ma. J. C. SQVIRE'S poem The Moon, which constitutes his new volume, has already appeared in the London Mercury, but the reader will gather something of its nature...

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(Notice in this column does nod necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Geographical Journal for August contains the first part of an important paper by Colonel Tilho on...

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volume of the " Little Guides " series gives a surprising amount of information in a small space about the antiquities of Lancashire. It is arranged in the form of a gazetteer,...

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third generation from the original Romantic re= The lectures which go to make up the present volume (Naturalism in English Poetry, J. M. Dent, 7s. 6d. net) were delivered in...

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