ri MU; Prime Minister's grave statement in the House of I Commons on Tuesday was in accordance with expectations. It was never doubted that the meanin g of the Arcos raid was...

a cipher room, as it was known that stolen papers were Photographed before being sent -to Moscow. The photostatic room was hidden under g round. In it the police found a man...

be forced, they found a man known as Anton Miller burning documents. He resisted the police and during the strug g le a packet fell from his pocket containin g addresses of...

be sent from China proving that a multit u de of Chinese trade unionists had been massacred by the British at Nanking. We know the harvest of that request. In brief, Cheshann...

London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thing Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR I:8 registered as a Newspaper. The...

Madden to succeed Lord Beatty as First Sea Lord was the announcement on May 4th that the Harper Report would be published. This Report was compiled by Admiral Harper under the...

Liverpool moved his Liquor (Popular - Control) BR the revised form of the Oxford Bill. We must not follow the debate as the arguments haVe been made familial to our readers...

prefer the remission of debt which Mr. Baldwin offered to the acquisition of Northern territory and the certainty of civil war was masterly. Mr. Cosgrove has gradually restored...

hope of an agreement. On Thursday, May 19th, two alternative proposals were made by the employers. The first los an offer of an advance of wages in July of 2s. 6d. a 14 ' 61 to...

Battle of Jutland has anticipated the Harper Report which is, after all, to be published by the Admiralty. The immediate effect of the book, which the reviewers have some reason...

Election is fixed for June 9th. It is impossible to pass over this moment without writing a small tribute to the persistence, courage and skill with which Mr. Cosgrove has...

regard to the *claim of America for compensation for damage done to her shipping befOre • she entered the War has the .merit of being humorous, friendly and conclusive. When...

dedicated to the public in memory of William Willett, the proposer of summer time. It is said that Mr. Willett, who lived at Chislehurst, was riding early one morning near...

wonderful feat performed with such nonchalance as by Captain Charles Lindbergh, who started from Long Island on the morning of Friday, May 20th, and reached Paris in 331 hours....

on a gang of six blackmailers, the ring- leader being sentenced to penal servitude for life. The Lord Chief Justice said that it was difficult to understand why persons who were...

would provide a cheap and very wholesome ood supply for the great towns. The unfortunate fact however, that fish is not cheap anywhere. There s a sad failure • of organization...

the remarkable effects of an epidemic of fluenza. In the first quarter of the present year the umber of deaths in England and Wales exceeded the umber of births by 1,644. In the...

press, the Food Council will have before it Reports on the prices of meat, milk and fish. We hope that the Council will be able to do something to reduce the present price of...

Shipbuilding and Engineering Trades to demand an increase of 10s. a week on time rates with a proportionate addition to piece rates. This is the revival of a demand made in...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 ; on Wednesday week 100 &x.d.; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on Wednesday...

N O one careful for international proprieties could have asked for a more sober or more dignified statement on a critical difference between two Powers than that which was made...

T HE moment has arrived when we should try to clarify our views as to future British policy in the Far East. An adequate British force is now in China to safeguard British lives...

NV Mr. Churchill taxed credit betting and race- course betting it was universally understood that he was experimenting. Nobody supposed that the taxation would remain as it was....

I.—Its True Function in Modern Commerce I T is a curious fact that man usually tackles a science or interest first from that end which is farthest ironi his immediate concern...

A CROWDED House assembled on Tuesday to hear the Prime Minister make his statement upon the subject of the Arcos raid. Mr. Baldwin, who looked, and is, extremely ill, read from...

U. CHARLES CHAPLIN lately complained of a -I- cinema merchant who; without a by-your-leave, had prepared a moving picture of his early life. The matter, I believe, is to be...

the tiger in man die very hard ; but we are continually being shown that it is the child and the simpleton that die hardest of all. One more example of this kind was given us...

T HE Grillo, in whose honour a great festival takes place on Ascension Day in Florence, is a bigger fellow than the cricket of our hearths or the grasshopper of our fields who...

O N this high ground grow tallow wood and the saw- leaved eallicoma. Here spotted gums and turpen- tines rise—tower tall—where once the great leviathan took his pleasure. On...

[ " DAVID." BY D. H. LAWRENCE. AT THE R lit: ENT THEATRE.-" ASLEEP." BY CYRn. CA M PION. AT TUE DUKE OF YORK'S Tnn.vran.] WHAT is it that persuades a writer of such intense...

[SECOND ANNUAL DECORATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL ART EXHIBITION', CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER, S.W. 1.] Tim impression with which this very well-planned little Exhibition left me was one...

A LETTER FROM THE BAHAMAS. [To the Editor of the SpEarArou.] SIR, —Like Cornish watering-places some 3,000 miles away, the climate of the Bahamas is rendered equable and...

Have other observers noticed this year how very much out of tune the cuckoos are ? They are in great quantity and sing interminably, especially at night, or very, very early in...

It should be of direct interest to our rural producers as well as urban consumers that a special " Health and Empire Week " is to be celebrated at one, at any rate, of the big...

Some say that 1927 is more obviously the nadir than 1777 or thereabouts was the approach to the zenith of British agriculture. Thousands of farms are mortgaged to the hilt and...

The May-fly, or Green Drake, that excites the zeal of the more amateur fisherman, appeared last week on streams in the Home Counties ; but the rise was small and suddenly...

Any lover of birds who visits the London Zoo will find peculiar interest in a recent arrival from Mexico. The bird is quite new to me, and is called, with complete aptness, a...

150 YEARS QF FARMING. THE worse the plight of the farmer, the better the agricultural show—that is the feeling produced by visiting the first of the great shows of this...

One of the authentic pleasures of the season is to watch young birds after leaving the nest. Anyone who is at all dis- posed to the heresy that birds are of little service in a...

SIR,—In your issue of May 21st, Mr. Ellison reiterates his dogma for the economic salvation of this country, viz., " that we must work hard and have children," but, apart from...

Stn,--With reference to Mr. John H. Wainwright's continents on the Oxford Bill, i quite agree with his concluding words, " after all, personal liberty is the most precious...

A. J. Ellison's letter in your issue of May 21st, and being one of the parties chiefly concerned— that is, being a " working man "—I shall be grateful if you will permit me...

THE " OXFORD " BILL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Wainwright, surely takes a wrong position . when arguing against Local Option. This is...

not so straightforward as the Bishop of Liverpool suggests. It does not give persons the power to decide how the drink trade shall be run in their districts ; it gives that...

Stit,—The . " wonderful move in the right direction " as regarilq convictions for drunkenness, recorded by Mr, C. W. Simon. in your issue of May 14th, relating to the...

Sta,—The controversy on the pronunciation of Latin which had been renewed in your columns by the interesting article from the head4naster of Stowe, encourages me to submit a...

SIR,—Respecting your postscript to my letter in your issue of the 14th inst., in which you express your intention to support the New Zealand Control Board, to the detriment of...

[To the Editor of the . SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, though a foreigner, participate in the discussion on the pronunciation of Latin as far as it concerns the letter C ? The...

SIR,—The reformed pronunciation of Greek and Latin is to be preferred because it probably is nearer to that of the ancient Greeks and Romans than the older one. But as we do...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The letter of the Rev. Norton G. Lawson in your issue of May 21st is so perfectly courteous that it demands a reply. He states that Nonconformists decline...

a perverted sense of humour that I watched the levies at crack of dawn this morning in face of that delightfully provocative article by Mr. Peter Somerville, " Painless Early...

Sin,—I am compelled to read your interesting paper as a source from which to derive general knowledge for my exam. (I am a student of seventeen years of age). Some weeks ago I...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— -Will you allow me space in which. to acknowledge and answer the surprisingly large number of communications from Great Britain and the Dominions which...

Sta,---This spring a pair of great titmice has nested in the letter-box of my house, regardless of the fact that on the other side of the door a nesting-box had been provided...

have had quite a busy time in public lately justifying motor racing on the familiar ground that it provides the engineer with much useful technical data. But if I may say a word...

those who have read the " Country Life and Sport " notes in your issue of April 23rd, it, may be of interest to know that the feat of a Canadian hen, mentioned therein, was some...

The vendors of unbranded petrol, the so-called inde- pendent firms, are claiming that to them is due the credit for the recent welcome reductions in the price of motor spirit....

[To the. Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I have read with interest most of what has been written and spoken on the above-mentioned subject both in Scotland and in England, and,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No misquotation in my experience is so frequent as that of Pope's comparison of creed and conduct. We often find it put thus :- " For...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In 1666 John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, founded Bromley College in Kent for the reception of necessitous widows and daughters of the...

A Scots Version A wEE fond lambkin Mary had, Its fleece a snawdrift pure, An' ilka airt that Mary gaed There gaed the lamb demure, An' faithfu' to her liltin' step The Dame...

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q , llERE were a very large number of entries to our competition which closed last week asking for a list of the eight foremost English poets and another list of the four best...

THE Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best philosophy of life which readers can write on the back of a postcard. We shall attempt no definitions nor shall we ask our readers...

Tux demand for a story began when the cavemen grouped round their hard-won fires in the darkness, wakeful enough to feel the first faint ache that would become in historic time...

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men who have served in the ranks of the Battalion, from the Adjutant, Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield. It is wholly the right thing to produce these regimental histories for the sake...

HOW MUCH I SHOULD ASSURE FOR MANIFESTLY the amount of life assurance that each man should have depends partly upon his income, and partly upon the responsibilities that he has...

TO THE LAND OF THE EAGLE. By Paul Edmonds. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.)—The Montenegrins and Albanians are hospitable people, and as Mr. Edmonds travelled amongst them simply and not...

Mysterious Gold Movements A Lrrms . more than a month ago an improvement in the position at the Bank of England as regards the stock of gold resulted in the reduction in the...

In this respect Sir Otto Niemeyer has a unique experience which should prove of infinite value to the Bank of England and therefore to the country at large. His career at the...

The Six-Cylinder Bentley " Big " Beaky, as it is generally called, is a recent model built much on the lines of the popular four-cylinder car which has been on the market for...

Whatever other industry may feel the effect of bad times nothing seems able to check the great prosperity of the tobacco trade. The interim dividend of 15 per cent. just...

its dividend from 20s. to 21s. per share is abundantly justified by the details given in the full report. The total underwriting figures in all departments amounted for the year...

Having spoken in favourable terms of the New South Wales Conversion loan, I am glad to be able to report the success of the operation. It was a fairly large one, comprising an...

FROM THE TREASURY TO THE CITY. It is not. surprising that keen interest should have been taken by the City in the appointment of Sir Otto E. Niemeyer, Controller of Finance at...