various Western villages. At Ballymote, for instance, a sergeant was shot dead in a crowded street ; the people looked on and helped the assassins to escape. It is reported that...

policemen and soldiers on Sunday sad Monday last, principally in Cork, Kerry, and the Western counties. At Melee, for example, a police patrol was ambushed ; two of the men, who...

THE recent statement by SirHamar Greenwood to the effect that the situation was improving in Ireland, and that the power of tho assassins would be broken before long, has been...

issued by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland after a meeting at Maynooth. Although the statement fills nearly two and a-half columns in small typo of an ordinary newspaper,...

: " But in the end the consistency of Faith is sure to prevail. It will hasten the day of freedom and peace if we resolutely walk as the children of the Light ; for the fruit of...

ot murder and self-murder. If our readers feel that we have almost turned this issue of the Spectator into a murder number, our strong feelings on the subject must be our...

a tremendously strong feeling about the incomparable Wickedness of murder. Sympathy with the murderer is a lack of sympathy with the unprotected, the weak, and the innocent. We...

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letters submitted to him, but when statnped and addressed env:elopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

Saturday last to succeed his late brother, King Alexander, on the Greek throne. His father, he said, and his eldest brother had never renounced their rights. Prince Paul...

declined to contribute further to the maintenance of the wholly inefficient Russian Cossack troops at Teheran. The late Premier, Mushir ed Dowlels had taken British subsidies...

at Bloemfontein last week, denounced the mischievous atteurp . 0 of General Hertzog and the Nationalists to revive the racial antagonism between the British and the Dutch...

Only 648,549 men voted ; 338,045 favoured the acceptance of the terms and 346,504—mainly from Lancashire and South Wales— were opposed to them. The delegates of the Miners'...

the coal-owners, and the Miners' Federation pro- vided for a temporary advance in wages of two shillings a day as soon as the miners resumed work. From January 3rd next, this...

with the Ukrainians under the wayward General Potlura, have now concentrated their forces against General Wrangel in Southern Russia. Under pressure from superior numbers,...

of Commons on Thursday week, Sir Robert Home explained that the Government had sought to obtain increased output for any Increase in wages, and also to devise an automatic...

regret and surprise" at Lord Curzon's warning that any Bolshevik submarines found in the Baltic or the Black Sea would be attacked at sight. They went so far as to deny that...

session at Brussels on Thursday, October 28th, invited Poland and Lithu- ania to agree to the holding of a plebiscite in the disputed territory east of the provincial Polish...

United States on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority. The details of the voting are not known as we write on Thursday, but it is believed that the Republicans have carried all...

Mr. George Nicholson, till lately a member of the Com- munist Party of Great Britain, which letter we take to be typical of the desirable state of feeling that found expression...

enormous increase in the rates, went in large numbers to the municipal polls on Monday and administered a salutary check to the spendthrifts. The Labour l'arty, which had made...

House of Commons was completed on Thursday, October 28th, and Friday, October 29th. The Government opposed an amendment, moved by Colonel Guinness, to entrust the two Irish...

Temper- ance Act of 1913, was made on Tuesday and showed that the Scottish people are hostile to Prohibition and by no moans favourable to a reduction of a fourth in the number...

a resolution condemning the Sinn Fein outrages in Ireland, and declaring that the remedy lay not in reprisals, but in the grant of Home Rule, with fiscal autonomy, reserving the...

Percy Cox, the High Commissioner for Mesopotamia, considered the insur- rection to be virtually ended. Sir Percy Cox had a committee of former Arab deputies at work, framing an...

said that if the House desired it, all the available information about the Battle of Jutland would be published. We hope that the facts will be published soon, because an...

Gandhi in India is patently absurd, but it is none the less productive of mischief among the ignorant masses to whom the agitator appeals. A Hindu advising his countrymen to...

Apr. 15. 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 82i; Thursday week, b2}; a year ago, 92i.

POLITICS AND MURDER. T ORD HUGH CECIL'S letter in the Times of Friday, October 29, is as welcome as it is timely. He has said the right thing in the right way, and at the right...

L ABOUR— that is to say, Labour as represented by extreme men—has signally failed to win the great results which it expected at the Municipal Elections. To the moderate man who...

T HE evil tolerance of what we are old-fashioned enough to call and to believe to be the sin of murder among the official Liberal Home Rulers may be ex- plained in part by the...

S ENATOR HARDING has been elected the new American President by a majority which may or may not have been a "record," but which was, at all events, overwhelming. The word "...

T HERE is always something stirring about the eve of is great day. As we look back at our childhood we heem to remember the " eves " more distinctly than the "clays," and that...

CINEMA. rill-1E captious are completely out of it at the cinema. That 1_ is the place to find the simple virtues. Faith, Hope, and Charity are the mainstays of the motion...

AFTER THE STRIKE. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLT071."3 SER, - A fortnight ago I expressed in these columns the view of the City that the strike would shortly be settled on...

[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 BELOVED MASTER. (To THE...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."1 Sza,—I did not see Mr. Bothamley's letter, which "N. H. criticizes in your issue of October 30th, but his views aPPea r to be not only more...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " EPECTATOE."] Sza,—Would you allow inc to demur to your view that the object of the late Lord Mayor of Cork, in condemning himself to a dreadful death by...

[To vas Emon or THE " Srsersroa."1 SIR,—" An Irish Catholic" quotes the teaching of his Church as regards perjury. That teaching is very correct; the point is how far the Church...

" E. H. B." asks for an answer, because it is a characteristic example of the general language of many persons who have to do with finance, but have not thought out the first...

(To THE EOITOR Or THE SPEOTLTOR..1 SIR,—To begin with the strike. While it lasted there was no holiday air about the miners as there was in 1912. They all looked rather...

(To THE EIHTOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") send herewith cheque for half-year's subscription to the Spectator. I do not send subscription for a whole year, because I fear that if...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—S0 much of your article on the Civil Servant is an expres- sion of opinion that I shall not attempt to deal with it as a whole, but...

"SPECTATOR."] Sta.—That large section of the Austrian Tyrol which has been allotted by the Treaty of St. Germain to Italy, while it is lacking for the necessary material to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A few more comments on bureaucracy and salaries. One must concur that the real Civil Service is generally to be com- mended, but the...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—The fact that the Plumage Bill is once again practical politics, awing to the opening of the autumn session of Parliament, will, hope,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Sir Frederick Maurice writes that he has completed the first " two-storey " cottage of Pied de Terre ever built in Eng- land. In 1858...

Suz,—On November llth, 1314, occurred the memorable deka) of the Prussian Guard in the First Battle of Ypres. which closed to tho Germans the gate to Calaie. Lord French and the...

[To THE EDITOR Cr THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE,—Mny I try to enlist the sympathy and support of your readers in a matinee, which will be given on Friday, Novem- ber rith, at the New...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") am engaged in writing a life of my brother-in-law, the late William De Morgan, and I should be very grateful for the loan of any...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sle,—May I call tho attention of your readers to a very serious state of affairs? British toymakers are teaching our sons to look upon civil...

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1.11/, SPANISH EXHIBITION AT BURLINGTON HOUSE.--GO.YA TRIUMPHANS. As a rule painters should be criticized by those who know how to paint, or at any rate by virtuosos who have...

some years the Spectator has advocated State ownership of the Liquor Trade. We have done this not because we believe in Nationalization in general but because we regard the...

TUB late Dr. Butler divided his long life between Harrow and Trinity. He was Head-master of Harrow from 1860 to 1885, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1886 to his...

MR. J. H. Thomas has written a book to remove the anxieties of the capitalists, the middle classes and the "working man who has always voted Tory "—or Liberal. He speaks for...

book of child psychology, The Daunt of Mind, will welcome the present book, which carries on Miss Drummond's study of a child up to the age of five years and which further...

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