The Cruise Of 35,000 Miles In Six And A Half
months by seaplane, which the Marchese de Pinedo has just accomplished, is perhaps the most remarkable in the history of flying. The airman was accompanied by only one mechanic,......
Last Week The Home Secretary Received Deputations...
against greater liberties than the present licensing laws allow for the consumption of intoxicants in Clubs. Those who on Friday, November 6th, urged on behalf of temperance......
Apart From The Immediate Problem Of Finding A Certain Amount
of money by December, M. PainleN4 has on -his bands the much larger task of providing a sinking fund for the repayment of loans. He proposes a poll tax of twenty francs upon......
M. Painleve Suggests Taxes Which Are Hardly Different From A
capital levy, such as a tax of one and a half times the net annual income from house property or land ; a tax of fifteen per cent. Of the annual income derived from in- vestment......
On Monday The Petit Pari,sien Published A Report Which Was
plainly inspired by General Sarrail before he left Syria, and will probably be the basis of the account that he is to render to the Chamber in Committee on November. 20th. It......
The Project, Of Which Mr. A. J. Cook Is Now
the promin- mit advocate, for an alliance of the principal Trade Unions, was discussed at a conference of the Executive last week. The delegates of the National Union of......
M. De Jouvenel, The Owner And Editor Of The Malin
who is known to British audiences as an eloquent speaker and advocate of the League of Nations, has been appointed High Commissioner in Syria in succession to General Sarrail,......
Sir Edwin Lutyens Was Asked By The London County Council
to make a report upon the possibility of widening Waterloo Bridge, and, if he could, to make designs for carrying overhanging footways on corbels. His report was published in......
• Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 41 Per
cent. on October 1st, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001: on Thursday week 99x.d. ; a year ago 101x.d., Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on......
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