16 AUGUST 1919, page 3

The Police Have Seized Some Stooks Of Revolutionary...

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'......

The Revelations Of The Select Committee Have Incidentally...

Government at last to institute an official inquiry into part of the case of Miss Douglas-Pennant. Her main contention was that she had been summarily dismissed from her......

We Are Not Surprised To Hear That The Junior Officers

in the Navy do not like having their modest pay reduced, while all the senior officers and all the men have had their pay considerably increased. A correspondent illustrates......

The Select Committee On National Expenditure Devoted Its...

published in Monday's papers, to the Air Ministry. Sir John Hunter, Administrator of Works and Buildings, had informed the Committee that there had been gross extravagance in......

The Trade Returns Published Last Saturday Tell Their Own...

In the last seven months we imported goods to the value of nearly £870,000,000, while our exports and re-exports were valued at £467,000,000. The year before the war our imports......

Bank Rate,5 Per Cent., Changed From 5} Per Cent.april...

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Mr. Churchill, Following In The Debate On Tuesday,...

efforts at economy. He had, he said, instructed General Trenchard to frame a new scheme—presumably for next year— which would not cost more than £25,000,000. Mr. Churchill......

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Who Died On Monday At The Age

of eighty-three, was a master of the art of acquiring wealth, and aimed, not without some success, at mastering the more difficult art of spending his wealth wisely. As a boy of......

General Seely On Tuesday Took An Opportunity Of Replying To

the charge that the Air Ministry was extravagant. Since the Armistice, he said, the Departmental staff had been reduced in number from 806 to 402. Two hundred and ten out of 386......

We Are Much Interested To See In A Prospectus Of

a Company called the National Improved Housing Company, Ltd., a clause which states the intention of the directors to distribute a pro- portion of the profits made by the......