Sir G. Younger Did Not Appeal For A Remission Of
the tax, but invited Mr. Austen Chamberlain to undertake that 40 per cent, should be the maximum rate next year in order that traders should have some security and be able to......
The Excess Profits Duty From The Present Rate Of 60
to 40 per cent., though even if this amendment were passed he was doubtful if he and his associates could accept the continuance of the duty at all. As reoefitly as April, 1918,......
We May Best Sum Up Our Own Position M. Regard'
to the Excess Profits Duty by saying that though we think the tax injurious in peace, though necessary in war, and hold that its extinction by rapid and -large reductions is......
We Regret To Record The Death Of The Empress. Eugenie,
widow of Napoleon III. She died in Spain, her native centrttry, and her death cuts a very real link with the past. Born 'at Granada in 1826, she was a daughter of the Count of......
We All Know The Sequel—the Defeat And Capture Of The
Emperor at Sedan, and the escape of tho Empress to England In Sir John Burgoyne's yacht. "I ceased to live in 1870" was a saying attributed to her in later days. Nevertheless,......
We Regret To Record The Death Of Lord Fisher, Which
occurred last Saturday in London. It was in 1902 that Lord Fisher filled the public mind with- his schemes for naval reform, and became one of the most prominent figures of the......
Bank Rate, 7 Per Cent., Changed From, 6 Per Cent.
Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 861; Thursday week, 85t; a year ago, 941.......
Certainly The War Proved That Lord Fisher's Obsession Had...
the numbers of our smaller craft, destroyers and submarines, to run dangerously low, and during the war there had to be feverish construction to make good the defect. No one......
On Wednesday Week Mr. Kipling Made A Remarkable Speech At
Edinburgh University, when the. degree of LL.D. was con- ferred upon him. He dealt with the University's great tradition, in prose that the anthologist of the future ma5 deem......
Some Of His Methods, Let Us Say, Then, Were Hardly
English in conception, and the system of secret reports on officers in the Navy led to a good deal of heart-searching, and to some extent undermined the confidence of brother......
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