18 FEBRUARY 1928, page 3

It Is Only A Year And A Half Since We

published an article describing the struggles of an inventor, Mr. Baird, to convey by wireless agency communications to the eye as they are now conveyed every day to the ear.......

We Desire To Offer Our Welcome To The Mission From

Uruguay headed by Dr. de Herrera, a distinguished representative of ambassadorial rank. The mission has come to England nominally in order to return the visit paid to their......

. The Government Announced Last Week That The Committee On

Civil Research is ..to 'inquire into the operation and effects of the Stevenson scheme for restricting .the export of rubber from British sources of production. The inquiry will......

The Lord Chief Justice Summed Up A Libel Case This

week in a more vigorous and less coldly judicial manner than we should have expected. But very naturally his wrath was stirred by a case in which it appeared to him that an......

The Result Of The By-election At Lancaster, A Liberal Gain,

was declared on Friday, February 10th, as follows :— Mr. R. P. Tomlinson (Liberal) .. .. 14,689 Mr. H. Rainsbotham (Conservative) .. 12,860 The Rev. D. R. Davies (Labour) 6,101......

Exhibition. Truly That Heroic Woman Has Suffered Much...

deliberately brought death . upon herself for her country's sake. The terrible circumstances of . the moment may have been some excuse for the exploitation. of her sacrifice for......

The Home Secretary Has Done Well To Protest Against The

growing habit of public appeals for the remission of the death sentence. These are not based on reasonable objections to capital punishment, still less upon the merits of each......

During A Week In Which The Country And Its Coasts

have suffered great damage from storms following quickly upon.the disastrous Thames floods, we particularly regret a violent blow delivered by other natural forces. On Saturday......

Bank Rate, 41 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.,

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week 101-f} ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881; on Wednesday......