Lord Joicey Has Drawn Attention In The Times To A
significant return submitted to the Coal Comtnission by Mr. Dickinson, showing the vital importance of the coal export trade. In the second quarter of last year 28,000,000 tons......
Russia Is Still The Hapless Prey Of Civil War And
famine. The patriotic Russian forms in the east and south-east, the Estho- nians in the north-west, and the Allies in the Archangel region seem to have checked the Bolsheviks.......
A High Compliment Was Paid To Mr. Lloyd George On
Monday, when President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, and Signor Orlando addressed him a letter "earnestly begging" him to remain in Paris "until the chief „questions connected with the......
Sir Douglas Haig, Having Finished His Work On The Western
Front, was appointed last, week to command the forces in Great Britain. Sir William Robertson, on relinquishing the Home Command, took over the ommand of the Army of the Rhine.......
On The Other Hand, We Are Much Impressed By A
letter in Thuniday's Daily Chroniele from its old Berlin correspondent, Mr. B,enwiok, who has returned to his post. Mr. Renwick, who knows Germany well, declares that for the......
The Allied Commission On The Responsibility For The War...
last Saturday that it approved of " the propriety of instituting prosecutions founded upon the commencement of the war and the violations of Neutral States." Criminal......
Sir Eric Geddes, In Moving The Second Reading Of The
Ministry of Ways and Communications Bill on Monday, gave an elaborate and gravely worded review of what he described as the chaotic condition of transportation in this country.......
When General Seely, As War Minister Not Long Before The
war, spoke hopefully about the Army's infant Flying Corps, he was accused of misleading the House, inasmuch as of the hundred machines which the Corps possessed only a dozen......
The Unrest In Egypt Has Not Yet Subsided. '1 He
student riots. in Cairo have ceased, but disturbances have occurred in Alex. andria, Tantah, and other places in the Delta, the railway nem Tantah has been damaged, and the......
Mr. Vernon Hartahorn, Who, Unlike Some Of His Colleagues On
the Miners' Executive, showed himself a true patr:ot during the war, told the Conunission last Saturday that the miners were resolved to attain a higher standard of life. They......
The Enemy Delegates At Brussels On Thursday Week Agreed To
surrender the German merchant ships in German and Neutral ports to the Allies, who in return promised to supply Germany with 300,000 tons of cereals and 70,000 tons of fats......
Flying, Like Most Other Subjects, Comes Within The...
the Peace Conference. A Commission of the five chief Allied Powers is drafting an international air law. It is reported - that the Commission favours "the freedom of the air,"......