27 JUNE 1914, page 19

Tuesday's Times Publishes A Very Interesting Letter From...

Bell, the well-known ironmaster, the subject being Mr. J. J. Hill's recent speech at Washington. Very wisely, as we think, Sir Hugh Bell dismisses as unproven the allegation......

On Saturday Last At Gunnersbury Park Sir John French...

the Middlesex Division of the National Reserve, about eighteen hundred men taking part in the march-past- a very fine achievement, upon which we very warmly con- gratulate the......

All Who Care For The Welfare Of The National Reserve

will be delighted with Sir John French's admirable speech. He touches the problem in exactly the right spirit. As a matter of fact, nothing has done more to help the nation to a......

Recently, However, There Has Been Some Pause In This...

The workmen have themselves, he holds, rendered nugatory "our endeavours to meet their demands for higher wages." Loss of time he gives as a universal complaint, and points out......

The Birthday Honours, Announced On Monday, Proved In The...

of a humdrum order. An earldom has been granted to Lord Kitchener—his third step in the peerage—and the Master of the Rolls (Sir H. Cozens-Hardy), Sir Edgar Vincent, General......

Lord Emmett, The Parliamentary Under-secretary For The...

Tuesday at a dinner at the Imperial Institute given by the Government to the delegates and representatives of the International Congress of Tropical Agriculture. In the course......

Dealing With Taxation, The Chancellor Of The Exchequer...

to tax wealth was not to atinek wealth. To levy fair contributions on wealth for the necessities of the State was to strengthen all fair wealth, and the Budgets of 1909 and 1914......

Sir Hugh Bell Ends His Letter As Follows 1—•

"Apparently with a light heart, Parliament passes a Minimum Wage Act, or Pony Inspection Act, or what not, quite regardless of the economic effects of such enactment, failing to......

This Amazing Passage Led Up To A Peroration In Which

Mr. Lloyd George spoke of the "many subtle, far-reaching ways" in which Providence redressed the seeming partiality with which it dispensed its favours, and appealed to all......

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