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We Feel No Need For Making Any Effort To Meet

the charge of a rapid change of view. We are quite content to say that we had not when we last wrote the benefit of the Committee's opinion. It would be ridiculous to be ashamed......

Two By-election Results Have Been Declared As We Go To

press this week. In the purely mining constituency of Chester-le- Street., Durham, the local miners' nominee, Mr. Lawson, was returned, defeating Mr. Gilmour, a Scottish miners'......

We Have Dealt In Our Leading Columns With The Government's

amazing handling of the coal industry. Here we may try to guess whether there is any meaning in their wild and zigzag policy, and if so, what.. In Webster's play, Bosola • ,......

Sir Auckland Geddes Announced On Monday In The House Or

Commons that the price of coal to domestic consumers would be reduced next Monday by ten shillings a ton. We ought not, after the past two years' experience, to be surprised at......

The Prime Minister Was Guarded In His Reply To The

depu- tation from the Temperance Council of the Churches, which waited on him last week. The official report, issued on Wednes- day night, suggests that the Government mean to......

The Statement Issued By The National Savings Committee On...

is not only a document of great interest and Importance, but in our opinion alters the whole situation as regards the problem of Premium Bonds. Against the issue of this......

In His Statement On Monday Sir Auckland Geddes Admitted That

coal used in this country was sold at an average price below the average cost of production, and that this was " a very unsatisfactory and very dangerous position." He inferred,......

The Imports And Exports Regulation Bill, Introduced Into...

of Commons last week, proves to be a good deal more than a Bill against " dumping "—which is defined as the importation of goods the " foreign value " of which exceeds the......

So High An Opinion Do We Entertain, Not Only Of

the duties per- formed by the National Savings Committee, but of their knowledge of the habits of small investors—that now means the financial habits of the vast majority of the......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent.,changed From 5 Per Cent. Nov.

6, 1919.......