31 JANUARY 1920, page 3

It Is Particularly Absurd To Complain Of Government "...

jug" on the raw wool. The Government, having entered into the risky speculation of buying vast quantities of wool, were bound to make sure that they did not lose money. Their......

It Is Said That The Government Ought To Have Adopted

last spring a scheme for the supply of a certain quantity of "standard clothing" at fixed prices. This clothing might have been made from the wool sold by the State to the trade......

Sir Frank Benson's Production Is For The Most Part...

but Mr. Masetield's incomplete conception of the leaser character. was necessarily reflected in the acting. The ghost who cries ir at the window in the first act, with his......

The Amalgamation Of The New York Herald With The Sun

by their new proprietor, Mr. Munsey, ends the independent career of a very famous newspaper. The Herald was founded in 1835 by James Gordon Bennett, then a poor journalist, and......

We Regret To Record The Death At The Age Of

eighty-two of Dr. Edmund Warre, formerly Head-Master and Provost of Eton. He was a great Etonian figure, and his influence and his memory will last for generations. He was......

The Times Of Wednesday Stated That The Government Have...

that the terms of enlistment in the Territorial Force shall include the obligation to serve oversee "in a moment of extreme national emergency, but not until the Reserves have......

Last Week Mr. John Masefield's Pompey The Great Was Revived

by Sir Frank Benson at the St. Martin's Theatre. The play ir an attempt to illustrate an historical character with as much realism as may be, and to reconstruct the events for......

Lot It Be Admitted That The Safeguards Are Now So

drawn that a Territorial soldier need be under no apprehension that he would be required to leave his civil occupation unless there wore a groat emergency. Nevertheless he would......

There Has Been A Great Outcry At The High Price

of clothes and at the large profits made by the woollen trade. The Report of a Board of Trade Committee, published on Tuesday, showed that the Government Kaki not fairly be......

The Wigan Town Council Has Expressed Approval Of A Labour

Committee's propoSel to .finenee its housing scheme by issuing paper money °tithe security of the rates. The idea is to borrow money without interest, and thus get cheap houses.......

Bank Rate,6 Per Cent.,ehanged From 5 Percent. Nov. 6, 1919.

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