* A * * The Seventeenth Zionist Congress In Opening
this Congress on Tuesday at Bile, Mr, Nahum Sokolow, who has succeeded Dr. Weizmann as Chairman, set out the ideals which he recommends for the movement in the future. We are......
Hours, Wages, And The Dole The Government Is Trying To
help solve the dispute con- cerning hours and wages in the coal mines. The owners still refuse to set up any national body with the power to discuss wages, and although some of......
• * * * Flying Round The World The Royal
Air Force display at Hendon last Saturday astonished a vast multitude by the skill and daring of the airmen flying new types of machines. The programme was executed without a......
Bank Bate 21 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.
on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103; en Wednesday week, 108*; a year ago, 103f; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 971; on Wednesday week,......
Mr. John Bailey In Mr. John Cann Bailey, Who Died
on Monday at the age of sixty-seven, we have lost a literary critic of rare distinction. A Norwich man, he was educated at Haileybury and New College, Oxford, and was called to......
The Highest Climb Members Of Mr. F. S. Smythe's British
Himalayan expedition reached the summit of Mount Kamet, in Garwhal, on June 21. The mountain is 25,447 feet high, and in conquering it the British climbers reached the highest......
Butter And Wool The Dispute Between Canada And New Zealand
on the subject of butter forms an unhappy contrast to the Empire Wool Conference in Melbourne. The latter is attempting to improve marketing arrangements and come to better......
Sir Hugh Bell We Regret To Record The Death On
Monday of that remarkable Victorian figure, Sir Hugh Bell. He was eighty-seven, but no one who marked his alert figure and his resonant voice, even in the last few weeks, would......