5 JULY 1919, page 16

The Pensions Scandal.

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG has won the respect and gratitude of the nation by his great services in the field, and by his personal honesty and unselfishness in very trying circumstances.......

Weekdays.

B ELIEF in lucky and unlucky days dies hard ; perhaps it will never entirely die. The older civilizations were full of it. The oldest was enslaved by it. The star-gazing priests......