29 MAY 1926, Page 2

Critical affairs at home have caused attention to be deflected

from events abroad- which in normal times would have provoked profound interest and speculation. The insane suppression of the Press during the great strike starved us for information, and no doubt most people have found it difficult in the last few days to gather up the broken threads. In Morocco, in South Africa, in Egypt, in Poland there could be found the material for many articles.