his speech by saying that the demand for 2e. a day had boon given undue importance. Yet he defended the minis for refusing to refer this " trifling incident " to a tribunal,...

T HE miners' strike, long threatened, has now begun, and is doing as much harm to the community as its promoters anticipated. Thousands of workmen in the steel trades have been...

recess, Sir Robert Home made a statement regarding the coal strike. The miners had, he said, already received an increase of wages more than sufficient to meet the increase ill...

strike, from last Monday, for an advance in wages of 2s. a day, silently abandoning the claim for a reduction of the price by 148. 2d. a ton which was part of the " indivisible...

nation to resist the attack of the miners who, having refused arbitration or higher wages in return for higher output, were attempting to gain their ends by force. All citizens...

real leader of the extremists who are in temporary control of its councils, stated on Saturday that the miners had " spared no effort to explore every avenue that might have led...

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Owing to the Government having taken over our old premises, we have removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Cfarden, W.C. 2. where all communications should be addressed.

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do hie beet to return contributions in case of reection.

ascribing every murder to the police. It is well known that the revolutionaries are always -quarrelling among themselves. Even in America the Sinn Feiners are split into two...

the Treaty of St. Germain, to determine whether the district should be assigned to Auetria or to the Southern Slays, yielded a majority for Austria. Twenty-two thousand people...

the summer heat is past and the army of occupation has been reinforced, General Haldane has quickly freed the isolated poets on the Euphrates. Samawa was relieved on Thursday...

reprisals against the murder-gangs and their accom- plices in. Ireland. It would be well if Mr. Asquith, as a lawyer, were to examine the -evidence on which he founds his...

an armoured car and wounded the driver ; one of the assailants was shot dead. The same -dity another -gang fired on a party of 'troops and killed an officer ; one of the gang,...

Federation weld not -guarantee- a larger- output. That could only •come if increased reward had some reference to inereseied output. Mr. Brace's suggestion that the Is. a day...

confidence " by giving the -miners what they asked for. Delay would be dangerous. Three weeks ago, before the miners agreed to take a fresh ballot, the railwaymen's delegates...

effect, as the Roles have evacuated Minsk, which. is in White .Russia and -to the -east of the new •Polish frontier. 'The 'Russian volunteer forces which. were cooperating with...

Secretary in the House on Wednesday—which places the incident in a very different light. This letter, dated Se? tember 26th last from " Tipperary No. - 3 Brigade," was addressei...

accused of conniving at irregular " reprisals "—as if Skin Fein propagandists were careful of the truth. Mr. Asquith admitted that the troops and police, when they were hit,...

he told the House of Commons on Tuesday. The Cabinet had decided that there was abundant employment for ex-Service men in the building trades, which had 65,000 fewer skilled men...

that Sinn Feiners disguised as soldiers had been raiding houses in Dublin. One party on October 2nd entered a house and out off a woman's hair. There can be little doubt that...

oharaeteristio pronouncement, filling a column and a-half of small type in the Irish papers. It is a violent denunciation of " atrocities " and the " reign of frightfulness "...

has naturally tended to produce unemployment, organized a procession of unemployed men from the East End to Whitehall on Monday, and sent the Labour Mayors, headed by Mr....

for an inquiry into reprisals in Ireland. He suggested that the Government had provoked the Sinn Feiners to shoot policemen in the back by the " military terrorism " instituted...

the Royal Irish Constabulary against the cruel and lying charges , brought against them. He said that they were denounced because they were succeeding in their task of...

cent. Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 841; a year ago, 95k.

INDUSTRIAL CIVIL WAR ? A S we write, there seems to be no possibility of avoiding a continuance of the coal strike which began last Monday—a strike which is very likely to be...

THE three features of the Irish problem which most require reflection at the present moment are : (1) Reprisals. (2) The insincerity and factitious inconse- quence of the...

.1rT is well to know that the British and French Govern. ments are trying to restore peace between Poland and Lithuania and to adjust the dispute about Vilna. France has old...

y OU cannot successfully stop a wrongdoer unless you understand what is his cause of action and how his mind' works. Never' forget that the Revolutionary, the Terrorist, is a...

S UMMER time has now only two days to run, and then we must set the clock back. During the last few years we have shown a tendency to revert to the manners of our forefathers in...

A MONGST the exhibitions of Applied Arts running in London at the moment is the Exhibition of Household Things at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, which has been arranged by the...

THE CITY AND THE STRIKE. tTo sax EDITOR or TEE " sracraroa."] Sri,—The City has taken the materialization of the long- threatened coal strike with a good deal of philosophy....

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs ar e often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] MANUAL WORKERS AND TILE COST...

[To rue EDITOR or Tat " SPECTATOR.") Snt,—It is interesting to see that politicians in England are now turning their attention to matters which people who have lived in Ireland...

• [To zaz Enron or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your Jewish correspondents may find food for reflection in the following extracts:— " I sometimes think that, when I retire from my...

Sts,—By the time this letter reaches you we shall be almost, if not altogether, at the end of our electoral campaign in the United States. In the interest of that good...

LTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.—A. correspondent in your issue of October 2nd seems in- dined to give credence to Mr. E. D. Morel's charges aguinst the French native...

of October 16th there is a letter signed "One of the Bureaucrats." He says the Civil Servant is very hardly hit, Ac., Ac.; a pre-war income of £600 is now apparently £976; but...

you to know that a certain County , Council was recently faced with a demand front its employees for the some large increase of salaries that had been given to Civil servants...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the article entitled " Bureaucracy and Salaries " that appeared in your issue of October 9th, and to the...

Sitt,—If the figures given by "One of the Bureaucrats" in your last week's issue correctly represent the amounts paid to Civil servants, it describes a state of affairs which...

" SPECTATOR."] Ste,—I have just received the gratifying intimation that the ex-Servicemen of Yeadon, near Leeds, have decided to devote the bonus of 5s. a head granted to them...

[To ewe Enema or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—The following piece of news contained in a recent number of Fede e Vita, the organ of the Italian Students' Christian Movement, throws a...

NOUS NIRONS PLUS AU BOIS. BETTER stay at home Now the evening's come. A little breeze blows chill Westward, across the hill . The pale young moon is shy And hidden. Dear...

Toe Emroa or sea " SpErraxos."] Swi, — You will, I am cure, be glad to know that through your kind insertion of Mr. Coles's letter in your issue of October 9th I have already...

[To THE EDITOR OF nos "SPECTATOR."' Sta,—I have been reading the review of Opal W hiteley's Diary in your issue of October 16th. The rhythm and sound of the sentences in the...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to bein agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

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MEN AND WOMEN.* ON some September morning we may awake to find the lawn white with mushrooms. On examination some of them prove to be puff-balls. So is it in the world of...

DAYS ONLY). IT was the rudest shock ! I am not an extreme Compton Mackenvieist, but I had read and esteemed Carnival. My companion had not. So I told her the story in the...

" THE GREAT LOVER," BY LEO DITRICHb'TEIN AND FREDERICK AND FANNY HATTON, AT THE SHAFTESBURY. THE Great Lover was a baritone of international reputation, who played Don Giovanni...

Die. COWLEY has written a highly interesting little book on the Hittites, in which he sums up cautiously what is known about that ancient people, and attempts to decipher the...

Loan FREDERIC Iltraturox's second volume of reminiscences is as good as the first. He has seen much of the world, he writes well, and he has a kindly humour. No one could take...

will give great pleasure to lovers of good literature, and especially to those who have made a study of Rousseau's works. Mr. Babbitt is a most admirable definer. We may point...

said Metternich, "all Europe sneezes." A pleasanter way of putting the same idea is the well-known remark that the function of France is to act as the interpreter of new ideas...

in its historiographer. It is not every unit is the Army that can command the pen of so accomplished a man of letters and so able a chronicler of things done "to the southward...

A WAR NOVEL.* Ix the early part of his book Mr. Mason gives us a pleasant reminder of the world as it used to be and as it is no longer. His characters make love, go yachting...

Is. 6d. not.) — A story of East Africa, telling of a hunt for a million tusks of ivory. There are many exciting episodes in the book, which gives a vivid account of the doings...

6d. net.)--Gives an account of a young girl of abundant vitality named Patuff a. It seems likely from the last chapter that this book is merely the first instalment of a le : T...

TWO VOLUMES OF VERSE. * Spring in New Hampshire' is extrinsically as well as intrinsic- ally interesting. It is, as the portrait frontispiece and Mr. Richards' preface tell us,...

[Notice in Mir column don not ft. - warily prelude subsegurn1 perinea THE QUARTERLIES: In the Edinburgh _Review Sir Valentine Chirol writes on "The End of the Ottoman Empire,"...

volume of The Chronicle of Muntaner, now first translated into English from the Catalan by Lady Goodenough, with a good historical introduction. Muntaner was born in Catalonia...

Mr. Clement Rogers calls Question Time in Hyde Park.. Mr. Rogers is Professor of Pastoral Theology at King's College, University of London, and anyone who has listened to the...

By Richert G. Moulton. (Macmillan. 12s. 'nota—Professor Moulton has induced many people to read the Bible, by the simple expedient of printing it as if it were a modem book. We...

8d.)—Here are poems that in exterior and choice of subject--London, Sabo, cafés and roses—seem to indicate the influence of Arthur Symons, but the likeness does net go deeper....

in the last year of the war made a month's tour in Morocco under the care of the French administration. Sho saw much more than the ordinary traveller would see in a month,...

Blackwood for the Scottish Text Society.)—This is a careful reprint, with four facsimiles, of the quarto MS: collection of sixteenth-century Scottish verse preserved in the...

net.)—The hiStorion of St. James's Square has written a pleasant and discursive book about Piccadilly, with Berkeley Square and the Haymarket, tracing the successive owners of...

(Macmillan. 16s. net.)—Dr. Bosworth's elaborate study of the oilfields of Kansas, Oklahoma and Northern Texas is important from a commercial as well as from a scientific stand-...

interesting sign of the times that the Council of the Congregational Union should have set a committee to compile a liturgy, which is now issued for optional use. The committee...