10 MAY 1919, page 3

Lord Durham Should Have Gone On To Give Mr. Smillie

a little elementary information as to the principles of ownership as regards all property. He should have said : Ownership in law is a difficult thing to define exactly, but,......

The Prime Minister Last Week Accepted In Principle The...

proposals made by the Joint Committee of the National Industrial Conference for a standard working day and a minimum rate of wages in every trade. He said in his letter, which......

At The Royal Academy Banquet Last Saturday, The First Since

May, 1914, precedent was followed—the precedent which pre- serves eminent British statesmen from the danger of being tempted to discuss the Arts, possibly with more goodwill......

The Joint Committee To Inquire Into The Government Motor...

and repair works at Cippenham, near Slough, sat for the first time on Friday week. Sir A. R. C. Atkins, late Director of Supplies and Transport at the War Office, said that he......

Lord Durham Appeared Before The Coal Commission On...

give evidence about his mining royalties and to be cross-questioned by Mr. Smillie about the old legal theory of land tenure. We cannot help wishing that the witness had shown......

At The Request Of Several Of Our Readers We Have

decided to reprint in a pamphlet the four articles entitled "Church and State : a Vindication of English Erastianiem," by "J. St. L. S." which have appeared in the last four......

Lord Fisher Was In A Facetiously Communicative Mood When The

American Luncheon Club entertained Mr...Josephus Daniels, Secretary to the United States Navy, on Monday ; and he made ono or two points of autobiographical interest. He......

The Military Situation In Northern Russia Has Improved....

Archangel the 'Bolsheviks last week attacked the Allied positions and were repulsed with great loss. Our gunboats are now able to move up the Drina, which is free of ice, and to......

As A Contrast To Herr Noske's Success In Restoring Order

at Munich, we must note that a correspondent, to whose letter the Times gave prominence on Tuesday, predicts renewed trouble at Berlin. Lenin, he says, has twenty-five thousand......

Bank Rate,5 Per Cent.,changed From 5} Per Centapri15,1 917.

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