12 JANUARY 1929, page 1

News Of The Week The King .has Made Steady, Though

Very Slow ; • • progress during the week. A hopeful sign may not unreasonably be found in the exact coincidence of the course of the disease with the Cloctors' forecast.......

We Fail To See Any Element Of Surprise In The

Soviet Government's proposal to Poland that the two countries Should at once by special agreement rule Out war without waiting for the Peace Pact to be ratified by all the......

We Have Written Elsewhere About The Jugoslav Dictator-...

may add a few facts here. One of the first acts of the new Administration; as the . Times - correspondent tells us, was to search the houses of Croat deputies at Zagreb. This......

The American Post Office Department Issued A Curious...

week, withdrawing from the Cunard liners all the mail except those letters which had been specially ' marked for particular ships. Afterwards the order Was cancelled. The......

There Have-been Strangevicissitudes In' The Negotiations...

the' Peace Pact and the Cruiser Bill in the American Senate..: At length the . friends of. the Peace Pact obtained precedence over the Cruiser Bill, and now there . seems to be......

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