23 OCTOBER 1926, page 2

The Imperial Conference Opened On Tuesday In The Cabinet...

at 10 Downing Street. Mr. Baldwin declared that the problem before the Conference was to reconcile the principle of self-government with a general Imperial policy in foreign......

The Excitement In Germany Over The Disposal Of The Property

of. the House of Hohenzollern seems to have died down since the Prussian Diet, on Friday,October 15th, passed the Settlement Bill by a large majority. Sonic of the Democrats and......

Meanwhile The Powers .remain Inactive In Face Of The New

problem created by the increased taxes levied on Hong Kong by the Cantonese Government. The Cantonese example is being followed elsewhere. The explanation of the complacency of......

* * * * It Can Hardly Have Been A

mere coincidence that when addressing that admirable body, the International. Chamber of Commerce, in Paris, on Wednesday Sir Alan Anderson, formerly Deputy-Governor of the Bank......

Shanghai Has Narrowly Escaped A Dangerous Rising. The...

says that the Cantonese in despair of defeating Sun Chuan-fang in Kiangtsi, organized . a revolutionary plot . in Shanghai. A. monster meeting of students, called together......

Mr. Coates And Mr. Monroe Expressed Respectively The...

New Zealand and Newfoundland feel with the Empire as it is. General Hcrtzog definitely raised the question of Dominion status. He assured the Conference that the." British......

The Executive Committee Of The Miners' Federation...

October 15th, what was perhaps the worst of its long series of foolish acts. It formed itself into what it calls a " Central Council of War " and decided (though all this sounds......

* * * In Norway On Monday A Referendum Was

taken on Prohibition. It was known that dislike of the Prohibition Act had greatly increased, but nobody foresaw that there would be, as there was, a decisive anti-Pro-......

In Our Judgment Consultation Ought To Be Not Only Possible

but obligatory in all important matters. We must have no repetition of the methods followed at Locarno, where the unity of the Empire was threatened by the impossibility of......