... . The Strike. A t the time of writing the miners' delegates have rejected the Government's final offer to the miners, and this strike, which is paralysing British industry and imperilling our future prosperity, seems likely to go on until ruin is reached. We agree with The Times in its reference to the rejection last week when it said that what is really wanted is the opinion of the miners ...

... . Go to the Tournament. TAespite the great difficulties and dislocations which have been caused by this miserable coal strike, the authorities responsible for the Naval and Military Tournament bravely decided to carry on as usual this year, and we are sure that they have decided wisely in doing so. Of the display it can only be said that it exceeds in brightness and interest any other that has ...

... . owpared with the present-day tendency of shortening the hours of labour to an extent which hampers our competition in the world's markets, the action of the judges of the King's Bench Division to deal with the unprecedented congestion of legal business is com mendable in the extreme. In order to clear off the present arrears of work they have decided to treat every Saturday as an ordinary ...

... PICTORIAL The Leipzig Farce. The Solicitor-General said in reply to one of the many questions put to him in the House last week upon the subject of this travesty of justice where the German war criminals are concerned, that it would be improper to make a statement at the present moment, but that his questioner might care to know that a sentence given in his-- the Solicitor-General's-- presence ...

... . To Washington T t is good news that after all Mr. Lloyd George hopes ■T to be able to get to Washington to the great Disarma ment Conference, because his strong personality and his unrivalled gift of oratory make him the most suitable spokesman for this country in a cause which overshadows in its scope even the very urgent domestic difficulties with which this country is faced at the present ...

... £>of A I f\ I J A Js ffl^ OUR OWN ELECTION ADDRESS r^ Im Basil NacdonalcL Uastinas. No doubt you have studied with close attention the election addresses of the Conservative, Liberal, and Labour leaders. You have probably come to the conclusion that Mr. Baldwin thinks he can get you a little more tin, Mr; Asquith wishes you to keep what tin you have, and Mr. Macdonald-- (we do wish these ...

... lfS%l I . L\ N Lawn-Tennis Notes and Sketches by H. F. Crowther-Smith. THE Gipsy encamp merit at Stamford Hill, though deluged by the downpour on Derby Day, was little perturbed by the consequent loss of play -time, and, when tents were struck on Saturday, everything that really mattered had been brought to a definite conclusion. Appropriately enough, the Gipsy Club's twenty- seventh annual ...

... _ cx> IMIosil of She Game By RALPH RUMBLE. THE whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 is very much like Mr. Baldwin in 1923. Both were tempted into a premature election, and both have suffered the consequences of their rash ness. When Mr. MacDonald went to the country he was assured by his party managers that everything was ready to the last gaiter-button, and ...

... COAifjg^vS in ii Paris- Also Ran A YEAR ago our Spring Fashions Number might have dealt with the progress promised in the adornment of woman-- lovely woman. But, to-day, all this is changed. The ladies have had to take a back seat and Paris lags behind Oxford as an arbiter of Fashion. Signs of the Times Lest you should think I exaggerate, let _j me say that in my morning paper I find a ...

... Tjh Passlini|| 83 IBefttl^ Da^Ss, aft ftlhe ILonadloim M i p p> dl 2° ana At the London Hippodrome. HOW producers of revues must long for that impossible thing, a concertina proscenium. For if the stage be a very large one, dramatic sketches seem like watching something happening at the wrong end of a telescope, and a singer, singing all alone on an empty stage rather like the only one ...

... A KIARROWIMGr STORY OF THE ETOM CROP By (Geoir^e Beflclheir. I don't 'old meself with this bobbin' and shinglin'. A woman's crown o' glory is 'er 'air, and I don t think we orter play tricks with it Geo^g'e BelcBeff. ...

... Worlhin^ton Worfhin^lpn revives enthusiasm ...