... AMERICA AND THE- BELLIGERENTS According to a telegram which has reached an authoritative quarter here from Washington (says the ‘* Birmingham Post’” ILondon correspondent), President Wilson is making arrangements to dispatch to Furope a mission to inquire ...

... AMERICA’S ¢ RACKETEERS.” Writing in the April “ Wide World ” magazine on the subject of the organised criminal syndicates that have given the American police so much trouble, a writer deals with the fiendish activities of ruffians known as ‘‘racketeers ...

... IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Ig. Thé er gllvfs AUTOy means ironwork d it is aving at t, vege-1 at one ning the king-time his saves ings you. World ” ically. S AND MPANY. S DEPT. ] i, ily IS. s 10 1t \ sHIN Mr. James Riley’s Experiences. i *,;;:': 3 :1 ] 6 ...

... JVE IN AMERICA. Mrs. Alec Tweedie, 1n * America, as I Saw It (Hutchinson), pays American women a compliment. She says: The woman of America knows how to put on her clothes, and has achieved the highest point of mneatness combined with practicability in ...

... LETTERS FROM AMERICA. Of interest because of its reflex of opinion in Canada is a letter received by Mr. Sumner. of Black Abbey-street, Accrington, from his brother Richard, of Ontario, in which he says: “I see in the paper that business is very bad with ...

... ENGLISH PLAYS IN AMERICA. It is worthy of note that this year marks the greatest invasion of America by English plays and players ever recorded. Nearly 500 English actors and actresses—including stars like Sir Charles Wyndham, Miss Mary Moore, Miss Ellen ...

... Eort trade save in the raw material. America ceeps the world’s cotton mills running. It is of interest to add the details of America’s exports last year of cotton and cotton goods to the United Kingdom :— AMERICA’S EXPORTS OF RAW AND MANUFACTURED COTTON ...

... AMERICA’S OLDEST MAN. Said to have lived over 130 years, John Shell is the grand old man of America. The National Geographic Society at Washington has bheen asked to investigate the claim that Mr. Shell is the oldest person in the civilised world. Henry ...

... SEND-OFF TO AMERICA. On Wednesday evening there was an interesting gathering at the Accrington Mecchanies' Institution when about 40 members ‘assembled at a send-off supper to Mr, Joseph T. Grimshaw on his return to America on the Cunard ship Carinthia ...

... WHAT AMERICA IS DOING. But it is to the United Stafes that we must look for encouragement in any new development in huaman progress. It Inust be admitted that the American continent adapts itself far more widely te commereial air progress than an island ...

... GERMANS LEAVING FOR AMERICA Among the passengers on the Holland- American liner Noordam arriving tn New York was Mrs. Pearson, of St. Louis, who has lived for the past eight years in Germany with her daughter. Mrs. Pearsen padid that food prices had risen ...

... AMERICA’S “ CULT OF COWARDICE.” In a little book, ** Why America Should Join the Allies,” which has just been published (C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, price sixpence), ex- President, Roosevelt, in Mis useful forceful style, indicts the wilton Admiristration ...