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RUSSIAN SITUATION

... yesterday stated that . Trotsky had signed a decree appointing Citizen Litvinoff-Provisional Plenipotentiary iu London of tho People's Commissariat for Foreign Affaire . All members of the Embassy and of the Military Mission , and generally all tie oScials ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 671 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Beath

... confidence will not be the people to be beaten. (term no victory fir victory's sake, but because we believe in it there will be the pledge of the world'. peace far generations, if not for centuries to come. Whilst the majority of the peoples of the word were slowly ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1918
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2126 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... Thomas , which gavo no promise of long life . It was remarkable in that , though a drama in four acts , it was played by two people only . In the first act Missi Frances Ivorwas a British mother saying goodbye to her soldier son , Ifr H . Brough Robertson ...

Published: Monday 07 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2304 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES ON SCOTTIS RECIPIENTS .,

... shipbuilding and engineering firm of Messrs D &W . Henderson , Moadowsidc , Pariick . Sinco tho outbreak of tho war ho has acted on'several Government Departmental Committees . Sir Robert Stevenson Horne , K . C ., has been honoured for his war sorviees ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3534 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PROGRAMME FOR 1918

... prreatly enlarped . The year 1917 would be memorable in tho world of agriculture as the year in which the Corn Production Act became law It was an earnest of the EocnVvill of the Government to their nnr . ient and honourable calling , and as such ho ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4343 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MPE-RlATf - riEARLIAMEIfT

... Back at a ouarter-past four o ' clock .- • j : , ' ;• ; KJEFORM BllxL . On the motion to go into Committee on the Representation of the People Bill , : Lord 'WEARDALE ( L . ) moved , that whereas 'it was ^ an established understanding between political parties ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 983 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AN RDFCATIONAI. rOMjnTTEE

... ad hoc ' authority ignored the principle of local representation. The elector would be a unit nf the county district and not the parish. Individual parishes in many cases would without anv representation all. the rural where the population was segregated ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1918
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1713 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY COURT-

... enclosing draft , rules for tho regulation of : elections in the combined Scottish Universities constitnency under tho Representation ' of the People Bill was remitted to a . committee , with powers to forward any comments or suggestions directly to ; the Secretary ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 609 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

part of municipal tradition tod practice. position vu held till the bolder went way all flesh, or hi* ..

... cent. He said householders should not permit any increase in rents, and suggested that a representation should be made the Government to extend the Rent Restriction Act for two years after the war. In seconding, Mr Caldwell (Painters) said that food queues ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1918
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS WEDNESDAY , January 16

... n with tlio Council of tlio People ' s Commissioners , which wa 3 the Government of Russia , said wo lintl not- recognised tho Administration at Petrogrttd as being rip jacto or dc jure the Government of the Russian people , ' but we carried on necessary ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3449 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REFORM BILL

... REFORM BILL CONSCIENTIOUS . OBJECTORS . The Representation of the People Bill was further considered in Committee . On Clause 8 , which disqualifies conscientious objectors , Lord BOCK-MASTER ( L . ) withdrew his amendment , the discussion of which was ...

Published: Friday 18 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 5 | Tags: none