... THE PREMIER’S CHRISTMAS. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Llojd George spent Christmas Day very quietly at Criccieth. It was the first time for the whole family to gather around the homo heartbeat Yuletide since 1914. There were no guests. Sir George Riddell ...

... CHRISTMAS IN PARIS Paris. Friday. The first peace Christmas was celebrated in Paris with enthusiasm. Churches and theatres wore crowded, and the great boulevards and principal arteries of the city were thronged all night, while the restaurants were literally ...

... A CHRISTMAS DIP. The members of the Birmingham Allthe-Year-Bound Swimming Club held their usual 50yds. handicap in the Edgbasbon Reservoir on Christmas morning. *■ her© fairly good attendance. The race, which was splendidly contested, was won by Mr. F ...

... SPLENDID RECORD OF FATHER CHRISTMAS. ...

... DISTRICT LEAGUE. HOME FAILURES IN CHRISTMAS DAY GAMES. The home clubs had all the worst of the argument in the Christmas Day games the Birmingham League. About 3,000 spectators saw West Bromwich Albion Reserves beat Birmingham Reserves at St. Andrew’s ...

... . X-.-i- Lord Mayor at the General Hospital on Christmas morning. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham devoted Christmas day to ...

... THE DISTRESS IN EUROPE. Birmingham Lord Mayor’s Fund. RECEIVING CENTRES. Peace Christmas has passed, and has been celebrated by most of in Great Britain in a manner true tradition. Five horrific years of war made many vacant seato at family reunions, ...

... BISHOP PEACE. NEED FOR -V GEEAT OF THE NATIONS. The Bishop London, preaching Christmas morning at Fulham Parish Chruch, took for his subject Peace Earth. It was at Christmas during the war, he said, that he received letter a Fulham hoy at the trout who ...

... ENTERTAINED. The Christmas festivities at Walsall were observed a three-days’ closing of shops, and although the early-morning breakfasts children, and tbe old folk dinners, have lieen discontinued, there was a good deal done in the way of Christmas hospitality ...

... PERSONAL. The King and Queen have sent special Christmas gift* the Fast London Hospital for Children. The Trince \iales has sent a special Christmas donation to r Barnardo Homes. Sir Eric Geddes spent Christmas at North Berwick, and Mr. Bonar Law in London ...

... and WYNDHAM. ERNIE KING GCTIB GORDON. HAYES »nd MACD EDWARDS TINA PAVNOTA. A HOME CHRISTMAS. People who have been lamenting these many years the decay of the home Christmas must have been satisfied with the domestic character of the present festival. It ...

... HAPPY HOMES. J for I nmates of Birmingham Institutions. The Christmas festival was fittingly observed at the various institutions Birmingham. At tlie Princess Alice Orphanage, Erdington, on Christmas morning eager fingers were early groping to find w hat the ...