... average rate plus 385.. until after September 30, 1920; permanent standard of wages for various grades giving, generally speaking, an increase of at least 100 per cent. on the average pre-war rates, with no reduction however much the cost of living may ...

... Lowther, brother of the Speaker, who is the Coalition Unionist candidate for Peinrith and Cockermouth at the next election, speaking at Keswick last night, said that though several forces were hacking at the Coalition Government he saw nothing stronger ...

... telegraph, the typewriter, quicker means of transport and communications, and a hundred other aids at his disposal ; he has, so to speak, hundreds of assistants at his elbow to relieve him of tedious detail and to so speed up his operations that he can work at ...

... much modified since be had been in the country. The Mufti replied, Yes. for the better. Lord Milner : Egypt is, generally speaking. very prosperous. The Mufti : Its progress is most striking tram the intellectual point of view. Lord Miner : Perhaps I observe ...

... Exchequer it, scheme for taxing motor .ellicies of all kinds on a fairer basis thanthepre-tut one, but what I am afraid al. and I speak %kith some knowledge of that is intended, is that commercial vehicles will get oft too lightly if he recommendation are adopted ...

... for new converse- knt points out that after a yea: of diplomatic battle the .• it hiCh inevitably contint:e some form - Speaking generall ~ our cotrespo is quite possible that the negotiations in the first conceptions with which we begat, and which seemed ...

... proposed new territorial organisation has so far not affected the decision to hod the meeting next ThurAay, when Mr. Churchill to speak. There is .t strong feeling' in the military pc'sstmnel concerned in the reorganisation scherrt that obligatory general service ...

... College of Surgettis yesterday the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Irelamd was inaugurated, as a body competent to speak on benalf of British surgery. The new association, of which Sir John Bland-Sutton, of the Middlesex Hospital, is the President ...

... article on Discovery and Education. A descriptive account of Spitsherzen appears over the name of Dr. Rudmose Brown, who speaks %%Rh special authority on the subject; and the experience of the war inspires Dr. Slater Price's Smoke Screens at Sea ...

... their own interests. Among tho Mon. is cert.iitily no such bellicose feeling it men themselves as existed before.ta I cannot speak for storm. centres like ales, bet i imagine that the railwayman Jon is fairly typical of the rest of the throughout the country ...

... Pacific. .‘nd at this moment it is proposed to repudiate the solemn promi.,es made by Mr. Lloyd George in January 1918, when. speaking not merely the mind of the Government, but of the nation and of the Empire, he guaranteed to leave the Sultan at Con. ...

... parent to warn the children as soon as they are of a suitable age. But parents often feel a kind of hesitation and shame in speaking about these matters. They a1i0.% their children to face the dangers of the %%odd without adequate warning. And it is the ...