... 19 per cent, less than for the 1933-36 average. 1937 and 1938 corresponding periods respectively. Demand by non- English-speaking peoples was, usual, trifling, and only amounted to £10,662 during the 1939 eight months. LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS It was anticipated ...

... yesterday. General Lord Gort has published extracts .from a letter received from the Prime Minister in which Mr. Chamberlain speaks of his recen* visit -o the British Expeditionary Force, and says:— I was particularly Impressed the great progress made in ...

... was the same m spirit. Expressing his appreciation of the action of the Missions to Seamen in providing that fine club, and speaking in complimentary terms of the very special services rendered by Mr. E. R. Stephens and Rev. J. E. C. Lawton M.A., the Lord ...

... R.A. Major M'Lean, R.M., who with Mr. John M. Mark, R.M., heard the case, told Doherty that he had had an opportunity of speaking but had not used it. One of group of four women called out, long, Gerry,” as Doherty went out under police escort. ...

... Press had not only been extinguished but its machinery had been appropriated and distorted into an Instrument of tyranny. Speaking of the part of journalists in wartime, he said: ” There is always something to be angry about, but •? we are all very angry ...

... sitting at the moment he would like the bead of the French Government, in the declaration of solidarity he was about o make, to speak in his (Mr. Chamberlain’s) name too. ...

... cordially with British and French soldiers, despite the fact that Indians, British, and French all suffer from not being able to speak each other’s language. Special facilities are being arranged in regard to the sending of letters to and from the Indian drivers ...

... PEACE PROPOSALS Speaking at a meeting of Newtown.- ards Chamber of Trade last evening, the Marquess of Londonderry said that while the confidence of the German people was waning it would be unwise for us to indulge in undue optimism. He declared that ...

... dining-room door had been tom off its hinges. The two boys, following quickly, found a shell lying on the floor. Jim Fitzsimons. speaking to a Belfast News-Letter reporter, said: Immediately I saw the shell knew it was a practice shell, as the guns had been ...

... and French soldiers and airmen is due in large measure to the big increase in the number of Britons and Frenchmen who can speak each other's language. A French officer said that in this respect the improvement over 1914 is most marked. The tactfulness ...

... explained his action. listened to proposals and suggestions,” he told a reporter. “ Then, when ray legal adviser began to speak, the chairman reminded me’ that I had already thrown in my licence. I remarked that it was the same sort of dictatorship, and ...

... that stocks are still behind the business recovery. Inventory fears seem to have been allayed and many industries, broadly speaking, are expecting an improvement of G to 16 per cent, in 1940 compared with last year. Meanwhile sentiment is cheerful with ...