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Presents several letters to the editor referencing several previously published articles and current socio-political issues. Information related to French public finance, considering the article "Is France Going Bankrupt?," by John F. Sinclair, published in the January 9 issue; Clarification of editors against issues raised in the said letter about French financial future; Discussion of a previous article over Turkish massacres; Comments on an editorial predicting losses in surtaxes under so-called Mellon plan in the U.S., published in the January 23 issue; Discussion over the issue of oil scandals in the U.S.; Arguments qualifying Democratic leader W.G. McAdoo's personality for Presidential nomination in comparison to Senator Thomas J. Walsh, contradicting the editorial view appeared in the February 20 issue; Discussion over the article "The Immigration Question," published in the February 27 issue.

The article presents information about political developments from various countries. The latest news from Paris has reached the outer world in a most extraordinary way. A member of the Government of National Defence M. Gambetta, was the bearer of it. A severe fight, south of Metz, took place on the 3rd, several brigades being engaged on both sides but the sortie accomplished nothing definite. The wounded French were left, intentionally, on the field. On the following days some fighting and cannonading was carried on around the northern fortifications. Stories of Prussian cruelty and depredations were for a while confined to the Paris papers, whose very extravagance and absurdity, however, rendered their charges harmless. Stories of Russia's preparing for an immediate attack on Turkey, which were put in circulation last week, have disappeared.

The article reports on developments in business condition around the world. The business sector in Canada is optimistic over the crop outlook and the growth in spending power of the provinces. Business activities in France are experiencing a steady growth. The government in Turkey is controlling foreign exchange to combat the decline in price of main export products. Germany is hopeful that its minority problems in Czechoslovakia will be solved.

The article comments on the Treaty of Sèvres. On June 16 a French battalion was captured entire only twelve miles from Adana, and the Turkish siege settled down in earnest. The principal defending force was an Armenian one of some 1,300 infantry and 80 cavalry, organized by an American Armenian serving as an officer in the French foreign legion. Its rifles and uniforms were bought by public subscription among the Armenians themselves, and their business at first was to police Adana. But Adana was still a Turkish city with a large Turkish population, and murders of Armenians were of daily occurrence.

This article focuses on the political developments in various parts of the world. The Nicaraguan and Colombian treaties have been before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate during the past week. The French Government issued regulations, enforcing the law passed last March, which will seriously affect foreigners, and particularly Americans, residing in France. The tension between Greece and Turkey, which has been sensibly relaxed by the conciliatory tone of the Turkish note sent in reply to the protest of Greece against the treatment accorded to her subjects in the Ottoman Empire.

The article discusses various topics related to politics. It says that the Turkish Government allows authorities to wring something out of people through passports . A Mayor of the Haute-Saône, France placarded a decision on the church door, which states the presence of law to repress disorders. It also mentions the obtrusion of a delegation of neuter or feminine gender in the presence of the wife of Hungary Governor Louis Kossuth to express the desire to achieve freedom of their sex.