SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1918,
This city's bank clearings for last month, limiting them strictly to the Richmond Clearing-House, totaled $10,835, a new high record which illustrates the solid and continuing prosperity of this section. If the clearing of the Richmond Reserve Bank and of the Richmond Country Clearing Association be credited, the total for November is $2,614,834, it is not necessary, however, to construe the record of bank clearings to discover Richmond's commercial and manufacturing prosperity. That healthful condition is reflected in every store and in the cheery confidence our people display. And there is no indication of a decline.
It looks a little as though we had been recently aiming to dominate the Domingo.
For a shorter war, the recent changes in the British Admiralty and the command of the high seas fleet will be followed, it is to be expected, by a more energetic use of British naval power. In Paris, and out of the failure of the Admiralty to make the navy a firm or part in the active conduct of the war, are reflected.  In the transfer of the fleet to the of Lord and the retirement promotion to command the battle fleet. Britain protests against the war of attrition. More than one leader of opinion has demanded that some way be found and tried to shorten the conflict, and thereby lessen the tremendous expenditure of life and property. The navy has done an incalculable service to the allied cause, but it must do more if it would satisfy British public opinion. 