11 JUNE 1927

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At this point M. Marinkovitch, the Yugo-Slavian Minister for Foreign

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Affairs, declared that he himself was responsible for the language used, that the arrest of Jurashkovitch was only one of a long series of incidents deliberately unfriendly to...

Negotiations are continuing between .Chang. Tso-lin, representing the North of

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China, and Chiang Kai-shek, representing the non-Communist Nationalists. But it is difficult to say whether the negotiations are 'wholly serious and whether, if an agreement...

* * * The Albanian Government, for its part, has

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managed the wrangle with considerable shrewdness. It has reported all the incidents to the .League of Nations, and has thus laid claim to credit for behaving correctly. It has...

he Cause of the present dispute was the arrest by

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the anlan Government of, a man named Jurashkovitch lived in Durazzo. It was alleged by the Government that this man was an Albanian by nationality, that he was a spy in the pay...

News of the Week lIE Balkans remain true to type

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as the danger point of Europe. It was there that the Great War had its urce, and it Might have been hoped that the froth- • wers of the Balkans would have been sobered by the...

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There are signs that the French Government are thinking of

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following the example of Great Britain in dealing with the Soviet representatives. The Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Justice have both made strong speeches about...

The Egyptian Reply to the British Note of May 30th

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is friendly but evasive. It is thought that Lord Lloyd will send a - Memorandum to Sarwat Pasha urging him to give definite answers to the British questions. The real point is...

The General Election in the Free State is taking place

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when we go to- press. The Government party, MO"' as Cumanu , na - Gael, is running 94 candidates; Mr. De Valera fills 85 'candidates;. Sinn Fein, otherwise Miss, MeSwiney's...

M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister in 'Warsaw, was assassin- ated

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on Tuesday by a Russian monarchist named Boris Kowerda, who is only nineteen years old. M. Voikoff had gone to the Central Railway Station to meet M. Rosengolz, who was...

Since then the accusations of the Soviet have extended so

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as to include most European countries. Great Britain, it seems, shares responsibility for the murder., Peopl e - here who enjoyed their Whitsuntide holidays without a thought of...

On Thursday, June 2nd, the South African Assembly carried the

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second reading of the Flag Bill by 69 votes to 54. This was the smallest majority the Pact Govern- ment have had since they came into power. One Labour member voted against the...

But, of course, all this is assuming a great deal.

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Much may depend, after all, upon that unaseertained quantity, Feng Yu-lisiang, the Christian general. It is certain that Feng is a Nationalist, but it is not known whether he is...

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On Monday morning two Americans landed at Eisleben, about a

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hundred miles south-West of Berlin, after haVing flown without stopping from New York. The flight was more than 400 miles longer than that oh Captain Lindbergh. Mr. Clarence...

One union had collected more than was provided for under

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the rules. It had taken a ballot to authorize the increase but had failed to register the alteration of rules. The mistake was subsequently rectified. Only one complaint by a...

The Reporthy the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies EL trade

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unions in 1925 has just been published and is rtainly 'relevant to theTrade Unions Bill. The Chief egistrar says that a careful examination was made of e Political expenditure...

The Birthday Honours List published on Friday, June 3rd, was

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appreciably longer than that of last year and contained many honours for women. Two new Baronies were conferred, one on Sir Davison Dalzio and the other on Sir Gilbert Greenall....

Mr. De Valera is once more challenging the Treaty and

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of course wants to, upset the whole existing. regime —the settlement with Great Britain, the oath of allegiance to the King, and the Boundary Agreement with Northern Ireland. If...

Mr. Alfred Barnes reminded the Congress several Imes that the

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scheme is really optional ; each society s left free to decide whether it will or will not ally itself vith the local Labour Party. Nevertheless, the fact hat the Cheltenham...

. At the Co-operators' Congress at .Cheltenham on Tuesday the

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scheme for a political alliance with the Labour Party was, carried by a small majority. On a card vote there were 1,960,000 for the proposal and 1,843,000 against it. The...

Bank Rate, 41 per cent., changed from 5 per cent.,

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on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 1 7 , ; on Wednesday week 100-A ; a year ago 100 / 1 6 . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861; on...

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Lord Lansdowne

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I ORD LANSDOWNE, whose death at the age of -a eighty-two makes a very sad break with the past, carried on the Whig tradition into a generation which scarcely understood its...

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The Outlook for the Unionist Party

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I T would be easy to make too much of the growing strength of the Liberal vote in the country, but no sane person could deny that three Liberal victories in succession at...

China and the Pacific

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WO years ago the world heard with some curiosity of a Conference on Pacific relations held at Hono- lu. A stout Report of the Conference was pub- shed, which revealed the...

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What Advertising Might Become

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In.—A Corrective of Some National Inertias W HAT these articles suggest, of course, is that the true function of advertising is much less merely to push one man's wares as...

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The Sad Plight of the British Ghost

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y r is to be feared that most of us have failed to notice how the ghosts of England have "one by one crept silently to rest." We have only ourselves to thank for this desertion....

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The Date of "The Watsons"

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TT is to Jane Austen's devotion to detail that we owe the solution, I think, of the problem why the charm. mg beginning known as The Watsons has no end. Not long ago sonic...

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The Greek Plays at Syracuse

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IN April the enchanted land of Sicily is ablaze with sunshine and flowers. The Greek temples and theatres, embowered in fresh green, stand out majestically under the cloudless...

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Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM SOLTTII AFRICA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — South Africa has just received the highly gratifying intelligence that her national housekeeping accounts,...

Gramophone Notes

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HIS : MASTER'S VOICE. The recording of the Beethoven Quartet in F (Opus 135) by the Flonzaley players will doubtless give rise to contro- versy, especially as it invites...

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A LETTER FROM BOSTON. [To the Editor of the SrEcTATou.1

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Sin,--The building " boom," now at the end of its third year, has been marked by several attempts to obtain comes- sionswhich would have exposed us to the charge that we luid...

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Letters to the Editor

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WHAT ADVERTISING MIGHT BECOME [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—It is a pity that Mr. Norman Angell should descend from the high flights of international politics, where...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,- -It is ridiculous

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to speak of advertising as the "noisy trumpeting of dubious wares " : are not some of our great thinkers and best artists employed in the profession ? Has not a government, a...

THE COMING OF THE TOTALISATOR - [To the Editor of

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the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As you state in your issue of June 4th that you would be glad to have your readers' views on. the Totalisator, possibly mine may be of interest to you....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--In my letter of

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June 4th to you on the above subj I formulated four definite objections to the introduction the system. Your editorial comment fails to deal categori with any of them, and you...

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THE EXPULSION OF THE SOVIET MISSION

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[To the Editor of the Sem-Tama.] Sui,—That the expulsion of the Soviet Mission, in view of the disclosures, was entirely warranted, no self-respecting person would dispute....

THE "OXFORD" BILL

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Harold Bucke argues that because democracy wans "government of the people, by the people, for the • ple," the drink trade ought to be governed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am grateful for your

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kindly notice of my little book the New Prayer Book, but your criticisms seem to me to II for some comment which perhaps you will of your courtesy relit me to make. You suggest...

rah CRISIS IN THE CHURCH

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest the correspondence in o ur columns concerning the new Prayer Book Measure. One ing I have not seen mentioned, and...

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THE PROPOSED GAELIC UNIVERSITY FOR THE HIGHLANDS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sist,—I have read with sympathy the letter of "Highlander" in your issue of the 28th May. Unlike "Highlander," who wisely qualifies his...

THE YOUNGER GENERATION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would be interesting to have, the opinion of your readers as to whether it is better for the future of the world that the ideals of...

NO " ELMER GANTRYS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—In your editorial note in reply to an American corre- spondent (Herten, May 14th), I think you are right in stating that Sinclair Lewis is in the front rank of present-day...

KEEPING OUT THE COMMUNISTS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sra,—I suppose l constitutionalists are profoundly perturbed by the thought that at the next General Election a split vote between Conservative and Liberal may let in not merely...

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THE . TRUTH ABOUT PORRIDGE [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your correspondent, "D. T. S.," is quite correct in stating that porridge is no longer the staple diet of Scotsmen. Nevertheless it still forms a regular meal...

THE ROBIN AND THE WREN [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Apropos of the paragraph "Where Birds Build," by Sir W. Beach Thomas in the Spectator for May 7th, where it is stated that "the robin used the roof of a wren's...

• THE CUCKOO'S NOTES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In reply to • your correspondent writing under the heading "Country Life and Sport," I have noticed that, whatever cuckoos may be supposed...

Poetry

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Purple and Gold LABURNUM and lilac Are purple and gold ; The bees arc their courtiers, The breezes so bold Their jesters, their minstrels The thrushes that sing, They are...

ANCIENT FAMILIES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can _any of your readers well versed in history and topography tell me which English counties can claim the largest number of ancient...

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the Burlington Magazine at 42s.

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This Week's Books

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Iv ever a woman disproved the cynical proverb "Si jeunessc sava it , Si oleillesse pouvaz 1 " it was the PrincesSe des Ursins,whose biography by Miss Maud Cruttwell has just...

If we were asked to recommend a really amusing and

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at the same time informative book which can be read , by a quick reader between tea-time and dinner, we should recommend Mr. Bmilenger's A Naturalist at the Dinner Table...

It is difficult to know what sort of books are

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the most popular with children, these days, but if verse appeals to the very young at all, Mrs. .Agnew's Let's Pretend (J. .Saville and Co., 5s.) should be one of the best...

We have received from Messrs.-Stanford a section of thil official

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motoring map for Italy, for which they are the Englislt agents. The map is complete in thirty-five sheets, at Is. 6th each. The same cartographers send us a section of the foci...

An excellently written book, and one that probes very deeply

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into the fundamentals of life, is Professor J. Arthur Thonison's Towards Health (Methuen. 7s. 6d.). Our. readers have often had the pleasure of reading Professor Thomson's...

In connexion with the article we publish on p. 1016

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on the date of The Walsons, it is worth mentioning that a 11CISI edition of the book has just been published by the Oxford University Press at 7s. .6d.

The summer number of country Life is " - bigger and better'?

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than ever, and to the present writer, at any rate; many o, its advertisement pages are as attractive as the text. TherR are some wonderful natural - history photographs (as...

We welcome a new volume of "The Wisdom of the

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East " series An A nthology of Modern Indian Poetry (Murray, 35. 6d.), which should contribute to the good cause of sympathy between East and West. In the verse of Inayat Khan...

The late Sir Reginald Hennell has left the public an

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interest- ing and at times inspiring record of his old regiment, the 2/5th Mahrattas, in A Famous Indian Regiment (John Murray. l2s.). Before 1914 the Mahrattas were considered...

Competitions

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Tim Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best philosophy of lift which readers can write on the back of a postcard. We shall attempt no definitions nor shall we ask our readers...

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How Britain Might Prosper

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Ms. QUIGLEY writes with profound knowledge of his subject and his conclusions coincide with those I set out in my book, Germany's Industrial Revival, and show us that this...

By the Clock of St. James's

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Peacv ARMYTAGE has given the best part of his life to The organization of pleasure. Born in a society in which Pleasures take a large part he found himself as a young man...

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Christianity To-day and To-morrow THE title of this review is

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the sub-title of the fifth and last volume of this considerable, varied, and, on the whole, suc- cessful synopsis. It implies at once an enormous field of survey, and an...

Grub Street

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Authorship in the Days of Johnson. By A. S. Collins. (Holden. 30s. net.) III the ears of anyone with bookish tastes, the phrase " Crab Street" has a romantic sound. It recalls...

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The Magazines

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Tin: X ineteenth Century publishes as its first article "Time Documents in full which deal with the inquiry initiated by certain American University Professors" on "The War...

Our Own Times

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Ms. COX MEECH has 'written a big chatty book. The work when complete will cover the first twenty-six years of the present century. This, the first volume, takes us from 1900 to...

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SAINT IN IVORY. By Lorine Pruette. (Appleton- $2.50.)—Miss Pruette, who

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has obviously made a close study of the scene and period, allows her imagination to play round the personality of St. Genevieve of Paris, who was the Joanol Arc of the fifth...

THE BELATED RECKONING. By Phyllis Bottoinc. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)—Until Ellen

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McDermott, at the age of forty-two, left Bournemouth she, had no idea what the world was like. "She didn't even read the Daily Vision, so she had no idea of what it wasn't like....

A FRIEND OF ANTAEUS. By Gerard Hopkins. (pur.k* worth. 7s.

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6d.)—This is an exceptionally clever -novel of its kind. Readers who like swift narrative and thrilling incident should avoid it, even though a vein of mystery gives lt,. 2...

BLUE TIGER YARD. By Charles Landstonc. (Faber and Gwyer. 7s.

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6d.)—As an authoritative and particularly well written study of Jewish temperament this novel deserve; the highest praise. Aaron Lakarin, an illiterate Pole, comes to London...

Fiction

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A NEW book by Edith Wharton is always an event, for she is seriously and graciously an English as well as an American novelist. If Henry James taught her much, the strong, rich...

FAIRYHOOD. By Clare Scarlett. (Stanley Paul.

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7s. 6d.)—" Fairyhood," so we gather from the author, is a state of mind or spirit, a "natural partnership with the spirit of mercy and beauty militant here on earth . . . . a...

THE DOOR UNLATCHED. By Marie Cher. ((erald How. 7s. 6d.)—Miss

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Marie Cher has chosen a difficult subject, but she has avoided many of the traps that lie set for those who tamper with time. A young man is haunted by the counterpart of...

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• ne 5p ectator

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SUMMER HOLIDAY SECTION No. 5,163.1 - WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927. [G R ATIS.

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The following dates may be of use to visitors to

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Switzerland : June 15th-22nd.--Intemational Music Festival at Zurich. June 26th-27th.—Fete de la Jeunesse at Geneva, and Rowing Regatta at Lucerne. July 3rd-12th. : -...

The "Eccles " _motor, Caravans range in .. .price from gos to

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4 : 30 3. Full pa,rti*ofa- Will be sent to enquirers from the ' faethr Y ( 9 Gefs .- 6 - :- ... _,reciti_, - . Birrr - jing" . han -- 1):9 - r from supplierssuch as the Holiday...

Summer Holiday Notes

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Tim rising franc and lira, we are told, will direct many travellers this summer to the Playgrounds of the Rhine, Black Forest and Tyrol. Some hotel-keepers of the Riviera have...

Another good company to know of is the Holiday Caravan

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Bainton ROad, Oxford, who have an absolutely unrivalled experience in this sort of work. Their caravans cover more than 50,000 miles each summer and they are experts in...

The Italian authorities have during the past few years carried

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out great improvements to the Island of Rhodes in the Aegean. . The streets arc clean, old roads have been repaired and new ones have been made ; and many of the fine old...

A visit of doctors to Italian spas is being arranged

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to take place in September next. A limited number (including wives) will take part and they will be accompanied by English- speaking. Italian doctors. The tour will be made by...

There is no country . (except perhaps the Pacific Coast) whose

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cveiiieasioais so beantiful and so full of opportunities as ours, both for work and play. Rarely _a day passes in England on which one cannot enjoy Oneself in the open air or...

Among the many attractive places in Wales, Port Nlerrimi should

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not be forgotten. This delightful land-locked region; " slung like a garland between the great bosses of snow and Cadir Idris," is remarkably like • the Italian Riviera— and...

One of the best ways of seeing England is by

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caravan. The Flatavans designed by Messrs. Melville, Hart and Co. are among the, luxury - of this new and popular Pastime. The largest of these leviathans can "sleep and dine"...

But however we sing the praises of the English summer,

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there will be always those to whom distant prospects seem doubly fair. In separate articles' we deal tivith the attractions of Scotland, Switzerland, and Ireland. Italy is very...

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The Unspoilt Beauty of

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Soüthérn Ireland Tnr: western part of Ireland is theinOst primitive and typically Gaelic - part of the country. In County Kerry are the world- famous Lakes of Killarney, a...

Swiss Flowers

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EARLY summer in Switzerland i an exceptionally attractive season, and enjoys an unusually long fife, because of the remarkable variety in physical condition, and thertfore in...

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British Spas

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Oun British spas are steadily improving their treatments and amenities so as to compete in every way with those on the Continent, but they are handicapped in so far as they do...

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Comfort v. Speed

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Is the early days of motoring every buyer and user of a car was concerned about the speed which it could attain. That was natural enough, for speed on the road was a new...

Tabloid Tour

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London to Kingston, 12 miles ; Chertsey, 04; Bagshot, 94; Yateley, 7; Mortimer, 11; Aldermaston, 62; Newbury, 81 ; Whitchurch, 13; Sutton Scotney, 5f; Stockbridge, 74; Lopcornbo...

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The Motorist in Scotland

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IN the months of July and August Scotland does not know how to cope with the - huge. influx . of visitors who travel by ear. Each summer . slime the War thousands more cars have...

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In Germany, Poland, .Austria and France there is already a

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network of aerial routes, and Air Defence . Leagues have sprung up all over Europe. The Soviet Aerial War Poison- Gas Union numbers about four million members. The Polish Air...

The first two months of 1927 showed a marked decrease

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in the number of cars licensed in Massachusetts, though this may have been partly due to the fact that there is a rNhiction in the insurance premium if the car is not licensed...

We recently described Constantineseo's automatically infinitely variable gear and it

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is interesting to note that then is already another infinitely variable gear so far perfeettd that it has been fitted to a car and has shown good result,. This gear was...

In England we do not know on what our insurance

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rates are to be based if the Road Traffic Bill is passed. In Boston the taxicab drivers asked for and got the rates based on mileage, but the Commissioner fixed the premium so...

By Wing and Wheel

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WE already have a number of enthusiasts in the light aeroplane clubs who take all their holidays abroad by air-plane, but the great majority of us, alas ! have not yet become...

Undoubtedly the new motor roads will contribute greatly to the

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pleasure of our holidays. The Watford by-pass gives .you seven miles of straight run over an undulating country with views as glorious as any in England. It is somewhat...

Some time ago a licence holder was invented, known at

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the "Barnacle," which would remain firmly fixed to the windscreen of a car by a few turns of a mat. The pressure exerted by this operation on the back of the holder created a...

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• A tyre jack which can be used under a very low clearanco axle is a boon. The minimum height iof the new " SkYhl Hydraulic Jack is only six inches, and it loan thus be brought...

Experiments have been taking place in Germany which may have

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an important bearing on the future development of air transport. These consist in towing an engine-less " glider 7 -behind a power-driven aeroplane. The possibilities of the...

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with the decay of agriculture in England. French villages are

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coming back to life, ours are wasting away." Small farms are vanishing. The object of the multiple farmer into whose hands more and more land is fallin is to reduce labour and...

Insurance

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HOW LIFE ASSURANCE WORKS. I HAVE sometimes suggested to employers that it would be an excellent thing if they encouraged systematic saving by their employees by promising that,...

- Current Literature - LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN ALLIANCE. By W.

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Howard Haze11. (London : J. Murray. 8s. 6d. net.)-L- Mr. Hazen has written a very sensible little book, as we should expect from what he has written before now in our own...

CORONEL AND THE FALKLANDS. By John Irving. (A. M. Philpot.

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5s.)—This book, by a retired naval officer, is intended, it seems, as the forerunner to a film depicting the two battles. .Picturesquely written and close to actual fact, it can...

General Knowledge Competition

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THE General Knowledge Competition is eliciting a ready response from our readers, although some have mistaken our purpose and sent in answers to the questions set last week,...

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Finance—Public and Private

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Cheques and the Public As might have been anticipated, the plan of the Midland Bank for substituting " receipts for small cheques of under .t2 has excited quite a keen...

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, The ACTIVITY CAPITAL ISSUES. Past month - has been a

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busy one in the matter of Pital flotations, and this is shown in the monthly statistics n e lPiled by the Midland Bank, from which it appears that in total issues in the United...

HARASSING OTHER MARKETS.

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The French authorities seem now, however, bent upon trying to arrest the purchases of the franc, not by adopting sound measures in their own country, but by making foreign Money...

Financial Notes

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FRENCH MONETARY POLICY. APART from a few Industrial and Speculative descriptions, the Stock Markets have experienced a•quiet three weeks, the dis- turbing influences being the...

A 70 PER CENT. DIVIDEND. Although the profits of the

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Zinc Corporation for last year ell below the record figures for 1925, the result was neverthe- ess a thoroughly satisfactory one, the amount of the profit lag 1 424,048....

Notes for Collectors

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MESSRS. CumsTi Cs two big picture sales on May 13th and 20th have been instructive. It is clear that the old English masters are still most popular with collectors. From the...

BURMAII OIL PROFITS.

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But for the fact that two years' dividends from the com- pany's Anglo-Persian holding chanced to fall in the previous year the profits of the Burmak Oil Company for 1926 would...