14 MARCH 1925

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it is becoming daily more apparent that we are about

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to witness a new attempt at a general European settle. ment. The recent and sudden outburst of French intractability over the evacuation of Cologne and the Report on German...

lie has made a deep impression upon his own Party,

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402 but he has done more—he has made almost as deep an 402 impression _upon his opponents. In his first period as 401 4 Prime Minister we could not help detecting a certain 40...

The Prime Minister's memorable speech in the House of Commons

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on Friday, March 6th, was made, of course, on Mr. Macquisten's Trade Union Levy Bill. lie said that though he was in favour of the Bill's object he refused to enforce the views...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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S INCE we last wrote the Prime Minister has delivered two speeches—the first at Birmingham, on Thurs- day, March 5th, and the second and more notable one in the House of Commons...

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He says, in effect : " We Unionists are, humanly

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speak- ing, likely to be in power for some years. We have a great majority. It is absolutely untrue that we want to use it oppressively. If there are to be hostilities between...

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The Belgians will probably be more favourable than the French

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to the idea of an enlarged pact, as they have no direct understanding. or alliance with Poland such as France has. They long for a guarantee of their present possessions . and...

It is understood that the. German proposals were for some

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kind of pact between this country, France, Germany, Belgium and Italy to guarantee the Eastern frontiers of France. Germany was, however, not prepared to have her own Easterii...

It was the German Government which took the initia- tive

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in the new negotiations. Mr. Chamberlain in his statement on Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons on Thursday, the 5th, said that "a few weeks back" he received in the most...

• If, however, an agreement is come to on these

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lines, some very interesting questions will be raised. - For if Germany is admitted to a pact of non-aggression it will be necessary to find an unassailable definition of "...

As the Manchester Guardian points out, it is impossible to

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imagine an old-fashioned defensive alliance in which one or more of the potential enemy States is- embraced, and if the arrangement is to be of the new and untried post-War...

On Thursday, March 5th, there was an inconvenient -incident in

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the House of Commons,, when Mr. J. F. Hope, Chairman of Committees, named Mr. Kirkwood . for unruly conduct. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was approach- ing - the More serious- part of...

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Municipal Reformers .. ... 83

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Socialists • • .. 35 Progressives • • 6 The last Council was composed as follows :— Municipal Reformers .. .. 82 Progressives .. • • .. 25 Socialists" .. 17 It will be seen...

An extraordinarily interesting piece of excavation is being undertaken at

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Richborough. Richborough, as we found in the War, is a natural port of Kent, and the Roman Ritupiae on whose site it was built must evidently have been a most important station...

The latest Report on sea fisheries issued by the Board

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of Agriculture , and Fisheries covers the period from 1919-1923. These years have been grouped together because they form the period of recovery after the War. The Report...

In the House of Commons on Tuesday the disagreeable question

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of blackmail was discussed. Blackmail in peculiarly despicable formi has been forced upon public attention lately, but we cannot agree that the victims of blackmail would be...

We are extremely glad that Cambridge University is this week

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conferring an Honorary Doctorate of Law on Mr. Loeb, the founder of the Locb Classical Library. Twelve or fourteen years ago Mr. Loeb, taking up thy: Suggestion of his friend M....

For our part we believe that nothing would create that

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healthier public opinion more quickly than a deter- mination among every person threatened with blackmail to report the matter instantly to the police. It has been said that...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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Mar. 5,1925. 5 per cont. War Loan was on Wednesday, 1011; Thursday Week, 1t.0 ;. a year ago, 100k. 81 per cent. Conirersion Loan was on Wednesday. 77i; Thursday week, 70,1 ex....

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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DISRAELI AND MR. BALDWIN MR. BALDWIN'S most moving speech in the House of Commons on Friday, March 6th, appealing for a truce in the enmity of classes, was that rare thing, a...

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• The SPECTATOR should be on sale at all Railway

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Book- Stalls and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful. if readers would bring lo...

THE BLOW TO BRITISH SHIPBCILPING

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T HE loss to British shipyards of an important building order which has gone to Germany has illuminated the deplorable condition of the shipbuilding industry as by a flash of...

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THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS OF THE LABOUR PARTY

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[COMM N ICATED.1 T HAT the British-Labour Party is in a state of. diffi- culty and doubt is notorious to the general public and virtually :admitted by the members of that Party...

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THE CHRISTIANITY OF CHRIST—I " This is our religion which

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we own, which the Apostles were in above 1600 years since ; and we do deny all vain religions got up since which ere spotted with the world."—Jouraut of Clem* For. " Whose one...

THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

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BY NEW MEMBER. A PACKED House assembled on Friday, March 6th, to hear Mr. Macquisten and Mr. Greaves-Lord introduce the famous Trades Union (Political Fund) Bill. The...

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ENGLISH SUNLIGHT

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BY DR. C. W. SALEEBY. T HE urban reader may ask why, in this workaday world, a figment such as English sunlight should be discussed at all ; and it may be admitted that the...

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LONDON IN 1950

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BY ALFRED C. Bossom. O BVIOUS causes make certain details of London's form in 1950 inevitable. Beyond these, .logiCal imagination can be the only guide, but England gives the...

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THE DAFFODIL MONTH

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WTE are never without. flowers in England. In the Isle of Wight and . in Cornwall- roses bloom in every month of the year and on occasion—last December for instance—a bowl of...

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"DOES MY SISTER LIVE HERE sum, : AN ECHO OF

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" THE '45." D URING the year 188I I was stationed in Liverpool ; and while there was taken to call upon two very charming old ladies—sisters—the last representatives I believe...

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THE THEATRE

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SHERIDAN AND WILKINSON THE Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, has a devoted public of its own : a public bewitched by memories of The Beggar's Opera. When, instead of opera, they get...

CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—All English conversations begin with the weather. So why not this letter ? No one who can remember the Cam-...

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THE CINEMA

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" (MEE!) "—A. FILM OF REALISM Nornixt: could have been sweeter to the cinema enthusiast's ear than the mingled noise of hissing and clapping which greeted the new film, Greed,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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MR. JULIAN HUXLEY ON PROHIBITION [To the Editor of the • SPKCTATOR.] Julian S. Huxley, in his article, No.7 of the series on " America Revisited," deals with Prohibition. There...

THE LUNACY LAWS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR". . Sin, —The views commonly expressed about the lunacy laws fall into two -contradictory groups, but many persons, by lack of reflection, are...

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POLISHED RICE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—The letter on this subject in your publication of Feb- ruary 21st has been brought to my notice, and it is with extreme regret that I note...

[To the Editor of 'the SPECT.1TOR.] Sni,—As stated in your

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issue of February 21st, severe out- breaks of beri-beri (poly-neuritis) arc confined to rice-eating countries, particularly to naval and military barracks, prisons, and the...

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RACIALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, – In confirmation of what is written on this subject in the Spectator of February 28th, I would like to quote the followinf_r froni a...

"ALL-IN" INSURANCE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It has always struck me since I saw the proposals that a scheme of " All-In " Insurance, such as propounded by Mr. Broad, would be of the...

SPORT AND CRUELTY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR:] S1a,- 7. ;Yonr Correspondent, Sir Frederick. Des Voeux,,says that the ethics of sport are diffidult to ; discuss. No doubt, those who defend...

A DEAD RACING PIGEON

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The racing pigeon found dead by the writer of " Feb- ruary on the Thames " in your issue of February 28th, if found—as the context...

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KENYA PENCILS

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To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Readers of the Spectator who are anxious to support Empire industries may be interested to learn that they can now purchase 100 per cent....

EDUCATED ENGLISH DOMESTICS FOR AMERICA

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[To the Editor of the,SrgcrA.Toa.] SIR, — Some; time ago the question of educated domestic service for the United. States was discussed in the pages of the Landmark, the organ...

POETRY

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THE MORALS OF THE JUNGLE I NEVER know. I never shall, Why people are called bestial, Whose code of conduct seems to be Sublime in its urbanity. The lion roars when he is full....

THE EXETER THEATRE FIRE

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• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The short story which Mr. Randall Davies asks for is " Psyche," by .Sir A. Quiller-Couch. It will be found in his book, Noughts and...

THE EVIL DEEDS OF RATS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — I read with interest your article in the issue of Feb- ruary 28th on "The Evil Deeds of R ats," which is quite true. There is a way...

A LIFE OF MRS. AYRTON.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,1 am engaged in writing the biography of the late Mrs. Hertha Ayrton, nee Marks, the physicist. May I beg the . courtesy of your columns...

"OWL'S ENTRY"

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Enquiring just lately concerning the antiquities of Grays Manor Farm at Thakeham, in Sussex, I learnt that one of its fields bore the...

A year's subscription to the SPECTATOR, costing only 30s., makes

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an ideal present for an absent friend. For thi.i sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 - York Street, Covent Garden,...

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A BOOK OF THE MOMENT

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HORACE WALPOLE [COPYRIGHT IN TEE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York, Times.] Reminiscences Written by Mr. Horace Walpole in 1788. Printed at Oxford at the Clarendon...

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THE

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THIRD COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF ZS FOR AN ge EPITAPH IN ADVANCE " UPON HENRY FORD, JACK HOBBS, OR PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN. TT is not our intention to cast the...

REPORT ON THE SECOND COMPETITION

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THE Editor offered a prize of £5 for an epitaph, in not more than six lines of verse or sixty words of prose, on Australopithe- cus Africanus, the Ape-man whose fossilized skull...

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THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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Dog and Man, by A. Sloan and A. Farquhar (Hutchinson) is a most entertaining book ; and it is free from sentimentality and almost free from incredible " true stories." The...

The collection of Georgian Storks 1925 (Chapman and Hall) - is'very

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good ; the editors luckily' are giVeri an opportunity - 'o1 - extracting the best stories from books; Whereas - the rival and complementary. collection, The Best English...

Luigi Pirandello is the most amazing of European play- wrights

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; he juggles with reality and illusion, madness and sanity, till we are almost out of our wits. Three further plays of his are now translated by Dr. Arthur Livingstone, Each in;...

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Two important books for the study of Christian origins arc

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Select Passages Illustrating Mithraism, translated by the Rev. A. S. Geden (S.P.C.K.), and Dr. Adolf Harnack's The Origin of the New Testament (Williams and Norgate). * ' *

CRIMINAL MINDS

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The Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb. Edited by Maureen MeKernan. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.) FEW crimes have more startled or disgusted the world than one committed in...

The Golden Cockerel Press sends us a fine edition of

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Swift's Directions to Servants, with decorations by John Nash. Swift's treatise is probably the greatest and longest example of sus- tained irony in the language. " In long...

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310BERLY BELL AND HIS TIMES

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Moberly Bell . and his Times. By F. Harcourt Hitchin (Philip Allan. 12s. 6d.) MR. Krivoi - ars biography of Moberly Bell of the Times newspaper is a remarkable piece of work. As...

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CURRENT LITERATURE

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GONE ABROAD. • By Douglas Coldring. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. fid. net.) GUSTO and a broad humour are the prevailing characteristics of Mr. Goldring's impressions of a sojourn...

LADY PAGET'S REMINISCENCES

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In My Tower. By Walburga, Lady Paget. (Hutchinson. 42s.) LADY PAGET'S fame as a writer of gossiping reminiscences is already established find her •two new volumes will enhance...

TWO PLAYS. By Sean O'Casey. (Macmillan. 78. 6d. net.) IF

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The Playboy! of the Western World caused riots in Ireland, we might have expected Mr. Sean O'Casey's plays to sink the whole country under the sea ; for there was never more...

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FICTION

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AN OLD - MAN LOST MR. JOSEPH ANTHONY'S new novel is a plain, delightful novel, with more beauty and freshness than we can hope to suggest. A Hungarian peasant, honoured in his...

SHIP ALLEY. By C. Fox Smith. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) IF

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only Miss FOx Smith were not so " chatty," so full of bright exclamations ! For she knows the most fascinating and illuminating facts about ships and seamen of the past, and her...

LIFE IN THE OCCUPIED AREA. By Katharine Tynan. (Hutchinson. 18s.)

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. ONE is beginning to say " No, people as charming as this don't exist anywhere " when Mrs. Hinkson -tells about two very nasty Germans who . were Prussians and behaved as such...

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Tun GOLD STANDARD.

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Of course, in considering the outlook for investinent stocks, some allowance must be made for the possibility of the Government attempting some further conversion proposals even...

' The Finger Writes. By E. Norman Torry. (T. Fisher

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Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—A first novel which, although it is full of faults, is written with a certain swing and go. When the author learns more of his art, his natural qualities...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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AT a first glance the rise in the Bank Rate of a week ago would seem to have had practically no effect upon the Stock Markets. After a temporary sharp reaction in British Funds...

RAILWAY BORROWINGS AND EARNINGS.

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That English Railway stocks should be affected for the time being by the unsettled Labour outlook is quite natural, but in so far as depression may have been accen- tuated by...

MARKET TENDE NCI FS.

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Taking, however, for the moment the moderately favourable view of the situation, that is to say, assuming that international politics proceed satisfactorily and that in the same...

The Starkenden Quest. By Gilbert Collins. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d. net.)—A

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treasure-hunt story in which certain precious jewels called eyestones are the object of the quest. As a matter of fact, the description of this gem is rather unattrac- tive and...

MONETARY CONDITION'S.

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- • One explanation of the firmness of investment stocks during the week is to be found in the fact that, in spite of the rise in Bank Rates, easy monetary conditions have...

WEIGH WAY WILL GOLD now Reverting to the matter, however,

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from the investor's point of view. the next point which arises is whether on a resumption of the Gold Standard we are likely to see gold flowing in this direction or whether, on...

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PRUDENTIAL PROGRESS.

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The latest Report of the Prudential Assurance Company makes no break in the unique record of progress. In fact, so far as the assets are concerned, the previous gigantic total...

A GOOD REPORT.

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Having regard to the many adverse influences affecting shipbuilding at the present time, the Report recently pub- lished by Swan. Hunter and Wigham Richardson, of New- castle,...

THE. INDIAN BUDGE'.!.

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Thanks in no small degree to the insistence during the last few years • by Sir Basil Blackett of the obiervance of sound ,principles . in Indian finance, the Budget which -he...

A DOUBTFUL EXPERIMENT.

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This is a procedure which in this country we can scarcely feel justified in - criticizing if only for the reason that in some respects Germany seems to have gone one hater than...

FINANCIAL NOTES

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SUBSIDIZING INDUSTRY. The securing by Hamburg shipyards of orders which ordin- arily might have been expected to come here has served to emphasize in startling fashion the...