29 JUNE 1934

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M. Barthou's Balkan Tour The French Foreign Minister's visits to

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Belgrade and Bucharest, following his visits to Poland and Czecho- Slovakia, have developed into a triumphal progress through the capitals of States which, if all goes according...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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R EGRETTABLE as is the necessity for introducing an emergency Bill to meet the threatened German default on the Dawes and Young loans, the House of Commons presented an almost...

The second part of the measure, which empowers the Board

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of Trade to impose quotas on the imports of foreign countries which have imposed discriminating quotas on British goods, did not meet with the same 'general approval. Sir...

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A Hope for Cotton An important step has been taken

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in the spinning section of the Lancashire cotton industry, the General Committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners having so far endorsed the reorganization scheme...

• The National Government victory in the Weston-super- Mare election

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was alwayS expected. But that Mr. Orr- Ewing should have achieved it with a majority of 13,000 surprised even his supporters. Admittedly in 1931 the seat was held by Lord...

The Forty-Hour Week at the I.L.O.

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The forty-hour week for all nations, desirable as it appears in the abstract, is in the concrete full of difficul- ties which time may overcome ; but if it is ever to do so, one...

Poison Germs in War The Nineteenth Century for July opens

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Ha' pages to an article by Mr: Wickham Steed in which he quotes from certain documents that have come into his - possession emanating—he is convinced—from a secret deptuithent...

Fusion in South Africa The success of the party fusion

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in South Africa under General Hertzog and General Smuts seems 113W well assured, the dissentient groups remaining on a small scale. That of the Dutch extremists under Dr. Malan...

By-election succeeds by-election and still Sir Oswald Mosley delays to

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enter the battle. On paper Twickenham should have provided a first-class opportunity kir the first of the Fascist candidates. It is a lower-middle-class constituency, it has...

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Clergy Past their Work The Church Assembly has once more addressed itself to the problem of aged or infirm incumbents, who outlive their fitness for a cure of souls, but persist...

The Week in Parliament . . Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes

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The Bill arising out of ,the German default made the House of Commons extremely nervous. Everyone agreed that the - German case was untenable, but everyone was frightened by the...

It is just twenty-five years ago since M. Bleriot •

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._ astounded the world with his flight across the Channel, and on Saturday the.Royal Air Force will be giving their display at Hendon in aeroplanes that have a normal speed of...

The third reading of the Finance Bill on Friday also

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produced an interesting debate. The best speech came from Mr. Boothby, who masked his criticism well, as became a nominal supporter of the Government. His theory that building...

To Commemorate Pavlova The scheme for a London memorial to

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Pavlova has two distinct merits—first, that it will commemorate the great Russian dancer ; secondly, that it will enrich London with a really fine piece of work by the great...

Sir Henry Betterton was in excellent form on the Ministry

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of Labour estimates. He is one of the few whom tenure of that office has not broken. On the contrary, there is increasingly shrewd judgement behind a rather hesitating delivery....

There was no Member of Parliament among the plat- form

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supporters of Mr. Winston Churchill when he went to the Free= Trade Hall in Manchester, on Tuesday, to rouse Lancashire against the White Paper. That is re- markable when it is...

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A BIGGER NAVY WHY ?

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S PEAKING on the same platform as Mr. Baldwin last Saturday, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, the First Lord of the Admiralty, made a somewhat disconcerting speech, pointing to a...

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HELP OTHER THAN DOLES

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T HE conscience of the nation has awoken- to realize that it has other duties to the unemployed besides paying them a dole. The awakening has come gradually, as indeed did the...

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Fresh from an evening with the Marionettes myself I have

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noted with interest Mr. Asquith's comments (in the new volume of H. H. A. letters) on Signor Podrecca's inimitable entertainment as he saw it eleven years ago. I agree with him...

The Pope is conforming to one of the most ancient

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traditions of the Roman Catholic Church when he orders a world-wide campaign against immoral sex and crime films. It was in this spirit that the early Fathers pro- nounced...

This week's over-statement : " The banning of this journal

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(Oriental Affairs), together with the censorship of foreign Press telegrams, in which comment on current affairs is deleted, the sense of messages is altered, and statements of...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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M R. MACDONALD had no choice but to accept Lord Horder's advice and give his eyes the three months' rest which he prescribed. As long as the Prime Minister is on duty at home...

The character of Toynbee Hall (now celebrating its jubilee) has

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changed greatly since I first knew it when Canon Barnett was Warden, and numbers of civil servants, journalists, educationists and others in residence there were dividing their...

To what type of distinguished person would one suppose it

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to be safest to entrust one's innermost con- fidences about affairs of State—to an Emperor, a States- man, a General, or a journalist ? In the Preface to his War Memoirs Mr....

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CAN GERMANY PAY ?

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By 0. R. HOBSON F ROM Lord Cunliffe's 1919 estimate of £24,000 millions as Germany's 'capacity to pay reparations, to the German Government's recent note announcing that they...

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THE DANGERS OF THE SEDITION BILL

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By SIR WILLIAM HOLDSWORTH, K.C. (Vinerian Professor in English Law, University of Oxford) T HE amendments made to this Bill in Committee have removed some, but by no means all,...

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OUR GREATEST BENEFACTOR

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By SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. [This is the final article of the short series published under this heading. The quotation on. which the series was based," He is the greatest...

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SAFE AMONG LIONS

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By RICHARD HUGHES T HE recent shocking accident at Whipsnade has reminded the Public in a very ugly way that one needs strong bars, nowadays, if one wishes to reproduce the...

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FIRST FLIGHT : A LATE CONVERSION

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By E. L. WOODWARD T HIS late conversion to flight showed my backward- ness. Flying, new to me, was part of the routine of life for thousands of modern men. Babies in arms had...

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SCHULE ODER VEREIN ?

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[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN] B ETRACHTEN wir eimnal den Stundenplan des Schul- jungen Franz Muller ! Er hat Unterricht Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Freitag von 8.30 Uhr...

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Communication

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Royalism in France [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta ,—Few English people can have imagined that Paris would ever again hear shots fired to cries of " Vive lc Roi ! " Yet...

A Woman Knitting

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A THOUSAND years the flesh of the wool growing between my fingers, cast on or cast off by shifting needles, by the unfertile bone, the sturdily-flowing wool was, for a thousand...

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" The Thin Man." At the Empire The Thin Man

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is produced with remarkable efficiency ; scene flows into scene with never a dawdling moment—except when Nick, the amateur detective (William Powell), is pouring out endless...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Ballet

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Russian Ballet at Covent Garden EVEN while that memorable last night of the Alhambra season on November 4th is still present to the mind, an occasion of enthusiasm which the...

The Cinema

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" The Loves of Ariane." At the Rialto THIS film, which will start a run at the Rialto next Sunday, July 1st, was made several years ago and gave Miss Elisabeth Bergner her first...

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Art

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Commercial and Serious Art BY far the most interesting and delightful art-exhibitions this week have nothing to do with oil painting, deceased artists, or what is usually...

A Broadcasting Calendar FRIDAY, JUNE 2 . 9th 4.03-17.15 Lawn Tennis at

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Wimbl on : Commentaries at intervals by Col. Brand and Capt. akelam 18.50 You and the Composer : Sir Waiford Davies .. 19.1 0 Summer Pruning : A. N. Rawes .. • • 19.30 Along...

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COUNTRY LIFE

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A Diviner's Problem It is no wonder in a drought so long drawn out as this summer's that the dowser or diviner is working overtime. Whether belief in his art is increasing is...

Devon Bird-Watchers A model for all bird societies is provided

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by the annual report of Devon Bird-watching and Preservation Society. Apart from its general excellence as a record of the collated observation of a number of skilled and...

The Tale of Rarities We hear from sportsmen of "

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record bags." The bagged records of this Devon society are much more honourable: They include for one year the appearance of such rarities as the kite, the eagle owl, the...

Cottage Wells The drought has more or less broken, but

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both dowsers and well-borers in country places will be in high demand for many months ; the springs cannot recover under three or four months at the very least. What is not...

• * * The Woodpecker's Chisel

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A photograph has just been sent me which I took to be an illustration of a new bird box. It is a section of a post, pre- sumably creosoted, that carried a three-phase circuit of...

A Craftsman Poet

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Among village craftsmen, a notable place is taken by Mr. H. A. Shelley, of whose work in elm wood, a feature of a recent agricultural show at Oxford, something was said at the...

Elm Panels

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Half our younger architects are in love with elm. What colour, what grain, and in the right place what hardness ! We have wasted the wood, and still waste it, more prodigally...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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'[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

WATER — A NATIONAL SYSTEM [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some

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statements in your article on this subject are, at least, controversial. The idea of a National Water Grid is considerably more fanciful than a National Electricity Grid, and...

THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Edmund T. MacMichael's attack on the Protection of Animals Act, 1934, contained in your last issue; is incom- prehensible. That Act...

PAYING AMERICA IN KIND

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—But for the midnight darkness which surrounds the whole subject of money on its theoretical side, the British Treasury could perfectly...

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RURAL WATER-SUPPLIES

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[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Snt,—I have read with interest Sir William Beach Thomas's suggestion in The Spectator of June 15th, that wells should be sunk for communal use...

CLOUDS IN THE FAR EAST

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letters of your correspondent, Mr. J. D. Jenkins, are always interesting when he writes about India, the country he knows so well :...

ABORTION

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[To the Editor Of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia.—Mrs. Geraldine Mozley writes in your issue of last week : " Christians have always held that the deliberate destruction of life, however...

HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Slaughter of Animals Act (1933) provides that all Local Authorities should consider within twelve months from the passing of the Act...

RAMBLERS AND MOTORISTS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Last Friday I took a walk over the Downs from Lewes to Brighton. After tramping a few miles I saw a motor-car in the distance, and judging...

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FASCISM AND THE CROWN

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Douglas Goldring, is at pains to convince your readers that to support Sir Oswald Mosley is incompatible with...

THE STERILIZATION OF NORMAL PEOPLE

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The recent statement by Sir Hilton Young that the public should have time to deliberate over the question of legalizing the sterilization...

A Hundred Years Ago

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" THE SPECTATOR," JUNE 28TH, 1834. On Tuesday, the King and Queen, the Dutchem of Kent, the Princess Victoria, the Duke of Gloucester, Prince George of Cam- bridge, and a...

ELECTIONS IN CANADA

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May one point out a slight error in your comment last week on the recent provincial elections in Canada, where you say that Ontario has...

MISS STELLA BENSON

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been asked by Mr. O'Gorman Anderson to write the life of Stella Benson (Mrs. Anderson). I would be grateful if any who have...

THE WAGES OF THE WORKING CLASSES [To the Editor of

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THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Spender and Mr. Cyril Asquith both assume that " eighty per cent. of the working classes have higher real wages than ever they had." It is a very...

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A Noble Journalist

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By HENRY W. NEVINSON Faom a famous, liberal-minded historian, an experienced journalist, and an intimate friend and servant (..f C. P. Scott, we should expect a notable...

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Protestantism and St. Patrick

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History of the Church of Ireland. Edited by Walter Alison Phillips. Three volumes. (Oxford University Press. 31s. 6d.) THESE three finely produced volumes originated in a...

Motives in Politics PROFESSOR CATLIN'S book might, in many aspects,

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be deemed a continuation of his Principles of Politics. But, as its title suggests, it still has the quality of prolegomena. It aims at clearing up a number of the doubts and...

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A Victorian Hero

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Giuseppe Garibaldi. By David Larg. (Peter Davies. 15s.) IT is odd that Garibaldi should have been a popular Victorian hero and should, by the same token, be somewhat neglected...

Armaments and Prosperity

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The Economics of Rearmament. By Dr. Paul Einzig. (Began Paul. 6s.) IN this book Dr. Einzig discusses a problem of topical interest, one on which there has been too little...

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A Statesman's Evening

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ALL that need be said about the general desirability of publishing Mr. Asquith's letters to Mrs. Harrisson was said when the first series appeared last year. The .second instal-...

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" So Circumspect and Right

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PERHAPS the title of this article is not quite fair to Mr. Leavis and the Scrutiny school : but if your object is not only to define but also to form contemporary sensibility,"...

The Elizabethan Scene

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Tat: movement to relate with particularity of detail Shakes- peare to his environment, so ably initiated by Dr. G. B. Harrison with the hope that the accruing reflected light...

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Dark Places

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Journey to the End of the Night. By Louis-Ferdinand Wino. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. Cad. ) M. CELTNE'S English publishers are at pains to let us know what manner of book we are...

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Eighteenth Century Dublin

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Ireland's Tragic Comedians. By J. Chartres Moloney. (Blackwood. 8s. 6d.) MR. MOLONEY has written four biographical memoirs which cover the history of Dublin during the last...

A Don Among Dons

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The Origins of Modern Spain. By Professor J. B. Trend. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d.) A Picture of Modern Spain, published ten years before the advent of the second...

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Fiction

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By GRAHAM GREENE 7s. 6d.) SMUGGLING. . . The very sound of the word is discouraging. One thinks of Meade Falkner's romances, of kegs and gaugers and hard-riding parsons and...

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A REMARKABLE RECOVERY.

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It is seldom that one is able to record so remarkable an improvement in the affairs of an industrial company as I am able to do in the case of Powell Duffry-n Steam Coal...

Finance

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A Good Half-Year titERE must have been few occasions during recent years when the situation has not seemed to be overshadowed by difficult problems. At the present moment, for...

Financial Notes

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CALLENDER'S CABLE. THE good impression created by the report of Callender's Cable and Construction Company, to which I have previously referred in these columns, was...

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FURTHER DEBT ECONOMIES

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Moreover, along the lines of a fresh issue of Preferred Ordinary Shares, a further economy in debt charges is to be secured. The Company proposes to make an issue of 1,000,000...

STANTON IRONWORKS.

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The Stanton Ironworks Company is another concern which has recently shown a good expansion in profits. These for last year amounted to £322,277 compared with 1200,232 in the...

JAPAN AND THE EMPIRE.

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In view of the strong feeling which exists in many quarters with regard to Japanese competition with our industries, it is perhaps only fair to recognize the extent to which...

INTERNATIONAL TEA.

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The Directors of the International Tea Stores have pub- lished a good report for the financial year ending April 28th last. A year ago the trading profit was £794,000, which...

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"The Spectator ,/ Crossword No. 92

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BY XAMTRIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

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