7 JUNE 1935

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The India Bill's Third Reading The passage of the third

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reading of the Government of India Bill by the House of Commons on Wednesday after the defeat of a motion for rejection by 886 Votes to 122 is an event of historic importance....

NEWS OF TILE WEEK

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T HE French political kaleidoscope is still moving while we write. M. Laval has failed, and a Govern- ment may or may not be in being when these lines are read. M. Bouisson did...

The Difficulties of Gold The problem of the gold standard

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remains where it was. If a plebiscite were taken on devaluation, it might prob- ably show a majority in France for maintaining the franc at its existing parity. But while...

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The German Church Crisis In the course of his address

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to the Convocation of Canterbury on Wednesday the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke firmly and wisely regarding the ordeal of the Confessional Synod in Germany. Some fear has been...

No one can pretend that the Abyssinian situation is developing

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satisfactorily, for the tone of Signor Mussolini's speeches, the continued despatch of Italian troops to Africa and the virulence of the Italian Press attacks on this country,...

Sound Public Works , The extensive programme of electrification of

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railway lines in the London area announced by Mr. Chamberla;ti in the House of Commons on Wednesday is, whether by accident or design, a fulfilment of the demands put for- ward...

Mr. Roosevelt's Troubles A week of reflection and discussion has

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not brought President Roosevelt much light about the future of the New Deal. There is not much light to bring. The decision of the Supreme Court that Congress had conferred on...

Mr. de Valera and Great Britain The pressure of internal

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political considerations on Mr. de Valera is well understood ; and the policy he favours privately is not necessarily identical at all times with the policy he is compelled to...

The Quetta Disaster Quetta before the earthquake had a population

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of 49,000, but Baluchistan as an area is thinly peopled. That is the only reason why its death-roll, terrible though it is, falls far short of that recorded for the Japanese...

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The debate on Foreign Affairs initiated by the Liberals emphasized

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the virtual unanimity of the House of Commons on what Lord Halifax has described as the "dual task" of taking every advantage of the Reichstag Pronouncement to secure a...

The Atlantic Blue Riband

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That the Normandie ' has broken the Atlantic speed- record need occasion no surprise ; the surprise would have been if she had proved incapable of doing so. For the sole motive...

Parliament and the L.C.C.

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The House of Commons was perfectly right -to refuse to the L.C.C. permission to pay for its Waterloo Bridge Policy out of loan. Whether it was wise to pull down Rennie's great...

Youth's Drift to Crime

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The Recorder of Manchester, opening Quarter Sessions in that city last Tuesday, said he was shocked at the calendar before him, for it consisted almost entirely of young boys of...

The Week in Parliament

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- Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The Govern- ment of India Bill received its third reading in an atmo- sphere not unworthy of the great issues involved. Throughout it...

Apart from that of Sir Samuel Hoare the best contri-

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bution to the debate was that of Sir Herbert Samuel. ' He has maintained throughout this Parliament an astonishingly high level of speaking. He has developed a most attractive...

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THE CHANGE IN DOWNING STREET

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A CHANGE of Prime Minister without a dissolu- tion is comparatively rare in this country and it is mainly on the ground - of Mr. MacDonald's health that Mr. Baldwin is again to...

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THE FIGHT FOR ROAD-SAFETY

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T HE annual debate on the Ministry of Transport last Monday was the first in which Mr. lore- Belisha figured as Minister. Probably to most people it will come as a surprise to...

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I turned with some interest on Monday to the Daily

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Herald to see that journal's comments on the Labour knighthoods in the Birthday Honours list. But com- ments there were none. Such reticence was perhaps discreet. There are, in...

"Something ought to be done about it." That familiar dogma

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formed the burden of Lord Kilmaine's speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday on the mis- demeanours of the Pressparticularly, in this case, in the matter of headlines. The...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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T HE list of Mr. Baldwin's Cabinet may contain sur. prises, but it seems unlikely. Leakages are inevitable, for no prospective Prime Minister can frame his administration...

Watching the Trooping of the Colour last Monday, one could

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not but feel, not only its exceptional beauty as a pageant, but its unique charm as. a survival. Here is the outward show of Court militarism, as it flourished in the...

* -* To the old maxim " - verify your references" might

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with some advantage be added the injunction "and understand them." In Dr. Marie Stopes' new book on Marriage in My Time I come across the observation : "Numbers of children...

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OCCASIONAL BIOGRAPHIES: IV. MR. BALDWIN

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P REMIERSHIP will be the last of our institutions to be standardized. From Walpole to Baldwin there have been thirty-nine Prime Ministers, all different, and the last five have...

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CIVIL AVIATION AND BOMBING

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By SQUADRON LEADER P. R. BURCHALL O NE of the difficulties raised by any scheme . for the abolition, or even limitation, of the air arm in warfare is the varying importance...

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URBANIZING THE NATIVE

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By AUDREY RICHARDS T HE natives of Northern Rhodesia are rarely in the news. Backward compared with those of South Africa, Kenya or Uganda, they are not yet articulate in a...

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EXPANSIONIST JAPAN

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By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN [Mr. Chamberlin, for so long well-known as the Moscow correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor," and author of " Russid-s Iron Age," which...

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ALL OAK DINERS HAVE FIGURED TOPS

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By JAN STRUTHER I T would be possible, I suppose, to count up within a • dozen or so how many languages and dialects there are in the world. But the languages within languages—...

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MARGINAL COMMENTS

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By ROSE MACAULAY I N the oddly segregated plurality of worlds which we inhabit, the common speech of one is the cryptic jargon of another. So I was reminded the other day, when...

Diaacr subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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Communication

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A Letter from Cambridge [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At this moment of the year Cambridge enters upon one of its most singular phases. Triposes are mainly finished,...

A Hundred Years Ago THE races commenced on Tuesday. The

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company on Tuesday and Wednesday was not very numerous ; but the weather was on the whole favourable, and the running very good. Thursday was the groat day, and the Downs were...

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STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre

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"Night Must Fall." By Emlyn Williams. At the Duchess IT is a rare pleasure to find a writer who has realized the value of an indirect apnroach to a subject that has been...

The Cinema

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"La Dame aux Camelias." At the Academy MLLE. YVONNE . PRINTEMPS has chosen a famous part for her first screen appearance, and it cannot often have been better played. Nor, I...

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Nineteenth-Century Classics

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Jr could be questioned whgther Messrs. Wildenstein have been logical in calling their present exhibition a Jubilee exhibition, for it is hard to see exactly how the King's reign...

lioramage a Hugo [D'un correspondant fransais] PARIS et la France

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tout entiere viennent de eilebrer avec emotion et ferveur le cinquantenaire de la mort de Victor Hugo. C'est le 23 mai 1885 que s'eteignait, en effet, le plus prodigieux poete...

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A Lighthouse Observer An astonishing number of birds, and a

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good many butterflies, have been seen, I hear, at some of the lighthouses this year ; and much valuable information has been gleaned. The birds not only fly round the...

A Farmers' Handbook • Another good thing comes from Oxford,

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from the farming department that is parented by the University and the Ministry of Agriculture. The first Agricultural Register (the name recalls William Cobbett) was issued...

*• * * • The Delicate Cuckoo

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A number of very melancholy finds have been made by keepers and others in my part of the country. They have picked up the bodies of many dead birds, most of them cuckoos. The...

A Model Council • The Oxford Rural Community Council (in

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this case co- operating with the Oxford Preservation Trust and with the central C.P.R.E.) are most successfully reviving merry England in most practical fashion. They are...

Tricolor Flax The struggle to instil new colours into old

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flowers has been so successful (witness the nemesia) that it has probably ceased to be true, as the old botanists claimed, that no genus produces all these primary colours. The...

COUNTRY LIFE

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A Lancastrian Fair The old English Fair (as well as the village fete) is reviving in various forms ; and perhaps the best and merriest form yet discovered is to the credit of...

The Hedgehog's Fate

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The only other large creature that I know to have perished of the cold was the hedgehog ; but that was earlier than the desperate frost of May 17th. Almost all creatures are a...

A Blackbird's Economy A queer little coincidence in natural history

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occurred to me this week. I had been reading (in the Field) an account of a blackbird which brought up two broods of young birds in the same nest, when the telephone rang. I...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their

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letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Sugar Commission embodied

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the facts, given in my letter, in their report. This, therefore, represents the considered conclusions of the majority of the Committee who saw, heard, and—we may...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Hon. William Borthwick

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does not allay my suspicions. He confirms them. On his own admission his figure for the "cost to the taxpayer" of sugar beet in the past includes this year's estimates of the...

THE BEET SUGAR MILLIONS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Cranworth suggests, inter alia, that the sugar-beet, subsidy has not had sufficient credit for lowering the price of sugar to the...

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AIR PERIL AND THE ELECTION

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Discussion centres upon the recent decision to increase the Royal Air- Force. Mr. Baldwin submits with regret and foreboding, whilst Lord...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] S1R,—Lord Cranworth's eagerness to

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defend the Beet Sugar Subsidy leads him to adopt one argument which is really too good to be passed without comment. He claims that if the home sugar industry had not been in...

RECOMMENDATION LETTERS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just noticed the letter on this subject in your issue of May 17th, and write in support of the writer's urgent appeal that...

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THE ATTACK ON THE BANKS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am not in the least concerned with arguing about the precise point in their career at which cheques become money, i.e., purchasing...

THE CHURCHES AND THE NEW PAGANISM

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si,—In your issue of May 10th you published a letter from Mr. W. M. Crook, who, writing upon the morrow of the Jubilee, noted as the most...

ROAD SAFETY IN AMERICA

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[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. Stanley Casson, in his recent article in The Spectator, was substantially correct in his assumptions that the American road system...

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TRAVEL IS BAD FOR OLD MASTERS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Someone has been commenting on the fact that two masterpieces by Titian now in the National Gallery have not been lent to the Titian...

• CHILDREN OF CHAILEY

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• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You have been kind enough in the past to allow me to appeal on behalf of the crippled boys and girls of Chaney. May I once again, in...

CAMBRIDGE CONSERVATIVES

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow us to call attention to a matter which may interest many Cambridge graduates among your readers ? In November, 1934, the...

"THE LISTENER"

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sua,—On April 28th I sent you a letter protesting against the fact that the Listener had not only refused to review my book Sex and Revolution...

The Hill

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• AND turning north around the hill, The flat sea like an adder curled, And a flat rock amid the sea Gazing towards the ugly town, And on the gat sands, dirty brown, A thousand...

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Antiquity Made Alive

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By PROFESSOR ALFRED ZIMMERN "THE first things you learn may shape your mind for ever ; it is not so much the things themselves as the way in which you are brought by them to...

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The Gospels The History and interpretation of the Gospels. By

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R. H. Lightfoot. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.) ONE hundred years ago Lachmann first put forward the case for regarding Mark as the earliest of the four gospels. This...

Air Currents MOATS have been to the fore lately, but

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moats, however picturesque, are archaic things, and it is against archaic out- looks that General Groves for so long has been protesting. Since he joined us at second wing...

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Henry, First Baron Brougham

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Lord Brougham. By G. T. Garratt. (Macmillan. 15s.) HENRY PETER BROUGHAM eatne to London from Edinburgh in 1805; if he had not been of English descent on his father's side, he...

A Notable Disputation

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The Protectorates of South Africa. By Margery Perham and Lionel Curtis. (Oxford University Press. 6s.) THE future ,of the South African Protectorates is an Imperial question on...

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Ralegh

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IN the field of historical biography there are few careers that present so formidable a task to the writer as that of Sir Walter Ralegh. The wide range of his interests and the...

The History of Science

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THE study of the history of science oilers fascinating examples of the scientific method in operation, and thereby enables us t3 understand more clearly the status of current...

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A Theory of Art

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MONSIEUR MAURON is a French aesthetician introduced into this country some years ago by Roger Fry. A translation of an earlier essay of his, The Nature of Beauty in Art and...

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The Waste Land

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Zulu Paraclete. By Leonard Barnes. (Peter Davies. 7s. 6d.) "YES, that was it, the object beyond—the outside target, as he had called it in his talk with Peter ages ago on the...

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Fiction

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By WILLIAM PLOMER NOVELS about murder may be divided into two classes— those concerned with the discovery of the criminal, and those concerned with the criminal's motives and...

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NORWAY TODAY

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Edited by Karl Fischer This admirably produced volume (Oslo : Mortensen, 18s.) is-one of the most intelligent examples of national publicity that has been produced.. It...

THE JUNE PERIODICALS - The Round Table's survey of current

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problems is, as usual, dispassionate and informing. Dealing first with " Germany Rearmed," it insists that " collective security " must be clearly defined. " Lasting peace...

THE ART OF THE DRAMA By F. B. Millet and

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G. E. Bentley The position of drama in academic circles is extremely different in the United States of America from what it is in this country. Here its appearances on the...

Current Literature

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ISRAFEL By , Hervey Allen This biography _ of Edgar Allan Poe (Gollancz, 18s:) is not a new book. It was originally published eight years ago in a limited edition and at a high...

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Motoring The New Highway Code TUERE is only one serious

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objection to the new Highway Code that was finally approved the other clay by both Houses, and that is that it contains too many proVisos. Without the Sup- plementary Notes at...

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Finance

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The Fixed Trust Movement—I Motion viewed with a certain amount of mis g ivin g when it first appeared on this side of the Atlantic from the United States, the " Fixed Trust "...

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Financial Notes

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- GOOD INDUSTRIAL RESULTS. ; WHILE markets as a whole have been irregular, industrial shares have continued to display a remarkably firm undertone. I and public interest in...

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EVER READY COMPANY'S POLICY.

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That competition is exceedingly keen, in spite of the im- provement in British business, was made clear at the annual meeting of the Ever Ready Company (Great Britain) Limited,...

V.O.C. AND EXCHANGE.

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Earnings of the Venezuelan Oil Concessions Limited showed a satisfactory advance during the last financial year, but the improvement would have been much greater but for the...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 140

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OiZIY Nil AINIDI I I Ai SI SI I I EI E R STMAIUrni I IN PI RI 0 I AI I IMI SI E NI T HI 01M. AI LI LIT BI TI A CI E MITT A II AI CIH RI El S I I S LI AIN rl RI I I El RIU PIT...

"The Spectator" Crossword No. 141

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BY ZENO IA 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 " Crossword...