20 MARCH 1926, Page 2

Without some sort of. financial help .the period or transition

would probably mean confusion and suffering.; It may be wrong to give a patient a narcotic, but it may be worse to cut it off suddenly and without some compen-, sating " exhibition." If it is true that low temperature; carbonization, already technically perfected, is so near, the border line between commercial failure and success! that a very little financial help is needed to push it across the line, why should not Sir Richard Redmayne's sugges-! tion to the Commission be adopted ? He proposed that a; duty should be placed on foreign motor fuel. We have discussed this subject in our first leading article.