20 APRIL 1934

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Britain and the Collective System The conference in defence of

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the League of Nations, held in the City of London last week, was marked by several notable speeches, among which the declarations of Sir Austen Chamberlain on the maintenance of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE French memorandum on disarmament pre- cipitates no such crisis as some of the daily papers in this country have manufactured out of it. It is a very unsatisfactory document...

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Actually, in view of the two memoranda of the present

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week, it would be easier for this country to make a disarmament - agreement with Germany than with France, for the new German communication contains no stipulations which could...

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German Factories in England The statement that eighteen German firms

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-have been authorized by the German Government to open factories in England seems to have caused unnecessary uneasiness to certain Members of Parliament. Some time ago Mr....

Town-Planning on a National Scale A weak spot in the

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Government's housing programmes at present is that they make no provision for large-scale planning. The greater the activity which they may promote in housing and re-housing,...

Japan's Monroe Doctrine The. effects of Japan's domination by the

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military party are discussed at some length in an article on a later • page of this issue. Since it was written sinister confirmation of its general thesis has come to hand in...

Wage Cuts in Italy As in France, so in Italy,

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failure to balance the Budget is the cause of the decision to make cuts in the salaries of employees of the State and of other public bodies. But, needless to say, the Fascist...

Hopeful Signs in India The situation in India itself is

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steadily improving, as a result first of all (chronologically, at any rate) of the continued release of political prisoners by the provincial governments, and secondly of the...

Mr. Churchill's Charges The charge brought by Mr. Churchill against

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Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Derby, which the House of Commons has referred to the Committee of Privileges, is a serious one. It is that, as members of the Joint Select Committee...

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The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes :—Mr. Chamberlain's

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Budget and his speech made an over- whelmingly favourable impression upon the House of Commons. In form, it was marked by frankness without frills. In substance it gave what...

Soldiers and Communists The Incitement to Disaffection Bill is a

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measure which savours rather of Southern Irish than of British politics. If militant Communism were seriously increasing, if mutiny and widespread insurrection were in the air...

Cold Coinfort for Durham The Prime Minister gave an extremely

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disappointing reply to a question in the House about unemployment in the distressed areas of Durham. His answer was the conventional one that the Government's policy aimed at...

" Rodeo " to be Stopped There was not a

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single voice raised in the House of Commons against the main purpose of Sir R. Gower's Protection of Animals Bill, which is intended to prevent a repetition of the abominable...

South American Quarrels No one is paying much attention to

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the fighting between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco, but it has broken out on a considerable scale, and the League of Nations' endeavours to secure first an - armistice...

The other event of the week was Mr. Churchill's savage

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attack upon Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Derby. "At last," he seemed to say, " I have found substantial artillery for my assault on your India Policy. Let loose the barrage." He...

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A CAUTIOUS BUDGET

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A BUDGET which restores the cut in unemployment payments, takes sixpence off the income-tax and goes half-way towards restoring all pay-cuts need fear little drastic criticism...

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ARMY AND GOVERNMENT IN JAPAN A SIGNIFICANT incident took place in

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Tokyo a week ago. General Hayashi, the War Minister, resigned, and it was announced that the question whether his resignation should be accepted would be decided by the Army...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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L ORD TYRRELL has been, since Last Monday, a private citizen, after being for something like twenty years one of the major influences in the shaping of British foreign policy....

* * * * City companies must, I suppose, be

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something besides picturesque, but it is a , little , of a blow to the admirers of the antique to find the Worshipful Company of Coach Makers and Coach Harness Makers dining, as...

Some idea of the expansion in house-building in the last

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year or so can be gleaned from figures which have been given me regarding the plans of houses, to be erected by both public and private enterprise, passed by some 140 local...

Dr. Buchman and his Group Movement " team " are

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making a very considerable impression in Canada, to judge from information which reaches me from there. The scale of the meetings may be gauged by the fact that on the first day...

The Prince of Wales, who last week lost and found

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his dog, or had it found for him, was, whether he knew it or not, fulfilling the tradition of a hereditary monarchy, for Chatles II seems to have been losing dogs' with dis-...

We manage our times and seasons badly. The principle of

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a Fixed Easter (which this year would have fallen on April 15th) is approved and embodied in an Act which is only potentially and not actually in force. We leave till the third...

The old question of how far geographical names of wines

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can be annexed by producers of another locality or another country is apparently to be raised again by France at a forthcoming conference in London. The French naturally feel...

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THE LNDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE SCANDAL

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By Sir ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. D URING the last and hottest days of July, 1933, just before Parliament rose and the world and his wife went on their holidays, appeared the Report...

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AUSTRALIA AND THE ASHES

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By P. F. WARNER THIS is a critical year in the history of cricket. 1- Cricket in the only way it should be played is a physical fine art, and represents, as Mr. C. B. Fry...

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MAGIC WHITE AND BLACK By E. F. BENSON A CASE quite

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recently brought into the English Courts of Law has served to remind us that the belief in magical powers, whether black or white, still exists and is probably far more...

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CO-EDUCATION : WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE ?

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By J. H. BADLEY (Headmaster of Bedates) . M R. J. L. PATON, in a recent review in these pages of L. B. Pekin's Progressive Schools, while singling out co-education as the most...

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TAI SING

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By ERIC WALROND B ENEATH an exterior of rustic simplicity Tai Sing was a man of roving fancy and tender heart. He was capable of long sustained passion and ingratiating...

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ECONOMIES

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ID'UN CORRESPONDANT PARISIENI L A grande penitence qui, depuis de nombreux moil, s'annoncait, chaque jour, de plus en plus mena- eante, vient de s'abattre sur la France, avec...

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Communication POLITICAL PROSPECTS IN THE FREE STATE

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The political crisis in the Irish Free State is long drawn- out. No one can yet see a clear outcome of the Blueshirt movement, or of Mr....

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The Cinema

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" The Battle." At the Capitol Tins French talkie, directed by Nicolas Farkas, employs a mainly English cast to speak English dialogue in Japanese settings, with the Japanese...

" Crainquebille." Shown by the London Film Society The by-streets

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of Paris come vividly to life in this French version of Anatole France's novel, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. The passing crowds, the urchins, the housewives with their...

GENERALLY RELEASED NEXT WEEK.

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Blonde Bombshell. Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy in satirical comedy about temperamental Hollywood star. Fast action ; effective dialogue ; pungently American atmosphere. Love, Life...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre

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" Counsellor-at-Law." By Elmer Rice. At the Piccadilly IN the offices of Simon and Tedesco the telephone never stops ringing. They are the fashionable lawyers of New York....

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Music

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Mr. Collingwood's " Macbeth " WHEN Barnfield wrote about the agreement of music and sweet poetry, he was choosing his words exactly. A less careful writer might have used the...

A Broadcasting Calendar

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FRIDAY, APRIL 20th 10.45 Common Sense and the Child : by a Doctor .. N. 6.3o The Marleys of Tyneside .. N.R. • 7.10 Flowering Shrubs : Capt. R. H. Jenkinson N. 7.3o What I...

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The Happy Village England is being preserved at Rothamsted ;

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and the more general work proceeds with vigour in most counties. An event in the campaign that should concern all country- men will take place in the same quarter of England on...

Exchanging Seed Something was said last week of the new

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arrangements made by Flora's League for the purchase of wild flower seeds. The habit appears to be growing of reserving a bed or so for flowers of the wild. The idea was a...

The Wild Birds' Charter Two dates of importance to English

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bird-lovers are to be celebrated this summer. On May 17th comes into full force the Cage Birds Act. It is a thorough Act, for which the R.S.P.B. is to be thanked by us all. It...

When Do Birds Sing ?

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Some of the critics have been expressing their distress at a statement, made by a bird lover, that the blackbird sings in winter. Now all of us must at one time or another have...

COUNTRY LIFE

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Saved ! It is a pleasant thought that one of the most characteristic of Tudor houses, with its fine trees and grounds, is to come into the possession of the oldest of all...

Arrivals

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This week is perhaps the fullest of the year. We expect swallow and cuckoo in the third week of April, as well as a host of warblers—and we have had them. The Home Counties were...

Birds and Farms It may do farmers all over the

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world good to know that this headquarters of agricultural science is a paradise for birds. I have seen there rare hawks, watched game birds, both pheas- ant and partridge, rise...

Less Litter The counties are growing beneficently active in regard

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to litter. Somerset and Devon have erected in many parts of their adorable counties salient signs with the inscription, " No Litter—Penalty £5." The crispness of the style is...

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THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE FLYING

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The article in last week's number on " The Future of Private Flying," affords much food for thought. The Prime Minister envisages a time...

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...

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FASCISM AND THE ITALIANS [TO the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—You have, no doubt, received many letters - of protest against the article by your Special Correspondent, on "Fascism and The Italians " (April 6th). Allow me to add mine...

THE COLOUR BAR

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, May I say that in the West Indies, at least in early times, there was not apparently much stress laid on the Colour Bar through the...

THE TRAINING OF DEMOCRATS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. C. E. M. Joad's interesting article suggests to my mind two things : a criticism, and an omission. My criticism (and I am a trained...

RIVER TUNNELS

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[To the . Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The new road tunnel under the River Mersey is now complete : it is to be officially opened by the King in July. Its construction has...

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DATA ON CONTRACEPTION

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[To the . Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Of recent years much has been written concerning con- traception, but we are still in need of accurate information with regard to the...

INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA

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[To the Editor of TnE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From your footnote to my letter I gather that The Spectator places more weight on the private opinions of coroners than upon the findings...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—I do not think you are very fair to Dr. Spoor who voices a perfectly legitimate, complaint, and it is a poor compliment to his intelligence merely to refer to the un-...

THE PRIMROSE LEGEND

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The celebration of Primrose Day by admirers of Lord Beaconsfield makes it opportune to raise the question why that name was given both to...

THE MIDDLE-CLASS UNEMPLOYED

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mrs. (Miss ?) Marriott has raised the question of the middle-class unemployed, particularly the younger men, in connexion with my recent...

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BETTING IN DENMARK

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the proPosed Betting and Lotteries Bill, it might interest readers of The Spectator to know how different other...

INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-1. Graft and corruption can undermine any country. 2. The Press prefers to take fat advertisements rather than . fight this ghastly...

EVENTS- IN A COUNTRY VILLAGE

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By HELEN FOLEY WHEN Death walked down our village street One April night, I heard afar Steps like a policeman's on the beat, Heavy, majestic,' regular, - Come down the hill...

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Scottish Poetry

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By EDWIN MUIR " Or the poems assembled here," says Mr. Mackie in his excellent introduction, " none is conceived on a grand scale. The Scot does not write odes and epics ; he...

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Is Capitalism the Cause of War ?

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Property or Peace. By H. N. Brailsford. (Collancz. 5s.) Tins particular reviewer has always been an almost helpless —and very willing—victim of the. charm of style as well as of...

The Case for the Kaiser

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Fabulous Monster. By J. Daniel Chamier. (Arnold. 15s.) WILLIAM II is as familiar to us as Napoleon, and more inti- mately known than any other ruler before or since. The fierce...

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Aerial Warfare

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This volume of the official War history is in two sections; naval and military. The first part, which covers the period from January, 1917, to April, 1918, deals with the work...

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Dr. Addison's Second Volume

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Tun second volume of Dr. Addison's war-diary runs from the end of 1916, when he had become Minister of Munitions in Mr. Lloyd George's newly formed Coalition Government, to the...

An Apostle to Students THIS is an unusual book. It

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tells the life story and defines the methods of John R. Mott, the great American religious leader and organizer. Mott is nearly sixty-nine, but has still enough vitality to fit...

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Sidelights on Germany

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Hitler Over Europe ? By Ernst Henri. (Dent, 5a.) Hitler over Europe? and. Why I Left Germany are both directed against National Socialism, but in tone they are very dis-...

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Spookery Nook

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IN this mechanical age the old-fashioned straight spook story has fallen from its high estate. Not that we are any less superstitious than our forbears ; but we attach our...

Many Cargoes

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" ONE man, in his time, plays many parts," and Sir Henry Lunn has certainly done so. He has made fortunes and lost them, has been a doctor and a politician, a preacher And an...

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Fiction

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By GRAHAM GREENE Entertaining the Islanders. By Struthers Burt. (Lovat Dickson. 8s. 6d.) Miss STORM JAMESON'S and Herr Brehm's novels are both successful in a not very common...

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The Modern Home Flats versus Houses ONE hundred and ten

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years ago, according to the Oxford Dictionary, some misguided person first used the word flat " to describe a self-contained set of rooms on one floor—and therely did his...

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Travel The Baltic for Holidays WHILE Finland elects to regard

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herself politically as a part of Scandinavia, we of this country generally group her with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in what we call the Baltic States. And for holiday...

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Finance

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A Recovery Budget THE greatest surprise in the Budget was the fact that the prospective Surplus for the current year on the existing basis of taxation fell far short of any of...

Financial Notes

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A CHEERFUL TONE. UNCERTAINTY with regard to the Budget proposals caused some restriction in business in the Stock Markets at the end of last week, and -at the beginning of this...

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ROLLS-ROYCE.

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The annual report of Rolls-Royce Limited is usually a very brief and business-like document with few remarks from the directors concerning the general working conditions of the...

RIO TINTO RESULTS.

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Although the directors of the Rio Tinto Company explain in their report that conditions during the year were affected (Continued on page v.) Financial Notes (Continued from...

TRADE LN MARCH.

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When allowance is made for the many restrictions adversely affecting international trade, the figures of our Trade and Navigation Returns for the month of March must, I think,...

A STEADY INDUSTRY.

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The profits of Bryant and May exhibit great steadiness, and the figures for the financial year ending March 31st last show - merely a trifling set-back from the wonderful...

AMALGAMATED METAL CORPORATION.

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Metal companies are doing well at the present time, and I notice that the accounts of the Amalgamated Metal Corpora- tion—which, it may be noted, include the British Metal...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 81 L LIN CI 01 L

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" The Spectator" Crossword No. 82

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BY XANTIIIPPE. [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 "...