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STARVING KUBSIA.
4,000,000 TONS OF FOODSTUFF WANTED,
SOVIET SEEKS CREDIT.
GENEVA, September 6.
The text of an agreement signed by Dr. Nansen and the Soviet at Moscow on August 27 is published. The soviet requests a credit of £10,000,000 from European governments and declares its readiness to asume all obligations demanded of it. The agreement says that distri- bution of relief will be carried out through an international relief com- mitter at Moscow assisted by a limited number of representatives of the chief leading governments.
LATER.
Dr. Nanser, who is the principal Norwegian delegate to the League af Nations has arrived here. Interviewed, in denying that his agreement with the Soviet Government would prevent the control of distribution of relief he showed that it was the Soviet's demand for credit that chiefly excited criticism in London and Paris where the opinion is held that such ⚫ demand by a Government that repudiated its national debt was serious enough to engage the attention of the Supreme Council. Dr. prisoners experience in relieving Narsen is confident from his that the Soviet Government will play the game. He said that the reason credit was desired was the inadequacy of charity to meet the situation. Altogether 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs are wanted. The Soviet hoped by means of taxation to pay for half of that amount, but a £30,000,000 credit was needed to acquire the remainder. Each lending government could have three representatives on the spot to control the purchase and distribu- tion. It was essential to act very speedily.
NEWS FROM RUSSIA.
RED SOLDIERY SEIZE RELIEF FOOD SHIPMENT,
PARIS, September 6.
to Estonian railwaymen Red soldiery recently concentrated at Yamburg seized the first shipment of American relief food from Riga to Moscow.
ALLEGED REVOLUTIONARY PLOT,
A despatch from Moscow to the Bolshevik newspapers asserts that American agents participated in a revolutionary plot which it is alleged was recently discovered in Petrograd.
RUSSLAN FRISON MISERY.
An American Red Cross worker Captain Kilpatrick has arrived in Paris after nine months' detention in Soviet prisons. He says that between 150,000 to 200,000 prisoners of thirty nationalities are suffering untold
misery in Moscow alone,
MAKE BELIEVE IMPOSSIBLE.
DE VALERA CLAIMS IRISH VISION CLEAR.
SHIPPING..
Th
FLUCTUATIONS IN SHIPPING. VALUES.
-THE GREAT JUMP IN WAR TIME.
slum starte ment la
Excess pa and a corp about fifte in August 2,000,000 103Dage/
FORE
A MAIL.
undoubtedly 1908. In the first two months of our Govern the war, it was practically impossible ahipowners as to dispose of boats, but in October
60 per cent.freights began to rise, and by the end of of.5 per cent. the year £60,000 was paid for a boat of s ago, followed the size referred to. By the end of the offering of Jane, 1915, the value had risen to Es of trenemy £82,500, by September to £93.753 Epage' of normal and by December £125,000. In Oand financial 1916 the appreciation continget and To the current issue of Fairply | trading
interesting diagram troubles in sompetition for the in March £160,000 was paid, and in appears an showing the fluctuations which have business of with the result that June £180,000 In August, 1916, remunerative, and the Board of Trade further restricted Fot! taken place in the value of a new, freights w
Hability instead of an the sale of steamers to foreigners, effect ready 7,500-ton single-deck steamer boats beca
an immediate under the British dag during the past asset. Ite seen from a study which had twenty-three years and also a list of of the diag that the fall in values on the market; bas towards the end the axle of which has been reported was seriou ter the boom of 1900, of the year, a firmer tendency wis soid during the past six months. It amounting28 per cent. from the discernible, and by the middle at is impossible to indicate the values peak at thnd of 1900 to the middle December it was estimated that the of 1902, b the following figures will vessel wat worth £187,500, or £25 of all sizes and types of vessels over the same period in diagram form, show the liontinued fall in second-per ton. This turned out to be the but the fluctuations in the price of hand boats which has taken place highest price touched until July, 1919, boats given may be said to apply to from March 31, 1920, when the reas, early in 1917, the Government cargo boats generally. Prior to the cord prica were being paid, to the requisitioned the whole war the value of shipping all over end of that year, and in 1921, so far, the world was practically the same taking the value in March last year as every foreign shipowner could and and in January this year as 100-
31st March, 1920.........100 30th June, 1920.. did come to Britain for his second-
30th Sept., 1920 hand boats, and in many cases for years prior to the war foreign ship- builders,
his new vessels, although for some
and especially German shipbuilders, were securing more and more of the contracts placed by their own Eationals which used to come to Britain. It must be remembered, in comparing values, that in the years prior to the war the figures in the diagram are world's prices, but that the values of boats under the British flag are given. When the war broke Government immediately
since the outbreak of the war only
out our
of the
tonnage at Blue Book rates, which, being based on prewar freights, did not justify the high prices which were quoted, and by the end of 1917 the value was £165,000, or £22 per
The intensive German sub- campaign made serious
WEDNESDAY. - SEPTEMBER 7,
`1221.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
FRESH AUSTRALIAN BUTTER
Daisy" Brand
"Dairy Maid"
CHEESE
$1.45 per lb.
1.35
$1.25 per lb.
1.00
14
50 & Jar.
40 per pat.
FISH
Gonda (Full Cream) Australian Cheddar Picnic (own make) Conlommier (own ́nake)...
Fillets Haddocks
Kippers
Red Herrings
זי
.80 per lb.
70 F3 ,60
11 JE
,80
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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
Inroads into the number of steamers RICH LITIGANTS REBUKED.
owned by our liner companies, and
75
60
30th Nov., 1520
ton. marine
3131 Dec., 1920--
25
141 Jau.. 1921
100
31st Jan, 1921
95
as it was impossible to replace the
29th Feb, 1921.
85
į
31st March, 1921 -
75
30th April, 1921
65.
50
45
31st May, 1921... 30th June, 1921 ............ When these figures are considered.
seems hardly worth recording. They the depreciation after the 1920 boom indicate ruin to all those concerns
vessels they considered it advisable to make good their losses with cargo boats until such times as they could rebuild. This resulted in values once mere increasing, and by the middle 1918 as much as £180,000, or £24
a700 tonner.
When the Armistice was signed per on, was held to be the value of
"PLUTOCRATS WHO THINK THEY CAN DO ANYTHING."
MILLIONAIRE MYTH.
} WEST END CAREER OF BOY FROM AN OFFAL SHOP.
Add
"Some people, especially if they have *You are a most dangerous - KLÉIS. most abandoned character, got plenty money, think that there is All inquiries disclose you as a person and get the Court to take their cases." although you have been endowed by Mr. Justice Eve made this comment | Providence with very considerable nothing to do but to turn on a tap of a
directions whether they shall con- Beecham Farate, by which they seek tinge an allowance of £20,000 to Sir Thomas Beecham
His lordship asked if this sum were not enough for him.
.
Mr. Jenklus said the trustees bad been advised that owing to the bank ruptcy of Sir Thomas Beecham it was questionable whether they could con- tinue to pay the allowance, and they wanted the guidance of the Court.
Thereupon his lordship made the above comment, adding
There are many persons who are
disposed of EN these
"NOT THE WEATHER. * Mr. Jenkins: We are not paying him anything now. The £20,000 is
plutocrats.
These remarks were made by the which you are now in Recorder at the Old Bailey in passing sentence of five years' penal servitude on Arthur Simmonds for stealing bonds value £1,900 from the Board of Trade Clearing Office (Enemy Debts), where he had been employed as a clerk. Simmonds was sentenced to 18 months hard labour for stealing Inspector Goodwille said that Sitt by finding a dressing case. monds was born in the East End in 1896 and was the son of a man employed in an offal shop. Since West End as the son of a Canadian November he had been posing in the millionaire and obtained large sums of money. It was now. well known that he met Misa Victoria Monks at the Victory Ball According to his
debauchery. Throughout "my own confession he had lived a life of career I have never met a more des
imposed restrictites on the sale of whose steamers or a large proportion | the Shipping Controller announced on July 20 when Mr. Jenkins, RC.. ¡ abflity which, if you had turned it to British steamers abroad, and requist of them are valued at anything like that the standard boats would be applied to fix a day for hearing a good purpose, might have placed you tioned them at rates of freights the figures ruling ca the 31st March disposed of, the immediate effect of summons by the trustees of the in a very different position from that which were little, if any, better than
but, with the reduction in the excess pre-war rates, with the result that last year, the loss representing 30 Which was to cause prices to weaken, profits duty to 40 per cent in the prices have since then been much lower per cent, of the capital.
As explained a year ago in present-Badget for 1919, Cardiff managers than would be willingly paid by fore. igners. It would have been impossi-ing the diagram, we have takes a rushed in to acquire torpage of any The Chicago Tribune's correspondent at Narva states that accordingle to indicate the value of a 7,500 7,500-tonner as a basis because that description and any age, and at any tonner owned abroad, for the simple has been the popular size for a num- price, with the result that by the end reason that each nation placed its ber of years, but the percentage of of June values were forced up to £195,000, or £25 per ton, and by the value on tonnage based on the restric❘ increase or decrease may be taken tions imposed by its Government, applying to all types of cargo boats. end of December to £232,500, or E31 For instance, at the date of the For the first nine years covered by per ton. As freights kept up Cardiff managers still continued to purchase, srmistice restrictions and taxes on the diagram the vessel taken as an Japanese shipping were practically example was a boat of 350ft in basing their calculations more or less ail, with the result that enormous length by 48ft. in breadth by 301t on the excess profits duty being taken profits were made, and values reached 10in. in depth, and carried from 7,000 off altogether, and by the end of the record figure of £100 per ton. In to 7,250 tons deadweight on a draft March a 7,500-tonner could have been just as anxious to have their sam- 1917 French shipowners paid, up to of 24ft. 6in. In the later vessels the sold for about £34 10s per ton. mouses £60 per ton for a boat, while in the dimensions were altered to 380ft. by When, instead of doing away with United States 200 dols, or over £50 49ft. by 296t, and the draft reduced the tax, the Chancellor of the FI- a top, was being paid last year. to 23ft. Sin. In 1906 the new Board chequer increased it to 60 per cent.. In Britain the highest value was of Trade rules enabled the freeboard and also imposed a 5 per cent. cor about £34 10s, which represented to be reduced, thus increasing the poration tax, it was at once realised not as much as he would be getting abe gure at the 31st March, 1920. deadweight carrying capacity of that current values were absurd, and if the estate were clear. It is geink The complication was the But another factor which will have the vessel by 60 to 80 tons, while the prices started to fall By the end of clear. 10 be taken into consideration in introduction of Lloyd's new rules in June they fell to £180.000, or £24 Covent Gardes Estate.
His Lordship: It isn't the weather reviewing the value of steamers pur 1910 resulted in a further 150 tons per ton, and by the end of December chased by foreigners, especially where being added to the carrying power of to £105,000, or £14 per ton. At the that irritates me. I will tell you
£11 per ton.
"I have three or four very large a good education. He says be speaks book values are concerned, is the the vessel. We have therefore given end of March this year £82,500, what irritates me.
the estates being administered in my seven or eight lagguages, and I know rate of exchange. About eighteen her capacity as 7,500 tons all the usb, or
Very weal by poople he speaks two or three. He has great shelter-dock steamers were sold to vessel which carries 7,500 tons to vessel, and by the end of last month, chambers, months or two years ago a couple of but it should be borne in mind that that could be secured for Italian owners for about £325.000 each day would have carried considerably as a result of the strikes and the are concerned, and they seem to intelligence and the conning of a
lers 20 years ago. -
impossibilities of securing a profitable think that they can issue a sum Prior to the Great War the highest freight in any part of the world, mona at the last moment, and, as The purchaser paid £270,000 in in
a right, instruct counsel to ask for it stalments at the rate of 100 lire to the pound, when a dispute having occurred, price obtained for a vessel of this necessitating laying up in order to
to be heard at once, to the prejudice work at the Patent Office. He was the boats were sold by auction by the size was in November, 1900, when minimise the loss only £63,750, or
Simmends said that the police builders for £85,000 each. If the £60,630 was paid. With the rel ase £8 10s per ton, could be obtained of equally deserving litigants. I very drug taker.
from a British owner. In the pre- much resent this sort of thing. Italian owner had implemented his of tonnage after the Transvaal war
"People think that because they statement was biassed, I have contract and paid for the vessels values at once dropped, and by the sent state of the market no one can at 100 lire to the pound, each boat 30th of June. 1901, about £499.250 say whether the bottom has been possess large means they can do any appealed to the Court of Criminal would have cost 32,500,000 lire, or, at was the figure obtained, and, after a touched. One thing, bowerer, is per- thing. It is not respectful to the Appeal," he said, and I am willing the pre-war exchange, £1.400,000, or, slight rise in July, values fell, until fectly clear, and that is that if the Court. I am not speaking of your to go on with the charge against the into the witness-box in the other raking the boats at 8,300 tons with by April, 1902, £43,000 was accepted. cost of replacement by builders is client's trustees. My sympat ies are police. I was prevented from going "If a man cannot save enough out crac. It was just a conspiracy. I the deck openings not closed. £161 From then to the middle of 1903 considered the present market value with them. per ton deadweight, which must be values improved, when they suddenly of a new ready steamer is absurdly
and £36,500 was all that could be secured, not materially decrease in the future without income he is not deserving vader frand. No other word can
describe it," purchased for French considered the record price. Vessels fell, until at the end of June, 1905, low, and if the cost of building does of £20,000 to live for a few weeks still adhere to it that I pleaded guilty
are affected in Trade improved in 1908, and a rise in values must sooner or later go up. of sympathy. I will let the summons Belgian the same way, although not to the the market price occurred, but an Only recently a builder was asked be in on Tuesday next." same extent. Of course, it may be enormous amount of orders were whether, in his opinion the cost of pointed out that the exchange is not placed by owners with shipbuilders building could ever go down to pre- normal, and may not be so for many in the belief that another shipping war figures, and he replied that it a year, but as the Italian exchange boom was due. These expectations was impossible, as the cost of every-NEW SURGICAL NEEDLE. has already dropped from 100 lire to were not realised, with the result thing connected with shipbuilding
LONDON, September 6. Mr. De Valera, in a statement made to pressmen in Dublin said: The British imperial statesmen are trying to sell Ireland second rate political margarine labeled butter. They are angry because we refuse. Ireland wants butter and will not be deceived into thinking she has got it till it is actually delivered. The English Press asks have we the will to peace. Yes, we ardently desire peace, and for that reason refuse to see things other than they are. Peace will never be founded on a make believe.
WELLINGTON KOO AS ORATOR.
GENEVA PAPER'S ADMIRATION.
GENEVA, September 6. Commenting on Mr. Wellington Koo's speech to the Assembly of the League of Nations on September 5, the Journal de Genece says that Mr. Wellington Koo possesses the necessary qualities to command respect as an orator, namely intelligence and a very clear enunciation. Although so young he laid d with firmness and dignity the task awaiting the *Assembly.
138 DISASTER.
LONDON, September 6.
owners
...
W23 all
BODIES OF AMERICAN VICTIMS ON THE WAY TO UNITED STATES.75 lire to the pound, and the garnings that, when the new tonnage was and marine engineering was per- of the boats in the foreign trade are placed on the market, values still manently increased. If this is so, affected to the extent of the drop, further declined and in 1908 the then values cannot remain at the Italian owners are seriously prejudiced, record low price of £36,000, or £4 present level when the pressure of
In the old days the value of new quite apart from the fall in freights. 16s per ton was reached, representing boats on the market is taken off, steamers bore some relation to the cost of building, and there was never a time in our recollection when ship builders were not willing to accept an LONDON, September 6. order at a price during the worst Two Chinese charged at Neath with landing without permission were depression which was a fair business sentenced to a month's imprisonment each, and recommended for deporta-proposition to the owner, who was
The bodies of the fifteen American victims of the R38 disaster were taken by train from Hull to Plymouth to-day en route to America. Thou- #ands of spectators watched the procession including British and American naval and military detachments.
ENTERPRISING CHINESE JAILED.
tion.
HOME CRICKET.
AUSTRALIANS WIN AT HASTINGS.
LONDON, September 6,
At Hastings the Australians disposed of the Englishmen for 199 in just over two hours' play. Lee scored 64, hitting six fours in chanceless play, Armstrong took four for 51, and Mailey four for 97. The Australians won by, an innings and 46. runs.
HOW YOU COME RIGHT
OUT ON THE, BEACH WITH ME - YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET OUT OF
MY SIGHT-
CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY.
I remedy be no superior as a cure for colds, croup and whooping
INVENTOR'S GIFT OF PATENT
TO A HOSPITAL.
His allegations picable creature.TM against the police were matrie.
The Recorder: Can you say any. thing in his favour? He has received
brate
The inspector added that as a boy clerk be had done two years good
។
The Recorder: You can go to the Court of Criminal Appeal on that if you like.
RAGING FOREST FIRE.
SOLDIER AND CHILD BURNED
TO DEATH'
The vast forest fire at Loshult, in "A new surgical needle, which welcome, has been invented by Dr. unabatet.
So far, about three thousand peres every surgeon in the country will the north of Scania, continues almost H.S. Souttar, of the London Hospital,"
devastated. thirteen writes A medical correspondent have been
Hitherto one of the drawbacks has different farms, twenty houses, and been the eye, which has to be large a hundred and fifty peat sheds to receive a considerable thickness of destroyed, and a large number of
cattle have been burnt to death, the sewing material.
"Dr Souttar's needle is an ordinary A special relief train has been sent. 'surgical needle which can be shaped to the devastated area. in any way desired, but instead of
a drop of £24,000 In eight years, so But, in view of the financial, troubles that the purchaser of the boat in of so many concerns, it is difficult to 1900 who had written off depreciation say when this will occur. at 5 per cent. per annum would find himself with a boat eight years old standing in his books at the price of a new boat. In the middle of 1910, shipbuilding having been at a low thus able to fill up blanks in his feet ebb for some time, prospects improved with delivery ahead, when he hoped both for shipowners and shipbuilders; that the freight market would have and values rose, until by Novemo has been a favourite with mothers
It is reported that a soldier and s improved. At the present time it is her, 1812. £58.000 was paid for sef young children for almet forty years. the eye there is a small length of child have been burnt to death.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy o impossible for a shipbuilder to con- 7,500-tonner. From that date, how-
within which the suture, or sewing struct a 7,500-ton single-deck steamer ever, until the middle of 1914 values always be depended upon and is pleas tubing fitted to the body of the needle
A GOOD SUGGESTION. This tube is at anything like the price of a ready fell, and just before the outbreak of ant to take
It not only cures colds and grip, but material, is attached. boat, for, whereas an owner might the war in August, 1914, the boat
exactly the size of the needle, so that TBY Chazoberlain's Tablets when bilions or constipated. You are Dr. acquire the ready steamer at about was worth about £42,500. But for prevents their resulting in pneumonia.
cerrain to be much pleased with them. Chamberlain's Congh Bemedy con- no drag occurs in its use." 28 10s per ton, the actual cost to the the war there is no doubt that values tams no opinm of other sarcotic and Souttar has given his patent, worth that by to take and plotsent in For sale by all Chemists and builder would, we understand, be would have fallen still further, and may be gives ac contently to:
Hospital. about £18 per ton, without leaving in the opinion of many brokers we as to an scult. For sale by all Chemisis thousands of pounds, to the London affect
profit, zey margin for a
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