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HERE, THERE
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EVERYWHERE
MUSSOLINI SUMS UP
For the twentieth anniversary
of the war Signor Mussolini wrote
a special article for the Viennese "Neue Frele Presse."
It was plain-spoken, pacifist in tone, and pro-English in senti- ¡ment.
The Duce divides the political forces of
groups.
BRITAIN'S ELECTRIC GRID SYSTEM
MIXED BLESSINGS OF MONSTER SCHEME
MISHAP REVEALS
WEAKNESS
(By A. E. Macgregor.)
HOUSANDS of electricity smitting electricity instead of
have just had it brought home covered the country with pylons The first, headed by France, to them that they are "on the and cables-and it is these which caused the name "grid" to be acts on the principle that "the grid."
There was a failure of machin-given to the system. Peace Treaties are the final page
ery in Battersea; a church organ The country was divided into in the history of mankind.”
The second, which has its centre stopped in Yarmouth, a lift stop ten areas since reduced to 9, as in Germany, believes that the ped in a Brighton hotel, any south-east and east England are one. These pine Treaties are the cause of all the number of electric tramway-cara operated as present economic and moral ills of and trains were held up-and at areas have developed indepen- least one kettle went off the boil dently, but work together as the world.
units. The third, composed of England in Folkestone. and Italy, stands for the main- tenance of what is just in the Peace Treaties and for a examination of what is unjust.
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BRIDGE OF SIGHS
re.
Yarmouth is over 120 miles In January 1928 the first con- from Battersea, and people there tract was placed for the erection are asking themselves for the of a section of the grid. It was first time whether it is worth in the Central Scotland area. In while being tied up to Battersea September 1983 the last tower if this sort of thing is going to in the system was erected at happen, and what the grid really Fordingbridge, on the outskirts The grid Mussolini contends that it is gives them to make up for the of the New Forest. the task of England and Italy to uncomfortable sense they now has 4,000 miles of transmission build a bridge between the Trea- bave of being linked up with lines with over 26,000 steel tow- ty Revisionists and the no-conces-other people's misfortunes or, ers to support them. It has in- maybe, mismanagement. volved innumerable spectacular sions group.
in- The grid has variously been engineering achievements,
He maintains that the diploma- tic diagonal London-Rome is the hailed as a sure passport to a cluding 50 river crossings. The as the greatest chief of these was the crossing of only guarantee against a war better Britain: which would spell the end of rationalisation feat in Europe; the Thames at Dagenham with a land, again, as the biggest leap in cable span of 8,060 feet between European civilisation.
For 17 years the Powers have the dark this country has ever two towers each 487 feet high,
It has meant the creation of been trying to build this bridge. made...
It is meant to transform house-273 transforming and switching So far from being nearer comwork, to do away with paraffin stations to make the current DEATHS.
opinion turns against him, disar-
the distributing ter will overtake his party at the pletion, the task is infinitely more DALZIEL, At Dumfriesshire November elections. In a coun-difficult than it was five years ago. lamps in the country and with available to
smoky fires in the towns; but companies. when the housewife asks whether £27,000,000 Scheme Scotland, on August 26th. try in which Labour is ut loose-
the grid will reduce the price of This has been completed ahead James Dalziel, late of the Tai-ly organised and inch the Your Daily Smile! trade union leaders do not pos-
electricity, the official answer is of schedule time and has cost koo Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.
seas the authority, which is theirs "My husband wired me from Paris that "they do not know, but they £27,000,000,
The members of the Central HOLLANDS.-At the Government in Britain, the President's own on my birthday asking whether he hope so.
For few people have yet real-Electricity Board believe that Titian. Now, which would you have?" Civil Hospital, 11.30 p.m. on words will carry immense weight, should buy me a Rembrandt
"Well, as far as that goes, most of ised that the grid has nothing to this $27,000,000 will be saved in the 28th, Guy Hollands, age 10,
do with retailing electricity. ten years by the mere reduction second son of Mr. and Mrs, W. The Pope Leaves Rome those French cars are very good."
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Function Of The C.E.B. in the amount of machinery that E. Hollands. Funeral will
enistom tö In Abyssinia. It is the Five and a half years after the chain a debtor to his creditor. If this The Central Electricity Board had to be kept in reserve." pass the Monument 5.80 p.m. to-day.
signature of the Treaty which systems was adopted universally it is a wholesaler. It is in the the old isolated stations reserve finally settled the Roman ques- would bring the nations of the world same position as the Covent plant had to be maintained to tion the Pope has spent a right much closer together.
Garden merchant who supplies guard against a failure of supply
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The China Mail outside the Vatican. The jour · Supply and Demand
ney to Castel Gondolfo was made by motor in the unceremonious Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1934 modern fashion, yet it finally
President Roosevelt's New Problems
Tousby
or &
In
the suburban greengrocer with through the breakdown of one of tomatoes at 4d. a lb. and hopes its machines.
the products he will sell them at not more When, however, a number of
Teacher: "What are of the West Indies?"
Boy: "I don't know."
than 6d; but the greengrocer stations are interconnected they closed the chapter which opened Teacher: "Come, come! Where do can charge what he likes, and can bear one another's burdens, in the stormy days of September, you get sugar from?"
often charges enough to kill the and the spare plant necessary Boy: "We borrow it from the next-demand, and so diminish the for a single one will suffice for 1870, and at the same time quiet
door neighbour."
The the whole group. Thus, reserve trade of the wholesaler. ly renewed an established Papal tradition. The lordly group of
Central Electricity Board sells equipment can be released for buildings at Castel Gondolfo "Yes, the smallest thing seems to to the firms which retail electri- revenue-earning operations ins During his journey across the welcomes Its Sovereign master upset my wife. The other day she city. It sells as cheaply as pos- stead of being kept for emergen United States to Washington af into residence again at last. was doing a cross-word puzzle and sible, because it wants to in-cy only. ter his Hawaiian cruise, Presi- Those who have lived in Rome she asked me, What is a female
not compel the retailers to go more cheaply on the average. dent Roosevelt delivered speeches in August will recall that of all sheep? Ewe,' I said, and she burst crease the demand. But it can- Electricity is now being produced which were awaited with expect the torrid spots in the gaps be-}
out for new customers or to re- Nothing has been gained in some of the big efficient power stations, but ancy, partly because they would tween the hills none is so intoler Facts You Did Not Know duce the charges. set the tone of the coming elecable as the huge Piazza of St.
When the ordinary man finds the cost of production in any area tion campaign, partly because Peter's, with the heat flung up
Fide doors for automobiles invented that it is not the job of the grid is now muca below that of the less the economic situation had from its multitude of paving by an Italian open from either ends, to give him his electricity at a efficient of the old superseded deteriorated during the Pre-stones. The Papal apartments being mounted on locks that also serve halfpenny a unit cheaper he is stations. aident's absence. - one give directly on to this furnace, the purpose of hinges. respect he has been the victim and life in them must have been
In
into tears."
other convenient location.
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not this cheaper apt to dismiss it from his mind. Whether or Yet actually the grid is now a production is translated into lower fact of tremendous importance, prices for the housewife, and so to which, to their advantage or dis-an increased use of electricity in advantage, enters into the daily urban and in rural homes, is not the life of practically everybody in direct concern of the Central Elec- tricity Board. But its members are
of sheer bad luck. It was a car-a trying experience for one ac A new transformer for converting dinal principle of the New Deal customed, as Pius XI. had been residence electric currents is that prosperity derived from the in the days when he was Mgr. enough to be placed on the floor or any soil and that there could be no Ratti, to spend his vacation in recovery until the farmer obtain the high Alps. There are no The German State Railway is ex-this country.. ed fair prices for his products. snow peaks for the Pope to look perimenting with self propelled freight The grid is an affair of genera naturally showing a very keen in Hence, apart from all the appara-upon from his windows in the care, each powerful enough to pull one ting stations. Before it came terest in the matter, especially as tus for restricting cultivation and Papal villa. But they open upon trailer, for local traffic.
into operation there were over they know that the original plan raising sales-figures, the President a prospect grateful to Italian
500 generating stations. Some of was that the board should have Rubber stoppars that cover the tops approved of a great programme eyes in August the waters of of bottles have been invented that re-them were very bad. They pro control over distribution as well as of public works intended to put the lake which now fills the tain the gas in carbonated beverages duced only a small amount of elec-production, the wider powers being new life Into the countryside. crater of the extinct volcano, ter they have been opened. tricity, and they produced it exhorn off in the passage of the 1825 The catastrophic drought has Moreover, if the duties of the
pensively. They had not the Bin through Parliament. completely altered the character Pope's high office give him lel-
scientific equipment essential Technical Advantages
of these enterprises. Instead of sure for those drives along the
Personal Pars
to cheap production, nor was the But what about the grid's
acting as a stimulus they have bilside which are the delight of The date of the forthcoming necessary capital available. become urgent measures of im- lesser folk during the Roman wedding of Mr. Kenneth F. Noble, Some of the stations were technical advantages?
From the first there have been mediate relief. This develop summer, he will see what no Assistant Trade Commissioner, and good. They were up to date in ment has reacted upon business Pope has seen for sixty-four led for on Friday, September 14 an industry in which a thing five authorities who thought that prac in the cities. It was anticipated years the gilded cross on the Miss Jessie Elizabeth MacPhall is years old was often out of date, tical efficiency was. In reality being that when the farmer began to dome of St. Peter's standing out at St. Andrew's Church, at four The companies produced on a sacrificed to the grandiose, and that make money again he would buy above the haze which covers o'clock. more manufactured goods. Ronje. This expectation has been com- pletely falsified, with the de pressing effects on actual and prospective business.
BENZINE STORE DANGER
Rubber Firm Fined
large scale, and so kept down whereas the grid system was an their overhead charges, They nounced as putting an end
to
The wedding of the Rev. Mr. had plenty of capital available failures of current it was more Wilfred Stott, who is en route to to instal, the most efficient makely to Increase them
(Continued on Page 10.) the Colony on the P. & O. Biner chinery as soon as it came along. Rawalpindi, to Miss Lilian Jessie Cheap Distribution E - Most serious of all is the grow-]
Kitley will take place on Wednes- Then there loomed up the do- ing restlessness of Labour The
day, September 12, at St. Andrew's minating fact that electricity storm which broke out on the
Church. The Rev. J. R. Higgs will can be sent cheaply and instan Pacific Coast has been stilled, but
For storing benzine in a dan- oficiate.
taneously from one side of the mutterings ominous of its re-
country to the other. The na- newal are heard from all over gerous place, Lee Hop-loi, the
Mr. P. B. Selic, Accountant of tion, through its experts and its the country. The grievance of manager of the Rubber Manufac American Labour is that it is not turing Company was fined $100 the Nederlandsche Indische Hen- Parliamentary representatives, getting its fair share of the New by Mr. E. I Wynne Jones at the dleabank N. V, was among the decided in 1926 that the lesser Deal. It is, however, still uncer- Kowloon Magistracy this morning, passengers who left on the 2.5. power stations should be put tain where the responsibility for Mr. J. C. Fitz Henry, deputy, au Pres
its disappointment should be perintendent of the Fire Brigade, Shanghal. laid. Is there a flaw in the New stated that the benzine was stored New Deal itself or is it being aabot near some of the worke aged by big business? If the added that there was President satisfies the discon tank capable of holdng tented artisans that the em long cutalde, the building
ers are to blame, he will was never used
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his new housi
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and
TAIL yesterday for out of action and all the generat San Francisco and ing done by the superior, ones, with the addition of some new stations still more modern, Mrs. KL. Stewart, To do this meant joining up EXA Firt Mr. the generating stations and car
elec
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