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COUNCIL OF ALLIES AND THE NORFOLK OIL FIELDS.
ENEMIES.
LABOUR PARTY'S ECONOMIC
PROPOSALS,
100 SQUARE MILES OF POTENTIAL RICHES
Some interesting references to the The National Executive of the Labour | Norfolk Oil Fields were made recently st Party, in a manifesto "issued recently, a crowded meeting held in the crypt of urge the Government to press for the the Palace at Norwich, the principal establishment of an international body, speaker being Major-General Sir George representative of Allied and enenty State, Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, K. C. B.. to review the international economic situa- .C.M.G. C.L.E. tion and make proposals for meeting the
He said the development of the' Norfolk immédiate difficulties. Such a body (says Oil Fields was a matter of great import- the manifesto), should, if necessary, take
over the powers and duties of the interance not only to this famous county but nationai bodies already in existence, and
of
it should be placed under the League England and the Empire." Some two Sations, or preferably the Council of the Year ago because of his age he bad to Lengua should create it as an Economic come to the end of his military career. Commission of the fangue, and should
invite the varioal States, whether metabers He was then asked if he would put his or non-members, to appoint delegates to engineering experience at the service if The Allied and Associated Powers the promoters. He replied that he would could then be agreement, where necessary,
it.
delegate to this League Commission powers if he had the assurance of the best autho and duties at present exercised or per-rities that it was likely to be a sound formed by sich bodies. as the Supro Economic Council or the Reparations mission..
While welcoming the recent pronounce
business,
He received the most satis Incory assurances on that bead. One of
ment of the Supreme Council, the Labour the ces eminent chemists of the day told Party state the immediate action is rehim it was a national scandal that e quired in the application of a considered Norfolk Oil-fields had hot been developed policy based on the economic facts, and not before. Then he went to see some of his on the
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-The consequent collapse of the me chinery of exchange and international trade.
The economic terms of the peace treaties."
-FRANCE-AND-A-BANKRUPT GERMANT::
by war. The causes of the coonomic similar industries, There he learned how paralysis which 1 sali creeping overy valuable a, work was being done in the Europe are:-
service of our national needs. He there- 1-The fall in productive power and upon put all the knowledge and energy output due to exhaustion and destruction he had into the subject, and be bad of war, and a political "reconstruction of found that the work was such as to Europe which has ignored.. economie kindle one's enthusiasm. All over an reaFinancial chaos due to the reckless the deposits had been found in rich area of at least hundred square miles financial policy imposed on all the cour tries of Europe during the war, and the quantities, in layers sometimes as much absence of belief in Europe's fature feet or 1 feet below the surface to 300 feet
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down There might be a larger reservoir of liquid oil blow that. The promotera were still in the investigation stage, and perhaps would not know the full facts for another six months. In Scotland be had -remarked-on-the-ash-heap which-so-much No isolated action (contiques the mani- disfigured the country, and he had been festo) by any one State or by a number told that everything had been tried, and of separate states, acting separately, can that nothing could be done with them, strin the tide of industrial and financial In Norfolk he had asked the same ques deterioration. The real problem is to tion, and he was thankful to say a satis restart the industries and rehabilitate the factory reply had been found. It would credit of all the countries of Europe, for cut one to the heart if the beauty of thin the economic life of all these countries is fair country were to be disfigured in any o closely intertwined that the collapse of way whatever. But it was now known one drags its neighbour down, and one that the chemical constituents of the sal canner elimb out of the pit while another, were almost exactly those that were re even though its enemy, remains there. To quired in the manufacture of Portland take the most extreme case as an example, cement, Tests had been made, and the economically and financially France has product was found to be better than the beca-going-rapidly downhill since the standard specification of cement required Armistice. Coalcrisis ancceeds food crisis in our large industries. Speculating on and transport crisis succeeds conl crisis; the prospect of electrical power being her industrial machine" refuses to start generated from gases obtained from the
The rapid Anancial decrioration is reflected in the Norfolk whale, the general predicted that persistent fall in the value of the frine.
industries would be found springing up of every sort and kind, and. that before Nothing which the French Government- can do or has done has the slightest efect very long there would be a great indus upen this process, and even French states of labour to this part of England. men are slowly realizing the fact that the economie rehabilitation of France cannot benecomplished without the economic- TRISH QUESTION FOR habilitation of Germany.
Even in the narrower question of the economic terms. of the Treaty this is self-evident; those terms assume that the economic life of France will for many years depend upon the execution by Germany of the repara- tion classes, but France cannot expect to get any economie or financial relief from a bankrupt Germany, her commerce, ber industries, and her finances in a state of complete collapse,
IRISHMEN" ONLY,
SIR A. GEDDES CRITICIZED.
Sir Auckland Geddes statement that the Irish question is for Irishmen only, has, according to the Times correspon- dent, excited widespread comment in New York papers Anti-British writers such as Mr. Arthur "Brisbane in the Common international action on a very Hearst newspapers retors in the following: large scale is in fact the only possible terma- method of dealing with this crisis. That If England can tell Egypt which action must take several forms, Politic Khedive she shall have, regulate child ally, it must be directed to modify the marriage and widow-burning in India- rigidity of new frontiers by the creation much to her credit-send Oom Paul into of a common code ensuring an interna tional economic life. Financially it must Private life," and deciare her Queen be directed to the rehabilitation of credit Emprem of far-off India, surely Irishmen by international loans; industrially it must make provisions for directing to the various countries, in accordance with their needs, supplies" of essential materials for restarting industries, and particularly for the apportionment of coal in accord wide England few are in sympathy, with
America may exprem opmons about Irish Government.'”
The World observes:-
It is because periding Home Rule Bill- does not leave Ireland to the Irish that so many objections are made to it.
Out-
ance with needs International action will also be required in order to remove tem if, and even there its support is doubtful porary conditions artificially created by and perfunctory. A bad matter has been the economic terms of peace or otherwise, made wome year. by year until now only impeding the economic and financial re-extremiste gain a hearing. In such a habilitation of particular States.
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situation non-British and British subject alize have a keen interest, and it will EXPLOITATION." The only alternative to international be lessened by panegyrics upon the action (the manifesto adda) is action by wisdom and benevolence of British rule in trading and banking groups. The prescot other parts of the earth.” need is so urgent that the opportunity is The World adds that Sir A. Godder” being taken by certain private groups to requests to persons in other parts of the send raw material to Central and Eastern world, whether British or otherwise, to Europe. It is believed that the products stand aside and leave the Irish in Ireland of this raw material will be owned by the to grapple, with their own political dif caporting capitalist groups, which will ficulties, is precisely the policy which the then use cheap labour in the distressed British Government, in what has been countries.
In view of the need for raw called the worst Home Rule Bill," has re- material in order to give labour its live fused to adopt.
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The ex addressed more appropriately to his own the benefit of private groups of bankers' people.
to the American and traders must be opposed. Publicity, therefore, as to the whole scheme is abso lutely essential, and control by interna tional action must follow.
GENEVA SOCIALIST CONGRESS.
entorsen Sir A. Geddes suggestion.
The New York Times enthusiastically
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