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HOLIDAY MOOD IN BERLIN.
BEFORE PRICES DISEA GETTING__RICH "ÎN THE RUHR! [BY THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE OBSERVER."]
BERLIN.
The holiday mood set in during the latter end of last week in Berlin, with the sensa
tional full of the jack. It has gained with thas announcement that on June 18, ailway faces or to he raised a hundred per cent This has meant a general ex dus to the country at the Hattie cost for Whitsuntide with my "estra tering, the railway authorities being willing to stretch a point in spite of the coal shortage, as they care fully paint out.
The Soviet lags still hinging at half mast from so many buildings where Russian ks, commercial undertakings, and trade delegates are quarteral, de tot damp the general atmosphere, is the ejection of the native Communists from the Prussian lachia Socialist meat! by their enemies, thus
miste
of nervoas parties, s
and
the spirit.
JULY END, 1923.
DISEASES TO BE "CONQUERED.
ISIR HONALD ROSS'S PLEA The plea of Lord Dawson for more adequate endowment of research into the causes, provention and care of lisense, was endorsed 1 by a number of eminent medicat men recently. Sir Ronald loss, the authority"; "on tropical diseases, whose researches on malaria have been the chief factor in itse
its conquest, mail: "This country is now spealing about a dezo su but w
C130,000 a year on medical researcht. want all the money that can be got. There are dozens of disonses waiting to be solved.
wall-pox We harn not found the germs of or measles, for instance. Are completely file in our efforts to solve the problem of cancer. We know the cause of insuy dis cases but cannot cure them."
All the money expended here, Sir Ronald said, goas to committees. The Medical Re- search Chancil spends £130,000 a year, and then there are the Universities" lle proposca that prizes on the nature of the Nobel Prize should be institute to stimulate medical re- search of all kinds by men anxious to under take it. Many important discoveries have been made not in the laboratory bat by clinical (literally, belside) work.
There are 30,000 doctors in this country.
cedentmatic bourgeois to na unpre many of whom coukl make valuable con-
But
Many of the hig firms sel.tribution to our knowledge of disease if they ling articles of first-clas quality, from motor had the opportunity," he went on. cars to diamond brooches, have done record they cannot afford to neglect their practice bakiness during the past few days in spite of in order to do unremunerative work.
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rush of stock brokers to the tailors has been remarkable, so the tailors say in confidence. It is well known here that the arrival
ival of more than one stock roker in an afternoon to order a new suit or covercoat as quickly as possible, because he is going on a pressing journey, can wake a tailor's forcane if he himself tastens to the telephone and gives prompt unler to his own
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PREVENTÍZLE DETA
A leading London bacteriologist said the loss of life from preventible disease is ap- palling. Thousands of children are dying from wastes, scarlet fever, whooping cough, Workers are crippled with rheumatism. An immense loss acertes and diphtheria.
the from
common cokl. Great numbers of middle-age people are chronically ill with bronchitis.
Another doctor contrasted our enormous expenditure on the prevention of crime with the quite inadequate amount spent
"Crime"
he prevention of disease. No barometer is more certain tima this on the political one. When the mark is going to said, "is for the most part a convenience all, and fall badly, those who know it of disease, and it a fraction of the sum expendot research into disense we would order goods and plenty of them promptly, spent on preventing and punishing it wem paying prices that have not yet riser, but have a great reduction in crime and say The activity of Wait Week in this respecting of money to the State." has been remarkable. The taxi-nien have fares again, the little, half-empty dram shops have suddenly filled, the twenty- four theatres offering musical plays for the more or less, holiday season expect to be ano hay
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were. The Reichstag is on holiday; the French are roundly abused in the Fress, bat the Ruhr is prepared to hold out indefinitely the Cabinet siad than at crisis remains a
crisis, of more interest home, particularly us, in the words of member of the loyal Upposition, it is of no use to throw away a pa:lful of water that has grown stale if you've no fresh water to pour into it. The one really entirely new and interesting fact is that the mark in New York is falling satisfactorily.
GERMANY'S DEBT TO THE ALLIES.
SUMS PAID AND THEIR
ALLOTMENT..
ed to pablish its necounts twice yeark
The Hoparation Commission has decik and particular details of payinets maile by Germany on account of reparations, reports. a Faris Reuter message. Tables showing the total sums received by the Contuizion up to December 31st, 1999, in virtue of the Treaty of Versailles, and the allocation of these sunts between the Allied Powers have just been issued These documerizs show that at the end The present situatie indeed, as Germans are judging it, by the state of it year the suns with which Ger- stock markets at home and abroad. Things many had been credited on account point to ong rad only-nothing more or less of reparations amounted to a total is pres-i plitical courses or round figures of eight milliards of gold thin and being usonatically sway marks. The following table shows, tin back of course, is ed by the Stinnes group of pan-German gold marks, the amounts received by the Berlin is used τα rise in the Steparation Commision up to December of shares, but when within the
31, 1922-
THE STIXNES, TACTICS.
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fortnight those of the Stinnes concerne rise anything from 50 to 100,000 per cent. it is clear that all friends of the Ruhr magnates profit by the event. When slures worth a short time ago, at the same dollar exchange as today, not quite 10,000,000 marks are Work now worth 24,000,000, although many
the French of the concern are occupied
those of Chat as it can only strike one the highly important non-occupied General Electric Company of the democratic in dustrial party are worth my 400,000 marks, against a January 300,000. The Rhine and the Ruby are throttled entirely as far as the small business man is concerned, but the men of big business are growing weal thier day by day. At the same time, care fal and quite comprehensible propaganda makes them the heroes of the hour among that portion of the publie unaccustomed to connect politics with the state of its purse.
It appears quite clear to-day that Stinnes is keeping his own shares, and be and his friends are buying ap those on the mat. "In other words, Stinnes looks upon as for us his own
ket.
Speric
..............1,878,515,000 -3,495,000,000
Deliveries in kind Cession of State proper
ties
Treasury receipts
..2,553,905,000 -
13,000,000
7,940,120,000 «O fiis total a sum of 5,18-1,257,000. gold marks was divided among the Allied Powers as follows:--
France Belginu Great Britain
Italy Serbia
Japan Szechoslovaki Poland Grence Roumanin Portugal
1,700,802,000
1,719,000,000
1,150,524,000
242,704,000
150,085,000
67,078,000
21,100,000
14.705,000
11,023,000
10,144.000 4,415,000
4,184,257,000
There thus remains undisposed of a
the future optly with the French sum of 2,756,180,000 gold marks
plaus of treating industrialists are in question. The clear est business heads in Germany declare to day that when Europe gets back to a state of equilibrium the great Central European Trust will more than rival any- thing of its kind ever known in America.
A COFFIN FAMINE,
The expenditure incurred by the Allies on hehalf of the Annies of Occupation and Control Commissions was catimated at the end of the year at 2,448,168,000 gold marks, divided as follows:
France.
Great Britain.......... Belgium
Italy Japan
1,261,001,000 042,838,000
233,067,000
10,383,000
269,000
One small but horribly significant fact affecting the entire population of Germany is worth recurding. Not only the difficulties of living, but the troubles of. bare
dying, (To the preceding figures should be. beer weighing heavily of inte on iniddle and added the cost of the Alberican troops of working classes alike Perfectly healthy occupation, amoditing to 1,072,103,000
of all
ages have been making personal gold marks, with regard to which no de- people of opplication to be here i agter den to reina fision has yet been reached.) cry
of
formality necessary crema-
Advances for coal made to Germany in felt is only half-approved by the tion, which is
But svon in cremation cases the virtue of the Spa Agreement of July, cost of a coffin of the simplest kini cripples 1920, and the costs of occupation, benefit the survivors. The Government, impervious by priority for reimbursement. For Allied to the cry for cheaper wool as fuel, has this Powers other than the United States, the week subsidised wood to be used for collins, expenditure under the first heading was with the stipulation that it really is to be 292,210,000 gold marks, and under the used for that purpose only.
second 2,449.100,000 gold marks, up to December 31st last. After the expenditure incurred for these two purposes had been refunded, the Allies were thus able to share between them 2,843,875,000 gald. marke
THE HONEST WITNES8.
In the King's Bench Division recently, Mr. Justice Bailbache realled an experi enes at the Bar to illustrate how a litigant might himself throw away his case.
Rear Admiral Sir W. Creswell, who was the first naval member of the Australian Naval Board, commenting on the sugges He said that his client in the witness tion that the defence of the Pacific could box was asked, Do you still persist in be better carried out from Sydney than your allegation of fraud after the evi-Singapore, declares that the selection of dence that has been given the latter was a wise decision, justifying continued Mr. Justice Balhache,he Skipper White, of the Grimsby trawler
"To my amazement and disgust," the fullest confidence. answered No. Lord Russell, the judge,eria, cleverly outwitted a Bolshevik asked me: What are you going to do gunboat in the White Sea. When sound | now?' I said, "Nothing
fifteen miles out from land he was order-
Lord Russell then aniil to the plained by a Russian gunboat to follow her to fiff: You have spony like an English port. He edged away, and although the gentleman. There will be judgment Russians fired across his bows, managed to
attract the attention of the British gun-7 against you with costs."
bout Godetia. The Russian vessel then made for port,
"There was nothing more to be said and we all came away.”—(Laughter.).
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