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OUR LONDON LETTER MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S APPOINTMENT AS CHANCELLOR, WIRELESS INSTALLATIONS IN SHIPS' LIFEBOATS.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. |
Loxtos, August th
20ra, 1933.
is apt to be sceptical when he hears that kind of prediction, the fact cannot be gainsaid that more bowlers are now being. worn in London than for many years. It was the late King Edward who set | the tashion with the "Homburg, the soft felt hat which has been in favour, for twenty years. It has now lasted quite long enough, according to the sartorial experts in the West End, and they pre diet that it will go out of fashion except for country wear
THE NEW CHANCELLOR,
Mr. Neville Chamberlain's appointment The Prince of Wales, who wears every as Chancellor of the Exchequer, has let conceivable hat for every conceivable Inosen Hood, of gossip, some of it cecasion it absolutely the correct angle, friendly and good deal of it maleious. has returned to the hard felt. Elo is The erities of the Government pretend täystill a young man and cannot be expect believe that Mr. Haklwin has received aed to control men's fashions in dress as rebuff because he has failed to secure the King Edward did for many years: but. services of Mr Mckenna. But there is att "the same, he ean aml does create a feally ni political capital to be roade ous vogur. especially among the younger of what has happened.
generation. A point of interest in con When Mr. Baldwin sugereded to nection with hats is whether the "topper": the Peniorship he invited Mr. Me-will regain pride of place am keep the Kenna to join the Government as boler company, as it were. For years | Chancellor. Although he was a Liberal is has been reserved for ceremonial teen- tul Free Trader, his great know- sions only. A fairly large number "uf ledge of finance and banking and City men hath remained loyal to the silk also of foreign trade market him out hat and it may be seen in all its from all availalife Conservatives as an glory of sleek perfection in, and around i ident mun for the post. Since he left Lenbard Street. But it.is scarcely con the House of Commons a few years ago ceivable that it will ever come back into he has been Chairman of the London general use; if it does, then the age of City and Midland Bank, one of the "Big miracies certainly is not past! Five."
He accepted the invitation an condition that he would not have to fight
WIRELESS IN LIFEBOATS.
The survivors of the ill-fate:l Treersme
LTD,,contextial election, for which he is unmet with a great reception on reaching,
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to the state of his health, Londen. What struck everyone who saw j and for the same reason he was unable and spoke to them was their extreme to prituise to take office, even if a seat modesty. I might be thought that to were found for him, for several months. I be at sea in open bonts in the Pacife
Since then the efforts that have been for a couple of weeks was a matter-of-fí made to find a seat have all been an act event, and all in the day's work. availing was hoped that Sir Frules! The crowds that greeted them, the cheer- rick Banbury would have accepted a ing that met them as they landed at "Poorage and maile way for Mr. MeKenna Gravesend, and the evident determina- as one of the Members for the City of tion to regard them as herces was tor London: but the Die-Hard Conservatives these gallant sailors miblly surprising. in the City set to work and turned down Their attitude seems typiendly English in the proposal Other ennstituencies were the desire to avoid hero-worship, or "tar sounded without result. The fact is that amar conscious of having, done any there is now a fixed determination everything cut of the ordinary.......-. where to refuse to accept a candidate. There is a suggestion that, with the however eminent, "at the bidding of the example of the Trees as case, in Party managers in London. So far as point, the dangers of shipwreck would this lenctes the assertion of a spirit of he lessened if lifeboats were fitted with dependence it is all to the goril. wireless. But on inquiry I am told that mest of the big shipping companies have! Mr. Neville Chamberlain's appoint already installed special wireless sets OTE" ment is purely speculating There is en er more lifeboats carried by their eonsiderable doubt whether he is a man ships. The flumeric, Olympia, Aqwatania, big enogh for the position of Chananil the Mrjestie of the White Star line, cellor in the present difficult financial and some of the vessels belonging to the state of the country. He has, however, P. & O., the Orient, and the Royal Mail what I may call the great Chamberlain lines are equipped with wireless. The tradition. The second, son of Joseph range of the installations in each case is Chamberlain, he has had municipal ex-fifty miles. This is considered cough perience in Birmingham, as his father for practical purposes, as it is thought had before bim, and as brother of Mr.unlikely that a ship's lifebant adrift ond Austin Chamberlain, a predecessor of his the open sen would be more distant than in utice as Chancellor. it may be pre- this front passing-ships, at any rate for! sumed that be will not lack friendly and ap appreciable time. fraternal guidager when he assumes his. It is further stated that the equiment of lifebants with wireless will be carried great responsibilities,
He goes to the Treasury with the out till most of the ocean-going tussenger- unique record of having been at the hand ships are supplied.
A LEAP IN THE DARK.
THE CROS4-CHASSEL AIR SERVICE
of three different Departments in the HIGH TEA AT WESTMINSTER. short pa of 1 anth. In Mr. Bonar During the Barliamentary recess atteli- Law's Ministry he was Postmaster tion is being given to certain alterations. General, and last March he succeeded that are deemed necessary at the House
improve the catering! Si A. Griffith-Boscawen as Minister of of Commons to Health.
arrangements. The work is pow in land nach will be completed by the time the The disaster to the Paris-London aero- Hous re-assembles on November 8th. plane near Maidstone this week (August) The matter has arisen chiefly because 27th) has prompted a call for a searching Members now attend to their duties nt inquiry. Several previous crashes bave Westminster in larger numbers than all been on the same line, and it is formerly, and also because the arrival of bvious that, unless something is done the Labour Party in force has brought it to re-assure the public that the French about a charge in the habits of any system of overhauling machines before legislators.
In the all days only a proportion of starting for the trip is as effective as the ! English system, the traffic from France Members of Parliament dined at the Hease of Commons. Conservatives and! will dwindle to a serious extent,
Only a few days before this smash Liberals paired and went away in the evening, to dine quietly at home or with recurred the French seroplane transport friends in Mayfair and Belgravia. Bat combination announced a cut in the fares those days are gone, probably for ever. from six guineus to £4/10 for the The Labour men are not in Scelety, nar single journey, and frem twelve guineas have they been accustomed te lat to 29 for the return ticket. It is a dinners, Apart from that, many of them challenge to the English company, and are in lodgings in Londor living on is made possible by the more literal sub the pag that a more or les grateful sidy which is paid to the French aer country allows them for their valuable plane service. No doubt the explanation services as 3. Ps. They prefer "high is to be found in the small number ofte" to dinner in the evening, and this passengers patronising the latter." and lower fares is a bid to regain lost custom poses upon the entering department
new and special duties. The YOURE majority of cross Channel! THE MEAT RAMP. travellers prefer to fly in the English machines, which have a proud record of freedom from serious accidents. BURIED TREASI DF-
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The Report of the Government Com mittee appointed to inquire into the high carges made for meat in the shops is naturally provoking a good deal of dis- There is something romantic that makes cassion. It could hardly be otherwise. a very wide appeal in the quest for The careful, housewife las lamented the sunken treasured Even at this time of excessive price she has to pay, for the day there are people who would finance most modest purchase, which is one side schemes to search for the fabled riches of the story; and on the other side we! that went to the bottom of the sea with have had the farmers complaining that the Spanish Armada. But in all the long they cannot make a fair profit out of the history of treasure-bunting nothing coullecks they send to market, to be sold compare with the story of the White Star to the butchers, and in due course be liner Laurentië,
turned into the roast beef of old Eng- The ship has lain ninety feet below the land, of which the inflad inaker has told surface, near the entrance to Lough
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Swilly, since she was torpedoed by a It now appears that the villians of tho Cerman submarine. In the strongroom piece are the dealers, or wholesale were bars of gold worth between six and buyers, attending cattle sales, whe form seven million pounds sterling, and about rings' in order to keep down the
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a million in silver. Nearly all this bullion prices of animals at auction. Theo BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL has been recovered by divers employed gentry, having bied the farmers, sell to
Eighty Offices are established in the Principe hy the Admiralty, and only about thirty the butchers at a greatly enhanced price. Cities of the World to provide Commercia bars of gold remain in the wreck. It is and hence the unreasonable figure at Organisations and Private Individuals with certainly been a magnificent bit of work which meat is exposed for sale in the complete World Wide Parking, Shipping and to raise so much treasure. The men shops. Even this is probably not the Travel Service engaged could only work a few months whole explanation. for there is every
in the year when the weather on that reason to believe that the butchers, hava. COMMERCIAL LEITERS OF CREDIT. part of the Irish. coast profited the their own "rings" and settle prices so divers to go down.
that free competition as between one DEPOSIT AND QUERENT ACCOUNTS It need scarcely be said that salvage shop and another in a town is eliminated, operations in such circumstances are ex and the public are helpless. ceedingly dangerous. The divers former- There is talk about the Government ly got a commission of one-sixteenth of taking action to break up the rings; but, the total value brought to the surface, this is more easily said than done. Be but this was recently halved, and they sides. Government interferenc profess themselves, completely satisfied. trading has not been exactly a blessing, Under the most favourable conditions as past experience proves, both during Amore. hoperui salvage work is a gamble, and it was and since the war. certainly so in this ense; indeed, Ins endeavour is the promise of the Aue Aatuinn the experts thought it would be tioneers Institute to investigate the CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANCES. impossible to recover any more of the operations of the wholesalers who buy PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE
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It is anid on authority that the bonler hat is to come into its own again this | Autumn; and, although the average man
with
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in a position to know whether a ring is
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