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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,KON SDAY CIOBER 31ST, 1925.
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OUR LONDON LETTER SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE LEAGUE OF VATIONS
› PRÖTECTIONISTS" PREPARING FOR CAT BIG GAMAIGN:
The design is a father in
a comparsively young man, Mr. Rowse, about thirty yests of age and is the son of In local builder. Ho succeeded in com
petition with many men famous in the profesion. In a professional way i may ber, said that his fortune is madr, as the Bolt building is to cost a million pounds Werlingumpuluak-manbitarti, fees are at the rate of 6 per cent, vnese KEW DAILY PAPERA, A
[FROM OUR OWN CORESPONDENT
LONDON, Stember 9th. LONDON'S QÜENTY HALL.
There is likely to be exciting competi- The cost of the erection of the Stately pile of buildings which comprise the tion before long in the newspaper world, County Hall on the south side of the judging by the announcement in the Thames nearly opposite e Houses of Daly a that the Associated New Parliament is already or £3,000,000 papers, Ltd, which puplishes that That is a big bum to spend on a Council Journal and also the London Evening Chamber, and offices for the CC's staffers, and the Felly Disptach, intend of officials and clerks, and jet it is not, to bring out a new evening paper and apparently sufficient to provide all the new Sunday paper in Manchester. As Accommodation required. other wing is well-known, the Daily Tail haa fer is to be added which will run away with many years printed a northern edition "Another £1,000,000 When oft municipal in Manchester which was circulated masters set out to do a job is evident all oser the North of England that they spend magnificent and in Scotland and Ireland * -in It is said that the space available for competition with local journals and the staff in the existing buildings is taxed many hours in advance of the hig to the utmost. In a commencal coccer London dailies The Daily Yewn had when that sort of thing happens the workers have to get closer ogether, or make room somehow. The directors do not proceed to build a new ving But thero ir a temptation to spent when the money is so easily obtained as is the case when all that is necessary in to elap an extra penny or so on the mtes a long time desired to tempt fats and fortune by publishing a London evening permissible out of the ordinay for the paper and it is now commonly known London County Council, which is the press, will shortly publish a journal that Lord Beaverbrook, who owns the largest administrative body in the world very similar in size and appearance to dealing with local affairs The comple- the Evening Standara, The Sunday tion of the new wing will mark the begin- ning of the loux talked-of schane for a embankment on the south of the Thames. This would add greatly to the prospect viewed from Westminster Bridge; and, of course, it would mean that very con- siderable number of unemployed would be provided with useful, work for a long time
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similar northern edition, also printed in Manchester, till a few years ago, when it was dropped owing, it was said, to the enormous expens. entailed.
But the competition above referred to will not be confined to the Midlands and the North. The Daily Express has for
apress, which he started soon after the close of the war, is a great success. There certainly seems room for another evening paper in London, especially one with a literary tone. The pity of it is critic of affairs, that the London news from the point of view of the impartial papers are nearly all on the same side in politics. The Liberal side of politics is not represented by any great journs! of weight and authority. FREE TRADE OR FROTECTION?
On the subject of London Government the "condition of the principak streets during the past Summer calls for notics.
By all the signs and portents we are It has been a ceaseless topic of conver in for a big Protectionist push Tha satica. Chaos has reigned so far as the slogan calling upon the clans to rally traffic is concerned; and all because the round the old standard was sounded last roads have been up." Of course, it is week by the Bradford Chamber of Com right and necessary to keep street remeres, which wants the wool trade pro- pairs well in the forefront as a civic tected from undercutting by the Con- duty; but when we have the sixteen tinent as a result of the depreciation: different Borough Councils who are res of foreign exchanges. Protectionists all ponsible for maintaining the thorough over the country ace rallying in res Fares in their resprative areas in good ponse, and it is illuminating to read how condition engaged in road-mending all near the textile trade of Britain is to at the same time the result is apt to the verge of ruin, and how soon it may cause confusion. If the work was carried out in accordance with a general scheme be destroyed utterly unless a stout tariff is erected to keep out imported gooils. decided upon after an exchange of views On this point, however, a correspondent between the various authorities we might pertinently asks in the Times if the whole escape chaos such as we have experienced population is to be expected for the of late but ench Council nets indefuture to pay three times the pre-war pendently, and consequently traffic has
been held up daily in every direction Price of a suit of clothes,
But the Protectionist campaign is not along the main
the Metro confined to the wool trade in Yorkshire;
polis, arte do Lite being extended all along the line
It has sometimes taken half-an-hour to ket on a bus imm St Pauls to Charing Cross, and sometimes longer to make the short journey along Oxford Street from the earner of Tottenham Court Road to the Marble Arch. The trafic has had to be diverted, through the quiet backwaters of Bloomsbury The newspapers have poured: ridien upon the wise men who Ere supposed to manage the roads for as, and visitors from abroad have marvelled at the patience of the public. As a result of the muddle this year, which has been exceptional, the idea being to give em- ployment to men out of work, a better arrangement will be advised in future. At least, that is what we are told. “A
THE LEAGUE OF KATIONS.
This week now comes from the Maccles fold will trade and the Nottingham-bost fraile that agitation for Protection, in being actively organiseil. They a want to share in cafting up the melan. And not to be left out in the cold, the National, Farmers' Union have issued a manifesto to the effect that unless the Government come to the assistance of the agricultural industry" the "farmers will turn all their grable land to gra¬¬¬10 other words, they will not grow corn. This is in the nature of an ultimatum. It points the finger to what will be attempted when Parliament incets in Novaber, The Free Traders will have to refurbish their armour-II.B..
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Now that the trouble over the Italo- Greek affair seems to have been satis. factorily settled there isra disposition: to take stock of the part played in the
• crisis, while it Instel, by the League of Nations. On the whole, opinion" soems disposed to give the League credit for profoundly helping to avert war. There are. I know, many people who consider the League is quite useless they argued that as it has no power to enforce its decisions it might as well not exist at all. But in common fairness it should be borne in mind that the League" has never pretended to function as an execa- tive body. The only right it can assert under the Covenant is to see that before
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fact that in spite of Italy's denial of
this important and very significant Have Received A New Stock of Native
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the “competence of the League." Italy was represented at four meetings of the Council of the League dealing with the A Large Block of Builders' Requisites, nucation............. The terms suggested by the Council were proposed by the Conference of Ambiendors and nocepted by Italy and Greece within ten days of the bom- bardment of Corfu.
The foregoing are facts which cannot beginsaid and altogether it is seen by everyone with na open mind on the sub- ject that the mere reference of the dis "puta by Grocce to the consideration of the League was all important, since it gavo time for world, opinion to be mobilised to prevent war.
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