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OUR LONDON LETTER
BRITAIN STARTS, 1926 IN A SPIRIT OF OPTIMISM.
HOPES OF BETTER TRADE CONDITIONS.
TFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LoNnos, January 2nd:
Naturally, there has been an avalanche of pamphlets and leadets of one kizd and another in connection with the starting"" of this new pensions machinery, and it computed that the Ministry of Health has distributed between five and six million copies of these literary efforts. Also-and this is very interesting-it is learned that enquiries have been received from different parts of the Empire con cerning the scheme, and that there is a distinct possibility, that the Widows and Orphans' Pensions Act will be followed by similar schemes in the Dominions. THE LATE QUEEN MOTHER,
| CHRISTM IN LONDON,
Every year as Christmas comes round there are people who delight in lament ing that the festival is not what it used to be. Reduced to plain terms this means that it is not so jolly as the Christmas of Charles Dickens. But I fail to see any ground for the assertion. This Christmas was marked by a stay-at-home spirit; which, of course, in what Dickens lauded. Some thousands went over to Peris for the four days holiday, and I hear that the South Coast hotels and boarding. Houses were fall. All the same, for near
From a private source I hear that King ly everyone Christmas Day was a time George has decided that the memory of at home. On Christmas night the streets the Queed Mother shall be perpetuated wore a deserted appearance; there were
parts of the West End as quiet and still at Sandringham in the pretty little church as a City of the Dead. Even the "cat"hich she regularly attended: The me morial is to take the shape of ela- burglars and other undesirables, seemed
botate painted window. The designs are to have taken a night off. Scotland Yard have not had a more peaceful Christmas to be approved by the King and Queen; for a generation. There is a domestic and I understand that the preliminary work is already in hand. A window such side to the lives of thieves!
cs is proposed would be à most fitting Boxing Day was given up to various memorial secing that Quech Alexandra forms of amusement. Afternoon and was passionately attached to the parish evening every theatre in London was church and was lavish in her gifts for crowded. Outside the theatres patiens its adornment, including some very people were seen sitting on hired stools beautiful tapestries. at four o'clock, resigned to a three hours) A NATIONAL MEMORIAL wait for the doors to open Why do they do it on a December day? The question has been taken up by one of the stunt"
cwspapers which calls for the abolition of the queue. Every football field round London was in full and there were heroic men, young and eld, to break the ice on the "Serpentine" and on the Hampstead ponds and swint for prizes, which they richly deserved BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. A
cry
It is rumoured in political circles in London that early in the New Year at tempts are to be made to promote friendly trade relations between this country and Russia. But & move would have to be made by Great Britain, it is said, and I am inclined to think that this move will not be made.
As regards a national memorial to Queen Alexandra, the King and Queen have approved the suggestion that this should take the form of a fund to develop the work of the Queen Victoria's Jubilze Institute for Nurses. The appeal for funds will be issued by a number of in- fluential persons representing every sec tion of the community. This will be followed by a meeting at the Mansion House on January 7th, when the Lord Mayor will preside, and the Duke of Portland, Lord Knutsford, and other speakers will support the appeal.
Meanwhile, I am able to state that it is proposed to devote 50 per cent. of the fund to strengthening and developing the work of the 600 local nursing associations throughout the country, and a further portion will be allocated to the Nurses' From one trustworthy source I learn Long Service fund to provide pensions that the British Government have no infor Queen's Nurses who have given 21 tention of reccdeing from the position years' service.
they have all along adopted-namely, that The Queen Victoria's Institute for before negotiations with Russia are likely Nurses was incorporated by Royal Char to be of any use, the Soviet Government ter in September, 1888, and was endowed must take steps to re-affirm in a prac by Queen Victoria with £70,000, the offer- tical manner the sanctity of contracts and ing of the women of Great Britain and to dissociate themselves from the intri Ireland on the occasion of the celebration gues of the Third International which of the 50th year of her reign, the object they continue to conduct against Great being to provide the services of highly Britain in the Far and Middle East, as trained nurses to nurse the sick poor in also in this country. Mr. Baldwin. re-their own hoties... marked in the House of Commois with [intentional significance that que÷of our
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AskiuĚTER OUTLOOK.
The date on this letter marks the period of the year when people usually rubber on the British Empire. Then indulge in a little stock-taking; they look there is the assertion in American papers back on the year that has ended with its which, seems to have stirred certain sec joys or sorrows, its successes or failures, tions of American opinion to anger--that and they ask themselves what the New Great Britain is paying her war debt to Year has in store for the 13 Happiest America out of the high price charged for afe those who can-culiivate & cheerful rubb
is written about as though spirit, and are hopeful,
It may be recorded with satisfaction- tional high erime and
that the leaders of industry and other prominent men who have published their. messages for the New Year incline to a more optimistic outlook regarding the views are reinforced by
it were.
From the British standpoint the pro tests and discussions are rather amusing After all, we must find some money some
You will be able to book in advance for of Mr. Hoover, the Secretary of Com The growth of Government, Depart the gallery as easily as you now do for merce, in which he strongly protected ments is often criticised and the Experthe stalls, and there will be no extra against Americs having to depend for diture involved in keeping up the huge charge. The step taken by Mr. Frede staffs severely condemned. But it is not rick Harrison is decidedly interesting, easy to see how this state of things is and it remains to be seen whether other to be avoided so long as Parliament per-
London managers—and if so how many sists in extending what is called social of them well follow his lead. -
ur course, the theatre quene has been services. As a case in point, I have been looking at the figures issued a few days lair grade for writers on tucatrical sub- ago jointly by the Post Office and theject.or many years, and Mr. St. John Ministry of Health These figures give Ervine is the latest to clamour for its one some idea of the immense task which abolition. He is writing a series of has devolved upon the departments in articles on these lines in ons of the morn making preparations for the operation ng papers. But I am unable to agree of the Contributory Pentions Act with Mr. Ervine in his argument that the where to pay our debts, and if we are private opinions. lý mây be that the arning. It would be foolish to." totals are really almost appalling. Nine-theatre que is forcing people to the clue
for the rubber America needs, we may be complacent in unjustified optimism.. teen millions of new contribution cards mas, since I rarely pass a cinema that
btcard But some observers think that England temind our friends that our debts are has not a queue of its own.
ha carried persimism to rather dangerous. have had to be printed and distributed,
heavy because they charged us a very lengths and four hundred millions of stamps have BRITISH RUBBER INDUSTRY.
high price for the munitions we needed. The situation in the coal industry is been prepared, and sent out ready for The outery raised in the United States Besides, in the rabber industry we are a reminder that the country is not out of the wood, but cautious observés believe sale îf post othees all over the country against the alleged British monopoly in reaping the reward of our pioneering and thet 1923 might see the nation' lifting on January 4th. These are only two of the sources of rubber production appears, of the money and labour we have in itself higher up out of the economir slough. The hope is widely expressed the big aggregates, but they serve to to onlookers here, somewhat far-fetched vested. Were it not for the development that Government and Parliament will show the magnitude of some of pro and extrava
devote, the major part of their attention to measurest for the financial, economics and commercial rehabilitation of the country and the Epir Sk
future.
able to do so by charging a high price tide
Prominence is given in which was undertaken by us a good many blems with which departments have bad the newspapers to the recent statement American industries would languis to deal.
(Coasinued on next Columa).- *** want of any rubber at all::
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