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THE MOST FAMOUS MARKET IN THE WORLD.'
PROPOSED REMOVAL OF COVENT GARDEN.
Ergox our owN CORRESPONDENT.]
Lowpos, March 20th.
POSTS FOR EX-95RVICE MEN.
attempted.
AMENITIES OF THE PARKS.
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clab has regained popularity and the re
THE COMING WAR. putation of being socially indispensable. STRENGTH OF SOVIET FORCES. and young men are coming forward again, cheerfully facing entrance fees
The Soviet Press, a Riga correspon. and enhanced subscriptions.
dent says, published a long report by the Another point is that standards at Yoroshitoff, made on the occasion of the Military and Naval Affairs Commissary, fitness for membership which had a ten-Red Army's eighth anniversary. Vorashi-
loff said:-
depey to be relaxed when candidates were fewer are now strict stricter in', We have $82,000 men in our army, in some senses than before. The only excluding our home guard, frontier guard, planation seems to be that the temporary and Territorial detachments. Each year's
drawn.
COVENT GARDEN MARKET.
clude the newcomers, the latter would amount to not less than 1,800,000 men.
A proposal is being made in certain antipathy to clubs affected most the conscription brings in from 930,000 to The excellent arrangement made by quarters to provide a remedy for traffic classes from which the desirables are 1,000,000 men. If we should yearly in- Mr. Walter Guinness, M.P.. now Mini-congestion in the streets of London. ter of Agriculture, on behalf of the The plan is to have a one-way stream of Government with the Association of extraffic by the simple process of using' If the proposal which is now being Our Luance and internal affairs do not. Service Civil Servants last year has roads through the parks for vehicles discussed to "remove Covent Garden allow us to do so, but we are-sorry to effectually removed their grievance. Tho travelling in one direction and using the market from ita present position and re-leave without military training 330,000 to result is the largest scheme for the adjacent streets for vehicles going, the establish it on the six nere site of the each year. We are not blind, and we 430,000 young workmen nad peasants re-settlement of ex-Service men so far opposite way. But even the attractive old Foundling Hospital in the Blooms know that, in spite of the "peacefulness".
title, the Boulevard scheme fails to bury district develops a special. Act of of the Imperialists, we cannot avoid a war, In the recent examination, held not felt that it would be
arouse enthusiasm; and it is generally Parliament will be necessary to legalize have a mighty artay, not only mighty in and that for this coming war wo muse only in principal towns in this country
a wrong thing to the proceeding. Covent Garden has been organisation, but also in number. Our but also in Palestine, Iraq, Cairo, and spoil the amenities of Hyde Park and a market since the middle of the war will require great sacrifices
frontiers are very long, and the shortest other great open spaces merely to gratify Sixteenth Century when a
•Wo St. Omer, there were 2,000 candidates.:
few stalls must have several million of trained men, and the outcome is "that over 5.000 ex. motorists who put speed before every were placed in the street there and workmen and peasants, as a reserve for Service men are being appointed to per
thing else.
vegetables sold from them. For years During last year we hearly solved the manent posts in the Civil Service. The The other day, Colonel Ashley, the past the trade in vegetables and fruited oticers. The old army of the Tsar difficult question of the non-commission- agreement.concluded last year has been Minister of Transport, said in reply to has amounted to an enormous total per was strong in its non-commissioned responsible for securing permanent enta question in the House of Commons annum; and the market is easily the officers, on whom the whole military power of the Tsar was founded. Our ployment for nearly 10,000 of the tem that he strongly deprecated any action largest as it is also the most famous in regimental schools, organised in the divi porary ex-Service men. The statesman in connection with traffic which would the world. It is said by the advocates siens, will give us about 75,000 non- like settlement of a difficult problem re- affect the parks. This is interpreted as of the change that produce could be fleets credit both on the Government and riposte to Sir, William Jeynson-Hicks taken to and from the Bloomsbury site on the men's leaders. It is agreeable to who in a speech the previous night sug more easily than is possible with Cevent place the fact upon record in view of the gested that a strip might be taken off the Garden as it is now, situated amidst complaints that are constantly heard north side of the Green Park to facilitate narrow streets... that Ministers have done little or nothinx traffic along Piccadilly. to deal with unemployment.
The Home Secretary has frequently advocated the MONEY-LENDERS ACTIVE
fares. greater use of the parks as thorough
Fearing that the legislation of which Lord Carson is the moving spirit will cripple their profits, money-lenders have been extraordinarily active of late. I have more circulars by post than ever. the following being a specimen:
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war.
Red Armists, trained for a year at commissioned officers yearly. These are?
after that time to be called up in case the regimental school, and going homa of war. These will be the chief support of the Red Army. We have a good num- ber of Red commanders who have finish. ed a normal school. The military school But if the vegetables are really going becomes yearly more powerful and better to be moved from Covent Garden every better at present.
organised. The food of the army is also I contains 3,138 Londoner will be curious to know what calories instead of 3012 as in June, 1995. This is a little bit more than the French will be allowed to take their places. No soldier has, who, we must admit, is not The Home Secretary controls the doubt same bold scheme will be devised. fed well. By-and-by we will be able to ford our Red Army still better. The police, who direct the trafic, but the and that it will not be forgotten that commander of a company receives 78 principle of the parson told the sexton Covent Garden not only lies in the con- roubles, of a regiment 155 roubles. This is not much. Our military and political And the sexton tolled the bell" does not rested pleasure quarter of London but chiefs deserve better pay. operate, for it is the Minister of Tranwas itself a pleasure ground in its early Our fleet has also worked successfully Messrs. Blank beg to advise you that'
during the last few years as regards they are prepared to advance sums from sport who in effect controls the roads days. It would be pleasant if. Inigo training of the crews and organisation. £50-£10,000 on note of hand, without any over which the traffic travels. As for the Jones's coldanades again became a haunt At present we have a fleet which, it is security whatsoever, to responsible peo- First Commissioner of Works, he is the of fashion, where one might resort to bat it will not allow the English shipa truc, could not engage the English Fleet, ple, who are in a position to repay by easy instalments over a period not ex Authority in the parks.
buy a book or take the air.
to come near Kronstadt unpanished. We ceeding three years, whilst the interest TELEPHONING TO BERLIN,
think that our feet will grow yearly in charged would be a small item. We do
BRITISH FILMA.
number. Not the attempted dictatorship. not make any enquiries nor do we re- Much interest is aroused by the
Lot Chamberlain will indicate to us the quive say fees either before or after busi-installation of a telephone service, be-cerned in promoting the production of bid us to build the ships we rear wide I learn that the various interests cpn limits of its strength. Nobody can for- ness is completed. We shall be glad to quote you for any an you may he re-tween London and Berlin, which came British films who have been imploring In quality, however, our feet will im
[of: The limits are all from another quiring upon receipt of your application, into operation in the last few days. I the President of the Board of Trade to prove. when the matter can be completed th in 94 hours."
was in a newspaper office in Fleet Street come to the rescue with an immediate grounded during the last years, and wo Our serial fleet has also been solidly when a member of the staff was talking
law are disappointed with his can really say that in a year or two it and the transmission was perfectly clear: They were hoping that the long period Till to the Berlin correspondent of the paper, statement this week to the film trade. will be quite serious for our neighbours. will represent "a military power which
These circulars are thrown into the
"quota
now our neighbours have had
fire by most people; but there are other who fall into the trap. There is some- thing, therefore, in the plea of the it was like speaking to someone in the of meditation which he has had would greater aerial ficcts in 'number than we, enemies of Shylock that the Post Office same room. The journalist in Berlin have produced something more definite But now
and perhaps superior also in_quality. ours is superior. The Red Sught not to deliver these circulars. poke of conversations he had had a few than a threat to bring in a Bill after Army is strong in spirit, healthy, and This reminds me of the little confession minutes before with Germans, and he nine months if the film. trade cannot has the best discipline. of a member of the House of Lords was told of what had just been said in End-its own solution. It is thought that recently that he always replied to money-diplomatic quarters here. The world this long period of uncertainty will en block booking by itself is not going to do lenders circulars, but was careful to seemed much closer with time and space able American interests to dig, them-assured that the agitation for a quota much for British films. Anyway, I am sign them in the names of his domestic on astonishingly overcome. animals-horses, cattle, dogs, etc. There after the blood-suckers (wrote regularly. and his Lordship found pleasure in the thought that he had induced them, to
EMPIRE PRODUCTĄ.
I understand that there is to be a Government announcement before long Spend a lot of money on stationery and marketing of Empire produce. It may regarding the proposal to assist the
postage stumps.
PUBLIC SCHOOL. AUTOCRATS.
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be recalled that last Summer the Govern- ment promised to ask Parliament to "A paragraph widely circulated in the sanction the expenditure of £1,000,000 a papers states that unless it is raining or year for the next ten years for this pur- BUarves are worn boys at Harrow School pose, but the proposal was opposed by in future will not wear their coat collars the agricultural interests in this country. turned up either for school or bill (roll English farmers naturally objected to call). The "edict is issued by the having to
find any part of the Philathletic Club at Harrow, which in money by which to subsidise colonial
some respecta is the parallel of Pop competitors.
at Eton. The Club has practically un-
limited powers in some respects, and
Now it is said that it is unlikely that
the full million pounds will be allocated
a notics on the school board must not be this year, but the Government will disregarded. It was formed in 1973, and only the leading boys of the school are elected to merabership, the head.bos of the school being president.
probably confirm an herangement where by 2500,000 will be spent, with the fall! amount in later years. It is pretty safe to affirm that the matter is not to be allowed to drop, in spite of the opposi tion of the agricultural community.. EXTRANCE FEES AND LONDON CLUES.
To the world at large the sartoriel fashions of English public, schoole may seem a small thing, but these rules haye in fact a most important discipinary It is of interest to note that the re- influence upon conduct and character. imposition, of an entrance fee in most of The turning up of a coat collar, the the good London clubs has had the conf turning down of a trouser end, a certain trary affect to that foretold by opponents Lype of die worn by bays in one form, but of reversion to the old rule. During the forbidden to boys of another, hooks car war and for some years alterwards the ried under the arm or no, according suspension of the rule was considered to status, the rolling up of an umbrellas necessary to attract candidates, the For the sitting on. a privileged wall, are assumption being that money was scarce in themselves rather absurd. Yet they In point of fact money was being, spent are part of a tradition, and in that they by all classes far more freely than be are rules laid down for boys by boys,fore, and the dearth of suitable candi- and have lasted for generations-boys dates was due to a temporary un- have lasted for generations-boys are popularity of a club's staid "atmos most conservative creatures they have phere" among young men. Now that their value.
the fever of restlessness has subsided the
selves in deeper than ever.
Hill will continue, whatever the trado There is not much enthusiasm over. the does not do. The idea seems to be that does or what. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister promise to legislate on block booking, large sections of the film industry are so because
It is held that doing away with tried up with American money that in-
dependent action is hardly (Continued on next Column.)
to be expected.-H.B.
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