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THE KING AND MR. MACDONALD.
"FANTASTIC STORIES "*
DENIED.
An official denial was given last month in London of the "fantastic stories" which have been circulat ing throughout the capitals of the world concerning the new Russian Ambassador's delay in presenting his credentials to the Court of St.
James'.
One Lewspaper even printed s statement purporting to have come from the, King.
Paris "Story," Continential journals have follow. ed suit. The Echo, da Paris, under the heading "George V. refuses to receive the Soviet Ainbassador," published the following:-
ANGLO-SOVIET AGREEMENT.
HOW BRITISH INDUSTRIES MAY BENEFIT.
RUSSIA TO SPEND £450,000,000.
AMBASSADOR'S ADVICE.
"A Favourable Sign."
AUTOMATIC AIR PILOTS.
NEW DEVICE FOR NIGHT BOMBERS.
RUSSIAN ALPHABET.
SIR DENISON ROSS AND THE PROJECTED REFORM.
THE MOST SENSIBLE IN
THE WORLD."
A squadron of heavy night bomb- ers of the Royal Air Force it London is being Atted with a new Russia thinks of revising her al- device, officially described as a phabet. According to the Izvestia, pilot's assister. This, in effect, is the official organ, of the Soviet An automatic pilot, which will con Government, three special Sub- We have every intention of ful-trol one of the large twin-engined Commissions have been attached to Alling loyally any obligation which night bombers for hours on end, the Glavnauka, the head scientifa maintaining any course previously department, to prepare a reform of we undertake, and at the same time rely on countries in friendship set by the pilot. Thus in war time Russian orthography, and work aut at his objective, while from the Latin alphabet for the present M. Sokolnikoff was received by with us taking into account on their pilot would arrive less fatigued scheme for the substitution of the
side the unalterable basis of our point of view of commercial air Cyrillic. the Prince of Wales.
political and economic system." transport the device should im- Sir E. Denison Ross, Director of It has been stated in Washington. This is one of the phrases in
the School of Oriental Studies, mensely simply cloud flying. that the King refused to receive M.
statement issued last month by
There is nothing new in the idea, London, commenting on the pro Sekoinikoff. American newspapers Mr. Sokolnikoff, the newly appoint and every country has for year posal, in an interview with a Presa have been publishing stories thated Soviet Ambassador in London, been working on such an apparatus. repotsentative, explained that the the Dominions are in revolt against who presented his credentials to the What is new is that the Royal Air Russian alphabet was devised by St. Downing-street.
of patron the Russian Prince of Wales the previous day,
craft Establishment have now pro Cyril, The fall text of the statement is duced a practical device which is Church" He drew up an al as follows:-
not sluggish on the one band or phabet," he said, which is the The full renewal of diplomatic over-sensitive on the other, yet is basis of the modern Russian al- relations between the U.S.S.R. and capable of correcting variations of phabet, though not the same. There Great Britain is a step undoubtedly a fraction of a degree from the set is the same construction, but it has The chief feature, as in about the same relation to the based on sound economic and poli- course.
4 gyro modern Russian alphabet as Anglo tical necessities. The absence of moet similar devices, is normal relations between the two scope, which is driven by compress Saxon to modern English.
"In this alphabet, though taking Governments rendered the interna ed air supplied from a wind-driven
and the samo Greek and Latin as the basis, het compressor, "From Our Own Correspondent.
tional situation. more acute, and air. "LONDON, December 19. was a constant menace to the main source of power is used to drive invented a number of consonania tenance of peace in which the work pneumatically worked pistons link-expressing sounds which cannot be "Questions are being asked why
ing masses are Vitally interested.ed to the Interal controls, the rud. represented by single letters either in Latin or Greek-for instance, the the new Soviet Ambassador, 31.
On the other hand, under such con- der, and the elevators. Efficiency Sokolnikoff, has not yet presented ditions it was impossible to develop has now been developed to a point sound of ah and ch, the sound_of his credentials. Very discure ex- planations have been given in the stable trading relations founded on when the automatic pilot controls teh, and the sound of ts. For mors precisely these sounds, which cannot be re- mutual confidence, and the well an aeroplane far Press and in the House of Com-own Egures for the trade turn than can the most dilled human presented by a single letter, he in- rucns. Even to-day Mr. Henderson declared, somewhat mysteriously: U.S.S.R. confirm this.
over between Great Britain and the pilot, and it works equally well on veated signs, with the result, in my humble opinion, that the Russian a general purposes two-seator, a that the Soviet Ambassador was not
flying-boat, or a heavy twin-engined alphabet is the most sensible one to be blamed for this delay."
aeroplane. The device has been in the world, because it has one "The truth is that the King ha I hope that the renewal of rela tested 00 many cross-country sign for one sound.
The Polish alphabet is an exam- categorically refused to receive the tiene and their further consolida flights, and pilots, having set a representative of Moscow. Theretion by taking into account the in-course, have flown for over 400 ple of the opposite system. The was a heated discussion the other terests of both countries will be miles without touching the controls, Poles tried to represent very similar day between the Sovereign and Mr. followed in the coming year by and have arrived over their destina-sounds by combining various letters MacDonald, who insisted that, the favourable results and will induce tion. Naturally the automatic de- of the Latin alphabet and made King should receive the Soviet a movement of the trade turnover rice can take no notice of changing what is a very clumsy script to look
in an opposite direction. It is a wind, and the pilot, having set at," It is easy to understand why favourable sign that already the course, must necessarily reset the the King of England showed some orders of Soviet organisations in device if during the flight there is repugnance to shaking hands with London amounted in October and any appreciable change in a side the representative of a Government November. 1929, to £3,687,700, as wind, though bumpy and boisterous which assassinated his cousin.
against £1,195,000 in the corre-air conditions merely result in the It should be remembered that a sponding months of 1925. How-mechanism having more work to do. delicate situation of this kind did ever, it does not follow from this Cloud and fog fying is thus not arise in the case of former that it would be advisable to shut robbed of most of its terrors, chief Soviet envoys. Neither Krassin nor
our eye to the difficulties which of which is the maintenance of a Rakovsky held the rank of am
have to be overcome before trade level keel. All pilots normally de. bassador, and having only the rank between the two countries will pend on the view of a horizon to of Minister they did not have the reach the proportions correspond- maintain the privilege of direct access to the ing to their economic possibilities machine, and when flying in fog a Sovereign.
and requirements.
heavy strain is imposed on the George V., despite the insistance
At the present time nobody can pilot. He must watch his turn in of Mr. MacDonald, refused to re- deny the extraordinarily rapid dicator to see that he does not cive M. Sokolnikoff, but finally & growth in the national economy of swing off his course; he must study compromise was arrived at. It will U.S.S.R. The five years' plan his engine revolution-counter close- devolve on the Prince of Wales to
of economic development has ally to know whether he is uncon receive the Soviet Ambassador. ready in the first year not only been sciously clumbing or is depressing probably before Christmas.
fulfilled but the estimates provided the nose of the machine; he must in the five years' plan for 1928-29 watch his air speed indicator for have been exceeded. The increase the same reason; and also any in- in the output of industry in 1925-28 clicometers which will tell him wns 24 per cent, over that in 1827 about his position laterally. The 29, and in 1919-30 it is estimated automatic pilot relieves him of most to increase the output by 32 per of this concentrated attention on cent. over that in the previous year many instruments, and with the loos (the calculations are made through- of fatigue the pilot is less liable to critica! out in unchanging values), whereas errors. of judgment at the annual increase was put down moments, while his navigation, will in the five years' plan at 20-21 per be more accurate as his average to a Press representative:-
cent.
course will have been more con- Various versions of the story The capital investments in instant. have been circulating all over the dustry and the construction of elec The military value of the device. world for the last ten days. Ittrical power stations in 1929-30 is besides the lessening of physical started in New York with the pub fication of message from London by an American journalist. There was not one atom of truth in any thing that was said.
Ambassador.
In order to find a precedent the Prince deputised for the King the other day to receive M. Skirmunt, the Polish Minister, who has been raised to the rank of ambassador, This precedent will be invoked if the Soviets make any complaint, but it is the Poles who will not be. pleased.'
Fantasy.
A high Government official said
estimated at nearly £450,000,000, The greater part of this capital expenditure is to be used for the construction of new factories and the re-equipment of the old ones. Since that time the fantasy has This in its turn will make it neces grown. Newspapers on the Consary to import larg quantities of tinent have added highly coloured machinery and all kinds of equip- touches here and there, and ex- ment. larged on the original theme.
The King is not undertaking any duties of state at the prozent time.
He has not even held a smail lerse. He will be unable for some time yet to put on state uniforms and Hold formal receptions.
Lave simply ignored it. The Soviet Ambassador was received to-day by the Prince of Wales, and that is the end of it."
"
balance of
the
strain, is that in a national emer gency it would be possible to send out pilote with less training in navigation. A bombing formation could be sent out with two or three experienced pilots leading with a reasonable certainty that the forma tion would keep together on a long- range flight in mixed weather con What Russia Will Want,
ditions. More squadrons in due Consequently, and this is parti course will be supplied with the cularly important for the prospect device, which it te intended shall of Anglo-Soviet trading relations, become a standard fitment on many the demand on the part of the types. U.S.S.R. is growing, particularly
This ludicrous report is based for metallurgical products, machi tions will be investigated, very purely on wild speculation. Wenery and tools, products of the thoroughly in the coming negotia
electrical and chemical industries, tions and that every effort wid be means of transport (ships), etc. made to find a solution to the prob The very rapid development of lems confronting th State and co-operative large-scale
"I should at the same time add agricultural enterprises is creating that the Soviet Union (e., the an enormous demand for tractors wide toiling masses who welcome and combines and other compler the restoration and development of Anglo-Soviet economic relations) The demand of the Soviet market are at the same time fully conscious will make it desirable for British of the important auccesses achieved industry to study seriously the by the Soviet economy in spite of nuestion of adaptation to the pecu- the almost complete foreign finan- liarities of that market, and at the cial isolation. Game time it may lead to the ex-
"We have every intention of lul. pansion of those branches of infilling loyally any obligations which dustry the products of which can
we undertake, and at the same time find a large eale in the U.S.8.R.
rely on countries in friendly rela- tions with us taking into account on their side the unalterable basis of our political and economic sys-
"PARAFFIN " THAT WAS agricultural machinery.
WATER,
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S
TRICKS. : Described by the Chief Constable as the craftiest child he had ever known, a seven-year-old girl, who was summoned at a children's court at Chester for wandering on Decem- ber 9, was stated to have committed a number of thefts along with her five-year-old brother.
The Chief Constable said that they first came under the notice of the police when their parents stated that they had been stealing, and they then had £1 which had been taken from a stolen purse, The girl had also stolen from a confee tioner's shop.
On December 14 the girl obtained 2d. by means of a trick which one would hardly believe such a child. could carry out. She was naked by a woman to go and get some paraffin, and was given a bottic and Bd. She returned with a bottle purporting to contain paraffin, and the change. When the woman at tempted to use the "oil" she found it was water...
The case was adjourned for a week for arrangements to be made to send the child to a hume.
Credits and Claims. Another problem to be faced is that connected with finance. With out the necessary financial arrange- raents for the purpose of establish ing stable and rapid extension of trade between Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. the development of economic relations is bound to pro ceed more slowly. Endeavouring to carry out more rapidly and success fully its place of Socialist recon- struction, the Government of the U.S.S.R. on its side will be ready to take steps toward a settlement of the financial claims which are heing made upon it, taking into account our counterclaims. But whatever stepa the Soviet Govern ment may take for this purpose they must be directly connected with measures favourable to the further development and consolida tion of the national economy of the USSI. I hope that these ques (Continued on next Column.)
tem
Under such circumstances it will be posible to consolidate the relations between the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, founded as they will. be on mutual benefit, and to lay the foundation of a lasting and peace
between the co-operation ful peoples of the two countrica,"
After presenting his credentials to the Prince of Wales, Mr. Sokol nikoff called at the Foreign Office to meet Mr. Arthur Henderson, tho Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in order that they might exchange Notes between the two Governments in regard to pro- The main Notes, were paganda. concerned with undertakings be- tween the United Kingdom and the Soviet Republic, and it is presum ed that there were also Notes in which similar assurances were given in regard to the Dominions,
The Russian alphabet until 1917 had certain letters and certain orthographic signs which, though etymologically important, were not the pronunciation. necessary for Every final consonant had an ortho- graphical sign after it to show whether it was pronounced hard or soft. One of the reforms was to drop the bard sign altogether in writing, so that there only remain ed the soft sound. Then there was
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volution they have dropped that, others without it. Since the Re- and write the simple letter only. amount of advance. Now, if the Izvestia is correct, it looks as if they are going to abolish the Rus- sian and substitute the Latin al- pbabet; and in the process I see no remedy for them but to imitate more or leas the Polish, unless in adopting the Latin alphabet they also invent signs corresponding to the Cyrillic consonants not repre- seated in the Latin alphabet,
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The Russian vowel system is with the same pronunciation as an ordinary e, which was etymological-much more complicated than the important. It was the bugbear Latin, and nearly every vowel has of every Russian child and of the (Continued on next Column.)
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