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London, 16th March.-The- Times Riga correspondent Thore is a passage in Sir Moscow, reports an acute fuel Loonard Dugning's annual report shortage resulting in the cancel on the police forces of England ation of four daily passenger and Wales which has a particular Leningrad-Moscow trains and the Interest for the City of London. This passage deals with the diff- curtailing of other services, In- culty of finding suitable police cluding the Leningrad-Moscow reoruits; and the City cannot get
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policomon so easily as it used to. The shortage in attributed to Why is it, aske Sir Leonard Dun- the Soviet's encouragement of the ping. that the policeman's many coal and naptha export trade, opportunities of valuable service sacrificing home requirements.
repeated to the community do not attract? Lator--Despite
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To a great oxtent, ho answers, adaption the locomotives use conl, the police are what the com- naptha and wood, which ever s munity make thom, and mistakon" available, and the shortage of all ideas of their mutual relations on three has created the fuel crisis the part of mombers of the com- in Russia which, with a shortage monity are rosponsible for some of trucks and locomotives, is of the practices which tend to becoming a catastrophe. koep back rather than raiso, the There is very serious conges- service in the public eye. Some tion at the sidings and warehouses people, perhaps many people, tako in all the producing districts, thoir impression of a policeman where the stocks will be delayed from the policeman of the panto, for months, says the Times Riga mime and tho chance of correspondent...
Association with that picturo It is officially stated that 7,000 and the ridicule attaching, to trucks of grain have accumulated it chokes off mon whom at three junctions near. Tambov. hotter under
understanding Many have not been moved of police work might attruct since November, with the result Those who have known the that the grain is rotting. sorvico from within for many
30,000 further tons of grain are years have to admit that picture waiting in warehouses. with the practicos which it sug-
the
geste, is not exactly an invention, The Commisslar of Communica but they know, too, the feeling, tions at Rufzutak declares that which is growing stronger in the the Soviet has entered on a trans- service itself, against practices' port crisis which menaces which keep the policeman löwor, entire economic system.
The stocks of locomotives and down the social scale than his' profession doserves. Sir Leonard trucks are exhausted. and there Dunning suggests that the polico is no means of repairing or re- can do much to mise their pro-, newing the trucks,
fession in the social scale. He The shortage of trucks will pre- considers that goners adoption sently reach 50,000.
af.the opinion of the Desborough |
Committee and the Branch Board
would go far to teach people and
police alike that police duty is duty to the community, not to the individual, performed be- cause it is duty and not with any. viow to rewards, gratuitios, Christmas-baxos, free food and drink, or tips under any name. Acceptance of such favours puta
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INDIAN PRINCE AT BATH 'VARSITY RAG..
The Mayor of Bath took part in an elaborate spoof" on tha citizens in connection with a re- cent 'Varsity "rag," which he heartily supported in face of the committee of the local hospital, for whose funds it was originally projected.
Crowds turned out to see the mayor and corporation officially receive an Indian prince and his coloured, suite, who arrived to grace the proceedings,
A dais had been erected, and the speeches were broadcast by loud speakers,
The mayor delivered a dignified) address of welcome, and the gor- geously dressed princo read a reply. Fow realised that it was part of the "rag" until a number of "policemen "burst out of the historic Pump Room, where they had been in hiding, causing first astonishment and thon peals of laughter.
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POLICE ARREST PRINCE. The "chief constable" informed the mayor that the "prince" was an imposter, and whon his worship, who feigned surprise, demanded! hisauthority, the "chiof" produced warrant 5ft, long, with a seal as big as a sunflower, and read it.
The mayor intervened in vain. The Indians were bundled off to waiting police cars and disappear-
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Thon a body of Ku Klux Kling- men swooped down on the astonished corporation and arrest- ed two of the chief aldermen, Sir Harry Hall and Mr. Porcy Jack- men. Handcuffed together, they were hauled on to the platform," and thore publicly austioned. Bidding started at 6d. and reach- ed £20 at. which figure the pair: were knocked down to the mayor! who, as an act of clemency, or dorod their release instead of the alternative of "a night in quod, with a fah-and-chip supper and one glass of beer."
At night there were processions and torchlight tattoos, and the hospitals of the two committees will benefit by a bumper colleo- tion.
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