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BUT GERMANY
BY LOSSES
HIT
CREDIT QUARREL
London, Oct. 26.
While the turn-over of Anglo- Russian trade in the first six months of this year aurpassed that of the corresponding period in 1933. hy about 60 per cent, German commerce with the Soviets has been dwindling rapidly.
due pre-
A Gown In Claret Coloured Velvet
WITH WIDE BERTHE
Examination of reliable figures has revealed that, wille Russin has been ruthlessly throttling her Im- perts, Iritain has moved up to first. place among the countries from which Moscow buying. Whether deliberately or fortuitously, the British have profited both by the frigid Russo-German political rein- tions and consequent slump in their trade and by the stagnation in Russo-American cominerce, partly to failure to settle Bolshevik debts to the United States and partly to disagreement on credit facilities to the Sovieta,
How severely Germany has suf. fered in the Russian market is in- dicated by the fact that German exports to the Soviet Union in the first half-year of 1984 were valued at only 30,000,000 marka, nя com- pared with 173,500,000 marks during the corresponding
In- German months of 1933. ports from
have Russia
in remained almost statlonury the two periods mentlaned, having totalled 80,400,000 and 83,100,000 marks in the first semesters of 1994 and 1933 respectively.
SERIOUS LOSS.
дія
As a result, Germany's share of Kassia's global imports hus fallen from more than 50 per cent, during the first few months of 1933 to 15 per coat. this
According to the Frankfurter
approximately
year.
"Wool Net". A gown in rinret colour "ring" velvet wak very smartly finished with a berthe of coffre-cotaur wool ne! which had an edging of wond tokarir.
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JACKET" POTATOES
A
BROADCASTS THAT
GO ASTRAY
A special committee has been set up as the result of the recent meeting of the International Scientific Radio, Union in Loudon to tackle one of the most extra- ordinary problems ever encoun- tered in radio selence,
The committee has not itself the task of finding out why, when as radio listener tunes into a pro gramme, say, from a station like Droitwich, which radiatos On wavelength of 1,500 metres, he hears instead programme of dance music coming from Athlone -the wavelength for which is only 631 metres.
A
Interference
IA wal
unusual when the stations are approximate-; ly the same wavelength, but when their wavelengths are na far apart ng in the case of Droitwich and Athlone such reception constitutes something dew to radio experi- ! menters,
It has been found to happen with many other pairs of stations.
Professor E. V. Appleton, one of the foremost authorities on these subjects, and a number of other leading scientists are follow-} ing a remarkable line of investiga- tion.
WAR FACTOR.
LARGE potato roasted in its jacket makes an excellent foundation for a quick, hot meal. It suggests that when the pro-|
Cut it in half lengthwise when gramme transmitted from Droft- two sections wich travels in the form of wire. done, sprinkle the
to the upper atmosphere with grated cheese, and put a few less pats of butter on top. Return the millions of miles above the earth. halves to the oven until nicely it cuts across the programme be- Ing broadenst by a station such as browned.
Another way is to cut the potato; Athlone, as before, scoop out the foury part carefully and mix it with a little f butter, milk, seasonings, and feely Programme from Droitwich get chopped parsley. Return it to its mixed up with the music waves half-Jackets, and heat through and coming from Athlone---selentists do not really know how--and the brown in the oven.
Somehow the waves of the talks
Alternatively, the couped-out Pult is that the music goes to the Zeitung, Soviet orders being placei į potato can be mixed with beaten Droitwich listeners and at certain: in Germany now range between
cxx. In this case the "inckets,"times the talks go to Athlone lis three and four million marks a
after refilling, must be baked for tenera, month
In the meantime, Russia has twenty minutes or so in a moder. Awiftly been paying back to Gerate oven in order to cook the egg
Other savoury auditions
are many the credits granted for pur-chopped walnuts, gherkins, onions,
German products. Ger- chuse of
may's outstanding credits to the ham and tongue. Soviets are now estimated at about 300,000,000 marks, contrasted with
about 1.500,000,000 marks in 1931-
32.
CREDIT 'DISPUTE.
EMANCIPATION
OF GIPSY
of
The systematic curtailment Russian orders in Germany and the stendy repayment of German Predits to the Soviets has been dule,
LEADERS. SEEKING RECOGNITION
not merely to the political and The first Tzigane daily paper. social-antagonism of the Kremlin. Neamul Ciganesc (Tzigane Nation). towards Nazi Germany, but also to appeared in Bucharest recently, and
the
of the appearance inability of the Germane and marks
un independent na- Russians to agree on credit condi-Tziganes us Lions and prices for future busi- tionality. ness. According to German sources !
was
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"Nay, Tom, A," not Í lanng.). 16 in lock is famous,
Sa impressed are radio selentists with this new phenomenon that they are to call on the World Radio
tesearch League the organisa-1 tion of amateur experimenters 12 Dynasty'. formed by the B.B.C.--lo help them,
Mr. Ralph Stranger, secretary of the League, anys, "The subject has infinite possibilities.
"It is fascinating to think that if such interference between stations can be controlled it may become a vital force in warfare.
Wireless war. propaganda, for instance, could be changed by an enemy country."
GENEROUS LEGACY
24,000,000 FOR FIGHT
AGAINST CANCER
The Tzigunes in Rumania nom. of information, Moscow has beenber one million souls, and in the lusisting on six to ten, year terms latest Rumanian statistics they of payment for further big pur are recognised as a separate na- IL A few weeks aga chases in Germany, whereas the tionality. Germans declare that Russin has muss meeting of Tziganes been asking excessive prices for held at Nagyszeben, in Transyl- commodities which Germany would vanin, and the Romany folk of the otherwise import from the Soviet whole world were called on to Union.
co-operate in elevating their face
Count Jacob Potocki, whose Whatever its causes, the drastic from the inferior position it has
death was announced recently, hus drop In Soviet buying in Germany held until now. has universally been recognised as The president of the meeting left almost his entire fortune, the Tzigane valued at 100,000,000 zlotys' (about one of the fundamenal reasons for and organiser of
In # Bucharest £1,000,000), to be devoted to the the German acute shortage of gold emancipation" and foreign currency which Ger- florist, Nicolescu, who urges the struggle against cancer and tuber- many requires to finance her im Rumanians occupying high post-culosis. ports-United Press,
tion who are of Tzigane descent
BUST FOR VIENNA
the
to confess their origin openly.
and
He owned lurge estates Dr. Nicoliescu Plopsor, a pro-numerous chateaux in Poland, and fessor in Crajova, who declares hotels in Paris, Biarritz, Cannes, himself to be of gray origin has and Juan-les-Pina. completed a Tzigane grammar, He has bequeathed his library and recently published collected
and a magnificent art collection to A bust of Madach, the author or edition of gipsy songs. This book the National Library and Museum "The Tragedy of Man," which was is stated to be the first book pub- respectively. commissioned by
Madachished In this language, apart Society from a Hungarian sculptor, | from aume grttumars, among During his life Count Potockl. will be bought by Herr Robbeling which the grammar written by the one of the richest men in Poland, of the museam of the Burg Inte Archduke Joseph is me of was well known for his philan- Theatre, In Vienna.
the pidest.
BALESMAN SAM
thropy.
Ho Oughta Know!
Spider here, bird or unt,
1
1 The youngster who completely
Krips.
14 Skins many be so speil, 16 Mother, rune into a corner la
wring out the clothes. 18 The surt of far you may get in a
Dutch town.
20 Pin (not poet and peasant, 22. My pugs are made of plaster of
paris,
24 You may read without skipping:
these skip without rending. Paradises (and in the ship, teall for children.
20 Opening question.
30 This may be dressed in costume
In
31 Great pain is indiented.
32 Sadly, I say, this makes vile hay. 833 On "yon log, Portha" site study-
Ing this (anag.).
Down
Leave a strip in the middle.
Make trocks for this.
-4 Soul personified.
6 Sounds as though bunny had go!
into a groove, doesn't it?
G Clowns: there are lots around
you.
7 Related as changed.
8 Certain mathematics which lend
ta, more trying.
9 Affords protection against oil,
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15 A kun is the right thing for
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17 Fiddle string you can pull the
wrong way.
19 Bark.
21 The gems of birds that best an
Indian city.
23 Rotaling anything on its axin. 25. One would think its weight was
now well known,
20 When you address his lordship
It is quite the right thing, "to" mention his shop.
28 Not much,
29 The timorous bird.
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