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BUT GERMANY HIT BY LOSSES
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 by about 60 per cent.. German commerce with the Sovieta has been dwindling rapidly.
Examination of reliable figures has revealed that, while Russia hus been ruthlessly throttling her Im- porta, Britain has moved up to first place among the countries from which Moscow is 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 commerce, due to settle pre- partly to failure Bolshevik debta to the United States and partly to disagreement on credit facilitica to the Soviets.
How severely Germany has auf- fered in the Russian market is in- dicated by the fact that German exporta to the Soviet Union in the first half-year of 1834 were valued at only 30,000,000 marks, as com-
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"Wood Net". A gown in claret colour "ring" pelvet TENTA very smartly finished with a berthe of coffee-ratnur wool net which had an edging of wao! faasrts.
pared with 173,500,000 marks"JACKET" POTATOFS
during the corresponding
months of 1938. German im- A LARGE potato roasted in its
have
ports from Russia remained almost stationary the two perioda mentioned, having totalled 80,400,000 and 83,100,000 marka in the first semesters of 1934 and 1933 respectively.
SERIOUS LOSS.
excellent
WIRELESS
MYSTERY
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 London to tackle one of the most extra-i ordinary problems ever encoun- tered in radio science.
The committee has set Itself the task of finding out "why, when a radio listener tunes into a pro-! gramme, say, from antation Ilke Droitwich, which "radiates on a wavelength of 1,500 metres, he hears instead a programme of dance music coming from Athlone
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the wavelength for which is only USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP
631 metres.
not
únusual
Interference in when the stations are approximate- ly the same wavelength, but when their wavelengths are as far apart as in the case of Droitwich and Athlone Buch reception constitutes Homething new to, radio experi- mentera.
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.
to
jacket maker an
It suggests that when the pro- in foundation for a quick, hot meal.
Cut it in half lengthwise when granime transmitted from Drolt- done, sprinkle the two sections wich travels in the form of wire- 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- browned,
ing broadenst by a station such as Another way is to cut the potato Athlone,
As a result, Germany's share of Russia's global imports has fallen from more than 50 per cent, during the first few months of 1938 to approximately 15 per cent.
this According to the Frankfurter
Alternatively, the scooped-out result is that the music goes to the Droitwich listeners and at certain Zeitung, Soviet orders being placed potato can be mixed with beaten.
as before, scoop out the floury part Somehow the waves of the talks carefully and mix it with a little butler, milk, seasonings, and finely programme from Droitwich get chopped parsley, Return it to its mixed up with the musle waves coming from Athlone-scientists half-jackets, and heat through and do not really know how-and the brown in the oven.
year.
in Germany now range between egg. In this case the "jackets," Limes the talks go to Athlone la-
three and four million marks after refilling, must be baked for month.
teners.
So impressed are radio scientists In the meantime, Russia has twenty minutes or so in a moder- swiftly been paying hack to Ger-ate oven in order to cook the egg with this new phenomenon that Other AA YUES additions are they are to call on the World Radio many the credits granted for pur-chopped walnuts, gherkins, onions. Research Lengae-the organisa. chase of German products.
tion of amateur experimenters formed by the many's outstanding credits to the ham and tongue- Soviets are now estimated at about
them. 300,000,000 marks, contrasted with
Ger-
about 1.500,000,000 marks in 1931-
32.
CREDIT DISPUTE.
EMANCIPATION OF GIPSY
LEADERS SEEKING
RECOGNITION
The systematic curtailment of Russian orders in Germany and the steady repayment of German eredits to the Soviets has been due, not merely to the political and The first Tzigane dally paper. ocial antagonism of the Kremlin Neamul Ciganenc (Tzigane Nation) towards Nazi Germany, but also to appeared in Bucharest recently, and the of appearance and marks the inability of the Germans
an independent na- Russians to agree on credit condi-Tziganes as tions and prices for future si-tionality. ness. According to German sources
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B.B.C.-to
help
Mr. Ralph Stranger, secretary of the League, says, "The subject has infinite possibilities.
"It is fascinating to think that
interferencn if such
between slations can be controlled it may become a vital force in warfare.
"Wireless war propaganda, for instance, could be changed by an enemy country.
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Acron
1 Al Paris, Sara, goes for thla
leink,
"Nay, Tom, A," not' I fanng.). 10 His lock is famous.
11 Salder horse, bird or aut.
12 Dynasty. 14 The youngster who completely
grips,
14 Skins may be so spelt,
16 Mother runs into a corner, lu
wring out the clothes, 18. The fort of jar you may get in a
Dutch town.
20 Pin (not port) and peusunt.
My pugs are made of plaster of parik.
24 You may read without skipping:
these skip without reading. 27 Paradises (and in the ship, too!)
for children.- ---- -
29 Opening question.
10 This may be dressed in contume
-or in salad.
31 Great pain is indicated.
112 Sadly, I say, this makes vile bay. 33 On "yan log. Portha" sits study-
ing this (anng.).
Down
2 Leave a strip in the middle.
3 Make tracks for this.
4 Soul personified.
Sounds as though bunny had got into a groove, "doesn't it?
The Tziganes in Rumania num. of Information, Moscow has beenber one million souls, and in the insisting on six to ten year terms latest Rumanian statistics they of payment for further big pur-are recognised as a separate an A few weeks ago a chases in Germany, whereas the tionality.
WILS Germans declare that Russia has mass 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 race
you. Jacob Potocki, whose Whatever its causes, the drastic from the inferior position it has
death was announced recently, has fortune, drop in Soviet buying in Germanyheid until now.
The president of the meeting left almost his entire tras universally been recognised as one of the fundamenal reasons for and organiser of the Tzigane valued at 100,000,000 zlotys (about IL Bucharest £4,000,000), to be devoted to the the German acute shortage of gold emancipation is 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.
BUST FOR VIENNA
Count
tion who are of Tzigane descent He owned large estates and
to confess their origin openly.
Dr. Nicoliesen Plopsor, a pro- numerous chateaux in Poland, and fessor in Craiova, who declares Hotels in Paris, Biarritz, Cannes, himself to be of gipsy origin has and Juan-les-Pins. completed a Tzigane grammar, He has bequeathed his library and recently published a collected and a magnificent art collection to A bust of Madach, the author of edition of gipay 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 the Madach lished in this language, apart
JAYTONX During his life Count Potocki, Society from a Hungarian sculptor, from Dome will be bought by Herr Robbeling which the grammar written by the one of the richest men in Poland, his philan- the Burgte Archduke Joseph is one of was well known for
the oldest. ·
of the museum Theatre, in Vienna.
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7 Related as changed.
8 Certain mathematles which lead
to more trying.
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23 Rotating anything on its axis.
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26 When you address his lordship
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