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cloth looks like; From time to irrigating cottonfields in Turkes- time some of these rare treasures tan was drafted by complete en- would appear for sale at a certain gineers. But it was converted time of the day, but the tchast-into an utterly Utopian and im- niki, being in league with the practable plan. It was submitted ́shopkeepers, were always on the to Moscow (passing up from one spot. Ordinary citizens had no authoritative body to another) chance at all, unless by pure luck and millions of roubles were ad- Articles of luxury are as good they happened to be in the shop vanced. These millions were An appeal is being made. for as unknown in Russia. They buying something else when the simply squandered, largely by £30,000 to acquire land in Pulford- are not sold in the shops, and no treasures arrived,

managers who never dreamt of street, near Grosvenor-road, as a one is particularly interested in Throughout the past winter carrying out the projects for housing site for Westminster. The them. Indeed, there can be no the queues before the food and which they received the money. land is owned by the L.C.C., and such interest when the supply of provision stores and shops were And all this was spread over the Duke of Westminster.has gen- essential articles for everyday like those of the worst famine years.

erously offered to give half an acre consumption is thoroughly bad years. At first it was vegetable The Dnieper affair is to come of frontage to complete the site, if and irregular. This is one of the fats that were lacking. Then before the courts very soon. The it is acquired to give homes for the

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STOP DIGESTIVE PAIN QUICKLY.

excess

circumstances that cause us goap grew scarce, and is not easy details are not published.

It is working classes, never-ending annoyance. When to get even now. The shortage of only clear that millions were tem, etc. Moderate rent to carefulTHE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY thing we rarely get it at once, and Since January no butter, whether were ripe,

worse. squandered before even the plans is chairman of the Pulford-street In a letter to Lady Walston, who we go to a shop to buy some-butter has been even

The worst attacks of indigestion are WARNED that the only the experience of years teaches us fresh or salted, has been obtain-

Site Committee, the Prime Minister stopped in a few seconds by taking a genuine

Another typical case is that of Lipton's Теа No. 1 that we can obtain warm woollen able (the authorities consoled the our two largest glass factories. expresses his sympathy with the ap-immediately after eating." "Bisurated" little Bisurated Magnesia in water “YELLOW LABEL," bears Chiness clothing (needed for the bitterly workmen in the factories by in- Both manufactured bottles worth peal, and says: "Having lived in Magnesia goes right to the seat of the Charactors on the top of the tin. cold Russian winter) only in the forming them that the butter had about forty copecks each so in- Westminster for many years, I trouble, neutralises whilst Inside the lid will be found spring, that we can obtain light been sent to the metal-workers on efficiently that the State suffered gladly support the proposal, which stops fermentation, and soothes, heals acidity, a Coupon. 12 Coupons from 1 lb. summer clothes only in the strike in Germany). For a time a loss of thirty-three copecks on has as its object the provision of lining made raw by the action of acids. and strengthens the inflamed stomach tins or 24 Coupons from 1⁄2 lb. tina autumn, and snow shoes only in there was no flour. Some things each bottle. This reminds me of additional dwellings for can be exchanged for a 1⁄2 lb. tin summer. It is only the "tchast are unobtainable, other things are another instance of wastefulness, workers in Westminster who are sands of people who once suffered with those Bisurated' Magnesin is used by thou- of Tea, Free of Charge on applica-niki," the private dealers, who merely scarce, but there is no- The State drug stores used to obliged to live close to their work. this real remedy that never falle, now Indigestion, but, having discovered tion to

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30TH ANNIVERSARY OF LORD

KELVIN'S MESSAGE.

The message

SWINDLING MADE EASY. Every Soviet citizen knows that only a small fraction of the "graft" going on in Russia is re- vealed through the Press. One can never tell who has a hand in it and who has not. There are the old factory-owners and em- ployers who now occupy honour- ed posts in all economic adminis- trative centres, then there are The first paid Marconigram was the new and undefined "special- transmitted on June 3, thirty years ists," and there are the downright ago. The message was sent by rogues and swindlers who fly the Lord Kelvin, who at that time, with red flag. And then there are Lady Kelvin and Lord Tennyson, many Communists who fought was visiting Senatore Marconi's ex- heroically on countless battle-perimental wireless station at the fields in the civil war and who Needles, Isle of Wight. that the administrative appara- answer.

now enjoy the forbidden fruits of "We haven't any to- bourgeois culture" and "bour-

In order to show his appreciation tus is defective. We visit the pri- day," or "None has come in," or geois comfort." Indeed, it is of the work Senatore Marconi had vate shops to buy tools, pots and "We've run out," and if you try these "commissars" who, in ac accomplished and to illustrate his pans, dairy produce, and, indeed, to make closer inquiries as to cordance with Communist party belief in Its commercial future, all the things we weary of vainly why you cannot get what you discipline, are sent from one

Lord Kelvin insisted upon paying -Public Auctions-asking for in the Government want you will get no answer other State trust to another and are one shilling each for wireless tele-

stores and co-operatives. But we than abuse.

expected to possess technical grams he sent to Sir George Stokes, When a commodity runs short knowledge and to lead the "Soat Cambridge; to Lord Rayleigh and THE Undersigned have received have to pay more for them TH

sometimes instructions to sell by Public cent. or even 50 per cent. more. market (except illicitly).

as 25 per it is no longer sold on the free cialist reconstruction even in its Mr. W. H. Preece, in London; and to X Auction

It is technical aspects-it is precisely Dr. McLean, his chief assistant in This percentage represents (1) only obtainable by means of a these who are the cover under the Physical Laboratory of the Uni- ON

the sums paid in bribing the off- "labour credi"that is to say, which swindlers of all kinds can versity of Glasgow. MONDAY, the 9th July, 1928, cials and Government employers on credit against a voucher do their business so easily.

at 11 o'clock a.m.

who allow the tchastniki to buy stamped by the factory or by

to Sir George Stokes was as fol. There is starvation in some of low:- showing a co-operative member- the villages. What small surplus ment; (2) insurance to cover the

of grain and agricultural produce

Stokes, Lenafield Cottage, Cam- risks involved in this bribery.

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shilling to Bournemouth and products were almost unobtain-

thence by postal telegraph fifteen able. With the new year the sup-

pence, to Cambridge-Kelvin. ply of industrial products (such

to the big towns, which are over-

Lord Tennyson also sent a mes- MILLIONS SQUANDERED. as it was) began to be directed

crowded enough already, and sage to his nephew, at Eton, in into the villages, and since then Production is no better than ment. The sale of land is forbid-

where there is vast unemploy- which he said.- the townspeople can get less than distribution. The excuses for den and severely punished if de- ever. People in England could failure and incompetence are like tected. Nevertheless, it goes on hardly imagine what it is like. the dreams of à lunatic. Last in secret. The agricultural policy For example, suppose I want to autumn it was the "war danger." of the Russian Government is buy half a dozen handkerchiefs, Now it is "the counter-revolu- being undermined not so much by one bed sheet, some linen, and a tionary plot in the Don basin." the kulaks, or wealthier peasants, dozen buttons. I may have to In my opinion the authorities but by the poorest of the poor visit one shop, after another and could just as well have construed under pressure of terrible econo- go from street to street and a "plot" out of the Turkestan mic distress. stand in queues for hours, and irrigations affairs or out of a THE WELL-TO-DO PEASANTS. then consider myself lucky if I dozen affairs that have come or

HEALTHY AT 100. got half the things needed. But are about to come

In the more fertile areas, where should you have extravagant courts. It may be that in one they have one aim to do busi-

before the the peasants are really well off, DELICATE BOY OF WHOM THE ideas and dream of buying a nail- affair more of the former employ- ness with the tchastniki and to

DOCTOR DESPAIRED. brush, a mirror, a teaspoon, or an ers or present employers (whe- sell no more than they need to enamelled teapot, you will be un- ther Russian or foreign) are in- buy foods in town.

Mr. Joseph Moore, who lives in usually fortunate if you get any volved than in another, but, judg-last two months attempts were

During the Hillsboro'-road, East Dulwich, has thing at all.

Throughout the ing by what is published in the made to compel them to sell their celebrated his one hundredth birth- whole winter it was impossible to Russian papers, they are all more grain. In actual practice there day. get a single arshin (about a or less alike and are all typical of has been little difference between Mr. Moore is not à teetotaller or yard) of flannel, and we were be-

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