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A PILGRIM ON THE SOMME

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and so friendly. He understands why I have come back. Now for the test. Can I find the place?

I ask, "Are there two big holes hereabouts?" Pause. Yes, there

are! He points the direction. They are full of slime and water. Good! I am on the track of the two craters. But wait. These may be any two big holen.

A

"Is here a belt of chalk just near the craters?" (I guess that been well the chalk gaps have dynamited and filled in). There

THE CHINA MAIL

Business Is Better In Britain

Facts From The People Who Know

NO

WILD OPTIMISM EXISTS

London, July 23.

la it true that, after yeare of 'dif- is! Somehow I feel terribly glad.ficulty, hardship, and depression, Itrade is beginning to show signs of I know that this is the place.

ļa permanent improvement? walk forward and he followe, as keen as I am.

It is.

work than there were last year.

Men

"It has been common for a long time now to hear of orders for quarter dozens," Mr. Purt, of the Chamber of Commerce, told me. "That day la gone. Leather and A special correspondent sent last wool prices are advancing. 1 take a compass, but there is no need, for I can plainly see the week by the London "Sunday Ex who have been losing money for "I press" to study the situation in the years cannot afford to risk not tracing of the German line. have found the place within a great manufacturing towns of Eng buying on a rising market. They {yard or so. Something rusty lies and, with instructions to write may be caught.

"It is not a spasmodic advance, at my and half embedded in frankly what is being done and what teeth and the ground has the people who know are saying, or merely a seasonal thing. It is

I stoop 'been roughly ploughed. land pick it up. It is a British wire-cutter, the type that fitted beneath the bayonet on one's rifle, and did its work so inadequately one when I went into I carried action.

By farmer says nothing, but turns back to his horses and the ploughing. He knows that I want to be alone. OUT IN

can

NO MAN'S LAND It was here that I lay for three days and nights. I close my eyes and an appalling stench comes to avre, London, Hamburg, my nostrils. I

hear the Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

vicious whine of bullets and the staccato rapping of the Bosch

The machine-guns,

air is alive With screamlog shrapnel and the ground seems to reverberate with giant percussions of H.E. the shells. Men are shouting and cry-

Marseilles & London.

London, Hamburg,

4th Nov. Bages, HAVE, & Hull.

11th Nov.

Rotterdam, Antwerp 15,000 18th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15,000

6,800 9th Dec. 17,000 18th Dec. 15,000 30th Dec. €,000 8th Jan.

Marseilles Havre.

Hamburg,

& London. 2nd Dec. Bouilles. A

London, R'dam, Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay Barseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

R'dam, Antwerp & Holl. Bombay, Maravilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

10,000 13th Jan 15,000 27th Jan. 17,000 10th Feb

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Our

a general advance of industry "For days I have travelled after years at a standstill. throughout our industrial cen-factories are working as fast as tres, and everywhere I have they can. There is no reason why heard and seen the same the improvement should not go thing business is slowly and steadily on.

"Elastic web manufacturers are steadily improving.

"But there is no wild optim-still feeling the competition of web ism: no expectation of any-from America.

"We have succeeded in getting a thing in the nature of a trade

considerable reduction in railway boom.

"There is just a steadily rates. Everything points to solid growing realisation that the improvement." worst is past and a steady con- fidence in the future, based on the increase of business in the last few months.

"Everywhere I found un- employment a little down, pro- duction figures up, and com- modity prices rising."

Here is the full story of the week's tour.

By PATRICK MURPHY.

seen.

similar At Northampton a steady improvement was to be A Northampton, Boot Manufacturers' Association off- cial told me that in the last seven months the unemployed in the boat Industry have fallen from 6,000 to just under 700 Captured Markets "Some of our factories," he said, "Are

now working twenty-four

My first call was Leicester, the hours a day. This, I believe, is ing aloud in mortal agony. The seat of the hosiery and shoe trades due to our production of a shos ipulse in my head seems to thud The street were as crowded with that can compete in price and like a piston rod, and there is a shopers as one expects to find quality with any others, and to the terrible singing noise in my ears. Oxford-street at sale times.

settlement of disputes between em- I open my eyes again and A man in the train had told me ployed and employers. The season the sunlight is there as before. I would find that Leicester had able season has also helped." The larks are singing overhead turned, the corner into Prosperity- Now Sheffield is a city with pro- and everything is wonderfully street.

blems entirely different from those

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I called on Mr. Ernest Walker, of these necessity-manufacturing

I take a pace forward, and catch chairman of Wolsey, Ltd., the towns. my foot in a strand of rusted leader of Leicester industry. He An advertising man with whom barbed wire. A few yards away is controls a string of factories from 1 travelled to Sheffield drew me at a mound of rubbish, but newly Leicester to Perth, and the Empire quick sketch of the recent history ploughed over and heaped up for is his market for raw materials. of this home of steel. clearing away.. I examine. It like

"Yes," he said, we are moving "Sheffield," he said, in 1918 jany rag picker.

forward all together. There is no supplied most of the material to There is a steel hat with an ugly (boom. We do not want a boom equip the Allied forces. To do gash clean through it; a German But having adjusted ourselves to this it bad-had to import into the soldier's billy-can and A British cheaper market through the years city a population of some 40,000 water-bottle-rusty but unmistak of depression we are now selling people. able-linked together with a bit of everything we can make.

"When the war ended it was wire; several spent nosecaps, and "Commodity prices are rising.

about the Biggest workshop in the the twisted barrel of a rife; pieces That means that all prices are world without a market. Times of rotten webbing equipment; arising. Last year one could drive

became desperately hard. But bri bullet pouch and half a boot. bargain for raw materials and sheet. Hard work and adaptability Remnants of war that have been get what one wanted at practically they have gradually captured lost! gathered up after seventeen years any price.

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Queen's Balldings. "During the last six months slowly improving, but chiefly in the Birmingham that international This was my battlefield, "If you don't buy at the lowest markets, turned their attention to these works have made £271,000 home market... We still believe in

"We regard that as very good. trading has a future." operation between the laboratories

I called at the vast Austin' worka and it is only this spot that seems prices to-day you will be sorry for new things, and by wonedrful co more steel than last year- to retain any of its original yourself in a short while. Prices and the factories have invented It is not sensational, but it in- character.

are rising.

new materials with limitless pos- dicates that things have begun to was received with smiles,

"What's the news?". 'I' asked. THREE BRITISH ·

Increase Baying.

#bilities.

improve in a healthy fashion. The

"We have made 14,000 more cars CEMETERIES

"The Australian and New Zea

"The greatest of all these is fact is this: business is better this

year than last year, and it is con-this year than last year. Despite Upon a hill, within a few hun- land sheep farmers will feel this

stainless steel."..

Whitsun being in June, we are 22 three dred yards, are

British rise, and it will. Increase their

From the municipal industrial tinuing to improve."

per cent up on last June and, ax Quiet Confidence. cemeteries, and it is Inside one of purchasing power, and all sorts of these that I end my pilgrimage. other industries will feel the bane-authorities in the city 1 found my

friend was well informed.

Everywhere in Sheffield I found you know. June is the end of the The roses are blooming here, and fit of that..

"Stainless and uncorrodable the same quiet confidence regard motor year.

"We have done unexpectedly "It was bound to come to those

good trade abroad." Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan there is no sound other than the

"They have taken on a lot. and Hong Kong to Australia.

song of the birds to relieve the who could hold on and put their steel. in dozens of varieties have ing the future.

Wolseley, Ltd., I found smiling, houses in order by economising and undoubtedly helped stillness.

a.work. more hands recently," Sheffield's great steel industry,

too. lic first memorial stone that I efficiency.

Science To The Rescue. man said to me, “and that means. We have had a splendid - year. "Scientists here have discovered

something today. They think We are extending our premises." of my own battalion. I turn away tion of improving trade"

twice before adding one man to "DEPRESSION GONE” and look down upon the battlefield. Leicester is the "first" town in steel that will withstand rust, Millions of

a pay roll. If they put on one In Coventry the Standard Car Co. man to-day you can be sure they had even beaten their record of The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton, and in a niche by the iron gate is a England to feel an increase or acids, and heat,

little bronse door and inside. the falling off in business. Stockings pounds have been saved by these

discoveries and our steel industry have plenty of work for him. So last year when they could not de- recess an army book for the signa-and shoes are the first things

It looks as though work's com-liver all the cars that were order- ture of visitors.

family buys when prosperity resaved. Ma

"Now there is a huge industry

in' along." But it is as a pilgrim that I sign turns to

Nowhere so much as in Sheffield "We are not doing any prophesy- my name and walk slowly to where Unemployment in the city has here for making magnets as used

After the wAT did I discover small businesses ing, but there is no doubt things the car is waiting to carry me back decrease by nearly 10 per cent, in wireless sets.

Jour big factories, which had lost;

are quietly improving." There are 9,000, more people to Arras.

heavily through the mass manufac-starting up on their own.

I went to find out what people in Birmingham and Coventry are ture of safety razors in America,

different from any of the other the country, were saying and think- set about this market.

and was curiously similar. To-day they have practically cities I visited. Their range of ing, and everywhere the answer. driven the Americans out of their manufactured goods is wide

depression has gone. It will pro- own market. Tariffs and currency varied. They have felt the depres "We know the worst now. The falling in recent months have help.sion slightly less than other greably always be uphill work while other are recovery, but business is ed a lot, but the quality of the manufacturing centres and any goods has helped to retain the my boom would affect them less, ----

Both cities were a strange mix-here again for those with energy ket these things enabled them to

ture of optimism and caution, and ideas to capture it." captore.

"Three-quarters of that 40,000 The unemployment figures in Bir-But the comment that struck me population we called to Shemeld mingham are down nearly 1,000 most in every one of these midland during the war has been absorbed since May. There are 13,922 few-centres was this: by our own efforts to rebuild our er unemployed this June][then” (n Industries! get WANA June1523

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"We have caused the tide to turn with our own brains and hands. -"Adaptability and work have done it. We will always have to Yet Birmingham is canny about look forward to maintaining this in the same period last year, despite it all. ^

adaptability in our industries. the Easter holidays, The May figures "Things are definitely improving The tide could have turned earlier are even better your

steadily," the Secretary of the land we could have been further. "Since January there are 9,500 Chamber of Commerce conceded along the road to recovery if one fewer unemployed. Iron and steel "Big and small firms here are show single political leader had bad the A alone, kaya absorbed 2,000 of these ing an incresse of output in sup vaguest idea of our problems and

working rapple That a better plying the home market the sincerity to work with us.

"Our motor Industry is doing "British industry to-day has two than it appears in the figures.”

I talked with the great English well, but some of our other indas problems the world disorganisa Steel Corporation people at the tries are not quite so prosperous tion of markata and the Govern Vickers works.

gull; I must admit things are ment's sen