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{** INFLUENCE IN THE LAW

COURTS.

"DRASTIC-PROPOSALS.

EFORM IN WORK, PAY AND HOLIDAYS." The sixth report of the Royal Commis. sion on the Civil Service proposes drastic reform in the appointments, salaries, work, and holidays of officials in the Law Courts. It proposes the abolition of or pointments by influence, the reduction of many unnecessary posts, and the ing away of what may be called the pen brigade and the substitution of wo-

men typiste.

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BRITISH WAR WORK,

A MERCHANT'S SURVEY OF WHAT HAS BEEN DONE,

The following letter appears in the Straits Times from a young London mer- chant giving

". the city point of view about British war work:-

LIFE WITH THE GRAND FLEET.

HOW A GREAT SHIP FOUGHT THE STORM.

An East Coast sailor with the Grand Floor, home on leave for a few days, re- Inted an experiene, which his vessel nodar went during a hurricans which came down in the Daily Telegraph the best paper est vessels in the fleet left port. She steam- I enclose two articles which appeared from the north recently. One of the mighti- in London, bar none-ns to the new Minised right into the teeth of the north-easter, try of Munitions. Our business has and the further the weat the worse it got brought us indirectly into touch with this The heavily-armed and munitioned ship department; and, so far as we can judge, rolled and wallowed in the awful seas, and it is the last word in real eficiency and "go. Think of all the new arsenals which towered as high as the fighting top was toyed with by vast masses of wator that have shot up like mushrooms, in and was battered by them as her engines spite of the shortage of labour and the forced her straight into it at something like already heavy demands on engineering 17 knots Tho struggle bocamo terrible, activity by the Navy, It's a miracle and at times looked a hopelesa one

In the case of the higher posts," says the report

a considerable number of those appointed are nearly related to per song who have held high judicial office. Of the seven Masters and two Assistant-Mas ters in the King Bench four are sons of judges and two if not three are related to Don't let people out in Singapore say or connected by marriage with judges. Of that old England is slacking. It is the eight clerks of Assize five are judges wicked libel. Bad cases of drinking and "After making full allowance for bere-rified, because at a time like this it is inefficiency here and there have been mag dity in legal talent and for the tendency the exceptions that are talked about and among members of certain distinguished that gives them undue prominence. What, familiey to adopt a legal career in sue- cessive generations, we believe that in-

in reality, have we done? fluence has had a considerable share in determining the appointments. Some wit nesses have admitted it, Cases have not been unknown in which a judge has ap pointed his own son.

You know, no doubt, that the supre macy of our Grand Fleet has been im measurably increased since war broke out, Dreadnoughts have been launched; and, It is frooly said that as many as 14 now While no reflection is made on the quali although I can't verify those figures in fication or work of those appointed, they way, they haven't been denied and report calls for open competitive examina- they seem approximately correct. I have tion in place of softueace and for all no- see the figures printed in papers. If minations for legal appointments to be they were wrong, some sort of denial would placed in the Lord Chancellor's hands,

have been issued, surely.

In certain departments-for example, Then there are the monitors-most of the Land Registry the clerks have more which are quite new; there are the count pay than they would get in solicitors less opaft of all king which have been offices for the same work, and their returned out-witness Churchill's praise of quest for an increase

is refused.

Fisher in this respect. Think what an Owing to the Long Vacation August 1intense concentration such production to October 12, and other lang legal ho significs, especially at a time when ships days, the taxpayer during early a third are continually needing repairs and of the year gets little return for many sorts of refitting. official salaries. It is proposed to insti tuto seven-hour day, to excuse none of

த the clerks from signing attendance books, and to limit their holidays to six weeks.

Waste is also due to some registrars drawing full salaries even up to the age of 88 though unfit for week. A retiring age of 65 or 70 is proposed..

A large staff of men copiers and "scriveners" is employed on what can be done twice as fast and twice as cheaply by typewriter. Their rapid replacement by women is proposed,

"In the Probate Registry mechanical work is being done by men with qualifica tions and salaries much higher than neces sary. In the Chancery offices the staff has not been reduced in anything like the proportion of the reduction of work in the last twenty years,

And shells Shells for the Nave-bow many of the largest calibre shells have been expended in the Dardanelles alone! Shells for our army, Shells for France, for Russin, for Italy, for Serbia. Guns in bundreds of thousands, large guns and small guns, machine guns, anti-aircraft uns, not to mention rifles and cartridges. said to have told King Constantine that it passes comprehension. Kitchener is in the spring Britain will musition six million Russiens, And this atta

Allies and are providing for an army of time when we are supplying all the other four millions of our own bier!

don't forget that even America's help has Of course, America has helped; but beon secured by British money, to the woeful detriment of American exchange on

Londoni.

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and I never expected to see land any more. "It was the biggest sea I have over suen, The vessel had gone down by the nose and Every man had to look out for himself. A was submerged to her foremost funnol wireless message was sent out for help, but, the weather moderating, we found we could eventually reached port. get along slowly under our own steam, and

when we can get the Germans to fight. "Thore is not a man but will be glad

They may be very good sailors, but when you see our guns and the way they are handled I would not give much for their chance, Besides, the fleet is always growing stronger the longer they wait, New ships keep arriving apparently from nowhere. We look across the bay and say, Hollo, what ship's that? but no one can say, as one has seen her before. It's wonderful just what that American correspondent roto."

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me to undergo the rigorous training the He repeated that it wouldn't be fair to men are getting in these days when men are made into soldiers in a few months.

He rejected. me

After another long wait I got me Army I could. It is hard lines not to be allowed Discharge papers. I had done everything

to swell the rising tide and to be excluded from the good work, but I've done my best.

CHARACTERISTICALLY BRITISH.

You know, this rush at the last minuto. of the great canvass is characteristically Gormany (supposing such a thing could British. It is so much so that a wise exist) would read in it the fatal omen to her plans,

The heart of our nation is sound to the care. There isn't any failing yet in our grim resolve to win at all costs. Nor in there any, danger of a disastrous peace The Ministry that proposed it would be

Many other reforms (including the sub- stitution of a more or less fixed salary for here-here in England, where our indus-swept away the same day.

But the bulk of the munitions are made county court registrars in place of pay trial organisation in the matter of muni mont by the number of plaints) are pro tions had hitherto been adapted for the posed. Thus Royal Commission Included supply of arms, etc., to a purely nominal Sir H Babington Smith, Lord Mersey, army of 300,000 men Good Heavens if Mr. Snowden, and Mias Haldane; soxe of the members do not agree to all the wo hadn't sent a single cartridge to an recommendations. The need of reformally and had contented ourselves with may be judges' salarios and pensions the supplying only our own new army of four oast of the law officials concerned in Eng millions, the thing would have been an laud alone is over £1,040,000 a year.

industris miracle.

DUTCH

SMUGGLERS.

And this is apart from the question of the clothing of soldiers. We have clothed four million of men, replaced waste, and accumulated reserve supplies. If we hadn't made the guns and the shells, and hed only supplied the clothes and boots, WHAT THE GERMANS ARE PAYING the thing would have been an industrial

triumph. FOR RUBBER.

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And don't forget that we have reclothed the Belgian army. Belgians now khaki uniforius made in this country. Į have seen hundreds of Belgians in smart new khaki uniforms,

And there hasn't been any compulsory service, either in a military or an indas trial sonse.

Ignoring idle chatter and bickerings, we can be fustly proud of old England

BRITISH NATIONAL GUARD

A correspondent of the Paris Journal writes that although the measures taken by Great Britain in agreement with the Dutch authorities have made rubber an. almost priceless breasure in Holland and Germany, it is not so with most other articles. Since Britain has had recourse to the simple and commonsense rule of calculating how much rubber Holland needs for her domestic consumption, and refusing to allow any excess of that quan On Saturday, December 11, it was what tity to be imported, it has become very was facetiously called Derby Day; that difficult to procure any tyres at all. The is, the last day of the Derby campaign for rubber imported for national use mostly recruits, When I left the City at p.m. goes to Germany at enormous prices, I saw bands of the National Guard march. while local customers have to go withouting around in great form. These mon of The rule is inexorably enforced that own the National Guard are all men ers of motor cars who want new tyres are obliged to hand in their old ones, however damaged and dilapidated to prevent their being sout to Germany. Any infringement of this, or of the other rules, is punished with faes and imprisonment. At present rubber is worth about eight francs, or over 6, 6d. the pound

Anybody caught attempting to smuggle is fiued 32 francs, or about 263., so that the smuggler must calcalate that it may potentially cost him 20 florins, or 30s, the pound.

But the German pays gladly at least 78. or 8s, per pound more than this, so that the smuggler has every encourage ment to run risks. Luckily rubber is so searcs that the amount the Germans can procure at any prica is comparatively 47.3 very small

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military age. Most of them are literally greyheads. They wear a greenish uni form and look jelly workmanlike. They have taught themselves to shoot, to dig trenches, and to build bridges, They are almost finished soldiers,

Sometimes one fancies that tho present Government does not yet grasp the signi ficance of time in everything that con- corns the war. Everything we have done has been done after apparently inexcus able delays. There are doubtless reasons for delays which we do not (and cannot) know. But one would like to see papable evidence of swift decisions in all the fluctuating movements of the war. A month saved means lives gatore and, in money, 150 million. One fears the at- titude of the Government is chat the war will be won either in 0, or 12, or 18, or 24 months; bat it will be won.

parative safety and bankruptcydoubtedly

The

But the difference in the periods named may make all the difference between comi-

The financial position very serious. At the same time,

I fanay that if we win within a reasonable timo the country's recovery will be much more. rapid than is gezerally beliovod. colossal loans we have made to other coun trics have to be paid back. The borrowera can't be expected to pay in money. They will pay in goods. Look at the exchange on London of all the Allier Italian ox- change is up 25 per cent, (to the great advantage of some of us); French - change is about 10 per cent up. Russian exchange the same. These facts imply

that Italian, French, and Russian goods can be sold in England at a profit even if sold at less than sotual production price. That mean, that goods ivu Eng- fand will be so cheap after the war that home products will be almost aliable, A bad look-out, of course, for ur letariat; but a hopeful siga for tics financial people who will pay ultimately for the war. A

FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

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Consider what these facts, in eajuno- tion with a low American exchange on London, imply.

Picture this scene on. "Derby Day." Squads of these old men parading the streets in their smart uniformes with splendid bands to wake up the crowds. Everywhere one saw men in regulation khaki. And at the recruiting stations An Italian or French house gan send literally thousands of men standing in goods here at less than production price queses. All Friday and Friday night and make it proit through exchange man had been joining On Saturday rates. The English purchaser, having (Derby Day) the crowds ingrossed, In already obtained the goods of lose thau the West End, in the City, in the East production pride, can sell them in the End, large firms converted their premises States at less than he paid for them and into recruiting stations, and the staffs make his profit through exchange ratos. In other articles, however, the contrastayed on till midnight signing men on. You may have seen proof of this already band trade is brisk, especially on the Kodaks in the West End became in the fact that American financiers botight. Dutch-Belgian frontier, as the temptation huge recruiting station that did great French war loan through London. Why? of huge profits is arresistible. Not even things. Rothschild sent 30 d'erks from his Because a certain amount of American the terrible death-wire stops the smugglers. bank on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday money will buy more than a usual amount The Germans have created a double edge to help in the clerical work in the City of English credit. And the English. of barbed wire along the frontier between recruiting stations.

credit in its turn will buy an abnormal Belgium and Holland, through which they And this, don't forget Was after 16 amount of French morey, And subsorip- pass & high tension current of thou- months of war.

tions to the French loin age of Many sand volts, and frequently desperate Eet.

The man who

French currency. Thus gians seeking to escape from the iron heel her bit is a

1,000 dollars buys its normal equivalent of von Bissing, German doserters, amug

in sterling plus the 10 per cent, exchange difference. The sum obtained in London for 1,000 dollars buys its normal equiva

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change difference. An American thus gets 20 per cent, advantage by buying French losu through London.

I went home and had tea on Derby glers of any nationality, poachers and Day, and then found my way to the re unsuspecting people fall victims to the craiting office in Harrow. There must device

The Dutch papers hardly ever have been 400 men even in that out-of-lent in frades plus the 10 per cent, ex-- mention these accidents, which are official-the-way place at 5 pm on Derby Day ly considered to bo of mere “local impor- After an awful wait in the queue, I got tance

"' and still less is said in the German myself enrolled and passed on to the doo Press about the electrocutions which are tors. I went into a room in which 20 or And so it should be with goods. We are, perpetually occurring.

30 men were stripping. The man strip- Ishak, bound to be more than ever the Behind these barriers guard houses standping on my right was a gentleman by chief merchants of the world-urgess the at intervals, connected by a special tele-birth the man on my left may have been war lasts so long as to smash our credit. phone alarm system that allows of the coalheaver or a dock labourer or a Our working men will make trouble, nearest one being

ing immediately rang up. broken down esbman. He was aggres especially after the wages they are now When an

accident has occurred a sively cheerful and obscene. He encourag getting Bat, on the other hand, we patrol Ceisurely makes for the spot, where od me with the jovial assurance, Hurry masta't forget that Britain must greatly some wretched creature has just paid the up, mate; we'll soon be in the army."accelerate production herself so as to wipe penalty for his longing to escape or for his felt like a soldier. Indeed, was I not off the obligation to the present neutrals Tove of gain.

Whilst one or two of the for 15 ecstatic minutes a recruit in H.M. From whom she is buying. guard are cautiously separating the body Forces ? from the fatal wire others are digging a But the doctor shook his head when he shailow, grave alongside. The whole fron tested me." It wouldn't be fair to you,' tier must gradually be sewn with such he said. La gente tombs, but it is a cemetery that is never I replied: "Don't worry about that mentioned, and few, if xay know who is ! Can you pass me for Home or Garrison buried there

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We is the city houses are already plan. ning our after the war policy. fancy we shall be ready for the new conditions; but it is very hard to determine with any real confidence what those conditions will be. So much depends upon the actual duration of the war.

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