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LFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}

LONDON, September 6th.

PAPANESE LOSSES.

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this was insufficient to ensure financial stability. The trouble is, of course, that IN advertisers will have nothing to do with the Daily Hell, which is only natural. You cannot expect Capital to spend mony-on-advertisements on one pagel while on another page the Balitor, ful- minates against the private ownership of property, and preaches Communism. No! sane man would pay for ammunition to be used for his own destruction,

The hilly Herald has, however, so often? it will take some little tine befofe “it | hen gives unly an unwith-pe-two-tolicy

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ang approach to that the provit trouble may not proze Leurney what the results of the are fatal. The danger for balmur-in-buying "The Tordaily piper of its own may forge the property

devise special Invidous Japanese catastroply wit be here antadors de metin to elsewhere. The dire losses relate to easures to provide the benyy subsily

which is required. trad transactions which are apparent Essays, Purch

Shall Vnports and exports but she

asure the indirect eonsequences of the loss of wealth in a physient sence which Japan has sustained, and its reactions in all parts of the world...

The list "re being prepared for a s dingalang encenter between sensin-ticket! bolders and the milway companies, Ca der the legislation which resulted in the ; amalgamation of the rafiways into four! So far as can be ascertainvil at present, big groups, charges for goods and p the insurances policies of English houses, gers were placed on a new footing. Gook Senyou-ticket which do not cover fire and damage were to be reclassified.. following upon earthquake, exclude the rates were to be revised nu a standard prospect of big payments on the part of mileage basis, and now on the issue of the idoyil's and other offices. · The principle" proposed revised rates it is found that in that damage by fire as a consequence of a vast number of cases there will be sub-s Parchquake is not covered by Bre insur-tantial increases,

When it is reallod that in past years

ance was established in the Law Courts

in actions that were brought after the the corepanies encouraged, peuple to move It is believed out of the Indon area and settle in new earthquake in Jamiale. therefore, that English insufanes offices districts with wery cheap season-tickets as malecite claims, an indon, the hitterness of hundreds though there may be individual cases of thousands of daily travellers can be understood. Moreover, peyple have been providing exceptinis to the rule.

forced to buy their hoses owing to the losing shortage, and they are therefor

For tied down to their prosent abodes, his son they feal themselves largelsh at the merey of the railway companies,

As regards the disturbance to trade, what his happened will not be such a serious blow, so far as this country is conevrarii, as many people without a knowledge of trade questions seem to, A CASE IS POINT. think. The direct traite is surprisingly Sual For the year ending June 30th Jass British import and export trade withers Japan ammuntod in the aggregate only to 20. or rather less than 1 per erit, of a total external trade: The án the figures value represented

I have given welates principally to engineering goods and iron and steel, which we exported, while Japan sent us. chiefly, raw and manufactured silk and woollen goods. The effects of the earth- quase will not be so serious on British trade as might be supposed at first sight and, of course, there is the point that British industries, may benefit by" orders to re-establish Japan's ruined areas.

MR . . WELLS.

To take a typical illustration, there are it a thousanul "enson-ticket holde in Southend who tray to and from 1

The rate between London every day. Fenchurch Street, and Southend before the war for a thress months' third-class ra

was £3-154 The present, late fe 2-0 and the proposed new rate, is 7-150 This gives a good idea of what may happens and small wonder that the ticks helder

gre angry.

The companies, on the other hand, stó clare that its a esult of a standard ta rainy season-tickets will be cheaper. The rates in the schedule, they say, are the maximum, al it dees not follow that they wil be inmised. But a calm assurance of this sort sot enough la satisfy ticket holders, who are thoughts, alarmed, and dis-are new charged fifty per cent, more than

ther paid before the war.

the battle

will be Tought mittefor the Railway Rate Trilmual, and the Labour party as being asked to support the wea

on-ticket hollers. It is fairly certain that workmen's fares will also be raised. Ryil way Travellers Associations are mobilising their feree, and are raising a Shilling Ful to oros ente the campaign guist the companies Public meetings are also being organized, so that there is every poser of a tremendous fight on i

eLIMPSE OF IRELAND.

I hear that Mr. H. G. Wells. the tingisha writer, who had enade plans for a tour in the Far East this Autumn uz Winter, and would have visited Hongkong and Shanghai among other places, is now doubtful whether he will be able to go. He has important commitments with regard to work for Amerien papers that make it difficult for hit to get away For the time that such a journey involves. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

The Prince of Wales, who is leaving this week for a six weeks' stay on hisational scale. ranch is Canada, will be known as Lord Renfrew while he is taking this well- earned holiday. He has tet i be known that in his travels he wants to have the pleasure of being able to go about ke any other sortul man without fuss or

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A friend in public life who has just returned from a holiday tour in refend tells in that, now that the Repubfical- are discredited. there is a regsonable pros act of the Free Staturs setting down and in an underly

ceremony, and with as little notice of ing to run the count the pen |

his presence on sen or land as possible No doubt it is this that, to one in his position," makes the Canadian visit a ront holiday. On board ship be will mix with the other passengers: there are no special arrangements for him. The ranch is a small house, simply furnished, with no electric light or urban, amenities. SIR ALFRED BORINS.

A similiar figure will be missed from Figet Street when Sir Alfred Robbins retires from the position of London Correspondent of The Hiemingham Pust, The name of Robbins has been connected with journalism for many years. Sir. Alfred's brother, Sir Edmund Robbins, was manager of the Press Association for nearly forty years until he retired in! 1917, and a son of the former is News Editor of The Times. It is one of the numerous instances in which a bent far! newspaper work seems to run in tertain

families.

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mater. The ersing need

in every walk of life is money. Th

rnment are without it. In Belfast indus. trial enterprise is "cramped stove only ba

mine it is suffering from the depression in trade which is world-wile, but also be cause the bafiks are unable to make. advaners. When the trouble developed," the farming community withdrew their deposits in the bank, and the latter there. fere found their reserves depleted to an at that has reacted, against industrial prosperity.

Another hopeful feature in the situation. apart from the approach to stability in overnment matters is that among the better-minded Iridimen who were avere to separation from England the feeling of resentment against the Free State is be- ginning to abate They are disposed to make the best of things as they are, since it cannot be otherwise new.

The Republicans have been rounded and something like 25,000 are prisoners, About 13,000 are in the Curragh Camp in butments, guarded by Free State troops. Sir Alfred Robbins, who has repre- Every may.

ad 2131" informant. "know souted the firmngham Post in London, bey can walk out to-morrow a free Irish- since 189, "maile good," as the Aineri- man poided he will take a solemn onth can say, when the Star of Mr. Joseph of allegiance to the Free State, But this

well-namel Chamberlain was in the ascendant in the involves something seas House of Commons. Sir Alfred hitched that if he should afterwards be caught his waggon to the Star, and he never had with a gun in his band he will be shot on cause to regret it. He always had trust-sight." Perhaps the defeat of the Republ worthy information in advance of other rua candidates at the General Election hewspapers. Consequently, the London will have the effect of convincing the dupes Letter of The Past attained a great re- and tools of Mr. Du Valera that the game putation, and the writer (hi was Knight-up, s

ed in 1917), was nie to make friends ARES AND MORALS. with new men as they came into politics.

TROUBLES IN FLEET STREET.

The Bishop of London's letter to the Tinies alleging that extensive immorality! is practised in the London parks and ojien Other changes has occurred or art spaces, preille. Hyde Park. I created contemplated, in the Street of Adven visent controversy." Generally, the ture or of Sisadventure, as the cynical charge is flatly denied. The Bishop has Fleet Streeters of the older school bad i bed Press for what he evidently prefer to call it. Several resignations of expected would be a raging tearing eam- important pasts have taken place on the naign, headed by what the port, Faily Mail as a result, it is said, of cuts Hood has styfed, issers after in salafics. There has been recently a The newspapers adopt an attitude of In some quarters his reduction of staff on the Daily Express polite scepticism.

ridicule. involving about a dozen workers busthe Lordship's letter is the subject of.

A point is tule of the fact that the literary side of the paper; and, this week the whole of the staff op the Daily Herald Bishop hases his accusations not on his own knowledge, but on that of "men of have received notice."

great experience" whom he his employe for some years to make observations." But his critics want to know who those men are who pursue thie odd avocation.

The news about the Daily fluid is not surprising, as the paper is in the midst of "another financial crisis. A sub-com-

mitter of the general council of the If inquiry is cried out officially into Trade Union Congress and the National what his alleges, their identity will have to Executive of the Labour party have Tebe disclosed. In the meantime, one of the

be commended that publication should be!

Bishop's demands can dismissed as opinion. Ho discontinued after Sept. 30th. The Daily unacceptable by Herald is like an Old Man of the Sen on this ancurruborated police idence the back of the Trade Unions During the should be noted upon. But it was only year ending July 31st Just, £76,300 was a few months ago that we had the arrest subscribed from the central funds to keep of a distinguished public official in Hyde the paper-going, but even that lery was Park under an unhappy misconception, and, although the polion evidence was at not enough.

Erst nepented, on appeal, the case failed! who are familiar with the Last Autumn the paper was taken over. officially by the Labour movement, then spaces of the Metropolis can take price was reduced to a penny, and hir that has bee said with a grain of salt; Hamilton Frie was appointed editor. but it gives a bad impression aöroid.— The circulation was soon doubled, bat II.B.

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