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An official White. Paper declares that Great Britain has agreed to the inclusion of Liechtenstein in the treaties which exist between England and Switzerland,

This recalls that there are sixty-five square miles in the middle of Europe where nobody pays any rates or taxes, and there is no public debt. They go the name of the racipality of Liechtenstein and have just been taken under the sisterly wing of neighbouring Switzerland

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The Principality dates back to 1143, and the eight hundred years of its his tory read like a tals from a light opera, though as there have been no soldiers in Liechtenstein for the last sixty years no gaily decorated soldiers can come dane ing on the stage to bring down the cur tain on the act which has just been com pleted.

Once the Principality was mothered by Austria and Hungary. The larger coun

try

whch lay on its borders, took over its Customs and ran its postal service, and, like all small brothers, when Austria wert to war with Germany in 1980 the Prin cipality wanted to fight, too.

It did. An ultimatum was sent to Ger many, and a state of war declared, but peace soon came between Austria and Germany.Liechtenstein, however, was not content, and refused to sign any such treaty,

As far as anyone knows, it is still as war with Germany,

The mothering of the Principality by Austria-Hungary continued until

the Great War, but now, as it lies across the banks of the Rhine from Switzerland, the Swiss have taken over the Customs and postal authorities, and have asked the British if it can be included included in the treaties which exist between the two larger countries. Britar has agreed to this

Liechtenstein is governed by a prince who is reported to be enormously wealthly, and thus keeps his 12,000 subjects, free of

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PETROL'S COMING OF AGE.

At first sight it seems impossible to believe says the Times that it is only twenty-one years since petrol in bulk be naga to arrive in England. Nothing in file is so remarkable as man's capacity to adapt himself to new conditions, except his failure to count his blessings. A

man will set his heart on achieving some smali ambition, to stain which will make im (so he thin happy for ever-it matters little who that ambition is; perhaps something purely material, such as ability to travel in a first class carriage. Ho achieves his ambition, and for

a short space he enjoys a thrill every time he enters a train; but in an incredibly short space of time he has lost this thrill. Henceforward be

regards first-class travel as the normal means of transport, and encounters no emotion concerning it. except annoyance when for any reason

taxes. There is also a Parliament of fifteen members, which meets одсе

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The booby prize for nominal capital he is forced to travel third. In the same must be awarded to Frank Davies, La. way the world in general has grown used to petrol. It considers the pre-petrol" an auctioneering and estate agency con-

days to be a kind of appendix to the cern just registered with a capital of one Dark Ages, and forgets that those days halfpenny in two shares of a farthing are so little distant from us that only ench, says the Financial Times. The the very young are unable to recall them. promotor is evidently something of It forgets that the motor bus is, practi humorist, as a clause in the articles of cally speaking, the newest of newcomers association provides that unless and to the roads which it has revolutionised. until allowed by law, no shares shall be and which are still unable to withstand issued at a discount." It would be dif its crushing weight for more than the ficult to issue those shares at a discount shortest of periods. Only when a strike even if it were legal. If the two shares occurs does the world remember that once were issued for one farthing, constituting make more difficult and careful arrange on time, not so long ago, it had to a discount of 50 per cent, there would ments when it wanted to, get about. only be one shareholder, and one member Twenty-five years age people used to cannot constitute eren A private bura Petrol

in Sumatra because it was in It has long been known that a private the way and nobody could find a use company could be registered with only for it. Today the man who owns an ail two shares of a farthing each, but apart the summit of all earthly bliss; and the SOUTH

well is looked upon as having achieved from establishing a record" there is man who does not possess some kind of na object in cutting the capital quite ao machine which needs petrol to make it low. The stamp duties payable on regis

go regards himself as hardly used by fortune. In another twent continues to! tration (5) are just the same as those

years for £100 capital. This unique registra time, if the supply of petrol tion serves at least one good purpose, be equal to the steadily increasing de however. It emphasises the fact (so little mand, the average man's trouble is going understood!) that the nominal amount of to be not whether he can afford to buy

share is no criterion of value. Whe-

a car or not, but whether he will be able ther the assets of the "Frank Davies' to find anywhere to put it when bought. concern are worth the halfpenny which The last few years have made this world constitutes the nominal capital or are of ours a very small place. The develop- ment of our knowledge of electrical phen- worth £1,000,000, one farthing share con- stitutes a title to half these assets, andonmena and laws has increased beyond whatever dividends the concern may pay, all computation man's ability to learn one farthing share will chtitle its holder what is happening on the earth he in- habits: but the change that petrol is to half of those dividends."

working is perhaps, more wonderful still, for it enables the average man to get about and see things for himself.

In this case the whole of the shares are held by the same family. Mr. Frank Davies, of Stamford Hill, managing director of the new company, holds one farthing share, and. his wife, who is se cretary of the company, holds the other.

"The quorum shall be two," quaintly | say the articles of association in regard to directors' meetings. Provision for the pensioning of ex-employees also figures in

the document.

The cost of the registration amounts to 2.400 times the capital of the company! Mr. Davies is a certified accountant,

A

END OF DEATH RAY."

Mr. Frederick Richardson, the Ameri- can expert who in making investigations in Europe with respect to the so-called "death"Bay," has reported to a select Committee of the House of Representa tives that the "death rap" does not exist. He characterises the statement that the Germans userl the "death ray". to stop French aeroplanes on the Ruhr

as a myth.

FINANCIAL SAYINGS OF A WEEK.

Through profits we keep the producer. in a position of subservience to the on- sumer; without profits the producer would be top dog.-Sor Ernest Benn.

It must be admitted that steel-makers, generally have hitherto failed to make the best use of the rising generation of metallurgists and engineers.-Sir William Ellis.

The Moscow Communists-the Soviet Government-have absolutely admitted Failure, and have come to a capitalist country to borrow money to enable them to carry on their work.-Mr. J. Seaton, Mr.R

Unless settlement comes about, of debts and obligations there will be no loans or guarantees for Russia; for people to talk in any other scuse, or to suggest that way have promised loans without conditions can only mean that they have not read the Treaty.-The Prime Minister.

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