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OUR LONDON LETTER.

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION LOSSES.

THE BIG DEFICIT ON WEMBLEY.

[RROW OUR OWN CORBASPONDENT.]

LONDON, December 19th.'

THE LOSS ON WEMBLEY, Z

Under Mr. Strachey's proprietor-editor- ship the Spectator has been immensely There is naturally a good deal of can- successful and I understand that "he is did comment over the huge deficiency on to continue to write articles for it. Mr. the British Empire Exhibition. The pub Evelyn Wrench ́ is an Irishman, and was le have been prepared to hear of å last, one of Lord Northcliffe's young"per, some and the guarantors knew that one was twenty years ago. Afterwards he was inevitable, but the total sum on the wrong with Lord Beaverbrook during part of the side of the account is so large as to sur war period at the Ministry of Informa prise, everyone. The capital loss tion. To the general public Mr. Wrench £1,700,304, and the guarantors will have is known as the founder and secretary of to meet

minimum deficiency of the Overseas League which now has a £1,588,805, or 13/- in the £ of their under membership of 30,000 in various parts of takings. The largest guarantor is the the Empire. British Government, with a responsibility, for £1,100,000, and the Treasury will haye. to meet a call for 293.000 before the end of this month.

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MUSIC HALLS AND ALCOHOL.

There is a good deal of agreeable sur prise, and real pleasure at the London County Council decision to permit aleo- Some of the large private guarantorsholic drinks in all London music halls. are inclined to grumble, but others appear For the past seventeen years the "Pussy- to think that Wembley was well worth the foot element on the LC.C. has been money in spite of the balance sheet. able to reto the sale of drinks. It is of The explanation in the case of the latter course a matter of bare justice to grant halls to serve clasa is that most of them covered them facilities to the music selves long ago against partial or total alcohol, thereby putting them on the same loss of the sums guaranteed, and there-footing as theatres and hotels. It also Tore it is the insurance people on whom means the removal of yet another canse a large part of the deficiency will ulti-for, the hackneyed cry, Oue law for the mately fall.

rich and another for the poor."!

HEAVY INITIAL OUTLAY,

I hear the hope expressed that what has happened in this respect portends also It is easy to be wise after the event, in the near future the removal of other but the general opinion is that some at nonsensical restrictions on the freedom of least of the big loss might have been the individual. There are quite a hum- avoided were it not for the spirit of ex-ber of petty and vexations regulations pansive disregard for money that was which are a legacy from the war time shown when the early contracts were days when "Dora" was supreme. You placed. The cost of constructing the cannot, for instance, purchase an ounce larger buildings and other parts of the of tobacco or a packet of cigarettes after Exhibition could not in any circumstances 9 pm, in this country at a tobacconists' have been small, but there is a pretty shop though you can get your cigarettes general impression--and among the guar from a blot machine at any hour. There anters & sore one-that some contracts are scores of other interferences with the were "framed in a way that no careful business man would ever dream of ap. proaching a contract that affected his own business

But when all is said, it cannot be denied that Wembley was a very good" show. It was a splendid advertisement for the British Empire. It brought home, to millions in a concrete way a clear con. ception of the wealth and resources of the great heritage of the British race.

.MR. RUDVAND KIPLING.

herty of the subject, and the fact that they are still tolerated seven years aftor. the close of the war shews what a long- suffering and patient people we are. NOTED "JAPANESE IN LONDON,"

Court mourning there would have been If it had not been for the period of

house-warming

an claborate

at

the

Japanese Embassy this week. The new Ambassador has taken possession, al- though his wife has not yet arrived in London. As soon as it is possible it is Mr. Rudyard Kipling's sudden illness-the Ambassador's intention to embark an attack of pneumoniu-caused real con- | upon a good deal of entertaining, and is cern at home and abroad; an extraordi- this he will be greatly assisted by his wife, nary number of enquiries were received | who is a most attractive woman, and like from all parts of this equntry, and indeed | her husband, a very proficient linguist. from every part of the world. Burwash, Meanwhile Prince Chichibu, who is his home in Sussex, is a quiet retreat over here in pursuit of learning, intends about ten miles from Battle where the to break new ground for his country early Normans routed the Saxons on that fate. in the New Year. Hitherto there has ful day in 1968. Mr. "Kipling has lived never been a Chinese or Japanese visitor there for twenty years, and he has always to Switzerland for the Winter sports- said that he chose Burwash as his place so far, at any rate, as records go. The of abode because it is one of the few visit of the brother of "the Regent of picturesque spots in Sussex which are still Japan to Murren early next year will. unfashionabic.

therefore, be a new departure, ard it will Although he is not by any means a be interesting to see whether the Prince strong man, Mr. Kipling has so far en- on his return to his native country will joyed good health. He is a methodical | introduce Winter sports into Japan, wurker. The mornings are spent in his where they get plenty of snow and frost study, and he is one of the few authors in the Northern, islands. who can dictate with the same facility as he writes. Following a frugal lunch, which as often as not consists of joint, cheese, and one glass of beer, he gets into the fresh air:

Mr. Kipling. enjoys his afternoon tea and is then at his brightest. Once he was asked if he was writing a new book No," he replied,iny books are only just becoming topical. He likes type. writers, dislikes the telephone, is fond of motoring, and says that though he used to think the "soldier knew most ahuat hunan nature he considers that the par- son who served in the war is now "en. titled to that distinction.

THE "APECTATÖR."

BRITISH BEOADCASTING.

It is said that Eord Crawford's Com- mittee on broadcasting has decided to recommend that the British Broadcasting Company should be bought out and that the service should he Continued by a public body for which the Postmaster. General would be directly responsible. The report dealing with this subject will be ready early in the New Year, and will he eagerly awaited, but meanwhile this important recommendation may be taken as settled. The B.B.C. were given a monopoly in 1922, and their licence ex pires at the end of next year. "The original capital, which I believe amounts to £70,000, would be repaid to the share- holders who would lose nothing.

The passing of the Spectator out of the hands of Mr. St. Loe Strachey into As far as the service is concerned the the proprietorial "keeping of Mr. Evelyn transfer would make no more difference Wrench is a matter of interest beyond the than the transfer of the telephones. The confines of Fleet Street. For months in technical experts would be taken over journalistic circles it was known that the and employed by the State instead of paper had been sold, but the formal-an-by the present company. The profits nouncement is only made this week. "It naturally in the end would go to the Trea- is said that the policy of the paper is to sury. On the whole the B.B.C. have remain unchanged," and that, moreover, served the public, well. The programmes na has been done in the case of the have been maintained at a good level of Times, steps have been taken to ensure interest and artistic merit. It is very that at no time in the future is it to be doubtful whether Government Depart sold except under certain conditions which |ment like the Post Office could do any are designed to maintain its politics and better; 1 believe the general opinion is character. The highest bidder is not to that the G.P.O. would make a muddle of get hold of it by the simple process of it. But there will be plenty of discussion putting down enough money.

before the plan is finally approved.-H.Br

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in the "discussion. "The National Foreign Trade Council of the United States is an COASTWISE LAW AGAIN AGITATED. influential organisation whose views on the question after it has been given a There is again a growing interest in the thorough and intelligent discussion may United States, in reviving the question have some weight in the shaping of de- of the extension of the United States Bnite policy to be followed by the Govera coastwise law to the Philippines, statesment.

report just received by the Bureau of Judging from the activities of the Commerce and Industry from Abdon local steamship companies," Llorente's Llorente. Philippine commercial attaché report states, and the utterances of the at San Francisco. According to him; per- officers is authority of the U.S. Chamber sons with authority to speak on this of Commerce, it seems probable that next subject have assured him that the much-year will witness the much expected re- expected agitation in favour of such ex-vival af, and interest in, this question. tension may be started early this year The subject will include, doubtless, the Having in view the significance of this manner in which to engage, most effcc- question to the Islands comunerce and tively the merchant marine built during the prominence that was given it in public the wartime period, some of which is a discussions recently, Llorente further linbility to Government finances. It will reports that he has been trying to keep also include, because of the necessity to in touch with the Secretary of the l'engage those ships profitably, the desir National Foreign Trade Council, New ability of extending the Merchant Marine York City, so that in the 1920 National Act of the United States to the Philip Foreign Trade Convention which will be pines; in other words, to consider the.. held in Charleston, South Carolina, this, Philippine Islands, for the purpose of the together with other economic questions coastwise law, a continuous territory of affecting the Philippines, may be included the United States."--Vanila Times.

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