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BRITAIN AS A MOTOR MARKET. PRINCE OF WALES AT ST. CYR.

AN AMERICAN SURVEY.

An interesting American survey of the automobile industry and market in Great Britain ia contained in an issue of "Commerce Reports" (United States Department of Commerce), which has just reached Hong Kong. It is shown that of the total number of commercial vehicles in use, including taxi-cabs, motor-omnibuses, and all types of trucks, the percentage of British-built vehicles had risen to 56 last year, as compared with 45 in 1923, and that of British- assembled vehicles had fallen to 34 from 43, while the percentage of wholly for eign vehicles had remained constant "With improved production methods and the inclusion of commercial vehicles under the McKenna duties," says the report, it is reasonable to conclude that in the future the percentage of entirely British-built vehicles will rise and the percentage of British assembled and purely imported commercial vehicles will continue to fall."

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The opinion thus expressed is that of Mr. M. M. Mitchell, the American Coat mercial Attaché in Londen. With regard to private cars he takes rather a striking view. Comparing American with Britiab conditions, he says that, taking into account the heavy tax burden in Great Britain, the comparatively high price of cars, the greater cost of fuel, together with the narrower distribution "of pur- chasing power, it would seem inevitable that in Great Britain saturation point will soon be roached. Yet at present it is estimated that in Great Britain there is only one ear to each 65 persons. Mr. Mitchell admits that the saturation point might be kept at a distance if the well-to-do British motoring public could be educated to a more rapid turn- over of cars. At present 50 per cent. of the cars with five years of service are said to be still in use great tribute to their durability Commenting on the predominance of the type of 14 E.p. and less, the Commercial Attaché warns his countrymen that in order to increase or maintain their future sales they must give increasing attention that" type. He shows that the average unit selling price of the British car has fallen 37 per cent. in four years.

JEWELLERY AT SCHOOL.

LITTLE GIRL RAISES DEPARTMENTAL "TYPHOON. Violet Burton, aged 7, of West Coker, has raised a national question in Great Britain. Should a child be allowed to wear jewellery at school?

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Crowds waited all day long outside the Hotel Meurice, says a Daily Express correspondent in Paris, writing on October 20th, to cheer the Prince of Wales every time he left or entered.

of the Guards, drove in pouring rain The Prince, in 'the uniform of a colonel this afternoon to visit the French Mili tary College at St. Cyr, near Versailles.

stitute, and was formally invested with He was made a corporal of the in-. the shako, with its scarlet and white feathers, the white gloves, and the stripes of the rank

The Prince was then taken to the dor- mitory and shown the bed he would occupy as a meraber of the school.

The Prince, in a happy speech, thanked the commander of the school for the honour conferred upon him. “You have given me back my youth," he said, ** and I shall be proud to be known henceforth among my own people as The Little Corporal."

4,600 St. Cyriana who fell in the war by He paid homage to the memory of the placing white chrysanthemums, in the form of the Prince of Wales' feathers, bound with red and white ribbon, at the base of the monument erected to the dead.

A squadron of airplanes manœuvred overhead while the Prince reviewed tha battalion of St. Cyr, and then he drove back to his hotel to change from uniform into_mufti to pay an informal, visit to the Paris post of the British Legion.

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Star Ferrer..ng West Coker is a village 3 miles from Waterboats. Yeovil, Somerset, and the question, which China ngars. began there as a dispute between Violet Malabon Bagan .................... Burton's father and the local school Beng managers, has now involved the county Kailen

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In April her father sent her to the West Coker elementary school wearing Hands..... & small silver bracelet. The head mis-Tronok Mines treas ordered her to take it off Violet obeyed, but her father sent ber back next day with the bracelet.

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Mr. Burton then fastened on Violet's arm a gold bracelet that could not be removed, and took her to school himself. She was refused admission.

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Mr. Burton invoked higher authorities and the case has been considered by the Board of Education. Several important departmental minutes have been written on the matter, and the final decision of the Minister of Education is that he Do (NOW)....

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The county education authority, on the other hand, have decided that they can- not support the local education authority in taking, proceedings against the parents for Violet's non-attendance. There for the present the matter rests.

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His rudeness was compensated for by most respectable man who, when I formally asked him whether he was guilty or not guilty of taking too much, replied,: "Guilty, my dear.

After installing the new Lord Provost Mrs. Bell will for a year be his deputy and next to him, the city's senior magis- trate.

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AGE RIDDLE OF A LONDON CHURCH.

EXCAVATIONS ΤΟ BE

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"Is St. Etheldreda's Church in quaint, historic Elg-place, Holborn, the ancient Christian Church of London!” asks the Daily Expres.

This is the riddle archæologista will. attempt to salve when they begin their excavations ten feet below the ground under two blocks of diamond merchants' offices in Hatton-garden.

The two buildings will be pulled down early next month. They are probably 200 years old.

The rector of St. Etheldreda's Catholic Church, the Rev. Bernard Roc, has ap plied for permission to examine the foundations of the basement. He will probably have the assistance of eminent. Archæologista.

Both buildings back on St. Ethel [dreda's, and Father Roe and those who are co-operating with him hope to find something which will lead them to the key to the riddle of the church's `oge.

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TUT ANKH-AMEN'S RE-BURIAL.

The Egyptian Government issued a | communiqué on October 21st announcing that the mummy of King Tut Ankh- Amen, having been rewrapped in its

I believe we shall be able to prove beyond doubt that this church is the ancient Christian Church of London," said: Father Roe. No doubt we shali original shroud and placed in, its first and outermost coffin, was lowered into discover that the church dates back to the sarcophagus at Luxor (Valley of the

the fourth or fifth century,

Kings) two days previously in the pre- "I am basing my conclusions entirely sence of

of Government on archeological grounds. The first is officials

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the site which the church occupies in The store-room of the tomb will now be

investigated

the ancient Holborn-road, which stretch... ed from South Wales, across the Cota wolds, to London. An ancient British church was always on the north side of the old Roman ronda w

This chamber, though full of most in teresting material in the nature of furni- ture of a funerary or religious character, is not expected to produce such valuable chamber 5-7024

The second argument' is that a Bri objects as those discovered in the burial tish church always stood on the top of a low hill.

The third argument is that the church is just outside the walls of Roman London, like St. Martin's of Canterbury which is neknowledged to be British, and St. Julius of Caerleon."

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