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RUMANIAN MISRULE.
TRANSYLVANIA FAILURE.
SIN PERCIVAL PHILLIPS' INDICTMENT.
AN EMBITTERED PEOPLE.
BUCARIST, Rumania. Transylvania, the most valuable of Rumania's possessions, is a melancholy victim of mismanage ment, writes "Sir Percival 'Phillips in the Daily Mail. This province, which has an area of 85,000 square miles and a population (according to the last census) of 8,500,000, of whom only 3,400,000 are Rumanian, looked forward to a new era of development and prosperity..
It brought as its contribution to Greater Rumania the bulk of Kun- gary's natural wealth 'coal mines, gold mines, forests, and industrial plants-a gitt regarded with en-
vicus eyes by the other Powers of Eastern Europe.
WOMEN BROKERS
ARRIVING.
FEMININE PIONEERS OF FINANCE.
EXCLUDED FROM LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,
The woman stockbroker with all the official status that membership of the London Stock Exchange gives may not "have arrived-but she is on her way.
Thousands of women with money to invest and newly interested in the movements of the share market during the industrial boom "of the present year made the discovery that the London Stock Exchange is what the British House of Com trang once wna-closed to the Woman member
Everything Bit Finance, They might instruct) a woman solicitor to draw up their wills dis posing of all their possessions, have a woman barrister briefed to re- present them in the highest courts A Record Of Failure,
of the land, employ a woman char- What has Rumanis made of it!tered accountant to keep their Nothing. The record of the past five years rule by Bucarest is a money in order, consult a woman' record of failure.
physician or a woman surgeon, on Economic disaster has given life and death matters, and help birth to a political crisis of the send a woman to take her seat in first magnitude. The impoverished the mother of Parliaments to make and crabittered people of Transyl-new laws-but when it came to vania are solidly united under M. buying shares this must be done Julio Maniu, leader of the through a itaan. National Pengunt Party for the overthrow of the present autocratic régime on the far side of the Car- pathians.
When all is said that can be said in extenuation of the Government's unhappy adventure. in Transyl-¦ vania, there remains a grave in. dictment of political intolerance, and "of inefficiency in economic, financial, and administrative affairs which cannot be effectively
combated.
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| Hungarian- Civil Service Scrapped. The Hungarians left behind highly competent Civil Service which Bucarest proceeded to, scrap without delay.There were effective replacements," - for old Rumania lacked the
necessary material. She could not adminis ter her old territory competently much less create an organisation capable of taking over a new area two-thirds as large.
The result was ramshackle patchwork. bureaucracy from Bucarest, which tended to regard the Transylvanian paa asemi- foreign colonist to be exploited in the interests of the old governing
class.
It is true that the failure of last year's harvest cannot be ascribed to the incompetence of the Govern ment, although undoubtedly it cop- tributed to the" present economic distress, for 80 per cent of Tran sylvania's population is on the land
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But the discontent of the persants goes deeper than that The Government divided the land among them but failed to give them implements for "tilling it or adequate transport for carry ing their produce to market, Moreover, is imposed such heavy import and export tariffs that prices. for many essential articles are now prohibitive...
Ingenuity, when it is afted with ability beyond the ordinary and a remarkable grasp of the intricacies of finance, has now however, found a way by which a woman can deal with a woman without doing what every authority on money affairs counsels them not to do, employ an outside broker i
There is at this moment a woman, conjunction with a firm of inside young, charming, "able, working in
brokers.
phone to the Stock Exchange, and She may give her order by tele- does so, although she herself may only go there outside business hours and shepherdded by a member. The position of this pioneer young woman of finance, Miss Hilda McKean, is interesting. practising in connection with an She is inside firm admitted to membership of the London Stock Exchange.
difficult profession for a woman to "Stockbroking is an extremely
when discussing the possibilities undertake," said Miss McKean,
with, she is handicapped by not be |'for future papirnata. To begin ing allowed to enter the House.' A map appear before the London Stock Exchange Committee to enter the House for two years as an unauthorised clerk, which is the preliminary stage.
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$1,287 nom Da, Londen...2186 nom, Chartered Bank...............................£21] buy. Mercantile Bank, &. 48........£35 nuDĄ,
Do.
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No Examinations, During that time he is permit fed in the House, but connota.K. Bath transact any dealinga Then he works for a year as an authorised clerk. He is allowed to transact business. There are no examina- tions. Finally, he is elected to full membership of the London Stock Exchange...
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"I took a keen interest in stocks and shares from my schoolgirl. days," she added. As soon as I left school I managed my own Many peasants are drawing on' their life savings in local banks airs, bought and sold shares. Now I have made the The banks in turn are in a bad woman investor my special cars way and a number of the smaller ones have gone under Bankruptcy, has overtaken business firms, and those fill alive are staggering under the excessive rates of interest charged for loans. Taxes are at the highest possible gure. Both Transylvania and the Banat, com plain that they have beeh unfairly treated by the National Bank in regard to the grant of discount credits.
There has been a general slump due to the pressure of Bucarest's economic policy. Prices for grain are down owing to competition from the old kingdom; cattle prices have dropped because the old markets of Central Europe are no longer available.
"Obviously this state of affairs prevents
assimilation aay
of Transylvania by the old kingdom. Bucarest has gone to great pains to erect barriers, which have only divided the country against itself.
The traveller in Rumania hears on all sides the most circumstan- tial stories of abuses perpetrated at the time of the last elections, when Opposition mass meetings were prevented,
faked and ballot boxes were substituted for those containing the votes, cast by the followers of M. Maniu.
case
This Transylvania lawyer has given me a very definite and die passionate review of the against the Government. He con- vinces those who listen to his argu- ments that he is not attempting to set up a régime which would be in any way Socialistic.
Peasant Party's Aims..
M. Maniu has thus summed up for me the aims of the National Peasant Party :
We are fighting for a Parlia mentary régime based on the will of the people, which will respect the Constitution and the laws and ensure the holding of elec tions honestly and fairly. We
(Continued on next Column).
Women are allowed to practise on the proviséial exchanges. At Bury and at Exeter there are women members. City men declare, how- ever, that women will never gain admittance to the London Stock. Exchange. Life within the sacred precincts of the "House" is far too strenuous for women.
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Union Insurance.....$3201 buy. North China Las......... Tls. 160 buy.
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(inglo) Th. 5,90 som. Bhat, Explorations.....Tim. 2.30 num.
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The policies of the two politi-China Providonts6 bay, ..... Hangkew Hin 160 buy.
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Do. ministration, supporting a ficti-
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Ubins Lights (old) ......$111 buy. mitting the exploitation of one. part of the kingdom at the ex De. (1828 Lena)...$11.20 buy..
_Do. (now)uiz...811.85 buy. pense of another.
We demand efficiency in the HK. Electrics 70.bay., 71 sal. public services, adequate pay for Macao Electrics.....3161 buy. competent officials, and the dis. Telephoned $5.10 bay, 6.10 ż za.
China, Busca, mislil P buy, missal of all corrupt and incom Singapore Tractions.....3/9 bar. petent public servants; the re
China Bugars 10 bay. habilitation of industry, and due Malabon Bugars regard for the essential needs of Canton Icon...... DOM. our agrariam population.
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