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(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Aug. 15.

I remember Sr. Basil Blackett telling me two years ago that he would like to see Mr. Neville Cham- berlain budgetting for a deficit and taking a shilling, or, even shillings, off the income-tax, writes a correspondent.

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The resulting stimulus to trade would, he believed, have more than compensated for the defcft.

Recently, however, as I first re- vealed in these notes. Sir Basil Blackett had been acting as us official financial adviser to Mr. Lloyd George over the New Deal.

The huge expenditure of public money which the New Deal pro- posals involve would inevitably lead to higher taxation.

"Yet Sir Basil Blackett was not consistent. He' had always been a reflationist, and believed that credit expansion would be achieved by either of the two policies he advocated within two years,

TREASURY TO CITY With Sir Otto Niemeyer he was

AIR RAIDS

Some Measures Of

Protection

CIVIL AVIATION PROBLEMS

“Blind” Landing

An appeal to the members of

The Civil Aviation Department Glasgow Corporation to refuse to give effect to the circular which of the Air Ministry has asked for has been sent to local authorities the assistance and co-operation of the "National Physical Laboratory by the Government with regard to the protection of civil populations to help in the solution of the three

aviation problems; from attacks from the air is con- tained in a letter which, has been forwarded to the Town Clerk of Glasgow, by the League Against Faselam and War.

The letter, which is signed by Mr. Bruce Wallace, the secretary of the Glasgow committee of the League, states that it is understood that the Government circular wil some before the Corporation on August 1.

"I am instructed by my com- mittee, which was elected at a re- presentative conference of Glasgow trade unions and other bodies," the communication proceeds, "to ap-

tempt by the National Government to enlist the civil population in its

a standing example of the ten-peal to the members of the Cor- dency of Treasury offelals to go poration to refuse to give erect to into the City. In his career heth's circular and to reject this at- also demonstrated the disparity between the rewards offered to a Treasury official and those which the same talents could command in the City.

The official salary of Sir Warren Fisher, Parmanent Under-Secre- tary of the Treasury, and head of the Civil Service, is £3,500.

Sir Basil Blackett, after he left the Treasury, was reputed to be earning at one time between £20,000 and £30,000 a year from his many directorships and other Interests in the City.

He shared his American wife's love of d'spensing hospitality, and kept an excellent table at his house in Seymour-street. The width of his interests was demonstrated by the extremely mixed bag at his dinner parties.

The worlds of the City and

politics would there be leavened

with # sprinkling of foreign diplomats, Colonial governors, classical scholars, and Indian CivilTM

Servants home on leave.

BY THE NEXT TRAIN ... Some idea of the imperfection of communications in Abyssinia may

war preparations

next

"The introduction of gas mask drill in the schools and among em ployees in the essential services." the letter continues, "is a step following on the trebuing of the Air Force, increased military expenditure, and the spending of £20,000,000 in building new battle- ships.".

• The letter points out that Glas sow Corporation has a Socialist majority, and that it would give a lead to the country by emphatical- 19 rejecting "th's war-hysteris circular."

The letter closes, with a request that a deputation should be re- celyed at the meeting of the Cor- poration on Thursday,"

OFFER BY G. B.

SHAW›

be gathered from a wire I received To Miss Ethel Cain on Tuesday morning from a friend in Djibouti

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He told me that he was leaving tor Addis Ababa by the next train.

This "next train" starts to-day.

DITCH

nay, I think! be detected in Mr. A new line in political metaphor

Lloyd George's speech at the

National Trade Union Club.

1. Landing of aircraft wien an aerodrome is obscured by fog or under conditions or poor visibility. In other words, for "blind" land- Ing.

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2. The use of short-wave direc-

tion-Anders over a long range.

3. A satisfactory radio device for warning aircraft under poor visi b'lity conditions, or in the neigh- bourhood of high obstructions, such as wireless masts.

carry

For these purposes the Prince of Wales's Vickers Vlasta monoplane has been taken over by the Air Ministry and will be fitted with special equipment in order out wireless tests. Arrangements have been made for Imphal Air- ways pilots to fly the machine. which is to be fitted with the "necessary apparatus immediately a decls'on is reached regarding the detalls of the equipment.

erodromes which will probably be chosen for the experiments are Croydon, Gatwick, and Gravesend.

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION

#HE Under@gued have received

Instructions

TO SELL BY

"PUBLIC" AUCTION

FRIDAY,

UN

SEPTEMBER 6, 1935

"CŮMKENCING AT 2,30 P.M.

AT THEIR SALES ROOM, No. 35, HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Comprising:

Chesterfield Suites, Fed Room & Dining Room Furniture, Writing Table," Rattan Ware, Glass & For- relain Ware, Brass and Alum, Ware, The Gramophone ›nd Records, Shanghai Haths, Pictures, Clocks, Ornaments,

etc, etc.

Also

A SELECTION. OF

* MARKER":BEACONS As a step towards the solution of the problem of "blind" landing the Air Ministry has ordered an BLACKWOOD FURNITURE approach beacon with a range of 20 to 25 miles which will send out.

a short aural note. Two or more "marker" beacons, will probably be used in connection with these expertments at one of the three aerodromes. and will be placed at points from half a mile to three miles away.

In the use of short waves at long range Imperial Airways will prob-

1wo Radio Seta

and

ON VIEW FROM THURSDAY, THE 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1935.

ably be invited to send out signals TERMS—Casu ós DeliVERY.

at pre-arranged times when their pilots are over Africa, on the way to India or Australia, in order to compile data as to the reliability and suitability of that type of WAYE.

"NARROW"

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Aug. 1. Forceful criticism of Provost London, Aug. 21. Listeners to a broadcast from Murray, of Domach by the Free Radio 1ympis on Saturday night Presbyterian Church, for permit. heard Mr. G. B. Shaw offer a lead-ting dancing at a Christmas Eve.. ing. part to Miss Ethel Cain, the party, has caused widespread as. "giri with the golden voice."!

tonishment,

At that moment. a voice inter- rupted-Three minutes."

"To my mind," a minister said to me. "a church has far more important things to do than to hubbub about such a

triviality."

Provost Murray has been sus- pended from the Church for six months following a Christmas Eve party held by his daughter, at which the guests' danced.

The League of Nations as a "Don't you know I write plays?" "blunted sword" is, if I may so. he asked her during a telephone turn a phrase, from

the old conversation between Olympia and armoury; but the League "in the Malvern. "These "plays depend make a ditch" is a novelty. It is appro- upon the spoken word. If I pro- priate in an age of road, transport. mise you a leading part in my next For vividness it has indeed an play will you chuck this telephone advantage over that other "ditch" | business and go on to the stage?” metaphor, the time-hononred "dying in the last ditch," which has long since outlived its im- mediate relevance. It was truly apt, perhaps, only, to what I be- lieve was the occasion of its original use in the Low Countries, William of Orange declared to Buckingham: "There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-1 will die in the last ditch."

SAVAGES' COMING OF AGE The Savage Club, which is being evicted by the rebuilding of the new MONGKONG DAILY PRESS. Adelphi, has still to find

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"Damn," said Mr. Shaw...

After the suspension & Jarze

"I feel exactly as you do,” said number of fellow-members of the caurch attended by the Provost left Miss Gain

In sympathy, and a rival service is being he'd each Sunday in a li- brary.

AGREEABLE VOICE During the conversation Miss Cain told G.B.8. that it was her business to have. an agreeable 'Yolce.

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"Not at all," countered Mr. Shaw "It is the business of the pubile to have an agreeable voice. They have to listen to you only for a moment, but you have to listen to them all day. ""

"Don't they drive you mad with their horrible accents and slovenly speech? Would you not like to let yourssif

go for once In

a way and just tell the telephone subscribers what you think of them?"

The Club's homeless plight is in strong contrast to the days when It was in the full vigour of newly attained "manhood. It celebrated

Miss Cat-I can generally soothe its coming-of-age at the Grosvenor them with my voice. Gallery in Bond-street on March 6, 1876, at a great dinner.

The chairman was George Augus- tus Bala, for many years art critic. leader writer, and one of the ablest fournalists on "The Daily Tele- graph" staff.

On his right and left at Lord Dunraven and Lord Mark Kerr. The latter, who was a general, was the brother of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.

E

Lord Mark Kerr responded briefly to the toast of The Army, Navy, and Auxiliary Furces," and it was left to Bir Garnet Wolsey, then still with his reputation, to make, to re- ply at greater length.

MARRY-ON NOTHING

(Special "Air 'Mtil Service)

London, Aug. 21. We regret to see that a number of young persons in Rumania have been "setting up house together," as we decently put it, without the

FROWNS!

Dancing and parties, are frowned on by the authorities of the Fres Presbyterian Church-a small sect confined chiefly to the far north of

Scotland.

The Northern Presbytery of the church" have stated in connection with the dispute:

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LAMMERT BROS.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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HE Undersigned bave received

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1935

COMMENCING AT 11 AM..

AT THE SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET.

1 Case of Leather

1 Keg. Tartaric Acid

2 Cases Cotton & Woollen Piece

Goods

10 Bags Brass Eyelets.

I Case Felt Huta

1 Case Leather Belting 15 Doz. Lady's Felt Hats

1 Case Plaster Figures of Paris

also

"We would 'prayerfuly and lov- A Quantity of Household Furni- ingly warn the young against pruture, Fire Bricks, Boilers, Glass miscuous dancing and giving coun- Chimneys, Tanny Cloth, Filter tenance to such Romish practices Candles, Pad Locks, & Sundry Goods, as that of observing Christmas Eve.. etc., etc.

"Promiscuous dancing is notori- ously a means of fostering the lusts

of the flesh,

"We deeply regred how misguid- TERMS CASH ON Delivery. ed Mr. Murray is, and how he has misled his family and many of the young.".

"ALMOST AN OUTRAGE.”. Ministers of the Church of Best- land and other Presbyterian bodies throughout Central and South Scotland consider some of the opin

on expressed as being almost en outrage wehn they come from the Churen.

One minister sala to me, TO

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preliminary of a marriage cere-think of any body of Christians, no DONT FORGET

mony, writes a correspondent..

Was It Immorality?: No, only advertisement. Of what? Of the high." cost of living, and particularly, of the unjust expenses attached to a wedding,

The point of his speech, which was an indiquant denial of the suggestion that the Army was too They are now married all right, youthful, was somewhat inappro-by one comprehensive and (we priately driven home by a song, hope) inexpensive intervention of "Our Lads in Blue, sung by Mr. a reputable priest. But, in being Arthur Mathison, dan

rather Improper, they may have done some good, an

To the free advies of all those

The speech of the evening, how ever, was that in which the chair- man proposed the health of the who explain that bachelors club to Judge from the Cloud spinsters äre laughter) and Cloud cheers) which the Dunctuate it in the bi-Tear-old : 200 report:

and to

matter how narrowminded they may be, making reference to Christmas Eve as Romish practice is outrageous,

As for the reprimand about the sins of dancing well I thought that sort of thing had gone out of date years ago.””.

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