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TOO MANY CIVIL SERVANTS.

OVERLAPPING AND WASTED LABOUR.

RUMANIA TO-DAY.

LITTLE FOOD AND NO

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MEANS OF TRANSPORT.

Writing from Bucharest February 25, the special corres pondent of the Times said that with the exception of Servia, Rumania has certainly suffered

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A FISTIC GENIUS.

JIMMY WILDE'S PROSPECTS.

Edinburgh Evening Dispatch as Eugene Corri writes in the follows

THURSDAY

Hke a champion, but if he were to re-enter the ring to-narrow there would be many people who would hesitate to declare that he was the impossible man his contest with Beckett made him out to be.

JIM DRISCOLL AND PEDLAR PALKER

Excessive staffing in Govern ment offices is reported by the Committee on Staffs, who give striking cases of wasted labour

talking of Wells. Beckett, God-be no surprise that Jim Driscoll Although most people are still In this boxing boom there can for instance, 13 clerks at the more than any of the Allies dard, and, of course, Georges and Pedlar Palmer have com- Admiralty dealing with 40 com-Only the incomparable natural Carpentier, who extended his stay minted themselves to come back. munications a day,

resources of the country have in London until last Wednesday They have more about them. In their final report issued made it possible to ward offhe was to have returned to from a spectacular point of view recently they give the expansion famine, but the devastation and Paris last Monday morning-than many of the man who insist of stalls in the evil offices (ex-pillage were as complets as Ger- there is to me, in the forthcoming that their price is something like eluding the Army local establish man unscruplousness and scien-match between Jimmy Wide and menta, the Ordnance Factories, rific methods could make them.

a fortune a night. Palmer has the manipulative staffs of the Post

Joe Lynch, the American, all not had the healthy life that Everything has been taken, that matters at the moment. Office, and the men of other De- even the essentials of life and of

These absent on military labour, and with even greater weeny; Lynch, for his weight, partments

men. Wilde. teeny service as follows:

For malice than in Belgium. bere Germans had the (to them) the National Sporting Club, and, uneommonly tall, are to meet at all sufficient justification of punishing a country which had as befits these days of bulging dared, although economically purses, they are to fight for what I should say is the biggest sam completely dependent on Ger-

Men. Women. Total Aug. 1, 1914 45,000 8,500 53,560 April 1, 1917 34.000 51,000 105,000

Feb. 1, 1918 62,000 85,000 149,000

clusions:

Driscoll has enjoyed during the Army. war. Driscoll' has been in the Palmer has been were to ask me, I would say that making munitions and, if yon over a strictly limited course, Driscoll could give many points away to the very best men in the

Following are their main cen-many, take up arms on the side ever put up in this country for a profession.

Trans-

contest between little fellows..

of the Allies. They spent two 1. The expansion of staff is years in systematically

Two thousand and four hundred mainly due to extention of the porting to Germany everything pounds. I believe, will be the functions of Government during which they fancied-furniture. prize. Well, if ever two boxers the war; but the actual numbers sitverware, clothing, auchinery these men ara, and my old friending to the public what a wonder- smployed are in excess of the food, and live stock.

weth worth paying big money.

"Peggy' Bettinson.

who has

He has not lost his cunning, his skill is little less than it was: only he is getting on in years. But if it were a matter of show.

ful science boxing or fighting is.

Driscoll or Palmer. But doesn't it rather suggest poverty of talent that those two veterans should have to come back again?

numbers which would have been SYSTEMATIC GERMAN PILLAGE brought abundant property to the no one could do, it better than

required if the standard of or-

ganisation prevailing in the best managed permament offices could have been adopted throughout

the services.

2. This excess was partly due to the difficulty of securing trained staff and suitable accom modation; but a proportion, and in the case of some Departments

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They sent 2500,000 tons of cereals in railway trucks, but National Sporting Club, is to be they must have sent another cousTatulated in making the million tons in paper packages. match. If Holland Park Skating Every soldier was allowed to Covent Garden, even such

Rink were now an annexe of send five kilos (11lb.) of cereals commodious place as that could home every little while. Sine be filled. Hwever, the National teen hundred and eighteen Sporting Club is good enough a had crop year in Wallachia for me, though from the point of but the Germans were careful to

¿ BELGIUM TAXES TO BOXING.

place in Belgium, and it is of wide significance, for it means that the country is to fall into line with

A big tournament is to take

very substantial proportion, export at once all the grainview of the general public it is the rest of the world in encourag-|

must be attributed to overlapping between Departments and defect- ive organisation within each Department.

TREASURY CONTROL.

To meet these gvoidable defects The Committee make the following general recommendations:

which was harvested.

But of all they took out of the country nothing so seriously crip pled Rumania as the means of transport. There are in the

whole of the Kingdom. 84 engines in fit condition. All of the horses

unfortunate that Wilde and within the Lynch will box Privacy of the club.

WILDE VERY FIT,

There was some talk recently about Wilde not being very well.

but when I saw the great little man the other day, he looked as

ing boxing as a national sport. It has been proved that, had it not been for our love of sport. we heroic and glorious part in the should not have played such an

war. If I were asked to tell the

secret of the wonderful fighting spirit of our armies, 1 should un-

and most of the exen were taken-fit as I have ever known him to hesitatingly point to sport.

The telegraph and telephone wires are mostly down, and there. The appearance of Wilde is

to

The British boy, without know-

1. Government should take steps to secure a more careful

is no material available to repair such that he is a travesty uponing it has made the boy of other delimitation of the functions of them, which, together with the himself. One almost laughs at Departments retained after the lack of a train service makes it the very idea that he is a pugilist. war and of any new Departments very difficult obtain com-

But he is something more than created in the fute

prehensive information about the a fighter: he is fistic genius.

saw his bout with Lynch at the Albert Hall and he piled up so that he had won anyhow at the many points in the three rounds

not

point

Guish.

Wilde.

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nations sit up, and take notice, and now Belgium. her imagina. tion fred, is about to copy him. 2. The organisation for dealing | food situation.

She has arranged what the show- with staff maiters, both at the There is considerable "differ-inter-Services-Tournament of the man would describe as a monster Treasury and is the other are of opinion as to the quantity

boxing carnival. It will be held Departments, should be streng-of foodstuffs now in the country

month, and to it will go the King at Brussels in the middle of the thened by the creation of a After consulting various people.

and Queen of the Belgians, Special Establishment Branch ut including, the representatives of the Treasury manned by the Allies who

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have had the

Lynch is a very nice boy, fresh together with that heroic little

the Burgomaster fman. sufficient number of picked matter under examination, I be- complexioned and dapper.

Brussels. officers under an official of high lieve it is safe to say that there have not talked with him, but I rank, and acting as a clearing is sufficient food available it should say that he has got ideas Carpentier has been asked (and house for informatien on all staff there were any means of trans far beyond mere boxing. I do provided he can obtain the neces questions. A Standing Com-porting is from опе

not think, however, that he is insary permission, he will accept) mittee consisting of the establish- to another. The

Govern any way comparable with Wilde. to be present in the capacity of ment officers in the principal | ment. however. 15

of His stance 1 do not like, for he referee of the principal bouts. He Departments should be estabish this opinion. and the Minister is given to leaving himself wide will also give an exhibition of ed for the purpose of advising the of Industry and Com- open. His defence is, in fact, Treasury.

merce. M. Constantinesco, says poor, and will be readily penetrat Full Treasury control over the that the present supplies willed by such a master of the art as

I am told that there are any staffing of the public service, it is only hold out until the end of

When he beat Tommy Noble Belgium.

number of promising boxers in recommended, should now be re- April, and that unless the Allies

That may be so but me most is sumed. In view of the probable manage to get food here during at The Ring, which in other days what appeals to extension of the employment of the next month there will be was Rowland Hill's chapel, he that the Belgians recognise

intelligence that

they must be able women in Government Depart practically no harvest as the fought with more ments, the proposed Establish-German have carried off all of than he had previously shown.to toe the line in the playing It may be that when he meets of all games that have to do with ment Division of the Treasury the seed grains.

the Welshman he will do ever be making of men. should include

Belgium is Four Allied ships have so far better, for if any man ever stood inteat upon winning recognition women officers.

arrived carrying 26,000 tons of to win a great deal in the matter as a great sporting country. Y650,000 FOR CENSORSHIP. four which has already been dis of prestige. I mean-it is Lynch.

And it will be through sport It is mentioned in the reporttributed in spite of the overwhelm Eddie M'Goorty will be in his that the institution of the Postal ing difficulties broken bridges, comer, and you may take it from that she will be able to makeRegister of Members of the Com- Censorship entailed the employ- lack of transgort, etc. In theme that this M'Goorty is about herself better understood and pany will be closed from the 7th ment of a staff of over 4,000, cost- whole of Bessarabia, for instance the shrewdest

She is the appreciated. in man

a little May to the 21st May, both days ing on Feb. 1. 1918, over £650,000 there are only five engines. And business.

country, but she will become a inclusive. per annum. "Although some

Wilde, in my judgment, will big country if, in friendly com

Immediately after the above reduction has been effected since ably

as the tracks there are consider-fied it not very difficult to bear bat, she will "St herself

mentioned Meeting the General the armistice, a large staff must Rumania, it is impossible to send Lynch. Although, at diferent challenge the world. Her true Agents in pursuance of Article time we have all gone into Kreamess is personified by her 17 of the Company's Articles pro ecstasics about his amazing skill Kinga big man in every way.

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Until the transport question is settled noting can ye done. Two hundred engines would bring

be retained so long as the Censor-engines from here. ship is considered necessary,"

A curious instance of the lack of co-ordination inside depart ments is given in a separate | greater relief to Kumania at, the report in connection with the present moment than any amount Admiralty, where some 40 differ- of food, badly as this is wanted. ent registries were discovered, apart from sub-registries, each adopting its own system. The worst example discovered was that of the registry under the Board of Invention and Research. Here a staff of 13 clerks was engaged in dealing with about 40 communications per day.

ROOSEVELT'S GUILDHALL

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PREPARED FOUR WEEKS IN ADVANCE.

But whatever will be the result THE

of the fight for myself I feel sure

that Wilde will win-there is not

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never any dullness about a con-

test in which Wilde is concerned.

" WILL WELLS COME BACK! Someone wrote to me after the

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