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The whole of the material used in the contract placed by the Central Electricity Roard with the General Electric Co., Ltd., for one, section of the overhead trans- mission lines in the south-east of England, will be manufactured in Great Britain.

An official of the company stated that the contract, the value of which was approximately £500,000, would. cover the erection of the 132,000 volt line in the district north of the Thames, stretching from Reading on the west to Peterborough on, the north, and Ipswich and Colchester on the east. The total mileage of the overhead trans- mission would be 254 miles, and the total actual length of conductor would be 1,300 miles.".

The contract would be carried out by the General Electric Company with the assistance of their associated Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd., of company, the Southampton, the latter company carrying out all the actual erection work. The work of erection would take in all three years, and employment would be given in the actual erection work to between 500 and 1,000 men. In addition to that exployment would be given to large, numbers in the manufacture of the steel towers, steel aluminium conductors" insulators, and other accessories.

The overhead lines are one section of the system of overhead lines covering the whole of England and Scot. land which are being erected by the Central Electricity Board with the object of linking up the main generating stations throughout the country and affording a cheap supply of electric power in all districts.

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ANOTHER BERLIN

SCANDAL

THE COMEDY OF · THE SKLAREK BROTHERS.

CORRUPTION AS AN ART.

were to run, and when they had anything to say they said it with sufta, and fur coats."

"Tips" That Paid."

The brothers had bought up, among other valuables, the stables of the last King of Bavaria, and " they believed, with sound judg ment, in their own horses. They would offer to put five pounds for a friend on one of their own favourites, and if the horse won Berlin, Oct. 17. the friendship was consolidated., Berlin has been edified by the It lost they would say with a smile that they had forgotten to exclusion from his party of

put the five pounds on as prom- Communist member of the Berlin laed, but so much the better, as Municipal Council for "unprole-t happened, Of their friends tarian behaviour," delighted by everybody had the chance of

now suit from a first-class tailor invitations went out to fellow-

-not one of Skiarek's ówn counsellors on the same board by municipal sults-at a price not a Nationalist member whose note- exceeding the equivalent of two paper is headed "Court Carpenter, pounds or two pounds ten. Muni- obtain six purveyor to his Majesty the Em-cipal officials could

quits a year at this priče. Re- peror and King." and genuinely dipients would pay the bills, be intrigued by the antics of alieving, it is presumed, that the Socialist borough mayor; who. Sklareks really did know how to suspended from activity while on buy first-class" goods at bargain holiday, returned and refused prices, and the brothers would to consider any octal notifica-pay the first-class tailor the differ-

ence at trade prices. tion, even that of his own suspen-' aion, as being truly oficial in his absence; and awaits final develop ments in what promises to be the biggest social and political scandal Germany has enjoyed for months.

But the chief weapon in their armour was the wife's fur coat. The ladies of all the more promin- ent civic officials obtained cheap fur coats the same way. A dole- gation of very prominent citizens, manyhow on an official visit and study

of

trip to the United States, will be faced when they return with the question of whether certain their number really did. believe a mink coat valued at two hundred pounds could be obtained by any body for ten pounds? But such questions are as beside the point as the case of the unfortunate Com- munist whose "unproletarian be- haviour" also has to do with a new- suit.

"Loaded" Cigars.

Enjoyment is the only term that can be employed, sincefall parties are implicated. Home pulition are at their most interesting just now, But while the shadow of Dr. Stresemann's death hovers over the Nationalist manoeuvres to split up the Peoples Party on the Young Plan, and few people in a big city have any time or thought for attacking agreements they believe to be, if not the best, at least the best possible under the circumstances, everybody is in- terested in the Sklarek scandal. For; contained in thirty-four volumes of data with more mised, the Sklarek Scandal uminates in a long history statematic corruption much

The credulity of their fellow that phase of Berlin's life which has astonished and upset the post-thers into believing that they men and women-led the bro- war traveller. How various queer could forge orders with impunity, types of citizen can afford to wear and so obtain bigger bank credits such and such clothes, and dine when money was tight. out in certain places, or even attend certain races, is now, to a certain extent, explained.

Municipal Contracts.

The Sklareke knowledge of horse-flesh was equalled by their knowledge of human nature. The only drawback to a cynic'a plea- sure in their success is the fact that the garments they supplied to welfare centres were of the pro-poorest quality, and that the un- iamployed and old age pensioners. of complained steadily of what they of paid for inferior goods.

In prison, the three brothers awaiting trial are extremely cheerful, smoking the large cigars which are the hall-mark of the. truly prosperous, in such numbers that investigation revealed cun- ning hollows within filled with paper messages from one to the other.

The three brothers Sklarek, Max, Leo, and Willy, whose "burn" in Berlin is as humorous as that of any music hall, started life as In the meantime preparations commercial travellers in suitings for Berlin's municipal elections and textiles, and hailed from next month have received a de- Breslau, a city which furnishes elded set-back. No one party. Berlin with all its smartest busi-] dares,attuck another for fear of 'ness heads... They bought up old more Sklarek revelations, Wives army supplies after the war, and of the would-be elected are pro- the dearth of materials in im-hibited from wearing their fur poverished and blockaded Ger-coats, no matter where obtained, many made them rich men. for fear of leading questions. Skilful manipulation of revolu tionary officialsgave them the monopoly for municipal supplies of clothing, bedding, and boots to Berlin's welfare centres, prisons,. hospitals, and orphanges. They obtained for years' large credits from the city's bank with orders 43 security, and their sensational failure for the equivalent of half to three-quarters of a million pounds lost by the bank, is due merely to their having lost their heads over their own prosperity.

Like all Jews, they had a strong family sense and were the best of brothers; each owned a large mansion and a racing stable.j There was a communal shooting- box and yacht. They possessed scores of friends in political cir cles, and their sardonic sense of humour enjoyed the fact that a Communist might owe his intro- duction to them from a Nation-! alist; and that Nationalists well- known for their anti-Semitie attitude would foregather with them at expensive restaurants and leave them to foot the bill.

It is understandable that they sought the society of anybody who had anything to do with the issue of big municifal orders, but the taxpayers of Berlin now under-

stand why city fathers of the best incorruptible Prussian official tradition were glad to be counted among

their friends. TEC Sklareks, past masters in the art of corruption, believing that a shoemaker should stick to his last, did very little home entertaining. They gave their friends tickets for races, in which their horses

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