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Someone's blunder

BUENOS AIRES.

LEASE don't blame me if this Newsmap gets itself into a bit of a groovo and goes on monotonously datelining "Buenos Aires," "Buenos Aires." "Buenos Aires” for the next four, six, or even 16 weeks.

As I explain to my Argentine friends

London Express Service -

In The

Lap Of Luxury

By J. W. Táylor

no in

days, but it would seem that the thousand Roman Army conscripts at the Neath Fort garrison "lived on the fat of the land."

This and much more has been established through the exploratory excavations recently carried out on tho Neath alte by the National Museum Archaeological department.

Structural remains which have been opened! up are military in character, forming part of a fortified gateway and serving to identify the Roman station there 1.5 an auxiliary fort established on the main Roman South Wales' road, linking the base. fortress of Caerleon with the advance station at Carmarthen,

Superficial examination indicates that the fort was upward of six acres in area, rectangular

made this

costly gift to Peron

SEFTON DELMER'S Newsmap

In melancholy tango cadence, "Soy un povre preso de su querido peso"-I am a prisoner of your beloved peso. I cannot move because I cannot pay.

For the last six days I have

twice been

daily The most optimistic of Presi dodging through the alarmingly impren dent Peron's advisers even hope sive newest-look crowds in the that as a consequence of this Ansby Calle Florida searching 40 percent beneft they will be re-sell the industrial money-changer able to who will cash my traveller's products they buy in Britain on the United States doilar market, For they reckon they will be their cheaply with

for a

cheques.

bank or

It is the same thing every buying so time.

A gleaming smile, a shrug boosted pounds that they will be uf the shoulders, an upturned in a position to undersell the

senor? palm and-"Pounds,

British on their own goods. regret very much, senor, There in ro rate yet. Perhaps to-

morrow,

The Govern ment has not yet decided."

benor.

On the pavement outside the

Overruled

shows me that this country and this Government need the British mackel more than we aeed them.

them.

their producta

ten and

ал

twelve-fold

in shape and defended by ditches 'and embattled atone ramparts furnished with four fortified gateways symmetrically placed in the centre of each of tho sides of the enclosure. Already there has been cleared 'the More and more American busi-remains of a guard tower ness men are leaving because fixed to one of the four gate- they see no prospects here.

ways with the footings of Every day fresh instances are the main stone, ramparts revealed of the corruption, ex attached. travagance and incompetence that have wasted the rich assets! with which the country emerged from the war,

The guard tower formed part of the "double-arch

There is considerable doubt gateway and housed the whether anything is left now of guards, whose job it was to the vast sterling balance with control traffic in and out of which the Argentine emerged the fort, The remains of from the war. In fact, I have the other tower of the gate- been told that the Argentino is way lie under the main

In debt to us, not wo to her.

free!

let the peso and its true rate.

Swansea road.

well

price which will cover the heavy costs

Break of LA.P.L Lureaucracy and the

• country's enormous wages bill.

At one of. tho Argentine's This wage

way that bill has been in- THERE is only one biggest meat packing plants creased

this country's economy can CERTAIN aspects of the excavations indicato to Dr found vast stores of hides and during the Peron Administra- be put on its feet again. fats covering the lawns and tion by his successful-effort to That is to free the country of V. E. Nash-Williams, cura-

other bit

of available capture the support of organized the State merchandlers and tor of the Department, that overy space. They were going bad be- labour.

controllers who are looting it in the regiment which supplied cause the Argentine State Trad- ing Institute called I.A.P.1, who To disguise the bankruptcy of the home of social justice and the garrison of the fort have the monopoly, of the coun- the economy Peran has: 1. been

would be drawn from the ny's export trade could not get paying heavy subsidies to various If the Argentine meat pro-auxiliary forces of the the price they were asking for prdoucers. 2. been printing vast ducers had been able to convert Roman Empire, le, second- quantities of notes to finance the pounds the British were pay- these payments, 3. banned the ing for their meat at the free line troops, conscripted from crowd jostles around the bank's RUT when I ask you not to ourselves" said the plant these might reveal the true state they would have been making altions of the Empire and "When we hnadled this busi publication of all statistics. For rate of 19 pesos to the pound. among the native popula blame me if I get stuck out ess plateclass window, Men stare here I also ask you not to blame jinnager, "we never had more of affairs.

handsome profit instead of less well-armed and drilled hypnotically at the board on

the Treasury negotiators for this than 50,000 hides in stock. Today

steady loss. The Americans tell me they which the exchange rates were disastrous and costly cinuse. It we have 450,000, They were first

than the legionnaires of marked up-unti] last Monday.

was put in against their advice, quality hdles when they went are buying here only what they

At it in, the profit is all golog Caerleon and Chester. Fur- into stores. Now thousands of cantot get elsewhere. They will into the hands of greedy get- When the Argentins delega them are fit for nothing but a not give credit to the country in rich-quick bureaucrats--and Ither, the fort accommodated tion demanded that the sterling glue factory,"

its present state. The Argentine, am stuck here walling for some-a thousand conscripts of the den!

regiment. accruing from the meal

Iacking dollars, is having to go one to cash me a cheque. should be guaranteed against

All over

the Argentine it is without even the mast essential the same trouble, They cannot imporis from the Dollar Area. Treasury men THINGS may go on like this devaluation the

for come

time yet. For turned them down. But their President Peron and his masters lu London fearing financial brains trust sms breakdown, #lepped in and over- making up their minds how they ruled them. can squeeze the most cash out of Britain.

The squeeze

5

What I

everyola do blame connected with this bad pict for, is this: that they did not learn their lesson from the Andes Arreement of the year before.

Should they devalus the pese outright, or should they try some tricky new rearrangement of their multiple currency rates For in principle the trick the which will let them hunt with Argentines put over on our men the sume ne the dollar and fleece the pound then was exactly

this new one.

at the same time?

-(London Express Scrotce}

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

BLIE

that Russia has the atom bomb: NEW YORK. DLIBS: A report covering a

"It's just a scare story which MERICAN industry has threz-year study of alcoho-

clinic means that some new Govern- 1sm by a Philadelphia made it plain that it disclosed that the chances of an ment request is going to be sent

with Britain American becoming a drunkard to us to pans."

They induced us to buy groin As far as Britain is concerned from them at prices well above, they can afford to take their the work market price in return will compete time. In fact they have got for which they agreed In tell four months grace, thanks to meat ut a cheaper rate. the amazing devaluation clnuser

which Britain's twice-bitten but never shy State

allowed the Argentine away with lost June.

to gel

to

Peron's men only need carry on no they have been doing-dumping meat on Britain

tines

seleniis Ho

"They

were," he states, "probably mixed cavalry and infantry, and the poltery Ands of ours so far indicale that they Hved on the fat of the Innd. These finds fall into two

groups. bright

red,

The first comprises glazed, Samlan ware, the bert table ware of the period, all manufactured In the great Imperial Potteries of Goul and imported into this country. The second type is for klichen. coarser-obviously

use."

S for the history of Roman

con-

the

for the U.S. market

ar double if he is mourried. Advertisements in the news.

HARVEST: There is to much As papers announce price at POME: Fresh milk will be grain this year and so few Neath, the excavations show buyer We were welshed to 15 percent for quantifies of sald in this within a year places to store it that farmers that there were two successive

ma'n Phasco. Tho first Made-in-US, dinnerware,

or two

as a result of expert in the Chicago area are buying 20

characterised by temporary That means that the U.S. pot mints by Dr Roy Graves, a up war surplus nissen huis,

enclosed with Our delegation trusted theateries

camp probably Industry, consider bly Chlengo

dairy

And a timber palisade and did not compel the Argen- d:veloped since the war, was announcet recently that fresh

structures; is still taining wood FOBS: Unemployment to pledge themselves to getting ready for price cuts in milk praled in enamel-lined Uns

by a Atone structure dropping. Afler surveying other y fixed ratio of delivery (and British-made china which might soon as it comes from the cow

on its which represents the trans- even paid them £100 million in

from all the "critical arcas" como from the £'s devaluation. cannot be distinguished advance).

And I will not

liet, Washington announces that lation of the temporary camp- with ordinary bottled milk. Find

into fl permanent fort which they show a two percent in-

was part of the network of crease in jobs in the past 30 roads and forts of Wales about 100 A.D. when the country was finally organised as an in- the Roman out of the to sell to Amerleans are getting from the grandsland this sea-DWARD Dmytryk, the dl-tegral part of 40 percent bargain altogether. To this day

frontier system. banned it will pick ten of ile critles and for refusing

Pottery to say whether

inds suggest Particularly active

are car. let them "mastermind” the final or not he was a Communist, Initially the camp come into clothing, and Friends of mine who

game of the season.

between had this to say about Britain existence somewhere know men's

after he returned from a year's (75. A.D. and 80 A‚D. while this country and its Bnances tell furnishing industries.

All this talk makes USмcon- me that compromise on the

PINION: Columnist Bob Con- work there: "The English are the conquest of the Silures of This' keeps

Wales sumers happy. It devaluation demands last Juneg, they hope, the U.S. will be-

fine, good people. They Judge South

was in pro- sidine writes that he could a person by his work.'

gress. It subsisted until about was unnecessary.

100 - A.D. when undoubted understand the craze for swim ming the Chann:1 if all the

orders from higher nuthority

an fast as the sips can carry and holding down their own im ports from the Sterling Area to

The Argentines quickly sent china. indispensable essentials like oil

us all the expensive grain they and petrol. That in all they

Nearly all industries produc- CroORTS: The management of could, held down their delivering the goods which Britain and the Cleveland Indians base- days. have to do to build up a nice rics of the cheaper meat, and other devalued exporters will try ball leam is so tired of criticizm fnt sterling balanoz In their finally welshed us favour and make profit on the meat deal.

The penalty

they still owe the Bank of Etogether to plan manufacturing zon, hurt it has announced that rector 'Hollywood

land £6000.000 on that E100

· million advance.

economies

houst

that

swiminers were swimming away- CEASON-TICKET holders who caused is conversion Into per-

use Grand Central, one of manent-form. New York's cathedral-like

from England.

D

nor we have pledged our FOR

selves in a secret exchange of letters between the Bank of Had we held out against this come the world's cheapest coun- England and the Argentine Cen- clause the Argentines would try to live tral Bank to make up to the full have yielded and by now the "BEAT THE BAND" | four-dollar-to-the-pound value peso would have been devalued TİJOMEN; A group of feminiēts not only the balances outstand quietly in line with the pound. ||W who cather every, month to

terminals, have been promised How long the stone fort ro An RKO`Radio Picturo ing in favour of the Argentine at nm convinced my friends are persuade UNO to appoint more POLITICS: Inter-party wrang- that withiin a month it will mained occupied fa still un-

the time of devaluation but any

right.

of their sex to high posiljons Iling has become so bitter in not be so boring waiting for a certain. The evidence, so far further balance they may deve-

held this month's meeting' re- Washington "that this was the train. All over the station they funearthed is that It was still Why?

cently in an acroplano circling comment Joseph Martin, Oppost- will broadcast music, baseball occupied in 120 A.D, and may * At 2.30, 5.30 lop out of trading during the

continued Because what I have seen and over the present and future tion leader, made about Prezi or football results, time signals, have

in uso for Orst four months after devalua- tion,

I heard since I have been here homes of the organisation. dent Truman's announcement and news flashes.

some considerable time after.

abhay 7.30 & 9.30

p.m.

BORDER TOWN! DANGER TOWNI THRILL TOWN! Lawless Fury. Rogos In The West's Worst Danger Spot!

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-"OUTSTANDING

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OF THE

YEAR!"

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