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10 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1933 night as passengers in an American more generous acknowledgment of the It was-paid for. from the first, entirely Selfridge Ltd. NOTE. ThU Fco is occupied eray dT fry OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LONDON, Monday Night BY PRIVATE WIRE. they have lost their Dragon and damaged themselves.

The loss in money must be considerable, and even if they got a new aeroplane a good while must elapse before, they could start their proposed attempt on the The Small Villa The small villa, which in the past provided many builders with their best opportunity for distressing the human race, is now receiving much attention from architects, and the Architectural Association has organised a competition -for the design of small villa COURT PERSONAL PRIME MINISTER SEES THE KINO The King received the Prime Minister in audience at Buckingham Palace last evening. Mr. MacUonald drove to" the Palace, arriving shortly before half-past five, and remained with the King for a considerabla time. It was a farewell audience before the King leaves London to-day for Cowes. From Cowes the King will go to Sasdringbam and thence to Balmoral.

Before going on to Balmoral when they leave Sandringham the King and Queen will go to Harcwood House, Leeds, where they will st-iy with the Princess Royal and Lord Harewood. On August 23 the King, accompanied by the Queen, will open new civio buildings at Leeds. On the night of August 23 the King will travel north to Balmoral. The Queen, will remain at Harewood for a few days joining the King in Scotland, THE PREMIER'S HOLIDAY According to present expectations, the Prime Minister will leave London for Lossiemouth on Saturday, and will make tho journey by air if possible. 45 YEARS' SERVICE IN THE, ROYAL HOUSEHOLD Last night's Court Circular states that Mr.

H. K. Punshon had the honour of being received by the King at Buckingham Palace yesterday and took leava of his Majesty after forty-five years' servico in the Royal Household. Mr. H.

K. Punshon was appointed clerk, H.M. Privy Purse, In LADY CYNTHIA MOSLEY Friends of Lady Cynthia Moiley wish to perpetuate her memory by founding a day nursery, preferably in Westminster, where she lived and worked ao much of her life. The scheme is to buy a suitable site and to erect a one-storey building consisting of playrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an open-air playground. The nursery will be for the use of children under Ave years whose mothers have to work during the day.

The initial outlay would be between 1,500 and 2,000, and the annual expenditure about 600. The following committee haa been formed to promote this memorial: Mrs. Reginald McKenna, Bamo Edith Lyttelton, Mrc. Euan Wallace, Lady De 1j Warr, Lady Jowitt, Mrs. Saoheverell Bltwell, and Mr.

Robert Boothby and Mr. Brendan Bracken, hon. treasurers. Japanese Competition The question of Japanese competi tion is to be raised on- the motion for the adjournment of the House of Commons on Friday, and I Bather that arrangements have been made for two hours to be allotted to the discus sion, a fairly generous measure of time since the House rises at four o'clock on There are nine Lancashire members anxious to speak in the debate, but there are other industries concerned about Japanese-competition as well as cotton textiles and all the nine cannot hope' to "get in." It is more than likely that the spokesmen for Lancashire this time will be Mr. Linton Thorp, the member for Nelson and Colne, and Mr.

Hamilton Kerr, the member for Oldhanu Whisky Syndicate Scheme for the United States President Roosevelt's expressed opinion that the United States will be "wet" by Christmas is producing considerable reaction in this and not alone among those engaged in the liquor business. City speculators are talcing a hand. The total stock of whisky in Great Britain and Ireland is estimated at 138,000,000 gallons, of which 100,000,000 gallons are under the control of the whisky combine. Much of this stock is "young" whisky that is to say, it cannot be put on the market here until it reaches the age of maturity laid down by the Government regulations. It i supposed, however.

that the United States Government will permit the sale of under-age whisky, and this is leading to much speculative buvinc bv Rvndinatna -in T.nndnn mht hope to make big profits by shipping wieir purcnases to tne united estates directly they are legally free to do so. Within the last few daye one syndicate alone has bought about 40.000 nallons of whisky. It of course, aliighly nai.y uuHuicsB, DBcauso many ot tneso people know little or nothing of the technicalities connected with th n.le and storage of spirit and the United atates tarm on whisky cannot be guessed. x-ronioiwon nas lamiiiansed many -fiiiienuan consumers witn whisky different from the Bourbon and rye type of whisky of pre-Prohibition days, and it is likely that in future thev will demand Jbooteh or Irish. It is this belief, coupled with the possibility of a Scotch-Canadian merger of whisky iinei-ebis, inaii nas sent up the price of whisky shares in this country.

The New Transport Committee The personnel of the Standing Joint Committee of the Passenger Transport Board and the main-line railways gives some hope that overdue plant for further suburban electrification may shortly be approved. It would be surprising if the long experience of Lord Ashfield and Mr. Frank Pick did not favour the abandonment of steam in the congested lines from Liverpool Street and King's Cross. And Sir Herbert Walker was largely responsible for creating the biggest suburban electrificatibn scheme the world not only do five trains run on the Southern where two ran before, but also the increased traffic last year represented a return of 17 per cent on the capital cost. Though Sir James Milne's views have not been made public, it may be recalled that it is thirteen years since the Great Western undertook the second of its two ventures in electrification, both of which are operated as extensions of the Underground to Hammersmith and Ealing.

On the other hand, electricity haa an enthusiastic advocate in Sir Ralph Wedgwood (who is a member of the Central Electricity Board, the body responsible for the national grid and a cautious supporter in Sir Josiah Stamp witness his address to the British Association last summer. Yet in the London area, where the London and North Eastern cannot point to a yard of electrified line, the L.M.S. maintains over 100 track imlea and recently opened a new section from Barking to Upminster. The Mollisons While every sympathy will be felt for Mr. and Mrs.

Mollison in ruining their aeroplane and hurting themselves when almost within sight of their goal, it Syiat be admitted that this flight to New York was not well conceived. They announced an attempt to break the long-distance record by a flight from New York to Bagdad. It would have been risky, but if they had succeeded their triumph would have been great. One would have imagined that aspirants for a world record would have kept in training, but would otherwise have avoided all unnecessary risks. The prudent thing would have been for the Mollisons to have shipped their Dragon aeroplane to New York and got there themselves by the same prosaic but safe way.

Instead of that they must fly across, and consequently 1 plane. fli) By methods of intimidation the Nazi '-'German Christians" have ejected the eusuieu xiuop 01 vrermany ana secured comrm 01 tne unurch. (11) Prices of stocks, grains, cotton: and rubber were stronger on Wall Street yesterday. (n The governing body of Bank for International Settlements state that their work is being handicapped by the instability of currencies that are not on a goia Dasis. (15) The appeal started at Allahabad yesterday in the Meerut conspiracy case, which began four and a half years ago.

An outline of tne defence was given. (15) France is to have a State lottery this year in aid of the Budget. (15) Heaw sentenceamrum rteKvaroA day on Spanish Monarchists found euilty-l of complicity in the August revolt. (IS) Widespread arrests are being made in Spain of Syndicalists and Fascists, who are said to vp conspiring against tne (15) Lancashire and Japan The directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce were criticised yesterday because they could not report that the pace of Japanese competition has been moderated. The obvious reply was returned that they are doing all that they can, and that the leaders of the cotton trade spend a Rood deal of their time at Whitehall.

The leaders having decided for the trade that Lancashire's main weapon against Japan must be that of protective Governmental action, they have of necessity to wait on the involutions of diplomatic process, and they must not complain if time drags. But whatever one thinks about the manner in which tie trade has gone back on its old self-reliance and agreed to put its whole trust in Governments, it is unreasonable to complain that nothing is being done. Take the British Government's action alone. A substantial tariff has been erected round the home market, and the influence of the Colonial Office has been used to induce the non-self-governing colonies (and some that are almost self-governing) to give substantial preferences to British goods. Duties have been raised against Japan in Malaya and in East Africa, tvp of her good markets.

The Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1905 has been denounced as regards most-favoured-nation treatment of Japan in West Africa. The Government of India, acting in itB own interests, it is true, has gone oven better. India's increased tariff against Japan gives Lancashire an enormous preference. But, say the critics, this is not enough. There are large tracts of tho Empire where the open door itill persists, and they will not be content until they too are brought within the ring-fence, and until solidified Customs barriers keep the whole area intact against Japanese penetration.

The Government has failed to respond for several reasons. One ia the technical difficulties that stand in the way of completely im-parialising the African territories, One is the feeling, already being voiced in West Africa and Ceylon, that it is all very well for Lancashire to be pre, rented with a monopoly, but what of the poor consumers who have found cheap Japanese goods a godsend in the present depression? One is the hesitancy of the British Government to embark deliberately on a universal trade war with a country for which our Foreign Office has notoriously a tender spot, a war which in any case will be settled in- the end not by tariffs but by considerations of relative economic efficiency. Mr. Runciman's proposal that before Governmental hostilities were irrevocably embarked on a chance should be given to another method of approach was an alternative. He suggested that British and Japanese producers should be given an opportunity to see how far their competitive rivalry aould be rationalised, and whether agreements could not be reached on markets and on selling policy on which Govern mental policy could be based.

The proposal may have been premature at any rate, it is worth testing. Had the original programme been maintained it is possible that the suggested conference might soon have been held. But it is now obvious that it would be extremely unwise to hasten it. As the president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce pointed but, the denunciation ofthe Indo-Japanese Commercial Agreement making Indo-Japanese negotiations imperative has changed the situation. Discussions could be held in London but they would have noil value.

India would not consent to allow her problems to be discussed by Lancashire and the British Govern ment. Japan would have no enthusiasm to discuss her general policy if she bad no idea what her future in India is to be. It is inevitable, therefore, as the British Government appears to have informed Japan, that the Anglo-Japanese conference must be put off until the Indo-Japanese negotiation! have reached tomo conclusion, India thus becomes the key to the situation. One tiling, how ever, i clear. India's settlement with Japan will not be dictated from this country, either from Whitehall or from Lancashire.

Whatever the nature of that agreement, this is the last moment that the Secretary for' India would choose to override decisions reached under existing powers of. Indian fiscal autonomy. Under these circumstances it becomes the duty of the cotton trade to act for itself, to take advantage of the ground of common interest that exists between Lancashire and, India, and to see to it that ah attempt to secure co-operation is made at once, before India and Japan begin (a the prophet are anticipating) to discuss barter terrns for their trade, "It raajr: be noted with satisfaction that the speech of the presidentrof the Maaehet -Chamber yesrday made Indian case for. self-governing rights than some past declarations of the Chamber have done, and that- his plea for "special consideration for British trade" in virtue of the "political con nection was modestly put. This is a considerable gain, and, it may be hoped, means that the Chamber of Commerce has undergone a definite conversion and has forsworn anachro nistic dreams of domination.

But while everyone will trust that out of all this tangled diplomacy good will come to the cotton trade, some misgivings must break through. One wonders whether it will be enough to suggest to the Japanese that they must control both "the prices and the volume their "exports," on penalty of tariff dis crimination against them. There is a remote kernel of reason in the quaintly expressed trade circular of a Japanese house The cotton. clothe being requisites ot life for the multitude, they should be handled from the standpoint of a super-national sentiment for the sake of mutual benefit and coexistence. It is a sublime mission of our cotton cloth exporters to serve for this purpose.

It may be admitted for Britain to have the benefit of preferential duties in her Dominions by 10 to 2D par cent on her home makes, but it is contrary to international justice and economic welfare for' her to enforce a prohibitive tariff ot 75 per cent on otner makes. Asia has a brain wherewith to think. Asia has a power, wherewith -to practise. Render unto Asia that which is Asia's, Don't deprive Japanese cloths of their msrketa already won. And we have not answered' the case by threatening tariffs and quotas to infinity or by a defensive alliance of Western industrial countries against the East.

It is Japan now in five years' time it may, as Mr, Barlow said, be China. The Happy Post Office All things considered, and the con tinuance of the depression among them, the Post Office to have done fairly well last year, judging from the figures produced in yesterday's Commons debate. Apart from some Labour criticism of the wages paid to the lower grades in the service, a mild grumble or two at the non-appearance of the penny post, and the now cus tomary attack on the B.B.C, the Postmaster General was allowed to produce the usual rabbits out of his bag amid general approval. An increase of 160,000 in the surplus on all the services was reported over the previous year. The postal surplus alone would be 11,100,000, compared with 10,869,500 for the year, before.

Telegraphs, on the other hand, accounted for a loss of 876,000 an increased loss of 67,000 over the previous year. This deficit though it ig small compared with the 1,000,000 deficit of 1930-1 or the 3,700,000 lost in 1P20-1 must now bring the total sum lost on our telegraphs since their beginning to over 50,000,000. Telephones, however, are pushing ahead. To-day there was "practically no waiting-list," we had beaten Germany in the ratio of telephones to population, and 700,000 additional instruments could be provided if required. One person in every four was now using the Post Office Savings Bank, and the depositors' accounts totalled 300,000,000.

In addition, Sir Kingsley Wood declared that the work of internal Post Office reconstruction was going ahead. The main recommendations of the recent Bridgeman Report had been approved by the Cabinet and some had already been acted on. The question of decentralisation was receiving his special attention." All this makes cheerful reading minor criticisms apart. It is good to know that the Post Office is now better equipped than it was to assist as well as to share a revival of trade when that comes. Japanese Finance When Baron Goh, the president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, protested against the enormous deficit shown by the Japanese Budget estimates for 1933-1, General Araki, Minister of War, retorted that "when dangerous thoughts wero "spreading it was not the time to be concerned about financial problems General Araki is as unconcerned about finance as ever.

He is demanding yet another increase in military expenditure, although just over half the huge expenditure for 1933-4 is already earmarked for the army and navy. The General announces that he is willing to fight with bamboo spears. But the nation must recognise that this would "put the army at a great disadvantage "in defending the country." The pathos of the General dilemma cannot fail to move so patriotic a nation as the Japanese. The rest of the world will hear of it with some surprise. Is it with bamboo spears, that this defence less country -has annexed Manchuria and Jeholf General Aralri's little bill for the replenishment of war stocks alone means doubling what was budgeted for in the current record year.

Already Japan spends the whole of her tax revenue on the army and the: navy and the service of her debt. She meets the difference by internal If General Araki is allowed to have his way she takes another step towards inflation and eventual default. Bamboo spears may be ineffective weapons of defence, but the best modera bayonets win sot stave off a financial The Empire Marketing Board The Dominions have never shown much enthusiasm for the Empire Marketing Board." It was bright mto bausg after the Impenal Cksnfererice of 10S3 as a compensation or consolation far 'the tariff 'preference which Great Britain was not then ready to cprede. by Great Britain. Now the Dominions have got their preference; they care very little whether the Empire Marketing Board -carries on its work or not and they have ho intention of' paying for it if it.

does. The British Government's guarantee of the Board's expenses ends in September, and it has already, been made clear that the Government is not willing to sustain the Board without assistance after that date. No offer has been made from the other side. It would be' a mistake to let the Empire Marketing Board die. It has established a good tradition.

Its functions as a marketing and advertising agent may have been superseded by the Ottawa Agreements. But the greater part of its modest budget at no time approaching the permitted maximum of a year, and this year not exceeding 300,000 has been devoted to valuable and many-sided scientific research, for which nothing in the Ottawa Agreements offers any substitute whatever. One would have thought that at least one Dominion would have made some gesture towards the support of co-operative research into the production and, equally important, preservation during transport of staple Empire products. But all Mr. Thomas's geniality cannot, it seems, awaken a response.

Air Risks The Air Minister has taken a wise step in instructing the Committee on the Control of Private Flying, over which Lord Gorell presides, to consider "the advisability of requiring aircraft in this country to be insured against "third-partv risks." The Committee will be in little doubt what advice to give, Insurance against third-party risks is one of the first and most obvious precautions that must be takers if life is to be tolerable when flight becomes a commonplace. There are others, notably a diminution of the noise of 'planes, which at present threatens a future when the mountain tops and even the peaceful depths of the countryside will never be free from the din of engines. That nuisance is the subject of research, though as yet no method has. been found of lessening noise while conserving power. But at least the accident risk can be tackled at once, and there is as clear a case for compelling the airman to take out this insurance as there is for compelling the motorist.

The unexpected guests from the air who smashed up Mr. John Tarleton's greenhouse, on making their entry in Shaw's "Misalliance," were early conceptions of their kind; but we are likely to meet thorn in growing numbers as the use of the 'plane becomes general, and the prospect is not a pleasant one. Moreover, it is not merely that we have to reckon with the serious damage to life and property that may follow on a crash. Even the most skilled of pilots cannot be certain of invariably avoiding a forced landing, and the damage to crops and live stock from this cause is likely to increase. It is right that so essential a step as compulsory third-pavty insurance should be taken comparatively early in the history of flight, and it is good to note from Sir Philip Sassoon'a reply to a question in the House yesterday that, in addition to the consideration it is receiving in this country, the question is under international examination.

Bathing No Entertainment In the news of the week what South-port loses on the swings it gains on the roundabouts or, to put the point more explicitly, if it suffers by a severe fire on its pier it gains by a notable victory over the Inland Revenue authorities in the mattor of bathing pools. In the King's Bench Division yeBterday Mr. Justice Finlay declined to take the view that entertainment tax was due on the receipts from spectators who paid to enter the bathing-pool enclosure but not to swim in the pool itself. The entertainment, it seems, must be "organised" before it becomes liable to tax, and it was held that there is no sign of organisation about a system where people pay to enter but thereafter please themselves whether they talk to their friends, take coffee in a refreshment-room, or watch the bathers in the pool. Vainly did the Solicitor General on behalf of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise assert that "except for the water "in the middle it looked almost "like the stadium at Wembley" in the eyes of the law the concourse is an unpremeditated assembly which haa repaired thither for social intercourse rather than organised entertainment.

Some will reflect' on the happiness the bathing pool enjoys unoer ine protection 01 this decision, as compared with certain other, activi ties which the Commissioners of Customs and Excise have successfully brought within the scope of their entertainment tax. Preston may look enviously at Southport, for people who let windows from which could be watched the precessions in connection with the last Preston Guild found themselves liable to that tax, tboagb tsey wriggled all the way up to the Court of Appeal in an effort to be rid of the levy. Manchester may look enviously at Southport, for uncostumed readings of plays by members of societies interested in the drama, have been held to be' entertainment within the' meaning of the tax. And agricultural shows with bands in attendance are on notoriously "delicate ground. Still, all.

those event are more or less pthirig pool jut happens. Bo. the pool, is not an; entertainment which will be a relief to its promoters though it' ms blrw to the pride of some who frequent it. article iBflectini be poHciiu, principle and rf ti hs cl Bntipett upon noons painU a pnUio Interest. BTXTOIDGE LTD.

AN EXACTING PROFESSION 5y CALLISTHENES There may Tie professions in which a man can do comfortably and creditably while taking it easy, starting to think about bis work at ten in the morning and forgetting it after' four o'clock, with a leisurely two hours for lunch and easy-going week-ends. But running a store isnot one of them. This kind of business as we know it is an exacting profession. No one in that profession, how ever, is likely to complain, for it is in the professions which are moBt exacting that the Tewards and the satisiaction are nignest. It is something like parenthood.

If the child is neglected it soon begins to show signs of it. It does not know where to look with cer tainty for authority and guidance. the lack of control from its guardians passes into a lack of self-control, and its temperament becomes undermined by capriciousness, instability, and egotism. Small but significant touches ot neglect begin to appear in dress and manner and speech There is a weakening in the. power of concentration, in the power to subordinate present relaxation to future achievement.

These things can be noted in the neglected child and they can be noted in the neglected business. No matter how much the head of a business may seek to decentralise authority and administration, to tree himself of detailed responsibility, there must be occasions every day when the business would be hotter for" his presence. The husiness can get along without him as the child can get along without its parents, nut irequent absence is a deficiency which must show itself. The impulse of authority which should come clear and magnetic and direct comes blurred and enfeebled. It may be exactly the same decision but it is like a canned product ami lacks the essential quality of life.

"When, he is absent decisions may no jieja up and there develops in the business a. certain tendency to pro-rrastinatipn, and the procrastination develops into slackness. Everyone in a firm should have love for It and a sympathetic understanding of what is beat for it, nhle to give the little touches that make for its perfection. But these must be strongest in the head of it. That is his function, and as long ns ho occupies the ohair of control thie condition must exist.

If they are with-drawn the business must suffer, at first imperceptibly but in the end openly and accusingly. To supply this continual care and inspiration makes an exacting; demand on the leaders in every business. But we nave rareiy met. one wno aid not leel a pride in the demand and delight in meeting it. Selfridge Ltd.

BAXENDA LES GOLF, TENNIS, CRICKET, CYCLES, SPORTS EQUIPMENT. THE GUARDIAN MANaiKSTER, TUESDAY, July 25, 1933 TO-DAY'S PAPER IMsCIAL ARTICLES Such a Wonderful Evening SO Housing in Manchester By Pir Etnnt Simon I The Harbin Affair 7 Ancient Italics in Scarborough 7 The Manchester Theatres 13 The English 'Designer The Hulberts' New Film "11 New Books 5 Wireless Notes and Programmes. 10 CORRESPONDENCE The New Deal (Mr, J. A. nub-son) 30 3iiss V.

Douglas-Pennant (Mise PoucloB-Ponnaiit and Canon Peter Green) SO Public Works (Mr V. V. Hint and Mr. A. MacLaran) 86 Lancashire Trade with India (Mr.

Nathan Laski) tt Victims of German Fascism: A Manchester Committee 13 HOME Sir Kinssley Wood reviewed the progress of the Post Office in the House of Commons yesterday, (6) Complaints that they are not being treated fairly by the B.B.C. were made by the Labour party in the House of Commons yesterday, (H and 6) The World Conference before it adjourns is expected to appoint a Standing Committee to advise on the date of reassembly. (15) The question of first-aid treatment in road accident cases was discussed at yesterday's session of the B.M.A. annual meeting at (8) The Methodiit Conference yesterday asked its president to seek an interview with the Prime Minister to express the deep feeling of Methodists on aerial bombing. (30) A deputation of women protested ot the Foreign Office yesterday against the air bombing reservation.

(20) Japanese competition and the relations betweenXancashire and India were dealt with in the speech by the president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Hichard Bond) at the half-yearly meeting yesterday. (13) Colonal W. A. Briutow, ipeakmg yesterday on the "petrol from coal' schema, suggested that a licence should he necessary to burn raw coal, in the domestic grate.

(f) On the Liverpool market yesterday apot WS, tnn me 1 vutint -3- i -vJ middling American, and furores were unchanged lei 2 point In New and futures were 3o to 43 points higher. qjs) Ja1Mi3ttV able to property. The competition is for three types of houses, and there will be three premiums of 25 each. Houses will be erected from the winning designs oa an estate at Mill Hill. The basis of the competition is that it is assumed that if the architect is to take any share in the design of houses erected by speculative builders and contractors he must produce something that will sell bb well as, if not better than, the average bouse erected to-dav on a sDeculative basis.

The likes and dislikes of the particular public are to get the closest consideration. Messrs. Laing and Son, contractors, who are to erect the specimen houses, have drawn up a schedule of typical plans of houses to assist the competitors. The assessors consist of five fellows of the R.I.B.A. and Mr.

J. W. Laing. Hundreds of letters have beeh received from people all over the country who want to build similar cottages to the couple of specimen cottages that the Buildincc Centre have erected tem porarily on the Aldwych site in the Strand. The Building Centre, 158, Bond Street, invite all builders interested to forward their names to the Centre to be passed on to inquirers, who will then make their own arrangements with the builders for placing their 'contracts.

The Building Centre created the comDetition to assist the housing problem, and are now ar-ting as a liaison between clients and local builders. Sir Emery Walker One thing may be said with the fullest emphasis about Sir Emery Walker, whose death you record to-day. He was a Londoner, of unsurpassable integrity and charm, with a multitude 01 aaecnonate menus. J. hrst came across him (writes a correspondent) in the days when William Morris and Walter Crane were inspiring the arts- and-cvaffcs movement, and when tho lecture-room attached to Morris's house in the Mall at Hammersmith attracted social and artistic revolu tionaries of every kind.

No member of any group could have been auietev or more modest than Emery Walker, and nunc iv as iiiuro welcome 01 more universally admired. His knowledee was extra ordinary in range and exactness, and it was at the disposal of anyone wh needed him. For nearly fortv vears he was to be found at Clifford's Inn, next uoor 10 ine rooms occupied Dy bamuel Butler, and I think I am correut in saying that the significant acquaintance between Mr. Bernard Shaw and tho author of Erewhon" owed much to the kindness and valuable contiguity of Emery Walker. The obituarists, I gee, speak of 'his cnier speciality as being typography, but it should be noted that to the world of readers he was known as the head Of the firm of nroceRn nirravr which provided the greater part of the una doojs illustrations in our time, tiis knighthood was in Mr- MaoDonald's list during the first Labour Govern ment.

Overlaid by Bees A curious death recently overtook two young ring-necked Indian parakeets, the property of Mr. Alfred Ezra, well nnunu a. een ana a munificent supporter of the Zoological Gardens. The parakeets were bred in one of his outdoor aviaries, and were almost fully fledged and ready to leave the nest. When the birds in the aviaries were fed at ten o'clock in tho morning these young birds wero inspected and found alll well.

A few hours later it was observed that a swarm of boos had taken possession of the nesting-box. With considerable difficulty and after the lapse of more time the bees were dislodged, and the two young birds were found dead in the nest. They bore no trace of any-external injury, and there is no reason to doubt that they were simply smothered to death by the weight and the heat of the inase of bees which covered them. It was at first thought that they might have been stung to death, but there were no siirns of stincrs or of swelling. Besides, swarming bees seldom use their stings, and they are indeed so fulf of honey the emergency ration thev carrv awav with them frnm the parent hive! that thev cannot easily bendtheir bodies enough to be able to use their stings.

Swarming bees are at fever heat, and, having selected a home, pack into it at speed, forminir a thick cluster. The vouncr birds, surprised and bewildered, prob-ablv cowered at the bottom of the nest and were etined in a few mtnntnR Iitrn 1 deuhcs ovenaia. direction. It is believed that they went to Boyat, the health resort in Auvergne, where Trotsky intends to consult a specialist. Now that he has been, granted per mission to stay in France it is expected that he will settle in Corsica in the near future, but whether he intends to m.

stay tnere ior oniy a lew, months or permanently is still uncertain. "Trotsky is anderstood to he-ill with heart trouble and malaria, and his wife also has been in poor health for some r- TROTSKY HAY MEET UTV1NOFF iUxsmixKil- Juzx Hi, 'It is understood that'TTotslry'has'goae fo Boyat. Lifvinoff, the present Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, is said to be taking a cure at the same spa at 'ihe present tirr-Beuter 7 'J. BLIND PRESIDENT OF B.M.A. THE Professor T.

Gillman Moorhead, a Dublin professor, who to-day" will be inducted as president of the "British Medical Association, la blind. lie succeeds Lord Dawson of Penn. Notwithstanding his blindness, Dr. Moorhead faces his year of presidency with equanimity and confidence. You simply make up your mind to do It and you do it," he said yesterday to an interviewer.

"Remember there are 63,000 blind people in Great Britafp. You see, I go everywhere. I was in Canada in 1530. I go to the winter sports, and I have no difficulty. My blindness happened seven years ago." CIVIC WELCOME FOR BIS LEV WINNER A civic reception will ha given In Nottingham to-day to Cadet Company Sergeant Woods, of Long Eaton, winner of the King's Prize at Bisley.

THE LATE LORD BURNHAM Ten farmer tenants from his Hall Barn estate acted as bearers yesterday when Lord Burnbam was buriod in Beaconiflcld Churchyard. Poors, generals, admirals, Journalists, and tenants attended the funeral, and as the cortege passed into tha churchyard the bells which had rang a Joyful peal at the Viscount's coming-of-aga rang a muffled peal. Tha service was conducted by the Bishop of Buckingham. FASHIONS IN THE, COURTS "I can't hear you and I can't see you," said Mr. Justioe Bennott to a barrister who ross to address him in the Chancery Division yesterday.

"White waistcoats are. not permitted to be worn in court. It Is an ancient-rule which I am going to Mr. Justice Langton took his wig off beoause it was so hot in his court yesterday, and counsel obtained leave to follow his example. A PORTRAIT pF MRS.

CORBET ASHBY Mr. T. C. Dugdale, who has been so successful with bis portraits of various eminent men, bos painted a portrait of Mrs. Corbelt Ashby, and jester-day afternoon Mrs.

Ashby entertained a number of her friends at a party in bis studio, where the portrait was on view. The artist has chosen to paint tho sitter in a black dress against a dark hack. ground, the white ruffles at her throat and wrists providing the high lights and a dark green cushion giving a rather sombre note of colour. The artist has pictured the grave chairman of the Disarmament Commission's aioral Disarmament Committee rather than me woman wno as chairman of many important women's conference itfariMv kcops tha delegates in a state-- of high good humour by her lively method of conducting the proceedings, but the portrait ia a good likeness. The number of women part in public life whose portraits sr being painted is increasing, though slowly.

At tho British Empire Service League' dinner this evening in London hi honour of the Empire delegates ia London for the World Economic Conference the Print of Wales will preside. The International Dental Is. meeting -Itfinbargh, and yesterday Dr. William Guy Bean, Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School, was7 presented with, his portrait in oils in recognition of his dil- iioguiahed serrfoss to the profession; The Kinr baa arorond thn inmintnnit of Lieutenant Genera! B. B.

Kirwaa and Major General. K. a- Colonels Coimaandant, Iet-Arrjvfn sueceaiion to the late General Sir WM' atn.i, MaJor General air Draefcls Hm.w haa attained the age-ttrhitor appointment. Marie LbniseT viiitwi Inspected the timber yirdsfand works of Messrs Kippers, -Ltd, -0, Vimers in the nse of EmnfrA "iui. cptmtry.

Before her. visit to thi- 4Mnv tt lunch the Urnf ai -ftuinirf wtMi' -a. Inn' at Great' Yeldhaml TROTSKY ARRIVES IN FRANCE To See Specialists at a Spa (From our own Correspondent,) Paris, July 24. Travelling from Constantinople on board the Bulgaria, Trotsky arrived in France this When the steamer reached Marseilles Trotsky waa no longer on board. Half an hour earlier motor-launch had taken him and his party off the ship and had landed them a few miles east of Mar- aeillea.

It is not clear why Trotsky or is it the French policeT-houhJ consider it necessary to take such excep tional precaution, for there is no reason to believe that his arrival in Marseilles would -have created more than a minor sensation- The same -mystery surrounded the next stage of Trotsky' Journey in the two 'jcaxa which were waiting on the seashore. Trotsky, Mrs. and two friends drove, off in. an, unknown.