Edinburgh, Dec. 2.
Two old established Scottish banks, the British Linen and the Clydesdale, have just been amalgam mated with large English banking institutions. It is predicted that before the end of 1920 the Big Five English banks will have absorbed all the Scottish banks. The Big Five are so very big and the Scottish oysters are so very small that two or three at a gulp will not cause indigestion. This fusion or alliance between English and Scottish banks, it is claimed, will be all for the good of Scotland. Nationalism in banking is of no use in these days on international finance. Historic continuity, how. ever, will be retained: the British Linen will still be the British Linen and the Clydesdale. But all particularization will go. Scotland has gone for a long time past half-way to merge her interests with those of England: now she will go all the way.
Buaersype ror Hao.
A movement is on foot to purchase the estate of Bemersyde, for the purpose of presenting it as a national gift to Field-Marshal Earl Haig. The movement is being promoted by a Scottish nobleman and a number of municipal dignitaries in England and Scotland. The present proprietor of Bemersyde is Lt.-Col. Arthur Balfour Haig, C.M.G.,, Extra Equerry to the King, who is a distant relative of Earl Haig. It is not yet known whether the scheme is a practicable one.
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