Those who do not reckon themselves as among the new rich will take a certain pleasure in learning that this recently created class is showing every tendency to get rid of its wealth. From French and Belgian resorts come tales of huge losses by these plutocrats. At Deauville a French manufacturer who had piled up a fortune during the war is reputed to have dropped in one evening a cool million of franes at roulette, and at a neighbouring casino a' wealthy oung Cuban did likewise. Deaulo and Ostend, as a matter of fact, are said to be swarming with war profiteers, and, further, the latter are being fleeced right and left; what they don't lose in gambling they pay for in accomniodation. And nobody will have any vast pity for them, on the contrary it seems that fortune is at length pursuing an honest course and compelling the unrighteous to disgorge a proportion of their spoils.
Tae following officers have been posted to H.M.S. Hawkins as ad ditional for study in Japan:—Lieut. H. A, Pelham, Lieut. R. A. Boucher, Lieut. R. Leeds, Lieut. D. N. Tufnell, v.s.0., and Paymaster Lieut.-Commander H. L.
Shaw.
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