It hus been said for many years that, too many, books are being published but the flood shows no Sign of abating and in 1930 15,393 were issued compared with only 14086 in 1929. "The increase was fairly evenly distributed over the various lasses of literature from novels to technology, It is strange that there should have. been such imerease in a year of almost led. trade "depression and limest every other production has shown a reduction, The booksellers account for it by saying that people have not been able to afford so. many theatres and cinemas and have begun to realize the counter-attractions of the armchair and book. On the other hand uring the same year there have been more than seven luxurious new theatres erected in the West End of London and an even greater number fof "cinemas. So. the. explanation niust be sought in another quarter, The Paris Italian bank Halle has suspended payments.
The Italian flier Passaleva has established anew world record by fying to a height of 6.500 metres. with a load of 2,000 kilogrammes.
Professor Wenckebach has accepted the invitation of the Netherlands Government to study beriber! in the Dutch East Indies and will shortly proceed to Batavia for six months The press reports that the Britich anti-slavery association has decided fo send Sir Allan Pim to Pinland in order to investigate the charge of forced Inbour brought against the Soviet "authorities by" Russian labourers who escaped to Finland from the forests in the north of the Soviet Union, Captain Edward Heath, a noted inventor, died in Chicago following, the crash of an aeroplane in which was flying. Captain Heath was, the inventor <f the "Yellow Flea," the smallest aeroplane ever to fly successfully, Captain Heath was flying in the "Yellow Flea" when est control of his plane and crashed to earth from an altitude of approximately 1,000 feet, Messages from Lima state that! the new. Finance Minister has declared that the Government will follow the advice of the American financial expert, Mr. Edwin Walter Kehimerer, who' is now reorganizing the finances of Peru and. who favours the postponement of payments of Peru's external debt until Inv. Georg ¢ Roberts, Vice-Presi-dont of the. National City Bank, addressing the law alumni of New York university said the great influx "of gold to. the United States after the war could blamed for the economic depression now prevailing, and that the effects of the influx of the precious metal had been as badly felt in the United States as anywhere.
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