London, June 19. "It Ascot, doesn't bring. rain, Jinternational trade and severe de~ British exports have ceased nothing will," we have been telling ud have even slightly—in-ourselves for the past week as we jereased." Britain is again the chief staggered about tle garden with cans exporting country of the world.
of carefully saved bath water. Ascot The Ottawa Agreement is cautious-began (o-day and with it came heavy ly praised, with the reminder that rain in northwestern and western the Dominions got a lot more out England, "and cold cloudy skies, Jot it than they gave. Between 1931 around London, which, however, the Jand 1993 their exports to us rose clerk of the weather tells us.' will from 28.8 per cent. to 369, ours only probably continue and cause condi-from 43.7 to 445.
tions anything but conductive to gauzy Both as regards this agreement and frocks and tly-away hats, those concluded with Germany, It is really rather bad luck on Argentina and) the Scandinavian Ascot. Two thousand pounds of Jcountries—on all of which Mr. Runci-Strawberries, gallons of cream galore, Iman nas been bitterly eriticized—the countless dozens of champagne, heca-}F. N, I. Is decidedly cool, saying that tombs of pate de fole gras and trues Jearefut' water must be Kept, "to en-have been imported for the opening sure that benefits are obtained by day. There are 35 acres of car parks this country commensurate with the (in some of them the charge is £2 advantages offered by it" for the day), the Southern Railway Some of the most interesting pas-running "specials" every few minus Jsages deal with the attempts Yo. Fetes. "Motor bus companies "have vive British agriculture, the F. B. denuded other routes of vehicles to Jemphasizing that a balance has sill carry the Ascot trafic. And hordes be struck between our desire to of gardeners have been decorating the improve the farmers lot and. make stands with ranks of delphiniums and ourselves self-supporting, and the geranium: necessity of taking stuff from other The only creatures, perhaps, who countries in order to enable them to can come the coldness of the day Jouy our manufactures, horses who draw the royal To some it may seem that we really from Windsor Park where Ihave no etioiee, since other countries the Hing and Queen and their suite Jonly buy from us tH they can manu-change from motor cars to be driven ture for themselves, which they to the course, a gay and lovely acone fare doing more and more every day. which T fave previously described.
But with this a prosperous English The horses are much too fat and on country-side might. buy. vastly more anything like a warm day they from the towns than it has yet done. arrive at Ascot sweating profusely, The F. B. 1 report is on the though the trot is not above two oF whole reassuring, but it leaves one miles. wondering whether our trade policy to-day at any a clever striking of the balance diminished by foe tween equally impossible extremes, There is or another example of the timorous-only one Ascot and for general bril-hess common to all democratic ance of display, and what we vagovernments—with a distinct leaning guely call atmosphere, there to the latter view.
Face meeting to approach It. Queen Thus, feeling over the Government Anne was a good and kindly woman, Jcontintied failure to help British he had, 1 think, thirteen oF fourteen shipping against the enormous sub-children, all of whom died young: sidies paid to foreign ships is rising and her reign was associated with fiotly. "More than six months ago Mr. some of England's most brilliant vie~ Runciman promised to come to the tories. But the one fact about her rescue, in most solemn terms. The which you can depend on everyone shipowners traditionally hate all State remembering to-day is that she found Interference but, confronted with fed the Ascot racing. Monarchs have what other countries are doing, they been immortalized for less glorious Jsaw no other means of saving our acts. freed as to. what Drought Serious stipulation made by Government. Yet the latter Jdoes.nofhing. It has protected other industries, why not shipping? the faithful "Daily Telegraph" treaties to "Us rebuked its faineance, heart of England begins to patpitate in earnest. Some one has discovered Gruesome Trunk Mystery that in Nie parks and golf courses of A gruesome mystery of first-class the London area, no. less Jdimensions is before the public. In 40,000,000 gallons of water ai cheap trunk, left in the Brighton daily." This must be cut down and station luggage office, has been found the Omce of Works to-day announces the headless and limbless body of the cutting. Flowers are to be given woman. Next day, in the King's what water can be spared, roads must [Cross luggage office,' another trunk go dusty, even Rotten Row must not yielded up a pair of legs. The head be watered. Fountains, too, cease jand arms are still missing. The Bri-playing, though, in respect of Trafalight on trunk was deposited on June 6, far Square, this seems needless, as that at King's Cross on June 7. the same water is pumped through each case, the remains were the Jets again and again and there wrapped in brown paper, though in fs practically no waste. the King's Cross trunk some news-In the country the supplying of paper had been used. The body is whole villages by hand-carried water that of an apparently perfectly normal has been a commonplace for months. }woman, pronounced by Sir Bernard But beyond this, the agricultural folk [Spilsbury to be between 20 and 20, fare becoming seriously. frightened. with no mark on it of any kind of the smaller streams, partic (marks, of course, are invaluable, as rly the "Thorne Jwitness the Crippen case in which dried up in the upper reaches. tributaries, have [the body of his vielim was identified such drought, beginning 1 a scar): The Brighton police have and fetlowed by an exceptionally dry list of several women missing but winter and spring, has been known Jnone of them corresponds with the and the consequences body in (ne trunk. Now the Scotland ten to be most serious, Yard records are being searched. The curious how one gets dried two trunks are the sort that may be up physically. One was hardly con-fought anywhere. The Brighton lug-scious of the nervous strain of 50 gage clerk rather thinks the trunk many dry months, until last week twas brought in by motor car, but has We had a few showers. They barely 10 recollection either of who brought moistened the surface of the dust, but It or of the car. At King's Cross the relief they brought just for a {there is not even so muches this to ttle while showed how much the 0 on. human body, in common with others, "The only clue is that on the brown is affected by drought. paper in the Brighton trunk is the Syllable "ford" with some letter be-Commercial Survey fore it which might be "a° "f" oF The survey of the effects of Great Britain's new commercial policy is-si, 'Tne paper being torn, itis impossible to say which. 'This one tiny sued to-day by the Federation of terap of evidence has been _photo-British Industries, and compiled from graphed and sent to the police of masses of official' reports and stalisevery town the country whose lies, 1s particularly welcome, in that name ends in "ford"—an example of the' political bias of every newspaper the painstaking minuteness of detec makes it impossible for the ordinary five work. which recalls a story of Feader to form an accurate opinion [De Thorndyke. Was there not, in-fon this important subject. ideed, one of his adventures which The F. B. I. i quite clear that the Jeentred round the discovery of a operation of tariffs has greatly imheadless, limbless body, in 3 trunk proved the position in the home tata station? market, but it adds thal, if foreign currencies depreciate as against the Phantom Bus further protection will be neces 'A much more agreeable mystery is sary. It is also emphatic that tariffs that of tne Phantom Bus of Padding-have not—as the free-trade Jeremiahs ton. Outside that wilderness of res-prophesied—hurt our exports. "On pectable, if dejected, dwellings it had the contrary, in a world of shrinking never been heard of until a recent
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