Thomas Hardy's "Tralisers"

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 23, Issue 33, 17 August 1923, Page 3

Thomas Hardy's "Tralisers"

I heard ~a new story about Thomas Hardy the other day, says a correspondent of a London paper. An enthusiastic admirer of the great writer was being shaved in Hardy's own Dorchester by a Cockney barber. "Do you know the great Thomas Hardy ?" asked the enthusiast. || 'Oo ?" asked the barber. "The great novelist, who lives out at Maxgate." " Oh, Mm ? You mean the little man with baggy trahsers? Yus, e' knocks abaht 'ere."

THE RUHR. London, July 5. The majority of the political writers here take a gloomy view of the deadlock between Great Britain and France over the Ruhr and reparations. The "Daily Telegraph" asserts that the British Government regards the situation as " one of' great gravity and delicacy." It is reported that Lord Curzon, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at a recent con versation with the French and Belgian ambassadors, strongly stressed the fact that the patience of the British Parliament, and also of the nation, was nearly exhausted. Lord Curzon even said that Great Britain might be driven to independent action. . > The Bank of England today increased its interest rate from three per cent to four. The rate had stood, at three per cent for the past year.