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THE GLEANER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1925!A ROMANCE OF THE DIAMOND FIELDS[asitCoup^ Very Well-KnownTljs Island Have Been Wed In LondonMApR MRS. BLAKE.Son *)f A Former GovernorG.adOf Jamaica And Actress Who Played Here.lti-lanosted,ne,er-utQdLonjjon, November 15.—A romance ■Which began in the diamond fields British Guiana and culminated ilia secret wedding in Corsica,had it;j sequel in London yesterdaywhen pe couple arrived in London to takt| up their abode in an old-world (house “in Lawrence-street, Chelseh They were Major Maurice Blake, f he explorer, eon of Sir Henry. Blake who for twenty-three years ton!governed Hong Kong, the Bahamas, j Jaxnaith, Newfoundland, and Ceylon, and Mfeg Gwen Richardson, an actress w|o went diamond hunting lastyear, :Whffi she was playing lead with Frank pellier in Georgetown, British | Guiana] her imagination was fired ‘by the sight of diamonds in the raw, -^iShe deermined to get up an expedition, aid it was then that she met Major Blake.WHEN PLANS WENT WRONG. This is the story as told by Mrs. Blake yasterday.“When I reached British Guiana ray plan; was to buy a five-ton river paddle boat, hire a captain and crew, and set off up the river. The first thing that happened wag that both captain and crew wanted such high wages that I had hardly enough capital.-“Then because no white woman had ever Sefore led an expedition up the Mazaruni the Governor refused to lot go unless I was aceom-[r Jpanied by a white man. T was nearly giving up, when I met Major Blake, who was just going up the river to his own claim.”“Rumours had reached him that his land was being raided, and that 60.000 dollars’ worth of diamonds bad already been washed out. His311leftyis-m-toia-oredla,utasmidthlv; partner was in New York, and Major ‘ ; Blake did not wait for his return,!S.l”idm■s.r-lee-isrt,as he was anxious to get up the river 'to stop the raiding; so after Interviews we arranged that he should provide the boat and accompany myexpedition, and I was to have the right of working on his lands. After the expenses were paid the profits were to be shared.So off they went, with her Indian maid and sixteen black men, up the river, a journey which lasted twenty-seven days, camping in the forest every night. During their diamond seeking their colons ran out, and thev had to live on bread fried in pork fat, .....And yet thev are njpw planning another diamond hunt. .. .. . .ADVENTURERS BOTH. Mcior Blafke, wfcOd^Telatod to:theSt. Albans family, has had as varied a career as you could, imagine. He spent a ’Varsity vacation in the stokehold of a steamer, and then as A.D.C. to his father he travelled In little-known parts of China.He accompanied an Argentine px-•ydi-lee.le♦i-iV1Ct IU1T{ »D‘ in:;! -1! IH J1 la i't! ‘ v. :U 'of J. 1 \: t iii«*. , utili i facK i T1 1 a n i i j chint In*()iliivi v\t*. fpf‘1T1is it stor;i capadunengi:tory.Tjour : ish c tionhigh'dent.staffArepa:ly P'lendstory.TtplamTOMajor Maurice Blake* the explorer, and his bride, formerly Miss Gwen Richardson. They met when Mrs. Blake visited the British Guiana diamond fields, were married in Corsica, and have just settled in Chelsea, where the picture shows them at pistol practice.LLOYMEORGEON PROBLEM OFFRENCH FINiNGEAs Expenditure and RevenueGrow Farther Apart Nation Hopes They Will Meet.enormous war expenditure in, their areas. France having been deprived' of her factories and workshops north of the Aisne, the workshops of the south became all the busier and more prosperous.When the war was over and the lost provinces were recovered, there was a further excuse found in theirdevastation.- How could you impose fresh taxation on these shell-ploughed fields and these ruined ' cities?A? ) PublCroo \ urda i the ' J. A I from ! Ttwillmattare to be credited, the contribution of the French agriculturists to the yield of revenue of income tax was only 95,000,000 fran-cs, in 1923— that would be less than 4-,000,000 dollars.They pay less in indirect taxation than other citizens, because Hiey are j in w mainly self-supporting, as far as ne-iand cessaries are concerned, and they for have very few luxuries. Nevertheless • norC there is a method by which they are; its sa {for elect fecteTheThe first duty of French statesman-lt; paying—by the depreciation of the-otheship was,fo repair the devastationand then you could tax.FIGURING DEFICIT EASY.EIN S T S I N THEORY»_S.?r7-ISftie» ■nlike Great Britain andUnited States, People Will Not Face Taxationploring expedition to the Bolivian ( (BY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, FOR frontier. During a year in Paraguay BIER PREMIER OF ENGLAND,ie5-yISir‘S5 0 ”5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1twenty years ago, when the country was unexplored and very wild, he did a journey alone in an Indian dug-cut from the Brazilian frontier, to the Argentine, six hundred and twenty miles. Big game shooting in East Africa, tin1 mining in West Africa, camping among the ^cannibals, sugar planting in Jamaica have seen some of his other experiences^After the Jamaica earthquake, ?n which he was one of the counsel for the policyholders, he chartered an island schooner to‘dive for treasure, f'nd raised some of. tjie loot of-Sir Henry Morgan, the buccaneer.So. both being adventurous, they•hose Cr»rcica to be married in, and *he Consul who tied them up told them thetrq was only .the third English wedding in the island \n 70 years.IN THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.. LoMon, November 28.—The problem or French* finance is insoluble—how to balance a budget without lowering expenditure to the level .of your revenue or • raising revenue to the height of your expenditure. Forvalue of their savings. The peasant'ft.who invested a hundred francs in! moci the funds in 1914 has now. a security! ^ Under this, pretext the remaining] which he cannot sell today* at much(0th.ei nine-tenths of France was exempted! more than twenty francs.';' - man^from taxation adequate to the nation- [ BOND VALUES REDUCED. I no p’al needs. Until the day of complete. At least '^four-fifths, therefore, of/forerestoration, hlt;iw was the deficiency the enormous national debt of France j his £to be financed? The-cotnhined inn has already been wiged ^out by thejwoul genuity. of French -politicians andy process of infl^on^**whJch reduces lance ] financiers was quite equal to that the*real value and therefore the real i a contingency—at least, until the eon-?'burden of the nation’s bonds. The catec tingency became, an emergency and (paradox is a double -one.. France is tang]paying her debt by not paying it. Canshe go on doing so?One thing is clear—no system of group government can straighten out the muddle. No single group canthat evil day could, by various shift* and makebelieves, be indefinitely postponed.How was it to be done? First of all, by the bold assertion that there -was no deficit. That was easily demonstrated. More than the wholeof thq deficiency was accounted for by 2 items—repair of the devastated regions and the payment of war pensions. Germany was liable for both.It is true that, for a while, sheeither could not or would not pay. French politicians varied twp exavailwill, him savic is thlt;,ui0 , planations of her failure to redeemI1 i her obligations. Bri.na had »OB«,* iMiss Richardson played in this isr land with the Frpnfe Cellier Com-napv. and is w«ll-known here. As Is seated above. Mfcjor .Bla^e is. the son of i former Governor of this colony, ^nd vpry well known, having lived here for a number of years.0 1more difficult every year.Expendftnre “and revenue are two diverging. Hfces,* which grow farther and farther apart,, and French politicians, with simple faith in a kind of Efristein'theory%in finance, think that they will, in the end, meet.At the end of.the war, the accumulative deficits of France amounted to 13.0,000,0 0Q,0i)0, find by the end of this ‘ year, another thirteen billions will have been added.It is a national paradox that a people who, individually, are the most frugal and saving in the world,should, In the aggregate, be such an Improvident nation, Every French household aspires to a margin for the stocking or the funds at the end of each year.whilst expressing no positive opinion as to her present default, was quite sure that she would pay. “L’Alle-magne payera,** “Germany will pay! was the ready answer to every perplexing financial conundrum, and although his successors In the Ministry of Finance did not repeat his formula they all acted on bis assumption.But here came the difficulty; as Germany was not actually paying* what was to be done with the deficit? The answer was very simple. The difficulty was not a financial but purely a book-keeping one. Why not treat the amounts due from Germany and ultimately to be paid by Germany as a temporary loan to Germany by France on account of the German liability in respect of reparations?Corner INOWGOODSBelow are a fez
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