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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-12
DIAMOND HILL.
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Diamond Hill, Oct. 10.-Again our
community was saddened by; the
leaving of two of our best young
men, Messrs. Vernon Bradberry and
W. C. Campbell. We hated to see
them go but yet we do not regret
their leaving for we feel in our
heart that they are doing the best
for their country, and as others have
said, may God bless them. Joe Earl,
Lewis, Joe Ferguson and ". R.
Nance left sometime ago and their
many relatives and friends rejoice
to get a few words from them. These
boys are greatly missed by both
young and old.
Misses Mary Anderson, Mayme
Bowen went out getting members for
the Red Cross last week. Only a
few persons refused to join.
Mrs. Gaines Daniel and children,
from Anderson, are visiting relatives
here this week.
The farmers are rejoicing over the
nice price of cotton and very few
are holding it for 35 cents.
Miss Eunice Ferguson was in Alb
beville Saturday and stood Teachers
examination. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert McClain from
Latimer, visited the latters parents
Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. J.J. Grant,
and worshipped at Midway Sunday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Bradberry and
little Mona Ruth, spent the day with
Mr.. W. J. Bradberry Sunday.
The Government has asked that
each one of the Americans sacrific
one slice of bread or one biscuit
every day for the allies, this is not
hard to do if we are willing to do
it, and when you are eating from a
heavy loaded table of all kinds of
good eats, think of the children that
get a weak cup of coffee for break
fast, a little bread for superb
you have any kind of a heart I will
guarantee you will lessen your meal
and therefore save more for the suf-
fering allies.
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Mrs. S. A. Wakefield and children
of Calhoun Falls, spent several days
with Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Wakefield.
Mrs. Mary McCarter has returned
after a pleasant stay with relatives
in Greenville.
Mrs. Robert Mabry and son of Abb
beville, visited Mrs. Norris Wake
fed last week.
Miss Esther Bowen is spending
awhile with her sister, Mrs. Norris
Wakefield.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Pennal and
daughters, Misses Elvira, Nan and
Edith, of near Bolton, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Bowen.
Misses Valeria Crowther, Blanche
Plaxico, Susie Stevenson, Mayme
Bowen, Annie Belle and Hattie Lou
Haddon we're delightfully."- entertain
ed by Miss Zula Suber at a dinner
party last Saturday.
Rev. H. C. Fennell delivered a
good sermon Sunday morning at
Little Mountain. His text was taken
from the 9th verse of the 9Th chap
ter of Romans.
Our first school month ended last
Friday. We have a large number Of
pupils and bright prospects for one
of the best years in it's history.
The people of the community will
please note the change in the can
ming department, instead of best col
lection of vegetables and fruit in
glass, not less than six cans of each,
is changed so as that you may bring
Just one can Of fruit or n can of
vegetables instead of six of each.
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AN ORDINANCE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Abbeville.
An Ordinance to Prohibit the Sale Of
Alcoholic Extracts and Medicines.
Be it Ordained by the City of Abb
'beville and by Authority of the same:
1st. That after the passage of this
Ordinance it shall be unlawful for
any person or corporation within
the City of Abbeville to sell or bar
ter any medicine or extract or any
LIQUID which contains more than
four per cent. alcohol; provided that
this Ordinance shall not effect the
sale of any of said extracts or medi-
cines where they are for medicinal
uses.
End. Any violation of this Ordi-
nance shall be punished by a fine of
not more than $4,000 or imprison-
ment for not more than thirty days.
Done and ratified in Council this
9th day of October, 1917.
C. C. GAMBRELL, L. S.
Mayor.
Attest:
T. G. PERRIN, City Clerk.
Oct. IL, 1917.
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end with Mrs. Kate Bryan at her
country home, Pine Crest, on the
Savannah River.
Miss Aileen Hammond of Spartan
burg, arrived Friday to take charge
of her work in our school. She was
not able to come at the opening of
school on account of illness. Mrs. j.
B. Huckabee has been supplying her
room. -,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. l.. Barnes and
Mrs. J. B. Moseley were shopping in
Anderson Wednesday.
Miss Gertrude ellis of Sumter, is
spending the winter here with he1
uncle, Mr.. Tom Cooley, and attend.
ing school.
Our first Lyceum number, The
Winona Concert Co., of the Pied.
mont Bureau of Charlotte, rendered
a very creditable program in the
school auditorium Friday evening.
Mr.. W. R. Armstrong of Honea
Path, vas a visitor Tuesday.
Mr.. W. M. Speer has returned to
Atlanta after spending the weekend
with his family.
Mr.. Wardlaw Wharton and sisters
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
M. Clinkscales Sunday. \
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Hawthorne
spent the day Sunday with their
daughter, Mrs. S. B. Cook.
Mr.. W. E. Lennon, Jr., has re-
turned from a short visit to his ia
ther in Elliott, s C.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Clinkscales
were shopping in Abbeville Wednes-
day.
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GERMAN SUBMARINE
HAS ESCAPED

Madrid, Oct. 8.-A German sub
marine informed at Cadiz has escaped
Several German submarines have
sought refuge in Spanish ports dur.
ing the war and one of them, which
put in at Cadiz, was escorted out
from the port later by Spanish torpe'
do boats. To prevent further Incl
dents of this nature King Alfonso or
June 80 last, signed a decree forbid
ding submarines of belligerent pow.
ers to navigate Spanish waters OF
enter Spanish ports. 1t was declar'
ed that all submarines which enter
ed the Spanish zone would be in
termed.
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AEROPLANE MAIL ROUTES.

Washington, Oct. 6.-Aeroplane
mail routes will soon be established
by the Govrnment. An official an
nouncement today states that army
aircraft and motor trucks not SER
viceable for military purposes will
be turned over to the Postofice De-
partment and utilized in carrying
mail as soon as the necessary author
ity is obtained from Congress.
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DUE WEST.
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Due West, Oct. 10.-On last Fri
day evneing, October 5, 1917, at s
p. NJ, the Faculty recital was giver
at the Woman's College, Due West
in the Alumnae Memorial Hall.
The following program was sue
cessfully rendered before a large
and attentive audience:
1. Quartette. Ungarischer Marsct
Misses Scott, Dickinson, Mayes and
Jackson.
2. Piano. (a) Prelude, OPP. %:
No. 20.-Chopin.
(b) Prelude, op. %, No. 7.--Cho'
pin.
(c) Schmetterling, op. 40, No. l.
-Grieg. Miss Dickinson.
8. Voice. Quando Men vo sole
tea. Miss Wedge.
4. Piano. (a) Minuet a 7 Anticc
(b) Prelude, op. %, No. 3-Chopin'
(c) Liebestraume, No. 3.-Liszt.
(d) Hungarian Dance, No. T.
Brahms.-Phillipp. Miss Scott.
5. Piano. Air de Ballet-Miszys'
kows. Miss Dickinson.
6. Voice. (a) A Cuban Love
isong.-Fuentos.
(b) Uncle Rome.-Homes.
(c) The Wind in the Corn-Clarke'
Miss Wedge.
The citizens of the community
gave Rev. A. J. Ransom a puondine
last Wednesday night following the
prayer-meeting. The family was
taken by surprise. 1t was much re,
GREETED that Mr.. Ransom was detain'
ed by illnessf. or a few days in DR.
Blacks Hospital in Spartanburg, his
~tonsils giving him trouble.
Mrs. Jessie Boyce Orr and child
rem Of Denver, Colo, arrived in Due
West last week. Mrs. Mccullough
of Denver, accompanied Mrs. Orr
and has been the guest of Mrs. Jas
Boyce for some time.
Mr.. Sam Lee Walkup of Camp
Sewer, Greenville, an Erskine boy,
ran down Saturday and spent a cou
pie of days with friends in Due
West.
Mrs. D. G. Phillips of Chester,
and Mr.. and Mrs. James W. Wide
man have been the guests of DR.. ano
Mrs. Wideman for a few days.
Miss Mary Galloway of Gastonia
N. c., reached Due West last week
She will be with kindred in Due
West for sometime.
Mrs. ]. J. Ransom, mother of the
returned missionary, reached Due
West last week and will spend the
winter here.
Miss Mamie Devlin has taken W
school work in the public schools a
Greenwood.
Rev. and Mrs. w. w. Parkinson
were guests last week of DR.. anc
Mrs. j. S. Moffatt.
The ladies of the community are
busy looking after the fair that takes
place the last of this month. Per
sons who have anything to exhibi
are requested to look the matter W
and be prepared to bring the exhibit
on that occasion. The interest ant
cooperation of the whole countr!
is solicited.
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FEW EXEMPTIONS
OF FARMER BOYS
President in Letter Tells Why /
Must Be So-All Are Treated
Alike.

Wallaces' Farmer.
1t appears that for the first draft
at least there are to be very few ex-
emptions of farm boys on account OF
their occupation. We are having
many letters from our readers on
this subject. In one case a. young
farmer who was running 500 acres
of land on his own account has been
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When the war is over, all the ae-
replanes and trucks not needed by
the army and that are fit for mail
carrying will also be given to the
Postofice Department. The President
has approved of the plan and the
bill authorizing it was today favor
ably reported to- the House.
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ANTREVILLE.
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Antreville, Oct. 10.-The Red
Cross play gotten up by Miss Valera
Crowther was a success in every
way. The play represented scenes
during the Confederate war and
other wars that have taken place in
the past. Over $40 was cleared.
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SUPPLY ORDINANCE.
To Raise Supplies for the City of.
, Abbeville, S. c., for the Fiscal
Year, 1918.

and Aldermen of the City Of Able
vile, S. c., in Council assembled,
and authority of the same, that a
tax for the sums and in a manner
hereinafter named shall be raised.
and paid into the treasury Of the
City Council for the Uses and pur-
poses for the fiscal year, 1918.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Office of the City Treasurer Of Alb
beville, S. c., will open for collec-
ton of taxes for the said fiscal year
1918, from Wednesday, November,
1st, 1917, until Friday, December
31st, 1917, without penalty.
Rates per ,centum of taxation are
as follows:
City taxes ---------------5 mills
Waterworks tax (interest on bonds
and sinking funds $1,000 mills
Electric Light Tax (int. on bond and
sinking fund.- --2 mills
Sewerage tax lint. on Bond and
sinking fund ------2 mills
That when the taxes and assess
ments or any portion thereof charg-
ed against the property 0 r party on
the tax books of the City for the
fiscal year 1913, shall not be paid on
or before the first day Of January,
1918, the City Treasurer shall pro-
coed to add a penalty of one per
cent. on the tax books and the City
Treasurer shall collect the same, and
if the said taxes, assessments and
penalties are not paid on or before
the first day of February next,
thereafter an additional penalty of
one per centum shall be added by
the City Treasurer, and if said taxes,
assessments and penalties r not
paid on or before the first day of
March next, thereafter, an addition
al penalty Of five per centum there
on shall be added by the City Treas
urer, and be collected by him; and il
the said taxes, assessments and PEN
alties are not paid on o. before the
fifteen day of March next thereafter,
the said City Treasurer shall issue
his Tax execution for said taxes,
assessments and penalties against
the property of the defaulting tax
payers according to law. .
A Communication Road Tax will be
collected the same time as other
taxes from all male citizens between
the ages of 10 and 55 years, except
those exempted by law.
This Communication Tax is as fol-
lows: The sum of Two $4,000
Dollars, payable before March 31st,
1918, the sum of Two and $4,000
Dollars, if not paid until
and during the month of April, 1918,
the sum of Three .($3.o0l Dollars-f
not paid until and during the month
of May, 1918. In lieu Of this tax
six days work upon the highways and
streets of the City will be required
under the street overseer.
All persons failing or refusing to-
pay the Communication Tax or to work
the six full days shall, upon convci-
ton, be fined not more than thirty
dollars or imprisoned more than
thirty days.
Done and ratified in the City
Council, this, 9th day of October,
1917.
C. C. GAMBRELL,
Mayor.
T. G. PERRIN, n,
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tlnue IN MS manner uHIll Llle JaI l.
neatly filled. Strain the liquor anc
pour it over the contents. Paddle
to remove air bubbles. Cap, clamp
and process for 10 minutes. Thi:
may be packed for home use in PIN
jars and processed for Is minutes.
The small yellow fig tomato useo
in the chutney recipe is the variety
which may be used for gree-tomatt
pickle and whole ripe-tomato pre-
serves.
Red Pepper and Cabbage Salad.
8 C. chopped cabbage.
8 sweet peppers (red or green.)
II C. sugar.
II c. vinegar.
Salt and pepper.
Y C.. gelatin softened in u C. colo
water.
Mix all and set to mold in dishes
which have been wet with cold water
Chill and allow to stand until firm
Serve on lettuce leaves with a salad
dressing.
Combination Salad.
Y C. chopped green pepper. .
X c. chopped red pepper.
4 c. chopped onions.
1 c. tomato, cut into pieces.
Il c.sliced cucumbers.
Chop separately, measure, mix and
serve in a bed of shrdded tender let
.tuce. Serve with a French salad
dressing.
Other Suggestions for >the Use of
Peppers.
= Some good combinations for sal
ads are the following:
1. Strips of canned pimentos
with pears.
2. Circles Of canned pimentios
with three or four asparagus tips
put through the circles: Serve these
on lettuce.
Stuffed Baked Green or Red Peppers
Filing No. 1. +
1 c. cold chicken.
/ tbsp. chopped onion.
1 tbsp. chopped parsley.
2 tbsp. melted butter.
1 c. toasted bread crumbs or cook
ed rice.
Y tsp. salt.
% tsp pepper.
1 slightly beaten egg. 3
No. 2.
/ C.. minced cold ham or chopped
bacon.
1 tbsp. chopped parsley.
/ tbsp. chopped onion.
1 c. toasted bread crumbs or cook
ed rice.
rs tsp. pepper.
/ c. tomatoes cut into cubes.
Salt to taste. >
Other cold meats may be, ground,
seasoned, and mixed with AN equal
quantity of bread crumbs or cooked
rice, moistened with a slightly beaten
egg, cream, or tomato, and substi-
tuted for either Of the filings.
Take six whole medium-sized fresh
green peppers or canned whole pi-
mientos. If fresh peppers are used
slice a round off the top, remove seed
and save the top to replace. Soak
in cold salt water e tbsp. salt to 1
at. water) for half an hour; rinse in
clear, cold water. Drain, press in the
and replace the top, and fas-
ten it in place with wooden tooth
picks. Put the stuffed peppers in a
baking pan, pouring around them
enough water to cover the bottom of
the par one-half inch. Bake in a
medium-hot oven for 20 to 80 min
utes. When canned pimientos are
used, remove from cans, discard Ii
quor, and allow the plmlentoS TO
stand in a bowl for about Is min
utes to aerate before using, thus
giving them a better flavor. Stuff as
for green pepers and bake for 10 to
Is minutes.
Now is a good time to save that
late corn for winter use either by
canning or drying. If you are afraid
to take the job yourself, Miss Mar
tin will be glad to show you how, or
to have some club girls do it for
you at small cost.
GERMAN SUBMARINE
HAS ESCAPED
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and make secure by one or two
stitches or by tying it on. Pack as
many stuffed peppers as can be plac'
ed in the jar without crushing. Then
fill the jar to overlooking with a
spiced vinegar. Process for Is min
utes in quart jars.
Spiced Vinegar.
II gal. vinegar.
" c. grated h~orse-radish.
IL tbsp. celery seed (crushed.)
/ c. sugar.
IL tbsp. mustard seed.
1 tbsp. salt.
1 tbsp. cinnamon.
Cloves, nutmeg, and grated onion
may be added, if desired.
Dixie Relish.
1 OF. chopped cabbage.
l pt. chopped white onion.
l pit. chopped sweet red pepper.
/ pit. chopped sweet green pepper
5 tbsp. salt.
4 tbsp. mustard seed.
2 tbsp. celery seed (crushed.)
y c. sugar.
1 qt. vinegar.
Soak the pepper in brine q C. salt
to 1 gal. water) for "a hours. Fresh
en- in clear cold water for n to two
hours. Drain well. Remove seeds
and coarse white sections. Chop sep
arately, and measure the chopped
cabbage, peppers, and onions before
mixing. Add spices, sugar, and vine
gar. Let stand over night covered in
a crock or enameled vessel. Pack in
small sterilized jars.
The standard pack will be in a
vase-shaped 1O-ounce hermotic jar.
When ready to pack drain the vine
gar off the relish in order that the
Jar may be we'll packed. Pack the
relish in the jars, pressing it care
fully; then pour over it the vinegar
which was drained off. Paddle the
Jar thoroughly, to get every bubble
out and allow the vinegar to .displace
all air spaces. Garnish each jar with
two quarter-inch pointed strips OF
red pepper 8 inches long. Place these
strips vertically on opposite sides OF
the seams of the jar. Cap, clamp,
and process for 10 minutes st boil
ing temperature.
"a hot sweet to serve with cur,
ries, cold meats, sausage, and stews)
Red part.
2 lbs. sweet Spanish pepper.
1 lb. sugar.
1 pit. lemon juice.
2 OF. hot pepper.
Yellow Part.
2 lbs. small yellow fig tomatoes.
1 lb. sugar
4 OF! pounded ginger root.
Peppers.
Preparations for the Red Part
Peel the peppers according to the In
structions given for canning. Chol
sweet and hot peppers together, ado
sugar and lemon juice, and let stant
in an enameled vessel or crock fol
~ hours; then drain off the liquo'
and allow it to simmer for 10 min
utes. Pour it over the peppers again
and let stand for "a hours. Simme:
the liquor again on the second day
On the third day repeat, ALLOWING
the peppers to remain in the liquo
while simmerng.
Preparation for the yellow part
Peel the tomatoes by dropping then
for a minute into boiling water an
then into cold water, being careful
not to cook or break them. Place il
a bowl, add sugar and pounded gin
ger, cover, and let stand for l.
hours. Drain and simmer the liquo
for 10 minutes. Pour it over the to
matoes while hot and allow it t.
stand again over night. Repeat thi
on the second day, and on the thir'
day when the strip is simmering adj
the tomatoes carefully and continu
the cooking for 10 minutes. Tn
tomatoes should remain whole.
For a standard pack use a III
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-18
PATRIOTIC SPEECHES
AT D.A. R. OPENING
Twenty-Sixth Annual Congress Be-
gins in hington-Spirited Race
For President.

Washington, April 17.-Patriotic adj
dresses and exercises marked the
opening session today of the 26th an
nual congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution On Wednesday
will be held the election Of the new
officers, including a president general
to succeed Mrs. William Cummings
story. A number OF social events have
been arranged for the $500 delegates.
4 large part of today's meeting was
devoted to organization. From their
HEADQUARTERS here four rival candi-
dates for the presidency general di-
rected active campaigns for support,
but delegates declare that the bitter
ness that has marked many elections
in former years was lacking.
The candidates are Mrs. James Ham
ilton Lewis, wife of the senator from
Illinois; Mrs. George Thatcher Guern-
sey of independence, Kan; Mrs. John
Miller Horton of Buffalo, and Mrs.
George C. Squires, of st. Paul.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-18
BROTHERS-IN-LAW IN
GUNFIGHT; ONE DEAD

GAINESVILLE, April 13.-John Wilson
and Bill Sykes, substantial citizens,
successful farmers and brothers-in-
law, engaged in a shooting ARRAY
about 10 o'clock this morning, near
the home of Sykes, in Monroe county,
several miles from GAINESVILLE, as a
result that Wilson is dead and Sykes
mad a serious face wound made with
WILSON'S shotgun.
Trouble has existed for some time
between the two. From the best
Information obtainable, it appears that
Wilson went to Skies home. It APP.
pears that he approached a negro cab
in on which Sykes was at work and
started shooting, whereupon Sykes
grabbed the Negroes Winchester and
fired. killing Wilson almost instantly
Wilson and Sykes had been litigat-
ing their differences and it was known
that bad blood existed between them.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-18
WARE is WAGiNG CAMPAIGN
FOR FOOD CROPS RAISING

Waycvoss, April 17.-Waycross and
Ware county people are fully alive to
the Necessity of making every acaiia-
bic aero OF land productive acre, in
order that this section may, in the
food crisis this year prove self-sus-
tanning and furnish as much as posi-
BILE in the line of foodstuffs for less
fortunate sections.
Conferences are beign held in the
city and county daily to encourage the
raising Of food crops. County Demon
stration Agent Eben G. Mann, is keep
ing in close touch with the situation
and is assisting landowners in every
manner possible. Waycros today prob
ably has more gardens than ever be-
fore in it's history.
Besides cultivating their own garden
spots many citizens have gotten per
mission from landowners to cultivate
vacant lots and with the campaign
now we'll under way it is believed near
ly all lots in Waycross not otherwise
employed will be used this spring for
the growing of food crops.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-18
TAKE TIN TIME.

Just as Scores of CordeIe People Have.
Waiting doesn't pay.
If you neglect kidney hackache,
Urinary troubles often follow.
.Doan's Kidney Pills are for kidney
backache. and for other kidney ills.
Cordele citizens endorse them.
J. L. Frierson, 5O7 Seventh ST., Cor
dele, says: Several years ago l was
suffering from bladder trouble. The
kidney secretions We're too frequent in
passage, hothering me night aud day.
The secretions were highly colored
and burned when passing. l suffered
from dull pain in the small of my
back and l felt tired and languid
Nights my legs ached so badly that
became nervous and could hardly get
to sleep. I also had dizzy spells
Doan's Kidney Pills cured the back
ache and dizziness and gave me great
relief from the trouble with the kid
ney secretions."
SOC, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-18
REFORMS IN GERMANY
OVERSHAWOW ALL ELSE
Kaiser Has Made Many Promises Of
What He Proposes to Do.

Berlin, April 9.-Emperor Williams
promise of internal reforms in Prus-
STA overshadowed all other news in
Germany today.
Liberal and radical newspapers
find fault with the plan because the
Emperor suggests delaying these re-
forms until after the war Con
sentative and reactionary papers are
not pleased with the promise of any
reforms
The Pan German Deutsche Tages
Seitzung withholds comment until
the text Of the coming ministerial
proposal is available.
The conservative Kreus Seitzung
says with an air of resignation: "The
news is not unexpected. 1t convinces
lis that a halt on the way to the in
PRODUCTION of a reichstag electoral sys-
tenn and full characterization of Prus-
sian and Germany can no longer be eX-
pected from the policy Of chancellor"