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Drawing on a large collection of official statistics and case studies across colonial boundaries, this paper analyzes the context and incidence of currency counterfeiting in inter-war British West Africa. It examines the phenomenon in the interlocking contexts of the inter-war economic depression, colonial monetary policy, imperial-colonial relations, transnational criminality, international policing and justice systems, the travails of indigenous entrepreneurship, and the driving forces of social prestige and agency. A key feature was the widespread involvement of African merchants who had fallen on hard times occasioned by the Great Depression. The loss of social status in the face of business bankruptcy underlay recourse to currency counterfeiting as an exit strategy. In spite of the limited success of counterfeiting schemes and the small amount of counterfeits in circulation, the coordinated countermeasures of colonial and imperial governments reveal the extent to which counterfeiting was considered a menace to West African currency and economic systems.

Here David Ellison explores the problems encountered by France's best experimental authors writing between 1956 and 1984, when faced with the question: \"What should my writing beabout?\" These years are characterized by the rise of the \"new novelists,\" who questioned the representational function of writing as they created works of imagination that turned in upon themselves and away from exterior reality. It became fashionable at one point to affirm that literature was no longer about the world but uniquely about the words on a page, the signifying surface of the text. Ellison tests this assumption, showing that even in the most seemingly self-referential fictions the words point to the world from which they can never completely separate themselves. Through close readings Ellison examines the novels and theoretical writings of authors whose works are fundamental to our perception of contemporary French writing and thought: Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Duras, Sarraute, Blanchot, and Beckett. The result is a new understanding of the link between the referential function of literary language and the problematic of the ethics of fiction.

(ELDON TWP) Four men are facing charges after a home invasion in Eldon Township on Wednesday (Oct. 12). OPP say about 2:42 p.m. the men drove up to a home on Sandhills Road in a grey Hummer, where they physically assaulted two people oustide the house. The men then took the victims into the house, forcibly confined them and ransacked the house before fleeing. Both victims were able to free themselves and call 911. One victim was transported to Ross Memorial Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries and the other declined medical treatment. The OPP did not release the address of the house where the incident happened. Durham Regional Police stopped the Hummer on the outskirts of Port Perry, where the four men were arrested.