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.OUR LONDON LETTER. I
OUR LONDON LETTER. I [F?-om Our Special Correspondent.] I London. The celebrations of Empire Day were, a- was to be expected, particularly impressive and significant this year. There wePJ some really notable spectacles in some of the London schools, and everywhere the day was kept up in a spirit which is doubtless the cut come of the war. Once more we have seen the ie.ittcrod sous au>J daughters of the Empire rallying round the Mother- land in her hour of need and danger. Also the presence in our midot of large numbers of oversells troops has done something to quicken our practical interest and increase our knowledge of the viiile la add from which they came. There was a moving ceremony in St. Paul 's Cathedral whic. formed a fitting close of the day's celebra- tions. The Union Jack was Lid 011 the altar, and the standards of the Empiip. sixty-four in number, were carried in stately procession thither. There was nothing in this or in any of the functions of the day to suggest that evil and aggres- sive Imperialism of which thi Prussian was the embodiment. No. here was a family reunion, a spiritual communion in which the sacred ties that bind the Empire together were re-ccnsecrated to the service of freedom, and there was mani- fested a deep thankfulness for all that those ties have meant in the past, and a lively confidence in their potency for the- future. A DANGEROUS TENDENCY. There are some very unsettling features about recent Labour developments. I have already referred to the extraordinary action of the South IValc, mitter--i in refus- ing to pay income tax 011 the. present basis. Now it is said that the industrial Triple Alliance, net having received what it rc- gards as a satisfactory reply to the poli- tical demands which it made at the time of the recently-threatened strike, is to con- sider what action it should take to enforce those demands. The demands themselves, for the release of conscientious objectors, the raising of the blockade, and other mat- ters are of a purely political character, i There is an end of constitutional Trade Unionism if its organisation, formed foi exclusively industrial purposes, is to be used to threaten and brow-bea.t the com- munity every time the extreme men in the Labour movement fail to carry the country with them in their political demands. One could wish that the responsible Labour leaders had more vision and more courage to deal with this deplorable tendency to tty to what is called direct action on the least provocation, or, indeed, without any pro- vocation at all. It is a tendency which spelts the ruin of all that is best in the organised Labour in cut, fliiki it is a tendency whiøh must inevitably be reso- lutely resisted by Parliament and by the majority of the electorate. Otherwi.se majority rule will have ceased to exist in the country. THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT. The news of Mr. Hawker's rescue prornptc one to consider some of the criticisms of the Admiraltv with regard to this matter. Mr. Hawker's flight NA-a.-i a. private affair, under- taken from motives of sportsmanship and patriotism. The Government had nothing to do with it, and it is difficult to see where the line is to be drawn if public money is to be expended on protective measures every time some daring person undertakes a dan- gerous adventure. CO-OPERATION AND BEER. I notice that the working men's clubs in the counties of Leicester and Northampton are proposing to start a brewery of their own as a result of the current shortage, which, however, the Government is doing Bomething to relieve. The scheme of the-5e c lubs i., I understand, to have a co-opera- tive brewery which will be equipped on up- to-date Hues, and able to malce sound beer at a fair price. The working men's clubs are in a prosperous condition nowadays, e^peciahy in the Midlands, and there scems to be no reason why this interesting experi- ment should not be successful. At any rate, it is a better method of dealing with the beer shortage than that adopted by the Lancashire crowds who the other day raided the public-houses and confiscated all tha beer they could find, not however without paying for it afterwards. THE CAPITAL LEVY. From what I can make of it the political question of the moment is this: Is ths capi- tal levy the declared policy of the (Aa- quithian) Liberal Party? It is a question which one cannot answer in the affirmative or in the negative in the brief and pleasant manner of Ministers under verbal fire in the House. Mr. Asquith himself, like Brer 'Rii'obit, iii,, an-cl says "liuffiu' on the subject. Sir Donald Maclean, the cautious Scot, who leads what may be called the Op- position Minor in the Commons, wants an inquiry into the matter, but so far has ex- pressed no opinion on the merits of this policy. It is the Opposition Major, led by Mr. Adamson, who aro really keen on the captal levy, and their keenness is not. so far as I can hear, shared to any extent by IT pmbere of other parties—notwithstanding Mr. Aciand's recent speech. There is a general feeling that this question ought to be disposed of clitickly. The mere sugges- tion of a capital levy is calculated to have a disturbing effect on thrift and on busi- ness. A CLEMENCEAIT STORY. Colonel Arthur Lynch, that brilliant scholar who was a colonel in the Boer Army, and became during the war a colonel in our own Army, lived many years in France and has a repertoire of good stories about the French statesmen. Here is one which is new to me, and which appeared in a recpnt article from the Colonel's pen in the "Pail Mall Gazette":—- "M. Clemeneeau had ta ken the measure of German diplomacy long before the present conference. At the time of the Jgadir affair, when the fate of Europe was trembling in the balance, the German Am- bassador came to see the great statesman. and began to adopt the threatening tone which had served him with lesser mortals. M. Clemeneeau did not turn a. hair. Exas- perated at length, the Ambassador cried that if France did not at once 'climb down' he would leave for Berlin that very day. Leaving for Berlin meant; of course, "a declaration of war, and the Ambassador had hinted that war would mean the annihila- tion of France in three weeki. lile menace -was terrible. M. Clemeneeau, who was seated all the time, did not cicem at hrst Tightly to grasp the significance of what the German representative had said to him, for he kept rummaging among a number of old papers on his d-esk. Finally he produced the French equivalent of Bradsliaw, and, opening the pages, conned the time-tabla deliberately, while the feelings of the Am- bassador were displayed throughout all the gamut from fury to amazement. Looking up at length, M. Clemeneeau replied quietly: Well, it must be this evening; I bee you ve misled the morning train already.'
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Mr. John McGrath, secretary of the ^Yorkers' Union, Enfield Lock, has been placed 011 the Commission of the Peace for Middlesex. He is the first working-man magistrate from the Enfield district. "I have net forgotten the point you have mentioned four times. Give me something new. I have a particularly retentive memory," said Judge Sir Alfred Tobiu to a eolicitor at Westminster County-court,
ATLANTIC FLIERS SAFE I
ATLANTIC FLIERS SAFE I HAWKER AND GRIEVE RESCUED IN MID-ATLANTIC. I BOTH AVIATORS WELL. I "Is it Hawker?" signalled tho;) Lloyd's signal station at Butt of Lcwi.1 to the Danish steamer Mary, and on the reply being received in the affirmative the world knew within a short space of time that the intrepid aviator H. G. Hawker, who with Commander Mackenzie Grieve essayed the flight across the Atlantic, was safe. Thus after a week's cminious silence the dramatic news relieved the minds of men and women throughout the two hemispheres who keenly followed the welfare of the two men who, with tha boldest defiance cf For- tune, have helped to illustrate again the undefeated nerve and brain of humanity when put to the test of exploration.' Some- thing new, something untried, to be the first in the field! Mr. Hawker and his companion left St. John's, Newfoundland, iu an attempt to cross the Atlantic by and no news being heard cf them after the first twenty-four hours h-, d naturally gave rise to the greatest apprehension. Kumour had it that they had fallen into the sea 40 miles off the Irish ccast. Fortu- nately this proved to be incorrect, as is in- dicated by the message quoted above. The story of the news of the rescue is to the effect "that a Danish steamer, Mary, found the two aviators in mid-Atlantic and reported the glad news a-s ,;the passed the Butt of Lewis, off the N.W. of Scotland. Later they were taken off in a destroyer, which conveyed them to H.M.S. Revenge, where they slept off Soap a. The first news of the airmen's safety was issued by Lloyd's, who announced: Lloyd's signal station at the Butt of Lewis telegraphs this morning as fol- lows: Danish steamer Mary passing east- wards signalled following: "Saved Hands Sopwith Aeroplane." '? Is It Hawker 7" Station signalled: "Is It Hawker?" Steamer replied: "Yes." I THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. I Later came a message from the Admiralty in confirmation and amplification, and to the effect that Mr. Hawker and Commander Grieve had arrived on board H.M.S. Re- venge, that they would leave by destroyer from Scapa, and proceed t;) London. They were picked up at lat. oOdeg. 20min. nortn and long. 29deg. oOmin. west (just over 1,100 miles across the Atlantic), having alighted close to the steamer owing to a stoppage of circulation in the water-pipe between the radiator and the water-pump. The reference in the Admiralty message concerning the cause of Mr. Hawker s en- forced descent is fully referred to in a mes- sage sent by him to the "Daily Mail," London. In this he says "My machine stopped owing to the water filter in the feed pipe from the radiator to the water pump being blocked up with refuse, such as solder and the like, shaking loose in the radiator. It wad no fault of the motor. The motor ran absolutely perfectly from start to finish, even when all the water had boiled away. I had no trouble in landing in the sea. We were picked up by the tramp ship Mary- after being in the water one and a half hours. I I HER LUCKY SUNDAY. I Needless to say the greatest satisfaction was expressed on all hands when the news became generally known that the airmen were saved. Special editions c-f the papers rapidly sold out, and general excitement prevailed in the clubs where the tape machines chronicled the news. At Surbiton, where the Hawker family li ve, the news spread like wildfire, and the place was soon made gay with flags. By an interviewer Mrs. Hawker was asked for some kind of explanation of her predic- tion that her husband would return safely. "Oh," she said, "I don't kn&w. I just felt it. I have felt it all the week. "I can't remember exactly what made mo regard Sunday as my lucky day, but I have done so for a long time. It was on a Sun- day that he started from Newfoundland, and lots of lucky little things, too domestic to he worth telling, have happened to me on a Sunday. But this, of couree, is my luckiest Sunday of all." The world will wait with interest the next enterprise undertaken by these two plucky aviators.
I_-LORD READING. I
I LORD READING. I Mr. Lloyd George, in a letter to Lord Reading, writes: "At the moment when you are about to resume your judicial duties, I wish, on behalf of his Majesty's Government, to express to you the deep apprecia-tion which we all feel for the manner in which you have discharged the all-important mission which was entrusted to you, and for the conspicuous service which you have rendered to the Empire while ec-ting as his Majesty's Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. "Your tact, energy and counsel have Deen of inestimable value to the Allied cause, and I have the best of reasons for knowing that you have won the same moa_.sure of confidence on the other eide of the Atlantic that you enjoy in the British Isles.
I WORLD'S COTTON CONFERENCE.…
I WORLD'S COTTON CONFERENCE. J The European Commission of the National Association of the Cotton Manu- facturers of the United States has arrived a.t Liverpool. The Commission is to servo the twofold purpose of discussing the best way America can assist in the discharge of the United States post-war obligation to Europe, and extending formal invitations to all e Euro- pean organ ioatiorns and manufacturers to attc-nd the coining world cotton conference in October next at New Orleans. The Commission will visit in all eleven different countries.
J SCHOOLBOY FIREMEN. I
J SCHOOLBOY FIREMEN. I The boys of Blundells School, Tivoiton, tendered valuable aid in fighting a con- flagration which broke out at the Tiverton Sawmills, and spread to a neighbouring tyre-repairing works and a motor garage. The school fire brigade turned out Rirartly, and besides playing on the flames, salved at least £ 4,000 worth of stock.
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After having been missing for a great number of years, the original official seal of the Linnean Society has been accident- ally discovered by a Worthing' resident ind restored. Tamworth Town Council have appointed Mr. Robert Henry Briggs, Deputy Tolom Clerk of Barnsley, to be Town Clerk. Manchester University has decided to I confer the honorary degree cf Doctor of Laws on Mr. H. C. Hoover, the American Fc-cd Administrator, General Smuts and M. Venizelos.
THINGS THOUGHTFUL, I
THINGS THOUGHTFUL, I We have a right to say what we think only when we are thiiiking that which it is right to say. Many thoughts arc too warped by selfishness and unkindness to stand that test. 1 Worry never helps, whether we mix it with our forethought or with our retrospect. It hinders clear planning for that which lies before us, and it has no power to change that which is past. It is absolutely and always useless. The person without ideals is either stupid or dangerous. Shine, ye etars of Heaven, On the rolling years; See how time, consoling, Dries the saddest tears; Bids the darkest storm-clouda Pass in gentle rain, While upspring in glory Flowers and dreams again. —Adelaide Proctor. GOOD DEEDS. I It is not our part to look hardly, nor to look always to the character or the deeds of men, but to accept from all of them, and to hold fast that which we can prove good and feel to be ordained for us. We know that whatever good there is in them id itself divine; and wherever we see the virtue of ardent labour and self-surrendering to a single purpose, wherever we find constant reference made to the written scripture of natural beauty, this at least we know is great and good; this we know is not granted by the council cf God without pur- pose, nor maintained without result; their interpretation we may accept, into their labour we may enter, but they themselves must look to it, if what they do has no in- tent of good, nor any reference to the Giver of all gifts.—John Ruskin. TEMPTATION. I Why comes temptation but for man to meet, I And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph? Pray "Lead us into no such temptations Lord!" Yea, but, 0 Thou whose servants are the bold, Lead sucb temptations by the hand and hair, Reluctant dragons, up to who dares fight, That oo he may do battle and have praise. —Robert Browning. The great highroad of human welfare lie-- along the old highway of steadfast well- dointY; and thev who are the most persis- tent and work" in the truest spirit, will in- variablv be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.—S. Smiles. SELF-CONQUEST. I Patience and gentleness are not easy virtues when one is troubled within and buffeted without by the day's trials and de- mands. There are many times when the taking of a city might mean less to the individual soldier concerned than the con- quest of his own spirit and tongue. There are tense days when a carping or unjust word falls on. the spirit. like a lighted match on tinder, wherefore we should be the more careful to store no tinder for ourselves, and toss no lighted matches at out fellows. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly, and take care that, you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.—Marcus Antoninus. Our own rights we may often be at liberty to waive. The rights of others are another matter. As far as they are in our keeping, we are bound to protect. We may not be generous with other people's pro- perty. A PRAYER. I If I have faltered more or less J In my great task of. happiness; If I have noted among my race j And known no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyo; Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain- Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in! —Robert Louis Stevenson. Half the troubles and miseries in this life would be smoothed away if we would only put ourselves in other people's places, and try to see things from their point of view. It is the great blank wall of self that hin- ders us.—R. Carey. THE GIFT OF MEMORY. I We possess many treasures that no longer have an existence anywhere but in our memories. The little bypath with its tangle of wild roses has changed to a paved street, the old home has given place to a shop with glaring front, the little group that used to gather at the piano could gather nowhere on earth now, but they are all still ours. Few of us prize as we should God's great gift of memory, or realise what a means of enrichment it is intended to be. Whether we will it or not, we are continu- ally storing it with supplies for our future. We iiny gather weeds or flowers, beauty or uo-iiness, and what we choose will determine what our memori es shall hold in store. Every happy hour leaves its picture, every unworthy deed its blot. Is it not worth while to think of this in 'our crowded days, and choose what we will carry forward with us into the years ahead? Never tear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear thr-al1 they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.—Edward Everett Hale. BEGINNING. I We cannot see the end from the begin- ning, but as long as we can see the begin- nin whether it be the year we are enter- i. iig, or some duty that is required of us, we see enough-one step at a time-and we know that we shall be so guided on to the end. If we sit down and wait for the whole plan to unroll before our view, we shall wait endlessly. Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splen- dours born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent- glories with a little s,hininc, dust.-E. H. Chapin. Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valour of the enemy he kills intt.) himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we re- I t
OTHER MEN'S MINDS. I
OTHER MEN'S MINDS. I The British working classes are the right type of people, when properly treated.— Lord Denbigh. THE NEW ART. I P06t impressionism and cubism ar< I usually a form of camouflage for incom- petences-Mr. Juliu..i Olssoii, A'lt.A. I THE WAY TO PEACE. I The best way to avoid war is to make everyono in every nation realise its nature. —Major-General Sir George Astcn. THE SPENDTHRIFTS. The only people who have got money nowaday-j are the Government, and they waste it.-Adiniral Sir Hedworth Meux. A DISTINCTION. If the Government could only distinguish between assistance and interference we I should get on very Dick. SAILORS AND THE BLOCKADE. I have talked to many officers and blue- jackets in the Navy, and I tell you we are ashamed of our cloth owing to this blocka,de.-Lieut. Commander Kenworthy, M.P. ON THE TUBES. I have been in a submarine without venti- lation, and I say quite frankly it is fre-- breathing down there compared with the state of things you get on the tubes in the pressure time.—Mr. Clem Edwards, M.P. PAY OF THE CLERGY. I It is not possible for a clergyman to live on an artisan's wages.—Canon E. W. Barnes. TROUBLOUS TIMES. It is not necessary to be a wizard to see that there are troublous times ahead.— General Sir H. Plumer. A DAY OF REST. Both man and beast, even a machine like a motor-car, need rest on one day in seven. —Major-General Owen Hay. THE GAME'S THE THING. There is no room on the polo, cricket, or football field for the jealous player, nor is there on the field of battle.—General Sir Henry Itiwlineou. I THE NEXT BEST. If a man could get it he would be con- tent with a pint or two of decently-brewed beer. But he can't, and so he has a double j whisky, and a bad one at that.-Captain O'Grady, M.P. FALSE WITNESS. If people were fined for lies our exchequer would he flourislli n -Willesden Police- court Clerk. PERSONS, THOUGH PARSONS. Lots ot people think that a. parson is a. kind of milksop, whose feelings should be studied when others arc ignored.. We are not milksops, and from our point of view it is sometimes objectionable to be considered as such. We are ordinary persons, though parsons, and it is only our "make up" that frightens people.—Rev. Patrick McCor- mick. l THE OUTLOOK. While not optimistic about our national i position, I do not consider it hopeless.— j Mr. Runciman. I HOW TO GET RICH. The less you interfere with the natural course of commerce and industry the richer j you will grow.Lord Hugh Cecil. HARD TIMES. Everyone in this country and in Europe must be content for years to live a harder and mcro strenuous life.—Lord Robert Cecil. I INDUSTRY" AND THE STATE. There is nothing to show that the State can conduct national business more effi- ciently than individual ability and enter- prise.-Viscouiit Burnham. THE HOUSE I Why there should be this dearth of houses I confess I do not understand.—Judge Selfe, of Marylebone. NOT OUR BUSINESS. I Whatever the Soviet Government haa done, it is no business of the people of Eng- land.—Mr. George Lansbury. NO MORE. I Woman is no longer going to be the. playmate of man and nothing more.—Rev. S. Chad wick. THE CHILD IN THE MUSEUM. I It is a mistake to take a young child round a museum and bring him away bored and uninterested.—Sir Frederick Kenyon. ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY. I We believe it is possible to produce suffi- cient to enable everybody to get a good living by working four or five hours a day. —Mr. Robert Smillie. THE BOLSHEVIKS. I There are not more than 5,000,000 Bolshe- viks in Russia out of a population of I 190,000,000.—Col. Alan Burgoyne, M.P. THE IGNORANT MASS. I No man is really a representative of the mass of the people, because the --mass of the people know nothing.—Mr. G. Bernard Shaw. GERMANS OUTDONE. I Germany's brutality and bestiality have been far exceeded by the horrors and terrors perpetrated by the Bolsheviks.—Sir Frede- rick Milner. THE CONTROL EVIL. I Government control stipes industry, en- terprise, and energy. I have only one de- sire, and that is to get demobilised.—Sir Joseph Maclay.
AFGHAN TROUBLE. I
AFGHAN TROUBLE. I HOLY WAR BEING PREACHED IN I KANDAHAR. The India Office has issued the following: A telegram from the Viceroy, dated Simla, May 20, states: "As a result of aerial reconnaissance Kahi was reported strongly held, and the following places occupied by the Afghans, namely: Pcshbolak, Ambar Khana, Basi- wal, a-nd Hazarnao. "General situation is unchanged, except on the Kurram border, where the attitude of the Afghan troops on the Paiwar Kotal and of Ivliostwa 1 s is reported to be threa- tening. The Afghans on the Pa-iwar Kotal fired at our pickets again on the night of May 17-18. "Beyond C-ha.man aerial reconnaissance observed no signs of enemy concentration. "Telegraph wires in Tocihi have been cut. No further operations have been reported. "The internal situation is normal." The Afghan concentration during the past week has been very pronounced, and it is evident that large forces are before the British Expeditionary Force. The Afghan regulars are well armed and equipped, and are judged to be in all respects formidable adversaries. The Bri- ti.-h. are concentrating east of the Khyber Pass. So far the attempts of the Amir's emis- saries to win over the frontier tribes have met with only moderate success. Some trouble has been encountered in the shape of increasing desertion among the Ivhyber Rifles; it was eventually decided to offer the men of the regiment their discharge, and a large number accepted. The British representative in Kandahar, who has reached Quetta in safety, sayi that a Jehad was being vigorously preached in Kandahar, and everybody there was buying arms.
I THE BEDROOM MURDER..I
I THE BEDROOM MURDER. I The inquest on Miss Jane Shannon, aged 26, who was murdered in her bed at Turner Hill, Cheshunt, and on the man Levis Owen, 43, whose body was found on the railway, was continued at Cheshunt. Mrs. Shannon, the mother of the dead girl, said that her daughter first met Owen six years ago, when he gave her les- sons on the violin. Mary Downes said Miss Shannon and her- self occupied the same bedroom, but sepa- rate beds. On Sunday evening, she said, the light was put out in their room at about half-past ten o'clock. She was awakened by Miss Shannon's calling out, "Someone is in the room and is trying to put their hand over my mouth." Witness s?id s?e saw no one. Mrs. Ann Downes, mother of the last witness, said she knew of no love affair with Miss Shannon, who had always come home in good time. The window and door of the room were locked on Sunday even- ing, but the casement window, if pushed from the outside, would come open. A letter was found in Owen's pocket to "My dear Jane," saying, "Just a line to let you know that I am not feeling- too bad, but two weeks seems a terrible long time to wait. Perhaps you will let me see you earlier than that, darling, so give way." The letter ended with love and kisses, from your own boy, L." The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder and suicide against Owen."
I ROMANCE OF A BROOCH.I
I ROMANCE OF A BROOCH. I I A brooch valued at between X600 and < £ 700, which was found on the battlefield in France, has been restored to its owner, a Swiss manufacturer. Eighteen months ago a King's Cross flower-girl was charged at Tottenham with having the brooch in her possession. She explained that a Canadian soldier gave it to her, and that he had picked it up on the battlefield in France. At Tottenham Police-court Detective-in- spector Davis said the brooch had been re- turned to the owner. It was supposed that it had been stolen in transit from Switzer- land to America about six years ago.
I LEGLESS MEN AT FUNERAL.…
I LEGLESS MEN AT FUNERAL. I Fifty soldiers who have lost both legs drove in procession to attend the funeral of Colonel G. H. B. Coats, C.B., a survivor of the march from Kabul to Kandahar, who had devoted the last four years of his life to the welfare of limbless men at the Pavilion Hospital, Brighton. Behind marched 100 men who have lost one arm. The path in the cemetery to the grave was lined by some 200 men with crutches who had lost one leg. A large number of nurses completed the moving spectacle. The salute over the grave was fired by Canadians.
I PLAGUE ON A SHIP.I
I PLAGUE ON A SHIP. I A soldier passenger on board the City of Sparta, which left Bombay on April 3, was taken ill during the voyage and died of bubonic plague, states the Local Govern- ment Board. He was buried at sea. The vessel on arrival at Liverpool on April 29 was treated as a suspected ship. Portions of the ship were fumigated with sulphurous acid gas, and subsequently sprayed with petroleum emulsion. Intimation has now been received that a native member of the crew fell ill on May 13, and died four days later in hospital from butonic plague.
[ GIRL KILLED IN STREET. f
[ GIRL KILLED IN STREET. f A verdict of wilful murder was returned against Hugh Stanley Jolly, a demobilised soldier, at the inquest on Gladys May Lup- ton, seventeen, who was fatally wounded with a razor in a street in Yarmouth. Witness said that as the girl said "Oh, Gussie," Jolly and another girl were passing, Jolly returned and struck the girl Lupton, who was found dead on the pavement. Later to the police Jolly said, "I am the man you are looking for for cutting that girl's throat." Before seeing the polipe he said to Private Jacob Howling, "I have done a mur- der."
I.TOAD IN A COAL SEAM. I
TOAD IN A COAL SEAM. I A toad has heen found buried in a coal seam at Netherseal Colliery, near Burton- on-Trent. A collier was mining 200 yards below the surface and a mile from the pit shaft when his pick struck into a pocket of clay, and out rolled a toad three inches long. It is being kept in the manager's office, and is recovering sight and moving about. I
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The Food Controller has issued a general licence which allows oat flour, oatmeal, rolled oats, flaked oats, and other like products to be dealt in free from the restrictions imposed by the Retail Prices Order. Using a piece of whalebone coated with bird-lime, Guido Gatte, thirty-one, an Italian waiter, stole coins from the offertory boxes in Westminster Cathedral. Mr. Francis sentenced him to three months' hard la-bour, to be fol- lowed by deportation.
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EPITOME OF NEWS. In an affray at South Shields in th& Arab quarter, two Arabs were stabbed to death. One Aberavon Corporation employee is aged 79, and getc* Is. 2d. an hour. "Birmingham may well be proud of her children," says the King in a telegram to the Lord Mayor. British naval officers have sent a brown bear to the Zeo" from Murmansk. Aeroplane flights between the mainland and the Isle of Wight arc to be started shortly. Mr. William Clarke Stennett, of Alex- andra-road, Epsom, left £20 a year for the maintenance of his dog Sam, and .£10 a year for the maintenance of his oat. Admiral Beatty, who is visiting Athens, has been appointed an honorary citizen of the city. The vicar of Holy Trinity, Southall, has successfully protested to the urban council against a band playing in the park on Sunday evenings during hours of Divine service. The Prince of Wales has intimated his acceptance of the freedom of Cardiff, and the conferment will take place on June 26. A thousand tons of paper pulp, valued at £ 25,000, caught fire at the Purfleet premises of a sawmills company. Northampton Trades Council have de- cided to nominate Mr. Arthur Henderson as Labour candidate in the division at the next parliamentary election. Filey (Yorks) Council are taking steps to acquire the Crescent gardens on the cliffs and develop them as an attraction to visi- tors At a farewell meeting the Rev. J. R. Gillies, who is leaving Hanipstead Presby- terian Churdh after 32 years, was given X2,000 in War Bonds. Mr. Otto Beit has given £ 10,000 to the Imperial College, South Ken&ington, and an old student of the Royal College of Science £ 8,000 for equipping a laboratory in organic chemistry. Huddersfield County Borough Council voted the Mayor £5,000 additional remune- ration to be spent in peace celebrations. "Unemployment pay is the Government's premium on laziness," said Mr. S. G. Edridge, clerk to the Croydon Borough Bench. Out of the £10,000,000 provided by the Government for the improvement of roads Y.250,000 has been allotted to Kent. A British company is planning air ser- vices between Aberdeen and Stavanger (Norway) and between Newcastle and Stavanger. Large seaplanes capable of carrying six passengers will be used. A £ 100,000 hospital is to be erected at Wrexha-m as a war memorial for the town and East Denbighshire. Layers' badges, "L and laurel wreath," are to be issued to First Class Tank Corps gunners who pacs out of the Tank Schools. A" London boy, John Simmons Ansell, fif- teen, brought before the Bath magistrates on 3, charge of sleeping out, said he had tramped from London to Bath, a distance of 100 miles. He was remanded for inquiries. William Hollis, thirteen, of Coalville, Leices- tershire, on his first employment after obtain- ing a labour certificate exempting him from school attendance, was killed by falling from a load of disused ammunition. Medical men have directed the attention of the local authority to the danger arising from pools of stagnant water at Blackheath. They point out the risk of such places becoming breeding grounds for mosquitoes. A troop train with British soldiers from Cologne broke in half near Calais, and the rear section came into collision with the forward coaches. Several soldiers were slightly injured. In a charge of office-breaking against four boys at Sheffield a detective stated that one of them told him they had burnt two tio notes, as they were aJraid of being oaught if they tried to cash them. Mr. Bonar Law promised consideration to a suggestion by Mr. Bottom ley that all naval and military prisoners and all juve- nile offenders should be released as one of th. peace celebrations. In the unavoidable absence of the Prince of Wales, General Rawdinson at Sandling Camp, Hyfche, inspected men of the Russian Relief Force and promised that they should be relieved before the winter. The Boot Manufacturers' Federation have m:der consideration the adoption of a plan which will secure, under a guarantee, the production of medium grade boots of a standard quality, thus continuing one part of the war-time boot scheme. Mr. Roger Bernard Lawrence, K.C., Registrar of the Liverpool District of the Lancashire Chancery Court, is the new Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster. A proposal to call upon the Government to increase the salary of Members of Parlia- ment to .£600 a year will come before the Labour Party Conference on June 25. Kent County Council Small Holders Com- mittee has approved of applications from ex-service men for 1,500 acres of land, and agreements to purchase 488 acres have already been entered into.
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