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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, THE HISTORIC MEADOW OF RUNNYMEDE, NOW OFFERED FOR SALE. 1 'A ITosical: Ezelutiv to "Tilt LORD ROBERT CECIL. END OF THE TRIPLE MORE TERRORISM IN BELFAST. a small oommittea. I myself think that tiba Stodi vidua! officer ia for tie best It is most important to have a good administrator at the heaA.

Bnt Jt mav be that then la no ln-'dividual' offiow sjvho quits suited to undipr-take this workn Russia. In that case the tiarnaiUTo is tie small committee, but it iniuet be a comz oitbce of the very best men that can be forand for the duty. Havang settled till question of control yon then "have to consider that of the supply of food. Is ttte food to bo supplied by fih'o XJoverrmient, or are you to trnst to the efforts of priraj te trade? Where privnto trade exists it is infinitely the best nay, for whilst ti Gennuuent oaa no doubt do mora than three HIGH TIDE AT SWANSEA SIDE-SHOWS AND REFRESHMENT STORES SWEPT AWAY. Great damage was done at Swansea on Fri day night by an abnormal tide, accompanied by a south-west gale.

Tonts on the beach, to- getlier with refreshment and fancy stores and side shows, were waahod out to se.i, and wo of tho proprietors who unsuures.ifuHy attempted to save their goods were injured, one boing, etu.mod by the foive of the tide. Among stores wlunli suffered were Honp la" stands, and people could bu tieen yesterday bnsily digging ankle deep in the recoding tide for lost treasure in tho shape of jewellery, etc. I 1 .1 .1 une cai was oojioiv v.aso.ni out, mo neaei wronchina tlie doors off the hinges. Scores nt iKixes of lemonade and fanoy goods of all de-scripl-iom were washed away. Many tools it ljaugland, six miles away, wore also swept out to soa.

Some fifty beach tents a' Seaton Tarew, West iiamepnoi, wnre wampei ny an except I Jilijh tide yesterday. Many peopl slsepine the tools found themsrhes itp to th wnist in water. Seven ladim inst. cot. flon.r tl r.n it I collajised.

CHESS CONGRESS. OR FAT PLAYERS F.MR LI NO AT MAI VF.HN. (From Our Own CorrospoiHetit.) MALVIvRV, rJalnrday. Most of the bundled players in the big event of the British chess year have already arrived. Sir Oeortto Thomas, who finished tennis tourney to day, is expected to morrow.

Mr. Y. 1). Yalei, the oilier favourite i't the championship, has not yet appeared. Mr.

U. II. Y. Sen it (-mc-s Ireland, with Mr. .1.

irilaui I 3 champion. These two have been nrnctisitu; very seriously, nnd will to i Thotn.o. who their mi: ris. Mr. W.

Wwinw! v. on of chiitnpion ns far In to Iry li i skill tho ynuncer f.rboo). Mr. H. Btogheini, ho geninl Houtb African, iH thought by several critics to be the dark lu rio for the chief event.

A number of enthusiasts have already 'taken possession of the big school, lent by Malvnrn College for the Congress, nnd nro furtoUfly ptactubi' for Monday with their own boards and men, othcial sets having not loet in i tiansit, to the great distress of tho Congress! Secret ury. Bisnor and pfp.forminu 1 ANIMALS. IJishon Wrlldoti, in nn interview yesterday, declared that th'-rn win no more co-nine'i'i; toil of a country's civilisation than ih tp-al lueiit of dumb animals. Tlu-ro was no reason able doubt that performing animals taught tor forced to perform by cruelly. Tricks of performing animals wero not worth cultivating.

Tho sight of an elephant standing on two legs was not a one which could afford reasonable pleasure to any human being. To watch animals in their natural surroundings was both insi ruction nnd amusement, but be bail nci ir seen any animals whose performance would be worth purchasing at tn pries of cruel treatment. It was pitiful that brutal sports which was thought were abolished long ago should bn showing signs of revival In the present d-y. TIIF DERIVATION OF POPLAR. Rutlemip and daisies were, in Pop- Jar within, the.

memory of I ho oldest inhabitant," i declared Miss Helen B. Mackay, a member of the Poplar Board of Guardians, yesterday afternoon, when opening tho first show of the locnl branch "I the Municijwl Gardens' Guild, held at tho Poplar Town Hall. Alderman John Ncurr, the chairman, said after all, there was nothing very wonderful in that, as the borough derived iis name from a magnificent tree. Tho Municipal Gardens' Guild taught them that it was tho duty of everyone to mako their surroundings as beanti. ful as possible, and although people wero not accustomed to associalo the name of Poplar with anything fragrant, tho exhibition proved that even amid that which was squalid and dingy tliore could be developed much which was both beautiful and of sweet savour.

FIREWORKS AT ALKXANDTtA PALACE. Although it Is still in the ocntipatlon of the Ministry of Pensions, a publio display of fire-works took place at Alexandra Paace last night. These displays will be continued on each Saturday night in August. It is expected that tlie building will vncutod by tho Ministry In a month or six weeks' time, but it was stated yesterday to be in such a condition that the recommencement of entertainments would not be possible this winter. SOUTHAMPTON FREEMAN'S DEATH.

At Southampton yesterday an inquest was held on Hubert Edgar Lewis, aged forty-two, a freeman of tho borough, who was found dead with his head iu a gas oven with the gas turned on. His widow told a distressing story. Sho said that bcr husband, who was granted tho freedom of Southampton in recognition of his service- iu the South Africnn War, hud bitterly suffered from pains in Ills bend. He had boon very violent, and bo had applied for a separation ordor, which should have been heard on. the day of bis death.

Ho had boon worried through being out of work, and they bad been compelled to sell eonio of thoir furniture, which hnd preyed on his mind. She did not think ho could help his violent mooiN. A verdict of Suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned. Negotiations aro now practically completed by which "ThoCo-Optlmists" will move to a larger theatre after their totmnoy at the Royalty I NEWS IN BRIEF. There ore now in Befgtam more than 660,000 unemployed.

Mr. Ben Tillett is now comaleaoent aad hoptt soon to return to duty. Beginning to-morrow, earlier trains will fet run on tho Underground. In the Caerphilly election the five prospectlfs candidates are all Baptists. Dr.

Duns tan has been selected as Labour candidate for the Saffron Walden Division. A Newport (Mon.) message says that Welaa steam coal bas been further reduced by Si. per ton. Tin plate at Morriston, Swansea, wero relis yesterday after being out for several months. The commercial convention between Yogo-Slavia and Czecho-SIovakia was signed at Prague on July 31.

George aged eighty, fell through (he trap-door hi brother's shop in Kelso yesterday and was killed. There are still upwards of 1,000 miners out of work In tho Warwickshire coalfields as a retail of the recent strike. Bishop Curley has been appointed the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore in succession to Cardinal Gibbons. The Belgian Government is about to enter late negotiations with the British and Dutch Govera-ments for the abolition of passports. During Friday night thieves broke into iht offieeg of the Mid tend Railway Company, Burton-on-Trent, and got sway with about 50.

General Lord Home unveiled a bronse tablet at Inverness yesterday in memory of the meo of tho Highland Railway who fell in the war. An Atherstone miner, named Jemos WagstaS, had climbed a tree in his garden to gather pears when he slipped aud fell to the ground, froctur-inj? his neck. The death took place yesterday morning at Cookatown of Mr. John B. Gunning Moore, Deputy Lieutenant of County Tyrone, in Ik eightieth year.

Tlie Ministry of Transport last night issued formal notice allotting the letters "W.T." as an additional motor index mark for the West Biding of Yorkshire. Mr. Lewis Haelarn, M.P. for Newport, bas btei forbidden by his medical advisers to attend tbs sittings of Parliament during the remainder of the session owing to ill-health- The. Swedish Crown Prince Gustsf Adolf, with bis children, will leave Stockholm to-day for England, where they will bo tho guests for some weeks of tho Duke of Connaught.

Reading farriers, who went on strike last Tuesday because of a proposed reduction in wages by the employers of Ss. per week, yesterday greed to resume work at a reduction' of 4. A Rover motor-cat, the property of Mr. L. Purlwck, of Acton, was left unattended in Chelsea street, and when tho driver returned after a short absence the car had disappeared.

Harry Hold en, miner, woe discovered dead in his bedroom at Aakern, near Don castor, yesterday. The gas pipo had bees torn from the watt end the broken end of the pipe was dose to hi mouth. Tho ot, master-General announce tbot on and from to-morrow the deferred Press service it the rate of Zd. a word will be restored between the United Kingdom and Canada Yi Imperial only. Tho British mu-shipsDsnae, Wessex, snd Windsor arrived at Stockholm yesterday from Hel-singfors.

The British officers will be the guests of the. Swedish officers at dinner at the seaside resort of Saltsjoeboden. Evac Thomas, a miner, was remanded at Bridgend yesterday for an alleged attempt to murder iWilllsm Hopkins by shooting htm. Thomas's head was heavily bandaged, Mrs. Hopkins having poured boiling water on Uui In fracas alleged to have arisen out of jealousy.

WESTMINSTER AND LADY BONHAM CARTER. At a meeting of the Westminster Liberal Association last night a resolution was passed expressing the desirability of nominating a Libera! candidate at the forthcoming by-elect km In the Abbey Division of Westminster, caused by the death of Mr. Bnrdett-Ooatts. It was decided to ask Lady Bonham Carter to contest the seat. N.U.R.

JUBILEE. The National Union -of Railwaymen will complete fifty years of existence in November. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which was subsequently merged in the N.U.R,, was established on November 27. 1871, and registered under the Trade Union Act of 'that year, its offices then being in Ne Cross-road. The union sprang from a very small beginning.

In ite first year it had only 81 members, and 920 joined during the following year. The present membership is not far short of half a million, which makes it one of the largest single trade unions in the world. The head office, Unity House, in Euston-road, already one of the finest blocks of building possessed by any union. Js now being considerably extended. Tho Railway Review recoil the few of the pioneeri of the movement are still alive.

131) Kiooen Vision anb tl)fc 3nner Voice." Men call it blindness to be reft Of sunlight, and the ddal weft Of Nature seen through human eyee Meodoir and mountain lake or laws And dream sot that, from sense withdrawn, The gates of a diviner dawa, Open on Paradise. There are to whom the world is dumb, Who cannot catch the sounds that come From voice or viol, beast or bird, Ixud wind, or billows on the beach, Nor know that in the heart of each There is a silence fraught with speech, The sweeter aa un-haard. For oft in the hushed gloom of night Such radiant visions haunt my Bight, Such aplrlt voices speak to me, That I could cry, 0, Thou most dear Creator ol both eye and ear, Make Thou me deaf that I may hear, And blind, that I may see." JaMES BHOaDKS. ALLIANCE. ORIENTATION LABOUR.

NEW OF The following was circulated by the Central News last night Ever since Black Friday," when the Triple Industrial Alliance failed to bring about a national strike on behalf of the minors, speculation has been rife regarding ite future. We understand that the general opinion of miners, railwaymen, and transport workers is that do good purpose could be served in maintaining an organ leation which had not the fullest, trust, lo.vBjty, and co-operation of the rank and file. The Alliance, however, ia nt going out of existence completely until after it i seen what prospects there are for the new Labour Council, fofmed of the unions composing the industrial groups represented inside the Labour movement. But for purposes of action direct or otherwise the Alliance will cease to function as a trades nnion entity, and it was stated to-day (Saturday) that its demobilisation will most likely synchronise with the legal termination of the 'Great War in Septeiulier. The men who are likely to be appointed on the new Labour Council will certainly wield considerable power, but it will not altogether be easy for them to sway their six million constituents with the amazing Influence which held the Triple Alliance together until even tho trades union movement was afraid of it.

Henceforth organised Lalour intends to bend its efforts and its energies towards the ballot-box. TTIFi CONTBACT FOR A SWISS FIRM. In connection with the acceptance by London County Conned of a lender of a Swiss firm for a turbo-generator, a letter was Bent to tho Chairman of the Council by Mr. D. A.

Brem-ner, Director of the British Engineers' Association. It was pointed out that at least 80 per iceut. of the purchase price of such an order. I it made in this country, would be distributed in wages and salaries. A reply has been received by the secretary the British Engineers' Association, signed hy the Clark, of the County as follows i 'sir, In reply to your letter of tho 29th ultimo, I have lo Inform you that after careful consideration of all the circumstances the (Vmncil 1ms decided to accept the toiuler of Messrs.

Brown, Boverl and for the supply of 8,000 Kilowatt turbo-generator required for the Council' Greenwich power station. I am to point out that this tender was some 8,000, or about 16 per lower in amount than that of the lowest acceptable British tender. GUARDSMAN CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. 1 A ft TTM t. lj IU 4 Vl iliiinn wnviwji.

ij 3rd Hsttalion Coldstream Guards, quartered nn day in connection with the death of Thomas Bash, of the same battalion, and later in the day he was cbargod with manslaughter. Detective-Inspector Aldrldge stated that at 11.30 on Friday night he saw the accused at Wellington Barracks, and eald be waa going to arrost him for oausing the death of Guardsman Bash that afternoon. The prisoner said Yes, all right. I have a wild temper. I will tell you all about It." The witness told him he could do that at the police-station, and too him to Bocheeter-row, where he made a statement, whioh was taken down.

The witness said he proposed to put in thia statement next week. The prisoner bad been charged that afternoon with manslaughter, and made no answer to the charge. On this evidence the prisoner was remanded for seven days. COUNCILLOR'S SUICIDE. The Southwark Oorower yesterday recorded a verdiot of "Death from euioide whilst in a state of unsound mind," in the Case of Harold Walter Cousins, 38, a member of the Islington Borough Council, employed as gats porter of St.

Mary's Infirmary, Highgat. The evidence showed that while in the Army Cousins contracted malaria and had suffered from Its after-offecte. Other evidence was that on Wednesday evening a man answering Cousins' descnptton jumped from the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge and sank near the railway bridge. Coualne' body was recoTCTed near Tower Bridge on Friday. BEOOBD VOYAGE ON OIL FUEL.

Another point in favour of oil fuel has been scored by tt Canadian PaoiAo liner Empress of Britut which arrived at Liverpool early yesterday morning. This stoop lias aceom-piiishea the quteEest voyage out and home evw made In tlie Canadian shipping trade by cwowtetta. the trip from Iverpool to tinefceo and Male ia fifteen, days, Including time tUttwed for disembarking add embarking passengers at Qtrebeo. This remarkable performance was made possible by the absence of cooling operations. LOSS OF THE FRIE STAND.

A Marine Court at Qrlmsby yesterday found that the Grimsby trawler Frieslaad, which was lost In the North Ses on May 18, foundered as the result Of an inrush of wnter, the cause of whicn the court was tmablo to determine. Henry Burns, registered manager for tho owners, was held to blame for not ascertaining if the ship was seaworthy when she sailed. He waa ordered to pay 200 towards the cost of the Inquiry. To commemorate the 322 officers and men of the 8th (Service) Battalia the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) who fell in the war, memorial tablet is to be unveiled in Bath Abbey on Saturday, September 10, where there will be a short memorial service-at 4 p.m. The third annual reunion and dinner of the battalion will be held at the Bed House, Bath, on the same date.

Further partioulars may be obtained from Oapt. O. Triny, M.O., 79, 8lhop'rod, HOPES OF A NEW PARTY COMBINATION. (From a Correspondent.) Hocent speeches delivered by Lord Robert (Veil in bis own constituency (the Uitchin Division of Hertfordshire) indicate a strong desire on his part for an early precipitation of the cloudy el omenta of the political situation into a firm and solid bottom of party politics. He has clearly shown that lie is prepared to do hi part in clarifying the prospect, and he has said, rather definitely, tliat he would like to act with Lord Grey of Failodon, or that he would like Lord Grev to with him, in fusing whatever available groups there may bot into the new party.

Iost week he told the! Hitcliin Division Consei'. ative nnd Liberal Unionist Association" that they should k.u sidor it reasonable frtnii miw onwards to raJl tlimselvea Hie HiHiin Di vision Constiiu-! tfOTial Assix-iation," because wit-h one I'arlia nient already established in Ireland und another in aspect the old name was illogical. Hut' the proposal which lxrd Robert sbkI did nA emanate originally from himself was adjourned i became several influentiaJ members of a body with strong Conservative traditions hesitated at the prospect of what they feit must be final deed of separation from tho old ties. It 1 is however, six months since thpoj local politicians endorsed Lord Hlert9 rio-: ing over to a seat on the Opposition side of the House. I At tlia itme meeting Lord Robert spoke of the sorry result he observwl in the presenn' House of Commons from the relaxation of; party TUis relaxation had withdrawn from politics, he said, "one of tho ftromjest motives in human nature "--tho motive which, springs from the consciousness of definitely to a "side," to a formal body, ti a party.

The absence of this moiiv0 meant the, Iofs in our politics of that rtnril d' rfrjit which the political interest and enthusiasm of past." What he observed in thn Ifoiioe of' Commons as tho result of this deprivation w.is' a diimosition among members in all of tlie House to say extravsgant and absurd tilings because there ws no prospect of tlieir! being called upon to show what they e-uild acoomplish themselves under the responsibilities of office. Tho same evening, at nn open-air meeting, I Lord Robert was asked with what party lie was at present ai.ting and voting. "I don't, get whips from any party," said Lord Robert. I do my lesl to listen carefully to diet achates, and then make up my mind which; side ia riyht, and vote accordingly I think it is quito possible I may have to enter' more or less directly into some combination in the future. 1 shall think very carefully what 1 osiijbt ftmj how I ought to enter intj that n.iiiblnafinn." Ixjrd Hob'-n said on another occasion that ho fitiorl for "peace, retrenchment, and co operation." The alternative Gnvernment must practice a riid adherence to (ho law and tho: constitution of the country and must aim nt' unity the unity of all tiiu classes, tho cooperation of capital and labour, the bring-! ing together of tho rich and the poor, tho i drawing closer of the bonds of Empire, and.

what I personally believe to bo the one absolutely vital necessity for our future exist-! ence a closer co-operation between the nations oi tne world with some great international organisation, guoh as the League of Nations." 'J ''I9 aro mcn ln fll1 part ies, Iord Robert deelaaJSd a month or two ago nt Baldock, who desir the same things as h'u does. And there-are foine men, like Lord Grey nf Failodon, who stand apart from and who probably believe in those principles as strongly as anyone in the country. With such men he wn prepared to act, "When he crowed the floor of tlie House at the opening of tlie session, Ird Robert promised that before he joined a new portv he would tell hie constituents. He has already told them what eort of parly it is to be. WALES'S GREATEST SON." MR.

HUTrTTES'S TRIBUTE TO TTTIS PRIME MINISTER. Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Austrab'a, unveiled at Carnarvon yesterday a bronze statue of Jlr.

Lloyd Oeorgo, presented to the town by the JIayor. A crowd of some two thousand people were present, and Mr. Lloyd George was represented hy Mrj. Lloyd George. Mr.

Hughes said in that elotuo of its great, est (-on Wain saw enshrined the spirit and genius of its nice, its vicissitudes, snerifloes. and triumphs. Wales had the higlu-Ht percentage of voluntary recruits during. the laio and in these days, when mankind was urged to e-eck a short out to a terrestrial paradise by murder and sabotage, and Bolshevism preached tho destruction, by a fearful reign of ter ror, of all national customs, it was good to see tho people of Wales turn their broad backs on those evil counsellors and ehow unmistakably by their act that thoy, at all events, were resolved to put the poisoned chalice aside. Something was known of the difficulties with which the Government had been confronted In tho past, but Mr.

Lloyd George stood as lie stood during the war and since the armistice, comporting himself as a leader worthy of a great nation in the most critical years of its history. Many of his critics would deny him any claims to greatness, but tbny only Said what their prototypes bad said of Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, and Lincoln. IMPROVEMENT OF HISTORIC VILLAGE GREEN. Jvonl Bearsted, better known tt Sir Marcus Samuel, has promised lo carrv out extensive alterations to the historic village green at Bearated, near Maidstone, from which ho takes his title. On this famous cricket ground celebrated old-time cricketers used to ploy.

Tho alterations are to be carried out during- the to provide work for the unemployed, (MKTEOHOTifiTfATj Optics Hvtoht.) GEKF.HAI'j I 11 UNO M. A raihrr Jerp depression ia dceeloping over Sramlinariu and will maintain Westerly vim.i over tho lirilinh Isle, with mainly fair weather apart from some, nhoicrri in the eat and S'orih. ESOLASl), S.ll'., and MID. LANDS, li. and H'.

Moderate in fresh H'esterlii wind: mainly fair; risibility Qnvd niodr.ralc temperature. EN ti LAND N.E.. and rent of enwn. try to fresh Westerly wind; varying amount of clovd, soma shnweri; visibility pood; moderate tempr.talnre. ENGLISH CHANNEL.

Fresh Wmferhj wind; mainly fair; legibility good; sea. rather rovijh. Ff HTll EH (jrri.OOK. Uncertain. REMARKS O.N YESTFRDAY'fi WEATHER.

After two days of genera' ly dull weather wills some raiti, conditaona were rrvircli brighitw in most parti of J'ngland yesterday. Th's temporary improvement was experienced in the roar of a dialurlianco Whivh hiad poesed uortfti eastward before daybreak, its paesnge thiring the night had beien markel by high winds, reaching gale- foroo In some southwestern district, with heavy ra'n in Devon, and IifllicnMrc. Considerable nf Tain also fell in t.1w Miidlanda, but In Lh sotiMwnt cf Kngbwid meamim-menu iri! smj.ll, though more apprcc.la.blo ticii of late. nno or ten Iinirs' sunsbine ma during the day (up 1,0 p.m. Greenwich time) in eastern nnd soulh'-m England, nd h.s nuiib us eleven and a liajf hours at 'vntoulli and Torquay.

In "W'a'ea tnd norlUern EngJand wae not quite so much, tlisnigh somo stitions txtHeii e-ifiht nnd nine hniirs. In thicso latter districts, n. in Scotland, and Ireland, a l.Ule rain fell during Um day, but the amount in many wies le-i tlinu 1 mm. Fro-tn Kkd.iKinuir, however, nj nmeh ns 10 mm. werp reported.

'1 roe someH-bat nlvive 70 dog. in sotco hi't elsewhere re. ma.lnod aieiallv In t.li sitties. LONDON OBSERVATIONS. Hammerer 1010.1 mh.

(20.63 in. li Wind X.W. fre-li; wealJior fine; 09 F. humidity 49 per cent. Snt.urdnv, 9 "a.m.

to 0 p.m. '(nuixannm ur 75 dec. F. ra.hifa'1 nil'. 8tvir i lo 17 hours G.M.T.

at Kow fTMcOi-mond). Bavnxbi.ne 10.5 hours. BULGARIAN ARMY. COMPLETE DEMOnir.rSATION DEMANDED. SOFIA, Saturday.

The following semi ifflciiil statement hoa bwn here The Inter Allied Military has demanded the complete domobilbvition of the Army within two months ami the. formation an army of voluuWvrs. Tho present army, though recruited by compulsion, dcius nut exeoed the number provided fw in tho Peace Treaty. If Bulgaria demobilises hor hole army by October 1, as is demanded by tho Intor-A llira Commission, ho would bo at tliat. kto without an nrmy at all, for tho efforts made by the Government to recruit volunteers for a cf twelve years have remained fruit-'iess.

Tim step token by the Inter-Allied Military Commission lia.i created a painful impression a mom; tho publio and the Press, who had hoped that the demobilisation would bo carried out in stages, so that the. country should not be completely deprived of its army at a given moment." Renter. KILLED HY ROAD DP ST. Mrs. Snow, of Wootton, Isle of when cycling tin August Bank Holiday, fell frnjn her ituK'kitm through the front wheel skidding in the dust at tho roadside.

She received superficial cut on tlie thigh, which was Immediately cleansed and dressed by medical man, but dust from the road which had entered tho wound cnnsed blood poisoning from which she died on Thursxlay. At the inquest yesterday a verdict of death from septic poisoning was returned, and the doctor emphasised the great danger of dust entering tho slightest wound, especially in hoi weather. BRITISH AIRMAN'S EXPLOITS IN MOROCCO. Tbo exploits of Major do Havill.md, Ihn "Bristol" aeroplane pilot, arn sharing public attention In Spain with the Moroccan operations. Upon tho outbreak of hostilities the Jonrnal, "La Libertad," of Madrid, immediately obtained the use of a Bristol Toinrer, under the pilotasn of Major de Havil-land, and dispatched their war correspondent to the Boene of operations.

Af fr a lengthy flight tho machine reached the aerodrome upon which they had intendod to alight, only to find the wbolo place occupied by tho enemy. Flying ten fent from the gronnd the pilot circled around thoir positions, scattering the enemy in nil directions, ant) then, after a further flight of 120 miles across the sea, landed safely in Almerln. Next morning the machine waa hack in Madrid, and the oorraapondent was able to bring off the biggest news scoop of Its kind in Spanish history. The distance covered In twenty-four hours Was probably about 1,000 mi las." Court Circular H.M. Yacht Victorta axd Albert, Cowes Bonds, August 6, 1921.

Tho Viscount Falkland, tb Lord and Lady Tnchcape, tho Hon. Georgn and tho Lady Cvnthia Colville, tho Hon. Mrs. Britten, Sir William Portal, and Lady Portal, and Brigadier-General Cornelius and Mrs. Vander-bilt and Mine Vanderbllt, had the honour of dining with the Xing and Queen on board the royal yacht thja ARMED ROBBERIES AND SHOOTINGS.

CFrom Our Own Correspondent.) BELFAST, Saturday. Belfast bus had a week-end of armed robberies and shootings, the most serious of which occurred to-day in the eastern suburbs, where ConstAbio Kane was shot by a gang of youths, two of whom were captured through the plucky conduct of the wife of a constable and the caretaker of a telephone exchange. Hearing shot they rushed out and aaw the young men coming towards them. They threw themselves on two of them, and held on like grim death. Tlie men fought and struggled but could not get free for come minutes.

At last they broke away, but were too late. The police had Arrived, and grappled with one of the men. The other is alleged to have fired and hit his pal in mistake for a policeman. Both were captured and taken, one to gaol and the other to hospital. Constable Kane was seriously wounded in the groin.

Three men were detained to-day in connection with last night's shootings. Tho victims of tho affair wera Mr. Charles Green, Lincoln-avenue, Belfast, and Mr. Lonis Levlne, of Bangor, who carry on business as cabinetmakers in College-court. They were attacked in their offices by armed robbers, whom they had to4'kled.

Mr. Green was shot in the head and abdomen, while Mr. Levlne received a wound in the shoulder. The wounded men were admitted to tbo Royal Victoria Hospital, whero Mr. Green wag operated on during the night.

A pathetic feature of tho occurrence is thnt Mr. Greon wife Las been ill in hospital for tome time past, and has not vet informed. Armed raiders also entered Hoenaed premises In Kdward -street and Earl-street, he'd up the and took away all the money thev could find. TI-JGNMOUTH PiATTTING FATATJTY. Three boys, named George Wing, Harold Hablmge, and Robin Brown, were bathing anionic the rocks nt Teummouth when they began to cry for helo.

With much difficulty the boys were rescued by visitors. Broirn succumbed soon afterwards, while Wing and Bahbngo were taken to hospital badly bruised through being thrown against the rocks. MERCHANT'S TERRIBLE DEATH. Mr. Henry H.

B'mpeoii, a cloth merchant, and one of the beet-known men in the Bum-ley and Lancashire cotton trade, mot with a terrible death yesterday morning. While he tins in his motor garage the petrol in gome unknown way became ignited, and lie was burnt to death. Mr. Simpson was about fifty years of age. RAILWAY STATION TRAGEDY.

The body of a man named Phillip was found in a lavatory at the Great Western Railway etation at AbortUlory on Friday night. He lad apparently placed tlie butt end of a double-barrelled gun against a wall and pulled tlie trigger and shot himself. Deo.enjel was formerly A booking olerk at a local station. THE BROOKLET 'BUS DISASTER. Tlie fullest investigation is being made by Messrs.

Thomas Tilling, Limited, In regard to the fatal omnibus acoident at Brockley. In the meantime the directors are anxious to express their sympathy with die injured nnd with tho rotative of those who were killed. Tho persons who were Injured wero yesterday reported to be going on satisfactorily. AMERICAN BLUEJACKETS IN LONDON. The first detachment of the 1,000 American sailors from the United States battleship Utah, which is now lying at Conc, will reach London Bridge Station at 8.30 to-morrow morning from Gravesend.

Tbjy will tour London by char-a-banc under the auspices of the American Express Company, and will visit tho Tower, St. Paul'n, Westminster, the West End, and the British Museum. The rwet of the ship's complement will enjoy eimilar excursions on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday MISSING CHELSEA GIRL. A tearful applicant to Mr. Francis at the Westminster Police-court yesterday was the mother of a gh-1 of tsliwteen, Violet May Simpson, who has been missing since Thareday morninit.

About seven o'clock the eirl left her home at 33, Luna-street, Chelsea, to go to her situation, a short distance away, and Had not been seen or heard of since by her friends. The mother handed up a photograph of the girl, taken with her lover. Mr. Francis i Yon think she has gone off with hdm? Tho Mother Oh, no. atr.

I have seen Mm, and ho is very much distressed about It. Mr. Francis Perhaps she has found another young man Tho Mother I am sure she has not, sir. I havo reported her absence to tlie police. The missing girl is about 6ft.

2in. in height, hne blue eyes, and was wearing a slate-coloured tam-o'-shanter, long light blue coat, and brown shoos and stockings. The Great Central Railway Company will issue SnturdAy to Monday tickets at a fare ami third for the double Journey from the whole of their principal stations to numerous holiday resorts, commencing August 20. Mr. Stanley Canon's paper on Rupert Brooke and Bkrrot hoi boen reprinted from the London Mercury and published with half a dozen woodcut illustrations of the pott's grave and other scenes by Hiss Phylus Gardner (Matthews, 6.

net). or four private traders cannot, do more i than all the private traders. Wfoen yon, have decided hour th food is to be supplied, yoa liave to see how it can be distributed, -to the people. If the roads and are good and efficient, you can trust 'to their operation, otherwise the Government will have to make whatever arrangements aro necessary. A net thatprovisien is made the next step ts to divide -the-' famine area into administrative blocks, say of five, ten, or twenty thousand square miles.

These bloc-Its have to be snb-divided order to bring the area within the supervision of a particular officer or sub-committee. In this way you bring the area down to whafr-corresponds with us to a county. THE TWO METHODS. Then you have to consider tho metiiods of Vour famine-jfglief. They consist of two kinds: belief throngh wages earned on publio works, nd charitaBl-Jeiiof.

The proper thing to do yis to determiDavliat public worts are necessary ttrom the reproductive point of view in a par- HicuLw area. If, for example, it is road making it is very necessary to see that took and plant 'ire provided. As soon as this relief work ia opened it is absolutely essential that immediate control Should be taken of the water supply in the Sghbourhood, in order to avoid cholera and pother disease. Amongst the officials to be ap-Sjxjinted there must be, therefore, a first-class Sdedical officer, whose business will be to look Setter the water supply." His lordship roen-Stioned the, great service this part, of the famine administration has proved in India, nnd how "much has been done in preventing the germs jfcof disease corrupting the supplies by the use rof, permanganate of potash, irelief work." he continued, "give jgemployment to tho nhle-bod'ol men, and nt the rpame time keeps them farm becoming At each of the work" there should food shops and a small Waees 'c are fixed by the Government and paid daily, Lor-tener in coins or counters. If by counter, ar-' j-a'ngomenta are made, with the trader? to 'change them into cash at the end of each week.

Now you have to deal with the women and and the unemployable. In a proper system a list of these people is made in each ijllarf. The villages are then grouped, and ari officer ia appointed to give, the.n an allotted of food for week and to renew i It at the end of each week. To cnnrplele the organisation pitch area you require a convenient sifo for a hosnital or poor house, where the sick may bo treated. Is very Important that sick people should not bo allowed to wander through the country, for not only do thoy ppread disease as thev go, but they die by the roadside." SUGGESTION FOR RELIEF, ITHE SOCIETY OF FRIENDB AND THE TVOKK.

In view of tho political questions wlu'oh con-. i i Btanwy an-e wnen nieasures 01 rcui are oi- cussed in whs country it jias Deen snggestea, we understand, tliat the Society of Frioftds nhonld be invited to administer any funds that raised. An authority who discussed this question yesterday with a representative of OBHZRVr.n mkl he understood that the (Friends wotild be quite willing to deal with the I Situation. Certainly, he remarked, they are the impartial bry you can find in this j' country. During the war.

it was further jiojnted out, thoy accomplished a (Treat work reiief in France, and tho experience they gained would now be of ereAt service in helping Uinssia. Moreover, fur the past year they have lhad an agent working in Moscow, and they fcnow what measures are most needed at the present time. MR. HOOVER'S RELIEF SCHEME. AND POLAND TO HELP.

PARIS, Saturday. The savs t'w French Government lias received the reply of the United 6tates to its offer to take part in the American effort to rolieAe. the faroine-strickeni people of (Russia. The Department of Suite tfiereln treat tne aot-ion sn question is iu no i rffray a GoverniiK-utal one, but simply the I Work of Mr. Hoover in lii.

capacity of chair- I man. oi one merman ini.ter vommussjon. United States thanks France for her fl-eadinos to assist and would bo very glad if slve would s-jcoud Mr. Hoover in lue work. Iteuier.

"WARSAW, Satta-day. The Polish Government has decided to join in the work initiated by Mr. Hoover for the relief of the population nf th5 famin-stricken regions in Russia. KeutoT. PRISONERS FROM RUSSIA.

lAMKIlIi AN" DEMAND FOR RELEASE i COMPLIED WITH. PARIS. August 6. Tho Aineriinn Red t'ross hero has received a telegram from Riga which shows tliat President Harding's Xoie to Russia demanding the release of all Americans detained in that country has hnd speedy effect, and nil the Americans in Russia are espected lo reach the Russo-Latvian fiontier within the next few days. Tho 'American Red Cross unit, consisting of doctors nd nurses, is leaving to-day in a special car, with medicines, food, and clothing, to meet the various parties utj the rontiej as they axriv.

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