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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1918. 8- LANGUAGE. BISHOP WELLDON. AT HOME. SERIOUS COHON CRISIS.

LORD DERBY. VIGILANTE "SPLIT." EXPRESS EDITION JiL.W of TRADE AFTER THE WAR. AN AUTCMX ELECTION. There were 65 deaths from influenza at Birmingham last week. MANCHESTER'S FAREWELLS.

Bishop Welldon took an official farewell of Lord Derbv, British Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to France, spoke at Liverpool yesterday, when president of the Chamber of Commerce. election in the late autumn. The unrepre- He said the greatest of modern battles was sentative and apathetic character of the present now being fought in a way that was, he hoped, House of Commons is admitted. It will be-bringing the end nearer. The brilliant counter- come utterly intolerable when October brings stroke of General Foeh had resulted in a very the new register.

Above all, the Government marked change in the He hoped itself needs strengthening and consolidating, they would note that in great battle the We assume that the Prime Minister has, in unity of command was being exemplified to fact, decided to make an appeal to the country GOVERNMENT AND ROTA QUESTION. CONTROL BOARD MAY RESIGN. The Lancashire cotton industry has reached another period of great anxiety, and there is a fear that the Cotton Control Board will resign in a hody failing Government support on the rota question of unemployment. The issue this time is between the Cotton Control Board and the Board of Trade, and between the Control Board and the operatives, and the dispute is threefold. The most important disagreement is that concerning the Control Board's proposal permanently to abolish the rotation system of unemployment, and It is on this question that When the potman afc the Earnahaw (nofc niy friend Bob, bnt his degenerate successor) threw little Mrs.

Wilson out, that common cbjoct of th London streets the amateur peacemaker said to him, "If you've footi jerself and used anv.lnnguage to the laidy, just try to remember that you're a gentleman vereelf. and ask her pardon." But.it is not in that sense of the word language that I advance my bumble claim to have been the best linguist on the Mission staff. That I was so was handsomely admitted not only by the other members of the staff but jilso by. tho bishop of the diocese, who once suggested that I should deliver a speech in the local idiom to a drawing-room meeting held in the West on behalf of the Diocesan Fund. But a speech which should display the local tongue at its best would have required a special subject, and subjects adapted to display the language, and also suitable to ears polite, are not common.

So I declined the invitation. Tho Bishop was moved to-make the offer by finding me able to interpret a sentence he had overheard, in a carmen's eating-house which lie visited in some trouble connected with a strike. ran: Whato cully, pint thick, two dorks, and a bag of mystery. This bloko'll go for soldier." When one remembers that "thick" is cocoa, a dork or doorstep a slice of bread and butter, and that to "go for a soldier" is to have a red herring, the sentence is cjuito plain. The language, if not beautiful, is easy to acquire.

My proficiency may have been due to my being more than half a Cockney myself, and so having, as the Junior Curate neatly expressed it, a strain of native blood in me. But I prefer to think that it was due to a natural genius for languages. One guiding principle of our conversation was, strange as it may seem, our intense gentility. As we newer of swearing, but always of 'using language," so such painful topics as pawning, burying, or being sent to gaol were referred to ns "putting away." Thus when Mrs. Macnamara did not turn up for tlm Mothers' Meeting trip to Southend I was given, in secret, the real reason.

"When f.hn 'ad to put away 'er Liza, ns died with tho pumonia, and Vr, poor dear, not 'aving 'er in no club, along nf 'er husband 'aving bepn put away for claiming a clock off of a snilor ns was in liquor 'isself at the time (this detail was put in to show that Mr. Macnamara was to be excused for his slight lnpse from virtue, since if you mny not steal from a drunken sailor, from whom mny you sho 'ad to put away 'cr best bonnet and mantle, and so 'adn't anything as a laidy could wear. Not at the seaside, if you see what I meon." Claiming a clock is true thieves' slang, or was twenty years ago. But it has always been such a rapidly shifting dialect that perhaps understand its present-day form. Tho women were mostly shy of Hirh expressions, but they ran riot in the Lads' Club.

There, one evening, an eager group greeted me with the information that "Sausage Williams was lagged. 'Elping 'is farver, lie was, with a rare littlo old -mdc factory (coiner's den) hut Kiddy Buckingham was narking (acting as a paid police spy) and rucked on 'cm." But narking is not supposed to bo healthy," I said. Where is Kiddy now?" But the boys, who would talk freely of what was already over, would not run any risk of giving away a pal by speaking of the present. But one of thorn told mo later, in private, that Kiddy had gone east to Father Jay's parish, the notorious ISJichoI Street area, off the Shorediteh High Street. There ho did lob crawling (the lob is the till of a shop) and parlour jumping for a gang who did not know of his narking record.

But things must have gone badly with for soon after he was "pinched" for nothing more romantic than telling the tale to a benevolent-looking clergyman, who "'was, however, more "fly" thnn Kiddy had supposed, being, indeed, on the Shorcditch Guardians. So Kiddy went to a reformatory. He. wok a handsome and really clover boy of thirteen, but- I fear incurably Vicious. I can only hope the reformatory" made a man of him.

It is usually impossible to explain the origin of thieves' slang, probahly because it is purely arbitrary. Why, for instance, should faking tli number of a stolen watch be christening Jack," and putting the works of one watch into the case of another be "churching But many of the single words are Oerman in their origin, coming to us through the Yiddish of the foreign Jews who supply so large a proportion of the "fences" or receivers. Thus "snider" is from the German srhncidcr in its original meaning of a carver or die-sinker, and to "rick" is probably corrupted from the German hrriirken, to inveigle. But. as I have said, it is an ever-changing speech, and must have altered much in the twenty years since I studied it.

If thieves slang owed much to Germanv, rhyming slang was a wholly native article. There are two schools of rhyming slang, the strict or classical and tho modern. In the first no combinations are admitted except such as are composed of two nouns united by "and." Thus riorth-nnd-south (mouth), one-and-four (the door), trouble-and-strife" (a'wifcV In the laxer school any rhyme is allowed, as "Uncle Xed'k(a bed) "ronnd-the-houses" (trousers, pronounced trousies). In both t-chools when a phrase established the latter part is omitted eo that one is left with no clue at all to its meaning. Thus when a group of heated women were discussing the conduct of a man who had knocked out most of his wife's front teetJi one of his apologists said, 'E's as quiet a little feller as you need ask to see, but hen it come to 'er putting 'is uncte tne spout well, give 'is never-be (i never-be-missed or fist) in 'er north And who's to blame 'im for it? jf0't ffie Many people will find it difficult r4nance CommMea i.

of H. Beamish, BrTetatai nd MrTco rfply. 'Bd Mr' rtonSjt )R HANDS FACE. atWT Gmv, almond i- TAXENDALES FOB FRrjTT COLDIERS' MEDICAL NECPfm AnaooDcemento to tfais nlnm. 7 Is.

7. "-oj poatal order, ray towS1 BIRTHS. Brooks), of a son. BAIAEa (DOa Jaxj BALL. On July 21, ei the Vicarage.

Boot f. A. and Mrs. BALL, dSSbW to HAKpY.On July SO. at5, Edc? La ry IXAKD.

On July 21, at Tbdroorden Hall Tt1 VDctlS? THOMAS LOlSTaX' T. to Grove, Shaw Heath, Stockport (aee Ulady, MARRIAGES. HABBISON lOLLlTT. On the 20th in at of the bndc), assisted by ihe Rev. j.

onf "le of the bridegroom). Sergt jVvnj i Harnson. Avenue Houw, Whali HOBSFAIA th 20t5. J1t St. Anna Church, Mancheater.

by th Bev STy' P''1 EDWARD HOM5FAU. bp" Herherl Horsfall, of Southport. and the lat of Hale, 3 KENNEDY th 20U, c. Jarneas, Hoe, Pendleton, by the He v. A.

K. Mdersm" M.A., Oaptoia HEW ClIEttT KEXXEIV ASC' youngest son of tho lota Georgn A. Kenncdv gi ni S. of Pen-lletcn and Birkdal, to HARliv FiJBECE (Tommy) SIXCLAIR. daughter of tbf lata I anctalr Br1 of Mrs.

Sinclair, uj Park Koad, Fendleto.i. MEa.VlLLE VEITGH. At Ial CooerTratina.l Ohuroh by the Bct. Frank V. LeggMt.

on the 2oTh ROBERT L. MELVILLE to MIXXIE iDkm? daughter of William and Mary S. VElTOii (t0 15, The Approach, WhaUev llang. Mandator. SIMONS 22nd at Eil.ng Panjl, tSiurch, London, by the Rev.

A. y. Simon, (ootw.n of the bridogroom). aistcl hv th Re.v, Sharp, M.A., (JEORliE UIGBY S1M0KS, elder 0i t-he lato Fnincis UiRhy Simons and Mrs. Simnns HarroKatc, to AXXIE MAltGARET T.VYIll daushter i.f Willum McKeuD, of Dwer.

and the lat Mrs. MoKftn. WILLIAMS WOOD. On the 20th at Whitrlmmh ALFRED WILLIAMS, li.ut. R.A.F., ot Provident' n.I.

U.S.A to CJ.AII.Y WUI1. of Waaste. DEATHS BRirR--Counciilor JOSEPH RIDGE, builder aM oca-tractor. 15, Bridgewator Road, Walkden, paed awar on Sunday, July 21, aged 69. The luneral will tatj at four o'clock Wednesday, July 24, at St Paul's Church, Wallid.n.

Will all friends plMse take this as the onlv irtinuk'on from hm aomMrirt, family BROADSM1TH. On the 21st at Somer-leaw, Ashlrj Riiad, FREDEUlCK BKOADSMITH, T.lit. A.O jregistrar P.P.O.S.W., Prov. Grand Secreurj of Cheshire Frcemaf'iris, aced 74 years. Service at St.

Peter's Cliurrli. Ualc. on Thursday, at 2 15 p.m., prior to internx-iit at Djwduti Parish Church about 3 15. Inquiries Bvrom's, Kingsway, Altrincham. Tel.

1163 Altr. BUYDON. On the 10th after an operation, HERBERT MILLIARD, sua of Harold and Elizabeth 9, Brampton Grove, Cbcethara. Interment Bmoklands Cemetery on Wednesday, at 12. DREW.

On Julv 20, at the residence oi his snn-in-Iaw, E'tlinrne, Mrplc, WALTER PAUL DREW, of 31, Mcr.int View Rutid, and 3, Crosby Square, London, ia his 74tii year. Scrviee and interment at Highgato Cenn-tery, londnn, on Thursday. HAMBI.ETUX. At his Ash Lea, Oxford Road, Macclesfield, THOMAS HERBERT HAMBLBTOX, J.F., in liis 62nd year. Interment on Thuraday, July 25, at the MncclesUeld Cemetery, at 2 p.m.

conege will leave Ash Lea at 1 30 p.m. HEYWOOD. On tlio 2CUi at residence, EUetslie, Lansdowne Iinod, Weft Didttmry, Manchester, NATHAN HEYWOOD, solicitor, aged 62 years, beloved husband of Kate. Heytrood and eldest son of tho lata Charles Heywood. Interment at Brooklands Cemetery to-morrow (Wednesday), at 2 p.m.

KAT55. On tho 19Ui at The Grove Military Heipwl, Tootins, Lieutenant SAMl'SON GOLDSTOSE KATZ (late of the King's Own Rnyal Lancastert), eldest ad beloved arm of Oscar and Annie Katz, of 69, Ureeticroft Unrdcns, Hampstead. N.W. BXmcxal will leave 69, Orcencroft Gardens, for Willesden (Jewiah) Cemetery, Uiis day (Tuesday), at eleven o'clock. LOUUE.

On July 19, at the residence of her brother-in-law Bank House, Allendale, Northumberland, RUTH, daughter of the late Francia LOGUE, of Stoct-port, aged 39 years. Interred Allendale Otuneterr on Julv 22, 1918. MAIiSDK.V On the 18th at her residence, Til Hawthorns, Hcaton Chapel, AMELIA, widow of tha late Benjamin MARSDEN, in her 77th year. the 20th at the Royal Infirmary, Private XORMAX YIXCEXT MOORE, Manchwtfr the dearly loved and only son of James B. and Emily Moore, of 2, Burnage Lane.

Bornagc, 21t year. R.I.P. InU-rment on Thursday at Fhiupj Park "Cemeterv. Imiuiries to Messrs. Fyani sad Gordon, Ltd.

(6769 City). OWEN. On the 19th Rosenau, 7, Wilto War, D.Vlsbuiy. JANE IUCHAUDS. widow of the Charles Wriht OWBN.

Interment Sohern Cemetery this day (Tuesday), three clock Inquire W. Peacock. 'Phone 397 Didsbury. the 20th at his residence, 14o. Crosby Street, WILLIAM A.

ROSS, son of Jam Hostt, of Gorton. Funeral at Gorton Cemetery on Wednesdav, 24th 10 30. a.m. SOOTT-On -the 22nd at Jr Cottage. Littlelwrough, ELIZABETH, widow or cVrl Surrey, ALICE the SMFATON and daughter of James and Alice Kirkiana, 13 of THOMPOTONE (also of 37 J06 Wdnesdav 10 45.

prior to indent oStlnnm- Wealeyan Cemetery -t kJ may be sent to ill-am Berry, unoc. WII KIVSOS-On 81t at Fern Bank. CW a Tiny- WILKIVSOS. wxlow of the tow -Moon. MARY -ZTRfh vcar Interment Killed is AcriON.

Lieut. VICTOR J. J5LfD'3y Brolbt by his broken-hearted Mot. Swtej- 40, Granville Road, J0WW' XurtrtlUa RCT ETT-SYDXET I REVBTT. No.

654Z, Auwrsii. RPpVriil Foicea, lcd in etiJ ne W. Sunnyside. Park Boad. Cruurpaall.

A. thr Royal WjXJgMoJS 22nd from Sirmr The ChiWren of the Wgg ffi ,11 iw'rti fiS of their dear abown to them i tno Road, Fallowfleld. In Mbmobiam. 19th Battalion Ma-cherte 'SA HSLTJno ten Guillemont FESTOS, Manrfifatei Bnt JniJtilY S. 1916 ber.

IRiW beng ainca July Pendleton, now of Fnwood, vtooojauus son. Private HARAI.DFIUDTJOF to hit Manchester Remment (Pato). who i PJrr" been JdUed Guinemont on July ZS. ynffgtX-, 1916. ZhS AMMANS, OLDHAMSTREET PTTWim ATi? and MOURNING.

11 ftlW wV WREATHS A1JD FLORAL DESIGNS ffl CI Ulfl xi i Lomax Kendals BL BCTR1C PO WBR MB Itopajha a fteaawafc. 4. wmf lM2.l-J!BM, AJtlettwjlaololW Thaylfauobeati'r flyaBdjaa. LftBgea. a00 uv ymmm a uIMdnala.

THE 1U5CBBRB QOAKOIH; The "Times save: There is more than mere conjecture in the forecast of a general whenever the circumstances of the war permit. If Mr. Lloyd George ie to lead such a Government, he must tell us precisely the policy for which he stands in the war and in reconstruction. OTHER MUNITIONS CENTRES AND COVENTRY. The "Times Labour correspondent writes: The decision of the Coventry workers to suspend notices does not necessarily mean that the situation is no longer serious, but, as other affected centres will come into line, there will he an interval during which a better understanding of the Government policy may be obtained.

Reports from Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, and Barrow suggest a reluctance to support the proposed strike. At Lincoln the engineers decided to act with Coventry in insisting on tho removal of the embargo; definite action is suspended until to-morrow night. THE CASUALTIES. 153 OFFICERS; 2,619 MEN. The casualty lists issued yesterday show the following losses Officers: Dead.

52; wounded or missing. 103. Rank and File: Dead. 403: wounded or missing, 2,216. Killed.

BAIlCOCK. fee. T.iet'.. B. Slier.

For. OA1U.A.VD, Sec. Lieut. J. R.

HEWITT. Sec. II. St. Lond.

R. SIMPSON. Sc r.ieut. V. Um.

atti. Korf. H. SLjADE, MaJ. R.G.A.; SMITH, Sec.

Ieut. A. VKEVKHS Son. t.ltin P. a irn n.

fM. T.M. Bty. 1 WARD. SK.

w. Yorks. B. 'wiL. leporffl mlsslna, bow reported fcMec: I'l'U- C.

Buffs (E. Knt LAWSON, Iv.u-.. Col. A. D.S.O..

Glcuc. B. Bfixsus). Accidentally Killed. GRAY, Mil.

J. 9., R.E. Died. GBOTB. Capi.

A. R.E. HATFIELD, Her. A. a Chan nrat.

JOHKiOJJ, Capi. O. A.C.C. Wounded. J- BREwisr, dpt.

b. fV Pot K- Lan. Fus.i BUKKBAM. Hon. SsrSK3" Se0- LltuJ- tele B.

Sh6T- Fot- B- E. Lan. Fun. B. MERRTLEBS, WILCOX.

Sec. Lieut, o. M.O.O. Kissing. GROCTAGE.

T.1,it tt tj TOLSON. Sc. Lieut. B. War B.

MORRISON. Sec Llut. M.G.C. afSuSHllZ Pi'oonera of war. now filed of wounds BARVBT, Sec.

LJnit. H. K.H Rif HARRISON. Se- l.tfut. L.J.

R.Ir FuV and m'63inB' now Ptl9aner of OOOLDEJf. 6c Lieut. R. Wore. B.

n0W prl90ner" of ln Welsh B. Wales VIES. Sec. Lieut. W.

Dsrrh. L.I. FISHER. Lieut. Col.

H. D.8.O.. A. OADA-ER. Bee.

LJcut. W. H.t.: GOl.DIXG, Capt. and-AdJ. C.

M.C. B.F.A.; GKaHAM, 8ec. Lieut. F. H.

Lan. Fun. HABWETT. Capt W. B.A.M.C.

HEAXLET. Capt. Fu; HILT MaJ E. C. M.C, R.E.

Gipt. Yorks. R. LEWIS. Sec.

Lieut. D.t MiOQ Z. If. McLABE. Lieut.

W. Xorth'd. MILLER, Cant. E. A.S.C., ald.

Devon. B. PTTRVES. Sec G-. Rlf.

Brig 6ABS0S. Lleui. Oo! E. U.S.O.. R.F.A.: SPES'CE, 6ec.

LU-iit. C. Bord. H. TELFER.

Sec Lieut. M.G.C. WAHL. Sec. Lieut.

Yorks. Mid. E. Torts B. Jnot wounded M8J P.

M.G.C. North 'd "Parted missing, cow IIAMLTN. Lleat. 3. Yorks.

B. not mtaslne: ROYAL AIR FORCE. Killed. P-'PO- E. BOOLE, Sfc.

Lieut. J. CATTLE. Lieut. F.

MACASKILL, Sec Lieut. G. Baser and R. A.F.; MORRISON'. Sec.

Lieut. E. Ml SW- "AKDBISTO. Sec. Lieut.

W. Bled oi Wounds. WADSWOBTH. Sec. Lieut.

L. Wounded. BOOTH. Sec. Lieut 8.

C- CHEETHAM. Sep. Lieut. F. Man-h.

(T.F. attd. R.A.Fi; DOUG T. AS. Lieut.

R.E. ami B.A.K. MeCALLUM. Sec. Lieut.

-McDOVALD. Lieut. A RHTTHRT.l.s Cor. i TWOHEY, W. F.

WALD, Lieut. See. Lieut. y. r.

a. Mining. BRAY, Lieut. C. HARRINGTON, Lieut.

.1. Lieut. B. S. SATJXDEKF, Src.

Lieut. W. 3.1 TUCK WELL; Lieut. H. A.

Iileut. Col. John Vrmaton Hope, Royal Garrison Artillery, who is wounded, passed out of Woolwich into the Royal Artillery in 1900, and when war hroke out he held the rank of captain. Colonel Hope has a first class certificate for gunnery, and this year was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Xiteut.

Col. 0. E. V. Hill, East Lancashire Regiment, previously reported missing, is now a prisoner in German hands: Colonel Hill has the Distinguished Service Order, and is also a member of the Lesion of Honour.

He served in the South African War, and had six bars to the Queen's and the King's medals for that campaign. Zdent. Harry Arnold Walnwrlght, Cheshire Regiment, younger son of the late Mr. John nrSi ttt wAinwrieut. auu ui aira.

vvauiwriKiu, oi iran don. Mellor. is rendrted to have fallen in action Lieutenant Wainwright joined a public schools battalion in November, 1914, and subsequently went to a ranee, in uciooer, laio, ne was given a commission wiui me unesmre negiment. blent. Vlotor J.

Hltncr, Army Service Corps, who died in hospital on July 20; lived in Gran ville Koad, faiiowneid, aiancnester. EDUCATION MINISTER'S HOPES. Mr. H. Fisher, the Education Minister, distributing the prizes at Dulwich College yesterday, said there had been- a great deal of discussion as to the place which science, modern laneuaees.

and history should have in a nuhlfo school curriculum, and whether the place gramea wiem was sumcieni. would like to see more people learning Greek, bnt fewer learning it under compulsion, more: people learning science, and fewer scientific people devoid or numanuy ne wouiu iiKe to see more scholarships at the cider universities in the modern branches of study and little or no obstruction in the way of attaining proficiency in the study of Greek and Latin antiquity. He wanted to see more secondary schools, more boys going up to we university, more university students passing info the' teaching It misrht be said that his hones were bevond the dreams of avarice. "Not at all; he felt quite sure nat tnese expectations would be realised, and in his. lifetime.

MR. McKENNA AND A MORIBUND PARLIAMENT. Addressing, the inaugural meeting of the Pontypool Division Liberal Association yester day, Mr. McKenna denied, the reports that he intended to retire from politics, and said he had not and never sucn an intention. He offered himself as candidate, and the decision rested with that division whetner ne remained in politics.

The report had been published that they might look for a general election in November. He would welcome a r'nnexal -election, not from a desire 'to. revive party polities and strife, but because it was necessary to vitalise the House of Commons and rive it'new Their any until tney acnievea a. aurawe peace. 1 G0T1ON COMPANIES' REPORTS.

BECiENT HIXO SHJTS1NO adding 2a; 6d. per share to ahar capioal. a oaah bpaiis of Za. 3d. per ahare teiag paid, both payttcnts e-qoiring 4,006: i 'r BROOCBOTfOK -SPINOTXO (MpMim- Tbmmj me naa yeair or An aeroplane crashed down on the tramway lines in the main thoroughfare at Bourne- mouth yesterday.

The pilot was killed and the observer injured. Miss Florence Hayden, the actress, died at Bexhill on Sunday, aged 80. She appeared at Haymarket Theatre, London, nearly 53 years ago, and had acted with most of the leading piayers of her time. The vicarage of Royton. vacant by the resignation of the Rev.

J. H. Humphrey, Rural Dean of Oldham, has been offered to and accepted by the Uev. William Rowe, priest-in-charge of the district church of St. Hilda, Prestwich.

The Wallasey magistrates yesterday remanded for a week two domestic servants on charges arising out of alleged communications with German prisoners at a camp In the district. It was stated by the Chief Conatahle that the accused left letters for prisoners in a sand-heap close to the camp. At the Manchester City Police Court yesterday a bricklayer's labourer named John Sullivan 87, was committed for trial to the City Sessions on a charge of stealing 900 yards of gaberdine, rainproof cloth, valued at 430 from, the premises of the Harrison Raincoat Company, Ardwick Green. A woman was fined 20s. at Ashton yesterday for Bending a postal packet containing three boxes of matches.

A smell of burning sulphur was noticed In Ashton Post Office, and it was eventually traced to a packet which had to ner cusoaaa. when the packet was opened one out of r. found to have fused. Bernard Albert KunferhpTD'- who -xas con victed of aiding and abetting James Samuel Reardon in the commission or offences against certain Defence of the Realm regulations, and sentenced in London to three Years nenal servitude, annealed vpsterdav in fi Court of Criminal Appeal against his conviction and sen tence, ine appeal was dismissed. At the reouest of Mr.

R. IT. SIhl tha troller of Harm Tranmmrt Mr TJ a UinrI hon. secretary of the Salford Horse" Rationing I im of the Board of Trade under the Horse Ration ing ana tiay and Straw Orders, 1918. Mr.

Hind will take charge of the whole of the Lancashire an Yorkshire towns, with the exception of Manchester, Salford, and Liverpool. The Lord Mayor of Manchester and the Lady Mayoress Sir Alexander and Lady Porter) yesterday Daid SL Vim. Of insniu-tinn tVla JJiwnl Schools for the Deaf and Dumb, Old Trafford. The members of the Manchester Education Committee, with Mr. Spurley Hey.

Director of Education, were also present. The visitors v.r;IC rooervea oy sir James m. Jones, representing the governing body. Mr. James Glover, Lowton House, Lowton, Lancashire, announces that.

froa fmm no USUal nartV trammels." hA intenrta t.r, rffBT Viim. self as an Independent Parliamentary candidate uuuer me xiepresentation or the People Act in the Newton Parliamentary division at the next general election. Lord Wolmer, Unionist, has represented the division since December, 1910. The Bristol Committee yesterday resolved to inform the Ministry of Food that if after to-morrow tradesmen sell excess quantities of baeon the Committee will not prosecute. It was stated that huge ouantities of bacon for supplying the West of England weTe stored at Bristol, but were going bad, and large portions had been destroyed.

The Committee had in vain appealed to the Food Ministry to permit a freer sale in order to avoid waste. Taking into account the state of his health, the Common Serjeant at the Old Bailey yesterday passed sentence of twenty months In the second division on Harrv John Lawson. 65. financier, found guilty of conspiring with Stuart Aiireu o-urzon, vt, engineer, to such members of the public as should ba induced to subscribe for shares in the General Omnibus supply and Manuiacturmg Company, Limited. Curzoh was ordered sx months in the second division.

The had found that he had been partly drawn into the oonspiraoy by Lawson, Bnd his Lordship said that he felt sorry for him. ABROAD. Madame Trotsky is reported to have arrived in Stockholm with two million roubles for foreign propaganda. General Leman, the defender of Liege, was toe central ngure tne Belgian national fes tival celebrations at Havre. M.

Olemenceau on Sunday visited Chateau-Thierry, and traversed the streets of the town, strewn with wreckage and the bodies of the dead. The Icelandic News Acency telegraphs to Stockholm that negotiations between Denmark and Iceland have resulted a complete understanding regarding the future relations of the two countries. The Rumanian Chamber of Deputies, except i i i ior two aissemienis, voteo unanimously in favour of the impeachment of certain Ministers of the Bratiano Cabinet, and a Commission has oeen oharged with, tne task of Inquiry- The lambing season in Xew South Wales has been decidedly unfavourable owing to the absence of serviceable rains since January. General rains, however, are now falling over tho eastern part of the State, and the outlook is more promising. Twelve members of the United States Con- 1 ,1 1 I 1 rr.

i i b'lwa, ueoiucu iy auusc aumi J.iuman, CI Arkansas, have arrived in Rome on a visit to t.i in ,1 Tj xiaiy, riuufc, uu mem riuwu, on a semiofficial mission to study the war at close quarters. The party is going to the Italian front. The German and Finnish authorities are planning to establish direct railway communication between Finland and Germany by the creation of a steam ferry service between Helsingfore and Reval. The journey from Eer-lin to Helsingfors would then take' thirty hours. A Times telegram from Wellington, New Zealand, says this is the severest winter for many years.

Heavy snowstorms in both islands are causing anxiety in regard lo stock. On Sunday the first snow fell in Wellington since 190. A Kieff telegram received in Amsterdam says the first step has been taken towards the formation of a Ukrainian army, the Hetnian of the Ukraine having issued a decree ordering the raising of 5,000 recruits on the basis of general conscription from among those born in 1899. Volunteers between the ages of 18 and 25 will also be enlisted. "West Africa" states that the general managership of the Nigerian Railway, the most important railway appointment in West Africa, is beine filled by Mr.

E. M. Bland, who is at present head of the Gold Coast Government! i i i. Railways, miu nciu miuus important railway posts in different parts of Africa. Mr Bland 'is a Canadian by birth.

Discussing the German Chancellor's statement on Belgium, Maximilian Harden writes in 7nliim. Tnfprna.inflnl 1 fn.T..'j. Germans to retain even one pebble ofBelgium's streets, aiiu. wiuuiwus utrinany to restore the UnuHnm in rhp. pvf.ant.

nneucainnc wuuuvoo.vu., auu sovereignty which it had before the invasion. This is a Question of derpnpv mnralifu anA honour of the nation." In the hearing of the Bunting case in Johannesburg last Thursday, a witness for the Crown, a native named Luke Messina, who bad tendered most of the evidence regarding Socialist meetings, turned under cross-examination and denied the truth of the majority of his statements, declaring that he did not know Bunting. Bunting has been released on his own recognisances, and Tinker and Hanscomb have been bailed for 50 each. Counsel for the Crown did not state whether he would withdraw the charge. A Capetown telegram, dated last Thursday, says Delville Day, the anniversary of the South African Brigade's historic struggle in Delville Wood, was celebrated throughout the Union by crowded and impressive church services; civic gatherings, and musical commemorations LoTd Buxton, General Botha, and others de- Delville heroes and appealing to young "men to continue to fill the gaps in the brigade and maintain reinforcements, thus answering the call of their comrades at the front Reuter's Agency learns from a Polish source that at a recent meeting of the Council of State at Warsaw the representative of the Club the real exponent of public opinion in Poland, which comprises three-fourths -of the elected members of the Council, declared that the Council of does not represent the iroiisii iiubiuu.

i is umy vuinpeient to draw up the electoral law for the future Constituent Assembly and help in the construction of the Polish State. In his address he emphasised the fact that the country is devastated ana reduced to misery. This produces anarchy, and the Government has no means of maintaining order or of alleviating the misery, which is increasing to a terrible degree. BILLIARDS. (.

Falkiner Strvcpson (in ptor) 3.474 1,559 Manchester citizens yesterday. A meeting representative of every side of the icitys nfe and presided over by the Lord Mayor was held in the Town Hall. Speeches in appreciation of the Bean's work were made by Sir William Milligan, the Rev. J. E.

Roberts, Canon Scott, and the Edv. Dr. Salomon (who spoke on behalf of the Jewish community). The Lord Mavor Kir Alexander Portert said the Dean had touched almost every department of Manchester's civio life. Especially had he been the friend of the working man and working woman.

(Hear, hear.) Manchester would not forget the interest he had taken, in the young hie of the citv and his useful and diligent service on the Education Committee. Hrin the w'ar he had shown his sympathy with the wounded by placing the Deanery at the ofcposal of the authorities as a hospital. All hoped that the Dean would be as highly appreciated at Durham as he had been in Manchester, where he had had the respect and vry citizen. (Cheers.) ba Wuliam Milligan moved a resolution recording hiKh appreciation of Bishon Welldon's services to the city, expressing regret at his ana wishing him many nappy anu useful years as Dean of Durham. In the departure of tht rtoo cj- iviiiiom.

Man- Chester denlorerl t.h 1 who had been iii ewcuent citizen, a great divine, and a moaii uuaruung ana amiable friend. His great lorse Was that hfi nnrlftreluvt mon nnrl how to deal with thern. la the oomins: great struggle between capital and labour the Dean would have oeen or infinite value to Manchester. The Rev. J.

u. Roberts said Bishop Welldon had indued been the Dean of Manchester. He had been more than the Dean of the Cathedral he had been dean and a father in God for the whole city. (Hear, hear-) Those who belonged to churches other than the Church of England knew the efforts he had made unceasingly to bring about a happier understanding and closer co-oneration between members of all churches, and how the Cathedral had become gome sense a centre of these unifying influences. The Lord Mayor mentioned that a fund was being raised so that a portrait of the Dean might bo painted -md presented to the city.

(Hear, hear.) The Dean had distinctly refused to accept anything in the nature of a testimonial or even a public dinner. In reply, the Dean said he did not pretend that he had been able to do a very remarkable work in the Deanery of Manchester; still less did he pretend that he was leaving Manchester with the full appreciation of all its citizens. He asked only that it should be believed that he bad tried to discharge his duty for the good of tho Church and the city of Manchester. The first object he had set before himself had been to keep the Cathedral at the highest possible level of efficiency. His second object had been to serve the city.

While he had been mixed up with most movements, there had been two exceptionshe had had nothing to do with business and politics. Clergymen and ministers of religion were betrayed into a serious mistake if they tried to lay down for the captains of commerce how they should carry on their industry. It was for persons like himself to preach the gospel of justice as between man and man, to preach arbitration as a substitute for strikes and lock-outs, but with the details of business he had never tried to interfere. He had kept aloof from politics, not for lack of interest, but because he believed he was first of all a minister of religion, and he felt it his duty to make the Cathedral a home of all parties and all classes. He had sought to accentuate the good understanding between the Church and other Christian bodies.

The friction that existed twelve years ago (principally through the education controversy) between the Church and Nonconformity had died down, and there was no time in the history of Manchester when the clersrv and ministers of all the Reformed Churches understood each other hetter or appreciated eacn other. more than uiey cua to-day (uneers.) He had learnt to know a city Manchester was. and it was a great privilege which was allowed to him in that he was in virtue of his office, to see how the influence of religion of a broad, sympathetic, catholic Christianity could make itself felt, directly ot indirectly, through the Cathedral in the life of the city a whole. Whatever efforts he had made bad been abundantly rewarded. (Cheers.) VARIETY THEATRES.

The Palace." Wylie-Tatc is another way of spelling colour on the music-halls one end of the rainbow seems to have been audaciously rooted in all their productions. And a revue like "The Passing Bhow of 1918," that hops about from Bagdad to Tagg's Island, gives plenty of opportunity for colous, both in cos tume and Betting. manages to cover a great deal of 1918 rather a breathless sort of dive into the deep end of a topical kaleidoscope, with Miss Ella Retford emerging every now. and then with agreeable pop of somebody opening yet another bottle of champagne. There is an -xceedinEly clever etace effect in the impression of an air raid by night on an enemy battery, though one begs leave to doubt whetner vie best way of saesestmfi a barrace that is not is to make everyone concerned snout as tnougn it was.

o. The Hippodrome. The traditional music-hall is in great force at the Hippodrome this week- Japanese tumblers, an Australian whip expert, a trick cornet player, a conjurer, and the rest, people who have chosen, out of the thousand and one ways of making a livelihood in the world, to shape themselves to some ancient trick of muscle or sleight-of-hand, only mastered bv patience asking for incredible efficiency. Such an efficiency, indeed, has something soothing about it; we watch it as we watch a machine. Mr.

Fred Lindsay accomplishes marvels with a stock-whip, cracking its immense thoug ferociously around a lady without iniurinc her in the slightest, and the gentleman, who introduces him tries to get a touch into the business by telling us that if Mr. Lindsay made the slightest mistake he would amputate the girl's arm. But we remain quite composed everything is so em cient, so monotonously efficient. So with the marvellous troupe of gymnasts, the Makidos. They are a family of Japanese all brought up strictly to the tumbling business, just as any other "family is brought up to accountancy or gas-fitting.

Two charming little boys are whirled in the air, teetotum-like, at an amazing speea the slightest sup ana we snouia witness a terrible accident. But even the sudden still ness in the orchestra calculated to give im pressiveness to a particularly difficult trick disturbs nouoay. iwnciency sucn as ail this is beyond anything usually demanded in other and more serious mjchuuiis it ouiu certainly revolutionise an average Government denartment. The fun of Mr. Stanley Lupino and his company oi pantoniuiusis is guuu in an oiu-iasmonea ana muscular way.

and so is that of Carlton, but the most entertaining tiling in the programme, per-haos because it is intimate to all of us in its fallibility, is the singing and piano-playing of Mr. JSiven aeages. x. a The Empire. It is easy to recognise in Mr.

Jack Pleasants's performance a clever exploitation of certain ludicrous aspects of a weak-minded man. But it is difficult whollv to enjoy it. The type of character which Mr. Pleasants very capably portrays does not seem fair game. The very thoroughness of the representation helps to make it distasteful.

The amazing physical precision and skill of the Hamamura Family is by contrast a thing of dignity and, one is almost inclined to say, respectability. Mr. Rich Hayes does some ingenious juggling with tennis balls, and is addition a rather comical person. H. L.

LARD SUPPLIES FOR BAKERS. There is a new procedure for the obtaining of supplies of lard and of oil and fat compound. All Class manufacturers must make application for their supplies on forms that can be obtained by Manchester applicants at the Food Control Offices, 22, High Street forms must be returned to the Food Office duly completed by the 27th July. Class includes roughly speaking, the smaller manufacturers who sell by retail from a single shop or from shops confined to the area of one or a few adjoining food control committees. The follow-inc are included in this class Bread bakN flour confectioners, sugar confectioners, mami-' tacturers oi canes, preserved meat preserved fish, lemon cheese, and jam.

Two valuable shire horses belonging to Miss Gduldbourrie, Liint Souse. Farm, Lunt, near Ormskirk, have been killed by lightning while grazing in the fields. The heavy rainstorms of the past few days have caused floods in the growing crops in various parts of West Lancashire. WELCO Oocoa the. Pace Of h'm tIjo in fife's Hrd ee UpvrV! great advantage by the fact that, although tne bulk- of the fighting naturally fell upon the French troops who were situated the area where the battle was now raging, they were being assisted by Americans, English, and Italians.

At the" same time he hoped they would not fall into the error, which we had often fallen into before, of overestimating the advantages gained and thinking that the end was nearer than it perhaps was. (Hear, hear.) Referring to trade after the war, Lord Derby said there were some people who thought, and there might be some peonle who hoped, that we should be able to shake" hands with the Germans after te war, and go on trading with them. No. There are some foes. Lord Derby added, who fought cleanly and with whom we have been able afterwards to make up our differences, but I hope and believe that in this country nobody will ever forget, and will hand down to their children and their children's children, the memory of the sort of fighting that the Germans have indulged in.

In the Allied nations we have the monopoly of raw materials. Let us make use of that weapon. Let us make the Allies of war the Allies of peace and do all we can to cement In these times of peace the friendships and alliances that war has brought. (Cheers.) From tile point of view of trade, the Germans made the greatest mistake of their life in forcing England into the war. The extent of their peaceful penetration into our commerce had been a revelation, but now that we possessed the information it was to be hoped that our unpreparedness on the outbreak of war would not be repeated in the case of the-commercial war that would follow" the declaration of peace.

It was a big problem, one in which there must be material Government assistance, and by that expression he did not mean interference. (Hear, hear.) We should have to look largely to individual effort, to permit trade to return to the former methods of competitive effort and enterprise, strengthened as far as possible by whatever help the Government could render. This was a problem Chambers of Commerce were eminently fitted to tackle. France, he cpuld assure them, was looking towards a peace alliance in commercial life just as much as she had looked for our assistance in the war, and English commercial men 'would achieve a great work if, taking time by the fore-look, they set their house in order so 'that trade in the future might lie with their allies rather than with those who had been trying to deal them destruction. (Cheers.) Lord Derby is returning to Paris immediately.

DOCTORS AND CONTRACT PRACTICE. ATTITUDE OP THE B.M.A. The hearing wa9 resumed in the King's Bench Division yesterday of the action brought by four' Coventry doctors against the British Medical Association and four other doctors for alleged conspiracy, slander, and libel. Mr. McCall, K.C., for the defence, stated that the defendants' position might be summarised under six heads: 1.

That there was no legal conspiracy. 2. That there was no legal conspiracy causing damage to the plaintiffs. 3. That there was no defamation of the plaintiffs, either libel or slander.

4. That there was privilege for all publications. 5. That there, was no express malioe, 6. That the suggestion that the Association could be made liable as agents for the individual acts of its members was quite unfounded.

He submitted under these heads that the charge of conspiracy against the Association as a corporation was one that must fail. A corporation was incapable of crime or the civil offence of conspiracy, although the individual members of the corporation might be liable. Sir Alfred Cox, secretary of the B.M.A., gave evidence, and was asked by the Judge if it was contended that the organisation should be a dictator, as far as in the world of medicine upon questions of ethics so far as they are not dealt with by the General Medical Council. Witness replied in the negative. The Association had taken up the.

question of contract praotice, witness added. The objections to this system were that it to reduce medical men to be mere servants of lay organisations, that people took advantage of the medical institutions who had no right to do so, and the payment for the medical men was often insufficient. A Trade Union Point of View. Dr. Cox went on to say that negotiations be tween the dispensary and the Association in June, 1910, for the purpose of coming to an agreement broke down on the question of whether, if the dispensary offered certain eon-cessions, the Association would be willing to recognise the men who held dispensary appointments.

The Association did not think iho Coventry men would recognise the doctors who held the appointments. If no dispute were to be cleared up these men would have to go. His Lordship: Do you say that the boycott agaiual mese men wuum gu uii i The Witness: So long as they kept their ap pointments tne ostracism would go on. The efforts of the Association to get the rules of the dispensary altered had been nullified by the interposition of the plaintiffs. Was it to be supposed, asked the witness, that thev should remain in (luaocsaiuu me BjjuiiB, so to speak, and bo on as if nothintr had happened? His Lordship observed that that, was the trade union point ot view its simplest lOIul yuuiuiuoMuii ull worKman Wilo accepted a post on ounumons oDjectea to by the union The witness rejoined that it was immoral, he thought, to allow men.

to remain tn a benefit of rules brought about by the action of memoers oi me Association. He nad no ill-feeling against any one of the plaintiffs. The Association had acted in the interests and honour of the profession. Cross-examined, the witness said he considered that the plaintiffs had, by their action in going to Coventry and preventing the Coventry profession reaping the fruits of their attempts to reform their dispensary, been guilty of dishonourable conduct. The hearing was adjourned.

A COUNTRY DIARY. JXTLY 22. The ragwort, a really beautiful weed, is out along the lane sides, but, perhaps thanks to women's labour, is not over-abundant in our local fields. In Wales, where the fields are seldom as clean as they are in Cheshire, big rank ragworts and thistles dot the pastures, and often lise above the crops. The ragwort attracts the summer brood of small tortoiseshell butterflies, just out from the chrysalis, but these showy flies visit it for its sweets and not as a food plant for the caterpillars.

No one can class the tortoiseshell amongst destructive insects, for it feeds upon the common nettle, and thus helps to destroy a troublesome and prolific weed. The meadowsweet is now in great creamy masses, amongst which the tall spires of purple loosestrife rise. From this garden of wild flowers the whitethroat, with its beak full of squirming caterpillars, scolds hoarsely without droTninn its captives. Fldrmderi Tier voWaw than flying into the bushes are the infants it is ieeaiag, mu umwu uu we docks and with snowy chins; they are nearly as big as then-parents, but-their tails are shorter. in birds and in many animals, the legs and feet seem to reach full size before other parts, and in most young birds the tail is- the last to attain its full dimensions.

T. A. Stmrfan. 8ts. Mnnnvtua Today.

5 09 9 22 8 52 p.m.... a 40 a To-morrow. 6 11 2D 9 17 p.m.... 6 The faoura given an, of -coune, the new 8uinm Time noun. LAMP-TIME FOR CYCLISTS 9 52 LIGHTS bOWK 10 52 p.m.

WESLEYAN MINISTERS. CHANGES IN MANCHESTER DISTRICT. There was no session of the Wealeyan Conference yesterday, th.e 'Stationing Committee wexe encased in revisine the stations all riv were as IOIIOWBT fOook. LoogJiiUt: AraoM.Crartfcaw. EccIcji: 3.

cj teenpaau, Ttoe Albert 3- DMyladen: Cawa, loa StaaJey Jenes. the intervention of the Government Department uas Deen invoked. The other two grievances are (1) the allegation on the part of the Cardroom of the recent wages agreement and the consequent withdrawal of labour from mills in Manchester and at Wigan, and (2) the demand of that section of spinners using American cotton iui payment lor the hours a wee, wcy wc not now permitted to work, since there te not enough raw cotton to keep the mill running fr the full 55i hours weekly. The real and immediate danger which now confronts the cotton trade lies the decision to be given on the rotation system of unemployment which is daily expected from Sir Albert Stanlev. In order to economise labour to do away with the necessity of paying operatives for aimlessly parading the streets when mills and weaving sheds have machinery idle because they cannot get' operatives to attend it the Boarrl aoIIti in abolish the rotation system, and in their interviews with the operatives' leaders other than the cardroom worners (who adopted the system oi permanently "playing off" their members from the oeginning), it was made clear that the rotation system must go.

Officials of the spinners' and weavers' interviewed 'he President of tne Board of Trade, and represented to him that the Control Board's decision would cause 3enous trouble in tha cotton trade. Sir Albert btanley also heard the arguments of the Cotton Control Board, and then decided to postpone the abolition of the rota system for two weeks. In the meantime he promised to give his decision. Weakening Control Board's Position. The feeling among those engaged in the cotton trade In Manchester is that Sir Albert Stanley should have given his decision on the merits of the case before the deputation withdrew.

The fact that he did not do so held to have greatly weakened the status ot the Cotton Control Board, whether or not his later decision supports their action. If, however, Sir Albert Stanley overrules the decision cf the Control Board the members of that Board will have no other alternative but to resign, and in that event it is understood that Sir Herbert Dixon, the chairman, and tho members, except a few of the workers' representatives, nave definitely decided to take that course. On tho other hand, it is practically oertain that if the President of the Board of Trade had told the deputation that there was no other course open to him but to support the Control Board's decision there would have been a few strikes in the Oldham district which the Cotton Control Board could have effectively dealt with, whereas if the decision, after two weeks' delay, is against the operatives the threatened strikes will only have been delayed and the strikers encouraged to flout the Control Board's decision. In the event of the Control Board being forced to dissolve, the industry would be thrown into great confusion. 4 AU the important schemes of the Board which have regulated- the trade through an unprecedented crisis will be destroyed, the levy system will automatically cease, the rationing of cotton will stop, and there will be the prospeot of many mills closing because the raw material cannot be got.

The recent wages agreement, too, will be set aside, the 40,000 unemployed operatives will be placed on trade union funds, and presumably a new application for an advance of wages will be made by the several workers" organisations. All these contingencies will follow any de parture irom tne cotton control Hoard's decision to abolish the rotation system of unemployment. With reference to the cardroom workers' dispute, the leaders of that organisation last night met Sir George Askwith in London, to whom they explained their grievance and asked for an independent interpretation of the wages agreement. Meanwhile the Cotton Control Board has not met since the deputation waited upon Sir Albert Stanley, the members resolving to wait for his reply on the rota question. Sir Charles Macara, In a letter he sent recently to the press, urged that It would be a great mistake if the trade allowed the Cotton Control Board to be dissolved after the war.

He olaimed that it had brought employers and operatives together as no other organisation had done, and added We were perhaps a little suspicious of it at first, but the longer our acquaintance the firmer is our confidence in the ability of its members to carry us successfully over our nresent diffi culties, and when freed of its responsibility to Government I maintain that the Industry generally would gain Immensely if it were to retain, bucii an institution as tne industrial Council of the cotton trade, with the nower tn enforce upon the whole industry any decision reached by three-quarters of the representatives of proceauie recommended by the Industrial Council in 1912." ALSACE AND LORRAINE. Lieutenant Righyni, of the French army, gave an address last evening at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Peter Street, upon Alsace and Lorraine, and their demand for restoration to Prance. He said that ever since 1871 the people of the two provinces had struggled aeainst the domination of Germany. They had at all times and at all costs to themselves maintained their love of liberty and of France, and evinced their aDsoiute contempt ior laerman civilisation.

Without the mineral and material wealth of Alsace and Lorraine the economic and military power of Germany would go to pieces like a house of cards. To ask the natives of these provinces to take a plebiscite as to whether they nviuu uctumc u'uiui ui oacK to trance was an insult to their patriotism and their intelligence. As one result of the war he looked forward to the time when Alsace and Lorraine would belong to France, and her representatives would sit in the French Parliament in Paris. The Lord Mayor of Manchester (Sir Alexander Porter), who presided, moved the following resolution, which was carried amM cheers: "That, haying heard Lieutenant Righyni, this meeting of Manchester citizens expresses its willingness to follow the lead of the British, and American Governments in demand ing tne resiAjr.muii ui ana Lorraine as one of the most essential conditions of a just and permanent. peace." LEIGH COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

The circumstances of the accident on Friday at the Westleigh Collieries, Westleigh Pit, Leigh, whereby Matthew Schofield, 28, of Wigan, was killed, and James Morris. 21, Leader Street, Wigan, and Edward Ratcliffe. of 23, Bridgewater Street. Ince, were injuredVwere inquired into yesterday by Mr. S.

F. Butcher, coroner. Evidence was gjven by Ratcliffe's son Edward and by James Cunhffe, the fireman, both of whom had narrow escapes. About a quarter- past nve i tnree men, along with Edward. Batcliffe nan.

were timbering in a new roadway the pit when a "crump was heard, and the next moment an enormous fall of roof took place, burying the three men. The fall just missed Katcliffe the younger, and Cun-liffe, the fireman, had just left and was only 30 trurrlR a.wa.v. Two more falls occnrrwt lata it took three -hours to. rescue Morris and five to release, iwcuae- iu u'e surprise of tho rescuers they had no bones broken but were only badly bruised and crushed. They were removed to-Wigan Infirmary, where they are progressing favourably.

It was nine and half hours aftei the accident before the rescue gang recovered Schofield body. The accident was unaccountable, had no previous falls there and no warning given. So great was the force of the faU that five very, strong bars were pushed down. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The' influpnta 1 outbreak at the Bramley German prisoners camp is assuming alarming proportions.

Nearly 1,000 of the 3,000 men (hereare affected, WASTE PAPKB fa nrytatly aeedaq tor MiwHiaa pat-. poM. 'bmfcl bi hnwi lima Ib dtnUrin. HwPjo-fcoigg i new MgMtfeed eteSrinmmU-i SUrt sarin you hav not dM ao LESPBtm. merttSOTiag OtfJ and sena (nan.

at, VsnpStster TADttJ that such degraded nonsense ever played any serious part in the conversation 0f men and women outside a low music-hall or a half penny comic paper. But poor Mrs Davis was serious enough when die was lamenting to me the moral downfall of her eldest bof as displayed in that surest sign of demoralisation the refusal to wear a collar on Sundav and said to me 'R never did no good once he give up wearing a 'oiler-boys holler-bbvs-holler or collar) on a Sundav In such ways is the well of English undefiled corrupt?" "i 'uus ui our great cities O. G. THE MILITARY CROSS. The following are the deeds for which the Military Cross was awarded on February 18: Lieut.

Charles Thomson, B. Lan. R. conspicuous ulliintrr and devotion to dnt eisrg cf a patrol, which wis imoc--lal in rldln vS. JS awehme-ain post, after Mother patrol had attemnteti tailed, lo do success mis mainly due CTi Kconnalssance.

and lo hia courage and power of leadership. T.Lieut. Cnarles Henry Vigors, Ches. R. After an inter and prolonged bombardment th attacked an lariated port of which he to inToSaW 1 bowed great courage and determina.Ioo, which rmilM i-the attack beinc tepulsed.

two prisoners captureVanfl heJ5 1053 inflicttd cn the enemy. amy TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS. House of Commons: Further Stages of Government Bills. House of Lords: Tithe Rent Charge Bill: Education Bill; Alien Enemy Businesses. Manchester.

Hu8hes at Central Sir E. Carson at London Meeting on Trade Policy After the War. J-raae -iners Federation Meeting, London. pW; tax. tor' tae pw M( ye..