THE FISHERMAN IN WAR.
PART THEY HAVE PLAYED.
A TRIBUTE TO HIS GALLANTRY. Under the title "Fisheries in the Great War, being the Report on Sez Fisheries to the Years 1915-16-17- "18," the Board of Agriculture pab. lishes a really fascinating tale of the progress of the war as it affected the Fshing population. Included in the accounts of the German submarines are reports made by shippers of their
While
encounters with the enemy. the particular stories there given may not have been published the general outline of these fights is well known: nevertheless they would repay their Incorporation in any work dealing with this aspect of the war.
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Dealing with the "permit system which was brought into operation, it is remarked of it that it was a strong weapon, because its cancellation in- volved confinement to port. As a rule it was of litle avail to tell the fisherman that if he entered a certain
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Of the owners it is recorded that they bore their full share of the national burden. Fishing vessel own ers and others would cheerfully come, on receipt of a letter or telegram from the Board. from however discant port, often at great inconvenience to themselves. simply because the de- partment asked for their help, and in no case was any request received for the reimbursement of travelling expenses or of the other expenses in-
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About a hundred years ago, Sir Thomas Phillips, of Middlebil gour mand among manuscript collectors, told himself and others that the motive of his hobby was a desire to raise prices and so save manuscripts from neglect and destruction. There then perhaps some justification for such a point of view. Apprecia
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Bombay, May 5th-The number of motor accidents has increased tremendously in Bombay during the Arace between the bandits cars and last few months. It is estimated alocomotive; the mobilisation of gen- that the number of motor vehicles darmes by telephone; the hasty barri has trebled since 1914. The streets: fading of the road with barrows and of the City are now extremely con barrels; a fusillade in the dead of gested, and bad and reckless driving the night so terrible that villagers is making the streets of Bombay roused from their sleep rushed terror as dangerous as the streets of tricken over the fields to escape the London. Several fatalities have been whistling "bullets, the killing of a reported in the last few days A station employee and two of the English riding a motorcycle, lost
bandits, and the arrest af a motor control of the machine, charged
lorry driver such are some of the motor-car, and "tried to jump off the cycle on to the motorcar to prevent features of the adventure.
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THE LITER AND SPLEEN REVEILED.
A further development in the uses of X-rays has recently been perfected Meanwhile the gendarmes at Orleans in Germany and America, writes the had been informed, and a squad medical correspondent of the Times. arrived on the scene on a railway The method makes it possible to obtain engine, which at cuce gave chase and information about solid organs such as cars. The gendarmes left the locomo called by those who have followed
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The slides will interfere with
In this "expressionist" play The slides are in two "distinct George Kaiser, a modern Gerinen places, the small one, of-about-200 dramas, has sketched the adven- tons, being bear Tai Tam, and the mure of a handrin. bank cashier in largest one near Stanley Gap search of the real values of life, do
the Repulse Bay Hotel he embezzles a large sum of money. serves EA.B. in a home paper. In found the island motoring for the
The firing exhibitions at Repulse spired by a fascinating lady customer. time, but do not block the way to
The Pokfulum "and Victoria Roads
During March, 2,651 motor-cars were imported into British India, and of these no fewer than 2,556 came from the United States and 68 from the United Kingdom. During the past official year the number of cars imported was 9.925 valued at Rs. 263 lakbs, against only 400 valued at over Rs. 10 lakhs in the preceding year Out of these 9,925 cars, 9,353 were shown to have come from the United States, 448 from the United King of illuminated manuscripts, have been soon got several miles ahead of the the River and spleen It will be re She, being married, with a grown up Bay can therefore be held. dom, 17 from Italy, and three from France. The country of origin of moet of the cars imported from the United States is, however, Canada, Bombay imported 4,213, Calcutta 3.452, Madras 966, Burma 659 and Karachi 605.
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the processes they express run con- currently. In the active and spiritual sense, the
The thieves, four in number, came being run over. In doing so he man who appreciates a five thing is its worthy from Paris in a motor lorry and a sustained injuries which proved fatal. possessor, and the result of his torpedo car, and, began work on a A military lorry ran over an Indian appreciation is commonly the appre-train in a siding not far from Anbrals while proceeding at a rapid pace ciation of the thing in a gross material station. They were engaged with a without lights.
The last few days have witnessed sense, a raising of its monetary value. truck containing dress material when Before he died Sir Thomas had begun watchers, specially equipped with a petrol famine in Bombay, Many to say things about the dealers who portable telephones, pounced upon cars have been rendered idle through sold him his manuscripts which show them and shouted, "Hands up1" the owners' inability to secure spirit. ed that his object was achieved, but The bandits at once opened fire. he did not exhibit any marked plea- Reinforcements arriving from the sure in the result., The inheritors of station, an attempt was made to bis vast accumulation, still in process prevent the thieves regaining their of dispersion, have seen the progres-cars, but a turning movement failed. sion of valves move more rapidly. and, a man named Lemaire, one of It may be doubted whether on the the railway employees, was shot whole he reached the position of the dead. In the ensuing confusion his man who both eats his cake and has murderers were able to get away it, who enjoys the possession of and set off in the direction of Paris beautiful and interesting things, at breakneck speed. which all the time are earning a good rate of compound interest on their purchase price. In later times many collectors of manuscripts, especially able to get this satisfaction.
In part, this increased value is tive at Artenay, where a desperate this subject that for a long time ao son, is his first disillusionment. He unearned increment. It results from fight took place. Telephone messages pictures of the abdominal viscera tries the excitement of a cycle race, as far as the hotel are in 2000 the increase of the world's wealth had been sent ail along the route, were of any worth. Then the idea only to find that the servile crowd. condition and available for traffic. and the spread of education. There and at Artenay men barred the road of an opaque meal of bismuth was after being tashed into a frenzy by suggested. Now this meal can be the offer of big prizes, lapses into are thousands now to value what a with barTOWS. century back appealed only to scores, The lorry pulled up first, with the followed by the rays the whole way conventional good behaviour on the
sppearance of royalty; he tastes the LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. and tens of thousands who can afford motor-car close behind. Two gend-through the digestive organe.
The liver and spleen, however, Dead Sea fruit of a cabaret; and," Br- EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE.xuries which then only bundreds armes leapt on to the footboard, and,
could afford. And the supply cannot levelling their revolvers at the driver, were what the British Medical Journal ally, as a Salvation Army meeting. increase to
silent" in a radio-finds that the discovery of his soul is . meet the demand. pulled him from his seat and fung describes as NEW SPECIMENS FOR LOUYRE. Illumination as an art practically died him to the ground. The bandits in graphical sense. The bismuth meal the real value of life. But that is por
The .s."Kidderpore" (Captain' out in Europe four hundred years the car, realising what had happened, was of no use in connection with them. to be bought by money, and, there ago, and the efforts to revive it, left their conveyance and, taking up Imagination has now conceived a new fore, he throws his hanknotes to the R. HL Stringer) 3253 mods, arrived whether in England or abroad, have positions near houses which afforded method. Ar or oxygen is introduced crowd, who (a gratuitous disillusion- this morning at 6 pm, from Kobe
The BB *Hailboag:" (Capt. still to prove themselves, though the them cover, opened fire on the two into the cavity of the body before the ment) scramble for them, Salvation- last twenty years have seen striking gendarmes. It was at this moment photograph is taken. The result is ists and all. Only his guide a Salva developments, such as the beautiful that the men of the engine from that both liver and spleen stand out tionist less, is left, and she fetches Thomsont 1,108 tons, arrived this
on the plate with great clearness of the police.
morning at 9 am from Swatow, Finding that the forces against definition. It is said to be possible
with 700 tons, of general cargo. writing of Mr. Grailey Hewitt and Orleans joined the fight..
The only true freedom is in death, his scholars, and the excellent illumination work done by Belgian them were too strong, the bandits to see gall stones; any enlargement
a fact he had nearly discovered in a The 38. "Eastern Merchant," leaving one of their number dead kidneys, too, are fairly clear. Tumours snowstorm before he hade farewell to (Captain A Ahman) 5,059 tons, nuns during the war on the lines of beat a retreat and took to the fields of the spleen becomes obvious. The
with three bullets in his body and are also much more easily detected. his prosaic family, and, with his back arrived this morning at 7.30-8.m French fourteenth-century art.
the driver of the lorry a prisoner. The method entails an injectina of In the car were two sacks filled air, but this is apparently quite
revolvers, masks, boo-simple and harmless. ches of false keys, and bottles
are untouched.
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doubted."
of chloroform On the man killed
MINIATURE IN OLD FLEMISH BOOK.
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FREEDOM IN DEATH.
ARRIVALS
to a crucifix, he shoots himself. Even from Shanghai with 750 tons of
that does not make a beautiful end, general cargo. for a second report being heard: (at)
DEPARTURES.
The as. Bolton Castle," (Captain-
A beautiful example of Egyptian eres he risked a violent death. His sculpture of the Naturalist period, instinct and his training bade him which succeeded the school of the The Theban priesthood, has entered the follow the fish at whatever risk.
This work, which risk he was not prepared to take was Louvre (Paris.} that of standing idle on the quay the evidence proves to represent the while his fellows went out to the fish-god Ammon protecting King Tut ing or came back to staring markets. Enkh-Amun, has been bought for The permits, therefore, exercised a 10,000 from the princely house useful influence.
which first brought it to France about
MR. YATES-THOMPSON'S CENTURY. 1860. The peculiar point about the Sculpture is that it has been purposely But the modern collector has also damaged by a succeeding generation done much himself to make his pos of Egyptians. The god's hands and sessions more valuable. He has
the first performance the Cashier's The Kwal Sang," (Capt. L the head of the king have been skil-catalogued them and reproduced
pistol misfired and marred the wrony McConnel Hussey) 1,435 tons, arrived was a military book showing that his fully chiselled away as well as the them by photography, and has em King's name, but the sacred signs ployed competent scholars to eluci- name was Groult, and that he lived A 15TH-CENTURY GOLFER. of the play), the policeman prosaically this morning at 7 am. from Sings- ezdzims: "There must be a short pore, with 1,100 tons, of cargo and It is deduced from date their meaning and point out at Saint Denis
21. bags of mil. circuit in the "man." their relations to similar work else- this that the king was one who had where. Phillipps, after all, had little of addresses, presumably the scenes In his pocket-book were a number
-This adventure in search of the
The Amakusa Maru” (Capt- disowned Ammon and whose effigy tetive appreciation, and what he did of contemplated exploits. It is be
value of life is told in seven scenes S. Kobayan 1870 tons, Tived was defaced by a successor faithful to to make public his manuscripts was lieved that he was the leader of the
That method is not new, but is this morning at 8 a.m. from SwRIOW the god.
l-directed and of little use to gang. The pursuit was continued by
.By the courtesy of the agent in throw-back to primitive drama. It has with 1,100 tons of coal, 115 tons King Tur-Enkh-Amun (c.
scholars or the public. Mr. Yates gendarmes in motor-cars, and the 1350 B.C.) was one of the succes-Thompson, whose sale is the occasion two remaining fugitives were run to London of the Hon. Maxwell Blake. been used, too, in dramatic poens, of general cargo and several bags of
nobly in Ibsen's "Peer Gynd" and mail. MAmerican Diplomatic Attent 113 sors of Amesophis IV., the great of these remarks, is no gour earth at Peronville. Here, after a There is no doubt that the armis Pharaoh of the XVIII Dynasty the mand, but un vrai gourmet among fight, one was killed and the other Tangier, we (Times) have been Brand. Or the stage the method is allowed to inspect a 15th-century jerky unless some means can be found tice came just in time to save our period of the New Empire"), who collectors. Ey rigidly confining his wounded. fishing population, for in the summer strove to overthrow the, worship of collection to the sacred number of
The fight took place in a little Flemish Book of Hours in Mr. Blake's of lading in "and" fading out" the use the jargon, of the of 1918-the man power reserves of Ammon in favour of Sun worship. one hundred he has given them a cafe. One of the men, drew his possession, which apart from its scenes to the industry were reduced to so low Tur-Enkh-Amm seems, to some ex- cachet. Even what the late M. Delisle revolver, and a gendarme, saxious bibliographical interest, is remarkable screen. That would not be impos. The s,s. Esintih, (Capt Glen) for containing among its illumina-sible with modem scenic devices. sailed for Shanghai at 4 pm.-to-day an ebe that the Board and the Ad-text at least, to have undone his pre-called the disinherited, the. MSS. to take him alive, struck at him with tions, what appears to be an indubit-What is new is the kind of symbolic with 700 tons of general cargo, miralty jointly appointed committees decessor's work, since he changed the rejected to make room for finer the Bett of his own weapon. The
That the little golfer is really play- notably those representing the prosaic Thess. Rokkosan-Maru,” (Capt. of inquiry to scrutinise the situation original termination of his name from specimens, will never again be sold bandit fred, missed, and was then able picture of a golfer of the period. impressionism of some of the scenes,
Aton (sun) to Amun (Ammon) and without advertisement of the fact shot dead. The second man slipped or all parts of the coast.
to-day with 560 tons of pitches.” Reference has already been made transferred the royal residence back that they once belonged to Mr. Yates under a table and endeavoured to up ing golf on his golden field amongness of the cashier's home life and the Takyn,) sailed for Hongay at 11 s..
the new capital of Thompsen. Those that kept their set an oil lamp, in the hope of escap the snails and the flowers is beyond 'dead gaiety of the cabaret.. to the submarine danger which our from Ekhaton.
plare among the hundred will hold a ing in the darkness. He was seized doubt. His swing is an excellent But George Kaiser's' treatment of
The asikini," (Capt."Burgs) men had to encounter. They were of Amenophis, to Thebes.
still higher rank. They will be dis and, fring at the gendarmes, was one, if something a little shorter than the restless search of mankind is the breed of the men of Caister
persed, but the catalogues will remain. shot in the leg in return. Taken to that of the most orthodox, and his heavy, coarse grained and materialis-sailed for Batavia via Banka ar 4 "who never turn back. They did not
Itising fish than undergoing caval train-Has there ever been a finer collection Orleans, he was found to be an ac only eccentricity is that he is holding te, even brual. It is never best-p.m. to-day with 1800 tons of general use the language of heroics.
however, several very good and unsympathetic. The doubtful, it is stated, whether they ing ashore, and suggested that for private Lands? It may be countant at Libourne and a deserter his left hand below his right. There fui and is often quite stupid, hard, cargo.
Stage from the navy. The man killed in are, were conscious of being heroes. Their definite enrolment for active. service
We must resign ourselves to see the cafe has not yet been identified, players who hold their club in this Society gave a fair performance of reports of encounters with the enemy which incidentally involved their many of our treasures pass away but is known by the nickname of way, and it is curiously enough the play, but Mr. Brember Wills did Howe) sailed for New York vix Shai
general cargo... are models of concise, unvarnished payment as active service ratings-from Europe to countries where as Louis Bonnot" (one of the motor. the way in which nearly every. }'not succeed in expressing the inward at 6 am, today with 600 tons of ・・
It is not in they should substitue a system of de- yet there is not a fine Psalter or bandits whose exploits startled Paris child naturally begins to play struggles of the cashier. It was just statements of "fact.
golf. In technical language the these, as a rule, but in unofficial conferred service. This suggestion was Book of Hours in a thousand square some years ago). versations that the fisherman reveals accepted by the Admiralty, and was miles. And we can afford to do so.
The driver of the lorry, a man player is standing with a square character acting and the part requires his flashes of grim humour. He is put into operation by the formation of The wealth of illuminated many named Kifier, resides in Paris. In stance considerably exaggerated: he more than that. The other night at seldom a conscious humorist but he Section Y. of the Royal Naval Volun-scripts in England is great. The his vehicle there was quite an arsenal has the right foot considerably be the Hammersmith Lyric Theatre, the speaks as he feels, and the fisherman teer Reserve, whose members accept admirable exhibition arranged some of revolvers, jemmies, and all sorts of bind the left, and the ball (rather a play had a very mixed reception.
Large one) so far in front of him on board the German destroyer, who, ed liability for service when called twelve years ago at the Burlington burglar's implements, as well having been warned that he would be upon but were permitted meanwhile to Club by Mr. Cockerell from the pos pneumatic tyres and five bicycles, tried by court-martial, with every continue their civil occupation.” sessions of private collectors and which had been stolen the previous probability of being shot, neverthe- When the war threatened paralysis Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, night. less replied to the German officer's to the trade; the Board, in June, Cathedrals, and such-other libraries "Where is your English Rect?" 1915. requested the Colonial Office as are not precluded from lending, * Ease down a bit, you will soon see to seek information from Newfound was an astonishing evidence of this, each of them is capable of making a was simply following the land and Canada as to the possibility and although not a few of those fine display of the work of most of them was stumpy, bading, with of drawing a regular supply of frozen exhibits have since departed, the the principal schools of this art
There is enough for us all if we out circumlocution, facts as they pre- fish or fish packed in ice from those bulk of them remain and will remain."
is they pre- two countries. sented themselves to him,
The Department of
A PRECIOUS ROOMFUL.. use it properly, but there are a few
ings with Germany, has led to many presentation of the proposal brought And there is always the British manuscripts still in private bands A system of rewards ranging as Naval Service at Cawa took up the
equivocal statements which, as tele-out the Board's position that he the high as £1,000 for information of the matter, and, samples arrived at Liver- (Museum. Its collection of English which for one reason or another are
graphed to Japan, have made it in United States has the shups but no enemy's movements was devised by pool, where they were, distributed manuscripts and in this art England national monuments and should not
possible to understand what really is organisation, the Hamburg-Amerika the Admiralty with a view to encour among some of the principal fish mar is emphatically one of the countries be allowed to leave the country.
Intended. The Guaranty Trust Co. Line has the organisation but no ships. aging fishermen and others to forsake kers, but no general desire for further that count is able to challenge com They are known to these who take their work and thus to risk incur supplies was revealed, and the board parison with the rest of the world's an interest in such things, and if HUGE TOTALISATOR FIGURES D1 New York offers the following ex-The further information was vouch planation of how the mater stood at sated that most of the ships will be ring financial loss-in order to hasten did not proceed further with any en libraries put together, while for Irish, they must be sold there is money
With an attendance of 80,000 it the latter part of last month: "The American and will be operated sonder to port with valuable news.
deavour to stimulate the importation French, or Flemish MSS. it is only enough in the country to secure
Nevertheless, there surpassed by: the capital cities of them, but it sometimes happens that was not surprising that a record in Senate Committee on Commeres, by the American Eag. This is regarded The gallant action (since rewarded of frozen fish. by an M.B.E. of Ella Trout, aged was a considerable development dur. those countries; for Italian MSS: not too hasty vendors forget that we the way of totalisator figures should vore of 10 10 4, has approved further as signicant in view of Chairman so good, but only beaten by two have such au institution as a National have been established at Randwick elaboration of a proposal by the United Payne's objection to reducing the prices 20, of Halisands, Devonshire, who on ing the war, of importation by private or three Italian libraries for Art Collections fand, or that it takes last month. The official account of States: Shipping Board, that the sixty of ships sold, as urged by American September 8, 1917, rowed out and enterprise. rescued a man from a submarine. In a comparison of the figures for German MSS. rather weak, but time for that and other agencies to the sum invested shows that £104,858 steamship, services formerly operated buyers Since this date, Admisi- steamship and was able to give to the the quinquennial pre-war period 1909- German ilumination has only had get quietly to work and bring was put through the machine, as by the Hamburg-Amerike Line be Beason the new Cairman of the authorities, first news of the disaster 1913 with the four years of war it very short periods in which it together the means that are re against £88,633 15s which represent redeveloped through the co-peration of Shipping Board, bas denied that he
could lay any claim to a prominent { 'quired.
ed the previous record. On the Syd American and German interests. In has discussed these proposals wifle, icecorded, and deservedly recorded, is shown that the average quantity of place. Taken as a whole it may well
sey Cup alone £31,583 10. gras foemorandum submitted to the Cano, the Hamburg-Amerika line" re- at length.
fish landed fell practically to one-be doubted if in the world's history
Yested, as compared with the Don-Senate Committee Chairman Payne presentative. – Admiral Benson", salted KEEPING THE INDUSTRY GOPO. third, or 32.5 per cent, of the pre- one small room ever held so precious
caster Handicap figures, £29,440 10, In the course of the report it is war landings. The lowest amount in a collection of tluminated MSS. as THIS disease is a dangerous and so The business in the sadding paddock of the Shipping Board said that the that all the negotiations, in-that, con
rapid in its development that every mentioned that: "The fisherman is a eny year of war was taken in 1917. that portion of the National Library mother of young children should be totalisator represented £70.188: 10% 4 Board was opposed to a direct arrange- nection, are in the hands of private trained seaman, and the duties for The value of the fish, however, show of Wales which in 1918 afforded a prepared or 15 It is very risky to wait A trained staff of 450 was employed, ment with the German lines, but be- companies. This practically confirms which he was required (by the Navy) ed a totally different line. The value temporary home and shelter from in the attack of stop appears and and can arsounting to £47,000 in Ueved it is very desirable than the statensents quoted. “There scéna were those for which he was specially of wet fish increased by 11.8 per air raid to a picked selection of when said for medisine and let the child change was used in the operations American company group of com- to have been a lot of needless caITFOLI
alfagspantes make an arrangement by which flage abour ing kadr qualified so that with the minimum cent, and that of shellfish by 23.8 contents of the British Museum Man suffer until it can be obtained Cham
berlain's Cough Rem dy is prompt and ol naval, training he was already fit for per cent. The average value of wet uscript Department. The Bodleian, effectant and has per been known to WALLA WALLÁS * double them. The board represented in the fish in 1914 is given, at 15s. 6d. per the University Libraries of Cambridge faliny case. Always have both Admiraly that the men would be much swi, aile in 1918 it was £53 Ds. Edinburgh, Glasgow, And Dublin, and in the hums. For sale by auf Cisa more usefully employed at sea catch. 50., or nearly four times as much, the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, and Elorekeepers.
CROUT
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U.S AND H.A.L.
The
Cordillere,*. (Capt.
Sanguy) sails for Marseilles vis Saigon at 5 p.m. today with 400 tons of general cargo.
that he seems to be reaching out after it, a little as if he were the
American companies to secure this remote ancestor of Mr. J. E. Laidley, He has a small blue cap, a white
Datlet, the terms of any contract which tunic, breeches of light pink, and
may be made with the Hamburg- high red boots. There is another
Nothing could be more natural than Amerika Line being subject to the Flemish Book of Hours of about the int American shipping interests approval of the Board: The plaz same date in which golf is depicted should desire to take over the work was presented at an executive session in that case a hole is shown, and one of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, but of the Senate Commities on Com of the three players appears to be the fear of being thought to have deal-merce, but it is understood that the putting at it.
AUSTRALIAN RACING.
No 6518
this business may be secured, and Els prepared 10.00-operate with an-Ameri-
ley in the matte WALLA WALL or chartering of ships in eutile such