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Easter ever was, and will be, the greatest feast of the year in Russia, writes an ex-prisioner in The Times, I had spent Easter in Moscow before,
Next year's British census is - but under vastly different circumspected to be more elaborate than stances. All the people (including any census yet taken, and the de- an Archbishop and several Bishops) threshed out by a Government Joint tails of the schedule are being
STORE GIRLS' STRIKE.
BAN ON RED HAIR.
John Lewis, a hale and hearty | veteran of eighty-four, is the most talked of man in London at the prie sent moment. He is the head of a big dry goods store in Oxford Street." which he built up from a small shop that he opened over fifty years ago. Largely composed of girls and women, John Lewis's force of employes,
recently formed a union, which ap- The Archbishop sent in a petition
The London County Council in proached the head of the firm with to the Soviet asking for permission recommendations now before the claims for recognition and varigns to hold the Easter Mass in the prison Ministry of Health, desires, among other demands, such as, for instance, chapel. This was refused, but the other things, a five-years instead of the right of the shop assistants to governor of the prison, an ordinary ten-years census, and particulars take their meals off the premises.
to whom Easter still meant something were in jall with me.
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than choice, gave permis-attended by children. informa in system is still maintained. sion to hold a service in the great tion would be a useful guide in build- Lewis replied with a flat refusal to corridor of the prison which raning plans and in the provision of recognize any "accursed. trade outside the lower row of cells. Ta tramway and other transport.
union," and said a good proportion prisoners were called upon to supply
A great deal of additional Informa of his employes had been happy and anything they happened to have tion as to the physical condition, contented in his service for many wherewith to decorate the altar:
housing accommodation, unemploy-years past and he saw no reason Dear old Prince Shirinsky Shikhent, and other questions is desir why he should change his methods. matoff well known in London as a able, but the census authorities are
A strike was called, and for two member of the Kennel Club, where a faced with the difficulty of getting days past the papers have been full of picturesque developments, such as broadest features are distinguishable. large bear his gift may be seen the schedules correctly filled.. True, good observation was some permanently holding a card tray, The solution proposed by the the girls picketing the store entrances times accomplished during the war was the greatest believer it has ever Royal Statistical Society is that and then, for a little diversion, sing from more than 15,000 feet; but the been my happy lot to meet. He had special enumerators should be sent to a neighbouring hall, where they airmen were driven to such heights the faith of a child-the only faith round, as in the United States to fill listened to speeches and danced in by necessity; their work would have in things divine which is at all worth up the schedules. This would be intervals of the oratory.
having Round his neck, on a thick very expensive, the cost of the
OUR HAIR IS OUR OWN. been more effective lower down.
cord under his shirt, "he perpetually $3,000 enumerators in the United
The strikers have the best of the Extent of view, of course, increases wore two sacred images, one of St States this year being estimated at Apart from the exigencies of fight with altitude. At 5,000 feet, or so, Seraphim and the other of the Virgin. $4,000,000, but the Royal Statistical argument in the columns of the press, ing, it may possibly not be clear to the vision extends 100 miles in every These were no mere neck ornaments, Society suggests that the expense because, while they state their case everybody why almen, at great direction, so that theoretically an for the larger of the two was no less could be reduced by the employment in extenso, John Lewis refuses to personal discomfort and often at com expanse of something like 30,000 than 6in. by Sin. and the smaller 6in. of voluntary workers where possible. make any statement, declaring that siderable risk, should ever be en- square miles can be surveyed. All by 4in. The wearing of these cum-
The Royal Statistical Society, urg-running his store is his own business deavouring to attain to greater airmen of experience have actually bersome wood and metal relics (for ing that unemployment should be and nobody's else. altitudes. For ordinary purposes of seen even greater views. Thepresent they came from the church situated incinded, says: At present it is. One of the complaints made by the aerial travel there will probably be writer, when over mid-Channel, has on his own estate, near Trers of extremely difficult to estimate the employes is that Lewis would not very little reason, for many years to seen on one hand England, from which province he was formerly the actual Working force of the popula- have redheaded or auburn haired come, for exceeding 10,000 feet; Brighton round the coast to Essex Govenor), must have been a source tion, and consequently an essential girls on his staff, and that if a girl hennaed her hair," she was dit- nevertheless, flights to 25,000 and and inland to the Thames valley of great physical inconvenience, to factor in the computation of the na upwards are frequently made.
and, on the other hand, France 100 the old man. Yet he was never tional wages bill, and therefore of missed. The difficulties are familiar and miles inland. But from 7,000 or without them and swore that hut for the national income, depends on many The reduced lifting power 8,000-feet-and-upwards the more them be would have been dead long To remedy the giving of incorrect!
hazardous approximation." of the planes, the diminished power distant view is shrouded in grey mist. ago.
ages by people of both sexes it is suggested that the date of birth, in stead of the age last birthday, should be given.
ments. He had travelled widely, He had moved in a world of "bons viveurs," "flaneurs," cynics, and sceptics of the highest order. He At heights so far attained, by had read Schopenhauer, Kart, airmen and aeroplanes have already Haecke, and Nietzsche; and he had,
SHAPE OF THE EARTH.
of the engines, the extreme cold, and· Usually, too, in such great distances Prince Shirinsky Shikhmatoff was the danger of asphyxiation are so, there are clouds enough to constitute a man of no mean intellectual attain- well known that new experiments are a ring of impenetrable haze, its upper not likely to throw much light surface of sun-lit peaks and pinnacles. upon them. The breaking of records, of course, gives a certain amount of fame for pilot, engine, and machine; but unless the sum of human know ledge be increased thereby reached 35,000 feet-no impression in spite of all this, succeeded in re practical-minded world may well be of the convexity of the earth's taining that sublime faith of which indifferent.
surface is obtained. On the con- children and some women-seem Such experiments, however, are trary an illusion of concavity is to be capable .pioneer work done by no means pre-inevitable; for, while the horizon is maturely, but with a view to the day os a level with the eye, the mind is
when the charted, steady, swift cur rents in the regions between 15,000 and 30,000 feet will be systematically
used in serial navigation.
BOTTLED OXYGEN,
ZASTER RELAXATION,
ing on the same plane, suffering the simply poor human brothers, dwell- same hardships and misfortunes, thrilled by the same divine emotions
The school of sorrow is a wonder. ful school. Likewise the school of terror. One does not grow accustom When the news of the serviceed to terror in the same degree aware of altitude, and subconscious spread through the prison. Prince In Moscow, jailterror was always with reasoning, creates the illusion. ΣΟ what height it would be necessary Shirinsky Shikhmatoff immediately one morning, noon, and night. Ter
became active. Be bade those pri- ror does not grow old. Sorrow dies to go in order to see that the earthsoners at work in the carpenter's shop and is reborn, nightly. All through the is round, one must leave the make ready the deal altar. He himself service I noticed many a wretched From the earliest days of balloon mathematicians to determine: it does painted images and emblazoned or being whose doom was due periodic ing airmen had sought the higher re not appear likely that man will ever dinary pillow slips with crosses of ally glance round the door leading gions, and many remarkable advent attain it, unless the American's ures and a
few tragedies had project of being shot out of a cannon scarict and, gold, until they were into the corridor. by which a firing
One of in a windowed shell should ever banners, and beautiful book marks.
transformed into altar-cloths,religious party could enter. marked their progress. the earliest ̈ was the ascent of materialise. Glaisher and Coxwell in a balloon in 1862, when both aeronauts lost consciousness, recovering in time to make a good landing. They reached an unknown altitude, probably not less than 36,000 feet. They had no equipment of bottled oxygen to maintain life.
"Our hair is our own," say the strikers.
Lewis bas been in the public eye. before now, owing to differences with his ground landlord. Lord Howard de Walden. A few years ago Lewis wanted to add to his store certain adjoining premises, which de Wal- den refused to lease to him. Lewis thereupon exhibited big boards with de Walden's monument of iniquity" such inscriptions as "Lord Howard De Walden sued for libel and got a farthing damages, but Lewis con-
tinued to exhibit his notice boards, charging the "Young Baron with trying to imprison his old tenants, " and finally Lord de Walden, amused at the old man's pertinacity,, gave way and extended the lease as Lewis wanted.
The upshot of the present dispute between the typical Englishman and what he describes as accursed trade unionists who live idle lives at the expense of the workers" is awaited.
with keen curiosity.
SCAVENGING DECREE.
CITIZENS TO CLEAN UP RUSSIA,
1. THE FRING PARTY. I was fortunate in having preserved Presently the fraucons : grinding Contrary to a popular belief, apart several pieces of cloth of gold, which sound of a great key turning in the from the cold and the lack of oxygen. I had succeeded in acquiring from great lock reechoed through the. both of which can be provided Bolshevist looters on my journey to prison's-hollow womb. A firing party against, there is no discomfort and Moscow. These I presented to the entered, and passed up one of the no vertigo at great heights in an Anchbishop. I had fortunately con-iron staircase, their rifles banging aeroplane or a balloon. Nor is the cealed them among the small supply against the iron work at every step. descent precipitate of unduly rapid. of spare clothing at my disposal, and They passed upstairs in quest of shes a remarkable programme head. The Petrogradskaya Parda publi. Thus, in an aeroplane, even though had used them to make my barren their prey, and the prison rang with ed: "Washing and disinfection of In 1875 three Frenchmen, the engine fail, the descent is gradual cell a little more festive in ap their mocking laughter as they Russia"-based on a decree of Lenin Tissandier, Sivel
Spinelli, and easy. Even supposing a descent pearance. and
observed the celebration of the of March 7th. After April 15th all attempted
The cells remained open the whole Eucharist, which was then proceed able-bodied Petrograd citizens, in- were made by parachute from 20,000. great altitude in a 2 balloon, carrying with them bags feer, the contact with the ground of Easter Day and the prisoners were ing in the great prison corridor clading women and children over 8 gentle (about like allowed to take part in the building before the draped deal altar. A years, must devote three hours a filled with oxygen mixed with air would be as At 27,000 ft. the two last named Jumping off a four foot wall as a of the sorry makeshift altar and the shiver ran through the entire assem day to the general cleaning up. All- hundred and one other little arrange bly. The priest officiating took not dirt and rubbish must be removed were suffocated, having lost power descent from only 1,000 fest. to inhale from the bags. Tissandier Parachute descent from 5,000 feet ments which went to conjure forth the slightest notice, but went on from farmhouses and from the also lost consciousness, but recovered may take as long as forty five wonder, mysticism, and beauty out with his holy duties without any streets, and deposited од the
Apparently, in an aeroplane, owing minutes.
of emptiness. The Archbishop and visible signs of trepidation.
Nevaice. Every house must organise other priests who were to officiate Then something infinitely more
a" repair gang", and mend, "as far The had been permitted to take to prison dramatic occurred. The Governor as material is available," all broken,
windows and doors, holed ficoring,
A
to the rush of air, the height a:| 'The normal descent in the aero which it becomes necessary to resort plane takes quite a long time. to "artificial" oxygen is greater writer was recently in a machine with them all things connected with of the prison went up to the Arch- than in a balloon. In the latter it is which became crippled at 7,800 ft. their holy calling. It is really a bishop and whispered something to and roofs. Courtyards must be cleans "advisable to inhale oxygen as soon and the descent took eighteer wonder that they were allowed to him, The Archbishop merely bowed and all rooms in which there been
as the altimeter indicates 20,000 feet, minutes. From a height of 25,000 retain these. I can only explain it Led his bead to show he had heard, aviators, on the other hand had gone ft. an average sort of aeroplane by the fact that all Russians have to 25,000 feet without serious trouble. would not take much less than forty some religion hidden away some In all the record-breaking attempts five minutes unless the pilot desired where in their complex beings, no oxygen is taken up in a compressed a steep descent.
matter what politics they may profess.
form; the airman, indeed, is equipped rather after the fashion of a diver, with helmet enclosing his head, and special clothing.
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PRAYER AND FATE.
and continued to oficiate. After the cases of infectious disease since Feb- ruary must be disinfected," Drastic service, he gave us a short, moving penalties will be imposed on adults address, prayed for us, and blessed who neglect these duties, and if chil us. Then a guard approached and dren neglect to help their parents he was led away. Some say that he will be held responsible. was shot, others that he was liber- The service began at 11 p.m. and ated I am inclined to think the lasted almost till 2 a.m. It was latter, because I know that the Bol most inspiring. The priests, all of shevists at that time were prepared BRITISH WAR-MEMORIAL. whom I knew personally, were to propitiate the populace of Moscow, magnificent, earnest, calm, and col who were getting somewhat out of lected. The whole atmosphere was tand, owing to the swift advance of replete with tragedy and beauty. Koltchak's Army. The Bolshevists, The Angel of Death seemed to have as a sop to popular feeling, allowed spread his gloomy pinions, hovering priests to hold Easter services in the over the very altar. The heavy churches of Moscow, and I believe it clouds of blee incense smoke was for this purpose that the Arch- pervaded the whole prison. A bishop was temporarily liberated. ·- illustration of the proposed memorial,
And so ended Easter Day in Bon- procession was formed and the Archbishop visited and blessed each tirka Jail. The following day the cell, sprinkling holy water around."
authorities, no doubt regretting their The prisoners then grouped them sudden lapse in severity, ordered the selves around the altar. To study cells to be locked; and we all return their faces was pathetic. Not a ed to the ordinary routine of prison man there but knew that he might life, & life which seems to have no be called upon to die at any beginning and no ending. moment. Many wept, and many voices faltered in their singing.
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which will be erected in the Legation grounds, is given, and the Committee state that they have placed the order for the work in the hands of an Aberdeen firm and are therefore desirous ofreceiving the subscriptions without delay.
A list of the 21 British subjects definitely associated with Siam who made the supreme sacrifice during the war and whose names will appear on the memorial, is given.
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