WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 26, 1998.
BOY CORNWELL, `V.C.
FAMILY IN WANT.
MEDAL PAWNED.
There will be a scene at a Lon-i don station which should make the whole nation blush with shame.
Lily Cornwell, the beloved and orphaned sister of Jack Cornwell, V.C., the boy hero of the Battle of Jutland, has left England for Canada because she was unable to earn a living in England.
Meanwhile £35,000 collected by the Red Cross Fund and £6,000 collected by the East Ham Rund, for a memorial to Jack Comwell, is still "in hand" with added interest for six years, and Lily cannot touch a penny of it.
The story of the neglect of Jack Cornwell's mother and sister is one
At the age of sixteen Lily was cut entirely adrift by the Ministry of Pensions, and but for a little voluntary assistance she would have been in dire straits.
NO Y.M.C.A. IN RUSSIA.
THE REASONS..
"Why is the Y. M. C. A. not in; Russia?"
This candid question was put to Mr. Sherwood Eddy in Russia itself by another American clergyman Dr. Sydney Strong, who records the equally candid reply in the Chicago paper Unity. There were two reasons, giren as follows:
I. Because it is looked upon as capitalist organisation. It receives its chief support from big capital- 1st and therefore must be counter revolutionary. The Salvation Amy was recently invited to leave Russia for the same reason, 2 During the war an Englishman posing as a Y. M. C. A. man acted as a spy and ras subsequently knighted in England and also hon-
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of the greatest scandals of the war.oured by the New York Y.M.C.A. All claims against the Steamer mut His father died while serving in "There is another reason," ad- be presented to the Undersigned on or the war. Jack perished at Jutland. ded Mr. Hecker, another Ame-before the 10th Jan; or they will not His mother and sister were left to rican who, was present.
When be recognized. eke, out a precarious existence. | the Y, M. C. A. was lo Russia after. Mrs. Comwell collapsed under the the Revolution, Mr. Colton, who strain and died.
was in charge, was well liked. When, however, England and America put an embargo Russia, Mr. Colton received orders to come out. The.Soviet Governed ment requested that he remain. The reply was given that the New York office stated that it required inoney. Thereupon the Soviet Government offered
to grant $100,000 for the work, However the Y. M. C. A. was withdrawn. After that Y. M. C. A. men were found helping Kolchak's army. It will be a long time, I fear, be- fore the Soviet Government can forget this. When the Y. M. C. A. withdrew its organisation, its WAS formally tried in the courts and declared hostile to Russia and its property confiscated."
Her sister's husband, another war hero, disabled in France, has been unemployed for months and unable to support his wife and three children, and the family has had to seek parish relief. He has there- fore decided to go to Canada, whence Lily's young brother has already gone, woking the girl with him.
To raise money for the fares they sold their furniture for £60, and friends supplemented this sun, as the family wanted warm clothing on reaching Canada.
It is a fact in their extremity they had to pawn one of Jack's medals, They embarked on November 8, leaving Jack under a monument in Manor Park Cemetery, East Ham,
and £40,000 lying dormant for al future memorial in bricks and mortar.
HER SHARE.
The nearest the family have got to receiving assistance in their poverty from this huge sum was when Mrs. Cornwell was promised the tenancy of one of the houses which the East Ham fund hope to build some day!
It is to be hoped that the great Dominion to which Lily went will care for her more than did the country for which her brother and her father died.
THE
RESTAURANT QUEST.
DROWNED GIRL'S LAST
MEAL
The problem of how Miss Ivy Elizabeth Hill, the 18-year-old Camberwell girl whose body was found in the Thames met her death is one of the most bafBing that have ever confronted the police.
LEFT HOME SINGING,
After playing with her sister's baby
October 7, On
she said she Was going out to buy sweets. Ten minutes later, returning for an umbrella, she reported that a funny old man was following her. She left quite LUCKY POLLOCKS. happy and was never seen alive again, her, body being recovered from the Thames ten days later. It is a fortunate thing to be born The little evidence that has come a Pollock, particularly if you intend to hand regarding Miss Hill's to follow the law as a profession. movements only serves to deepen Sir Ernest Pollock's recent appoint- the mystery. People who knew her ment to the Mastership of the Rolls all say that she had no apparent is only one more addition to the worries. long list of legal offices that have, been held by his family. The She was happy at business and new Master of the Rolls is the son happy at home. She was jolly of George Frederick Pollock, throughout the day on which she Queen's Remembrancer and Senior disappeared and left home singing. Master of the High Court, who was A woman friend, the last person the fourth son of the first baronet, to see her alive, says that when she Sir Frederick Pollock, the famous saw her leave a tramway-car at the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Elephant and Castle half an hour Exchequer, who had nineteen after she left home, she did not look children and is said, when on worried in any way and was walk- circuit, to have written a note to ing towards her home. The river every one of them every day. The was in the apposite direction, Lord Chief Baron was one of the Medical evidence shows that three sons of David Pollock, a she had a fairly heavy meal about saddler of Charing Cross, whose an hour before her death; and her other sons were Sir David Pollock, relatives are emphatic that this Chief Justice of Bombay, and Field- meal was not eaten at home or at Marshal Sir George Pollock, at one the house of any relative. It is time Constable of the Tower of believed that she had only 6d. when London.
she left her sister's house. The second baionet, Sir William Until they can establish fresh Pollock, was for years Senior links in the chain the police will Master of the Supreme Court and be unable to say whether Mist Hill Queen's Remembrancer, positions met her death by accident, suicide, afterwards held by his fourth son, orfoul play. Suicide is discredited the father of the Master of the by everyone who knew her. Rolls. The present baronet, Sir, "OLD MAN" INQUIRIES. Frederick, who was born in 1845, The police are actively interview-
is a great constitutional lawyer, the ing everyone known to have been editor of the LawReports, a bencher acquainted with the dead girl, and of Lincoln's Inn, and the author of one line of inquiry is to establish innumerable legal volumes. Al whether anyone else has been trou- though Sir Frederick is nearly bled by a "funny old man"-the eighty, he still has an uncle living only description Miss Hill gave of who is only four years his senior, her shadower.
Sir Edward Pollock, one of the Another important clue the police official referees of the Supreme are seeking is as to where the dead, Court, who, it will be remembered, girl obtained the meal. Re recently tried the famous antique staurants and other likely places furniture case.
have been visited very far afield, Among other distinguished but at present no clue of any im Pollocks of the present generation portance has been yielded. are Sir Adrian Pollock, the Rej membrancer of the City of London, While walking, home with his whose father, Major-General Sir wife from the surgery of a doctor Richard Pollock, was the seventh who, the wife states, had certified
of the Lord Chief Baron; him fit to resume work, Edward | Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Nor Page, 26, a milkman, of Park-lane, wich, brother of the New Master of Tottenham, N., dropped dead in the Rolls; Walter Herries Pollock, Fore-street, Edmonton, “ the younger brother of the present
son
baronet, who was for many years: The Rev. A. W. R. Little, of editor of the Saturday Review, and Blackpool, who cut short a sermon whose son, Guy Pollock, is now by his curate, the Rev. F. W. C. assistant editor of the Daily Woollett, because of references to Express; and John Pollock, the personal matters, bas received a only son of Sir Frederick, himself letter from the Bishop of Manches a distinguished writer. Altogether ter expressing the opinion that be some family!
acted rightly.
The Kuguos, one of the most, wat- The Northampton Conservatives like peoples of the mountain pro-are gending the Prime Minister an vinces of the Philippines are becomi- oxpression of regret that hã was not ing more friendly to the lowland officially welcomed on the occasion settle in that Province, and have of his recent visit, and are asking started trading with them, it is re-him to address a mesting in North, ported in Manila.
ampton abortly.
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