WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1925.
THE NEW WAR.
TERRIBLE LESSONS. IN. STORE.
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Is Europe doomed to be bombed. and "gassed out of existence? Will the next war mean something approaching annihilation?
RISKY PROFESSION.
LIVING ON EDGE OF ACTIVE: VOLCANOES.
SOBS IN COURT,
GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH.
UNCONSCIOUS IN. THE DOCK.
THE CHINA MAIE.
NATION OF FOOLS."
DOCTOR'S ADVICE ON GAMES.
Of all exciting occupations which
Dr. J. Johnstone Jervis, the moh make their business or hobby,
| Leeds City, Medical Officer, in a that of studying volcanoes stands in the front rank. Some idea of
lecture at Leeds, had some caustic Mrs. Catherine Thorpe, aged 21, remarks to make on what he term the dangers involved are given in the Daily Mail: by a writer who Bradford shop assistant, was ed "unsportsmanlike sports Res who observes that the famous Mexican found guilty at the West Ridingmembering the numbers
and cricket, volcano, Popocatepetl, beloved of Assizes at Leeds of the murder of watched football
instead of plaving them, he said, generations of schoolboys for its Herbert Musgrove, aged 23, 藏 he was inclined to call Britain "a tonguetwistingly quaint name, is pianist, who was stabbed in Aircraft In
in eruption, after a sleep of $400 years. Eminent volcanologists are hurrying to the spot.
Let there be no doubt about it; unless air power is regulated and controlled it will destroy civilisa. tion itself," is the answer made hy Mr. J. M. Spaight, author of "War Rights on Land "ard War," in his new book, "Air Power and War Rights"
Aircraft," declares Mr. Spafght, "has a terrible lesson in store for mankind Shall we ever learn the lesson properly until it is hurled to us in thander and dune?
MILITARY OBJECTIVES.
A queer profession is volcano. iterally a volcanologist is a Boy logy, twin-sister of seismology, Who Stands on the Burning Deck.
"fire
When a volcano has been quies- Sometimes one doubts whether| we shall. It is admitted that air cent for so many years that it may raids will be far more terrible in reasonably be considered to be future was than they were in extinct, it ceases to attract atten. 1918-but it is doubtful whether; tion.. But several big the appalling menace to civilisa-mountains" that are merely slum- tion is grasped by the general bering uneasily have their official watch-dogs, ever vigilant and busy public.
with their tests and observations, up in a little observatory near the "It is doubtful whether such" in of the bubbling crater. rules for alr bombardment as thinsei. In addition to the permanent drawn up by the jurists at The stations, temporary observatories Hague in January-February, 1923. are set up, ever and anon, by will save the world's great cities parties of watch dogs," well
Europe, according to Mr versed in the ways of earthquakes. Spaight has at present no and eruptions, when word comes protection against the wholesale of a volcano that apparently Alaughter of the populations of intends to give trouble. great cities-or any cities or towns! The practical result of all the or villages-by an almost untinit ed bombardment by aeroplanes in thousands, dropping two-ton bombs.
Death will be rained by the warnings as to its probable extent square mile. Towns will he and direction; 50 that' lives blown, burned, and asphyxiated can be saved to extinction. Neither side will removed from what, it is real be able to protect its people. All it will be able to do will be to bomb the other side. The papula tions on both sides will be slaughtered
The hole in The Hague rules, according to Mr. Spaight, is this: They solemnly declare that military objectives alone are to be Hable to bombardment, but they obligingly and tactfully
are
steadily accumulating mass of observations is a dossier of data that enables many an eruption to be foreseen lo ime to give,
and property.
The
sed, will be track of the lava rivers. Sometimes these warnings can be given even weeks ahead. town of St. Peirre, Martinique, that was overwhelmed by Mount Pelée, had a fortnight's warning, bur neglected to profit by it..
One of the most exciting experi. ences of "volcano watchdogs" of recent years was during the big eruption of Kilauea, when a party
MR4 MRS. JACK SALDO A MES, A B WOODSUN
For two years. Mrs. A. B. Wandsen, wealthy society lender, sought her daughter. Mary, who had mysteriously disappeared. When she finally found her daughter, she found she was Mrs. Mary Seldo, wife of John Seldo, bakery wagon driver, fing in a modest little fat. Hardly had the society dowager granted pateroul forgiveness than Selde was arrested on a charge of violating a purule in failing te report regularly after his release from jail where he had been serving A sentence on a burglary charge.
comes a
THE KNOCK-OUT BLOW.
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WILLIAM M. HITT,
After blank period of eight months which resulted from a blow, on the head while swimming, William Maya Hit, wealthy electřieni coni tructor and engineer has been restor ed his memory, through scientify
treatment.
anation of fools, not of sportsmen
Explaining the physiological effects of athletic exercises, Dr. Jervis said "that tired feeling" more frequently came from too little use of the muscles than from too much
Exercise should be taken regularly, and not in the evenings, when the body was tired, but in the early mornings The Greeks and the Romans hold their public games early in the morning. The play should not be such as would fatigue the body but'enough to stimulate it.
Bradford street on the night of January.In. Mr. Justice Branson
her to death. sentenced
She
swooned in the dock.
The jury made a strong recom mendation to mercy, saying that there was "great provocation.”.
Mrs. Thorpe, who wore a black, close-fiting hat and a fur-trimn ed coat, wept as she pleaded not guilty and was apparently on the verge of collapse.....:
"BECAUSE I LOVE HIM."
Mr. E. A. Mitchell-Innes, KC, prosecuting, described the murder as deliberate and premeditated.. Mrs. Thorpe was living apart from her husband and. Musgrove was [separated from his wife. Mrs.
Thorp, had made certain allega tions against Musgrove, and on the night before his death she said, "T' do you in. Next day. she obtained a butcher's knife. When Musgrove was stabbed she became bysterical and said." "1f I have done it, it is because I love him."
Witnesses for the prosecution' having repeated evidence given at the police court, Mrs. Thorpe was called for the defence and had to he assisted from the dock to the witness box. Ta
In a voice scarcely above a whisper she said she was married at 18. left her husband, went back to him in 1923, and left him again in August 1924 because he hit her. She first met Musgrove a fortnight before Christmas at an hotel where ) he played the piano. She became fond of him, and he promised to Take her into rooms as a permanent arrangement. She had some trouble with him over money that she had lent him.
THE BUTCHER'S KNIFE. When asked about the knife Mrs. Thorpe broke down, and when her counsel aquired, "Why
I did you take a butcher's knife?
she subbed, "To frighten him." 11
WAS
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
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"THE SEVENTH DAY."
In "The Seventh Day." coming to the Queen's Theatre to-day, in " which Richard Barthelmess is starred, a contrast between the lives of people who think that toil is the punacea for all troubles and the butterfly type of people found to-day in the cities, is portrayed. Mr. Barthelmess takes the part of a young sailor who is serving an apprenticeship before the mast before his uncle makes him the master of his own ship. The to the shallow life that is lived by young sailor is entirely oblivious
the luxuriant class of the city and becornes enmeshed by the beauti his awakening occurs when he ful eyes that pretty Louise Huff,
escape Mr. Volstead's act.
he plays opposite him, turns an him. The unsophisticated young sallor, taking everybody as sin- Since the best effect came from awakening when he realizes that cerely as himself, later has a real the direct play of sunlight upon he has been used as a gay yacht. the naked skin, the player shoulding party that had put to sea to The as nearly nude as possible
Even in the climate of Leeds a idincloth should suffice. Games so played would revivity the blood and replenish, flagging physical resources. Britain claimed to be a nation of sportsmen but one must discriminate, said Dr. Jarvis, be tween: the Wend and the amphitheatre. The men of the arena were the men playing the game, not the thousands of spacca- tors. The spectator might talk sport a1 ary length; he might wear club colours, but he was not
a sportsman,
The romance between this seri- ous minded son of the sea and the society girl is one that takes an unusual course and the ending is brought about in, a most unusual way.
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PINKETTES
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Speaking of the Importance of a wise choice of games, the doctor called football, cricket, and rowing A1 games for Ai men. The Ba man, hall a crock or middle- gud, played goit (Laughter.) The Clothes nur in nighstick headaches. man, wholly a crock; was cor tent chemists, or pe fren, conta the vial; bition attacks and offeave broath 01 with bowls. If one wanted illus- frem D trations of premature senility one
With mosticine Co., 60 might find them abundantly on the bowling green.
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PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL"
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MRS. HOTALING $ ECHOTTALANG, WI,
An attempt to poison, Mex: Lavinia Hotaling and Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hotaling, the cider Mrs. Hotuling and her son heirs to the £1,000,000 estate of the Inte A. P. Hataling, has been reported to the police. An unknown parsun is said to have substituted a bottle of milk containing a deadly poison for the regular daily allotment of milk at the Hotaling home. Although Hotaling crank some of the milk before discovering its natore, his life was saved by nausea.
PEAK CHURCH.
"
SLEEPING TIME."
She did tell the barman at an. The Right Rev. Bishop Duppuy EXPERIMENTS WITH FRUIT. vague XS to what military of plucky American volcanologists hotel that she was going to do presided over the annual meet- objectives are."
camped all night at the foot of a someone in," but she smiled when ing of the Committee of the Feik The first consignment of Kenya- After the 1914-1918 war, almost line of fountains of fiery froth three she said it, thinking" she everything may be regarded as a times the height of Cleopatra's saying "something clever." " Church, held at St. John's Cathe- grown fruit is due to arrive at Covent Garden, soon. There are military objective." The whole Needle. It' was 'splen- When she met Musgrove she dral Hail yesterday evening. The goo cases, mainly fruit such as nation is engaged on some kind of did spectacle, the war work, and every town, every incandescent molten rock spurting their conversation Musgrove was tion of Mr. P. Jacks seconded by which the colony attaches great
blindingly had the knife in her hand. During accounts, adopted on the proposi~ plums.
The cargo is an experiment to works, every public building be up in continuous jets from the pushing her about, and he
war centre, and since fountain cones, like monstrous eventually called her a foul name. Dr. J. H. Sanders, showed collec-importance. The difficulty attend.. every town contains works every Roman candles. For all their There was a struggle and she did Lions averaging a little higher ing the growing of English fruits town may be bombed, with the intrepidity, however, they must not know how the knife touched than last year. people in it
The printing has been the absence of a winter have had moments of feeling that him.
| account was a little inflated owing season. home was not such a bad place She had no intention of doing to the publicity given to the
While the summer climate: of The next war may be over be the morning, the fiery fountains not live without him," she added.
after all when, about o'clock in any injury to Musgrove. "I could summer services,
England can be asswed-you fore, the armies begin London, had shot up to a greater height
The suggestion of Dr. Sanders choose the climate you desire here of Paris, or Berlin, or Birmingham than St. Paul's Cathedral! The Thorpe had to be helped to her Peak Church by the late Mr higher or a lower elevation-no On hearing the verdict Mrs. that the legacy bequeathed to the by selecting your plateau at a may be reduced to heaps of smouldering ruins, tangled with first blow-off of gas flowed 12 and while the judge was passing un endowment fund received the
river of lava that ensued 'after this feet and supported by wardresses. Bowdler be used as the nucleus of one has yet accomplished" au | corpses, before a land battle has miles down the forested mountain senter.ce she sobbed convulsively support of the Committee and it England or South Africa finds
English winter. been fought. Air power will go side to the sea.
Thus the tree imported from for the knockout blow as soon as
Her head drooped; tears streamed was agreed to recommend such a itself kept at hard work, so to war is declared or before.
from her closed eyea; and when procedure to the trustees... the Judge concluded with the The question of the provision words, May the Lord have mercy of a new altar carpet was left to on your soul," she was unconscious. the Ladies' Guild to decide and She was carried from the dock by that of the provision of a com- a policeman.
munion rail made subject to the report of the architects.
STUDENT VISITORS,
Bombing, thinks Mr. Spaight, should be limited to property- any properly used for the purposes of the war and should be allowed only at night, when marks can hit On a visto local industries are more certainly than by day, a number of students from the Night-bombing would not involve Canton Industrial School,
speak, the whole year round, with out a rest. It fruits and blossoms at the same time; which is bad for bloom and fruft.
But after much experiment in the direction of making a sleeping time," for the tree large luscious and excellent English fruits have
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