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IRISH ATTACKED.
CIVILISATION IS “NOTHING TO THEM”
G. B. 8.'S ADVICE.
London, Dec.. 1.
CHEQUE FRAUDS.
"MOST DANGEROUS GANG."
STIFF SENTENCES."
London, Dec. 20. "My advice to America is not to Four members of what the send a single cant to Ireland ever Judge described as "a most dan again for shoes or anything else, gerous gang," who carried out wrote Mr. George Bernard Shaw in wholesale cheque frauds on banks B remarkable and provocative all over the country, were son article in yesterday's issue of the tenced at the Old Bailey yester- "Yorkshire Evening News."
day.
"Judge Henry Neal," Mr. Shaw adds, "has visited my native town of Dublin. He is very properly
Former Senator Atlee Pomerene, Government attorney in the ol casos against Fall and Sinciale.
OLD BARONETCY.
COMPLEX GENEALOGICAL TREE UNRAVELLED.
TITLE REVIVED,"
THE CHINA MAIL,
London, Dec. 1. An old baronetcy was revived and, therefore, a new baronet con- firmed in his title, by the Bar- onctcy Committee, of the Privy council on Nov. 30.
Major Alexander Elphinstone, of Glack, in Scotland, who lives in Kildare Terrace, Bayswater, is the man who has made good his right to the title.
William Stevens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, Benjamin Harper to 20 months' imprisonment in the Second Divi-
He claimed from the Privy {sion, John Francis Kingsley Council Committee a declaration O'Connor to 20 months' imprison-that he was the rightful heir to ment with hard labour, and Luke the baronetcy in Scotland granted Donegal to 12 months imprison to Sir James Elphinstone of Logie
in 1701 by William III.
ment in the Second Division.
A Detective-Inspector declared that Harper and Donegal had aa- sociated with the adventures, Josephine O'Dare, who was sen- tenced in June last to four and a half years' pénal servitude for forgery, while O'Connor had been engaged in the white slave traffic.
"Times of Ceylon."
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PRAYER BOOK. LORD BIRKENHEAD'S BITING COMMENT.
London, Dec. 20.
In a letter to "The Times" on the Revised Prayer Book, Lord Birkenhead says that the hysteri- cal decision of the House of Com- mons, under the influence of very crude anti-Poppy speeches, is con- demned to complete futility.
The Bishops have been depriv- ed of disciplinary powers, every clergyman knowing that in prac- tice he can, with impunity, employ the Revised Prayer Book.
"Every clergyman who wishes to will, in my opinion, be wise in so doing," he states.
ashamed of the condition of the children there, and he asks me to Lord Birkenhead is amazed at second his appeal to America to the debate in the House of Com-- send, I forget how many thousand mons, the speeches in which had He pairs of shoog and stockings to been acclaimed as decisive. clothe them. It is certainly more thought that if these speeches sensible than sending them hand-had been competently answered, kerchiefs to cope with bare feet they would not have influenced and wet fings.
a schoolboys' debating society.
"Ireland is perfectly well able to feed and clothe her children if she chooses. It is a mistake to suppose she is poor. She is only an incor- rigible beggar-which is not the same thing.
con-
For the first time since I left the House of Commons I have re- gretted having done so," tinues Lord Birkenhead, "for I believe that I could have made an adequate reply.”
"She persuades you that except
It is understood that at a pri- for a corner in: Ulster where aj
vate conference of Diocesan. handful of bigoted enemies of hers Bishops of the Provinces of Can- build ships and make linens, she is penniless:
"Do not believe her. The trade of the Irish Roman Catholic South in butter and cattle and agriculture generally representa far more money than the shipyards and mills of Belfast. Co-operation can de-
velop this agricultural industry by leaps and bounds. It has already
done so.
"Bad Mother." Ireland can afford a pair of good shoes and a couple of changes of
warm woollen stockings every week for every one of her children, and If she is a bad mother and prefers to leave the children barefooted and hungry while she is enjoying her.
terbury and York, the opinion was expressed that a one-night de- bate in the House of Commons was too short to expect the House to deal with such a highly techini- cal document as the Revised Frayer Book
Some of the Bishops hold the would be forthcoming if the Book view that the necessary support were brought up next session in
the House of Commons.
In a speech, the Bishop of London declared:-
"We are not downhearted, and we are going to make the Church
keep her self-respect."
horse shows, and the routine of so. sport and fashion generally, I do
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HEROIC WIFE.
PLEA TO SHARE HUSBAND'S *FATE.
A RUSSIAN OFFICER,
The heroism of the English wife of a Russian officer, how she sought to share bis Imprisonment after the Red revolution, and how to gain her ends she visited the head of the Cheka the Bolshevik secret police were related to Lord Merrivale in the Probate Division, London.
RIPPER CASE.
LOS ANGELES MURDER SENBATION,
-BANK EMPLOYEE MISSING.
SATURDAY
AMERICAN DEMAN
"FREEDOM OF THE SEAS."
FORTUNATE NEUTRALS.
Los Angeles, Dec.; 20.- The police claims that Marian
Washington, Nov, 27. With the reassembling, of Co Farker's murderer has been iden tiled, by means of finger-prints, a lated subjects will receive mus greas next week three closely r an ex-employee of the bank of attention. In their order of in which the murdered girl's father in portance they are the freedom the Manager, but the man has not the seas, the increase of th been captured.
Navy, and the outlawry of war. Excitement is still at fever-heat.
Of the three the freedom of th The rewards offered aggregate seas is the greatest threat to Br 100,000 dollars-Times of Ceytish interests and a continuan
The husband was Michael, Serge vitch de Plaoutine, a first-grade officer in the Czar's Royal Horse Artillery. His arrest and incar-lon.” ceration and his English wife's. [An earlier massage stated:— ceaseless search to trace him were Los Angeles, December 19-The related in the affidavit of Mme country has been thrilled with hor Selina de Plaoutine.
The afdavit was read when ap A complicated goncalogical tree plication was made to Lord Merri- was unravelled before the Com-vale to presume the death of de mittee (of which Lord Dunedin was the Chairman) by Mr. H. Macmillan, counsel for Major Elphinstone.
Into Abeyance.
The third baronet died in 1789, and left no heir. He was succeed ed by Sir John Elphinstone, his only surviving brother, who died unmarried in 1749. The baron- etcy fell into abeyance with the death of the fourth holder.
Plaoutine. The application was granted.
пате.
"A commissar entered the cell on September 4, 1918, and called 'de Plaoutine's
Since then he has not been heard of." This was one of the dramatic statements in the affidavit.
the applicants, who held a power of Mr. W. S. Tearle appeared for
Selina de Plaoutine." attorney for the widow, Mme:
General's Son
He stated
The right of the dignity de- Elphinstone, of Glack, who was Pleoutine was a volved on his third cousin, John
that Sergevitch de Bon of General
HKANY KILALA, NAPLES,
Mayor Thompson, of Chicago (right), leaving, the White House after showing President Coolidge a scrap book containing clippings relative to the flood conditions in the United States. Mayor
Thompson, known as the "stormy petrel of Chicago," headed a huge party of 2000. persons to Washington in the interest of food control legislation.
the grandfather in the male line of John Elphinstone, a member of the Council of Bombay under the Honourable East India Company, who was the great-grandfather in the male line of Major Elphin- stone,
It was announced by Lord would recommend the granting of Dunedin that the Committee the claim.
This is naturally rather a day of congratulation for me and for my family," said Major Elphin- stone to a "Daily Express" repre- sentative. "I have always known that I was the rightful baronet. The evidence of descent was so clear that Lord Dunedin was good enough to say that the claim was substantiated through every link of my ancestry. I can trace my lineage right back in an unbroken line to 1499, and did so before the Committee,
"When the claim has been for-
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, in- terviewed, said:
"We are really Protestants in self at hunt meetings, regattas, England, and we intend to remain "We do not want to feel that not ace why Americn should en- the fight of the 16th Century is courage her.
being again forced on us. "If you give a country girl in! "I wish that the Bishops had Ireland a pair of good bouts she will not gone so fast, apparently de-mally recommended the King will carry them in hor hand for miles to luded by the urging of extrem-send for me, and the baronetcy the fair of the market town, and ists."-"Times of Ceylon." ** will be accepted.". then put them on to make a fino show.
"What got at me when I walked about the slums of Dublin lately were the young women with the waxen faces, the scarlet patches on the cheeks, the pink, eyes, the shuffling, weary steps, representing. Dublin's appalling burden of con- sumption. They are not the pro- | duct of bare feet, but of wet feet in broken boots of Insanitary poverty generally,"
"When the police were driven from the streets by the week-long struggle for an Irish Republic in Easter, 1916, these people came out and began to pillage the shops as naturally as their neighbours a mile or so away pick up cockles on Sandymount Strand.
"Like Flies."
"Civilisation is nothing to them: They never had any. The priest came and drove them away as if they were flies. But the moment he passed on they came again like files. Civilisation means respect my life and property and I will respect yours. Slumdom means 'Disregard my life and property and I will disregard yours.
"Giving" money is no use. It is like people at a railway accident offering surgical Instruments; splints and bandages to one an- other, when there is nobody who knows how to use them. If you give shoes to a hungry child It will eat them (through the medium of the pawnbroker) and be just as hungry next week and the person. who gives the money or the shoes Instead of feeling like a scoundre because the chi misery, feels saintly played
renerous
Sergo de Flaoutine, who was aide- de-camp to Czar Alexander VII.
The father was a man of wealth and social and political standing. who lived in a large house near the Winter Palace in Petrograd.
De Plaoutine lived in Kostroma County, and was arrested, accord- many other nobles, officers, and civil ing to the widow's affidavit, with
was then confined in the prison of servants, on September 1, 1918. He Mofka, Petrograd.
ror at oneof the most terrible kidnapping crimes in history, The victim was Marian Parker, the 12 year-old daughter of a banker. She was decoyed from school by a man who said that her father had been injured in an accident. Her father later received a telephonic, demand for a ransom of 1,500 dollara, after which the following pathetic appeal was made by the child "Please, Daddy, do what this man don't. The father arranged an tells you. He will, kill me If you
interview and promised to bring the ransom. The rendezvous was at a lonely street corner. A car drew up and the driver displayed a revolver. He lifted up the girl, showing her face, remarking that she was asleep. Her father paid the money and the man drove off a short distance, placed the girl on the alde of the road, then drove away. The father rushed up and was agonised to find the girl was not merely dead, but she had been strangled and dismembered. The eyelids were propped up by means of wire. The police in aearching. for the miscreant found a note pinned to a fire alarm, threatening Marian's twin sister, Marjorie, with the same fate. Following hotfooter balit and where his
Cedar Grove Plantation, Mis Benator John Sharp Williams, gen a thousand senatorial guts, bas tleman, scholar, and veteran› of
- just celebrated his golden wedding,
with the wife of his youth, in
in the broad hallways that th
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dren were born. It's the cołobra. ton of a wealthy man-rich in the. things that are really worth while, that make bim and those around happy, rather than in ma- terial possessions.
on the foregoing crime comes news of a motorist having kidnapped a gir! in Pasadena, but the prompt action taken by the police led to the rescue of the girl and the capture of the man in Eaton's Canyon. Later: A man suspected of being the abductor of the late Marian Parker was arrested in a house of harmonious British-American overlooking the place where the relations. The last war, taugh girl's father met the kidnapper. He the Americans that the position gave the name of Gaylord Barna- of the neutral-when the belliger man, aged 24, and was charged with ents had the money to pay for "grand theft." An older man add a supplies-was most fortunate. woman have also been detained.]
BIG BAG
80 LIONS AND 10 LEOPARDS.
OPERATIONS IN MASAI,
Nairobi, Dec, 20.
The United States made money by furnishing the Allies. with munitions and foodstuffs, but I was the American grievance that they could not also sell to the Cen iral Powers. They objected to having their ships laden with contraband interfered" with.
Not to Happen Agaiu,
months ago, was employed by Influential body that they will They are now resolved--not all The white hunter who, four of them of course, but a large aud
Masal Reserve in order to kill The seas must be as free to all ma Government to proceed to the never allow that to happen again. Hons, which had made numerous tions in time of war as in peace, Mme. de Placutine remained in daring raids on Masai to the dan contraband must not be seized and Russia until 1920, and she made ger of life and property, has now a belligerent may not search a many inquiries about her husband returned, having killed 80 lions neutral vessel.
Mr. Tearle explained that the and 10 leopards and eradicated That is the modern interpreta- widow at great personal risk, visit the menace.
tion of the seductive phrase "the ex-freedom of the seas.
s." It is caus circles much anxious thought. Officials charged with the conduct of foreign relations sce clearly enough where the application of this doctrine may lead, but they cannot stand out against public opinion even if they wish to do
ed the head of the Cheka the He had many most exciting Bolshevist organisation for the periences and extremely narrowing responsible Government destruction of their enemies who escapes from death
was a woman, Comrade Stassova He was charged by a rhinocer-
"She asked to be allowed to go os, a buffalo and an elephant.
to the same prison as her husband," said Mr. Tearle, "In order that she
could share his lot." Mme. Stassova suid in the early part of 1919 heard the widow because she was 'How can you expect a man like an Englishwoman. Mme. Stassova your husband to be left alive?!””
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Coupled with this demand for the freedom of the seas is the means to enforce it, which ex- plains the strength of the Big Navy party in Congress. If ves sels with contraband are not to be searched and seized the United States must have the means to en- force its mandate, and the means to enforce it are 10,000 tons cruisers,
Rewriting Maritime Law. Naturally, that is not publicly admitted, but it is the naked truth. It is a challenge by the United States to the sea power of the world. It is an attempt by the United States to rewrite maritime law and the law of na tions to suit its particular require ments when other nations are at war and the United States is neutral
The pacifists and other persons opposed to war believe they can save the United States from be- coming; involved by treaties out- lawing-war and prohibiting Americans from trading with, an "aggressor", nation. Mr. Coolidge has found it necessary to warn the public that a treaty to “out- law war is an impossibility under
itutional system of the States as no treaty can hands of Congress, and has the sole power, to
eaty or no treaty.