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"TIDAL BORE.”.
Cause of Disastrous Floods.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.
Extensive Measures For Relief OF Sufferers.
Rugby, Yesterday.
WORLD FLIGHT.
From London to Singapore. RETURN VIA CHINA.
Cargo And Passengers To Be Picked Up.
London, Yesterday, Two ex-Flying Officers, J. S.
COTTON CRISIS.
Expenditure on Social Services.
MUNICIPAL OUTLAYS,
Longer Hours And Less Wages For Employees?
London, Yesterday: Following the meeting of the
This afternoon the high tide in the Thames was anxiously await- Newall and Neville Vincent, left Federation of Master Cotton ed by the riverside inhabitants the Stag Lane Aerodrome, London, and barricades were keenly this morning on a world flight via watched by officials and work-France, Italy, Greece, Mesopotamia, men. The tide, however, caused India, and Singapore and back via no further flooding. Water China and Russia.
Spinners and the Manufacturers' and Spinners' Association, the two reports, which were forward- ed to the operatives' Unions with a view to a joint conference to
| trickled through the barricades at In addition to Messrs. Nowall consider the conclusions, are now
Lambeth, but these were quickly and Vincent the Air Force mem- published. strengthed. No further overflow bera' party, which is using two
The federation of Master Cot
is expected if the rain and wind three-seater aeroplanes, includes a ton Spinners recommends the hold off, and the river should sub-photographer, Mr. Childs, an en- immediate readjustment of
The return of a splendid film based on the story which inspired the famous opera-
La
Boheme
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LILLIAN GISH
and
LILLIAN DISH JOHN 'OILBERT
•ŵ LA BOHEME"
side normally after to-morrow.gineer, Mr. King, and Mrs. Wise Gnances "by a scheme thoroughly JOHN GILBERT"
Lord Desborough, Chairman of Parker who will be a passenger as clarifying their position" in the the Thames Conservancy, review- far as Cairo.
case of Companies financially un- ed the flood situation at a meeting The airmen intend to use their able to compete. The Government of the Conservancy to-day. He machines between India and Sin- should most strongly and con- attributed Friday's disastrous gapore to pick up cargo and pas-tinually receive representations to floods, in which 14 lives were sengers at various ports-Reuter. lost, to an inrush of water from the North Sea "amounting al- most to a tídal bore."
reduce the expenditure on social services by Local Authorities and it should similarly be exorted to reduce Municipal expenditure.
Fatality to Airman.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Air Ministry announces that He said that the wet period pre- as a result of an accident at They also recommend an exten- ceding Christmas Day resulted in Hinaldi Aerodrome to à Bristol sion of hours to 521⁄4 weekly, a a flow of river rising from its fighter machine of No. 6 Army Co- reduction of the standard piece maximum capacity of 4,500,000,- operation Squadron, Mosul, to price list by 25 per cent., and the 000 gallons to 9,000,000,000 day, Pilot Officer Lionel Fisher, equivalent on other rates, and the gallons. That was a very serious Royal Air Force, plot of the air removal of Trade Union restric- amount of water. Then came the craft, was killed, and Lieutenant tions relating, to cleaning and-oil- heavy, snowfall of Christmas. If Sidney Hasarick, King's Own Yorking, “which materially reduce the snow had thawed quickly shire Light Infantry, attached to production.” those 9,000,000,000 gallons would the Irak levees, was dangerously have been increased to such an ex-injured.--British Wireless Service. tent that there would have been a record flood. Fortunately, the ΣΠΟΥ did not thaw until the 9,000,000,000 gallons had fallen to |4,600,000,000. In his opinion the volume of water in the river had very little to do with the disaster.
Dealing with the question of measures to prevent a repetition of such an occurrence Lord Desborough thought a remedy
MR. TIM HEALY.'
BANQUET TO MARK HIS
RETIREMENT,
TRIBUTE TO THE KING.
Dublin, Yesterday. There was a felicitous atmos- was to build a barrage across the phere at the banquet given by the estuary of the Thames from Executive Council in honour of Tilbury to Gravesend with locks in
it.
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Government's Attitude;
It is stated that the Govern-
ment may set up a commission of
| Inquiry Into the causes of disaster.
if the varioua river and a munici- pal authorities concerned desire such an investigation.
Co-
Central Relief Fund. Extensive measures are being taken for the relief of those who have had to leave their homes and those who have lost their be- longings. The Mayors of various boroughs of London are operating with the Lord Mayor in administering one central fund to which donations are coming. In freely. Those rendered destitute have already been supplied with the immediate necssities of food and clothing by church societies and soup kitchens. British Wire- less Service:
2,000 HOUSES DAMAGED.
Hundreds of Thousands for
Reduction of Charges.
The bleaching, dyeing, finish- ing, packing, and other organisa- tions having fixed standard charges should be asked to co- operate with the spinners and members with a view to securing A definite reduction of charges. The closest co-operation should be established between spinners, manufacturers, and machinists with a view to bringing merchant- ing to the highest state of efficiency.
The Federation adds that the decrease in production due to the reduction of hours to 48, is largely responsible for the present post- tion. It claims that the wages cut would represent only a 12 per cent. cut in current earnings, the larger working week practical ly making up the difference.
No Political Measures... The recommendations of the Manufacturers' Association are almost identical, but it considers that a wages reduction should be conditional on the operatives ac cepting increased hours. It urges the abolition of all political mea- sures as "handicapping the cot- ton trade in foreign competition.” It recommends an inquiry into freights and carriage charges. Reuter.
[A cable published on Saturday stated:-At a joint meeting of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations and the Cotton Spinners' and Manufac turers? Association to consider the employers' suggested reduc tion of wages by 12% per cent. and an extension of hours to 52 weekly, it was decided to request Mr. Tim Healy (Governor-Gen- the operatives to confer with the London,, Yesterday, eral of Irish Free State) on the employers as soon as possible. It is estimated that 2,000 eve of his retirement, Among The Unions intend to resist both houses and their contents were those who attended were the auggestions. The question of more or less seriously damaged in Roman Catholic and Protestant hours is likely to become the the Thames flood. The cost of re- Archbishops.
major issue as the workers have
Repairs.
Mr. T. M. Healy.
SPAN OF LIFE.
pairing them and the embank Mr. Healy spoke on British and long demanded a legalised 48. ments and roadways will run into Irish relationships and em- hours week.] hundreds of thousands sterling. phasised that the British during Lord Desborough, presiding at the past year had not interfered a meeting of the Thames Conser-in any Irish matter to the extent vancy Board, stated that the dis of a tittle or scintilla, while re- aster was not due to the flood garding the talk, of "our foreign water but to the high tide, almost King" he avered that "the latter amounting to a bore, rushing in is a gentleman. We know his from the North Sea-Reuter. pedigree and I wish we knew as much about those who talk of his Interference in Irish affairs."
Chicago, Yesterday. Mr. Cosgrave, presiding, wish- Mr. Albert Lasker, ex-Chair- ed Mr. Healy a well-earned rest, man of the United States Ship- enjoying the affection and admirping Board, and his wife have ation of everyone in Ireland-donated a million dollars to Beuter.
NOT A BOMB.
EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS IN MADRID.
NO FATALITIES
Madrid, Yesterday, With reference to the message vis Paris, cabled yesterday, it is ex- plained that it was not bomb-throw- ing but an explosion of fireworks in Ringo de Cordoba, in which sav- eral persons were injured. Nobody has died, so far.-
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BOME FOR SIBERIA,
Rika Yesterday:
· MILLION · DOLLARS. FOR RESEARCH WORK.
DONATION TO UNIVERSITY
Chicago University for the estab Hahment of a Lasker Foundation th Medical Research into the cause and prevention of disease among the middle-aged and old- aged with a view to, ascertaining how to prolong human life Reuter
a report from Hos. FRANCE
Kamenoff, Radek
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