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Remarkable cases of poverty After nine years of untold hard- among the English clergy have ahip, Mrs. Dora Jeffries, a British come to light. A committee of aubject, and her son, Mr. George business men has been formed to from Russia.
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The main apparent pro- Occupation of the male gorilla in fighting for the continued posses- sion of his wives. As the family party moves along through tho
To a reporter they described Hfe foreat, rarely sleeping twice in appeal for funds for the perman- the same spot, there is every ent relief of clergy in the East in that country. Mrs. Jeffries and night the business of making End.
her son were employed by the делега! beds. For the gorilla has at least A diocesan official said he knew servant in the household of Com-
Soviet-the mother; ; as a this in common with his hüman cousins, that he likes and do case where a country parson missar Semashko and the son in the mande a comfortable sleeping pawned his gold watch to enable State Railway engineering work- place and, what is more, he pre-him to entertain the archdeacon shops outside Moscow. fers to make his sleeping ar- in proper style on the occasion of Mrs. Jeffries husband, Mr. Allan
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rangements well before darkness his visitation. falls.
For this purpose paterfamilian bends down saplings and covers them with leafy branches, while the members of his harem, who An official of the Poor Clergy are sent up neighbouring trees, Corporation said some of the ap- make each her own bed in a suit-plications for help they received able fork by breaking off branches were heart-breaking, within her reach. Their beds are "Last year we had 2,086 appli- never very high up-never too cations, 96 of which were for
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Joffries, managed a business The archdeacon knew of the Moscow before the revolution and poverty of the vicarage and left was arrested by the Cheka (the bank notes for £25 under his plate Terrorist police) in 1918. when he left.
mother, with her three children, es- caped to the Ukraine, and after- wards drifted back to Moscow. Two of the children died. Mr. Alan Jeffries escaped and is DOW in the United States, where Mrs. Jeffries and the son will join him.
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Two nationally famous golf crs, known batter, perhaps, for their achievements in industry than on the golf links, Harvey S. Firestone, rubber king, and Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate.
was employed by Comrade Semashko as a general servant. I had to get up at 5 a.m. and cook for and serve ten people. In addi- tion to cleaning a flat of eight rooms in the winter and a house of ten rooms in the summer out- side Moscow. Semashko gave parties nearly every night, while his son and daughter entertained on a lavish scale. The young people turned their parties into orgies.
£30 a Year Pay.
I hope for some news of my hus- band, but none came. I was paid at the rate of 508. a month, but had to provide my own food.
The end came after the Soviet representatives were thrown out of Britain [after the Arcos raid in May], and after the murder of Volkov, the Soviet envoy In Poland [in June]. There were terrible anti-British demonstrations at Mos. cow, and Semashko threw me out because I was a British subject. He knew I had nowhere to go; he knew also that I was li. The hard work nearly killed me, and I re- member that even the doctor I con- sulted was surprised that Semashko worked me so hard.
There is no morality in Russla to-day, and the Commissars and their families are setting the pace. Women of the working classes suffer, and, as I said to the collec- tor of funds for the British miners
high for the old man to be able money grants, and 985 for cloth last year, "How dare you ask us to keep his eye upon them. You ing," he added.
may find chimpanzee nesting in the treetops, but never gorilla.
Vicar On £216 A Year. Three typical cases were quoted by the officials:-
who live in penury and walk about in rags to give money to people whom your own papers show to be better off than we are?"
Once I had a chance of study-
Mr. George Jeffries, describing ing this proceeding. I made my
A vicar with 18 years in Holy life in the workshops, spoko of the camp close to two parties of gorilla. My own bed was made in Orders had an income of £216 a deductions from wages, and added: five minutes, but the gorillas took year.. His wife had been ill for Last year we had deductions for twenty minutes to finish theirs to several years, and a little while the British miners, for the vagrant their liking, and probably were ago he paid £100 for an operation, children, and for the blind and more comfortable than I. They doctor, and nurse, and then she deaf. This year we had deductions are certainly very fastidious in was ordered a complete rest and for aeroplanes to be called "Our this matter. Even when they re- nursing, which would cost another Reply to Chamberlain."
The British delegates who came main in the same spot for a few £50. A grant sufficient to cover daya they make fresh beds every some of these expenses was made. to Moscow in November were An incumbent with £298 a year paraded like wild animals in a cir- night, sometimes even in the
were only certain same trees as the night before, had been under doctor's treatment cus, and there but in other forks. If a bed is oc- for six ruonths. An operation fol- people with whom they were allow- cupied twice, that is only, as alowed, which cost £20. He was ed to speak. rule, when one of the wives has overdrawn at the bank to this given birth to a baby gorilla. She amount, and his stipend was not may then stay in the same bed due for some time. A £25 grant
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The Lord Mayor of London, Siri ous as they are certainly terrible. Charles Batho, will visit Ghent for They are terrible not merely be the Floral Festival which will be cause they are fierce and unafraid, opened on April 20 next in the pre- but because of their appalling sence of the King of the Belgians. strength. They can bend the barrel of a shot gun with their hands or squeeze it flat with their teeth. It is true the native wen- pon which is known as a "Dane" gun is made out of six feet of gas piping, but to make a sort of corkscrew of. it, such as I have scen, would take a strong man a long time even with the aid of powerful tools.
than getting in the track of a herd of charging elephants, and much worse than having to face an angry lion with a good rifle.
I have collected a considerable number of gorilla skulls and bones (most of which are now in the keeping of Sir Arthur Keith), and I certainly do not mind con- fessing that I prefer a dead gorilla to a live one.A really angry gorilla will seize a man and
Mamfe area. The quartering of ancient days could not possibly have been more complete.
Gorillas are reputed in some places to be harmless, but to judge from what I have seen of them in the Cameroon forests there is no more dangerous anf- tear him into ribbons in his rage; mai in the bush. They may be as a friend of mine discovered to our relations, but, if so, they are his horror many years ago in the certainly relations to be avoided. With a llon: or an elephant one knows where one is. Both can usually be frightened away, and If the gorilla represents one of even the rhinoceros and the bush the experiments made by Nature' cow are only dangerous at times. in the process of producing Man it But an angry gorilla, with its was undoubtedly an experiment enormous weight and strength that is to be regretted: It is im and agility and its semi-human in possible to imagine a more un- telligence, is always an unplea- picasant sort of cousin. I do not sant beast to tackle. Once I was like the gorilla. I wish Sir seriously threatened by a gorilla, Arthur Keith had found us a nicer but I have not, space here to say relation Bengal tiger, for in- more than that it was a most stance! Dr. N. A. Dyce Sharp, in alarming experience worse even the "Daily Mail."
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