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CORDITE FACTORY
DISASTER.
Crowd Wait Outside Gates for News. WEEPING WOMEN.
London, June 23.
DISTRIBUTION OF 20 YEARS' FIGHT FOR
GOLD.
(Continued from Page 2.)
the gold assets is, however, clear ly evinced by these figures.
Compensation of Payments. The chief causes of the trans- ference of gold assets are the re Eleven men were killed and 19 parations payments of Germany injured in an explosion at the and the international war debt Royal Naval cordite factory at payments. As long as these pay- Holton Heath, about six miles ments continue, it would be rea- from Poole. Some of the bodies sonable from any economic point have not yet been recovered and of view to originate in the coun- search is being made in the de- tries of the recipients a natural brig.
compensation of payments by im- A tremendous column of port of foreign stocks or long- smoke, which turned to a deep termed investment of the surplus red colour, shot up into the air of payment abroad, that is to say. and it was seen for many miles by means of capital exports. But around.
this does not occur either, and The explosion took place in the when it does, not to a suficient nitroglycerine house, and les-extent and in particular 1t does trored four sectional buildings at not originate in France, though I the factory, which extends over do not wish to omit mentioning certain symptoms of a beginning The factory is composed of improvement which started in buildings protected by earth Winter. In as far as thie surplus
20 acres.
JUSTICE.
Officer's £52,000 Claim Against Portugal.
AFRICAN BUSH DRAMA:
African bush twenty years ago, An amazing drama of the in, which a captain of the Royal Artillery a man who played a conspicuous part behind the scenes in the South African and European wars was the lead- ing figure, was considered in Brussels.
Minister, Count Carton de Wiart,
The former Belgian Prime! was to hear the British Govern- ment's claim on that officer's be- half for £52,000, indemnity and interest against the Portuguese Government for his arrest and captivity in boat in the Zambesi River.
a Portuguese gun-
tain) Archibald Neil Campbell: The officer is Major (then Cap- at the time of his arrest he was
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works, and round the nitrating suma are not in part wanderling engaged in gold miring expletu MARBLE HALL
house there is a hanked-up wall around the money markets of the af earth which gave the scene of whole world, as short-termed loans the accident a resemblance to a the compensation will be achieved volcano.
chiefly by gold imports. At a time. The explosion was felt for 20 when the whole world, and Ger- miles around, breaking windows many in particular, is starving for and ahaking buildings.. Imme. want of long-termed capital, one diately afterwards enormous withdraws from the country which volumes of red smoke issued requires it most, not only its from the crater of the volcano. capital by means of reparations Commander P. Hammond, the payments, but besides, that,' for superintendent of the cordite fac political and other reasons pre- tory, in a statement to an Even-vents that the capital, after its ing Standard representative, roundabout journey, formerly via. said:-
the reparations agent, and now "Eleven persons are missing, via the International Payment and there are 19 other casualties. Bank, should further act as capital The explosion occurred in the for the fertilisation of universal nitrate house destroying the economics, Thus a considerable house and also the washing part of the monetary gold assets is house, the distributing house and divested of its natural functions the paste mixing house.
and sterilised.
tion in the Tete district of Portu- guese East Africa, about 500 miles up the Zambesi.
break. The armed force, Euro- The arrest took place at day- peans and natives, suddenly con- centrated on the house where Captain Campbell was living and, in spite of his protests. he was taken 'brought before the judge.
prisoner to Tete and
Various charges were prefer red against Captain Campbell. These included allegations of ill treating the natives, disobedience to authority, and generally dis- turbing the district. treated with callous indifference, He was and even his request for a chair though he was in a fainting and was refused by the judge, al half-famished condition after long night journey to the Portu guese grounded on a sandbank of the gunboat Senn, which
Zambesi river.
Here he remained a captive
D
day temperature never less than in a stifling hot cabin with his 110 degrees Fahrenheit--for two months, watched day and night by armed blacks.
"The red smoke was caused by
Element of Unrest. the burating of a tank of sul-
By means of the political pay phuric acid, the acid running ments a permanent element of un- down the hill
rest is introduced into the inter- Women in Tears.
national economic relations. In The employees live principal Germany the fear of further sud- ly at Wareham, and Poole, and den and unexpected withdrawal of immediately women there heard gold due to the high short-termed the explosion they realised what foreign debts lies like a heavy had happened and they set out cloud over cconomic life. In order in taxicabs and cars for thejto show the true aspect of things Eventually he was released on Holton Heath factory. Round in all their gravity it is pointed bail at the instance of the For- the factory is an iron-spiked out that the slight revival of eign Office in London pending the railing, and through the prison-economic life in Germany within arrival of reports in London like gates women, with tears
the last few weeks does not exceed from the British Consul, and of a running down their faces, in-the habitual measure at this sea- Portuguese advocate who had quired anxiously for news of son, and that, as concerns the re-been sent to Tete for the purpose, their men.
duction of unemployment, the re- Some
a ten days' journey.. the workpeople,vival is slighter even than last dressed in their work clothes of year. The latter circumstance was black, came to the gates and gave not unexpected and, no doubt, is information about themselves or partly connected with the weather. their colleagues.
of
Fight for Redress,
Then began a long fight to ob- The circulation of means of pay-tain redress from the Portuguese Friends offered to
run with ment, which after a habitual drop Government. messages to relatives at home.
in January, used formerly to in- Every member of the public crease towards February and was' barred from the factory.
March does not, hitherto show the Stretcher cases were carried to customary rising trend. the factory hospital, to which nurses and doctors had been hur- raise false hopes, we may, never-He was regarded as the leading riedly 'rushed.
theless on the other hand say,
A
However wrong it would be to
Captain Campbell's arrest had the effect of closing down work at the mine, and prospecting and mining practically ceased throughout the whole territory. pioneer in the territory.
The Lisbon authorities finally agreed to pay Captain Campbell an indemnity, but various dif- ficulties cropped up - including
a Portuguese revolution and the arrangements fell through.
Inside the gates, about a hun- that' evidently in Important In the consular inquiry, some dred yards away, but hidden by branches of economic life consump- of the strongest evidence in his trees, the "volcano" smoked and tion, for some time has been cover- favour came from Portuguese roared as the acid burnt itself out, ed from the stock-in-trade without mines officials and others. the fumes from the volcano fill the necessity of replenishing this ing the nostrils and mouths of stock to any notable extent. When people standing near by with an this stock will be exhausted one acid taste.
can reckon with a gradunt relief The search for victims of the of the crisis by orders placed for disaster continued throughout these commodities. the afternoon..
Besides this one should note When the European war broke Whenever the gates opened to that the additional distress which out Major Campbell returned to allow an ambulce to pass, the Germany suffers for paychological the Army his claim for com- people waiting pressed forward reasons for more than six months pensation remained in abeyance. with a pathetic eagerness to dis- now disappearing by degrees. It was not until last August cover who the victim was.
Confidence at home and abroad in that the agreement between Bri- the stability of German conditions tain and Portugal to arbitrate A member of the number 11 is growing visibly, A reflected | over this extraordinary case (Dorset) detachment of the Red image of the improvement which was signed.. Cross said to n Press represen- has been developing in particular tativo:-
since February, is the trend alof "When we arrived buildings German stocks at home and abroad. were blazing furiously, but in The average rate of shares boar spite of the risks, doctors and ing fixed Interést, at the Berlin nurses, bravely carried through stock exchange, has nearly again their mission of mercy. We took reached its maximum of last Sum as many of the injured as pos-mer. The foreign loans also, have, sible to their homes in Parkstone, been able to make good their Poole, Lytchett, Wimborne, and losses of rate at foreign stock ox- Boscombe, and the more serious-changes. The interest for long- ly injured were treated at the termed loans in Germany has drop- factory hospital and the Corneliaped slightly in connection with the Kong for July, 1991,
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Hospital at Poole.
success of the 7 per cent, deben-
Stan-
Bravery of Nurses.
STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrise and Sunset
in Colony.
"A shed in the factory was ture bonds. But this somewhat
dard time of the 120th Meridian converted into a temporary mor- calmier judgment of the situation East of Greenwich) ara as fol- tuary to take the ever-increasing in no way dispenses those men number of deed,
who are responsible for the fate "Surviving factory workersjo Germany from undertaking joined with us in our task of energetic measures, but it ex- aiding the injured and príváte presses the justified confidence cf motorcars were used to take them home and foreign circles who trust to hospital. SA PAGA that German economic life and the Blaze Seen Eight Miles Away. German people who have accom
A member of the fire brigade plished, such great things before,
at Parkestone said in an inter-aring and after the War will also master the difficulties of the pra views
I was cleaning my engine cent times the when I heard a low roar. Think-
ing it was an explosion at the earthquake. It felt, one of them Raa worka at Poole, I dashed to sald, as if the house was.com- the clock towering down
I saw a big blaze at the cord, CA Dream.
alte factory at Holton Heath. One of the women standing at
| Although roight! miles away, it the factory gates said to her hus-
was clearly visible inferre band G
William Diffy, who lives two You-drea
miles away from the factory, there was said he was going into his gar it has come den at the time and the force of you got out the explosion took the hoe out of r
d threw him against
vicinity
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