THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1937.
GRESFORD COLLIERY DISASTER
Serious Allegations In Official Report OUTPUT PUT ABOVE THE LAW
LONDON, TO-DAY.
SEVERE CENSURE OF THE MANAGEMENT OF GRES- FORD COLLIERY, DENBIGHSHIRE, WHERE 265 LIVES WERE LOST IN A MINE EXPLOSION IN 1934, IS CONTAINED IN AN OFFICIAL REPORT NOW ISSUED BY THE COMMISSION
OF ENQUIRY. :
Sir Henry Walker, Chief Inspec- tor of Mines, was President of the commission, on which representa- tives of the assessors were also present.
safety of the mine were more con- cerned with output than the Law; he says.
The commission recommends the appointment of a fully qualified
The miners' representative, Mr.mining engineer over the manager Joseph Jones, was particularly of every large pit, new powers to
conditions in critical and says that numerous investigate safety contraventions of the regulations any mine at any time and more. undeniably occurred over an ex- frequent visits by inspectors of
mines-Reuter. tended period.
Mr. Jones declares that the evi- dence regarding management of the mine revealed glaring instances of indiscipline and complete demorali- sation among the mine officials.
OUTPUT BEFORE LAW
The officials responsible for the
west
FRANCE GETTING
READY
Fortifications Being Rushed
Armand Spillers, 34-year-old "King of the French Underworld" is shown with the heaviest guard ever placed on a prisoner for the French Assizes, entering the court at Pan for his trial on a charge. of murder. Spillers has twice escaped from Devil's Island and three times from French prisons.
GRAFT SCANDAL IN HALF A MILLION
YUGO-SLAVIA
PROMINENT MILITARY CHIEF
CONVICTEDES
BELGRADE, TO-DAY.
A SCANDAL WITH WIDE RAMIFICATIONS, DURING France is rushing on with the job of WHICH THE NAME OF THE FAMOUS CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN fortfiying her Belgian frontier by ex- tending her Maginot Line to the north- ARMAMENTS FIRM, SKODA, WAS MENTIONED, HAS JUST CONCLUDED HERE WITH THE SENTENCING OF GENERAL General Brusseaux, commanding the sector of Montmedy (25 miles from DEROCCO TO TWENTY YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. Verdun), has addressed an Order of his command, in which he says: the Day to the officers and men under by the Jugo-Slavian War Office with
"All may be proud of the work ac-
recommending firms with whom the complished.
Government placed orders for war supplies.
There where we should have had to oppose nothing but French breasts to the invader there now exists, built
General Derocco was entrusted
The General was found guilty by up in eighteen months, a co-ordinat a Court Martial, after a short trial{ ed system of masses of reinforced concrete, making it possible to keep held in secret, of accepting sums of up a lively crossfire on the ground money from certain Czecho Slova
kian armament firms the chief All this has been constructed in the one being the Skoda works mud in the cold, with means which amounting to between three million and 4,500,000 crowns. Trans- Ocean.
level.
were only just sufficient.
"We have done well by our country and our soldiers' conscience, reaps an immense satisfaction.”
FLOATING GERMAN MINE
a
FOR HEALTH
Physical Education In Britain
London, To-day. The Board of Education requires supplementary estiznate of 5500,000, principally for work in connexion with the scheme of physical education.
This is one of a number of sup-
the Government. plementary estimate asked from
Another is the demand for $150,000 for the Office of Works, to be used for defence measures in cluding the manufacture
of-gas masks. -Beuter.
Spalding, Lines, where beasts and Messages were flashed along the sheep have been sold in the public northeast coast recently warning ship-streets from time immemorial, is to ning of the presence of an old German build a cattle market at a cost of mine in the North Sea.
£18,633.
At dusk one day Mr. W. Cammish,
Occupants of the Telegraph- Arms, a Scarborough fisherman, noticed an object floating about three-quarters of Putney, aroused from their sleep by a mile from the coast Going closer in the noise of bursting bottles, found his boat, he found it to be a floating that a fire had broken out in one of mine.
the bars
EDWARD EIGHTH
MEDALS
Collection Put On View
An interesting-
struck for the
Edward VEIK
Library at Folkestone
The medals have been sequired by Mr M. FL-Spielmann, olkestone, who has loaned them for exhibition.
UNDERGRADS AND REARMAMENT
Only For World Peace
Unilateral rezzinament was condenin- ed by undergraduates- from all the Universities of England at the annual conference of the British Universities League of Nations Society at Oxford.
Mr. E P. Wallis-Jones, of Oxford, said the Government at present had its It is claimed that one of them is ear to the ground and would welcome unique. It is a fine piece of work done any expression of opinion. He sug in gold, with King Edward's ongested that those who had the courage one side and on the other the woT: shond refuse to pay their taxes and go "Ascended the Throne Jan. 20, 1986; to prison if cor tion were intro-
daced.
abdicated Dec. 10, 1935.***
Where is also a silver one King's head on one side and ter Abbey on the other wi scription, “Crowned in Abbey, May 12, 1987," below.
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by internations
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