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LATEST ARLES. [TROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.] SCOT KGH OF › OLSHEVISM. GENERAL "RAWLINSON LEAVES
FOR ARCHANGEL.
Loxos, August 4th. - tieneral" Ras linson left rha Tyng to-day fer Archangel *
HORRIBLE BOLSHEVIK ATROCI TIES AT KHARKOFF.
Expos, August 3th. Reater's special correspondent at Bostaff Loz the Pon, telegraphing on July 31st, says that the horrors perpetrated at Kharkoff by the hergeluk, or the
·Bolshevik Extrertlin tay Commission, are irrefutable,
"
After the meation of the "eity by General Denikin trop hundreds of
were dis victims of Belshevik cruelty
uf medical interred in the
Like, presente authorities representatives of Trades Unions and responsible foreigners. Plasto- graphs were taken.
ing.
1919.
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--NO. WOMEN. WANTED:
CLOSING THE DOORS OF INDUSTRY.
[BY 5. T. Quup.]
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OFFICIAL EXTRAVAGANCE. AIR MINISTRY'S CARS,
DESTRUCTION OF AEROPLANES.
Information as to the ex; to the tax payer of the fleet of motur-cars maintain- d by the Air Ministry for the use of its officers and staff is forthcoming in the first report of the House of Commons Select Comittee on National Expendi turk It appears that the number of plense trade unionists particularly vehicles in use is forty-eight, thirty-three Socialist trade uniurisks, who are so fund of which are allotted to thirty-three in their demands for equality. officials for their own use, and fifteen are pooled for the use generally "of the staff." The weekly cost of maintenance is 2,405, ter £199,740 a year
,,"
One of the officials who has n VILY Fallotted to him infirmed the Sub-Commit. to that his duties were almost wholly at the Hotel Cecil, vaewd by ocensional visits to the War Office and the Treasury Asked for what he used the car, he said it Zetched him from his house in London in the morning, took him out to lunch, and took him home agum in the evening. The We are of opinion that even if it was Committee's comment is as follows:
to provide necessary during the war
no longer motor-cars, that necessity
We consider that the systera, exists. érentes an atmosphere of extravagance which is bad for the staff and the service generally, We recommend that the pro Vision of ears for the use of Ministers, officers, and ofEcials be discontinued:"
Some of the devices for tortating vie tims were of fiendish ingenuity. One was the skin of the called glove-making, hands with the nails being stripped lis
I is stabel that many of the cars nee DE of several pairs very large and powerfully engined, con The victims theshtes were found and photo-suing a quantity of petrol and wearing
rashed.
of ancilation
cut many tyres. Log books recording the Every conceivable form of was perpetrated in the Chrewychain journeys of the cars are kept. The Com Sanghter house Hands, ferte and breasts mitinquired if those were crer esamin were cut off, jaws were smashed, ye and were informed that two examina. tions of the allotted cars had taken place gouged out, and victims disembowelled or
in July, 1918. The following are the torturerd boiling water.
official reports of these examination. from which it will be seen that the Ministry's attention was on both occasions enlied by one of its own officials to the fact that #aneerssary expenditure was being in curruch!
Many were thrown alive into wells and nine shafts, and chers leaped in hage boles in the ground. Ir the underground several tayngs of cuspses were
othe
Commissaries nightly. made The metry while the Kalshevik Chinese and
ghouls were revelling in the mos ghastly manner.
Arrests were made up farrient charges Some of the arrested were shot for possessing verses satirising the Bolsheviks. the favourite questions of the Inquisitors was. Her hurd Trotsky
as a Jew? Repressions and atrocities were doubled after the visits of M. Trusky to Kharkof
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Many trade unionists are not approach ing the problem of woman on fairly and surely. The Bill for the Restora ting i Trade Union Practices is gruely natair to women, and has beer and so
It is evident that the whief pre-war aride union practices which it is intended ay restore is the exclusion of women fron these branches of industry, which were closed to them before the war. That is bad, but it is still worse to find that it is intruded to exclude them from some of those occupations which were open to them; before and quite apart from the war. while, most astounding of all is due inten tion to push the-woigien, unt of those fresh industries. ur new Branches of meltstry, which have been crunted and developed lig the women during the war.
We are told that this is" an
agreed " It is only an agreed Bill in the sense that its provisions have been dietat fed by a Very, narrow liapte of trade union. ists and acerpted by the employer, tom the principle opener at any pris the hundreds of thetisantis (of quen "in- volved buying to part or lot or say in th
macher
The Bit pas the "wonen "Pobefifiigi at the mercy of the mun, who are given power, to exelne women irene every branch of industry that can by any stretch of langung be described its en gineering
In
Li we take a broad view of this proptrar woman labour, what do we som? Vest - numbers of women enlisted the ranks of industry to do their bit j.the war. They did all they could for the country in its hour of trial and danger. Hau- dreds of thousands of husbands and pus tentiar husband base been kille uther words, grently increased numbers of women have been and sumed to be lonely and independent lit.Akain, tho high taxes and living cuts unposed by the war are, bound in result are already resulting in many welbe families ducing their staffs of servants, and in many middle-class families guiar within
Minute 5. "July 10th, 1918-From an examination of the log books of the allot. ted cars and requisition slips for the of pool ears it is evident that further considerable economies might be effected. it is noticed that cars are frequently used for the purpose of conveying officers to and from the various termini, and inservanta some cases are used to fetch the allottees from their residences in the suburbs, and She appears to make frequent visits to The inhabitant deliriously welcomed the City. Cars are also sometimes used the Cossacks. Practically all the work for long journeys where the unit visited men are now bitter against the Bolsheviks. is at some distance from a railway as are also the peasants is the surroundingstation, and it seems that the practice adopted by some officers of travelling by The workmen have been latterly openly train to the nearest station and arrang deriding the Bolshevik posters circulatiezing to be met by a car, from the unit ridiculous lies.
might be made universal,
country.
:
NO BLOCKADE AGAINST RUSSIA. Several journeys seem to be too short to necessitate the use of a car; for in LONDON. August 5th. In the House of Commons, at question-stance. one Cressley touring car has been rime. Cecil Harmsworth stated that employed during an entire week ön no bleende had been declared. ur was journeys between the War Office. Hay being exercised, against Russia.
market, and Hotel Cecil, varied by one' trip Liverpool street Station, total PRIOR TO THE RECENT FIGHTING
milenge 106: petrol consumption, 1 gal EXATERINGDAR, July 18th, lens. As regards the cars in the 'pool,' Describing the situation prior to the the daily average number of journeys for recent fighting. Reuters spendant one month May 20th to June 14th says that three Divisions of Bolshevists Saturdays and Sundays excluded)-is The sixteen. The maximum is twenty-four on one day, and on four days only has the number of journeys been twenty or over. Liberal provision being made for cars being out of action, the number in the forty-three-séenis to be exĊER- pook Hive.
arrived from the Eastern front. Kuban Cossacks, barassing the Bol shevists, euptuted 1,000 in a single engage ment. besides inflicting numerous casul
ties.
ANTI-JEWISH FEELING AT '
KHARKOFF.
The workmen at Kharkof ane bitterly incensed against the Jews and openly protest against General Denikin pro- hibition of pogroms.
EARLIER CABLES:
BRITISH CAPTURE ONEGA.
Loxtos, August 4th.
A Bolshevik, message states that the Bri tish. Following on the bombardment of Onega, landed and recaptured the town. GERMAN AUSTRIA.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO BE CONVOKED.
Also, the sune factory an
causing many working-class families to send, or desire to send, mor, of their daughters out to work, the mothers daing their own household duties uraint. The wet resule of the war is a vastly increasel number of women and girls available fory. and needing,, industrial or commercial employment.
. The real problem is not How can na exclude women from industry in order to give the men a' chance is but How can Wer get every man and gery woman going in some suitable occupation, creating the 15+ desire and Devet, A. commodities.
بها الامم الم
BAGPIPE'S SKIRL
TUNE OR TORTURE!
The weighty question of whether the akirl of bagpipes in the hands of an ex- perienced Highland Seach pipes is real music or just noise ja to be settled by an American court of law,
Justice Whitaker, whose judicial dari-. sion is expected to settle a question of the ages, has heard arguments in the Supreme Court on the application of a temporary injunction brought by the t West Fifty- fouth Street Company, a malty corporn- Cub, for the suppression of alleged un- tion
against the New York Caledonian ecessary noises in the club's quarters at
Seventh Avenue He confessed himself to be in a
a quand- ary as a result of the vehement uphoid-
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August 16th, 191-We have examined the log books of sixty-eight cars forming the poul and allotted cars fur the week ended July 27 (seven days). Dazing this week three cars were not used at all. Full details of the journeys made by the other cars are attached. Of these s ing of bagpipes as musien! instruments for the Caledonian Club und
Baby as twenty-£ve cars had a total equally vehement denunciation of
ruileage of less than 100 for the week. the This examination fully corifirms all I said, them by the opposing counsel. The court. To Minute No. 6. It is necessary to em- Anally reserved decisivity of puple,
It was
living in the immediate vicinity of the
phasise the fact that most of the cars are obtained at Kennington, and it frequent- ly happens that a car is requisitioned to club that their sleep was disturbed almost incidental to the gather- make such shart journeys as to the War nightly by noise This bike, nunre spor
ing of the clans. Office and other really adjacent places Beally was due to wailing bagpipes. and first to make the journey from Ken imitations of Harry Ladder, dancing niligtun.
(square and sword) and mysterious, ex- clamations during the entire proceedings. described by some of the outside bearers
e sounding like Hoot, mon.
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This report, the Committee strite, was sent to the Air Council, who took no
VIENS, August 3rd. 3. Julius Paid) has informed Reuteraction. that the Government is determined to Leonvoke the National Assembly at the earliest possible moment. Communism had failed in Hungary mainly becau the world evolution upon which they relied, with absolute confidenc had not occurred, also because no Russian mili tary help was received
SERBIAN POLITICS.
RESIGNATION OF CABINET,
BELGRADE, August 3r1.
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The Cabinet has resigned.' ECONOMIC SITUATION IN
EUROPE.
THE GENERAL SHORTAGE OF
COAL.
Losion, August 4th.
The Supreme Economic Council, sitting in London on August 1st and 2nd, dis cussed, among other things, the difficulty of securing for Europe adequate sup plies of coal, food and raw materials.
plane for which it may be proposed to place entirely new ofchra.“
The Marquis of Londonderry, Financ Minister to the Air Council, who was. examined. stated that in his opinion the cars were too large and used too much petrol and too many tyres. and that now the war was over the old practice, whereby
finisters found their own means of coaud were informed that instructions wit motion, might be reverted to.
went that lahoge was not to be dispersed. Juntil after Christmas, 1918.
DESTRUCTION OF AEROPLANES
Another matter involving considerable loss and much onremunerative expendi ture dealt with by the Committer is the destruction of aeroplanes On November 11th last 25,000 machines were on order. The Air Council met on November 11th. 15th. and 29th, to consider the action they #boald take in view of the armistice. They decided to inform the Ministry of Muni tions that they required no more anri planes.
The Committer asked what was meant
labour and her nonsiderations,
Accordingly nachines were taken from contractors which were not wanted, and, as national factories wiru also to be kept going it was necessary to find, wark for the people there, with the result that machines, taken from contractors to keep the people there employed, were sent to the antional factories to be des ́troyed to keep the people there employ-
¿d."
After Christmas. 1918., other, pobrsela This decision was, however, not adhered prevail 1, and ̃st-ps were taken to cancel to and on December 6th the following contracts. At the time of the armistier.
unitions:- letter was written to the Ministry of aeroplanes spare parts. c. sere on order to the extent of £180,000,000. This.
"I am commanded by the Air Council was cut down to about £65.000.000. The to state for the information, of the 95.000 aeroplanes on order were reduced". Minister of Munitions that they have to 13.4:2
Members of the Committee have visited The coal situation is recognised to be of given consideration to the question of the the utmost gravity, as the coal produc-acceptance of further deliveries of aircraft Henlow, where aeroplanes are being scrap. The Air Council desire to ped and much labour is being spent on tion in Europe has fallen to danger and engines. ously low figure.
make it clear that under preacht condi dismantling machines, while the product The Council referred these questions to tious further deliveries are not, in fact, is in many cases of little value. They are special sub-committees, of which that on required by them. They appreciate, bow of opinion that if the engines and the coal nets in Paris to-day.
ever, that labour and other considerations valuable parts were taken uut and pre The Council further decided to urge
may prevent the Ministry of Munitions served and the rest burnt. considerable on the various Governments the vital from arranging a complete cessation of savings would ensue. It appears to them necessity of increasing the production and further deliveries, and for this resson the that the depot has been designed on much Fed the consumption of coal in
during the present period of short Air Council are prepared to continue to too extensive a scale, and that only a accept aircraft and engines of which portion of it is likely to be ward in the Council took special natice of the continued production is required by these future. grave situation in Italy na regards coal.
considerations. But they desire to be The Committee add that they have as furnished as early as possible with certained that the estimates for 1918-1920: THE SILVER MARKET. full particulars of the machines and were presented to Parliacient by the Air engines which they will be expected Ministry before the consent of the Trea
This, they bolle aud ase in:dostër, ngase Otto Becent, and they desire to be consulted sury had been obtained.
a matter which calls for severe, Silver is quoted a000 budizmadiwith regerőled zadky specifle type of aero- think,
condemnation. Gold. sellers. The market is firm,
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