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LONDON, August 17th.. While the situation in the London Docky
is officially described as stili improving, a meeting of basiness men in the City, con- vened by the London Chamber of Con- merce, resolved to vull the Home Seere
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who have nt the National Federation of General, weting" the men Workers annual conference at Cambridgework, and also welcoming the ratepayers. Mr. Clenes declared that the central par Bermondsey Guardian, in paying relief challenge to the action of the Poplar and of the international problem was to bring Germany into nurmal contact with the to the strikers exceeding the pay of the
workers. rest of Europe and u establish between
A deputation of London watersige Germany and France relations enabling employers has also called upon the Home the rest of the world, to live in peace. Office and demantel further protection He expressed disappointment ...nt, the for workers, by increasing the patrol inadequacy of the Government's measures boats.. to remedy unemployment, which will pro- vide work for only, ane man in a dozen. while the rest will be kept in iúileng at a weekly enstiof £2,000,000.
LONDON, August 2.
The London dock strikery chain a partial victory in view of the fact that they seeded from the Transport Workers' Be deplomil_the„dockers” strike, saying | Union and have formed a mowi amalgamat. that the National Agreement must bejad Union, but it remains to be soon how respected, and he castigated the fire-brand far the employers will recognise this leaders whose gross nuditary and costly Union. vanity and blindss in the attempt to
The men's leaders realise that they have attain the impossible afford the last lesson
a hard tnk before them, and one of them, oral workmen. Tie strike addressing a meeting at the Castom“; should also serve as a wurning to those House to-day, said that the fight was mat employers who emisidered that wáky, ended. · En" asked his audience to deli bitctions were a cure for industrial al repnemie trouble.
OEIEF OF SOVIET FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
"Loxmox. August 17th. Mr. Richard Estou, the Daily Mail's correspondent, who has just been released from prison in Russia, declates that the real chief of the Foreign Department is Russian woman, less than thirty years af age, mansed Simanova. She is beauti fat and blonde, with innocent grey blue
ponerful propaganda work and to per and members of the Transporters' Union to join the new organisation, which would new the fight for the return of a shilling daily inediately it was pre- perly constituted
The Chairman of the new Amnigaranted, Inion of Stevedores. Lighterinen nh Dockeys told a Presanan that 18.000 had aferaly joined, and that enrolment was proceeding rapidly, He was confidenti that "the employers would "rrengnise the now Union,
Lospas. August xt:
A statement by the Clerk to the Guard eyes. "Nevertheless us is even more ins at Poplar shows that the relief paid! violent than her Jedish assistints. She to the striking dockers added £3,000 toj conducts all important interrogations her- the estimated weekly bill of £11,500 for self, and is merciless in her demands far out-relief. „s punishment. She is responsible for many, Shootings and for the expulsion of for eigners within the last six- months, i Twenty thousand Russians and foreign. org have beeg, expelled to Archangel.
MANOEUVRES ON SUSSEX DOWNS.
Los Dos, August 17th. Much secrecy is being, observed in re gard to the maneuvres on the Sussex Downg between the town of Bugnar and | the village of Cocking.
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S TOUR.
LONDON, August 19th
A programme of lecture awaits Lord! Birkenhend, who left for America to-day. Apart front papurs before the Canadian Bar Association on international law as the war left it, and before the American Rar Association an, developments, of the English Constitution in the last year, Lord Birkenherd, it is anticipated, wil be very talkative during his 20,000 miles journey before returning at the end of
"PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON'S TOUR.
The fifth and sixth infantry brigades, | October Lunder Major-General Sir Peter Strick-!
land, covered a distance of about $3 mil from Aldershot in two days, The 10th Hussars and the 0th Artillery Brigade, us! well as sections of the Royal Engineers and R.A.F. are co-operating.
The maneuvres are designed to test several new original idens" in military Acience,
The Downs are 'waterlose and there is an elaborate organization of watercarts and collapsible tanks to keep the troops supplied. There is also only a single rail. way line, which is stue miles, from the Downs. The country is very well-wooded aud the vous are mere trgeks.
Operations will continue all night on Monday.
Lexnos. August 1849. Cape Town-Pussyfoot Johnson hu large, quiet and attentive audience for the opening, stages of his campaign until to-day, when his peaceful progress Was rudely disturbed at Port Elizabeth, wher the opposition was evidently organised,
Three thousand people crowded the hall and there were large numbers outside who clamoured for achnission. The wild w roar lifed Mr. Johnson's efforts to speak, until comparative quiet was restor ed in response to the appeals of, the Mayor and other prominent persons on the platform hut interruptias recom, menced and the ting concluded in a The troops, including many war veter-pandemonium of encers and cat-calls. and, are in fine condition. Hitberto, the wenther uns been perfect, but now therr is driving in and mist, which adds to the transport and tactical difficulties of the maneuvres, which will last for a fort. night from the 15th and will then be con- tinned by another Division,
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- CONQUERING SEA AND LAND. LONDON August 20th.
A new submarine tractor, moving along the sen bottom, fitted with caterpillar wheels and search lights and operating at depths fatal to a diver is about to he
CAREERS FOR BRITISH WOMEN;"| tried in the salvage of the remainder of the The £8,000,000 worth of gold or Laurentie, which was torpedoed at Lough The crew operating the Swilly in 1910. tractor is exclosed in a steel caisson,
LONDON, August 18th. The Yorkshire Post, in an editorial, urges women without training certificates who have voention for the care of child- ren and for helpfulness in the house to wek posts as mothers help in Egypt. Palestine and India,
The paper says that there is a steady demand for expable and adaptable women to accompany the wives of officials depart ing from England in September. It adds that the life is full of interest, and that there is plenty of opportunity for social
intercourse,
TRANSPORT AMALGAMATION.
LONDON, August 18th." Enthusiastle speeches in favour of the formation of one big Transport Union were made at a joint conference of the Transport Workers Federation and the National Union of Railway-men, s
It was stated that negotiations for amalganation had reached an advanced stuge,
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The meeting unanimously passed are solution that the two organisations should immediately jointly tackle the problem of non-Unionists on railways and other transport services.
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IMPROVED TRACTOR TANK.
LONDON, August 20th.
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The Artillery War Horse, the nick-name of the new tractor tank, the first of which has just been built for the British Army by Vickers is capable of taking artillery into action in addition to being a self- contained fighting unit, with a range doable that of its predecesors.
The Manchester Guardian says that there has been a rush of applications of Army Officers to transfer to the new Tank Corps, thus giving the authorities a wide field of selection and enabling them to create a Corps Elite.
TUTURE OF HELICOPTER.
LONDON August 21. Although no official notice has been- taken of Professor Bairstow's eriticisms of the helicopter, experts do not share his view, and express the opinion that the production of a helicopter able to rise and descend vertically will entail no more risks than the first efforts of neroplane pioneers. They point out that tests by large scale models have already prayed taat an helicopter whose engine Jails may draend slowly,
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LONDON, August 18th Describing the whole scheme as a will; o'the whisp, Mr. Leonard Bairstow, Pro- fessor, of Aerodynamics, in the course of at article in Nature, criticises the Air Ministry's march for a helicopter as ʼn
LONDON, August 21st.. waste of time and money, diverting atten Paris-The damage caused by the forest tion from really valuable research. Hefires on the Riviera is estimated at scores agree that substantial advantages would of millions of france, but the aesthetic be obtained by a machine fulfilling the loss is inestimable because of of the Air Ministry's condition, as regards every loveliest const stretches in Europe has been Changchun Hankow Manebouli Tientsin other desirable quality of a flying destroyed. machine, but the stipulation regarding The spectacle from the sea on Sunday-aires free fight and vertical decent would in night was superb, and the hills glowed like roive certain death to any pilot attempt immens braziers, the whole region for ing it.
many miles towards the sea being covered He remarks that already between with pungent black smoke from the burn- 200,000 and $100,000 has been extended ing resin of blazing pine cones, The at Farnborough on the Brennan helicopter, sparks were carried great disturers by the while the total value of the prize fund mistral, lighting fresh fires where they fell amounts to twice the annual cost of while there was also a gale which made!
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