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A "MIGHTY ONSLAUGHT."" GERMAN ADMIRAL ON THE KIEL MUTINY.
MR. CHURCHILL QUOTED.
the war.
IS WOMAN TOO OBTRUSIVE?
AN INTERESTING DEBATE. In aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund, Major Walter Elliot, M.P., and Miss Ellen Wilkinson, A.P., at the London School of Economics last month, debated the question, Is Woman Be coming Too Obtrusive ↑ "
ing
THE.DING ON."
FORMEN DREDGER SOLD. "
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On
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Built at first for a dredger, she served in this capacity at Durban and later at When more modern dredgers Macao. wore found necessary, the Ding On was converted into a tramp streamer.
Writing recently, The Times Berlin correspondent reported that the Reichstag Committee for investigation of the events
Major Elliott, who upheld the afirma that occurred on board the German Fleet in 1016 had resumed its public sessions tive point of view, maintained that the and that the Nationalist Admiral Brun-difficulties to be faced at the present time inghaus used the occasion for a mighty could not be solved by one sex, but only onslaught on the "Socialist and other by the human family as a whole. To-day, defeatists" who had fostered discontent he said, too much emphasis was being coal per day are can make a speed of in the Navy and "thus caused Germany laid on the feminion aspect, and women six miles per hour. Her length over all to lose the war." Forwarts this morning, were concentrating not merely on sex is 180 feet, and between perpendiculars in anticipation of this attack, publishes equality but on sex privilege. Touching 170 feet., Her extreme breadth is 38 feet correspondence it has had during the upon the question of women's dress,
When employed on the West River past few months with Mr. Winston Chur-Major Elliot said that if men wero to chill in connection with this interesting march about the streets imitating Adam
with the same thoroughness and zeal trade the Wing On had accommodation naval question, and proves to the satis that women imitated Eve it would be for ten first-class and 20 second-class pas- faction of the whole democratic Press said that man was becoming too obstru
sive. (Laughter.) The feminist move engers, as well as being able to carry that Admiral Bruninghaus's colleague,
the plaything of extremists and fad. with two compound engines and two. Admiral Von Trotha, in giving evidence unt was running a great risk of becom-1600 coolis passengers. She is equipped before the committee at its January meet dists. The questions being discussed now
About two years ago she sink at ing, wantonly garbled a statement of Mr. were not questions of franchise but ques-boilers, with two propellers.
tions of life and death, and the sugges- Churchill's in order to support the Nation of obtruding the feminins point of Wuchow when in the Hongkong-Wuchow tionalist theory that the Kiel mutiny of view was not merely a mistake but a 1918 spoilt Germany's chances of winning folly. The pressure, partly, of the million trade. About four months later, when surplus women in the country, the mo the water, was low enough to permit mentum of the suffrage agitation, and the It will be remembered that in the work done by women in the war, had led baling her out, she was taken off. Fol January session of the committee Ad- to the over-emphasising of the feminins lowing this mishap she made two trips iniral Von Trotha explained that the point of view, and it was high time that between Hongkong and Wuchow, but Kiel mutiny in October, 1918, by thwart women accepted tho subordinate position since the beginning of the boycott has ing the plan for sending out the German of equality instead of the dominant posi fleet, had at a crucial moment prevented tion of superiority which they were at been laid up at Hongkong, an operation that would have turned the tempting to exercise. (Cheers and laugh- whole military situation in Germany's ter.)
Miss Wilkinson agreed that women favour."We were firmly convinced of this fact," Von Trotha nasured the comwere sometimes regarded as freaks and mitter, and our conviction was streng curiosities rather than as human beings thened by statements that afterwards ap because of the job they were doing the
It is likely that her boilers, engines, peared in the British Press. One pas herself was utterly aick, before Miss Bage, for example, in an article by Susan Lawrence was returned to Parlia- Mr. Churchill, states that "the deeper ment, of being described as "Women's smoke-stack, etc., which are at present one looks the more clearly one perceives only Labour M.P." That; however, was situated forward, will be transferred to how slender was the thread by which not due to the obtrusiveness of women, the decision hung in those Inst days. but to the way in which they were written amidship. The Ding On will probably This thread broke in our favour because up as curiosities. On one occasion she be taken to the Kwong Tak Cheong the mood of the German nation failed to discovered equal prominence given in the ship-building yard, Kowloon Bay, in Press to a grave railway accident and the near future to have these alterna- This quotation was published broadenst Middlesbrough's Woman I. P. shingles by the whole Nationalist Press in Janu- her hair." (Laughter.) Women wanted tions effected and repairs carried out. ary, 1928, ns finally confirming the Na- to get on with their job without it being tionalist theory as to the responsibility remembered that they were women, but It was men for the loss of the war. But the Socialist men would not let them: Press questioned the genuineness of the who insisted on obtruding the sox ideas, quotation used by Admiral Von Trotha, and not women. Women had to live, and THE FIRST RECORDED IN RUSSIAN
HISTORY. and the editor of Vorwärts wrote to Mr.the struggle for a bare existence had Churchill asking for light on the subject. In the rourse of his two letters in reply, dated February 20th and March 10th, 1020, Mr. Churchill pointed out that his words had been added to, and that what ho had said in the Sunday Pictorial on The more January 12th, 1910, was: one knows about the struggle the more one realises on what small, narrow, and merilous margins our success turned." Mr. Churchill further-more explained that not only did the misleading words "in those last days" not occur in his article, but that the whole context of his article in the Sunday Pictorial showed that he was referring to the situation in 1016-17. just before America was brought into the war owing to Germany's de cision in favour of unrestricted sub- marine warfare. The second sentence in the supposed quotation is, writes Mr. Churchill's secretary, a pure invention on the part of Admiral Von Trotha. Mr. Churchill also points out for the Dortant part of the American Fleet had joined forces with the British Float in the autumn of 1918, and the numerical An English resident of India relates superiority of the combined American
in the Anglo-Italian Citizen that be and British naval forces would be clear once had occasion to make a short jour to anyone taking the trouble to count nay by rail in the month of June, and village schoolhouse into a fortress and suner Dreadnoughts.
was invited by a friend, who was in the there embattled, they stood until they Forwarts concludes its article by atat-railway service to ride with him on his were assured that their terms would he ing that Mr. Churchill's words show once engine," the coolest place on the train." agreed to. The men marched on to the schoolhouse determined to make short for all that had the German admirals The invitation was willingly accepted. carried out, the plan of'n naval sortie "We started late in the evening, and work of the petticoat rebellion. But they found the schoolhouse barricaded, in October, 1918, they would have been I soon found that Tom was right about the womon determined on a fight and ao inviting a political catastrophe of the the engine being the coolest place. The 16, Des Voeux Road. Tel. C. 4704 first magnitude, besides sending the en-speed of the train created a breeze which apparent means of subduing them.
tire German Navy to futile and senseless depth.
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WIVES. ON STRIKE.
VICTORY FOR THE WOMEN.
made them insist on being paid for their job as human beinga and not, as wonien. (Cheers.) With regard to dress, Miss
According to the Moscow correspondent Wilkinson insisted that women's clothes
to the Times of India a strike of wives, were hygienic, and she added that she never thought plus fours or the kilt were
the first recorded in Russian history, was exactly unobtrusive garments. (Laughuccessful in the obscure, peasant village ter.) She wished women were more of Karmava recently, in securing better trusive and not content with courtesier treatment for every married woman in and very little else. But if every woman the community.
vote the problem would not be had settled. They wanted equality of oppor- tanity, equality as regards wages, and a chance to show what women as human beings were capablo of. They were not ohtrasive in demanding that. (Cheers) Miss Clemence Dano, who presided, congratulated the speakers, and said that of all wars the craziest and most dan- gerous was a sex way.
+
THE HOODED HORROR.
+
The strike was led by a peasant woman Aksinia Karasielt who becoming an en thusiastic convert to the Communist doctrine that women are the equal of men and should take their full share in publia life aroused her husband's anger by attending meetings.
He took her over his knee and in the traditional Russian fashion gave her a sound beating. Her reply was to call out every woman in the village from her home and order them to strike against the tyranny of their, lords and masters. The women complied. Not a stroke of work
It beating and abusing them.
WAS nothing short of a revolution. The men were staggered. They found their homes empty, their children neglected, the cows The women had. made the unmilkod
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Nothing worthy of remark happoned PROBLEM FOR THE MINISTRY OF till the driver ordered the fireman to all the furnace, Then as the logs were HEALTH.
thrown in out dropped a lively 'cobra on As a result of an investigation now the foot-plate." It was not a very large being made into the problem of London specimen-about four feet long, perhaps, refuse by Mr. J. C. Dawes, the Inspector-but its bite would not have been lega of Cleansing at the Ministry of Health, fatal on that account.
There were four of ne human beings it is expected that before long the dump- ing of crude rubbish in some of the coun- on that footplate, and this new passenger. try, districts on the fringes of Greater made the place somewhat crowded. Not London will be stopped: This insanitary one of us had a stick, or our embarrass practice is bad for health, and has ment could readily have been relieved. As it was, all we could hope for was aroused justifiable protests.
that the reptile would slip off the engine, and drop on the line.
It was an unfortunate demonstration. The creature was not frightened, but promptly accepted the challenge, and ad. vanced upon us. We were besieged."
Of recent years, it has been discovered that by treating refuse properly a con-
But the creature manifested no such siderable income can be obtained for the relief of rates. For example, the accounts intention. Perhaps it know that thero for the City of Bheffield show that in 1994 was a regulation against getting off a the income dorived from the sale of train in motion; or more likely it enjoy. salvaged materials alone amounted toed its joy ride. Presently it raised its £12,000. Various schemes are being or hood and I foolishly made a kick at it, porimented with at Glasgow, Falkirk, and taking care not to put my foot within Halifax, with a view to eliminating dust, striking distance, and then utilizing to- the best advantage the materiala.contained in household re- fuse thrown away, There is a sugges tion, for example, that in time briquetted fuel may be sold to the Continent made out of such refuso, and it is said that Shofield is already soiling to Portugal
The cost of the collection and disposal of house and trade refuse in England and Wales is over £6,000,000 a year, and it is the side of the engine opposite the driver believed that many savings are possible. had taken, and called upon me to follow The Elementary schools have been asked him. But my feet were rooted to the to assist in educating the public as to the iron.
The cobra raised itself to strike. I necessity of reducing the amount of rub- bish thrown away. If only each house tried to jump, but could not move. An
The driver sprang on to one side of the engine, holding on by the hand rail which ran along the boiler; the fireman went up the pile of logs behind him like a cat; Tom vanished from the scene on
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