10.
AMERICA LOOKS AT ENGLAND.
OBSTACLES TO GOODWILL PASSING.
AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST'S REVIEW.
[By P. W. WILSON]
[Mr. P. D. Wilson, who contri butes the following article to "The Spectator London, is a British jurnalist who has been settled in The United States for everal
years
It is ten years since I began to observe at close quarters that my stery of evolving nationhood, the United States of America. This ! experience has not been confined to the eastern seaboard, still less to
THE HONG KONG) DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th, 1927.
been thus removed. It means that for the first time in ber annals the United States is regarding Great Britain without distrust or a sense of grievance. The Hearst Press it self is striking the lion's mane in stead of twisting the lion's tail.
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No Longer In Politica, At last we are able to say that Great Britain has ceased to be at is in the politics of the United
LONDON AGITATORS.
UPROAR ON BEHALF OF SACCO AND VANZETTI.
fi
POLICE DISPERSE BIG
CROWDS...
MARCH DOWN PARK LANE.
August 11th.
A VISION OF OUR LADY.
IN AN ITALIAN · ORCHARD.
RELIABLE WITNESSES
CONVINCED?
MILLIONAIRE'S HOME. COMING.
MR. PIERPONT MORGAN. AS ENGLISH SQUIRE
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the multi-millionaiïe, has arrived at his English village home, Wall Hall acar Aldraham, Herts, for a short holiday, with one of his daughters, Mrs. G. Nicholis.
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the
CURIOUS DIVORCE CASE.
BLIND HUSBAND AND HIS
WIFE'S LOOKS.
A curious divorce case which was dismissed by the Fragic Divorce Court ліз without sufficient grands, has just come up before a higher Court.
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A brushmaker, sgrd twenty- eight, who lost his sight during the war. seeks divorce from his wife, nged forty-eight, who is also blind.
STATE CONTROL OF MARRIAGE.
PROFESSOR LOW'S ^INTER- ESTING VIEWS,
OTHER OPINIONS,
LONDON, July 30th. The danger of endowing a Gov. emment department with the power
ust only to say who shall marry and who shall not, but alse to eliminate the unit by official exequ- tions on its own medical warrant, is the kernel of an elaboration by
cent remarks concording marriages of the 'unft.
gestica, with psychologists and they went to have a look at the old | short time ago, when the husband Professor A. M. Low of some re-
ALTINO, August 17th. The strange case of the unex- plainable apparition here of an image of Our Lady of Sorrows"
It would be hard to say which has begun to interest both scientists was the more pleased to reach this and the Church, says a United secluded and lovely spot, Press message to the Manila Times,millionaire or Mrs. Nicholls,
They were like school children The couple, who have been married Discussion arrays itself between home for the holidays, and as soon
two years, lived happily until a sugas a hasty" luncheon was over, out Christian mirfele and ma35
place.
suddenly accused his wife of de Mrs. Nicholls, Σ tall, prelates entering the controversy.
By an oak-tree in the field of a beautiful woman, made for the longceiving him with regard to her ap line of garages, sat herself down pentarice and age. He filed a certain farmer Cesare, Ricci,
on a green garden seat, and watch petition for divorce on the ground vision of the Madonna, varying ined with interest the operation of
and which she, her father and three of lieving that she was beautiful and size from two and a half to five washing down the limousine in that he had married the woman be- square feet has been
the millionaire's grandchildren had vouched for by a number of reapon motored down from Paddington, sible persons.
where they arrived by the boat spcial which mut the Mauretania at Pirmouth.
Prize-winners.
Even
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dark.
A London paper to hand gives the following description of the "show" put up by London. Com- munists on behalf of the two Italian assassins Sacco and Van zotti. The eggregious E. J. Cook was, of course, to the fore. Our contemporary states:-
Following 穑 Communist rally.. last night in Hyde Park, which was attraded by several thousands of people, who were addressed for those delightful dinner tables States. It is a country where Pre-same hours from two platforms by where Britous are made so wel-sidential elections are chronic. For several sneakers, including Mr. come; it includes hundreds of the Democrats, at the moment, the A. J. Cock, an attempt was made to reach the American Embassy in towns and cities, and conversations question whether Governor Grosvenor-gardens. About 10.30 with men and women of all ranks, Smith, of New York, shall or shall the time has come now for
one of the speakers said: raees and religions in the Republic. not be the first Roman Catholic to march to the American Embassy."
The immediate question "here to receive a nomination. For the
The vast crowd rushed across to first perceived by two little girl; be answered is simple but import-Republicans the question is whethe Marble Arch gate, many vault of Altino, Firminia and Dean
They made an ant. Not ones, oor twice, have wether the party shall be controlled attempt to form fours, and with Draecin, and then later by their
ing the railings. failed to understand the mind of by the financial interests of the red flags he'd high above their parents. Subsequently, a number the new world beyond the Atlantic. East or by agriculters. Both these heads marched into Park-lane and of villagers declared they had seen
towards Hyde Park-corner. By The misunderstanding may not controversies are domestic to the have been wholly our fault. But Union itself. Neither of them in./ the time the procession was half the vision, which took the form of kept on the Wall Hall estate, and her; and that he had made no com-
valves whatever may be the senti- ment of the average voter towards the British Commonwealth.
A The image of the Madonna was
the consequences have been mene the less expensive. What, then, is the attitude of the United States,
In the case of Ireland, Gerciany" here and now, e Great Britain 1 It is essential for us to know, and and Japan, the right thing has our knowledge should be accurate. been done. But it must not be for at the critical mo- Ten years ago the United States gotten that. entered the World War as an Asment when the United States stood sociated Power. A friendship without of the League of Nations, nonethe neighbourhood of Marble Arch Great Britain was thus a military assumption, carefully fostered by propaganda. But on the morrow
זי
way down
Park-lane there were a lumineus image or picture of over 10,000 in the crowd, and many Our Lady of Sorrows, suspended thousands more spectators lined the pavement or marched along in the air at a distance of a couple side. Hundreds of police who had of feet from the tree, been among the crowd in the park
After the report of advocate Al- kept up with the procession, which was led by twenty mounted con-fonso Consalvo, King's Procurator, stables with sergeants and superin at the tribunal of Lanežana, scien- tendents. Policemen en bicycles tists have set themselves to explain
the curious phenomenon. were also among the crowd.
For nearly half an hour trafic in was at a standstill. In Park-lancing to mistify the people of the vehicles were pailed up to the kerb, countryside with an optical trick and a long line of cars reliurning the court official visited the "mir- from theatres, filled with people in aculous evening, dress, had to wait until with his wife. the procession had fled iate Gras- Girls of 15 and venor-garden's. her
whitehaired women of 73, hatless and dishevelled, marched side by side with smartly-dressed young
of the three problems had been, zet- tled. And Ireland, Germany and Japan are the real reasons why the Treaty of Versailles was not rati- fed.
..
Imperialison.
Convinced that some one was try
tree himself in company
She wandered off, apparently satisfied with the result of the motor-ear washing, and stroked the noses of the beautiful Jersey cows There is a splendid herd of these they are frequent prize-winners in agricultural shows.
Mr. Morgan, too, made a tour of the immediate surroundings of the house, inspected hia wheat crop -one of the finest this year in Eng- land and scrolled down to the tanks of the Colne, where the water lilies are the delight and wonder of half the county.
He was soon back on the business ut the estate.
young, whereas, according to the statement of persons with the use of their eyesight, the was ugly and nearly double his age.
There are certain form of disenac writes Professor Low, **which are tolerably obvious, al-
rerufe agreement between medical though it is difficult enough to
reen on comparatively simple sub-. jects. I do not advocate the semi- The defence of the blind wife take place so freely among persona hysterical physical marriages which was that before the marriage her
who are apparently worthless, but husband had touched all her fon do hesitate to state that persons tures, and that he had been suffi of this type can never be of any cantly satisfied with her looks (per ceived after the manner of the thought. I believe that psychole- by the mutual association of blind) to marry her; that he had gient and curative medicine will not asked her age upon marrying give us assistance on this difficult matter, but above all I am always plaint against her until the per- careful to state that the production sons around him had begur to
of children is no more à necessity utter calumnies on her personal ap-of marriage than is love an obvious pearance.
part of a legal union.
WIFE ASSAULTED WITH EGGS.
His agent arrived AND THEN PAYS THE FINE
entered into" matters with the during the afternoon, and quickly Americaa millionaire squire.
Five of the best Irish eggs, boited, poached, or "fried, are quite-im-
ia portant items
domestic the sphere, but eggs are not meant as missiles, as William Clark Brace learnt to his cast at Glasgow Police Court.
Estate Saved. There is an extensive farm, and the estate takes in a large area of the title village of Aldinham.
Some time go there was local fear that a large field-the common Bruce was charged with assault land-aid to be the largest thing his wife by throwing eggs at hands of the builders."
use
Licensing,
I would not object to licensing the people for the continuation of the race by a medical committee, but even with such conditions doubt if the children of the license parties would prove of greater eventual value to the universe than
those from parents who solely relied on the force which makes the world -and people's heads-go round.
"If the law were able to step in and prevent a marriage on the grounds of suspected tuberculosis, it would be but a small step to the time when the und would be destroyed in an economical manner. Whether it pays to attempt to cure
of the Armistice it was apparent at once that four factors were im pairing these good relations. The first was Ireland, the second was Germany, the third was Japan,
Let us take these factors many, and perhaps most, Ameri.mea and labourers in their work- head, and a necklace hung from the England, was about to pass to the ber, and also with assaulting aand to educate a trouble out of
and the fourth was the ancient grudge.
in tara, and see what has happen ed in their regard.
Four Obstacles,
The fact that Britain pays debts' is a circumstance obvious to old and young. But this is only a part of the story. Ten years ago;
ing clothes.
While I was laughing with my wife stated that Advocate Con salvo, I saw quite detached from the tree, an image of the Madonna. The image bore a diadem on its neck. My wife, as well as Dr. Pace saw the vision at the same mo ans, even when fiendly to Eng
National Anthem v. Red Flag, land, had doubts about the British
ment. We changed our position, Empire. It was conquest. It was There was uproar when a British but the image remained. We cut Exploitation.
It was contrary to | Fascisti tender with
women away the leaves of the tree behind the principles enshrined in the De- driver and a number of young wo-it, but it did not vanish. claration of Independence. Ir men slowly passed the gigantic pro- In view of this evidence, local Land, Egypt, South Africa and In-ccasion in Park-lane. Above the scientists have investigated he
dia should be emancipated from an allen yoke.
phenomenon, declaring themselves, in general of the opinion that the case is one of collective or mass suggestion.
Treland, so far from exacerbat ing animosity, has been reconciled, and has to-day become an agent of god-will. Her Minister at Wash-
car was a large Union Jack. A ington, Professor Smiddy, is a
great about was raised by the mar To-day this is not the prevailing chers, and hooting and booing was man of singular personal charm,. who devotes himarif to promoting view. The United States is feel taken up from one cad of the pro the ultimate common interest of ing her way to world-power, and cession to the other. The Red But against this verdict is to be the English-speaking democracies, has discovered in the Philippines Flag and the Internationale
opposed the
opinion of the The Germin ia Minneapolis, and the Caribbean that interven- were sung. Some of those lining psychiatrist. Commendatore Pietro sometimes a deserndent of those tion may be a regrettable necessity. the pavement replied by singing D'Ovidio of Lanciano, who has de- Literals who fled from the Hohen Of Asin she is conscious. Her rea- the National Anthem. When op-clared that he has seen the image zollerns in 1848 and always a re-son tell her that she is five thous posite some of the larger houses in himself. He denies absolutely that fugee from conscription, had no sand miles distant from the Fat Park-lane many of the archers the case is one of aute-suggestion. love at all for the Kaiser. At the East. But an instinet, quickened shook their fists at them and erica same time, he could not hat regard by her entanglement in Europe,Up the Reds. Our day is com- with sorrow the downfall of his leads her to the conviction that country of origin. Between Ger- in the future of Russia, China and man militarian and German cul- India, with their vast populations, ture he drew, rightly or wrongly, her own destinies somehow are in- a distinction which was reflected volved. in his vote. Ten years ago be could not he enthusiastic for Eng- land. It would have been contrary
to human nature..
It is here that the policy of France, as directed by M. Clemen- ceau and Poincare, failed to win the support of the United States. It was a policy based on the assumption that the Great War was merely an incident in the feud between Frank and Hun which, in the nature of things. must be
In perpetual.
this feud the United States, remembering Lafayette, was to stand guarantor for France.
ing."
mounted
The Church authorities, always extremely careful in such cases, do not encourage the people to speak of.. J miracle.
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Trafic Organised. The procession was met at Gros The owner of the cak-tree, an- venor-gardens by a strong cordon noyed at the assembly of curious police.sightseers, trampling over his It is suggested sometimes that of foot and the State Department at Washing Policemen had been posted at each fields and ruining the crops, sought ton plays a lone hand, demanding trance to the Gardens some hours to cut down the tree, but on climb- equal rights with other Powers But earlier, in view of such an emering into the branches to attach a evalling equal responsibility. For geacy, and they stopped the demon rope to the trunk, he fell to the from approaching the ground and broke his arm, thereby instance, Americans in China, both strators misionaries and merchants, were American Embassy. The road was only convincing the peasants more accused of currving favour with quickly filled in front of the cor- than ever of the sacred nature of
more the tree. the natives at the expense of the tons, however, and
Our troops, 80 it was British.
And said, were to keep order. others were to reap the moral and material. benefits.
Caution In China....
once
„LONDON'S LOCKED
CHURCHES.
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR OVERSEA'S VISITORS.
Mr. Morgan was appealed to, and promptly acquired and saved the estate.
The picturesque little church of Aldenham neatles among the trees half a mile away. Mr. Morgan and his family attend service there on their visits to Wall Hall.
Mr. Morgan, who is in his rixtieth year, has come for rest and holiday. He looks in the best of health and activity, standing 8 it.
ins. in height.
SICK SURGEON'S DISCOVERY.
"
A NEW TREATMENT FOR INFLUENZA.
JI
before the
constable.
During the exciting period which preceded his safe ledgment at the Police station Brace "downed" the policeman, who had to baton.
the
1
use his
existence, or whether it is better to till off all such persons who appear ts of little use, is a problem
where even a Governmental com= mittee might and it difficult to draw Bruce did not like the mea! that the line. There are many historical his wife had prepared for him, and, casions on which the definite learning that there were exgs in the holding of an opinion has been con- cupboard, the proceeded there, and,sidered by the multitude to indicate
madness. according to his wife, fired five of Itelieve that Galileo was a best Irish at her. The eggs ease in point, and although I do were scattered all over the room.
not compare such instances with the. Four policemen were called to the horrible specimens of humanity to house, and one of the officers was
be seen in all parts of the world, I assaulted.
do" fear the creation of a depart- Bailie Higgins, in fining the acment to deal with the official pro- cused one guinea, said that he was responsible for the trouble that came to him.
The accused when fined said that he would go to prison, as he did not know where the money was to come from.
However, his wife came to the rescue, and paid over the guines
TRIP.
FIRST THE NATIVES HAD EVER SEEN.
duction of children, as well as their subsequent political education.
Barrier Puzzle.
"I am definitely against persons who are unfit producing children, but I would very much like to be told where the barrier exists de- tween the sheep and goats."
I cannot imagine #lest"
of
New Eight on the treatment of in- fluenza was revealed in an address recently delivered by Mr. E. .
Complete agreement with Dr. I J. Short, tuberculosis officer "for Turner, FR.C.S., Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association,
Somerset, who condemned the mar ENGLISHWOMAN'S CONGO riage of infected persons, and whose which appears in the current issue
condemnation was the subject. of of The British Medical Journal.
Mr. Turner, as far back as 1877
Professor Low's original comments, is contained in a letter to the Daily and 1879, assisted in many of the
Express from A experiments made with silicin in
he says, the treatment of rheumatism, gout,
"how any thoughtful man. Miss Catherine Sharp, an Eng- mainria and other diseases, and. learned at that time that to ensure lishwoman, who accompanied Col. woman can do otherwise than agree zay pronounced effect from such a L. F. Fenn and two other ran with Dr. L. J. Short. Real love 04 divorced from self- drug, large doses were necessary.
on a big-game hunting trip to the cannot Salicia is an organic substance Belgian Congo, has returned to sacrifice, and for diseased persons taken from the bark of several London, after penetrating parts of to propagate is a refined form of
selfishness. species of willow trees. It is in Africa where a white woman has the form of white crystalline scales never been seen before,
"If such people insist on mar- and will split up into saligenin; It was my first expedition to the riage, medical science, not and grape sugar.
wilds," she said to a press repre- traceptives, ought to be called on It occurred to Mr. Turner that sentative, but it will not be my to make parentage impossible. large coses of salicin might have last Already I am becoming tired me the dis when the law of every clergyman will a beneficial effect in the treatment of civilisation, and want to go back the land decrees: No medica! certi- of influenza, and in 1600, when he to Africa. happened to contract the disease,
every hour.
16 Hours Cure.
Dar-es-
сод
traffic Was disorganised. As The phenomenon is to be further groups of people collected within examined by a committee of scien- afty yards of the entrance to Gros tists and psychologista. venor-gardens they were quickly dispersed, police inspector sheut ing orders for people to be moved But even to this situation there on. This was done, and they were may be another side. In navigat-diverted round the other side of But what the Doughboys fought ing the turgid waters of the Yang. Grosvenor-gardens, moving down for, and all that they fought for, taze Xiang a heavenborn pilot him the road towards Victoria. was to bring this feud to an end, self would be criminal if he divest
Police Tact. And when France marched into the cd himself of caution. In dealing
Proceeding at a slow pace they Ruhr her traditional attachment with China Christendom has not
few yards to the land of the free" was reduc kept its hand entirely clean, for moved forward for n
Empire and foreign visitors in- ed to a mere formality. It was the instance, of opium. And the Unit and again stopped. There was a
"We left England in November, ficate, no marriage. Does Pro endeavour of Britain to conciliated States- nation, humbler in great roar of Don't kill the Com-terested in the old City churches
fessor Low deny that a healthy Germany and bring her into the mind, if not in manner, than is manists," and the teraper of the complain that in the majority of he put his belief to the test by tak and, after landing at
realized-has been con- crowd was extremely ugly. It was instances they have found the ing 40 grains of salicin in one dose. Salaam, made our way up the shore mind in a healthy body is the League of Natio.18-in a word, usually Locarno-that appealed to the feious of inexperience. She hesi a delicate situation for the police places closed, with not even an at- He continued the treatment for of Lake Tanganyika to Lake Kiba, general rule, and "that diseased
Ladies, more
than often
noka sagacity of America, and especial- tates lest her first step should be as a wrong step might have had tendant to give information.
Meanwhile Ten out of twelve. City churches twelve hours, taking 20 grains in the Belgian Congo. We went cr terious consequences.
produce diseased minds ?”—Daily hundreds of miles, travelling on ly to Gertaan America. The anti-a false one.
Express. foot, and through a country that is British intrigues, fomented by
Yet crea in China it is obvious traffic was being held up, and the visited in one day, were found to be Count Bernator when he was Am that the two English-speaking, Goy tooting horns of the cars together either closed entirely or under re- At the end of twelve hours, virtually unknown. Our maps would
with bassador at Washington, belong to ernments
the persuasive efforts of the pair. are pursuing what is
Outside each church was a notice said Mr. Turner, "my tempera- often merely mislead us, and fre history.
essentially a similar policy. It is police prevailed upon the proces
WHERE ENGLISH RAIL- the logic of events and not an sion once more to get going had public at retain temes, but in seven
that the building was opened to the ture, which was 1038 at the com- quently large spaces in them would
mencement of the attack, was nor-simply be left blank.
WAY'S SCORE. Anglo-Japanese Alliance,
cat: written or unwritten, that The procession by this time.
"Natives in this country had This is at the place, in which is bringing them together.
lost its old marching order, and instances there was nothing to in- mal, and in sixteen hours I gat
never seen a white woman before, to discuss the Anglo-Japanese An anti-British agitation in the people rushed about in all direcdicate why the church was closed up, went out, and did my work
After a short time," Mr. and when we came to a village the FAR SAFER THAN THE ROAD. Alliane. It is encugh to say that United States has ceased to be tions, but no concerted attempt or when it would be opened. Some we had to choces between its con- serious perplexity. The real "em- was made to reach the Embassy, churches have temporary notices to Turner continued. "I gave up ad- women would ask if they might tinuance and diplomatic co-opera barrassment is in England, not After warning the crowd a number the effect that the buildings are ministering first dose of 40 come out and look at me and touch tion with the United States and America.
ancient of mounted police drew their closed during August and will be grains in treating patients, as I found, it unnecessary; and 20 Be it not forgotten-Canada. The people. We have been accustomed batons, and on seeing this the de reopened in September.
Even at the famous St. Mary-le- grains every hour for twelve hours, Alliance has been rewritten into rule over other peoples. Sud-monstrators took to their heels. In
and then every two hours for the broader terms and with results denly we are aroured to the fact a few seconds the area was desert Bow, the bells of which are reputed wholly favourable to Anglo-Ameri- that another nation, speaking out ed. However, they dwindled back to have influenced Dick Whitting next twelve was practically in any NEW "TAILS FOR SILVER the railways are first and road
friendship. The American language yet repudiating our slowly, and a crowd gathered out ton, there was a barrier inside to case sufficient to put an end to an
**Not One Death." Navy has passed from the Atlantic sovereignty, has surpassed us inside the Spanish Embassy, waiving prevent the public wandering attack.
in wealth And to the Pacific Ocean, and compari- population,
in the Red Flag, but the police again about unneccssasily" as a work-
man put it
"I treated every case which 4003 of that navy with the British average standard of material com- cleared them with ease.
I have waited a lifetime for came under my care during the The police handled an extremely hare. ceased to to elevant.
fort. To adjust our tempera, to As for memories of the past, I this altered situation is a task in dificult situation with great tact, this visit," said in Australian whole of that saidemic in this way; to be issued for the third time dur hazard the opinion that text-books the achievement of which Britons and as far as could be ascertained visiter, "and my one ambition has and also all the cases of true ning the present century. The six in schools and colleges are no might be assisted greatly by the there were no sericus casualties, been to res diose wonderful old fluenza which I came across during silver coins, including (for the longer to be feared. The reason is pres. If the United States is re- though when the police pushed back churches, but so far I have only the succeeding years; and in no sake of collectors) the rarely seen rival, it follows one section of the crowd about seen the interior of two. It is, ex-engle case had any complica Eve-shilling piece, are to have new not that the histories have been garded-merely as
"The new coins will King George Ilf and his redcoats, skyscraper is a challenge and every the corner of Grosvenor-gardens, of such historic structures closed, death."
Mr. Turner has treated between tion within the next few months The change is deeper by far than Ford car an offence. But her citi Ebury-street, several being injur especially when the probability is that. Young America is living no zens do not so define her destiny. ed. About 2,000 to 3,000 demon that one will not have another op- 3,600 and 3,000 influenza patients It is understood that the King with salicin, and all behaved the has approved the designs submitted longer in the eighteenth century It is not in rivalry with Britain atrators attempted to reassemble portunity of risiting them"
A Londoner wanted to take a same way, while reports from other to him by a committee headed by "but in the twentieth.".
that she wishes to proceed, but in outside St. George's Hospital, but To one who has zeen, as I have, mutuality, the objective of which mounted police dispersed these friend to view a tablet which had practitioners who had tried to the Deputy Master of the Mint
been erected to the memory-of his same
method in the recent The new coins will not differ the breaking of windows where the is nothing less than the main- alsó,
Two arrests were made in Grosfather in one of the City churches, epidemies in different parts of the greatly from the old, but it is Union Jack has flown, it is a great tenance of a common civilization
artistic. gain that causes of friction, da--and its extension throughout the repor-gardens and two more at and he, too, was disappointed. country showed that they met with understood that they will be more
rastically the BAME SUĘCUSE, The gates were bolted and barred. Hyde Park-corner." faite and chronic, should have world.
We
Are
an
my clothes.
COINS. CHANGE IN BRITISH MONEY.
Coins of new design are shortly
The old saying that the safest place in Britain is in an express train is truer to-day than ever it was. On the score of safe travelling transport nowhere, and the com panies are calling the attention of the public to this fact. They point out, that in the first great holiday week of the season the companies carried no fewer than 40,000,000 passengers without death or injury In the same period the casualty. to a single person. list for the roads numbered scores of dead and maimed. The companies motor traffic, but they will hardly.
flesh creep. succeed in making the "motoring public's
revised in terms less hostile to as a matter of courre that every thirty people fell down an area at tremely annoying to find the doors tions whatever, and not one single "tails" aides be in circula- clearly score by this backhander to"
The accidrat season by Toad, river and seashore is now at its height, but it is all taken as a matter of course. Ambulance calls
in 1816 to over 40,000 in the year. in London have gone up from 8,500