FAMOUS SCENES
IN THE HOUSE.
THE IRISH
REBELLION " OF 1901.
FIRM HAND IN SPAIN.
MEASURES AGAINST
STRIKERS.
Madrid-With the continuation of sabotage by the telephong, strik. ere the Ministry of the Interior stated that the enverest measurei are to be adopted to end the
The nearest parallel to the scene in the House, culminating in the forcible ejection of Mr. McGovern, is to be found"(writes an old Par Hamentary hand in the Morning Post) in the episode of Merch 5,trouble. 1001, when a dozen of the Irish Nationalist members wore, by the Speaker's order, carried cut by the police. But though the recent scene was similar in kind, it was in degree a much milder affair than" that of 1001.
On that occasion, the House was in Committee of Supply, and the Canirman, Mr. J. W. Lowther, now
Every time an act of sabotage's committed a number of strikers, art to be arrested, who will be detail ed until the real culprits are di covered.
to: waten
Fresh ordars hivo hear, given to die, civil guards carpful:y
lines and to shoot without en attempting warning, anyone? sabotage..
Lord Ulewator, had granted the Telephonis communication "with
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.
DANCING UNDER DURESS.
R.S.P.C.A. AN ENEMY OF SPORTSMEN "?
A GHASTLY PARIS SPECTACLE.
PERPETUAL MOTION FOR
300 HOURS.
A more deplorable exhibition than the Dancing Marathon, no cently held in a Montmartre circus I have rarely witnessed, says Press correspondant, writing from Paris.
At the time of my visit the half competition had been dancing" a dozen couples still left in the
over boo hours.
QUESTIONS REGARDING
ITS POLICY,
FIELD SPORTS SOCIETY
CRITICISM,
There was some outspoken, criti- cism of the attitude of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at a noting at Caxton Hall of the British Field Sporta Soiety.
Lord Bayford, who said that the membership of the society w was now The description "dancing" needs inverted commas, because there approaching the Loos was nothing terpsichorena in the sluggish movements which the miserable occupants of the circular wooden arena' forced themselves to make,
For periods of minutes at a time on the floor, but merely compelled
MEN WHO SAVED FRICOURT.
DINNER ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE
Fricourt, July 1 unique kind of war reunion took place yesterday. in the little village of Fricourt, which nestles amid the Somme upland. For members of the old Bith Infantry Brigade-not only officers but also representatives of other ranks-had come there to hold
their annual dinner on the battle- fold itself.
This village was once a famous mirk, pro-stronghold converted by the for- tune and flux of war into the pro-
Gorman front in Picardy. jecting,
og, central bastion of the On
the 64th Brigade hnd sprang fron Saturday, July 1, 1916, the men of
cceded There are some of those responsible for the conduct of the R.S.P.C.A for whom many of us have the greatest respect, To them I should like most respectfully to
sure
closure, to the discontent of the Barcelona was cut, but his now they did not change their position put this question. Are their" trenches to advance against |
Nationalists, who expressed their resentiment by refusing to clear the House for the division.
been re-established,
qualified.
their weary legs to execute the that they and those with whom they the flank of Ericourt. Evening ba A tonference of the variu almost imperceptible motion re are associated are running quite all but one of the divisions north uniona of telephone workers was quisite to prevent their being dis straight? To us it does not appear of Fricourt back in their trenches. The Chairman sent for the Speaker (Mr. Gully, afterwards convened yesterday under the pre
It is shocking spectacle-a to be quite straight to be working The exception was the 21st. It had Lord Selby), whose order to the aidoucy of the Unler Se retary of repugnant exhibition, the gradually but unavowedly to desdriven a deep wedge into the Ger- recalcitrants to clear the house was Communications, with the object of "Liberté " has called it-which equally disregarded. Thereupon the Sergeant-at-Arms was instruct ending the strike, but the Nation! mission prices of from is. 6d. to sa, are pleased to call blood sportsmustered scarcely a hundred a rowds of people are paying ad- troy one after another what they man front, and the survivors who ed to see that the Speaker's orders Confederation of Workers refuerded to watch. The six young, men and at the same time to be collechattalion-held this until Fricourt, were obeyed. Hu persuasions, to attend, and state tha they wil aro. undergoing their ordes in ing the subscriptions of those to pinched out, fell next day, and ed unavailing, and the attendants not recognise any decision which variously attired. Two are in dark whom those forms of sports are opened the way for the next British trousers and shirts. The girls are' were then called. to intervene by may be reacbed.
bonch pyjama suite,
joy and delight. forco.
watch were first resorted to, prov
They struggled with some of the offenders, but ineffectually, because, while the members they attempted to saizo clung to their seats, thoir neighbours on the bonchos did their heat to obstruct the attack and strengthen the defence:
་་
Police Sent For.
It was at this point that Mr Speaker Gully created a mementous precedent by calling in the police. In a scene of intenso excitement a strong force of police entered the House, and, concentrating on the resister after another, forced them from their places and carried them, kicking and struggling, out
of the House,
Some of the members ejected put up a stubborn fight, and suffered in the encounter, but the last to gop Mr. Flavin-a man of formid. able physique-proved quite tame when his turn came
At midnight a tram strike was declared by tho employees of a tramway company operating in one of the districts Madrid. The stoppage, which is complete, has caused serious inconvenience to the thousands who travel back and forth from Madrid and the suburbs daily, and have no other means transport.
"No" to Communists. The Chief of Police informed the Press that permission has been re- fused to the Communists to hold a strect demonstration in Madrid.
In a small town in the provines of Seville a Communist councillor was arrested by the civil guards for disorderly conduct in a pol He had been among the most ling station. The Mayor, evident noley and truculent at first, but,ly impressed by the threatening at when the police approached him, titude of a group of Communists. he declared his readiness to go ordered the release of the Com quietly, though he was, in fact, munist councillor. On hearing of carried out..
what had happened, the Civil Gov. Another incident in this affair ernor ordered the dismissal of the was the attempt of one of the Mayor and the rearrest of the Clerks at the Table-it was Sir Communist councilor. Lonsdale (then Mr.) Webster-to
A report from Ferrol, Galicia, take the names of the disorderly states that an attempt to provoke members. He edged along the Na- a revolt among the troops of the
•
While I was there a girl-who was obviously in the worst condi. with a bump on to her, partner. tion of all the competitors-fell
But his faculties were apparently too beaumbed to permit of his noticing the incident. There was a wild, feverish, huoted-animal look in the eyes of this " champion" of the dance, and one wondered how
could go. much farther human. endurance
the matter.
advance.
"
Mr. Coleridge himself is quite straight-forward in
Fifteen years later some of those
called 'cruel sports Semt unrea spot on which they had gazed din Writing to the Press the other day men had arrived to dine on the ho said with regard to what be sonable but very vocal people er herless. First, in little groups they pect everything to be advocated at wandered among the neat red brick
The society is not zo foolish; it knows that great causes have to cottages which had risen phonix- be won step by step. And because liko from the remembered heaps of it refuses to be hustled certain im rubble. Then round the corner and patient folk proceeded to shout and create upmar at the last annual up the lane-the lane now so ordi- mooting. The society will go on itanary but still unforgettable as the way undismayed."
Sunken Road." Along that skai low bank-now grass-covered-the remnants of the brigade had stayed until relieved.
Though the brutal performance is called "continuous," the contest. ants are allowed a quarter of an hour out of each hour for rest, re-
PlainSpanking." freshment, and shaving! The most "That seems to us to be pretty folds itself when the moment arrives that in Mr. Coleridge's opinion the painful phase of the "show" un-plain speaking. It can only mean
When the Barrage Lifts." for a resumption of the floor policy of the society is to prohibit shuffle.
all sports that involve killing, but
With memories strangely aud 41 Breath of Springtime,"
to do so by degrees, not at one fell painfully revived we drift back to swoop. But the next question is: the village cataminet-its portal During the return to the arena, Does Mr. Coleridge, represent the decorated with the Tricolour and which I witnessed, the arst warn society. Some of my friends tell the Union Jack. Here in a large ing given was a whistle. Then a me he does not. But it seems to meroon dinner is served, & dinner great gramophone started to rasp rather significant that six out of brought out all the way from out ironically "A Breath of Spring- aight candidates elected at the re-
Amiens by the chef and staff of time."
cont meeting to the committee' were
Godbert's that restaurant which But the wretched couples needed
"If he does and if what Mr. Cole with na evening to spend and a to be spurred an, if the entertain- Proposed by Mr. Coleridge was the Mecca for wartime officers ment and the receipts were to be ridge writes indicates the fixed hunger to assuage. maintained. So one of the orgnes policy of the society, then those chair, and on his right is stated Brigadier McCulloch takes the ers-an American-sounded a gong, who are its recognised loaders and playfully tickled the most ex- ought to say so openly and straight the Mayor, the guest of the even- hausted of the dancers into tome-forwardly. If he does not then it ing. Dinner over, the memory of thing approaching animation with a is equally their duty to disavow the fallen comrades ie, as annually, tionalist Benches with his paper garrison of a fort called San Felipe into a semblance of life by the ly running with the hare and hunt-mon, when the barrage lifts"-
newspaper. The rest were urged him. They cannot go on indefinite-honoured with the toast, "Gentle. aud pencil, but though he was not failed. The instigator has been ar interfered with, no was given no rasted. Fifteen days leave has mopping of towels, until at lengthing with the hounds. If such a toast that was first given when the assistance and no information.. been awarded in recomponee to the they began once more, in a state of disavowal is made I am sure it officers of the sth. K.O.Y.LI, Next day the question was raised soldiers at the fort, who fulfilled stupor, to move their deadened would be the wish of every one of assembled before marching up to as one of privilege, and great play their duty by arresting the indivt limbs. Soon the twenty-second day us to help the society in every way the trenches whence the assault of was made of the fact that a Mr. dusi who was inciting to rebellion of this incredible affair would be we can in its legitimate work. Ir July 1, 1910, was launched By its Jordan had been forcibly remover, and by reporting the matter to the ended.
not, then we know that however poignant simplicity the toast has although he was not one of the mem officer in charge of the garrison.
Such is the exhibition, which the sorry we may be we must regard gained an enduring niche in Eng bers who defied the Speaker's rul-
Among the several projects of
"Liberté," in an open letter, urges the society as the declared enemylish literature ing. But the House, on reflection importanco which will cecupy the the Prefect of Police to stóp. Ac-of every sportsman, and not only The battlefeld dinner was . the found it most consonant with its Chamber is a Bill to, ratify all the cording to this paper the receipts of sportsmen but of the very all climax of a moving day in a double dignity to allow the affair to drop. decrées promulgated by the Pro- day. It is a fact that on some who know this acts know that their early morning assembly et Victoria, have reached as much as £1,200 a mals they profess to befriend, We sense, which had begun with the ** Judas, Judas,”
visional Government,
<
Another historie scons of disor der occurred in 1893, when the guillotine fell at the end of the appointed day for the Committee stape of Mr. Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill. Party passion ran' very high, and the match was set to the scene by Mr. T. F. O'Connor's cry of "Judas, Judas," in interruption of Mr. Chumber.
lain.
On this occasion members came to blows, and for some momente a running fight went on, while Mr. Gladstone looked on grieved and horror-stricken: One of the out
POLICE "KEPT IN CUSTODY."
KIDNAPPED BY BRITISH FISHERMEN,
A remarkable story of two Irish police officers, being "kidnapped"" by fishermon was told when the Fleetwood steam trawler Nettla reached her home port recently.
The crew stated that while. fish.
standing figures in the affray was ing off the Donegal coast a small the Ulster leader, Colonel Sander boat approached containing three son, who stood up in his place benen, two women, and spriest.
Two of the men, who were wear- hind the Front Opposition Bench, and, squared for fight, exchanged ing raincoats, scrambled aboard hardiment with the Irish Nations the trawler and made a few friend- lists who were trying to storm the Is inquiries as to what success the Conservative Ben
trawler was having
R.A.F.
BOMBERS v. BATTLESHIP.
nights many people have been un- proposed legislation would cause able to obtain seats.
far more suffering to animals than the sports they wish to destroy.
"Only we must not let the cause go by default. These people are vory active and they have lots of money bebind them. We have to watch for their attacks all over the country and always be ready to meet them. We have an unanswer- able caso, but we must always have someone ready to put it forward. That is one of the main objects of this society."
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SECRET TEST FOR AIR ARTILLERY.
·H.M.S. - CENTURION- THE
TARGET.
heavily armoured ship.
The battleship will be moving, controlled by wireless.
On a day and at a place not yet divulged the pro-war battleship H.M.S. Centurion, which has been scrapped," is to be bombed from As he held his ground thus, Mr.
Our net was out at the time," "the air in a test of accuracy of aim Creana Nationalist member one of the trawlermen ontinued, and of the destructive effect of known to his colleagues as "Mon- and suddenly the men unbutton bombs on different parts of a kay-Brand"forced his way along.ed their raincoats and revealed that the bench behind and dealt Colonoi they were Irish Free State Civic Saunderson a savage blew behind Guards, Une who said he was a the ear from the back.
sergeant told our skippor that we Another memorable incident of were fishing within the limits and this scene was tha, in which Sir ordered him to take the trawler Elis Ashmead-Bas Jett, standing into Buncrana Herhour before the Front Upprsilion Bench, painted an accusing finger across the floor at Air. Gladstone, and ex claimed: "You have done this!"
What do
you want ? snything
If there
Coast. They will be carried out in strict privacy, in the presmee of Naval and Air experts.
From Boulogne the party had gone direct to Ionin Hill, south of Arras, for the unveiling of a crers, this permanent memorial memorial replacing a wooden cross which was erected after the offen. sive of 1917.*.
N.Y. ALIEN RACKET
BROKEN UP..
SMUGGLING ORGANISATION
SMASHED.
Washington, August 5-Mr. Wm. N. Doak, the Secretary of Labour; announced to-day that officials of the Immigration Bureau of his de- partment succeed in smashing the New York immigration racket.
Mr.
Doak believes that the New mental in smuggling 100,000 aliens into the United States.
Such a test cannot, of course, give the slightest idea of the effec- tiveness of the deletices of a man- ned warship, and of that question conflicting theories will be held until they can be put to the only pracy tical test.
A new nival anti-aircraft gun has lately been tested. It is one which would increase. the casualties in- At the Air Ministry, it was elated' curred in, low-bombing attack. that final decisions have not yet Air attacks on battleships, how been made as to the selection of ever, will not be by aeroplanes act- the units of the R.A.F. which willing singly; they will be great com- bomb Centurion, nor was it sinted bined operations, in which torpedo whether the attacks will be confined and bombing aeroplanes will be do this, and for six hours we did
"The skipper was not inclined to to bombs, or will include torpedoes, supported by squadrons "of, fast It is highly probable that more single-seater fighters, whose object. absolutely nothing to see if they than one type of day bomber will be would be to hamper warship's would get tired of us. used. But since few instruments deck defenders; the va
Patience Rewarded,
Three officials of the Immigration Bureau have been placed under arrest. It is expected that other arrests will be made later.
JAPANESE VOLCANO IN
ERUPTION.
SMOKE AND LAVA FROM ' MT ASAMA.
As time passed their small boat and apparatus ensuring greater Bomb attacks on armoured ships disappeared towards the land, and accuracy in bombing are being testare either designed to damage the wo thought that a patrol steamer ed, especially in No. 101 Squadron, deck or the under-water part of the would be sent after us, so we do it is highly probable that that squa, hull. If almed at the deck, the cided we had better be making a dron will take part in the opera-hombs must be dropped from a con- Karuizawa, August, &– Mount move. The two policemen, who tion. OLE
siderable height in order that the Asama, one of the greatest of were still an board, eventually bo The Hart or the Gordon-both force of impact may be sufficient to Japan's active volcanoes, was in came seasick owing to the trawler fast day bombers but single-engin penetrate. But the greater the eruption to day. The activity rolling and they accepted our offered, whereas the Sidestrand of No.height the fewer the hits whilst could be watched from this summer of food and drink, p
101 is a twin-engined type, carry the aeropine is notually an casier resort in Ishikawa Prefecture They thought we wero steaming ing-hoary hombe may be given an target thon, when it is flying yorg♬ Black smoke and love are coming. to Buncrana," he added, "but re opportunity of t
Med from Mt. Asama's cone. It is fear- Chan we were crossing the North equipment.sting skill; and Channel and in the end we arrIV prepaidat er rodand Here
that the greatest amount of dam- the Joabu side; of the volcano, Now AntiAirzaft done by large bomb Police declare that then wre |we "put the policemen ashore” toll; It is probable the trials will take timed to explode close to the ship's mountaineers on the volcano, who
ing them to get back to Ireland place somewhere off the North East side below the heavily armoured are likely to be in danger as best they could,”
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