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POLICE AND DISPUTED "SWEAR-WORD."
For making a speech at Clowne, a Derbyshire mining village, on November 2, calculated to hinder the production of fuel, Mr. David Kirkwood, the Socialist M.P. for Dumbarton, was recently fined £25 and costs, and £10 108. special casts, at the petty sessions He was allowed seven days in which to pay
Several Arrests. Several arrests were made, and Mr. Buchanan, the Socialist M.P. for Gorbals, full of indignation, followed one prisoner to the police station, declaring that he had been shamefully treated.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927.
GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
"CAR PARKING CAUSES INDIGNATION.
Sympathy has been expressed. on behalf of the National Trust for the preservation,, of plates of historje interest with the protest against the proposal of the Glan- tonbury Urban District Council- to which The Daily Mail has drawn attention-to use a portion of the ground adjoining the famous ruins of Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset as a parking place for motor-care und motor-coaches. Antiquarians and archaeologists are supporting
petition against what they ro- Rard as the inevitable desderation of one of the earliest sacred sites in Britain. It la felt that the tar park would be a blot on the land- scape.
31r. S. H. Hamer, the see
secretary of the National Trust, said to a Daily Mail reporter:
Previously Mr. Kirkwood, apply Ing for an adjournment, declared that he was going to put the Home Speretary into the witness-box. The fence was conducted by The Nationni Trust would. very Mr. W. H. Thompson and the pro- ceedings were more orderly. The much deprecate effect being given prosecution, in the charge of Mr. to a proposal which would ruin Bendle Moore, decided to proceed the glory of the celebrated "Abbey, with the case of the speech at and it heartily endorses, the peti- Clowne, leaving three other sumtion against this very interesting Nothing being spoiled. menses for susequent considera-site tion.
should be permitted which would prevent the preservation unmar- Mr. Moore said that at Clowne red of a place of such historic ín- police officers took down state-terest and natural beauty. ments which Mr. Kirkwood made. For instance, Mr. Kirkwood said, "I told the House a week ago that I was going into the country to create an atmosphere to withdraw the safety men. Iwould het flood the pile. I would destroy them. The mines can go to hell?
Three constables were called to substantiate the prosecution, They all admitted that they could not write shorthand." "
Constable Clarke, who said he made a note of the statement re ferred to, Was asked by Mr. Thompson: "Could you take speech by Mr. Kirkwood now?" "I could have a try" replied the constable, i
Dictation Test.
"The protest has special justi fication because it is intended that the parking, place for motor vehi- cles should be alongside the ground, containing the famous Abbot's
kitchen--the massive structure which stands, as intact as on the day it was frat com- pleted and the surroundings of which should be maintained frce.
BOUGHT BY THE PUBLIC.
The indignation which has been aroused by the threat to the amenities of the historic memoriai has beer stimulated beyond the Glastonbury district by the fact that the land was acquired by, blic subscription only five years
jago.
Mr Kirkwood (with, a a broad
Professor Sir William Boys Scots accent): Right! You shall. Dawkins, the archeologist, wh Are you ready? Here goes: Inhas twice been president of the Nature we find no strong drink, Somerset Archaeological and Ni nothing that can intoxicate. The tural History Society, said: All-Merciful and the All-Wise has drink-cold provided but one- water. This le provides abun- dantly--
Mr. Thompson: That's enough of that:
Mr. Moore: That is, muok ton" fast.
The Constable (Tumbling with pene and paper): " He never spoke like thubat Clowne.
Mr Thompson: How did he speak.
The Constable:". He spoke Eng fish.
The Constable then tried again,
Mr. Kirkwood repeating that sen-
tenec, buts more distinctly and
"If the proposed parking ground faterferes in any way with the Ab- bey it will be nothing less than an outrageous act of sacrilege.
The Abbey is one of the oldest and most important egelesiastical institutions in the country. It dates from before Saxon times, and for a long time Glastonbury was known as "Holy Ia be ink-cut-off-from the rep the country by marshes.
"It is sacred ground and Should not be touched."
more slowly, but the policeman ILL-FATED. NOVELIST. was still in dificulties.
Mr. Thompson:
have you got?
Now what
The Constable (reading): In the MR. ALLEN UPWARD'S DESIRE nature of strong drink-
Mr. Thompson: Why! You haven't even got the first sentence right.
Pressed by Mr. Thompson, the policeman" admitted that he would not swear that Mr. Kirkwood did not say that, if he had to choose between conditions of slavery' for the miners and the flooding of the pits, he would flood the pits.
The other constables gave evi, dence, but neither agreed, as to de- tails of the statements alleged to have been made, and Mr. Thomp sou contended that there was no ense to answer...
Mr. Kirkwood's Evidence." Mr. Kirkwood, giving evidence, declared that what he really said at Clowne was that, if he had to choose between the starvation of his wife and family and the flood- lag of pits; he would flood the pits. The Scots phrase he had used, "Blow the lot to bagorags" (bag of rage) had been reported by the constables "as a swear word."
He protested that he never swore his curly strict Presby. terian training prevented him from doing that.
Mr. Moore, cross-examining him concerning some of his statements in the House of Commons, asked: "You have a right to say what you like in the House?"
Mr. Kirkwood: What I say in the House I will repeat in the country. I would say it in the court of Renishaw.
TO ENTER WORKHOUSE.
Its revealed that Mr. Allen Up- ward, then novelist, who recently committed suicide, wrote from Ramsgate to the Worcester Boarţi of Guardians in 1919 aking what trentment he would receive if he became an Inmate of the work- house. He stated!
formerly consulted a mentai specialist, who said there was nothing the matter with me except the misery in which I was living. What has broken, me down in an almost unexampled series of mis- fortunes, of which the bankruptcy of six different publishers ja a sample only..
"I feel that what I absolutely need is respite from the daily anx- iety as to, what I am to do next.
have become unit for anything but literary work, and neither I nor the literary agents are any longer able to sell anything I write to papers and publishers. The agents believe they would sell n back of reminiscences,, but to write it I must have a roof for my head and solitude, and I see no present prospect of procuring either..
"The production of such a book Tn the shelter of the workhouse may possibly be the manns of ob taining me a pension, from the Civil List, should I survive.".
The guardians replied that they could not admlt Mr. Upward be- cause he was not destitute.
Anyway, you won't deny that you He denied that he said the mines came down hero to create an at would "go to hell," and he added:mosphere for the withdrawal of
I hoyer swear: that is known the safety men? throughout the movement. What does happen if I get worked up le to break into Dorle."
Mr. Moore: Semo of us may think that worse than swearing
Mr. Kirkwood: Yes; I won't deny that. ⠀⠀
After the penalty already men tioned had been imposed the other summonses were withdrawn.
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