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WEDNESDAY,
"HUMBUG AND RUBBISH."
"INCREDIBLE PROPOSALS” OF TRADES UNION BILL.
JUNE 22:
1927.
G. B. SHAW ON.
PRINCES.
"DISSENSION IN THE ROYAL FAMILY."
EGYPT OVER THE BORDER.
EXCAVATIONS-AT GERAR.
Sir Flinders Petrie,, writing Times, says:
A characteristic letter from Mr. from Tell, Jemmeh, Gaza, to the The work of the British School
WARNING TO PILOT.
TRELAWNEY REED ACQUITTED..
Dayroll Reed'to-day was acquitted, London, May 26-Trelawney That the meqaure contained in-
after he had given evidence that credible proposal, and that it G. Bernard Shaw was read at i would hasten the extinction of the meeting under the auspices of the
id not intend to frighten him, but he did not fire at the pilot, and Government, was Mr. William League for the Prohibition of of Archeology in Egypt on the purposed to let the pilot know that Graham's criticism of the Trade Cruel Sports at Caxton Hall, West-city of Gerar has shown its im there were people in the vicinity. Unions B at a meeting of his minster, recently.
portance as an Egyptian strong- [An earlier message statod: hold, and this southern connexion Trelwney Dayrell Reed gentle Parliamentary constituents
There is dissension in the Royal of the site gives the meaning of man farmor and artist, was charg- Contral Edinburgh in the But Family, ho writes. Price it throughout. A space of more clouch Parish Halla recently.
of
utam
Henry's proclamation that every than an nera has been cleared in cd at the Wimborne Court with at- Mr. Graham said that the indus artist should be a sportsman was the most promising part of the tempted murder. The Court was promptly countered by the Prince city, descending 20ft. through four crowded with the public, including trial events of last year were & of Wales's public and pointed re-successive ages of building, with Augustus John, who is a mere excuse for the Bill. For fusal to attend the great buli fight 30ft. of ruins still below. The friend of Reed's. Counsel for the yoara Tories had been pressing for in Spain. I think Prince Henry view of the civilizations of the prosecution said that when Squa anti-Trado Union legislation. To must have meant that every sports-Iron Age has been full of detall, dron-Leader Longton's machine them the continuous progress of man should be an artist. He was and the relative order of all the returned to the starting point 48 the Labour movement had been in probably nervous and put the boot objects is exactly known by their bullets holes were found in the fnet much more impressive than on the wrong foot.
levels and positions, which are left lower wing alone. Read call- recent industrial dislocation. All
Certainly, he adds, the artist fully recorded. The date in yearsed at the Wimborne Police Station Trade Union leaders recognised that Trade Unionism could be im- who paints the bird in its living is settled by the known history of next morning and said
half mad when those things come proved, but the Bill did nothing in colours, or stalks the living ele. Southern Palestine.
phant or rhinoceros in his native that direction. It was definitely liberty with a movie-camera, is a huge circular granaries with coni-hit anyone. I fired behind it. At the top of the tell there were jover my house. I did not want to ropressive and restrictive in
thousand times a better sportsman cal roofs, like some figured in As-What can I do to keep them away?" character,
than the malignant idiot who syrian sculpture. These would Reed was thereaftor arrested. In practice, it ignored all the shoots then and gets photograph contain up to 800 tons of grain Councel. for the defence said that constructive work of the Unions ed sitting on the corpsc.
each, and might serve to victual there was no intention to hit the in Industrial negotiation, arbitra-
over 100,000 men for three months, pilot, only to frighten hint. That Other letters received included As these belong to the fifth cen- prosecution did not press the tion, unemployment” insurance the following:
tury B.C. (dated by a beautiful charge of attempted murder, Tho long before there was a State Bishop of Salisbury is unablo to Greek lekythos), it seems obvious Bench committed Reed to trial on scheme, and other effort to which give his support to the meeting for that they constituted the bridge charges of attempted unlawful leading economists had paid the he thinks that on the whole shoot-head for the Persian armies keep-wounding, malicious highest tribute. Its spirit, if not ing, hunting and fishing de faring up the hold on Egypt. A property and common assault. Reed damage to its letter, was to suggest that a
month's supply of corn while as-pleaded not guilty and was al- Trade Union was an illegal aseo more good than harm. ciation, especially when it pressed The Dean of Hereford-I once desert road, and a month for the
sembling, a month for forcing the lowed bail.] for what was clearly urgent social joined in an otter hunt. I thought siege of the frontier fortresses it a cruel sport, and never did so would be none too much to allow again. I cannot help thinking
for safety.
weapons, part of a long series con- In its main clause the Bill pro- that fox-hunting is also a cruel
Below the Persian level lay the tinuing for several centuries. Of fessed that all ordinary stoppages, sport.
+ great fort, and other buildings of lighter trades; there or the withdrawal of labour, when
Dean of Chester-I lived as a Psammetichos, planned like his little netting hooks of bronze and terms were manifestly unfair, boy in a great hunting country,frontier forts of Naukratin and bone meshes for the fishing indus- would remain as they were now and am still conscious of what Daphnne. He needed such to hold try. The earlier bronze needles It was even suggested that the psychologists would perhaps call back the Scythians, whom he kept have an end bent over for the eye sympathetic strike was not touch sporting complex. Hounds and at bay in this region for a genern-And the later have the eye cut in ed. But the effort would become pink coats and the 1st of Septem- tion. Scythian arrow-heads the solid. Weights abound, and illegal if, in the opinion of a jury ber still give me a sort of tingle. abounded here, left during their the dating of them by the levels or another authority, the action "This sinner that repontett. of any body of men" or women on hehalf of their collongues was re-sends his sympathy and roodwill: garded as coercion of the Govern- to your meeting of protest against blood-sports," writes Mr. John ment or an attempt to bring pres-
Galsworthy, sure to bear on the community.
and industrial reform.
"Further Rubbish."
Melancholy Controversy,
(2
are many
raids on the city. Under this were will help to disentangle the history traces of the Assyrinn occupations, of their standards: A few neck such as a lazuli cylinder carved laces of cornelian, crystal, and with monstera, a lion weight, and agate beads were hidden in the apit full of pottery of the finest pors of Shishak's age, and a kind, wholly unknown in Palestine, frontlet headband of gold.. und of Perso-Mesopotamian formg.
Ancient Foundations,
People Give Aid.
The agricultural Bedawy In Palestine train well, and can use Descending to an older level, a pick vigorously, though never there was discovered a town of the employed in regular work before. Jewish neriod, of irregular and Both men and children would need poorer buildings; this was partly more ample feeding before quick- based on the fourth town, which ening their pace. was distinguished by the size of and willing are they that they the bricks, equal to more than ten promise well for manning future" of modern vae. All the founda-f
excavations, tions were laid deep-with' sand; [
This region of the southern
So amenable
The humbug of the clauso was was taken away, even when it was clear
as noon. It forgot that agreed that the overwhelming even in times capital, in practice, struck just as majority of them,
as labour. When capital of industrial dislocation or strife, ofter withheld its goods for higher had been perfectly loyal to the prices, even in time of distress, Government of the day. They that was action definitely against would now be completely at the both the Government and the com- mercy of Treasury regulation. munity. "Yet the Government had not the slightest intention of deal- ing with that state of affairs. | The British public hardly according to the Egyptian custom frontier, miles from any village, Originally, the Bill contained no realized the incredible character This dates certainly between reference to leck-out; the Govern- of the proposals. Labour and the Rameses III. and Psammetichos, a perfectly tranquil now, thanks ment, recognising that some ap- Trade Unions would be crippled in and the only Egyptian ruler into the vigorous control of the Bri pearance of fairplay must be given the public conduct of their funds. Palestine in the interval was tlah police over the desert tribes, to the measure, now proposed to The Unions had now, under the building cannot be placed to any raid for more than a year past.
Shishalt, so this noble style of who have not ventured on a single existing law, to make complete re-
Besides camp organization our” lets found in jewellery buried here own work has been, in part, the The clause regarding the polititura to the Registrar-General ofother reign. The Egyptian amu-
and Friendly Societies. Over cal levy was further rubbish. At over again that official had paid are of about 50 or 100 years after training of a native staff of dig
gers; my wife has, in addition, present, the members of all Trade the highest tributes to their work. Unions had to decide by majority But no effort was
The history of a mud-brick town done rolls-call and pay of 380, and whether they wished a political publicity for the funds of other century or two, with occasional re-graphy have fallen to my
made to get is one of gradual decay during a the plans, drawings, and photo- levy or not. Even if, after that political parties. safeguard, they decided for it, any
introduce it.
his time.
own
building and patching, until, under share. We have been ably helped member of the Union "who dis- The Tories requited their funds some vigorous new control, a fresh in the direction by our chief as- agreed could contract out of it at by the sale of what were called lay-out of the ground is started. sistant, Mr. Starkey, with whom once. Now it was suggested that honours." Some days ago in a Thus the goods lost or buried mark the field work has been managed all should contract it, the obvi- London litigation, it was stated in the duration of each successive by Messrs. Risdon and Harding. ous intention being not to preserve Court, and not contradicted, that town, as it became gradually earth- To clear all that there is of Gerar the liberty of individuals, which a shipping, magnate had paided up with soil washed from the would cost £20,000, and only a was already fully preserved, bu: £15,000 to the Lloyd George fund mud walls. The series of objects tenth of the work can be done this to cripple the resources of the for a baronetcy which was duly of bronze, iron, bone, and pottery season, going half-way down in area. Examination of the Labour movement through the conferred. The Government re-found in the city betokens all the our Trade Unions for political pur-fused to abolish that system. Changes of style and work. About more important part would be jus-
Publicity for those funds was, re-
the period of Shishak iron was tified, and it remains to be seen poses. (Applause.)
fused Those simple facts illus-smelted here in square furnaces, whether supplies will be forth-- Under the measure, civil ser- trated the hollow character of the and heavy smithy work was done, coming for excavations here and vants might remain members of
in picks weighing b. and large (the continuance of historical re- their associations within the ser- present proposals. The one hoes and plough-irons. Rather search. The results so far ob- vice; but they would he dismisse happy element in the melancholy later there were two swordmakers tained will be shown in our annual if their organisation were affiliated controversy was that the measure, furnaces, with a long, narrow bed exhibition in University College, to a political party or to the Trade more than any other, would hasten to heat the blades and a lower London, which will take place at Union Congress. Their whole the extinction of the Government replace to maintain the heat; the end of June and first half of right of open political association: (Applause.)
also dozens of knives, sickles, and July.
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