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OĦR WETA=XS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929. HVЯE
ENGLAND FREEZES!
38 DEGREES OF FROST IN HEREFORD.
TERRIBLE HARDSHIPS TOLD IN
EUROPEAN CABLES.:
SENTRY DEAD AT POST.
NEW TOBACCO DUTIES.
BEST CIGARETTES MAY BE CHEAPER.
IMPOSSIBLE TO KILL SALES MADE AT LOSS.
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OPINIONS ON CHANGES.
SHARP PASSAGES IN SHIP ENGINEER'S
COMMONS.
LABOUR ANNOYED OVER OSTEND INCIDENT.
SOVEREIGN RIGHTS!
London, Feb, 13. The detention at.Ostend in the middle of January of Labour M.P.'a and Mr. Reginald Bridgeman, an Incident - which created a. infld|
CLAIM.
SUES CAPTAIN FOR $75 BONUS.
ALLEGED WITHHOLDING OF SUM DUE:
SEISTAN SQUABBLE.
SM PER ANKUM
BIKOLA OOFY 19 CENTA
THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK.
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TROTSKY MAKES BID TO ESCAPE.
NOW A PRISONER AT SOVIET CONSULATE IN TURKEY.
ARRESTED ON A SHIP.
GENERAL BOOTH DEFEATED.
HIGH COUNCIL RENEW DECISION.
COM. E. J. HIGGINS APPOINTED SUCCESSOR.
Constantinoplë, Feb. 14. Though Moscow recently off- cially denied that Trotsky bad |fled from Russia to Turkey, it would seem that the persistant rumours were intelligent anticipa| MOMENTOUS SESSION, tion.
Turkish officials are silent re-
There seems to be little doubt
Bonsation at the time, was the sub- Ject of questions In the House of Commons to-day, when the ag- From enquiries made locally to grioved gentlemen asked the For-
An allegation that Captain, A.
London, Feb. 19. day regarding the new tobacco sign Secretary whether the Bri-C. Inglis, master of the 8.8. Seis-garding the matter, but it is cre-
Restrained by the High Court duties which came into force yes: tish Government proposed to take tan, e/o N.MH. Nemazeo, Prince's dibly believed that Trotsky arrived terday, it appears that there will any action in the matter,
Building, had no reason for with-at Constantinople last night from from acting upon its previous de bo comparatively little effect as
Sir Austen Chamberlain, reply holding a bonus of $75 from Mr. Odessa, travelling under an as-cision to depose General Bramwell
sumed name. far as the general public is con- ing, said that he had not consider- A. Demee, the third engineer, was
Booth from the leadership of the cerned, but the probable results ed it necessary to make raprosen-made in the Summary Court this that the stories now in circula- Salvation Army, the High Council are dificult to judge at the stage, tations to the Belgian Govern- morning before Mr. Justice Wood, tion are substantially correct, but of the Army held its new session The Arctic is tightening its grip on the British Isles and owing to the fact that the new ment regarding the detention of when Mr. Demoo sued. Captain In- it is thought that Trotsky is re-to-day to give the General an op- abnormal frost is reported from all over the country. The duties have been put into effect Mr. Maxton and Mr. Saklatyala, inglis for that amount. It was maining on board the ship until portunity of offering a defence. most sensational report comes from Ross-on-Wye in Hereford-straight away, and the concerns view of the fact that the exclusion claimed by the plaintiff that he the necessary arrangements have shire, where the thermometer registered 38 degrees of frost!interested now engaged in taking of aliens is the sovereign right of should have received the bonus been made for him to go to An-
Railway services have been interrupted, and householders stock of the new position.
every Government,
for working as third engineer on gorn. have been considerably discomfited by the bursting of water
Mr. Wheatley, who spoke strong- the Selston from August 4, 1928,
Later. рірев.
of 75 cents per pound duty only on the subject, read the terms until October 17, 1928.
It is now definitely established It was further natated Even the bench at Brighton is covered with ice-an un-all cigarettes, compared with pre of the passport requiring free
that Trotsky, using the pseudonym vious duties which ranged from passage for the bearer.""" Captain Inglis and`Mr. Roberston, Selbroff, arrived here yesterday" in precedented happening.
Sir Auston said that he had con- the chief engineer, were not on a spacially chartered steamer. He $1.50 to 30 centa per lb.
sidered whether the form of the speaking terms and that the former was accompanied by his wife and Possible Effect.
passports should be modified in accepted a report from the second two daughters. The view was expressed to-day certain cases, but he had decided engineer that Mr. Demen's work This morning, Trotsky that this seemed to indicate that that the change was not desirable. was not satisfactory, that being taken from the ship under escort cision, and appointed Commission- The intense cold may be estimated from the fact that the the more expensive brands of Mr. Maxton appealed to Mr. given as a reason why the bonus of three Russian agents to the er E. J. Higgins, formerly Chief-of- inner harbour at Dieppe has been frozen over, while the cigarettes, as largely used by the Baldwin to say whether he approv was not paid,
Soviet Consulate, where he is Staff, to be the new leader of harbour at Antwerp is rendered dangerous by small ice-bergs.foreign community, would be sub-ed of his colleagues in the House Mr. H. C. Macnamara was for being detained, practically a pri-
ject to less duty and consequently of Commons being treated on the the plaintiff, and Mr. G. B. Hughsoner. He has been refused per- the Army. would be somewhat cheaper for Continent like crooks and smug Jones defended.
mission to communicate with any- the consumer, while the cheaper glers, but the Speaker intervened.
one outside.-Renter,
Terrible stories of winter's hardship are reaching Loudon from ice-bound Europe, one of the grimmest tragedies occur- ring on the Rhine, where the French Army is stationed, e Bentry being found at his post frozen to death.
There is now to be a flat rate
SOUTH WALES VALLEYS SNOWED UP. cigarettes would probably be sub-Reuter.
ject to an increase in price,
If this view is found to bo ear! reet, the difference in price will undoubtedly be amall, but the in- London, Feb. 13. The Riviera is under seven increased duty will no doubt be
passed on to the consumer.
The acvere frost which has caunches of snow, while even the rapid Ved great hardship in the British flowing Rhone and the ingoons of It will be noted that the now:
e Isles, continued to-day, and with a Venice are freezing.
bitter east wind still, blowing) strongly, its effect seemed to be even greater.
Thermometer readings were even lower than yesterday when twelve
· felt:
The mortuaries at Prague are crowded with bodies, and It has been necessary to dig graves with dynamite.
Baltic Mishaps.
mometer there to-day showed nj Calls for assistance have been re-
Ineffective Plan?
eight degrees of fronti
earious position ice-bound in the Ice has begun to form on the Baltic, and a number of Soviet ice-be passed on to the consumer by Thames In Che high reaches. breakers are departing on a re company desiring to kill com- Other rivers are rapidly freezing lief expedition.
petition or establish a new brand, The numerous storles of winter and in this respect the Ordinance
all over the Continent make men- tive.
are generally ice-bound.
FOR DESTITUTE,
BRITISHERS
"SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER
TO HELP OUR OWN.”
RIGOURS OF WINTER.
care.
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that
In outlining his case, Mr. Mac- namara, said it was admitted that the plaintiff did servo between the dates mentioned on the writ and Capt. Inglis, whose evidence had been taken de bene esse, had also admitted that he received $300 | from the charterers and bad paid
out part of the money to the chief engineer and other officers.
$35 Pald,
WAS
INDUSTRIAL PEACE
SET-BACK.
EMPLOYERS REJECT MOND COMMITTEE REPORT.
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UNEXPECTED REBUFF.
London, Feb. 18. A set-back to the movement for
It is safe to say that the de cisions of this momentous meeting were awaited with anxiety all over the world.
In spite of an Impassioned speech by Mr. W. A. Jowilt, K.C. on bo half of General Booth, the High Council confirmed their previous do-
Plea for Time.
Mr. Jowitt addressed the High Council at considerable length,
urging that General Booth should be given timo to recover from his illness. On behalf of the General, he offered to leave the choice of a successor to the Council provided, General Booth was allowed to re- tain the command during his lito- time, in a slightly modified form.
The witnesses called included a number of eminent physicians who testified that General Booth would be physically fit to fully command the Salvation Army within a month or two.
Mr. Jowitt further read a letter
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Secret Ballot.
scale of duty is the enean between $1.50 and 30 cents, and the same principle applies to the duty on cigars which now becomes $1.00 The hospitals in Poland and the per lb., instead of varying between
After pointing out that the Baltic States are overflowing with $2.50 and 50 cents. degrees of front were registered frost-bite cases, and the Finnish
action was brought as "money had and received," Mr. Macnamara in London, but London in experi- Government has agreed, at the re encing comparatively mild wequest of the Danish and Swedish
"You print vivid details of the went on to refer to correspondence ther by comparison with Wales, Governments to send an ice-break-
One reason for amending the law severe winter at Home-imagine when he read a letter from Cant Industrial peace has occurred as where treacherous cold is being er to open a channel of the North is the problem of the cigarette de- what that means to those hundreds Inglis to the Chief Engineer, Mr. a result of employers organisa- from General Booth to the High of thousands of women and Robertson, which stated that $35 tons rejecting the interim repart Council declaring that the Army Sen, though the absence of one ice-liberately sold at a loss in order
all British, on the was enclosed as the proportion of breaker in almost certain to mean to kill competition or to establish children,
and urging that all its members 38 Degrees of Frost!
trade union leaders. the temporary scaling-up of Hel-4 new brand. It was suggested verge of destitution. Surely we Mr. Robertson's monthly bonus for of the committee of employers and was faced with the gravest dangers, can do better than we are doing the month onding October 31, to-day that this was merely a
This is indicated in the announ- asked for
should work together. He also Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, singfors.
business method on the part of to help our own people."
granted by the charterera.
an opportunity to cement made to-day that the Na- however, seems to be the coldest
the Doed of 1904, Thus writes a subscriber to the
reshape Home particular company and
Mr. Macnamara then read ational Confederation of Employ- and pleading for time to place in the country, The ther
the provisions of the new Ordin-British Miners Distress Fund, in letter which he wrote to Capt. In ers' Organisations and the Federa- recover his health, promising to re-
response to the Telegraph appeal. ground temperature of six degrees eeived at Leningrad from a humance would not necessarily mean He adds that it seems extraordin-is applying for immediate pay-tion of British Industries, which tire if the improvement in his below zero Fahrenheit, or thirty-dred ships that are lying in a pre- that the practice would stop.
An increase in duty need notary that a bigger response is not ment of $75, the amount due to represent practically all the great health did not meet with the de-
forthcoming, remarking "We may the plaintiff. for two and a half industries of the country, have re-mands of his work.
The letter rejected the interim report of the nst be too well furnished with this months' service. world's goods, yet we live fairly ceived from Capt. Inglis, in reply, Mond (Lord Melchett) group of comfortably; perhaps it is this stated that he would be glad to employers and Trade Unions Con-
After a long session, the High comfortable feeling which allows know under which clause of the gress delegates.
Council this afternoon, took a see- over, while canals, Jakes and ponds hardships that keep flewing in from would seem to be largely ineffec- the appeal to fall on so many deaf Articles of Agreement the claim
This interim report was drawn ret ballot, and there was a drama- was made, and by what means the up on July 4th last, and it dealt te drush as the result was read out Householders are finding theirtion of the distressing condition of If there is to be any effect on We agree with the writer that figure of $76 had been arrived at, with the general question of in-showing that 62 delegates had voted chief discomfort in the freezing about 200,000 unemployed in price, it will not be felt for some Hongkong's response could be far The claim was not admitted, and dustrial peace. of water-pipes. This was the sub- Vienna, where the bitter cold is little time, as one of the largest better than it has been so far, and Mr. Demee was properly signed ject of general complaint to-day. causing intense suffering among companies here
haa duty-paid we again appeal to Britishers to off at the Shipping Office. Water Pipes Bursting,
the poorer classes.
stocka to last for several days, help this most deserving Fund. Mr. Macnamara stated they did The Austrian Government a
The Home Government is adding All over, London, the Metro-taking active relief measures and
Came as Surprise.
£ for £ to the money raised, so that not admit that the discharge at politan Water Bourd are fixing is establishing military field kit-
all funds subscribed here will be the Shipping Office, which took stand-pipes in the streets and chens, dispensing free meals twice) The changes in the system of doubled.
place in the ordinary way, had house-wives come with buckets daily. The bakers have opened duties and in the scale thereof As already stated, the Y.M.C.A., anything to do with the case, It and kettles and obtain water free bread kitchens in the city, apparently came as a surprise to Kowloon, is making a collection for was absolutely irrelevant. from the main. Thousands of while the authorities have increased local concerns yesterday, the first the Fund, from which about $200 is
Not Satisfactory, frozen pipes are bursting and the distribution of free coal and intimation of the alterations expected, and we hope soon to have causing damage.
wood, while more shelters are being being when it was discovered, that the pleasure of acknowledging con-
He continued that it was only Skating was general all over established for the homeless.
the duty on some brands of tributions raised by other organ-after the wril was issued and Capt. the British Isles to-day and this is
cigarettes were higher, whilst that sations in a similar mander. We Ingile evidence was taken that the only compensation for the
on others was lower than previous commend this plan of raising funds the real nature of the defence was frost which seems to be steadily
to local clubs and Institutions. disclosed. Capt. Inglis then ad- intensifying. -
The new situation is being Meanwhile, further individual con- fected, and, se already remarked, ounts so far received ara the effect of the changes are not
Already, acknowledged likely to be apparent for some
& 10/- days, the more so. as most of the
M.M.B. Chinese companies affected are at
"Cuidas" (per S. CM,
Post) or delaying seriously all train and present observing the Chinese
New Year holidays. motor-omnibus services,
Avalanches In Italy.
The majority of the country schools have been closed. Vienna,
y
A number of deaths due to tho like London, is suffering severely thoroughly examined by those af tributions will be welcome, Ammitted that if Mr. Demec had car-
bitter cold are reported to-day, while quite a large number of as the result of burst pipes which have affected both the water and the gas supplies.
people have been injured by the explosion of domestic boilers..
The roads in South Wales are From Rome, it is reported that practically impussable, and the heavy snowstorms are holding up distressed miners are having an extremely bad time as most of the mining valleys are snowed up.
Brighton Bench Iced:
At least a hundred motor-cars are embedded in snowdrifts round Stranraer, where two maroonad trains had to be dug out.
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Three avalanches near Far- biano, in the Provinca of Ancona, have buried the railway lines to a depth of 21 feet.
EX-KAISER'S
BROTHER SERIOUSLY, ILL.
SUFFERING FROM CANCER OF LARYNX.
ried out his duties in a satisfac- tory manner something would $274 have been due to him by way of a
bonus. $11.
AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT FAILS.
SWIFT VENGEANCE OF A PRESIDENTS ESCORT.
Bogota, Feb. 10..
His Lordship commented that two Capt. Inglis really made statements, the final one being
for adjudicating. General Booth Whilst rejecting the report, the physically unfit to retain the com- employers' organisations have in mand of the Army, while only five vited the General Council of the members voted in his favour.
The ballot also revealed that four Trades Union Congress to confer with them on matters of common Commissioners who originally sup ported the General, on this occasion interest.
The main recommendations of abstained from recording their the report were the creation of a votes. National Industrial Council, 'come i
Mrs. Booth and her daughter sat posed equally of employora and in the hall apparently unmoved by representatives of the Trades
the announcement. Union Congress.-Reuter.
MASS OPPOSITION, TO RAILWAYS.
OBJECTIONS TO NEW air TRANSPORT POWERS,
London, Feb. 13.
Eva in Opposition.
The Council then proceeded to the election of a successor and Com missioner E. J. Higgins was elected by 42 votes to 17. The minority. votes were all cast for Commander Evangeline Booth, the General's sister.
Mrs. Bramwell Booth, and her, daughter, Mrs. Hooth-Hellburg did not stay after they had heard the
Petitions in opposition to six announcement of the deposition,..
and were not present, therefore, at
that the distribution of the money | Bills promoted by the great rail- was in his, discretion and if he way companies of Britain, which the election of his successor. had been satisfied with the plain are seeking air transport powers, The announcement of Commis- tiff he would have paid him.
have been lodged by the Society of Aircraft Constructors and the Im-sioner Higgins' election was wild-
ly cheered by the Council. perial Airways, Limited.
The petitions are also endorsed by the Corporations of provincial cities and towns served by each railway-Reuter.
JAPAN AND BRITAIN.
The new leader, with a tremor in his voice, humbly thanked the Council for electing him to "this. position of high trust."!
New Legal Battle? Interviewed by Reuter tater, Commissioner Higging sold that the Salvation Army would follow the banner unfurled by its Founder
Mr. Macnamara agreed that that French Sentry Frozen.
was correct but asked 17 Capt. The death of a French soldier
Inglis was justified in refusing to The most extraordinary result on sentry-go Is reported from
pay the plaintiff what would other wise have been due to him? He of the frost, however, is that the Wiesbaden. The French inspect- beach at Brighton is covered with ing-officer going his rounds found
thought it was a little.astonishing, ice, a circumstances quite unpre- the man frozen to death. There
Berlin, Feb. 13. An attempted assassination of the the way in which Capt. Inglis had cedented in Brighton history! have been a score of other deaths
It la, learned that Prince Henry, Venezuelan President made to-day, dealt with the plaintiff. Admit Meanwhile, reports of acute dis-j.from the cold in West Germany.
the brother of the ex-Kaiser, is resulted in a fierce fight between tedly, he could not supervise the at the Arctic wavo comet The sentries of the British Army seriously ill, suffering with cancer a handful of would-be murderers work of the engineers, and one everywhere in Europe, on the Rhine have been issued Fifty deaths due to the cold with pull-overs and sheep-skin of the larynx, & malady which also and the President's guards, and would have thought that the only
complete tragedy.
proper way in which ho could NEW AMBASSADOR ARRIVES with increased life and spirit. affected his father. occurred in the Balkans to-day, coats.
The absence of the Prince from Six ambushed mon opened fire on know their manner of working was while in Germany where the cold From Budapest, it is learned
on the occasion of .Doorn
the a motor-car in which President by accepting reponta from the had been most intense for more that the heavy snowfall has com-
ex- Gomez was drivng, the scene be chief engineer. recent celebration of the than a week, thirty-seven further pletely dislocated traffic, and that Kaiser's 70th birthday, has focussing a sequestered road in a cuburð
However, Capt. Inglis had never deaths are attributed to the frost. coal and food supplies are runed public attention on his con- of Caracas, the capital...
ning abort.
None of the bullets took effect, had any correspondence with or re- Dieppe Harbour Frozen.
Wolves entered the outskirts ofdition.
The sick Prince la sixty-six but the President's escort received any suggestions from the France is now almost frost towns in Transylvania and da
at voured cattle,
Hemmmelmark, near Eckenfoerde. the man in ambush Renter's was not doing his work properly. years of age, and he lives at Castle taliated, and killed all alx of chief engineer that Mr. Demee. bound: The inner harbour
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American Service, Reuter
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He expressed the hope that there would be no further loral difficul ties, but said that if the Deed of 1004 was attacked he must defend
An American delegation official'' declared that the Salvation Army in the United States would rally loy
IN LONDON:
London, Feb. 18. The new Japaneso Ambassador to London, Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira, the father-in-law of Prince Chich- Mr. Matsudaira was formerly Ambassador to the United States. cly to the side of the new General. Ibu, arrived in London to-day,
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