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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919.

LAND SETTLEMENT OF EX SERVICE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS.

The English and Scottiah Beards i ed Agriculture live prepared two booklets antisled Land Settlement In the Mother Fluitry."

DYING EX-SOLDIER.

NARRATIVE. BY A. MINERS"

LEADER.

Mr. John Robertson, the president L.S. of the Scottish Union of Mine blue coter is applicable to others. Workers, whose evidence before the and wise to other ranks of similar Coal Commission as to housing at or autui eluent rud attainuwuts, Hamilton attracted attention, is stirr- and 1.5. 8 gmon over) is applying Lanarkshire with the following able to nonsyvumisslopes obrers story :-

and men.

These booklets, which will shortly be issust to Ends through Car mands, Are not for general distrils tier, but cheers Commuting Unit will be responsible thus all others and soullets who are interested or intend to engage in agriculture after the war, are supplied with the up proprinse booklet.

Bari boklet contains at Peru al

THE LIMERICK "SOVIET.

A SOCIALIST CONFERENCE

SPEECH.

THE CHINA MAIL.”

LOCAL ORATOR CRITICISED.

GOLF,

·RHLGO, V. MILITARY.

CLUB'..

Referring to remarks, in a speech by a naval officer at the recent launch In presenting greetings from the of the War Driser, a master mariner Played under handicap at Fanling Socialist party of Ireland to the writes to the Straits Times a letter on Wednesday and resulted British Socialist party at its confer-which concludes as follows: ence in Sheffield on April 21 Mr.

MILITARY. Cathal O'Shannon gave what he mind the gentleman who made these Mr. H. 5. For

As regards education. I would re-

Lt.Col Coles described as the story of the new remarks that all officers of foreign

rest............ 0 (rec. 3).1 siege of Limerick."

Lt. Col. Clementi Some weeks ago

one of their going ships pass the same examina Mr. M. H.

Thomas. 1

Smith 0 tions and hold the same certificates About a fortnight ago I was Limerick prison to a union work-liner which is usually a matter of Mr. J. L

hunger strikers was removed from whether they sail in the tramp or the Mr. H. Kraft... 1 Capt. Lucy standing on the platform of Hamilton house, where he was kept under a accident or choice, and the average Central Stadion, when I noticed some guard of six policemen and six six members of the Salvation Army warders. All legal opinion in Ire officer of the mercantile marine is not inferior in education or intelli conversing together. One of the red land said that while in the work-gence to the naval officer. I may jerseyed officers approached me and house he was not legally in cus- said Mr. Robertson, I want you to

Crockett... 0

Mr. R. E. Lind

sell ............. Mr. C. L. Sandes D. Mr. F.S. Harri-

son (rec. 2)... 0

Part .........1 Mr. J. D. Mait-

land.

Hon. E. V. D.

well............................. 0

Hon. S. Dod-

1

Capt. Goode (rec. 5) Lt. Col. Taylor

(rec. 7) Capt. Burrell........ 1 Capt. Leslie

Smith...1 Capt. Gray

(rec. 5)

..... 0

Lt. Col. Mayhew

(rec. 1)

Lt. Col. Harvey

(rec, 4)

1

cessful shipping companies have been him. He was dying. To their go at once and see a dying soldiery. Some friends went to rescue add that some well known and gus. one of the lads who fought for and knowledge it was not the rescuers founded and organised by masters saved our Empire.”

It should be remembered that the I went to the address the Salva-who were fired on by the police, but of the merchant service.

the dying man his bed. He was. shot in his bed. (Cries of "Shame") mercantile marine exists for the pur- Then were sent aeroplanes, machine pose of commerce alone, and any

attempt to turn it into a semi-naval! guns, and ten thousand troops, who branch would detract from its use those in authority even had the fulness to the Empire, and handicap the shipowner In the keen competition: abominable audacity to issue an order that is bound to ensue in the future.

Total ....... 43 Total......63 that ne man or woman should go to and its officers who have been work in Limerick without a permit brought up in the various trades The Match counted 1 point and the from the military.

some of them highly specialised) Bye point. cannot be expected to perform naval

Applentity to be thed by officers and tionist gave me. By an alley beame Boldars, whis desire to obtain a rali to an outside stone stair. which I Bolding in tirent Britain. The trascended, and arriving at the top when filled up will be handled by the discovered a narrow wooden stair, over or sokker to sensing which I was told led to the soldier's Offer who will deal with the up.

Up the dark and dismal stair plentier the following normersle f. If the applications all proceeded, and at length reached the holding in Fight Wales, house. What a scene met my eyes! the Commanhng or will In a one-roomed attic lay a soldier

home.

drew a cordon round Limerick, and

That was to come into effect last

Frant in Fort to the Check dying. Gassed and shot through the | Monday morning. Since then not a duties with the skill and precision of toise County Couail of the lungs with shrapnel in 1916, his ap-hand's work had been done in Lime-paval officers who are trained to do pears to have been been a hopeless rick except by workers for workers.nothing else, so that the criticism case from the first. But the horror Every trade and industry was at a with regard to keeping of stations

Loty ie whils the officer 19 sedert desires to alain land

( If the pudention is for sail of the whole thing gripped me when standstill, and the Limerick people cannot be either necessary or quite

holding in Scotland, thus Con- mying theer will sit the form to the Serenoy, verdh of Agriculture Bar Soodand, 199 St Andrew Sqarone Belénburgh,

ANTI-DRUG LAWS.

US CALL FOR I TERNA

T:ONAL ACTION.

I learned that only once in four |

months had a doctor visited the poor fellow as he lay there putting up his Fast big fight.

"Not a soul was venturing near to assist or befriend a peor little woman who was trying to feed and nurse the dying lad. But, bad as all this was, it was not the worst of the story. In a corner of the attic lay huddled an old-age, pensioner-one who had been in the mines for 65

were determined that the fight fair. should be carried on until the military climbed down. (Cheers.)

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Hon. A. G. M...Major Scantle DRESSES, PETTICOATS, KNICKERS,

Fletcher I bury (rec. 3) I

HONGKONG THEATRE

Those who have not vat seen the famons drama 'Immigrant," had

to the better hasten

theatre to night, it being its last show. To- morrow a charming story-presented by Daniel Frohman in "The Little

In Limerick they had now establish- ed a Council of Workmen and Soldiers. (Hear, hear.) They issued an official printed bulletin every day. The Limerick newspapers came out SEQUEL TO AN ELECTIONEER- Soldier Girl," written by the famous

ING SPEECH IN BELFAST.

writer Charles Sarver, will be screen- rewed in five reels, featuring the famous:

adventure. picturing the experiences star Ann Pennington. It is a remark able combination of romance and

Alarmed at the increased use of years and was now 76 years of age. Limerick. They were not. They the slander action. Davey r. Carson of a little American girl, the ward of

narcotic drugs in the United State and the difficulty of controlling their distribution, the Federal officials have decided to urge the American

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the bare boards-just because it was nobody's business to attend to him.

Three or four months previously

every morning with the imprint on them: "1ssued by permission of the Strike Committee." Newspapers stated that people were starving in 25, a settlement was announced of In the Dublin Law Courts on April

That poor old fellow was lying on had more food in Limerick than at the defendant offering an apology,

any period during the war, and the

The action was brought by Major a scheming Mexican, who runs away The girl food was cheaper. (Hear, hear.) Davey, of the Tyneside Irish to marry a soldier boy. Every shopkeeper every morning gat Northumberland Fusiliers), against escapes on the male of the priest delegation at the Peace Conference his wife had died, and the bedding his orders from the Strike Committee Sic Edward Carson for alleged slander brought to marry her to her Mexican to ask for international agreements, and the mattress were destroyed... It as to the prices he was to charge in a speech in Belfast during the late Guardian's son, and is chased through was nobody's business to care for the (laughter), and the pickets went election. Major Davey complained the country. This magnificent to aid in enforcing anti-narcotic laws. soldier; nobody's business to befriend round several times during the day that he was referred to by Sir Edward Picture which has great attractions With prohibition it is said the num-the veteran pensioner, his father to see that he charged that price Carson as a Sinn Feiner. 25.000 will run on till the 24th inst., and ber of those addicted is likely to who had tolled and battled on in the and no other. There was no pro- damages were claimed. The passage theatre goers should not miss it.

cris annual report Mr. Daniel C. pits for 66 long years. In the name fiteering in Limerick. The people complained of was as follows

of Heaven, how long are we going from the country around and the Roper, Commissioner of International

I have a word to say about Sinn to tolerate this sort of thing? Revenge,

branches of the labour organisations Feiners. I have two against me, one said: "Comprehensive I did the best I could. A generous about were collecting food and is in jail, the other (meaning plain- and effective administration of narcotic laws must be based on in-county nobleman to whom I can seeing to its distribution. Milk, that is in Derry, I believe, but let ternational perspective, supported by apply in cases of this sort-and who cost 78. a quart before the strike, them all come. There never was in.

increase.

international agreements and co- operative interpretation of the policies under which the world drug

has never once failed me was now cost only 3d. appealed to. That same night, by

The Limerick workers, the speaker special messenger. I had 510 from continued, has asked for the assis him, and next morning when I tance of the workers throughout

drugs in the United States, and his quired. But we were too late. The but if it were called it would not end England, Scotland, America, and

STREET AMOURS.

SUICIDE.

Sp

the history of this controversy d greater insult offered to this imperial

An unescorted Chinese maiden province than when they put forward scoffed at a man who made amatory trade may be adequately policed." reached the Miners' Offices in Ireland. They were getting it and Sint Feiners to contest every division. advances to her in Shanghai Street. be sent to President Wilson, probably letter from him containing a further, for, if need be, a general strike perpetrated by a perfidious and cost him $5. Too cheap.

The statement of conditions will Hamilton, 1 found awaiting me aarrangements had already been made They have done the worst act ever. This annoyed him and he hit her. It by the Secretary of the Treasury cheque for £10 and a request that I

treacherous people. They entered throughout Ireland including J. H. Rainey is chairman of the McAdoo additional assistance might be re-It might not be necessary to call one, blackened the character of Ireland in Mr. Glass. Representative Henry should call upon him for whatever Thomas's railwaymen (Laughter.) into league with Germany, they shot

down our soldiers in Dublin, the committee to investigate the use of

Inspector of Poor was communicated in Ireland with a general strike. It report has been ready for some time with, and soon doctors, delicacies, and would not end with a Lime ick throughout the world. They were but the figures it contains are so nurses gathered round the bedside in soviet. It might end with something the men who have come to woo the startling that the Treasury Depart Townbead-street of Private Williaramore than the British occupation in loyal citizens of Belfast. They have

A tree In Coronation Road bore Ireland would want

fruit this morning. to stomach been traitors to their country and strange

Let us tell them to go Chinese man aged about 50 had Hear, hear.) They tad, he concluded. the war. would not disclose it there--(laugh that the words were incapable of the

hanged himself. The body is now another little plot in Limerick. He elsewhere."

The defence first put forward was at the mortuary. ter),but it might come off.

The Conference adopted a resolu- interpretation put upon them by the matter of public for their success in the struggle for interest. Sir. Edward Carson then civic liberty with

replied to plaintiff's solicitor that he authorities in Ireland.

had no intention of describing Major Davey as a Sinn Feiner, and if his language was open to that inter-

Wilson, H.L.I. But we were too late The lad died on Tuesday last.

inent official have held it hoping that some error was made in compiling them. Mr. Rainey claims that there are more than 1,500,000 persons it all to me is that a wounded and "I did what I could, but the curse of addicted to narcotic drugs in the United States, and that nearly dying soldier had to be dependent in his last moments on the Poor Law

wrong tha: must be righted."

The position Mr. Robertson takes up, says a correspondent, is that, granted the soldier chose voluntarily and from sentimental grounds to leave the military hospitals-prefer-

300.000 of them are in New York officers and private charity. It is ation sending fraternal greetings to plaintiff, and that they were

City..

THE FACT FAMINE.

TUE STORY OF THC ELECTROCUTION.

the workers of Limerick, with wishes comment

the military

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fair

gised. Sir Edward had later made а public denial. Counsel now repeated the apology, which was accepted.

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ring to die at home-the system is DOG LANDED IN. KIT-BAG.pretation he regretted it and apolo- wrong which permits such a man !remain uncared for, untended, and Reporters are not the only sinners.without medical or professional nur. It is very hard to get from any sing aid for four months. The donor average man the exact facts. Magistrates and judges know this. who answered Mr. Robertson's appeal was Lord Newlands, of Mauldslle So, alas do the men who sit in news-Castle, Lanarkshire, paper offices, to digest the news

brought in from outside. Yesterday

we had a little story about a man

Captain J. M. D'Arty Levy, R.AF was fined £10 and £2 2s, costs at Croydon for landing a fox-terrier dog without a licence at Hall on November 18, when returning from

A London icurnalist makes the following comment on this case. I notice that Sir Edward Carson had

Holland as a repatriated prisoner. to apologise for calling Major W. H Mr. E. B. Knight, who prosecuted, Davey a Sinn Feiner." I wonder said the Board of Agriculture first when he will apologise for calling

being electrocuted. It happened in BARE-FOOTED RUNNERS. heard of the dog in January and Mr. Birrell, "a liar," the lare Mr.

the China Sugar Works, not opposite

or near. The man was an employee there. He was trying to electrocute a rat when he got the fatal shock.

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race, went on his way without being paid top of Pedder Street spotted that all in the presence of the King and was not well with a coolie who was Queen in Windsor Great Park. teating the old man- for pace.

After the heavy snowfall during Five days later the dog was missed He went after that coolie. The the night the five miles course over and had not been seen since. coolie went harder, took the which the race was run was so soft | Mr. Cecil Hayes, for Captain Levy, corner of D'Aguilar Street like a hare that mud was thrown up with almost said disciplinary measures were taken and disappeared-for ever.

Explanations ensued. It transpired every stride, and the journey across by his colonel recently All through ploughed land was in itself a feat of the war Captain Levy had been out

Captain Levy arrived at Walling- ton on February 5, ad‍ded Mr, Knight,

the old fellow was from the country endurance. Yet these Indians ran of England and knew nothing of the and engaged in admiring the cityin bare feet, and showed astonish Importation of Dogs Order. and the large number of people ing speed as well as stamina. about when a pickpocket dispossessed

The race was a triumph for the

him of a few dollars. The crowd Indians, who ran as part of the laughed.

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WAR-WOUNDID FISH.

PASSENGERS ARRIVÉD. One of them, Sepoy Bulwaut Singh The inspector for the Eastern Sea arrived home first in great style, Fisheries Board, in a report, says: winning by 300 yards. His time for The fishery officer at Mablethorp Per Tydcus, June 19. Capt. R. N. the five miles was 30min. 74-50cc. informs me, that of the cod caught Smith, Lieut. D. J. Purves, Dr. L. E. Then came Sergt. Massey, a Canadian, on long lines 1 in 5, and occasion- Fannin, Messrs. A. D. Fraser, E. who was running for the Home ally more, had bad wounds. Some Barker, J. Petrie, J. Danson, A. B. Forces.

were totally blind, others without an Gibb, R Davidson, L. J. Davies, Five of the first seven men were eye, and the larger number were T. R. Rennett. J. Powell, J. Walker, Indians, and as a result Egypt won wounded in the body, "The Cromer the championship easily with 178 officer told me that he and the points. The Home Forces totalled fishermen on the Norfolk coast bad 225, B.E.F. (France) .363, India, noticed many codfish with wounds 583. and Italy 648.

and scars. The Sheringham officer

J. Divon, T. G. Stokes, A- N. Taylor, 1. F. Chubb and A. E. MacCarthy.

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After the race the King presented states that the packers have.come the cups to the three runners.first across many injured cod, some home, whom he congratulated and having as many as five wounds. shook by his hand...

One had lost its tail.

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