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BIG TOUR BEGINS. PRINCE OF WALES & BROTHER LEAVE VICTORIA.
HEARTY SEND-OFF.
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left Brooklands at five o'clock Duke of Gloucester entrained, at this morning in an attempt to fly Victoria for Dover, thus begin-
He
is
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COOK COLLAPSES.
CARD VOTE REJECTS OPPOSI- TION MOTION.
“VICIOUS ALLEGATION.”
London, Yesterday. Mr. A. Henderson, in emphasis- ing the need for close contact||
to Bucharest, over 1,400 miles. ning their East African and South between the industrial and poll-
flying
tical sides of Labour, submitted! R two-seater African holiday tour. "Vickers-Napier "Vivid” machine They were seen off by Mr. to the Trade Union Congress a and hopes to reach Bucharest to-Ormsby-Gore, Dominions' Under- night. He will make two halts at Secretary, on behalf of the Gov plan to establish a joint consulta- co-ordinating body, tive and Nurenburg and Belgrade.
ernment and a large cheering
which he named the Grand Coun- The purpose of the flight is to crowd-Reuter. demonstrate to the Roumanian Informal Leave Taking. .... cil, in addition to the existing Government the capabilities of an An absolute informality mark-National Joint Council. aeroplane which is of all-British ed the departure from London
Such contact has already been manufacture in competition with this afternoon of the Prince of established between the Labour machines from Italy, France and Wales and the Duke of Glouces Party and the Political Co-opera- other countries-British Wire ter for their tour of East and tive Party, but Mr. Henderson less Service.
South Africa. This was in ac- contemplates a still closer bond, cordance with the Prince of bringing the whole co-operative Wales' personal wish.
movement into a definite federa- The Rohl brothers arrived at tion with the trade union and Victorin Station not in uniform political sections of Labour. but dressed as ordinary civilians in lounge suits with bowler hats.
Į
INKEEPERS.
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT.
FROM FICTION,
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The Council's Polley.
There were no official person- By means of a card vote the ages to bid them farewell as, ac-Congress rejected a motion op- companied by their small suite, poaing, the industrial peace nego Most of us have experienced dur- they entered a Puliman car of the tiations with employers by 3,921,-
000 votes against 760,000. ing a tramping or motering tour, boat train for Dover,
Mr. J. T. Brownlie (Engineers) "A large crowd, however, wit- the mild adventure of seeking and nessed their departure and gave was repeatedly interrupted when finding some lonely inn for a night's the Prince and his brother an en-he opposed the Council's policy sleep and shelter. Innkeepers have thusiastic send-off.
and moved that the whole ques- been none too kindly treated by the With similar informality the tion be referred back to the exe- novelists who have ruthlessly ex-princes embarked at Dover in the cutives of the unions. ploited the idea of the landlord who cross-Channel steamer "Invicta," Mr. J. R. Clynes repudiated as makes a habit
that the of murdering his walking direct from the train to a "vicious allegation" fleeting guests. Few treatments the ship. There was no cere-Congress was trafficking with the of this theme equal the vivid skill mony, but again the princes re capitalist system. Charles Reade displayed in "The ceived a great ovation.-British Mr. A. J. Cook, Secretary of Cloister and the Hearth."
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THE GIRL DECOY, Gerard and Denys reach a little
the Miners' Federation, fainted and had to be carried out in a
Such a favourable report of the state of collapse, after a long and town at evening and are on the Italian section of the International impassioned speech opposing the way to a famous hotel when Denys Press Exhibition at Cologne has
negotiations.
The miners' President, Mr. sees a buxom girl standing at the been presented to Signor Mussolini Smith, said the Miners' Federa goor of a roadside auberge and that he has commanded the section tion had decided that the General Instantly decides to stay the night to be transferred to and shown in Council had acted rightly in ac- there. Reade uses the ancient Rome upon the close of the ex- cepting the employers' invitation. device of making Denys display too hibition. much money and so excite the land.
-Reuter.
Mr. Citrine's Views. lord's cupidity. The girl decoy Professor Billmann, has been ap warns Denys that the landlord has pointed President of the Inter demning the action of the General Resolutions were discussed con- gone to fetch his band of cut-throats, national Union for Pure and Applied Council in taking part in the In- but the two comrades have no time Chemistry. The tenth conference
to escape before the robbers arrive, of the union will be held in Llege dustrial Peace Conference with a headed by the gigantic rogue called in 1980 on the occasion of the In-group of employers under Lord Melchett (formerly Sir Alfred the Abbot with his terrible, axe. ternational Exhibition of Science Mond). The resolutions were in
Reade gets every possible thrill and Industry.
into the situation---suspense,
silent killing, a ruse to ply on the superstitions of the robbers, some
aplendid cut and thrust work, the door that opens to him, a shivering, triumph of the two travellers and wing craven. A great seigneur
landlord's previous victims in the cellar.
the name of several minor trade- unions. In view of the resolution which was passed by a large majority on Tuesday instructing the General Council to take steps to purge the trade union move-
the discovery of the bones of the gives him food, wine, and shelter. ment of, communism, the issue
The poet and his host argue all was never in doubt. night. At dawn Villon leaves The three big unions of trans- A GRUESOME RUSE.
The change that food and warmth port workers, railwaymen and Denys drives a dagger through have wrought is told, in two lines miners had decided to support the throat of the first robber who-the last in the story, "A very the action of the General Coun- creeps into the. room, and does his dull old gentleman," he thought.Įcil.
ature.
work so neatly that the listening "I wonder what his goblets may be Mr. Citrine, Secretary of the assassins are unaware of their cam-worth."
Trades' Union Congress, in open- panion's fate. Then Gerard illu- The phrase, "a Dickensian inn," ing the debate, said the Congress minates the dead, man's face with shows how the great Victorian is bad to take a decision that would very important for phosphorus, writes "La Mort" in is loved by travellers, but most of be
for many years to letters of fire on the brow, and uses his inna are far more than mere unions
Outlining the cir- the dead to frighten the living. lodgings for the night-they are come. They maim another robber and then permanent institutions, as it were. cumstances in which negotiations have to tackle the Abbot, one of the And Mr. Arnold Bennett-well, had been opened at the invitation hardest dying acoundrels in liter- what would they say at the of employers, he said the attitude Grand Babylon Hotel if we looked of the employers in the past had been one of hostility towards the First the Abbot is shot through in and asked for a room, bed and claims of labour but now no both jaws with the bolt from a breakfast!
specific claims that came within cross-how, then Gerard runs him ELIZABETH AND VICTORIA. the purview of industry would through so that the point of the We would prefet, for such a tem- be excluded from discussion. sword sticks out from the Abbot'a porary stay, to sup near Canterbuy Moreover, at the very outset bock. Denys promptly drives his with the characters in one of both parties definitely decided sword through the Abbot's back! Maurice Hewlett's Captain Brazen- that there should be no interfer- so that the point projects from his head yarns, or step across the ence either with the right to breast. But the Abbot is not dead. Channel and take the luck of the strike or of a lockout. The step He draga the two men to the door, road in company with "The Three which the General Council had and they withdraw the two swords Musketeers," who found some very taken was in accordance with the to stab him again, Then he leaps unrestful'lodgings.
development of trade unionlam world. At five feet into the air and bursts the In England one is struck by the throughout the door as he tumbles down dead. number of fans and hotels that the present time there was a de- Stevenson has a fine short story, claim to have put up" Queen mand for the voice of the worker "A Lodging for the Night," de Elizabeth for the night, Curious in the control of industry. Em- scribing an imaginary episode in ly enough another Queen, Victoris, ployers had conceded that right. the life of Villon, the vagabond poet, seems to have lodged at hotels in The proceedings revealed little support for the condemnatory re- but in this story it is not an fan out-of-the-way places. A visit of solution, which was defeated on that shelters the wanderer. One of Queen Elizabeth is hard to prove, a card, vote by 2,321,000 against Vilion's companions is murdered in but in the cher Victoria, the Inn-763,000-British Wireless Ser- a gambling quarrel, and another keeper faz umally recorded the vice. "friend", steals the poet's purse be exact date and afrcumstances on a fore Villon, leaves the house, to brass plate which is kept resplen
A workman at Gemund (Rhine avoid being implicated in the dently burnished; a suitable en-
couragement to other guests.
land) died as the result of drinking murder.
WINE MAGIC.
Every in that can claim a some beer too quickly while still in We walk the bitter wintry streets "mention" in Dickens is proud of a heated condition after a cycle seeking shelter for the night. We the fact, but although lodgings for journey. try a porch, but it shelters a corpse the night play a prominent part in
a dead woman. We watch Villon Tom Jones, fankeepers are quite
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Nearly a thousand sheep and
try the house of his adopted father understandably, shy of claiming any several horses are reported to have
killed in the Consta Shocking lady friends(Bankatchewan) district by an un
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