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MR. LLOYD GEORGE WOMEN ROUSED.

ON LABOUR.

*** ISSUING DEBENTURES ON "THE MILLENNIUM.”

THE 63 ARTICLES.

"Socialism means to redeem the nation by issuing debentures on the millennium,' declared Mr. Lloyd George at the annual conference of the Welsh National Liberal Federa. tion at Llandudno.

THE ATTACK ON POLICE- WOMEN.

VISION OF ́**TREMBLING MEN,"

**UNCHIVALROUS.”

Demands for an increase in the number of policewomen and women magistrates, and bitter resentment There was, he said, a prominent Labour leader chairman of the of Sir William Horwood's criticism Labour conference at Birmingham of policewomen in his statement, to who referred to the Liberal party the Police Commission,, were fes. in very insulting terms. He talked about the decadent remains of tures of the opening 'meeting of the Liberalism,

annual conference of the National Council of Women at York.

"I know Mr. George Lansbury," said the right hon. gentleman. “He, is that kind of speaker who always gets so intoxicated with the fumes

one of us can move anywhere Lady France Balfour said:

are

of his own oratory that after the without finding that mea first ten minutes he is not respon trembling before coming events. Rible for the rest of it. (Loud laughter.) So you must not take At every lunch or dinner table, at him too seriously. 7

every meeting, you ent

see by

NOVEMBER 16th,

LONDON PUBLIC. HOUSE COLLAPSES.

2 WOMEN KILLED AND

PERSONS INJURED.

Two women were killed and, neven"! persons were injured, when a Lon don public house-the Lord Nelson, at the corner of Lever Street and Nolson Street, near the City Road, E.C.-collapsed andofell in a heap of ruins,

The following are the names of the victims

• Dead. "Mra Vrothan, aged twenty-six.

Worgan unidentified. Mrs. Ventham, died in St. Bar tholomew's Hospital. The other

from the rains of the public house: woman was dead when removed

A youth named Mitchell sovered an artery in his arm in breaking a window to escape from the ruins.

There fere about a dozen per-

As a matter of fact Liberalism their faces and their attitude that 900s in the public house at the

is and will continue to be a great living force in the life of this nation. they are dreading coming events. There are millions of men and As we are strong.we must be women who are devoted adherents merciful.

to the Liberal faith. Mr. Philip

We are not female Mussolinis; Snowden; one of the ablest and 'per- haps one the fairest of the Labour we are not a Soviet Government; lenders, wrote an article the other we do not wish to compel the whole day in which, thought he did not take too rosy a view, he prophesied community to agree with us. Let that there would be five millions as remember who gave the vote to of men and women whe would vote women. It was a parliament of for the Liberal candidates at the next election,

Shallow Jibes.

men.

"In this matter we are so cb. riously right that we can afford to wait without using menacing lan guage."

time of the disaster."

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The house, which is said to have heen 100 years old, was in the course of demolition with a view had been demolished, and only the to being rebuilt. The upper floors floor above the bars remained. It collapsed without warning, burying people in the bars in an avalanche of brickwork and plaster,

Rescue Work.

12

The thunder of the collapse startled the whole neighbourhood and brought thousands of people to the spot

The screams of 'buried The Liberal Party-and I don't

people came from the ruins. accept the five millions. I am taking

Firemen were soon on the spot, that merely as an culmission-the Liberal Party is too powerful and

The conference accepted & re powerful searchlights were brought, at great riske well entrenched in the hearts and solution urging an increase in the and the fremen,

climbed among the ruins looking the consciences of millions of men and number of policewomen in women in this land to be wiped out Metropolitan areas; the appoint for the buried people. The body by the gibes of a shallow ranter."

ment of women superintendents to of a dead woman was found and

lifted out, and in about, hall "The great thinkers of Liberalism assist the commissioners, and 1 hour all the other persons in the had been applying their minds tong that the need for the appointing were extricated and taken to secking the practical solution for ment of women police should again the nation's troubles. The tree that be brought before local authorities St. Bartholomew's Hospital. and their services utilised. | brought forth fruit in its sënson was

not a decadent tree to be eut down. A resolution was also adopted "I notice, moreover, that a asking for the appointment on 'nou- great deal of that fruit is now on party lines of an adequate number the Secialist tables, painted red-of suitable women as magistrates. (laughter) and that does not im prove its flavour or its quality (Laughter.) What is the contri- bution of the Socialists to the needs of the day? I see that they have a programme of sixty-five articles I have read of ten. fourteen, and even of thirty articles; but, my word, sixty-five! (Laughter.) Phan tading!

Quarrelling Directors,

There are sixty-five jestes, none

Mrs. Foxhall, the landlady of the maid, all escaped unhurt, although house, the barman, and the bar.

they were imprisoned for time.

t

some

Commandant Mary Allen, Chief Three-year-old Teddy Yentham, of the Metropolitan Women Police, the son of Mrs. Ventham, was in speaking at

outside the Bournemouth, said, house.

pram

public referring to Sir William Horwood's over, and the child buried under 2 The pram was knocked staternent before the Police Com- heap mission that women police were of noticed in the panic.

of bricks, without being. no use: "It is one of the most unmannerly and unchivalrous things to have done towards any body of women who bare tried to do their best."

Could they imagine what it

A boy running across, the pave- ment tripped over the feet of the buried child, who was quickly ex- tricated and taken to the Royal Chest Hospital, City Road. He was detained there with scalp The medical officer in charged informed a Daily Express representative last night that the child would probably recover.

of them accredited... They are to be meant to her to hear such wounds and bad bruises. issued at an expensive rate of in-authority as Sir William Horwood terest. It is bad finance. I am not at make such 3. statement as he all surprised to find that at Bir made 1. mingham the directors were.quarrel. "I think," she added, "it was ling fiercely among themselves as to

the order and date of allotment pitiable for Sir William to have (Laughter.) But I think they are said it. it will go down in history all glad that they decided by, a as one of the most ignorant re. in authority has majority that the first issue shall marks any one come about when they are all dead ever made." (Renewed laughter.)

Dealing with the Yarmouth con- ference, Mr. Lloyd George said the Torirs were going to tax every- thing. "Our salvation is to be by tolls. We are not selling enough goods, so if we want to sell more British goods we must make them

cost more.

PLYMOUTH A "CITY.

· OLDEST BOROUGH IN ENGLAND.

The decision the Tories came to TOWN WHERE DRAKE WAS

at Yarmouth was one of the most

momentous in the history of this country. I don't want you to make.. any mistake about it. I don'

care

MAYOR.

PLYMOUTH, Oct. 18th.

what the Prime Minister said in his The mayor, Mr. W. H. J. Priest; speech. What matters is that the to-day received a letter from the men behind him, the men he leads. Home Secretary stating that the and without whom he cannot win King. on his recommendation, had an election, with practical unani-been pleased to confer the dignity mity have decided that the fiscal and title of a city upon the county ystem of this country has got to borough, and letters patent will be he changed, and that henceforward passed under the Great Seal. this country has got to be Protec tioniet.

Mr. Churchill's Convictions." "It will be said that the cenfer ene only decided in favour of more Safeguarding Yes, but it had in; cluded iron and steel, and iron and steel extends to the whole fabric If you attack the whole fabric. as we know it, and have known it for over sixty years, it falls in ruins at your feet."

of

"An hour after the collapse the firemen pulled down what remain. ed of the walls, by means of steel hawaers attached to There was a tremendous crash, and

of dust."

the Eremen were hidden in clouds

ARMISTICE DAY AT MACÃÓ.

MACAO, Nov. 14th. Armistice Day was observed with due solemnity at Macso on Sunday, 11th. A solemn mass was held at the Cathedral, where His Lordship the Bishop conducted the service, and among those present were H.E. the Governor and Mme: Barbosa, besides many of the Macao dignitaries, the church-being completely filled.

A two minutes' silence was ob

served at noon.

The town clerk, Mr. R. J. Sittall. ST. PETER'S YOUNG MEN'S

said that the announcement ́had ziven the greatest satisfaction to the mayor and he was sure that it would be received with the liveliest satisfaction in the borough..

Plymouth, he said, was the first borough incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1439. At that time Plymouth was known as the King's Town of Plymouth, and was 80 designated on the Corporate Sea!. It was said that they could do which was used at that period and pend upon the Chancellor of the is in use to-day.. ExeRequer, who was a antid firm Mr. Sittall also stated that al Free Trader. If." said Mr. Lloyd though the conferring of the title George, you are going to place of city upon the borough does not the whole fiscal systern of free trade carry with it the title of Lord and commerce upon the solidity of Mayor, it is hoped that at ano die. Mr. Churchill's convictions. I tell tant date this may be conferted. you, you may as well lound the

Four Times Extended, Bank of England upon a rocking

CLUB DANCE.

held at Lane, Crawford's Restau.

Another enjoyable dance" **

rant under the auspices, of St. Peter's Young Men's Club yester day evening. There were a good number of members and their friends present and the dance music supplied by the Restaurant's Pand was thoroughly enjoyed. The next dance of the St. Peter's Chub will be held on the last Thursday of the month, November 29th.

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MACAO, Nov. 14th.'-

stone, (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The borough has been four times If we have a Conservative majority (extended since 1893, and now has an in the next Parliament, the great acreage of 6.075. The last extension.

Carvalho Yeo, formerly a clerk The Hon. Treasurer begs to fiacal system which bas enabled this took place in 1014, when the three

in the Hong Kong Treasury, will country, in spite of its dificulties, towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and acknowledge with thanks the fol In conjunction with the dredy be brought up for trial at the to attain marvellous and splendid Stonehouse were amalgamated in lowing donations to the Hong Kong

Criminal Sessions on November achievements will tumble to the one borough. It now has a populs. University Chinese, School Funding operations to be recommenced 19th when special jury will b

from local European fixins. tion of about 290,000. ground."

Furat Macao port works it is proposed empanelled. The charges against "In its place you will have a It is rich in historical association. ther donations will be gratefully to raise the levels of the present him are three counts of forging jerry-built structure put together in In 1581 Sir Francis Drake was received by the Hon. Treasurer,

cheques in favour of Messra, Katz pertions-a brick here and a brick mayor. In 1820 the Pilgrim Fathers Mr. T. N. Chiu, No. 8, Queen's port reclamations so as to slept, & Co., the Min Tak Co. and 'the there, some of it cement, some of sailed from Barbican in the May Road West

gently from the hills in the back Man Lee Co. The total amount of it a corrugated-iron structure-- flower and founded the towns of

ground to the sea-walls. Work has which the Treasury is alleged to repulsive, ramshackle concern in New Plymouth and Boston, in the

been proceeding slowly on the sea have been defrauded by the ac- stead of this noble edifice built by United States.

walls and will be continued section cused is $257,407.83, There are 500 by section. One of the frat, sec. further charges of defrauding the

tions to receive attention will be Government of water rates: 500 the land dose to the Barrier Gate Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by when the new store house for MessTE. Russ & Company, will be 500 Chinese refugees are to be built for the defence, while Mr. Bidon 100 The total cost of the works will Potter, K.C, and Mr. H. G. run into several hundred thousand Sheldon will prongcute for the 25 dollars

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