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MOTHER, THE FOLKS

DON'T KNOW! YOU'RE COMING!

I DIDN'T GET YOUR TELEGRAM UNTIL JUST BEFORE YOUR TRAIN CAME IN-

1 DIDN'T MAKE UP

TELEGRAPH.

EDITOR'S DEFENCE.

WHY

* KILLING IS NO

MURDER."

Mr. Charles Diamond, the Catholic journalist and newspaper proprietor, made a spirited attack on what he called the "Dublin Castle falsehoods," which resulted in his being prosecuted at the Man sion House Police Court recently Alderman Sir David Burnett presided at the resumed hearing of the charge, which is that in the issue of the London Catholic Herald of December 27 Mr. Di- amond, in an article beaded "Kill- ing No Murder." encouraged persons in Ireland to commit murder.

The Attorney-General (Sir Gordon Hewart, E.C.) and Sir Archibald Bodkin appeared on behalf of the Crown; and Mr. Diamond was represented by Mr. Barrington Ward, K.C., and Mr.

Herbert du Pareq.

SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1920.

NEW ARMY OF TERRITORIALS,

MR. CHURCHILL EXPLAINS GOVERNMENT SCHEME.

MONEY RUNS SHORT.

MR. CHARLES COBORN KEPT AS HOSTAGE.

How Mr. Charles Coborn, the The Government's plans for the reorganisation of the Territorial veteran comedian-"The man were announced recently who broke the bank at Moate Force

Mr. Winston Churchill. Carlo-came to be held hostage at Monte Carlo, as the result af Secretary of State for War,

trouble over the production of a film, was told in Clerkenwell County Court recently.

by

The scheme, writes a Daily Chronicle representative to whom it was explained by Mr. Churchill personally, differs very materially from the one which existed before the war.

The tileTerritorial Force" has been dropped in favour of "Territorial Army," and provision is made for its recruitment on a voluntay basis to form a second line to the Regular Army and its Reserves Recruiting will begin on February 16.

The face will be organised in the following way

John Charles Bee Masen, & cinematograph photographer, of Ashtead-road. Upper Clapton, sued W. J. Corrie Jones, Heath- cote-street, Bloomsbury, for £93, as balance of salary due.

and

With regard to the Man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo," it was arranged that most of the scenes should be produced at Monte Carlo.

Defendant was interested in the production of films, said plaintiff's counsel, and is March or April of last year he made arrangements with Mr. Thomas Watts to pro- Unlike the old Territorials, theduce three new films: "The Au- new force is not to be organised tocrat," "Father O'Flynn,"_and for purposes purely of home The Man Who Broke the Bank defence,but is to be held in reserve at Monte Carlo." Mason was en- After evidence for the prosecuto assist the Regular Army over-aged as photographer at £15 a tion had been given, Mr. Diamond seas in the event of another great week. He was paid his, salary in made a long written statement.

national emergency. The new connection with the production Mr. Diamond said the meaning Territori's will be an entirely of the films "The Autocrat

"Father O'Flynn." of the phrase "Killing no murder" self-contained force, and will on was far from being an incitement no account be absorbed into the to murder, but directly the Regular army reverse. It was a title given to a pamphlet circulated in the days of Oliver Cromwell by the Royalists.

Establishment.-Fourteen div He had been an enemy of isione and one cavalry division. conspiracy, secret movements, approximating as closely as poss- violence and assassinations, and ible to the Regular divisions of above all. anything that could be the Army. called murder: yet he was Strength. At full strength the charged with inciting certain force wald number some 345,000 people to murder other persons connected with the government

men, bu at present it is only proposed to raise about 230,000, of Ireland.

as enlistments will be limited to 60 per cent. of the war establish- ments of other ranks than com. missioned officers, so as to provide era "for the maintenance of effin cadres for training purposes

Opinions attributed to him by

were

the Attorney General utterly detestable and abhorrent, he said. "At the hands of the Attorney-General." continued Mr. Diamond. even St. Paul himself would sufer badis. A grave injustice has been done t me by the Attorney-General"

With regard to the English administration in Ireland, he had nothing to withdraw. If I have broken the law I am here to answer for it." he said. "I have no: endeavoured to conceal my authorship of the article.

"It is said I wrote the article immediately after the attack on Lord French.

Thank Heaven,

I did not write the article before the attack that would have served the purpose of the prosecu-

tion much better.

"If at the end of this trial there was not merely the shadow of the prison, but of the scafold, I traet I should meet it like a man, My whole life gives the lie to the charge. It is a Dublin Castle charge."

As for denouncing tyranny with all his soul-if that were criminal. then he was guilty He gave his word of honour not to go to Ireland again, but he would fight with every weapon to expose the infamy of his

tráducers.

The authorities might have his body, and his worldly possessions might be confiscated. but his His soul honour was unsullied. was as free as air and he defied his enemies to do their worst.

Magistrate: You will be com- mitted for trial,

The amount of bail allowed was the same as at the previous hearing, one surety in £5,000 and two in £2.500.

"CHINESE

GORDON.

The memory of "Chinese Gordon is not allowed to fade. On Jan. 26, the thirty-fifth ann- iversary of his death, three wreaths were placed at the foot of the Gordon statue in Trafalgar Square. They were from the Council and workers of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union, the Gordon Boys' Home, Woking, and Mr. Ernest Meyers, of hislehurst.

MY MIND TIL YESTERDAY-GOT

TO THINKIN' ABOUT!

DANNY -

MY LITTLE GRANDSON! WHAT A BIG MAN HE'S GETTING

TO BE!!

The company to take part in

the proluction consisted of about a dozen artists including Mr. Charles Coborn. Defendant suppli- ed Mr. Watts, who accompanied

the party as producer, with a certain amount of money, and promised that he would remit further money through Messrs. Cook and Son.

Arrived at Monte Carlo, work was commenced. In time, money and filmsran short, and a telegram was sent to defendant explaining the position.

At the hotel matters got to such a pitch that the party were

not allowed to leave the manic-

Mr. Waits

Fas

allowed to

Mobilisation. The Territorial Army shall be embodied only when a Royal Proclamation has called out the Reserve, and when pality at all. Parliament has been informed of return to England, and saw de- this act. No member shall be sent fendant. who wired £50 or overseas until a special Act of account, but that was not enough Parliament has been passed au- thorising the dispatch of the force to a theatre of war.

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to satisfy the amount owing at the hotel.

As a

Relief was brought by Mr. Terms of Service--All officers Charles Coborn. It was arrang- and niet will have to volunteered that he should remain as

the hotel. hostage at to undertake service abroad, and must be passed as fit for general security Mr. Cobourn gave the service Recruiting will be com- the hotel, a first charge on a menced on February 16, and oneft concert that was to be recruits will be taken between given for him in London.

Mr. Coborn had paid what be the age of 18 and SS. Older men will be accepted for certain could in satisfaction of the com specified units, and also as non-pany's hotel bill, and had given an undertaking to pay the re- commissioned officers and war- rant officers not below the rank mainder.

of sergeant.

in

In reply to defendant (who was not legally represented) plaintiff said they took 2000ft. of film to Monte Carlo. He was told that there would be more to follow.

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A GERMAN-MADE RELIGION. back from Protestantism

FATHER VAUGHAN ON EFFECTS OF LUTHERAN

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Father Bernard Vaughan, in an article on "Is England becom- ing pagan?" published in the

Was

to Catholicity; we have not veered round from false beacon-lights to the true. Nay, on the contrary wo appear to be travelling in a

annel, and it would seem that we are running on the down line to a terminus dark as might, and hateful as hell.

"For four years

по message to.

and more

men

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who

England felt scourge the vers Westminister Cathedral Chronicle, MATTOS of ber bones writes: "Some free hundred Scourge of God," euphemistically and fifty years ago, through called the 'Great War." England Period of Enlistment. Three

processes I have no time to has bat a rude awakening. The sears for trained.men that is,

evolve, England was taken by battle-field, the dug-oat, and the those who have served for six

surprise, was cheated and starved hospital have revealed to her out of the religion which had that the religion of her adop- months or more during the war

made her not merely Saintly tion is not suited to this and four years for others. Pay and Bounties. During the

England, but Merrie England work-a-day world, that it has

Christianity also. Latin the whole period of their attend-

You were there five or six driven

out, and ance atannual training in camp,

a religionLabour and are heavy burdened, officersand men will receive the weeks. What happened to the made in Germany was brought that it is little better than a stone need not pause to to the worker clamouring for increand rates recently conced-Alm?-It is still at Monte Carlo. in. I ed to the Regular Army. Non-The hotel people declined to let remind you how England, from bread, and that it has no viaticum prince and peer to peasant, was to support him who is about to commisioned officers and men

Defendant applied for an ad- almost driven with rope and rack start on the lonely journey to will also receive the increased rates of Separation allowance journment, in order that he to hang about the neck of the Eternity. In a word, when weigh-

Hun. From kind- when

ed in the scales of the sanctuary, and might be legally represented. Lutheran camp,

to. up

chairs of the religion borrowed centuries will also be eligible for bounties He added, "Anything in reason ergartens

that I am required to pay in this philosophy there seemed to be zo from the Hun has been found us to a maximum of £5 a year.

Cost to the Nation. The cost matter. I am willing to pay. I no room and no desire but for to be a conspiracy against the trath, a parody of history, a to the nation will be between two don't wish any of the artists to German thought, and Germar

processes, and German organismockery of the Old Tradition, and and three times the amount ex- suffer.

Judge Scully said he would tions. Even our municipalities be only a reed to lean on when pended on the pre-war Territorial

grant an adjournment on con-camesoinfected with the Prussianbroken with wounds and, in the Force.

presence of death, dition that defendant paid the microbe that they freely spent amount of the claim into court the money of the ratepayers in within seven days.

visits to Berlin, so that they might bring back to our English provincial towns models of the HORSE FIGHTENED TO DEATH. latest school desk or instructive During the passing of MALINERS' EXAGGERATED. WARSPITE TO BE REPLACED. toy for infant class used in elephant and two camels, belong- ig to a travelling menagerie, "There is no class," said Judge It is hoped that, as the result of Germany.

"Thank God, the war has along the Birmingham-road, at Bryn Roberts, at Menai, "whose negotiations with the Admiralty,

soon shaken our arms from neck-cling-Walsall, a haulier's horse shied, descriptions can be as little relied the Marine Society will on asthose of mariners. Every have a training ship to replace ing to every German professor. bolted to the footway, collapsed, thing is in the most exaggerated the old Warspite, which was set The snare is broken and we are and died. A veterinary surgeon terms. If a boat leaks it always on fire by boys on board in free. But how about the enemy expressed the opinion that the

January 1918.

at home? We have not swung horse died from sheer fright. leaks like a basket."

The estimated cost of the Terriurial Force for the year 1913-14 was £2,785.000.

Tom's Mother Takes Immediate Change!

WHERE

SHE'S GONE TO THE BRIDGE JIS HELEN, CLUE AN

ANT HOME PAUSY?

YET

HELLO GRAND MA

DC I VÄDERSTAND YOUR WIFE IS OUT. PLAYING CARDS?

NEGLECTING YOUR CHILD? DOESN'T SHE REALIZE A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOME?

CALM YOURSELF

HOW. MOTHER-

SHE'LL BE HOME

SOON

BY ALLMAN

WAIT TILL MISSUS HELEN GETS HOME, DEY'S GUNNA

BE SOMETHIN' DOIN',

NOW! BELIEBE ME!!

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