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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY JULY 20, 1923.

LIVERPOOL'S ESCAPE.

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House of Lords Reverse a Decision,

How a tremendous explosion. Do four semed men, acting in that would have blown away the concert constitute a riotous as

Hand-Made Pottery and Bones

of 1000 B.C.

During flint digging operations near Peacehaven, the new Sussex gardon city, a darrow has been found with many features distinct from those usually associated with the South Downs tumpli.

whole countryside, was narrow sembly? the question plac ly averted ac Liverpool by the This was the question placed bravery of four men, was told to b tore the Law Lords during an a meeting of the Mersey Docks appeal against a decision of the and Harbour Board. De Irish Courts. Ther

The interment consists of badly-' A buge cona'gument of piorie A Wexford motorist was held oremated human bones and skull acid was sent to Liverpool by the up by four armed man and his our fragments in a flint mound. The War Office for shipment to Porte- stolen. When he applied to the cremation was found surrounded mouth by H. M. S. Marquis of Motor Union Insurance Company by pieces of the rim of a large Hartington.

with whom he had insured for, band-made pottery vessel, decor- While wagons containing the £300, they repudiated the liability, ated with a rough pattern of lings, explosive chemical were in because of a clause in their policy probably produced by the impress north dock steam crane fell excepting loss or damage during of twisted string before the pot acrossthem, the boller fires of the or fa nonsequence of war, riot, was fired. erano dropping underneath the civil commotion, military

The barrow is thought to belong

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to the latter period of the Bronze. crape, whinge

The Lord Chief Justice in Age (about 1000 B.C.), when had broken, came to rest on the Ireland held that the case was cremation had become a common top of two of the wagone, while the one of theft, and that the custom boiler fire underneath, blázid up mere fact that the theft was Among the flints which com- to the under side of the wagon committed by four armed men (possad the cante of the mound floor.

did not make it a rior. The are a few fragments of what, on judges in the Irish Court of first examination, exporta think Appeal upheld this decision, sa to be hand-made. Bronze Age the insurance company appealed | pottery.....

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A great risk to themselvor, Joseph Floss, a watchman, em ployed by the Cunard Company

Police-Constable Morgan,. Michael Lavin, aud Joshua Barbor, extinguished the flames just timo to prevent a tenible plosion.

BRAVERY REWARDED.

Cor

to the Heue ef Lords O The position of the burial place The House of Lords unanim at the mouth of a tributary nusly allowed the appas, Lord combs which runs into the Sal in Birkenhead remarking that be dean Galley is most unusual. ex-was sorry, in what was probably Many Downland Valley burials the last appeal from Southern by cremation have been discover. Ireland, to bave to give a' judged, but all those so far found ment which over-rode the decision belong to the early Iron Age and of so many eminent Irish judges. Romano-British times. But in this case, in his cpinion;: there was both civil commotion and riot, and the appeal must be allowed.

Mr. Arthur W. Bibby moved recommendation to authorise pay. ment of awards of £5 each to two of the men mentioned and £3 each to the other two..

The Government, he said, had a right to pass through the dock any explosives, however dan geroua.

On this occasion they sent 20 tons of picric acid, probably one of the most dangerous explosives possible to imegine, right into the centre of the city and docks.

If anything had happened to that consignment the whole side of the country wou'd have been blown away, and the loss of life and property would have beyond description.

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FOR THE NATION."

Mr. H.S. Tomes," curator of the Brighton Museum, is studying the find on behalf of local archæ slogical societies.

POSED AS HER SISTER TO GET MARRIED. Under age and failing to get her father's consent to her mar tiage, a Cheltenham girl was said A famous picture has been to have banded the local registrar. acquired for the nation. It is the birth certificate belonging to portrait of Gainsborough's two an older sister. She was then daughters by himself, which was married in her eister's name. The sold at Christie's last month to local magistrates recently cent Messra. Knoedler for 2,900 ber for trial on a charge of guineas. It is now on view in making a false declaration, The National Gallery. It dates from 1758, towards the and of

A crane, which was being Gainsborough's Ipswich period, moved, fell on wagons, and the end is one of his most billiant

worke. impact was quite sufficient to have exploded the whole thing. When the fire. got under the wagons they were, in a crisis of catastrophet such as had never witnessed before.

The men they had recommend- ed for consideration and praise, or at any rate two of them, knew perfectly well the risks they were running. By their action they saved the port and city from this tragedy at the risk of their lives.

"I min Bure," continued Mr. Bibby, "that the present Secretary of State for War would be disgust ed and horrified as much as any of ue to tink that such a thing: could happen, and that we were at the mercy of some irresponsible and light hearted officials of the War Office.

"The notice of the "authorities! has been brought to the matter,į and I hope that it will put a stop to this kind of thing, because I understand that there are further? shipments which they propose to make of the stuff. '

The stuff was made in Shrop shire, and in the ordinary course of events should have been sent, one would think; in the quickest possible way Jo Portsmouth, } where it was required, instead of training it through our populous | city,"

A YEAR OF EARTH- QUAKES.

Bad Outlook for 1923.

Saya Le Courier, Saiqoannis in a recent issue:-The year 1923 will perhaps sen a good vintage but it seama it will be a year too of abundant earthquakes." The Abbot Moreux, in hie Review Scientifica," Bays: The last.

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