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SATURDAY OCTOBE

CRIMEAN WAR TROPHY. BATHING TRAGEDY.

Return to Finland.

One of the bells now exhibited se

British Seamen Drowned.

bath..

Another drowning accident oc- a war trophy at the Tower of Lon-curred at Karachi on September don is to be returned to Finland, 20th, resulting in the death of says a London paper of mail week, four British seamen from the It is one of five supposed to have Warfield belonging to the British been taken from the fortress of India Steam Navigation Co Bomarsund, Aland, Ishands, at A party of five officers left the the time of the Crimean War. ii Warfield on a pleasure trip to:

The return of the bell is the Manora, arriving there at three result of efforte extending over o'clock, when they indulged. in several years by Mr. M. Ingman bathing for half-an-hour and then: a native of Finland, who has returned to the beach for a sum been living in London for nearly 20 years. In 1921 he wrote to Mr. Lloyd George, who was then Prime Minister, suggesting that five church bells ozhibited in the Tower, which were supposed to

Ten minutes later all four were have come from the fortress of observed to be in serious difficul-i Bomarsund, but had, in fact been ties in the heavy obbing tide, taken from Skarpans Church near, which was gradually taking them Bomarsund, should be restored further and further seawards, and to the parish. ME Lloyd Mr. Glasson, the fifth man of the George replied that he could not party, who had remained on shore,! see his way, to recommend the immediately donned a lifebelt and restoration of "the bells to Fin-swam out to the unfortunate men. land.

He succeeded in bringing two

Four of the party, after a short respite, resumed bathing, the fifth declining on account of nervous- ness.

In April this year Mr. Ingman to shore, but after an hour and took the matter up with the pre-half of artifical respiration life sent Prima Minister, Mr Bald-was pronounced extinct. win. He enclosed a copy of the| The remaining two men wore correspondence with Mr. Lloyd carried out to sea several miles! George, and said, he now found by a strong current and the bodies that this early impression was have not so far been recovered not quite correct. One of the five The names of the unfortunate bells, the largest fone, was evid-men are:-Messrs. R. J. Pen- ently of quite a different make to treath. S. Simmons, A. L. Jenkins the others. This bell had an and W. C. Daley.

inscription in relief letters in The funeral of Messra. Pen- Swedish which proved conclusive-treath and Simmons was attended

ly that the bell was the property of by the whole crew of the Warfield. the parish of Skarpans, situated a

few miles from the fortress, and

not at all the property of the for- VOICE FROM MOSCOW.

tress. The voluntary restitution of this church bell to its original] parish would be highly appreciat- ed by the Finnish people as an act

of great generosity and friendli ness on the part of the British Government.

Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister on Labour Congress.

stration

at

The First Commissioner of) Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister. Pro- Works new informs Mr. Ingman sident of the Board of Trade, ad- that the Government have much dressing a Conservative demon-i Swinton Park! pleasure, particularly in view of the recent visit to Abo of British Masham, Yorkshire, last month, warships, in ordering the restora- alluded to resolutions passed at the Trades Union Congress. He said the Conservative Party had not only never been an enemy of trade unions, but it had been

tion of the bell

SAVED FROM EXTINCTION. one of their best friends. But

Bison Born at the Zoo.

A fine bison calf has been born at the London Zoo and gives every prospect of doing well.

when it was giving the trade union their liberty and their power, it was that they might fulfil a great industrial function. not one of disrupting the Con- stitution.

- that

It is plain," he said. The American bison is no the men who for the time being longer in danger of the extinction have captured the machine of the that threatened it a quarter of a Trades Union Congress, are de- century ago. Although the wild

herds in the United States had termined to convert the trade union movement from an in- almost been wiped out, there was dustrial organisation into a re- a sufficient remnant able to revolutionary and Communist or cover under the strict protection

given to it. At the same time ganisation. I should never have the blood was reinforced by send- said that but for the events ing to the reserves some of the which have taken place at their

Congress during the week." finer young bulls bred in zoologi- cal gardens. Now both in the) one of which was that the trade

National Park at Yellowstone

He referred to two resolutions.

and in the still larger reserves of union movement must organise, to prepare trade unions to strug- Canada, the species is multiply-gle for the overthrow of capita

Ting.

On the other hand, the Europ-ism. The mover of that resolu- tion, he said, declared that their ean bison is in greater danger cause of trade unionism could no than ever befell the American longer be furthered without the species. There are very few ex- shattering of the capitalist amples in captivity, and the

species is less hardy or does not system of society, while the breed so well in restraint. The seconder said no one could argue wild herds are believed to be ex- amelioration of working condi

that it was possible to obtain any tinct or reduced to a few scatteredtions without the 5ght becoming individuals. The European Bison | a revolutionary fight. Society, an international associa

"As a gramophone record it tion with head quarters at Frank- furt, has instituted a stock-book their master's voice in Moscow. reproduces with singular fidelity and is collecting information as I think it will evoke a faint to all the individuals in captivity echo among the same working with a view to securing exchanges men and women of Britain." and giving the greatest possible The second resolution authorised poportunity for breeding.

the Congress, in effect, to com- bine with Moscow international- ly for the practical coercion_of the trade union movement. The resolution was prefaced by a long speech by M. Tomsky, who had comes specially from Moscow for the occasion. If ever we had a Government which pursued the

RUGBY TOUR.

Australian Team for France.

The French Rugby Federation now suggests that the Australian Russian policy in Britain, a few

| Rugby team should be invited to months would land the country

tour France in October and into irretrievable ruin. November of 1926, and the Maoris

at the same time or a little later.

The French team leave for Newt Miss Agnes Ramsay Clarke, of Zealand in May 1925 returning in Parrock-street, Gravesend, who, October.

born ia Penang in 1854, It is not anticipated that there

Was found starving in her will be any difficulty in getting a house and died at Grave- French touring team together, as send In5rmary last June, left two years ago, when an Austra-estate valued at £6,374 This she lasian tour was projected, all the divided equally between the Earl players approached consented to of Dalhousie and his brother, the! Hon. Fatrick William Maule!

go.

In regard to the Australian and Ramsay, whom she claimed were New Zealand matches in France, ber nephews. At her death, how- the French Federation would or-ever, no relatives could be found. ganise three important games, The police were able to establish regional clubs being responsible that her mother was a German for the remainder. The visiting named Leishman, and ber fatheri teams might afterwards proceed a Captain Alexander Clarke, a to England providing the English British Army office She used paid part of the costs of to say that her mother had been

governess to the ex-Kaiser,

jago.

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