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INDUSTRY.

RIVAL VIEWS ON NEW METHODS.

RATIONALISATION,

INTO SEA.

TALL AND QUEENLY WOMEN ON AN ISLAND.

PACIFIC PARADISE.

A man met a workman running.

A strange unfrequented island. "Where are you going?" said he, which partially sinks from view To the undertakers, we have had every 24 hours, and whose physi- an accident at our place." "You cally superb inhabitants live ai mean the doctor?" "No, the un-most exclusively on fish and co- dertaker. We're rationalised. We conuts, was deseribed by Capt. C. . Olsen, of the steamer Gulden have cut out the middleman."

Mr. Frank Murrell entertained Eagle, when his ship arrived at This little speck of land is the Liberal Summer School with San Francisco from Australia. this story as a preliminary to allocated exactly on the equator, in admirable address on rationalist the heart of the Pacific South Sens, tion by Mr. W. L Hichens,

and is so small that map makers have not even dignified it by a dot. For identification purposes on the mariner's chart it has been named Tarawa, and is one of the Gilbert lalands group.

Mr. Hitchens observed that there were two forms of amalgamation, Horizontal and vertical. Horizon amalgamation was the lusion of concerns doing, the same sort of work.

We called at the island," Cap tain Olsen explained, "to unload five white adventurers whom we took aboard at Sydney, weaving our way through treacherous coral

Vertical amalgamation was the uuited control of concerns doing dissimilar work, such works, a shipbuilding yard and reefs. coal mine.

us steel

The latter was only good, as a rule, in good times. When times were bad it was generally possible. to buy cheaper from somebody else.

Was

The two objects of real ration- not merely alisation-which price fixing-were real etliciency and a correlation of supply and demand. The great trouble at the present day was that our produc- tive capacity was so much greater than any possible demand,

In 1920, for instance, a boom your, only 55 per cent. of our ship building yards were occupied.

What was wanted was for some- one to discover something which would render all our shipping obsolete.

in steel, similarly, in 1929, while the output was the largest ever known, it was still 30 per cent. lawer than our capacity.

"We were forced to drop anchor half a mile off shore, and proceed in small boats. Then it became 100 shallow even for the boats and the last 200 yards we had to wade

Regal Bearing.

"To our amazement we found the little island densely populated with a race of people as handsome as any I have ever seen. They ap- peared to be a mixture of Malay sian and Polynesian,

The men are giants in stature. clean-limbed and muscular, and the women tall and slender, with à regal bearing.

"The natives were awed by our after assuring approach, but themselves that our mission was

friendly they received us warmly. Bronze-skinned nude children, like scared rabbits, looked at us and from behind bushes.

palm trees

***arawn is curved coral atoll, 22 miles long and only a mile across at at its widest point. Half Submerged:

Asking the question whether ra- tionalisation aggravated unem- ployment, he gave some interesting figures of the result of rationali ation in the German Steel Com- It is only four feet above sea bine. The result had been to in-level, and at high tide approx- crease in two years the number of imately half its surface becomes workers by 4.8 per cent.; to de-sumberged. crease the number of clerks by about 2 per cent., and of commer- cial workers by over 5 per cent., and to decrease the directors by 26 per cent.

Mir. Angus Watson, who follow ed, criticised

very severely the whole theory and practice of ra- reduce tionalisation. It could labour costs, but only by adding to the number of the, unemployed. It means the disregard of the human factor and the creation of virtual monopolies.

FANLING GOLF.

H.

"Despite the small area that re- mains above ocean level when the tide is in, Taraya maintains about 4,000 population,

CRASH

INQUEST.

SCREECHING NOISE HEARD IN CLOUDS.

POET LAUREATE'S NEW WORK.

TO APPEAR FIRST IN AMERICA.

NO FAULT FOUND.

SLIGHT ON BRITAIN? Complaint of souvenir hunters

The sea and ships form the sub- having tried to remove parts, of the aeroplane which crashed at,ject of a new work in prose and on July 21, verse by the Poet Laureate, Mr. Meopham. (Kent) when six people were killed, was John Masefield. It is entitled "The into some made at the resumed inquest at Wanderer," and runs forty thousand words,

It is said to be Mr. Masefield's Sittingbourne,

The jury returned a verdict that the victims met their death by fall-inest work and to be particularly

rich in descriptive qualities. ing from an aeroplane, the cause of the accident being unknown.

In early life Mr. Masefield served before the mast, and his new work of his recounts the adventures favourite ship.

It was stated that the problem

It will be issued serially on both of why the machine broke into pieces in the air has been referred

magazine. by the Air Ministry to the Aero-sides of the Atlantic, and is to ap body of independent experts. nautical Research Committee, a pear first in a well-known American

The victims of the disaster

were.

Certain circles apparently con- sider it a slight on the British

The Marquis of Dufferin and public that his first work after re-

Ava;

Viscountess Ednam; Sir Edward Ward; Mr. Henrik Loeffler:

Col. G. L. P. Henderson (pilot): Mr. G. D'Urban Shearing (re-

serve pilot).

Since the disaster pearls and jewels which belonged to Mrs. Loeffler and Lady Ednam have been found in the neighbourhood. Mrs. Loeffler had a pearl necklace with diamond clasp worth £40,000; and Lady Ednam had a pearl neck lace and diamond brooch valued at £25,000.

Only a few days previously Mra, Loemer's bat was found in a field at Luddesdown, about three miles from where the plane crashed. In it was a diamond pin valued at several hundreds of pounds.

ceiving the honour of Poet Laureate should be in the hands of Ameri- cans for publication,

Mr. Masefield, however, declinès to comment on this.

The arrangement has been attri- buted to the Society of Authors, but in a chat with a News Chronicle represenative, Lord Gorell (chair- man of the Society) denies that re- port.

"We do not undertake the placing of people's works with publishers," he said. "though occassionally we have arranged for the publication of! the writings of an author who has died and has left provision under his will.

"I presume that this work was written by Mr. Masefield before he was made Poet Laureate and that negotiations for its publication in America, here and in Europe, were made by his agent."

Major Cooper, the Air Ministry Inspector of Accidents, said that the efforts of a section of the public in endeavouring to remove parts of the wreckage as souvenirs added materially to his difficulty in trying to salvage the whole of mouth and two miles from the machine. On the day after nearest village, Mawnan. the accident an attempt was made to trace all the wreckage, and the position in which the parts were found was charted on a large scale ordnance map.

Mr. Masefield's Holiday. Mr. Masefield is on holiday in one of the most secluded spots in Cornwall, nine miles from Fal- the

the

What Happened.

no

His holiday residence, is home of the rector of Mawnan, who is away Mr. Masefield has rented it from him and is there with his family.

The house overlooks a beautiful little river and the pect's favourite spot is in the garden almost in the A minute examination of all the shadow of the fourteenth-century evidence of church of Mawnan. Here in a deck parts revealed faulty material or bad workman-chair beneath the lovely old trees ship, and it had established cer- he may be seen enjoying the facts beyond reasonable quietude, and often reading. lain doubt. These were that:

The port main plane was wrenched from the machine in an

"What impressed us most was the apparent rugged health and vitality of the natives, who pro- bably live on the most restricted diet of any people on earth. Be-upward cause of the absence of soil on the coral formation, there are no tropical fruits or vegetables; no- thing but coconuts. Fortunately. plenty of fish are available, and these, with the coconuts, sustáin the populace.

National Beverage. "The national beverage is co conut milk, often used instead of | water during periods of drought.

"We arrived at the little village

direction. The wing folded or collapsed directly up- wards at the junction of the centre portion of the 'plane.

The engine, complete with its bearers, had broken out of the machine across a line from the leading edge of the plane up to the front of the cockpit.

the air on the port side.

The tail unit had broken off in The passengers in the machine were thrown through the port side of the cabin.

STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY.

9.20 ani.--. C. Shrubsole and

or Bititu, on the high end of T. Buxton.

Major Cooper said an English 9.24 a.m.-0

A. D. Tarawa, at dinner-time, and had Eager and Humphreys.

watched the natives dine. Each certificate of air-worthiness was 9.28 a.m-E Stone and C. Mycock. famiy gathers around a huge half-not issued in connexion with the 9.32. a.m.-W. C. Shields and I. II. seashell, which holds from eight machine as it had a German cer-

to ten gallons of coconut and fish tificate. mush. With hand-carved ladles

Asked whether he found any de- in material or workman-

Geure. 9.36 a.m.-A. Leach and A. E. Lissa-

inan.

bowl.

9.40 A. C. I. Bowker and W. they dip freely into the family

Wright

"After dinner we were enter tained by the community orchestra and a'dancing troupe.

9.44 a.m.-K. S. Morrison and W.

J. Clerk,

9.48 a.m.-D. J. Keogh and II. C.

Watson.

9.25 a.m.-T. G. Campbell and N, K.

Littlejohn.

9.50 a.m.-A. G. Coppin and W. G. WALKED IN AND MADE

Lorimer.

JA.

10.00 a.m.-D. Forbes and H. Mills. 10.04 a.m.-

Reed and V. R. Gordon.

10.08 am.-L. Yates -and G. E.

Eilams

10.12 a.m.-J. R. Younger and S. J.

IL Fox 10.16 am.-Comdr. Priestley

Capt. Weir.

and

THE HONG DOUBLES.

BOWKER & HOLMES REACH

THE SEMI-FINALS.

£1,100 HAUL.

COOL THIEF AT SIR O.

STOLL'S HOUSE,

In broad daylight a man walked inta Carlton House, Putney Hill, S.W., the home of Sir Oswald and Lady Stoll, ransacked Lady Stoll's bedroom and escaped with jewellery worth £1,100. He is described by the police as a "walk-in" thief.

"The robbery took place just before four o'clock,” said a member of the household to a reporter.

"Both Sir Oswald and Lady

ship of the machine and whether they complied with the law, Major "No doubt the Cooper replied: machine complied with the law in Germany."

Question of Negligence. Mr. Holmes (for the represen- tatives of Sir E. Ward and Mrs. Loeffler), suggested the adjourn ment of the inquest until after the Committee had issued their report, but the coroner said they were not a tribunal that could sit in judg ment on a technical matter,

Mr. Holmes: A technical in- quiry will not be in the least con- cerned whether there has been negligence on the part of affy one! person or company, and that is

what I want to find out.

Major Cooper: I found no evi- dence of negligence in any shape or form

Mr. Holmes: Does the Air Ministry accept German certifi ones of airworthiness, and do

By defeating T. II. King and W. La Stoll were away from home at the Burt Sparrow (Police), scratch, time. Sir Oswald's younger son, yesterday afternoon in the Hongkong Benny, who is 18, was reading in nothing more? Cricket Club ground, A. C. L. Bowker his study on the second floor, Major Cooper: That, I am not and 3/6, entered the semi-finals of the noise coming from Lady

C. E. Holmes (Dodwell's), we when he heard a suspicious tapping in a position to answer. It has

Stoll's been certified airworthy. Hong Double tennis tournament.

Arc single-engined machines Bowker and Holmes had no difficulty bedroom. modis contains the still allowed to cross the Channel? in winning, conceding only two games study. Walking downstairs, in two sets, the first of which they peeped into the bedroom

and-Yes. annored without the loss of a game. caught a glimpse of a man bend-

ing over Lady Stoll's dressing

HONGKONG LOSE.

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ARMLET AS CLUE TO AN UNKNOWN VICTIM,

DRAMATIC STORY.

A steel sleeve band was a clue to One woman lost her life and an- other was rescued in dramatic cir-the identity of one of the two cumstances from outside a fourth victims of a motor-coach tragedy storey window during a fire which near Peterborough,

The coach collided with a lorry broke out at the Turkish adjoining the Alhambra Theatre in

about 2 a.m. An explosion follow- Leicester-square..

ed and both vehicles were envelop The body of the first woman, ed in flames. Leonard Shaw, a Miss Rachel Barker (62), who lived on the premises, was found motor driver, of Hull, was killed. The second victim had not been in the amouidering ruins.

identified. It is believed he was were Two firemen

on his way to Middlesbrough. rescued hospital. The Miss Elizabeth Evans (55), who'

A dramatic story of the colllaton was also employed on the premises. was given at the inquest, which is in hospital in a serious cundi-was opened in the afternoon and

adjourned indefinitely.

tion.

taken to woman,

Watched By Thousands,

William James Eggleton, a Hull

A London schoolmaster, Mr. Frederick Barr Taylor, of Star- street, Edgware-road, and his The rescue of Miss Evans was labourer, who was with Shaw on wife were driven by three bogus watched by thousands of people, the lorry, said they were approach- guides in a closed motor-car into who poured out of the cafes and ing Haddon on the Great North the forest of Vincennes, on the restaurants. She was seen through Road when he saw two bright eastern outskirts of Paris, and occasional gaps in the smoke and lights approaching Almost im there savagely beaten and robbed flames clinging to the letter "R" mediately there was a crash. of £80.

Blown Through Roof.

No trace of their aggressors has yet been found, but the Paris de- tectives are making. an extensive

search.

of the publicity sign of the baths. The crowd cheered wildly when

The door of the cab of the lorry they aaw Miss Evans seized by a fireman and carried down to safety was ripped open and he fell into

Miss Evans owes her life to the the road, Shaw was pinned be Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, who are bravery of Sub-Officer Ochitree hind the steering wheel. well-dressed strangers in a cafe. the Soho Fire Station, who ran up on a short visit to Paris,met three (30) and Fireman Lyons .(28) of

The vehicle immediately burst and into flames and the petrol tank ex- The strangers, after some conver- the escape through smoke

ploded, the driver being blown sation, offered to drive the Eng flames.

The fire was at its height," through the roof of the cab on to lish couple round Paris in their motor-car, and the invitation was said an eye-witness, "when we saw the road in front of the lorry. accepted.

the woman climb out of the window

P. C. Douglas said he found re- Instead of touring the city, how- and cling desperately to the electric

mains of a body in the wrecked » ever, the ear dashed through the sign outside."

"We shouted to the woman to coach, and identified them as of a Paris gates at a high speed and

hold on until the escape could reach male person by a steel sleeve band. The coach belonged to a Durham out into the forest.

Suddently the car pllled up in her. Then followed a thrilling firm and was running from London

A ladder had to be fixed a deserted spot and the three rescue. bandits attacked Mr. and Mrs. under the woman, who by this time Taylor without any warning Mr. seemed to have lost consciousness. Five persons were detained in Taylor was felled and the bandits to support her. Two firemen got Peterborough Hospital with cuts took from him £10 in English hold of her and brought her to the and scalds. They are:

about £70 in French ground. money and

"The woman was badly cut and Mrs. Violet Hildreth, of Porta- notes.

Then they leapt into the car bleeding, while one of her rescuers mouth.

was completely overcome by the Miss MacGilligan, of Middles- and drove rway.

smoke, and the other had his wrist brough..

Miss Elsie Claxton.' Smith, of badly cut."

Durham

Miss Mercia Court, of Norton-on- Tees, qu

"Like a Whistle's Shriek," Alfred Ernest Parsons, of Ley- The gallery of the Alhambra was a graphic alightly damaged by water and a lands, Meopham, told

side of the theatre slightly scorch story. He said:

"I was working in the garden ed. Some damage was also done to when I heard an aeroplane making the Cafe Anglais,

a strange, noise and, looking up, I saw some object come from the clouds. The noise was like the shrieking of a whistle. I heard a loud report and then heard some- thing rushing through the air to- wards me. ran three or four Did the Air Ministry not accept yards, and saw the blade of an Arthur, Colefax after the loss of the hedge. recommendations made by Sir aeroplane propeller crash through "Creeping quietly into the hall, the City of Ottawa?—I could not Mr. Stoll telephoned to the police, sny. but on returning to, the bedroom, he found that the thief had din appeared.

table.

Sir Arthur and his assessors recommended that after July 1, 1930, aingle-engine machines should not be allowed to carry

"I looked up again and could see the aeroplane rushing through the air with only one wing. I ran to where the machine fell and helped to release the pilot."

"A few minutes after the alarm had been given the gardener said passengers across the Channel? ing Junkers): Did you hear this that he had been approached by a That is so, except for a certain

The Yangtarepoo Lawn Bowls Clab well-dressed stranger, whom he type.

heat a team of Hongkong players by took to be a tradesman, and who And those proposed regulations

29 shots to 20 this afternoon.

Hongkong's team consisted of:

R. F. La

C.

I. Silva

C. Atkinson

W. H. B. Huskott (skip),

servants'

asked the way to the

have not, in fact, been made? entrance. The gardener directed Not to my knowledge.

It they had been made, then this him to the basement door. Af though a number of servants were machine would not have been on the premises at the time no allowed to fly across the Channel? one saw the thief enter or leave." -No.

Mr. D. H. Corsellis (represent- screeching noise before the aero-. plane came into.sight?-Yee,

Mr. George Beager, of Meopham, said he heard a tearing, bolse be hind the clouds, and then saw the whole of the aeroplane was in pieces. The noise he heard was like the tearing of tin followed by two or three cracks..

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