The Kington Times - August 1918
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Kington Times 31st August 1918 - Page 3
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| Date | 31/08/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 31st August 1918 |
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Was returned Baker , aged nquest on Thos . 12 . enwich , paddling , umped in to his he the neck and James French , other two , but broke away . certificate of the EDDING . wing it over the ies ' wedding at named Matilda he Hill gipsy en- Wimborne magis- f the Rice table ongst saw Res them the com- nd they thought , UM , e sovereigns for dweller , of Nar- Saturday , fined C60 115 rings for received ve car de out of four anted to put on tes there was at that Belgians sent is way gold got PIER . ed to stofe explo- sex seaside resort Royal Engineers and of nearly all roken , but except ed the pier , one is intact . ] FACTORY APPLES . " BETTER TALKS . No. 48 . LATE THAN NEVER . " THE Our readers will no doubt have seen particulars of the Apple Order issued by the Ministry of Food on the 19th inst . Broadly speaking the position is that all apples ( excepting certain Dessert varieties ) small enough to go through a two inch ring must not be sold except to a licensed jam manufacturer , or to a dealer who undertakes to sell to a jam manufacturer . The Grower's price is fixed at £ 12 per ton , plus charges for empties , tolls , etc. , on the lines of the " Plum Order . " We are buyers of these " Controlled " Apples at the above prices , and shall be pleased to receive any quantity from growers and dealers . We can supply whatever empties are required or will allow Govern- ment rates for sender's empties . A further " Apple Order " is expected later . BLACKBERRIES . The order is not yet out , and for the present we are still paying 4½d . per lb. PLUMS . Controlled varieties , reserved for Jam manufacture : -- Pershore Blaisdon COLLECTION SCHEME . Whenever the Order controlling Blackberries is issued and Committee's arrangements are settled , we shall start making two propose to re - arrange the journeys as follows : - MONDAYS . AND THRUSDAYS . 30 per cwt . 30 % 40 / - per cwt . the Herefordshire Horticultural Sub- calls weekly at each depot . We Via Burghill , Knapton , Eardisland , Shobdon , Combe , Kinsham , Lingen , Leintwardine , Wigmore , Mortimer's Cross , Croft , Luston , Leominster , Hope - under - Dinmore . TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS . Via Lugwardine , Withington , Shucknall , Yarkhill , Tarrington , Stoke Edith , Dormington , Frome , Hampton Bishop . WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS . Via Credenhill , Brinsop , Norton Canon , Sarnesfield , Woonton , Lyonshall , Kington , Eardisley , Kinnersley , Weobley , Dilwyn , Canon Pyon . ROSS DISTRICT . The two journeys from Ross will probably be arranged for Mondays and Thursdays and Fridays respectively . Particulars will be announced shortly . this If necessary we are prepared to arrange for the Lorry to call for Blackberries at new centres , such as schools , on the above routes . Will parties concerned please write to us at once if they wish done . so that we can make necessary arrangements and send empties . , The second weekly call at each depot will be for Fruit only and vegetables will not be accepted on this round . Fruit and vegetables will be collected on the first round each week as at present , but we regret we find it impossible to provide accommodation on the second journey . Will Secretaries please arrange accordingly ? POT FRUIT . - The markets are so abnormal this year that we find it unsatisfactory to pay for fruit ( other than jam varieties ) on collection . In the future therefore we propose to market pot fruit and pay for it the week after collection . We will deduct a nominal amount for expenses ( to be approved by the Horticultural Committee ) , and our books will be freely , at their disposal for inspection at any time . We think this course will be fairer to growers and ourselves and hope it will be acceptable to all our friends . Herefordshire Fruit Co. , Makers of Wye Valley Preserves , House , Mansion Strip the Hedges for Haig . I ( BY SILVER BADGE . " ) In the Summer of 1916 I picked a handful of delicious ripe raspberries in the torn - up . gaiden of La Routoire Farm , the famous landmark out on Loos Plain . When i found them I was hunting for a lot German graves . The shells were whining overhead from our guns behind me near Vermelles on their way to the German trenches about Hulloch Towers . But if I kept my head down the Boche on Fosse 8 , which overlooked the place , could barely spot me amongst the under- growth . Some of you will be saying . " How foolish to risk your life for a few berries . " Perhaps ; but listen ! Wait until you have been living , in a dark hole underground , on bully beet and hard - V tack before you are too sure . The point is this : Tommy must have fruit in one form or another to keep him in good health ; he craves for it , and will take some risks to get it . Will you help him to get it if you are paid to do so ? He cannot often obtain fresh fruit , so he is provided with jam , 16. ozs . or more a week there is enough to go round . make it go round ? if Will you help to There is a shortage of jam and I appeal to you to go out into the country and pick blackberries to help make up the deficiency . While hiding from the live Bochc and looking for the dead ones in La Routoire I was reminded of the old days when as boys we sneaked round a field basket and stick in hand , in fear us pulling his hedges about . and trembling lest the wrathful farmer should catch I won't encourage you to take even a risk of that sort , for if you ask the farmer nicely to allow you to pick his blackberries and tell him- it is at the official request of the Government it is 100 to 1 you can get permission to go anywhere . With the blackberries you may find nuts , for they pick up grow up and ripen together , and you may a stray mushroom en route ; they go very nicely with a slice of Mr. Clynes , coupon free , breakfast bacon . Truly we who have got back to Blighty live in days of luxury . Just as fast as you can gather the fruit turn them in to the Local Collecting Depot , who will pay you 3d . per lb. , provided that they are ripe and not picked wet with rain . The retail selling price is 4d . , but in this case , to insure as many as possible reaching the jam maker he may pay you 4d . per pound , free on rail , in 5 cwt . lots . It is quite possible to pick 3 to 4 lbs . in an hour , which , if they realise only Is . , makes 10s . for a ten - hour working day , or a possible £ 3 10s . for a week . If you only do half as well as this you won't be doing badly , and re- member the demand for sound fruit is inexhaust- able . We are all proud of Sir Douglas Haig's men these glorious days , stripped to the waist ; strip the hedges for Haig . FARMERS AND BLACKBERRY PICKING .. STRONG PROTEST AT WORCESTER . J the At a meeting of the Worcester Branch of Farmers ' Union , Mr. T. Parkes said he never heard of a more monstrous idea than to let loose thousands of children , to roam about farms picking blackberries without so much as " by your leave . " Mr. Edmonds said unless there was some restric- tion there would be endless damage . Mr. G. Wookey said that already thirteen gaps had been fnade in his hedges , and Mr. Harrington added that pickers left the gates open , cattle strayed , and the farmer was fined . Mr. J. Phillips suggested that the parson should go fond with the children , and Mr. F. W. Lane advised each farmer to take care of interests . No resolution was passed . BLACKBERRIES . hits . own GROUPS OF PICKERS AND THEIR PAY .. FULPING STATIONS . The Ministry of Food is equipping ten pulping stations principally for dealing with the crop of blackberries It is pointed out that the Order , which came into force on Wednesday , ostensibly protect the London public from being overcharged , bit . in fact , intended to prevent them having any binck- berries at all - another instance of the devious ways . of officialism . The Divisional Food Commissioners and the Food Production Department are organising groups of pickers , such as childreд in charge of their school- masters and schoolmistresses , county by county . Over a hundred receiving depots - in many cases the school - room - will be established in each county . These groups of pickers will get 3d . per lb. , or £ 28 per ten , and the crop , as it is gathered , will be forwarded from these depots in any quan- tities of over 5 cwt . to the jam manufacturers who have been previously appointed to receive the fruit from those concerned . The difference between the £ 28 per ton paid to the pickers and the £ 42 per ton free on rail paid by the jam manufacturers will , it is estimated , be absorbed in expenses . Except in very small quantities the blackberries are only likely to reach the public through the retailer in case of a glut at any of the depots with no transport facilities . If this should occur the blackberries will at once be placed on the local market . MARROW PRICES FIXED . CNIONS TO BE CONTROLLED SHORTLY , SAYS MAJOR BELCHER . Major Beicher Director of Vegetable Supplies , addressing a meeting of fruiterers and greengrocers at the Connaught Rooms on Wednesday , said that any general control of green vegetables was in desirable , unscientific , With and unreasonable . regard to vegetable marrows and onions , however , the Ministry had decided to take action . Within a very few hours , he hoped , an Order for the control of the price of marrows would be issued . They would be controlled from the pro- ducer to the retailer , and while the margin fit , allowed to the retailer would provide a fair the Order would secure that the consumer - so far as he could get marrows at all , because a large proportion would be required for jam manufacture -would get them at a more reasonable price than he was getting them at the present time . a large It was found last year that the chief difficulty in controlling onions was the fact that proportion was imported , and that brought in the . question of freight . Nevertheless , both British and imported onions would be controlled shortly . So long as the Ministry of Food saw that the consumers were not being punished they did not wish to interfere in regard to other vegetables . ORDER . soon as the mer elec- TIPS ON THE FUEL Rationing begins for fuel , as hants have their forms . , and for gas and fficity from the beginning of the quarter ( July 1 ) . A scullery is a room when it is in fact a work- ing kitchen with a fixed cooking stove in which bulk of the cooking is done , thus permitting living room . of the kitchen proper being used as the No extra supplies will be given to large houses fitted with a coal cooking range , a separate circu- lating hot - water system , and a separate hot - water bath system . the The Coal Control Department states that work of administering the Order is being seri ously hampered owing to the fact that many house- holders throughout the country have not filled in their first form marked F.H.F.2 , on which they should make their application for coal , coke , gas , and , or electricity . the Unless all these forms are filled in promptly and forwarded to the local coal merchants , there will be considerable delay in carrying out regulations , and those persons who delay may find a difficulty later in obtaining their supplies . PLAYING WITH LIVE GRENADES . Four Middlesborough youths visiting a Yorkshire coast town picked up a hand grenade on the sand- banks . It exploded and badly injured them , so that all had to be treated in hospital . them had 20 wounds . One of Hereford . GRAIN PRICES . ENCREASES , FOR BARLEY AND OATS . The prices fixed last year were 62s . 9d . per quarter of 4481b . for ordinary non - malting barley for and 67s . 9d . for barley brewing purposes . Subject to the sanction of the War Cabinet , the Board of Agriculture and the Ministry of Food have agreed on a flat rate of 67s . per quarter for this season's crop . The maximum prices for bats last year began at 44s . 3d per quarter of 336lb . , delivered before December 1 , and rose to 48s . 6d . per quarter , de- livered after May 31. The new schedule of prices . is fixed to begin at 478. 6d . No decision has yet been reached with regard to wheat , but it is now regarded as very unlikely A that an increase in price will be sanctioned . rise of only 1s . per quarter would increase the cost of the bread subsidy ( which is already about £ 40,000,000 ) By several hundred thousands of pounds . A suggestion which is favourably regarded is that instead of the starting price of wheat being 738 last 6d . per quarter of 504lb . , rising to 78s . , as year , the maximum price should begin at 768. , This would give rising to 78s . next February . an average price of 76s . throughout the year , and would considerably ease the situation for the far- mer , who meanwhile is being irritated and handi- in reaching a capped by the Government's , delay decision . MORE STRAWBERRIES , MAY BE GROWN . ent The Food Production Deppartment of the Board of Agriculture state that supplies from the pres- acreage of strawberries are insufficient to meet the demand for jam , both for the Navy and Army and for the civilian population , or to pro- vide any surplus of fresh fruit . Moreover , as a result of discontinuance of fresh planting during the war , the majority of the remaining beds are old and worn out , and will be grubbed as profitable at the present controlled un- It is essential , therefore , that a conces le new ' area should be planted next autumn and spring and the Department have decided accordingly to withdraw the memorandum they issued in Novem- ber last restricting any increase in the strawberry area , and to encourage re - planting so as to secure an increase in the present area up to the acreage in 1914 . Strawberry growers should note that no objec- . tion will therefore be taken to the planting out of fresh beds . WIFE'S INFATUATION . SUSSEX WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR SENDING LETTERS TO GERMAN PRISONER . For sending uncensored letters and cigarettes to a German prisoner of war at a camp in Sussex , Elizabeth Gibb , wife of the licensee of the Rail- way Hotel , Wadhurst , was to three sentenced month's imprisonment with hard labour at Mark Cross Petty Sessions on Monday . It was stated that the defendant , without the knowledge of her husband , the and without having spoken to German , wrote impassioned letters to him , and went so far as to corrupt the corporal of the guard of the camp by paying him ros . for the delivery of each letter . It was also stated that on one occasion she threw a quantity of cigarettes out of the hotel window to a boy , to give to the prisoner , who with others was working close by . In her letters she represents herself as the daughter of the licensee , and as looking forward to the time when she and the German would be husband and , wife . a GUARDING " PRISONERS . SOLDIER WHO ALLOWED GERMANS THEIR FREEDOM ON A FARM . an Remarkable admissions were made at the Tot- tenham Court yesterday , when Walter Fuller ( 42 ) , Salisbury - road , Edmonton , was charged with being absentee from , the Royal Defence Corps . It was stated by the police that Fuller and another man were deputed to guard 11 Germans working on a farm in Essex , but what happened was that prisoner and the other man took it in turns to do guard duty . It was a case of three days on and three days off . and the latter were spent at their respective homes . Fuller told the bench that the arrangement was that after the Germans started work , he or his mate went where they liked . When they took them to the farms they left the prisoners unat- tended for hours . At the week - end he went home until Monday . are The Magistrate : Here are two who men supposed to guard the prisoners making their own arrangements , when they shall go and when they stay ; it is a most extraordinary state of affairs . The man was remanded for an escort . MARKETS . Ludlow , Monday , General Market . - Fowls , 1S . 6. per lb .; chickens , Is . 6d . per lb .; dressed chickens , 1s . 9d . per lb .; ducks , 15. 4d . per lb .; dressed ducks , 1s . 6d . per lb .; rabbits , 3s . to 35 . 6 : 1 . per couple ; butter , 2s . 2d . to , 2s . 4d . per lb .; hen eggs , 4d . each ; duck eggs , 44d . , each ; pigeons , IS . 6d . to 1s . 9d . per couple ; potatoes , 1d . per lb .; cabbages , 2d . to 3d . each ; cauliflowers , 3d . to 6d . cach : tomatoes Is . 4d . per lb .; cucumbers , 11d . each ; fettuce , 6d . per dozen ; blackberries , 4d . per 1b .; apples , 6d . per lb .; pears , 8d . per lb .; rhubarb , 3d . per bundle ; carrots , parsnips , turnips , 2d . per- lb .; onions , 6d . to 7d . per lb. Ludlow , Monday , Corn . - Market quiet . Govern- ment rates prevailing . Worcester , Saturday , Hay & Straw . The new prices announced for hay and straw are considered fair in the trade , though not up to some farmer's expectations . No sales of new crops have so far been permitted . of in- Hereford , Wednesday , Cattle . - A reat improve- ment in the supplies . From 45 last week the number of fat cattle jumped to 110 , many which were of excellent quality , and stores creased from 139 to 376 ; for the latter there was some enquiry - more than for some weeks - though There were 26 milking values were unaffected . cows , the prices for which showed an upward ten- dency , the top figure being £ 65 155 .; several were sold in the fifties . Calves made from 30s . upwards , the branding regulation having been removed KINGTON TIMES . TIMES . AUGUST AUGUST 31 , 1918 . North Herefordshire and the War . PTE . J. J. BROOKS , K.S.L.I. , killed in action in France on August 3rd . His parents reside at Brook House , Bircher . Pte . Brooks was an old Luctonian . PTE . G. LILWALL , Herefordshire Regiment , killed in action in France . His wife lives at Townend Cottage , East Street , Pembridge . LEOMINSTER BOY KILLED . We regret to state that Mrs. George Pritchard , of 71 , Bargates , has received news of the death of her son , Lance - Corpl . Cecil Williams , in France . The sad intimation was conveyed by the following letter from ' sister at a casualty clearing station in France : " I deeply regret to inform you of the death of your boy , Lance - Corpl . C. J. F. Williams . He was received at this C.C.S. to - day very badly wounded . It was found , necessary to amputate his leg as an effort to save his life . He never re- gained consciousness , but I hope it may be just a little comfort you to know that he got every care and attention and was in a comfortable , ward when he passed away . " Lance - Corporal Williams who before joining up was in the employ of Mr. W. G. Storr - Barber , was only 18 when he enlisted in the Manchester Regi ment . In that unit he was made gas instructor Later he and was given , the rank of Corporal . was transferred to the Liverpool Regiment and sent to France on Easter Monday . On May 8th he was sent to hospital suffering severely from the effects of gas shell poisoning . On recovery he went through a course in Lewis guns and re- joined his regiment without returning to England . Mrs. Pritchard's husband is a Lance - Corporal in the Military Police and is serving in France . PTE . R. FOSTER WOUNDED . Mr. Thomas Foster , 70 , South Street , has re- ceived news that his son , Pte . Robert Foster , Gloucester Regiment , has been wounded in France , and is in hospital at Bradford . Writing to his father , Pte . Foster says he was hit in the left just above the elbow . Before joining up . Pte . Foster was in the employ of Mr. R. Morrow . arm WOUNDED IN FRANCE . Mrs. Rickards , the Broad , Leominster , has re- ceived news that her brother , Pte . Tracey Weaver , Herefordshire Regiment , has been wounded in the face and foot in France Pte , Weaver , who went through the Palestine campaign is a son of Mr. Weaver , of Tillington Common . Four of his brothers have been killed in the war and another wounded . Mrs. Rickards ' husband , who is 55 years of age , has served in Egypt and a stepson has been killed . FRENCH HONOUR FOR SOLDIER . LEOMINSTER We are pleased to hear that Corporal F. Harper , Herefordshire Regiment , son of Sergeant T. Har- per , Etnam Street , has been presented with the French Military Croix de Guerre for service in the field . Sergt . T. Harper it will be remembered is an old Volunteer and is at present serving with the 1st Her fordshire Volunteer Regiment . PTE . J. HARRIS , DILWYN , KILLED . 311 Mrs. Harris , of Highway Cottage , Little Dilwyn , Dilwyn , has received official information that her husband , Pte . J. Harris . Herefordshire Regiment , was killed in action in France on July 29th . He volunteered at the outbreak of war and was Egypt two years , where he saw much active ser- vice . He was removed to France and was ex- pected home on leave . He was the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris , of Stocking field . Three other brothers are serving in the Army , two of whom are now in France . Before joining up Pte . Harris was employed by Mr. T. H. Grif- fiths , Little Dilwyn . He leaves a widow and four children , The following letter has been received from his commanding officer : - Not " Dear Mrs. Harris , -It is with deep regret that I extend my sympathy to you in your great loss . I know how keenly you will feel it . In the course of my duties as your husband's platoon offi- cer I was bound to see in his letters the great affection he had for his home and children . only do I myself deplore his loss very keenly , but it is felt throughout the whole Platoon and Com- He was an excellent fellow and always pany . ready and willing to give his best on every occa- sion . With my deepest sympathy , I remain , yours sincerely , G. F. I. Banks , Commanding Officer , A. Company . " PRESTEIGN SOLDIER KILLED . News has reached the death in Mr. Charles Millichamp action in France of his son , Harry Millichamp , who Canadian Forces , the of Mr. was serving with the Manitoba Regiment . This is the second son Mr. Millichamp has lost in the present war , one of his other sons , Sergt . Milli- Another son , champ , being killed at Gallipoli . Mr. Bert Millichamp , is interned in Holland . NEWS FROM THE MURMAN COAST Gunner F. E. Smith , Royal Marine Artillery , who is with the Allied forces in the north of Russia , writes a most interesting letter to his father , Mr. John Smith , the Square , I , cominster . The following extracts will be of general interest to our readers : " It is now permissible for me to give informa- tion which was forbidden previously , and such as it is may prove interesting to you . In the first place this particular spot where our headquarters are is in the Kolu Peninsula . You may be able : to locate it on the map if you look between the Unlike this North of Sweden and Archangel . latter place , owing to its nearer proximity to the Gulf Stream , it is practically an ice - free port and This accessible to shipping all the year round . our PTE . HARRY SMITH , of Eardisland , who was killed in action in France on August 8th . He was 31 years of age and leaves a widow and two children , who live at 15 , Mill Street . Mrs. Smith is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Davies , 43 , South Street . YARPOLE SOLDIER KILLED . We deeply regret to record the death of Pte . Charles James Price , K.S.L.I. , son of Mrs. Price , The Highwood Gardens , Yarpole , who was killed in action on July 31st . " Mrs. Price has received the following letters relating to the sad event : - " Dear Mrs. Price , It is my painful duty to have to inform you that No. 9858 , Pte . C. J. Price was killed in action last night . It may be of comfort to you to know that he was killed out- right and therefore suffered no pain . He was a good lad and gave us no trouble . The very day he was killed his name was mentioned for going on a ceremonial parade at which the Army Com- mander was to be present ... Believe me , yours truly , C. Armitage , Capt . " " Dear Mrs. Price , -It is with the deepest sym- pathy that I write to tell you of the death of your son , Pte . C. J. Price , 9858 , who was killed in action on July 31st . He was out with a working party in the evening , and was struck with a piece of shell about 9.30 p.m. and killed . He was brought well back behind the lines and buried in the Military Cemetery at Abeele , not far from Poperinghe in Belgium , where he lies at rest with many of his comrades . being A cross is erected to his memory by the battalion . I know what terrible sorrow this will cause you , and pray that you may find comfort in Heavenly Father , who causes all things to happen for the best . Your son did not suffer at all , and every- thing possible was done for him , and he received a proper burial . May I offer to you the sincere . sympathy of the officers and men of the battalion for you in your trouble . I remain , yours sin- cerely , J. S. Shenton , C.F. " your On Sunday a memorial service was held at Ya pole Church to Pte . C. J. Price and also to Pte . J. J. Brooks ( whose death we have previously announced ) . Mr. Arkwright's hymn " The Supreme Sacrifice , " was W. Rev. T. Ward preached from St. John XIV . , 1 . The sung . BODENHAM MAN , KILLED . was was Cut out and keep this notice . Show it to everyone in your household . Notes on Saving . No. 3 . Some How to Save on Boots & Shoes Always stan ! wet boots to dry with the soles uppermost . If you have to go to the bootmaker remember that good thick shoes cost less and use up less leather than boots . Never dry boots too near the fire . Scorched leather soon cracks . Don't buy boots that " look smart " for a few weeks and then wear out . Hob - nails or rubber will double the life of your soles . Don't exchange old boots for ferns and pot plants . Sell them . Leather will always fetch a price . Thick boots for heavy wear will last longer if oiled now and then . Oil only when dry and clean . Saving Shoe Leather means Saving money . Invest your Savings in 156 NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS War Savings Certi- ficates are a British Government Invest- ment backed by all the wealth and power of the nation . Their purchase price is 15/6 each , and their value in 5 years ' time £ 1 . each - this is equi- valent to compound interes : at 5 per cent . , free of In- come Tax . You can get your Imoney back in full at any time with any in- terest which is due . You can buy War Savings Certificates from any Money Order Post Office , Bank , or Shopkeeper acting as Official Agent . War Savings Certificates £ 1 for 15/6 . £ 50 for £ 38 : 15 : . £ 500 for £ 387 : 10 : . If you have not yet joined a War Savings Association , it is your patriotic duty to do so . Apply to the Secretary of your Local War Savings Committee , or write to the National War Savings Committee , Salisbury Square , London , EC . 4 . Every Shilling saved and lent helps to win the War . Airy Illusions . M ( BY IT . WALMSLEY , R.A.F. ) . There would seem to be a Lopular belief that ' when a man is nying in an aeroplane he is ex- periencing in an exaggerated form the sensations and thrills of motor - car racing , of a figure - of - 8 the railway , of mountaineering , and of crossing Channel in a gale . " It 3 USICAL TUITION . Pupils prepared for the examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music , and the Royal College of Music . Recent results - Higher Division 1 , Lower Division 1 , Elementary Division 5 , Primary Division 3.- J. SIMPSON , A.R.C.O. , 5B , Church Street , Leominster . you get H until must be simply horrible your air - legs , " people say . And yet in truth a mode of travelling more devoid of shocks and , sensations , than flying could- hardly be imagined . It is of the true poetry motion . Take , for instance , the sensation of speed which appeals so much to the racing motorists , and one supposes , to the road hog . Although an aeroplane may be travelling anything up to 100 miles an hour , yet , by reason of the fact that the nearest stationery object is probably several thousand feet away . ( i.c. below ) there is nothing to draw the ai : man's attention to this speed , and the impres sion he gets is that he is simply doating gently through space . One would get a similar ( if less agreeable impression in an express train , if one Saw on looking out of the window only objects on the horizon , because these seem to be passed quite slowly . WANTED . 2 ELP Wanted , in farmhouse , children , and 2 years , as family . - Apply , Mrs. Morris , Church House , Huntington , Kington . W 5 ANTED , GIRL , about 14. - Apply , Mrs. BLAKELY , Island Terrace , Kington . ANTED , OLD ARTIFICIAL TEETH , any con- Wdition , for cash , E. MORGAN , Jeweller , Drapers Lane , Leominster . WANTED Experienced GENERAL , or COOK . GENERAL , for private residence , Harrogate , three in family , good wages . - Apply , Mrs. WOOD , 23 , High Street , Leominster . TANTED , 500 Gallons of Good CIDER ; also 500 W Gallone of Good PERRY . - Apply , J. BASSETT , Radnorshire Arms , Leominster . OSTUMIERS . - Wanted , Experienced Coat & Skirt Then the layman reminds one of the fearsome sensation of height one gets in looking down a This steep precipice . one appreciates only by close contact with the actual face of the cliff which is falling away to the ground many hundred feet below . Looking downward from an aeroplane there is no connecting link between the machine manency . - Apply , GREENLANDS , LTD . , Drapers , Hereford . and the earth , and so there is no sensation of height . We regret to record the death in France of Lance - Corporal George Thomas Bounds , the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Bounds , The Moor , Bodenham , who have been officially informed that he killed on July 29th . Before joining the Army in February , 1916 Lance - Corporal Bounds , who then 19 years of age , was at one time in the em- ploy of the Great Western Railway and later in the employ of Mrs. Burrell , Hampton Court . He was with the Herefordshire Regiment all through the Palestine fighting and was wounded in the neck on November 6th , 1917. His mother has re- ceived the following letter from Captain Wilmot : " Dear Mrs. Bounds , I have been long time in writing to you to express my very real sym- pathy in your great grief , but it is so hard to know how to bring comfort in such terrible times as these . I have been in command of , or with , the Company in which your son served in this Battalion , I think , ever since he joined it and a more honest and straightforward man and soldier never lived .. an We were very short of N.C.O's . at the time when he met his death and he was doing exceptionally good work . Nothing was ever too much trouble for him - he was always cheery and always ready to help . I have lost in him a very will be very sadly true friend myself and he missed in the Company . It is some comfort , per- haps , to know that he was killed instantaneously and certainly suffered no pain . He is buried with the other officers and men of the Battalion who little were killed during those few days in a cemetery just behind the trench in which he died . That is now a quiet spot , well behind the line . " . MEN WHO WILL GET FIRST LEAVE . In granting leave to the Army in France first consideration , says Mr. Macpherson ( for the War Office ) , will be given to men who have not had any leave for the last two or three years in con- sequence of having been sent first to the East and then drafted back to France and have gone into action without any intermission of duty . A large number of Cheshire and Lancashire men , it is stated , come within this category . Leominster people will add to these units the Herefordshire Regiment which recently went through some bit- ter fighting in France . The men concerned had- just come from Palestine , where they had served for two years , in the course of which they saw much serious service . Many Herefordshire men now in France have not had leave for over years , so that the above announcement I will be received with pleasure in many local homes . " LADY " HOUSEBREAKER . , two HER CONFESSION SAID TO BE INCOMPLETE . Described by the police as a " lady housebreaker , " Florence Hodgetts was charged at Birmingham Saturday with breaking into a house at Small Heath and stealing several articles . on There have recently been many cases of house- breaking in Birmingham , and the police have been looking for men in connection with several of the cases . They have now found , a detective said , that the thefts had been committed by two young women , Hodgetts and a young girl named Nellie Newton . Among the articles mentioned in the charge against Hodgetts were a gold bracelet , watch , diamond ring , and a gold neck chain and locket . Other charges were to be preferred . Hodgetts , who was remanded , admitted three cases of housebreaking and the police believe she has been concerned in at least seven . HIS WIFE'S PORTRAIT . FOUND BY SOLDIER IN RECAPTURED VILLAGE 20 MILES FROM WHERE HE LOST IT . During the recent German offensive a Buston soldier lost all his effects , including a cherished photograph of his wife and child . Writing to his wife this week , he says : " A fortnight ago I found your photograph again among a lot of papers in a house in a village out of which we had cleared the Germans . It was miles from where I left it . I should like to meet the chap who took it . " . is naturally of great advantage to us in efforts to put Russia once again on a war footing , as it enables us to land stores , etc. , when and where other ways would be impossible . You will be pleased to know that these efforts are meeting with great success , and numbers of recruits , con- sisting of Russians , Poles , Serbians and Czechs , Sone opposi are enlisting in the Allies ' cause . tion has of course been instigated by German agents but this has now been crushed , or nearly So , and these fire - brands are being gradually weeded out . The general feeling is decidedly friendly towards us , and the majority of the Rus- sian peoples realise that Germany's enormous ex- pansion on this front will have to be checked if they do not wish to knuckle under altogether . Unfortunately the poorer classes have been So kept in ignorance and rottenly governed for years , that they have been easily led by these spies . You would be surprised at the number that can neither read nor write . We are training and A gypsy , number here , and the have equipped quite same thing is being done at other places , They are called the British - Slavo Legion . Altogether the situation is very favourable and decidedly interest- ing , but it will take time . Up to the present the job has appealed to me more than the last one in the Orkneys . That was lighter , but deadly a dull , and now one does feel that he is doing win the war , something useful and helping to have just re- which was impossible up there . I turned from a I special mission , which , took a party of us nearly 20 miles to a place inland , a.id have enjoyed it immensely . Naturally there were no s'eeping cars or dining saloons , but that did not detract from the enjoyment , and I am now looking forward to just such another ' stunt . We It did not last as long as anticipated . thought it would be for ten days , but we were back in five . The carriages are like our fish vans with s'iding doors and sometimes fitted with planks for bedding ( if you are lucky ) . A few of us managed to sling hammocks in them . But the scenery , absolutely fine . Quite equal to anything in . Norway . First of all we follow the course of the river for practically a third . of the way , then MALINGERING RECRUIT . 20 GYPSY WHO WITHSTOOD ELECTRIC SHOCKS WITHOUT FLINCHING . A strange case of what is believed to be malin- gering has occurred at Reading . examina- man passed Grade 1 , when called up pre- and sented himself at the Barracks doubled up Several hobbling , with a stick in each hand . medical men subjected him to a severe tion and pronounced him fit , but the man cou'd not be made to straighten himself . Later , specialists were called in , and the underwent electric degree , shocks , varying in without flinching . In all twelve doctors declared him fit for service . He was thereupon ordered the usual course of training , but he refused to stand up . During the week - end he was placed in a draft for Ireland , but owing to his still doubled - up state he rode to the station , whilst his comrades walked . LONDON PRICES FOR FRUIT .. Plums at Covent Garden were more reasonable . in price , and a fair supply of the Orleans variety found ready purchasers on Saturday at about 1s . per lb. Victoria plums remain dear at 40s . per half bushel of solb . , Czars were 25s . , while Washing ton greengages , which are very scarce , demar 42s . For desert apples the quotations are : Beauty of Bath , 155. to 20s . per half bushel ,, Worcester Pearmains , 14s . to 18s . , cooking varieties , 8s . to 125 . Tomatoes are in very good supply at from 6s 9s . per 12lb . , but cucumbers are rather dear at An Order has been is- 6s . to 8s . 6d . per dozen . the sued by the Food Controller , to take effect from August 20 , restricting the growers ' price of varieties of damsons to £ 40 per ton . The pro- visions of the Plum Sales Order , 1918 , apply in every respect to the sale of damsons . The prices of store sheep hardened , though the number of animals was larger . More pigs on offer this opens out into lakes , some thirty miles long , than have been seen for the past twelve months , 3 fat and 273 store ; little pigs were down 10s . a head ; sows and pigs also showed a decided decline . £ 77 THROUGH LETTER BOX . RETURNED WITH PENITENT NOTE TO ALLEGED THIEF . a A curious incident was mentioned to the Ponty pool Bench on Saturday in connection with charge of theft against Arthur Bosanquet , who was charged with stealing £ 120 . The money alleged to have been stolen by him included £ 39 in gold . One morning , after Bosan- quet's arrest and remand on bail , Arthur Price who lives with him , going into the passage of the house , found a small package that had appar- ently been put through the letter - box during the night . In the package were £ 38 in gold and £ 39 in Treasury notes , together with the following note in printed letters : + cannot not Here is the money . I took it , and bear to see you suffer for what you have donc . Give it to the police and God bless you , " for I know you are innocent . They will never find me I cannot tell you my name . Bosanquet , who is a painter , had been working in the house from which the money is alleged to , have been stolen . During the temporary absence of the owners the house was entered and the money taken . Bosanquet denied that he had been in the house , that he had taken the , money , or that he had any knowledge of how it was turned or who returned it . He was committed for trial . re- £ 10 FOR A DEAD CHICKEN . chicken receiving For stealing and a dead William James , a Plaistow shipwright , was fined It was mentioned £ 10 at West Ham on Friday . that during the last six and a half weeks James's wages had amounted to £ 70 10s . 9d . , and that he had hitherto borne a good character . you and equal to views on Killarney or the Lake Dist- rict , and then into the mountains , which have patches of snow still remaining on them , and the river flowing down below . From the time start to the finish it is nothing but forest and whole way ( some of it never touched ) majority of the ground swampy . Here and there fires have great patches of black show where raged . I was told anyone could settle , down any- where in these forest and cut what timber he But it would liked and pay no rent or taxes . ' a are in the be practically an impossibility to get it away un- less near a river , or this , the only railway . I be- lieve this country possesses untold wealth if only exploited . Gold has been found quite recently . The rivers are well stocked with fish and I the likely spots . couldn't help picking out pools and rapids when going by , where the ' big uns were likely to be found . I noticed several the biggest rises . The mosquitoes would prove It is only nuisance , though , for the sportsman . in consequence delays are line , and single numerous . At one station on the return journey we had to wait 24 hours and at another 8 hours and another 4. There is no tunnelling , the rails being laid up hill and down , some of the gradients being very steep and making the Yank engines The curves too pretty puff considerably . acute and are usually taken very carefully ( about 4 miles an hour ) . At many of them derelict car- .riages may be seen where they have been taken at too great speed . At all stations both cold and gratis ; but boiling water may be obtained were independent of the latter , for before start- ' pinch a stove and ing we managed to piping , of which there are a great number scull- On this we did the ing about beside the line . cooking . Coming back we unfoertunately , had to all cram into one carriage , so had two stoves on the go . Alwent well till about two - thirds of the way home , when a sudden lurch of the train pre- cipitated stoves , dinner and all , overboard . How- ever , we had a good stock of bully , biscuits and jam . The language difficulty is overcome by the use of interpreters , two of whom accompanied us . Next time I should like to treble the and get as far as Petrograd . " we some distance DROWNED HER TWO BABIES . to alt Mrs. Margaret Hamilton , the wife of a shipyard worker . was , at Belfast , committed for trial , two children , David , charged with killing her aged five , and James , 18 months . them Inquiries drew from her the statement she had taken the babies to the park lake , and , wading under water about six yards , had held under water till they were suffocated , She then tried to drown herself , but the water was only four feet deep , and , as she said , " I couldn't die , so I walked out again . " At midnight , after this statement , she went with two constables to the pond , and showed where she , had left the infants . Sergt . Cooke waded out , and presently recovered both the bodies . FIGHT AMID BLAZING PETROL . Paris , Tuesday . The papers describe a lurid fight in the night when a contingent of Germans and British met with hand grenades and bayonets in the light of some flaming tanks , whose petrol had caught fire as the result of being struck by shell - fire . of The reservoirs exploded ,, throwing spurts flame goft . high , where , in spite of torrential could be seen rains , some hundreds of airmen machine - gunning the enemy . Two German divi- sions were positively annihilated . Thousands of bodies of dead and wounded strewed the battle- field , and the gigantic tragedy continued in favour of the British . the As for the air - sickness from which airmen are supposed to suffer , the writer has never person- ally met anyone who has experienced it . In fact , aeroplane in flight is so supremely at with the element in which it moves that you can take up a bucket of water full to the very brim without spilling a drop . to one Naturally it is possible to make a person sick in the air , by performing acrobatic stunts at a great rate , just as I suppose it would be possible make a person sick by a series of evolutions on a trapeze ; but in straightforward flying it can be truthfully said that there is not the slightest suggestion of any more disturbing sensation , than that of exhilaration and of utter joy in being " up . " And to describe that for the layman , one would need the pen of a poet . " C Hands , also Alteration Hand ; live in or out , per- good wages to suitable man . - Apply , WOZEN- CROFT , Coppice House , Orleton . C OSTUMIERS . - Wanted , Experienced Second - hand , to take charge of room in absence of first hand . - Apply , GREENLANDS LTD . , Drapers , Hereford . ANTED , for September 10th , a GENERAL.- Wpply , by letter , to Mrs. PULLMAN , The Pop- lands , Leominster . DRAPERYWanted , YOUNG LADY , as sales in Dress and Silk Department . - Apply , GREEN- LANDS , LTD . , Drapers , Hereford . W TANTED , a YOUTH , to do general ' work . - Ap : ply , H. FOSTER , West Street , Leominster . GERMANS CALLING LOUDLY FOR WANTED , COOK - GENERAL , for Purley ,, Surrey , REINFORCEMENTS ... LUDENDORFF BAFFLED BY FOCH . Paris , August 27. - The Central News military correspondent writes : - The capital fact which arises from the German resistance to the British troops is that the enemy's reserves are being swallowed up at such a rate that insufficient will remain for organising a fresh offensive . In the sectors smashed by the shock of the British attack , the Germans are call- ing loudly for reinforcements from the general reserve . Ludendorff is now in the unenviable position of having to wait until an Allied blow is struck be- fore he can send men to the disputed regions . One day the British front is ablaze , another day the French attack , and in addition the pressure on the front as a whole is never relaxed . We are exploiting to the full our possession of the initia- tive . The Germans quite understand our manoeuvre , but cannot baffle it , and no time will be afforded them to fir.d a solution . Marshal Foch's plans are working themselves out so harmoniously that the future is full of hope . " LITTLE BERTHA " ON VIEW . Paris , August 25 .- " It is a grand day for the British Army , " concludes the " Figaro " critique on the military situation . So express themselves all the sections of the Press and also the public of Paris , who are out in full numbers , taking full advantage of the glorious weather to visit in thousands " Little Bertha , " who fired lately into Amiens , was taken on August 8 by the British Fourth Army , and is now displaying her metall'e and camouflaged beauty in the station yard of the Champ de Mars . The gun tube , 26ft . 3in . in length , is mounted on a chassis quite twice its own length . The 11in . ( 280mm . ) gun points its 26ft . nose skywards from the centre , and the rear part is covered by an iron awning , under which is the conducting trolley for the shells , which are stored in a truck immediately behind . Coupled to this wagon are three more , the first containing cartriedges , and the remaining two being reserved as living quarters for the gun team . A technical expert present said that the gun was only good for 200 rounds . Fourteen men are necessary to control her fire , and 50 men in all for every purpose . The shell weighs 620lb . " FRENCH JOY OVER OUR VICTORIES . news . BRITISH TENACITY AND WILL TO WIN . Paris , Sunday . - Last night's British communique was not published in Paris until L late hour , and consequently this morning's papers contained little comment upon the magnificent successes achieved by the British armies of Generals Byng and Rawlinson north and south of the Somme . The " Echo de Paris " says : The latest indicates that the situation in the neighbourhood of Bapaume is splendid , and adds Saturday's achievements constitute another manifestation of tenacity and will to win of Great Britain and the British Dominions , and redound greatly to their honour . Our Allies have wrested . from the enemy a number of ' nces and positions , the name of each one of which fills us courage , and makes the blood course through our veins . the splendid 24 years of age , happy home and good wages . - WOOD , Ivy Cottage , Kingsland . OY Wanted , to generally assist . - Apply , LARCOMBE , B Leominster . ASHIER ( Books , etc. ) Wanted , intelligent girl just left school . - Apply , LEWIS , Corner House , Leo- minster . WANTED , smart GIRL , just left school , willing to learn , small family . - Apply , REYNOLDS , Crown Cottage , Eardisland . good small given , 2 in family , place vacant , good refer- ence required . - Apply to Mrs. GEORGE EVANS , Eyton Hall , Leominster .. RESPECTABLE COUPLE , or WIDOW , Wanted as Caretakers , for doctor's surgery , near Man- chester , rent , coal , gas and 10s . per week - Apply in first instance , Miss M. GODFREY , Brierley , Leominster . TANTED , good GENERAL WORKMAN , for farmhouse , small farm in Kingsland , wages 31s . and house rent free . - Apply , " C.M , " c / o News Office , Leominster . W YANTED , FARM WAGGON , or TROLLEY.- WPPLY , MORGAN , Showers , Kingsland . ANTED , good Six - Roomed HOUSE , with bath preferred , rent up to £ 18 year clear , in Leo- minster or on the road for Dinmore . - INGLIS , Trelrugh Green , Wormbridge , Hereford . W bury . W ANTED , WAGONER , good cottage and garden . close to work - .Apply , F. E. WARDROP , Lawton- • ANTED to put from 10 to 20 good EWES to HALVES . - Apply , " B , " c / o News Office , Leominster . W ANTED to put EWES to HALVES , in suitable lots . Apply , POWELL , Brook Farm , Kimbolton , Leominster . H TOUSEMAID Wanted , for Preparatory School in Malvern , good holidays . - Apply , Mrs. COATES , Eyton House , Leominster . ANTED , a good working quiet SHEEPDOG.- W Apply , LEWIS , Ford Farm , Ford Bridge , Leo- minster . ANADIAN SOLDIERS , wounded in the jaw are CANADIAN SOLDIERS worden , no wages required but food and lodging given . - For further par- ticulams apply Hon . Sec . , Horticultural Committee , 3 , Offa Street , Hereford . OTHER'S HELP or General SERVANT , 16-18 , Moined once . Apple SERVANT , New Office , Leominster . TAILORESSES . - Wanted , good SKIRT HAND , Τ permanency , good wages . - Apply , CAFFYN , Tailor , Widemarsh Street , Hereford . EDROOM & SITTING ROOM Wanted , by Lady , with Bom September 9th . - Apply , stating terms , to FIRST SHEAVES OF HARVEST . The recent Paris , Monday . - M . Clemenceau , in a letter to the President of the General Councils , said that France could count upon the Government as upon Marshal Foch , seconded by the magnificent mili- tary chiefs of the Allies . victories M. Clemenceau added surprised only feeble souls . that we are gathering the first sheaves of harvest ; others will follow , the greatest of which will be the deliverance of the world from oppression and implacable bruta'ity . NEW THREAT TO DOUAI AND CAMBRAI . FOUR PROCEEDING LIAISON . IN " G , " c / o News Office , Leominster . FOR SALE . FOR Sale Purebred W. ROGERS , Waterloo , Sunset , HENS . - Apply , E. W. ROGERS , Waterloo , Sunset , Kington . RHODE ISLAND COCKS or COCKERELS , laying or exhibition strains . - Apply , RED HEN YARDS ,. Shirlheath , Kingsland . F land . OR Sale , Three GOATS , two Nannies and a Billy , one in milk . - Apply , OWENS , Hole Farm , Kings- OR Sale , 100 Gallons of Good CIDER . - Apply , LEYMAN , Ivington . T HOUSE , TO LET . BATTLES PERFECT Paris , August 27. An article in the " Journal " this morning says : Bapaume having ceased to be a centre for reinforcements , this nucleus of ways of communication for the enemy has lost its interest . The British would have been there two days ago if they had not referred to bring about its fall by manovering rather than by direct at- tack . But the only objective of the Allies is to drive back the enemy as quickly and as far as That is why a fresh . possible . blow has been struck further north with success , renewing the threat to Douai and Cambrai . Bapaume will in- evitably fall of itself . " Polybe " ( in the " Figaro " ) says : It is a victorious battle , the wings of which extend over nearly 100 kilometres , a battle composed of four battles which have broken out one after the other , but in perfect liaison with one another , and in which surprise each time assumes a new aspect . Lieutenant - Colonel Fabry ( in the " Oui " ) shows Mixed Farm , in good condition , about 354 acres , Good Let , Furnished , in September , DUTTON COACH HOUSE and YARD adjoining . - Apply to Messrs . LLOYD & SON , Solicitors , Leominster . OMFORTABLE BEDROOM and SITTINGROOM to Let , on Bircher Common , terms moderate.- Apply , " B.E , " c / o News Office , Leominster . ΤΟ TO Let , from February 2nd , 1919 , HINTON MANOR FARM , Eardisland , Herefordshire . why the Germans have continued energetically to House and Farm Buildings . - Apply , HENRY THOMAS , defend the way to Douai and Cambrai . He adds : 4 , Groveside Villas , Pontnewynydd , Pontypool , Mon. cross If the Allies seized the triangle formed by these two towns and Valenciennes , and also the roads of Longwy , Longuyon , and Mont Medy , the whole network of railways used by the enemy to feed his present front would be cut across , which would mean the absolute strangulation of the army . of occupation in France . secure " A DISGRACE TO HIS COUNTRY . " a false statement to For telegraphing leave for a soldier friend and colleague in union matters , the secretary of the Morecambe General Workers ' Union was fined £ 15 and costs at Lan- caster on Saturday . The Bench told him he was Defendant represented a disgrace to his country . the soldier's wife was ill , which was not true . TO TO Let , Country Full - Licensed INN , with large garden . - Apply , King's Head , Docklow . FED GERMAN PRISONERS . At Dorchester on Saturday William John Barnes and his son , Frank Barnes , bakers , of Piddletown , were charged with conveying bread to a German prisoner which was likely to facilitate his escape . A private who was guarding the prisoner . found two loaves and a bag of flour in a trough , which had been placed there by the accused . The Ger- man offered the guard two rings to say nothing about it . The case against the son was dismissed , ⋅ but the father was fined £ 50 . |