The Kington Times - January 1917
Page 4 of 34
Kington Times 6th January 1917 - Page 4
Image Details
| Date | 06/01/1917 |
|---|---|
| Type | Newspaper |
| Format | |
| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 6th January 1917 |
| Transcription |
ce of nship . ES hore . akers , whom have made tocks loths rict . the utmost yfolds , the most marked . drag at any wearing the ore , aker , inster . NAL MISSION . past an evening service e Schools each Sunday , taking place in the n . The service has been , by Mr. Wallace , who herings , in the open - air . arker an adjournment to e , where the service hás Sunday last , when the d in the evening in th lights have now be e service for which Mr. onsible has been a most connection with the he Schoolroom being evening . Mr. Wallace nday by Sunday , by the CHOOLS . ilwyn Schools recently in the Parish on behalf Christmas Pudding ult that the handsome ected . During last year imilar efforts on behalf the Y.M.C.A. Huts , and ad , and now in the New o be made for the Lord und . TEIGN . HODIST CHURCH incomection with the unday School held last of a " money tree . " ney tree being a Christ- he prizes were varying sed in paper bags and About forty of these given . The entertain- er by the minister , the the programme consis- . Walter Curtis , recita- 5. Miss Nancy Evans ; stbury reading by Mr. tion by Dorothy East- Davies ; duet , Misses ell , Mr. W. Curtis and ading by the Rev. W es were opened by Mrs. the Rev. W. Wilcock Miss H. Evans pre- ight refreshments were by Mrs. ed rs . W. Jones . YARD . GUARDIANS , Wilcock , Ir . G. Cresswell ( Chair- organ , Messrs . II . J .. W. Mitchell , J. P. Potter , Leighton and Master thanked the f the inmates for the . Christmas gifts were Irs . Barneby ( Clater ) , Enderby ( the Warren ) . lected for another year lers were accepted . quorum at the Rural siness could be tran- AT FIRE . MARCH OUT OF SINGING . o workgirls employed ctory , Belvedere - road , anic during a fire on When the outbreak s on the three floors rched out under the sols , the manageress . up a coon song , and efrain , and in their marched out with a was quickly put out , ATOES . ngements have been of Agriculture and asury , to finance a ion of seed potatoes . ed the County War to request Borough Parish Councils to of seed potatoes are to collect cash with seed . It is proposed 1 be made to deliver t distributing centres e than 5cwt . may be , and the range of be limited . BGEST SALE in nd Ireland . SOLO RATOR ed itself to be equal at double the price . has secured HEST AWARDS EUROPE ath's Free Trial ANTEED for 10 years , GEOLON GEOVINDO Each little leaf in this packet has some mission to fulfil . One will provide strength , another flavour , etc. be may a dozen different kinds of Tea , but There they are all there for one purpose - to make a perfect Tea . CEYLINDO TEA 2 / - A Perfect Tea 2/2 2/4 The higher the price per pound the less the cost per cup . International Stores THE BIGGEST GROCERS IN THE WORLD TEA : COFFEE :: GROCERIES :: PROVISIONS 1.S. 89 ALLIES RESOLVED TO CARRY ON THE WAR UNTIL , VICTORY IS SECURED . Paris , Monday - The Sovereigns of Great Britain , Russia , Belgium , and Serbia have ex- changed New Year's greetings with President Poincare . Their messages all affirmed their determination to carry on the war until victory is secured . The Kings of Spain and Sweden have also sent their greetings to President Poincare , who has sent suitable replies . This morning the President received the Presidents and officials of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies . " ALLIES REPLY AT WASHINGTON . Washington , Monday . The official text of the Allies reply has been received by the State Department . Mr. Lansing has refused , to make any comment . It is most probable that the reply will be forwarded to the Central Powers to - day . German diplomatists , it is stated , in some way ascertained that President Wilson was going to send a Peace Note . Whereupon the German Government hurridly promulgated their own peace proposal in order to make it appear that President Wilson was backing up Germany . Such was the frank declaration made to - day to the United Press Agency . HUNCER BEATING THE CERMANS . NO REJOICING NOW EXCEPT FOR PEACE . Remarkable evidence as to the food famine in Germany is given by Mrs. Boothroyd , a lady of 78 , who has recently returned to Leeds from the North Geranan town of Winsen , where she she had lived over three years . She says : " It is the terrible hunger that is THE KINGTON TIMES . JANUARY 6 , 1917 . PORT OF FLUSHING . GERMANY'S PLANS FOR " STRIKING AT ENGLAND . " Paris , Thursday . - M . Marcel Hutin , writing in the Echo de Paris , says : " I have already considered the eventuality of a violation of the Swiss frontier by German troops in an effort to turn Belfort or operate towards Besancon . Parisian military critics -GO TO MARCHANT BROTHERS FOR The Best Selection of New MILLINERY and Ready to Wear Goods In All Departments . Children's Millinery and Baby Linen . A. Speciality . 1 , Broad Street , LEOMINSTER . SAVAGERY AT SEA . GERMANS FIRE ON CREW OF TORPEDOED SHIP . SEVEN KILLED AFTER ATTACK WITHOUT WARNING . and the Swiss Press have been discussing the question , and have passed differing opinions on it . I am assured that the German Government have isnce given a formal assur- ance that they would not violate Swiss neu - ment issued on Friday night , says : - trality - an act which would compromise the German cause , and pit against Germany the Swiss Army , which would certainly resist any attempt of that kind . " But it is not said that Germany , who is seeking above all to strike England , is not meditating , under the same pretexts which last year underlay , her blackmailing of The Hague Government , a violation of Dutch neu- trality , in order to endeavour to secure solid bases on the North Sea - Flushing for example . England , however , is on the watch in this quarter . " CERMAN TREACHERY . " SURRENDER " AS COVER FOR ATTACK . An officer whose death in hospital in France from severe wounds in the head is announced , is stated to have been the victim of German treachery . While he was in charge of a machine - gun section in the Somme advance a body of Ger- mans raised their hands in token of surrender . Accordingly the order was given to cease fire , and the officer and a dozen of his men were instructed to cross " No Man's land " and bring the Gernians in . They had advanced for some distance when the Germans holding up their hands suddenly " ducked " and machine - gun fire was opened on the advancing party . The officer received but beef in Germany is half - a - crown a pound . severe wounds in the head , and all the party were hit . For sixteen hours the officer lay where he fell . " He managed to crawl to a beating the Germans to - day . You can imagine what things are like when I tell you that in our little family of three we were al- lowed latterly to buy only one pound of meat each week . You talk about dear food here , When you have scraped your one or two meals a week off the beef you live for the rest of large shell hole , but it was full of water , and the week mostly on bread , potatoes and green falling into it he was nearly drowned . Scramb- vegetables . Cabbages seem to be about the most plentiful food in Germany , and that is ling out he crawled along the ground , but was because the poor people have been allowed to pulled up by some barbed wire , in which his have bits of land to cultivate wherever pos- neck became entangled . sible . No wonder , you don't hear the German people talking any longer about winning the They used to have bells ringing and public holidays for their victories in the early days , but nothing would make the people re- joice now except a declaration of peace . ' war . GERMANY'S IRON SHORTAGE .. he would probably have died but for a As it was now impossible for him to move wounded soldier , who , himself crawling out of muffler off and released him from the en- danger , noticed him and , edging up , cut his tanglement . The wounded soldier succeeded in obtaining aid , and the lieutenant was sub- sequently brought in , a mass of mud , by a stretcher party . CERMAN HUNCHBACK CAPTURED . TAKEN ON ATLANTIC LINER AT : LIVERPOOL . SIX WEEKS ' FREEDOM . After a full six weeks ' liberty , Ferdinand Kehrhan , the German hunchback who es- caped from Holloway Internment Camp on November 18 , was captured on Tuesday at Liverpool on board an outward - bound liner lying off Prince's landing stage . The Exchange Telegraph Company's special correspondent at Stockholm writes : An Amer- ican - Scandinavian business man who has been all over West and South Germany during the past four months tells me that Germany's greatest economic and military trouble is likely to arise from shortage of iron and coal . That is why the export of iron was recently prohibited . The German Government fears that if ex- port to Scandinavia is not maintained there will be a drop in food imports from Scandin- avia , the attempts are being made to force the iron and coal production . The shortage of iron and iron - workers in the main reason for curtailing the passenger train services . The wear and tear of the railways already affects the private service and if the war lasts much longer may diminish the ability to carry war material . Germans are very anxous as to what they call the outbreak of peace . " West - phalian the United States . manufacturers told me that peace should be postponed until the Transaction Economy or- drowned . nd are you The Secretary of the Admiralty , in a state- The degree of savagery which the the Germans have attained in their submarine policy of sinking merchant ships at sight the sinking of the British s.s. Westminster , would appear to have reached its climax in proceeding in ballast from Torre Annunziata to Port Said . On December 14th this vessel warning when 180 miles from the nearest land was attacked by a German submarine without and was struck by two torpedoes in quick suc- cession , which killed four men . four minutes . She sank in This ruthless disregard of the rules of international law was followed by a deliberate attempt to murder the survivors . The officers and crew , while effecting their escape from the sinking ship in boats , were shelled by the submarine at a range of 3,000 yards . The master and chief engineer were killed out- right and their boat sunk . The second and third engineers and three of the crew were not picked up and are presumed to have been Great Britain , in common with all other civilized nations , regards the sinking without warning of merchant ships with detestation , but in view of the avowed policy of the Ger- man Government and their refusal to consider the protests of neutrals it is recognised that mere protests are unavailing . The captain of the German submarine must , however , have satisfied himself as to the effectiveness of his two torpedoes and yet proceeded to carry out in cold blood an act of murder which could not possibly be justified by any urgency of war , and can only be regarded in the eyes of the German honour . world as a further proof of the degradation of The Westminster was a London vessel of 4,342 tons . BRITISH AIRMEN OVER CERMANY . THIRTEEN MACHINES BOMB BIG MUNITIONS CENTRE . French Official , Thursday . - It is confirmed that on the 26th inst . Lieut . Heurteaux brought down his fifteenth aeroplane . On the same day Sub - Lieut . Guynemer brought down his 24th machine and his 25th on . the 27th inst . Another German aeroplane came crashing to the ground after a fight with one of our pilots in the neighbourhood of Ommiecourt . At two o'clock yesterday afternoon 13 machines of the British Naval Aviation Service bombarded the blast furnaces at Dillingen . ( in the Rhine Province , 35 miles from the French frontier ) . Eleven hundred kilogrammes of projectiles were dropped . DESTROYING THE OIL - WELLS . BRITAIN QUEERS GERMAN PLANS IN RUMANIA . For High Standard Tailoring at Popular Prices , 3 You cannot do better than give us a trial : Our Garments are Dependable - Distinction outside , Dependence Inside - Value both ways . Suits and costumes from 42 / - : Made on the premises . 3 , West Street , J. WELSH , A STORY - WRITER'S LETTERS . STOPPED BY CENSOR AND 850 FINE INFLICTED . Alfred Lynne , of Henley Road , Ilford , who said he was a story writer , charged with communicating information calculated to be LEOMINSTER . WIGMORE . POLICE COURT . Tuesday , betone Mr. L. L. Moore , Mr. G. H. Green and Mr. T , J. Nott . William Oliver , Mocktree , was charged by .C.Tomkins with riding a bicycle after of use to the enemy , was fined £ 50 + Strat - lighting - up time on December 12th at Leint- ford ( Essex ) on Saturday . wardine . Fined 58 . LOCAL TRIBUNAL At a meeting of the Wigmore Local Tri- bunal on Tuesday there were present : Mr. Letters and postcards addressed to a Miss E. Vaughan , Peekham , and signed " Felix , " were intercepted by the Censor . These , said Lieutenant F. W. Sullivan , fibm Whitehall . who prosecuted , were traced to Lynne , who I Moore ( in the chair ) , Colonel E. M. said he sent Miss Vaughan a weekly budget Dunne , Messrs . G. H. Green , J. Woodhouse , of news because she had no time to read the B. Rogers , T. J. Nott , J. Morgan , with Mr. papers . One of the postcards had a refe H. T. Weyman ( Clerk ) , E. Rouse , Boughton ence to patrol - duty , and this Lynne explained ( Military representative ) , by saying that a number of women in the ( representing agriculture ) . road where he lived had been very nervous on The following cases were dealt with : - account of Zeppelin raids , and had been sitt- An application by Mr. Morgan , of Morti- and Mr. Powell ing up till past midnight . To obviate this mers Cross , on behalf of his waggoner was he and others arranged to patrol the roads adjourned for production of Medical Board -some each night - so that all the others certificate . could sleep quietly and could be warned it Jacob Reece , waggoner to Mr. Thomas , Stoc- necessary . ken Farm , was granted until July 1st condi- tionally that he remains on the land . Lynne , who admitted witin the letters and postcards , said he and Miss Vaughan dis- cussed the raids . He sent the War Office or Admiralty a design , and description of appara- tus for attacking airships and spreading globules of liquid fire over the top of them . H. Pearse , waggoner , Hill House Farm , appealed for by Mr. J. Morris , was exempted until a compotent substitute is provided . Henry Postans , Marlow , waggoner , applied for by Mr. D. Evans , was granted till July To this he received a reply which so dis 1st conditionally that he remained on the A. H. Clewer , employed by Colonel Dunne , married , 4 small children , with delicate wife , gusted him that he dropped the idea . He and . later sent the Munitions Inventions Depart- ment a design for locating aircraft and a design for a special kind of shrapnel which taken on as cowman to replace man called A up . Conditional exemption . he thought would set an airship on fire . third design he sent was of a special bullet , which when fired would penetrate and leave a fuse which would ignite escaping gas . The Chairman , in fining Lynne , said they looked upon this as an extremely serious case . Defendant not only had circulated informa- tion , but claimed to be a scientific man know- ing a great deal more than the average man . He would be punished in such a way as not only to deter him , but to deter others . CLUE OF THE TORN LETTERS . May 1st . William Thomas , 28 , married , applied for by Mr. J. Thomas . - Conditional exemption to William Barker , appealed for by Mr , G. Howells . - July 1st Court , classified for garrison duty only . - Ex- C. T. Adams , gamekeeper , married , Yatton emption on condition that he takes up at once work of national importance , either in munitions or on the land . William Oliver , timber feller . Aymestry was refused further extension of time , A. G. W. Jones , landlord of the Crown Inn , Aymestry , married , 5 children . Condi- work of national importance on the land or . on munitions . HOW A DISHONEST G.P.O. SORTER WAS tional exemption on his taking up at once in CAUGHT E. S. Meredith , draper , Leintwardine , mar- ried , 3 children , passed in Class A , was ex- empted until April 1st to enable him to make arrangements . In consequence of the 1. rge number of torn letters that were picked up by postal officials the neighbourhood of St. Paul's - road , Mr. Watson Rutherford , M.P. , presiding on Camden Town , two detectives attached to the Thursday at the annual meeting of General Post Office kept special observation . George Price , 33 , married waggoner , ap the On the morning of December 20th William pealed for by Mr. J. Hamer , The Tarlands , Rumanian Consolidated Oilfields , Ltd. , said Morris Seaman , a sorter at St. Martin's - le was exempted until July 1st . that he had just received information that the Grand , was seen to pass through the street British Military Commission had effectually on his way home and to throw away frag- for by Mr. Harold Davies , Leinthall . - Ex- G. H. Hill , married , 135 , waggoner , appealed carried out at the last moment everything ments of torn - up letters . possible to ensure the utter destruction of the empted to July 1st .. company's wells . These were picked up and pieced together , dered absolutely useless either to the enemy the Royal Exchange Assurance Company and Everything had been ren- and it was found that one was addressed to his uncle . - Exempted to July 1st . Henry Prince , Deerfold , joint tenant with or anyone else , and the company would have had contained a postal order for 2s . 6d . , a George Dunne , 34 , married , appealed for by a claim for £ 900,000 compensation . Mr. W. Morgan , Letton . - Exempted to July second to the Liverpool and London Assur- 1st . He understood that the stocks , plant , ance Company with 2s . , and a third to the machinery , refineries , and wells of the Stan- Commercial Union Assurance Company with Mr. R. Carpenter , The Lodge , was exempted William Lewis , waggoner , appealed for by , company and also of a Rumanian undertaking dard Oil of America and those of a German a 2s . postal order enclosed . in which the Shell Transport Company and the pleaded guilty to charges of stealing three ton Brian , father and mother to support , until July 1st . At the Guildhall on Monday Seaman W. C. Taylor , 33 , single , blacksmith , Bramp- Royal Dutch Company were jointly interested letters containing postal orders , and it was with the business dependent upon him . - Ex- had also been thoroughly destroyed . stated that during the past month 27 letters emption to July 1st . 9 William Beddoes , 22 , single , waggoner to medical examination by the Medical Board . A. H. Williams , 18 , single , was appealed for The petrol captured by the enemy was less that had contained cheques and postal orders in value than what he would have been able had been found in fragments in Camden - Mr . Albert Thomas , Willey , adjourned for to obtain by buying from Rumania during any sure . corresponding three months since the war be- Sir William Treloar sentenced prisoner to gan . Germany's conquest of Rumania had , three months ' hard labour on each of the in this respect at least , gained them no sub- three charges , two to run concurrently - six stantial advantage . months in all . MISSING HEADMISTRESS . WEEKS SEARCH . by Mr. A. J. Williams , Downwood , Shobdon , and was exempted until April 1st . James Price and A. H. Gittoes , waggoner and shepherd respectively , were appealed for by Mr. Pugh , Uphampton . - Conditional emption to July 1st . ex- T. A. Morgan , single , 20 , stockman , shep- well trained as any army in the world , but The Rumanian army was as brave and as after the first few weeks of intoxicating suc- cess they ran short of shells . heard rumours that their guns were of com- BODY FOUND IN A POND AFTER THREE herd and engine attendant , was appealed for He had also paratively small size and unable to cope with the enemy's heavy artillery . that Russia was to blame was baseless . Mr. Rutherford commented on the prompti- tude and thoroughness with which the British Military Commission destroyed producing wells and machinery . by Mr. Morgan , Oxhouse , Shobdon . - Exemp tion until an efficient substitute is found . W. G. Jones , appealed for by Mr. Morgan , Marlbrook . - Adjourned . G. Mapp , waggoner , married , 40 , appealed from for by Mr. Edward Jones , Brinshope . - July Any suggestion The body of Miss Kate Pierpoint , the since December 6th , when she left Farncombe , Reading headmistress , who has been missing to visit Eastbourne , was recovered Vann Pond , Ockley , near Dorking , Surrey , 1st . on Monday . She was fully dressed and had apparently been in the water from the time she was missed . The police had been dragg- GERMAN RAGE . Amsterdamin , Thursday . - The German papers ing the pond since Friday last , when some of give expression to unbounded rage at the her belongings were found on the bank . efficient manner in which the oil wells of Rumania have been destroyed . The Koelnische ing of her head , in which she said she in- Miss Pierpoint had left a letter complain- the narrative of an officer on the German Volkszeitung , in a Berlin message reproducing tended to put an end to it . Her nephew , General Staff , says : " The destruction in the oil region is so terrible and wild that it sur- passes everything that so far has happened . Whatever could be ruined has been ruined . " RUMANIAN CRAIN DESTROYED . AUSTRIAN FURY AT LOSS OF VALUABLE PLUNDER . Mr. Holden , lives in Ockley . THREE DAYS ON A BLEAK ROCK . PLIGHT OF SHIPWRECKED CREW OFF THE TRISH COAST . The steamer Lennox , of Leith , bound from Farry to Port Said , went ashore on South Saltee Island , off the coast of Wexford , on Friday morning , and is a total wreck . Cap tain Sheriffs and the crew of 45 ( 34 Chinese and 11 British ) were landed on the deserted island with provisions before the vessel broke Owing to a thick fog their signals for help were unobserved . Paris , Jan. 2nd . - The Austrian military authorities have authorised the Press to an nounce that Rumanian cereals were destroyed up by the Russians , the Rumanians and by the English Commissions . Kilmore . On Sunday evening , after three days spent Keen disappointment is felt by the Austrian on a bleak block of rock , the crew were in a Population by reason of these statements , and bad plight . Flash signals were then seen at military circles are furious for the same reason , The local lifeboat crossed seven as the effort required by the Austro - German could not approach the shore . The lifeboat miles to the island , but owing to heavy seas troops had been undertaken with the especial had to return for a punt , and early on Mon- view of saving the stocks of Rumanian sup- day morning rescued the crew . The captain plies . ere the stocks the Our Aviation Service carried out various bombardments in the course of yesterday and [ As has been announced already , last night . The railway stations of Montmédy Rumanian oilfields and stocks of oil were com- Pierrepont ( east of Longuyon ) received many pletely destroyed by the British Commission , Seven hundred and twenty kilo- so that the costly offensive has entirely failed of any material result . ] ] projectiles . and crew were landed at Kilmore and con- veyed to Wexford . RESULT OF A HEAVY MEAL . Mr. Walter Schroeder , at Hampstead , on Monday , held an inquest on George Thomas Gidden ( 70 ) , who lived at St. Hilda's , Leighton Road , Shirley , Southampton . There is a discrepancy in the accounts of Kehrhan's arrest which suggests interesting grammes of projectiles were also dropped on possibilities . According to one report he was the factories of Thionville and Joeuf ( Briey captured on an outward - bound liner , from coalfield ) , ninety 120mm . shells on the blast which it would be concluded that since his furnaces at Rombach , and sixty on the blast escape from Holloway he had been in hiding furnaces at Hagondangy . dirigibles bombarded one of the factories at STRANGE ALLEGATIONS IN THE POLICE in business as a harness maker , at Leaming- Hagondangy and the other ironworks at Neunkirchen . in this country and was seeking a refuge in Another account , however , states that he was arrested on an inward - bound ship , " on which ganisation which was created last August had he had been working , under an assumed name , its plans ready . Otherwise there would be universal unemployment and riots . CERMANS CAUCHT IN THEIR OWN WIRE . On the Baranovitchi front a few days ago ( says the Petrograd correspondent of the Central News ) the Germans were hang up on their own barbed wire , owing to the adroit ness of the Russian gunners . as a fireman . " From this it would appear that Kehrhan had actually got out of the country , and had thought he was safer on board a vessel cross- ing and re - crossing the Atlantic than hiding either here or in America . Kehrhan escaped from the Holloway In- ternment Camp in company with two men , Graeme Scott and Edward Hodgson , both of whom were captured after being four days at Two of our [ Dillingen is the seat of the famous Waffen- ment concern in Germany . ] AUSTRIA'S SEARCH FOR MEN . CONVICTS ASKED TO ENROL IN TILE ARMY . A CAPTAIN AND HOSPITAL SHIP . COURT . It was stated that Gidden , who was formerly und - Munitionfabrik , the second largest arma- Stayman , of North Shields , captain of a large spend Christmas with a brother , a leather ton , had , since the outbreak of hostilities , been At Plymouth , on Saturday , Thomas James employed as a Government ispector of stores at Southampton . He came to London to British ship , was charged on remand with in- merchant , at Haverstock Hill . On Wednes- flicting grievous bodily harm on John Ed - day , when he retired for the night , he was ward Jackson , chief officer , and also with apparently in good health . , As he did not attempting to murder John Lloyd Gifford come down to breakfast on Thursday morning ( Royal Naval Reserve , chief gunner on his his bedroom door was forced open , and he was ship . found dead in bed . Evidence for the prosecution was that the Dr. Purdie stated that death was due to captain , who had been drinking , sighted British hospital ship in the Mediterranean syncope , through distension of the stomach , large . Their escape was a particularly daring cently captured east of Gorizia affirm that Gifford to fire on it , a gun and naval gun- Rome , December 31. - Austrian prisoners re- on the evening of December 8 , and ordered caused by eating a heavy meal . No doubt the foggy weather also contributed to the one , and it was obvious that they must have the monarchy is having recourse to the en- death . ners having been placed on the ship for de At daybreak the Germans sent out a thick had clever confederates outside the camp . rolment of convicts . The jury returned a verdict in accordance column for the purpose of attacking the Rus- Barbed wire had been cut in order to facilitate Austro - Hungarian prisons have been asked to sian trenches . These troops cleared a way Gifford reminded the captain that the ship with the medical testimony . enrol themselves voluntarily in the army , in within the gun's range was a hospital ship . through their own entanglements , and ad- Kehrhan , who is 35 years of age , is the Brit- return for which they have been promised The captain replied he did not care , and re- vanced before their artillery could operate ish born son of German parents , and was a complete rehabilitation after the war . Per- peated the order . against the Russian positions , but they had well - known Socialist , and a regular speaker sons condemned for political offences are , and defied any man to touch the gun . Gifford refused to obey , GREEK SHIPOWNERS ' LOSSES . not moved from their wire defences before at meetings of the British Socialist party in however , excluded from the scope of this ar- Boxing Night the captain seized Gifford , who in consequence of the blockade and the de- On Greek shipowners are losing enormous sums they found themselves , owing to Russian gun- London and the provinces . He lived at Bexley rangement , and are , of course , continually was proceeding aft , and attempted to throw tention of Greek steamships . There are under Heath , and was alleged to be a pro - German . treated with the most extreme rigour . The him overboard . the Greek flag over 200 steamers , each of enrolment of evil - doers in Austria is further It was alleged that on November 30th Jack above 2,000 tons dead weight carrying capa- confirmed by the fact that amongst the pris- son withdrew an ortler given by the captain city , engaged in general carrying . oners captured by the Italians were some who to a helmsman that might have caused a At cur- rent freight rates these vessels have an earn- came from houses of detention . collision with a passing vessel . The captain ( ing capacity of over £ 100,000 a day . was angry and violently assaulted the chief officer . an , turn easier , and be fire in a most difficult position . age than many of the abines , and superior in he lower - priced ones . er 120,000 In 4 Years £ 45 £ 65 7 . £ 11 10 Stands Extra & Son , Ltd. Leo- 2 , H'ford & B'y'd . HYMN BOOKS , o among the Selec STER PRINTING CO . buty the First they were stopped in their advance , and afterwards they began to retire , Russian gunners got the accurate range and covered the only means of exit by a muderous rain of shells . The Germans threw them- selves in their frenzy from one side to the their escape . SOLDIER'S FATAL MISTAKE . other , but only succeeded in entangling them - on Private James Hetherington , of the Cana- selves in the maze of their own wires . The panic was indescribable . Men detained in all fensive purposes . For Neuralgia , Faceache , Toothache Nine witnesses were called for the prosecu tion , all of whom declared that the captain was often dangerously drunk . An inquest was held at Belfast on Friday , dians , who was killed on the railway on The men Tuesday night . He had been on leave with were caught like flies in a spider's web , and relatives in County Tyrone , and arriving at and all Nerve Pains , take Lane's Neuralgia struggled vainly to extricate themselves , until Belfast on returning to the front left the the majority of them were killed . Those who train on the wrong side and was crossing the Tonie . Never fatis to give relief after the trial on both charges , bail being refused . were able to scramble out represented only a line to an adjoining platform when he was first few doses , Bottle 1/9 , Postage 5d . small part of the column who had advanced run down . to the attack a short time before . Verdict , " Accidental Death . " CHENEY CHEMIST LEOMINSTER . The accused , who pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence , was committed for The naval authorities have formulated charges against the accused under the Defence ) of the Realm Regulations . HEALO If you have a Bad Leg , Eczema , Old Sores , Wounds , Ringworm , Cuts , Burns , Seurf , or any skin affettion , send to Maurice Smith & Co. , Kidderminster . for a free sample of HEALO Ointment . Try it , you need not send for a large box . A Shifnal lady says it is worth £ 5 a box . HEALO allays all irritation , reduces inflammation , prevents festering . soothes and heals all bad legs . Don't say your case is hopeless without trying HEALO . Boxes 1/3 and 3 / - Local Agent : - The Military representative applied for the review of the following cases : Farm , Burrington , two farms to manage , Walter Meredith , single , The Hollows father 72 years of age . - Previous certificate withdrawn and exemption granted to July . 1st . Clifford Pugh , 19 , shepherd , Boresford . - Ad- journed for a month to go before the Medi- cal Board .. T. J. G. Griffiths , 22 , single , Willey Lodge . -Adjourned for certificate from the Medical Board . Richard H. Dyke , 29 , and Ira S. Dyke , 28 . both married , Leinthall Farm . - July 1st . W. G. Smith , 29 , single , Bury Court , Wig- more , holding certificate of absolute exemp tion . - Adjourned to the next meeting . Albert Ryall , 23 , single , appealed for by Mr. Bowkett , Dyons Count . - Exemption until com- petent substitute is found . allowed leave to appeal owing to altered cir- Richard Percy Pugh , 19 , Upper Lye , was cumstances . BELGIAN SOLDIER'S TRAGIC DEATH . MONEY AND MEDALS LOST . been wounded and awarded the Military Medal and War Cross , was seen to fall from a Great A Belgian soldier , Eugene Vergate , who had Northern express train between Newark and Retford ,. At the inquest at Retford on Mon- day , a comrade stated deceased had been in London on leave , and was upset at having lost his medals and his money . When he left the north of England he had £ 36 in his belt . doctor who examined the body directly after the tragedy said there were no medals , belt or money . GIRL IN THE RIVER . A At Shrewsbury on Friday , Lily Barlow , sixteen , domestic servant , was remanded on a charge of stealing a gold bracelet , neckchain and locket , and £ 4 10s . in Treasury notes , the property of her employer , Mr. Harry Mould , of Meole Brace . On December 21st the property was stolen from a bedroom , and the accused suggested that there had been a burglary . Later , it was stated , she admitted stealing the jewel- lery and notes , and said she had given them to a soldier , but eventually declared she had Treasury notes . After the police visit Barlow , was found in the river up to her neck . The property has not been found . KILLING OF YOUNG STOCK . Reports from all parts of the country show that large numbers of young pigs are being killed ; the display of sucking pigs in the butchers ' shops before Christinas was proof of this . Germany made the mistake earlier in the war of allowing the slaughter of young animals ; she is now feeling the effect in the shortage of meat . Lord Devonport , Food Controller , and Mr. Prothero , Minister of Agriculture , are devising plans to prevent the killing of young pigs . Farmers ask that a regulation price should be fixed for feeding stuffs so that they may seel clearly what the cost of rearing will be . This , J. W. ROWE , Chemist , High St. , Leominster . Mr. Prothero has under consideration . |