Sp A -------------- a TE -- A PAGE OF BRITISH NEWS FOR THE READERS OF THE DAILY BRITISH FIVE LIVES LOST SPLENDID WORK . 11 COVERNOR OPENS ART GALLERY yar | re MAY THON ATTENPTING - WHEN HISTORIC | IN RESCUES OFF CAUSE EXPLOSION | WORLD'S BIGRFST MANSION BURNED! BRITISH COASTS Lb Biss ii AGANATERTH! ~~ SALVAGE FEkTee Priceless Treasures Steamers by Ropes and from Flames Lifeboats CEILING FELL TITLED LADY AIDS Four Buried, Fifth Crawled Acts as' Interpreter and "to Sate, But Died Gives Men Food and ater : Shelter sium Recent fogs and galea caysed many shipping disasters, and there was fine réscus work on the Devon and Irish coasts. The rescusd included the crew of a Spanish steamer (34 men) rescued off Waterford coast by lifeboat, and (the crew of an Italian steamer (30 men) saved by lifeboat and rocket ap- paratus off South Devon. Search was also made in the fog for 24 men who | took to the boats when two Swansea steam trawlers were lost off Galway. Lady Clementine Waring, wife of Walter Waring, formerly Liberal M.P. for East Lothian, acted as in- terpreter when the crew of the Italian eamer Liberta were re " In an endeavor to save historic trea- Sures from a burning mansion, four people, Including two women, lost their lives at Oulton Hall, near Tar- potiey, Cheshire. A fireman who was injured died later in hospital, The ill-fated four were trapped by the flames in the grand salon, and the ceiling fell and buried them. The Hall, which was over 200 years old, was destroyed. Oulton has been the "home of the Grey-Egerion family since the 13th century, and housed many old mastérs and valuable Chinese lacquer-work. The dead are: Mrs. J. H. Spann, of Oulton Lodge, who was engaged in domestic duties at the Hall: Misa Bertha Lloyd, third housemaid: Fred Crank, aged 18, son of George Crank, of Little Budworth, gamekeeper on the exiate; H. White, farm laborer, of Little Budworth. The fifth victim was Second Officer Joseph Hunt (48). of Tarporley Fire Brigade, who was injured while fight ing the flames, Sir Philip and Lady Grey-Egerton Were in Paris at the time. About two years ago Sir Philip leased the man- "sion to Frank Cooper, who 5 a mem. ber of the Federation of British In. "dustries and is prominently associated with the Partington Iron and Steel Co. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, who was recovering from an operation, were givilig a small house party. All the guests and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper es- caped unhurt. Major G. E. Cotton, the agent to the estate, who lives at Bunbury, five miles distant from Oulton Hall, told the story afterwards as follows: "1 received a telephone call from «. Mr. Cooper shat the Hall has on fire, and IT im tély - moto! ove Those who had been picked up by When 1 arrived the whole bulldin®| ny titehont were already being cared seemed to be ablaze, and thers ap- |i tn Salcombe The others, Who | peared little hope of saving it. One Wes réacued by the rocket apparatus, fire brigade was thén at work. were fed and sheltered at The Moult. I understand that the fire started Lady Clementine Waring's ho in the servants' quarters upstairs, and | "gp, "0 "10h, Warings house. Nr Sooper {01d m4 that when the Sule: ius 'svaning to attend & drones on break was first reported to him by she explained that she preferred atay- the servants it was already extensive. ing at and entertaining the ship- i re uy thing to do was to on men save what we could -- pictures a 3 : | ra and other articles of value-- enn ashisn steer. Ciflly. ores. ! And. We commenced.to move everything | go yin went nahore in gale and fog. off out that was possible, We went for Bailynoyls Head, Co. Waterford the biggest and mont valuable pictures | "on POR messages being picked up and furniture. We succeeded in sav- the lifeboats went out from Dunmore ing a Van Dyck. "There were about 15 of us work- ae rk nd, Meta joby search ing in the hail, and knowing the dan. | Lo "(i hiSedod Jn locating the Te as hin Shi oP, stad, dng £ the } W oy ee, « whole time. | | A SH slightest warning the ceiling fell on |W | | i us with a crash. The hill was im- mediately filled with smoke and sparks. We maddifor a window, broke the glass and got outside. It was| up thé num- only when we counted -------- bers tit we discovered that fhrée of Judge Says Breach of Prom- the party were missing, including two ise Often Pure Com- of Mrs. Cooper's maids mercial Dispute "Mrs, Cooper had forbidden them to enter the butlding, and I can only sup- Mr. Justice MoCargie, the 'bachelor 2s," pes and comme pose that they were anxious to assist tolaliam to the jury in the salvage work, and that when the roof crashed in they were struck the 4 when summing up in & breach of pro- These actions, he said, were still down by plecés of a 'One man Who was on a ladder tAk- Snduoned by thé law. and must be It with acegrding to the piidaipies ° ing pictures off the wall contrived to escape, andfa fireman, badly injured, and who afterwards died, managed to established in the courts. had noticed again and again at the Bar crawl to the brokén window through which we had made oyr way, and we and on the Bench that breach of pro- mise actions were brought merely to rescued near Salcombe, South Devon, and took 27 of them into her own house for food and sheiter The Liberta, a Genoa steamer of 3,000 tons, from Spezzia for Rotter. dam; struck in foggy and boisterous | weather about midnight, near Bolt Head, at the western side of Salcombe | Harbor. | Penzance picked up and relayed her 8.0.8, and the Brixham motor life- boat saved three of the crew, who jumped overboard, but could not get alongside on aceount of the heavy seas. CLIFF CLIMB IN DARK. W. Arnold, R.N., with members of the Hope Cove Life-saving Company, then é&limbed the dangerous 400-feet cliffs in the darkness. and at dawn | ed to get & liné to the wreck. | With great dificuity the rest of the | crew, officers and men, were res cuéd, together with the ship's mascot, | & Russian sheep dog. Lady Clemen- | tine Waring acted As interpréter when | the Italians reached the shore, and iained thé arrangements made for their comfort. and abi : i there any ike at all in the hall. Then, withéut the : | pulled him into safety, "Several of the salvage party 'were punish the man. times 'such an, action was us. but I do not remember seeing them | prought with the object 'of extracting money which, upon a fair view of the BUILT BY VANBRUGH? ase, oud not be extracted save by Over 200 years old, the present man- | the publicity of a trial. Sometimes brick Was brought to recover legitimate Sia of ah Stone erbrags for a wrong which had been certainly bore 'a strong re- . semblance, if not to Blenheim and | ONE IN A HUNDRED. Stowe, at least to the lesser with which his name is connected. His favorite system of lofty reception rooms was used on the south front, tasugh a m homely style prevailed ott the other three sides. YOUNG NEN OF 60 © OBECTTOU mE Was that for ond which was brought & man one hundred were brought by women. The judge said this case must be viewsd in many respects as "a mere Slam disptite," and referred to duarrels that had taken the parties. He asked what was likely to n after marriage when the t L of the ihe bride (quoted by eotinsel from a letter written after a quarrel): 'I shall never forgive you for making me a wm dott i Bom ot ny riends t was infifiitely bettér engage- ments of that sort should be broken off before marriage took place, Daoause Baris wele bound together and lity, fi : RECORDS The ~ houses | striking features of these actions | me. The Governor-General new Irish salon at hall promises to become a centre of MURDERED GRLS. | LETTERS ARE REA Ex-Fiance, to Whom They| Were Written, is Glad | Amazing love letters written by a typist to a miner were read at Cardiff Assizes when George Thomas, 26, was | sentenced to death forthe murder of Marie Beddoe Thomas. The girl was stabbed from behing | as she was entering the chapel where | she was a chorister, an@* Thomas was seen with a biead knife in 'Nis hand, with which he infligted a wound in his own thigh before he, was arrested. Evidence vas given thal the coup "had Répt ny; bilan est ment took Place about a year ago, and they both formed other attachments. Very, soon, however, it was found that they were corresponding secretly, and in one jetter the girl wrote: -- "It is not wrong for us to write to each other, is it? I know we are both engaged and all that, but there can be no harm in our just asking after each other's health now and again." HER SHATTERED DREAM. In another letter she asked him was he not happy, and added: "How huppy we used to be before other peo- ple butted in and tried to arrange out affairs. Happiness is too" elusive and fragile a thing to catch and hold roughly or lightly. We held it toe lightly and = flitted away from us like some brilliant-hued butterfly, never tg return ugain. Now close your eves, dear, 1 am going to kiss you." Miss Thomas later wrote: 'I have told you a terrible lle. 1 can't be your wife with the memory of that loathsome lie weighing on my heart. Go to her who is so whité and good. She would never tell you lies to maké You love her more. 'Through my damnable capacity of making people believe what I say, I Another letter, addressed to "My most dear George,' ntainied the fol- lowing Lo where 1 lle I can see the vivid blué of the sea, the gold of the sands. and the flashing whiteness of the win I It's all very beautiful and wonderful, but not one-tenth as wonderful as our married love will be. "Can't you picture us in winter months: a cheery fire, bur table and chairs drawn close to it, soft sha lights, some winter flowérs, then bed." "MY HEART IS DEAD." Thomas brok down and wept bitterly. The jetters were addressed to fhe mother of the dead girl, and the first "Tt cut me 16 the heart t both on Friday. Tn o tears i# fall becausé my heart is dead--quite of the. Irish Free State, His Excellency Timoth Mitr Hall, Minon Row, Trish Art and | to Die blin. - Large numbers attended Culture. JACKDAW SHOWS } RELUCTANT PUPILS THE PROPER SPIRIT. One of the most régular at tendants at the council school At Helpston, the birthplace of John Clare, the Northampton. Shure poet is a jackdaw who accompanies a scholar each day. During playtinie the jackdaw files to and fro with his school- boy. chum, and when lessons are proceeding the bird sits at a window where he can. keep his friend in sight until «the boy is ready to escort him home. o o Oo o a & a Q o o CREO ORTON COO o o Oo o& o o od o el o a a a o ART EXPERT AIDS | Sir Joseph Duveen Con- tinues to Encourage Pur- ~ chase of Modern Works Bir Joseph Duveen, head of the well. ktiown firm of' art experts, has fol- lowed up his pléa for the support of British artists in very tangible form. Arising from his correspondence with the Prime Minister on the subject last month, he writes from New York: "I am forming a small codmmittes | of men of acknowledgdd authority, and placing at its dispesal £1,000 an- nually, for purchase of paintings by contemporary British artists, prefer- ence being given to work by young artists 'of promise." Pletures acquired, he adds, will be held by the committee as trustees with power to lend or present them to any public gallery in the British lales, the British Empire, or the United States, 'By this means.' says Sir Joseph, "I Hope that the nucleus of an fn- teresting collection available for i: sentation or loan throughout the . pire may gradually be provided. MURAL PAINTINGS. 'Municipal and othér public bulld- in Londen and the great cial cities present man for wall decorition,' hn "and as a step in this direction | have fed to provide a sum for mural paintings by some of the younger British artikts in the refreshmént room of the Nationa] Gallery, Millbank." Other suggestions by Sir Jose clude a central nstitution, the year round, whers new art could be éxhibl comm y rovided:' and collections of works of Pp ded fart for sale to be sent to centres iA America and Britain, The Colonies, European cities, : Sir Joseph Duveen, who had alréady nted to the nation a gal of foreign art, to be built at - bank at an estimgted cost of f recently pure for "Ines," by Maurice 'Thets is no tears 10 |. rae at a hd ¥ Michael Healey, Five Million Cartridges Still to Be Broken, Down ALL UNSAFE Only Alternative to Present Method is More Dangerous Some 5,750,000 Verey light cart. ridges, similar to those which caused the Erith explosion of two years ago, still remain to be broken down in the factory where the disaster occurred: " This has given rise to a question in the House of Commons. Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck asked the Secre- tary of State for War, if he would state how many millions of Verey light cartridges, some of which caused the explosion at Slades Green (Erith) on February 13, 1024, when 13 girls were -| killed, still remain to be broken down formally opened the the the ceremony, and new and ornate BUS CONDUCTOR 1S HAPPIEST MAN Other Pleasant Faces But None Radiating Such Joy in London London is a city of masked faces according to a man who recently set out on a quest for a really happy countenance. He began by taking the first bus with a smiling conductor and that cenductor was the ene who cat: fled off the honors of the day. The story of the search was told as fol- lows: : ; When I began In the morning, Several buses passed whose conductors logked gloomy, pre-occupied, peevish, Or as expressionless as "Miss Poker Face." They were ignored. Then there suddenly hurried along, in a gallant and adventurous manner, a bus with a conductor who had the most cheerful and happy face of all thé Londoners observed that day. I shouted to the bus to stop. The coductor smiled. I 'smiled. Thy bus smiled. "I jumped op to the bus." The conductor laughed. " I laughed. Every- one in the bus laughed. The number of the owner of Lon- don's happiest face is 15,608. NO HAPPINESS RADIATED. That was a god beginning. But the rest of the story is very dismal. In one of the largest west-end stores 1 nw hundreds of pleasant faces be- Kind the counter. ut there was not one of thém which radiated happiness. 1 went on to a great building soon to be completed to. look at Bricklayers and those experts whose job it is to whisk with a strange brush specks of dust from the facés which decorate the exterior. The bricklayers had con- cealed thémselvés and the faces of the ntiemen with brushes were as im- oblle as the faces they were brush. ing. 21 very qu y they did not im- A man sell- PRY. Where are London's happy faces? ™ 15,608 the.only man who is not afraid to show his joy? BANS PRIESTHOOD Lord Justice's Will Aids Scientific * Hi bequeathed £5.500 to hi nephew Stephen on attaining the age of 20 Years, * that 04s de dss at the same place, but in a Govern- ment factory, also if he was aware that the whole of these cartridges were con- demned as unsafe to move, store or handle without risk to life or property. The Erith explosion occurred while girls employed by a privaté firm were dismantling some of a stock of about 8,000,000 Verey lights, which the com- pany had bought from the Govern- ment, Vereygartridges, which fire bright colored hts, were used for signalling during the war, LENGTHY TASK. > Following the disaster the Surplus Stores Liquidation Department took charge of a portion of the factory. For thé remaining 6,500,000 cartridges they paid the company £35,000 as com- pensation. They are now breaking down the others themselves, and in the last-&ix months have handled about The task, therefore, is nét likely to be completed before next July, and anxiety is expreased In Erith and the adjacent hamlet of Slades Green, as to what may happen in that period, in view of the statement that the cartridges "are unsafe to move, store or handle." The Thames Ammunition Works adjoin the factory, and a fire might involve a terrific explosion at the ammunition works, Lying at the Slades Green factory are also betwéen 300 and 400 tons of maroons, rockets, etc. THE ALTERNATIVE. The secretary of the Surplus Stores Liquidation Department sald: '"Tpese cartridges have, like other dangefous material, to be difposed of in some way. One way is to have them broken down by . skilled employes. This is being done under the closest super- vision, "The alternative would be to dump thém out at sea. This would involve loading them into lorries, transporting them through populated districts, load- ing on to barges and towing the barges out to sea. "EN '"That would involve much greater handling and much greater danger than the present systém. '"The general precaution taken is that the cartridges are broken down by a wet process; that is, certain of operations take place 'under or ; WIRELESS QUAN BANGER TO SHPS No Agreement Since Wage Redue- tion in November There is growing anxiety concerning the British vesstls, any carrying passengers, which are at sea withou wireless operators. } The stoppage began on Nov. 26, the men objecting to a wage reduction of . 84. a month. Negotiations for a settlement were at the of the wages at wm men resume duty and Bed of re. lement. The employers' he said, indiat that the men shall return at the a ney have conceded nothing." M ' a Mr. . "We are willing to #0 to arbitration, but the employers will not do so unless we first accept the reduction." } - RAPID ART AT 74 Dame Henrietta Barnett Paints 54 Pictares in Six Weeks Dame Henrietta Barpett, whose many ydars of toll i $id ratés of A be reinstated the phil on Fe hy able to of- | professes Battle-Cruiser Hindenburg to Be Raised by New Method PUMPING OUT WATER Believe Vessel Will Then Rise to Surface Auto- matically J Scapa Flow will be the scene this summer of the biggest salvage ever attempted, when the ba - cruiser Hindenburg--sunk in the scut- ting of the "Geran fleet six years Ago--is 'to be refloated. Twenty-one of the smaller vessels have been.raised already by means of floating docks and wires: but the Hindenburg, which has a displacement of 27,000 tons, is too unwieldy. The water, therefore, is to be pump- ed out of her, so that she may .auto- matically rise to the surface. *'She lies on an even keel," sald Mr. Cox, of Messrs. Cox and Danks, ., the contractors, "with practical- ly only her super-structure showing. Our main difficulty will be to atop up all the portholes and the eight sea~ cocks under the engine-room, by . opening of which she was sunk, thus prevent the inflowing of th water, Baris ah aan FORTY PUMPS. yaaa "Steel patches or concrete will be placed over the holes, and when this is completed she will be pumped out from the top. "There will be 40 pumps operating, and we expect that, going at full pressure, they will empty her in 12 hours, having removed from 50,000 to 60,000 tons of water, "We calculate that the whole opera tion will occupy about six months, The four floating docks were moved into position round the Hindenburg on March 1, and will serve as working platforms for the divers and men en- gaged in the task, '"T'welve divers will be constantly at work, and they have already made a preliminary survey of the hull, which is lying in sand and shingle, covered With barnacles and thick sea d, TUNNEL UNDER WRECK. 7 "Part of their task will be to under the wreck in order to the patching of the seacocks, which are 24 inches in diameter. They will use shovels, and have compressed air scrapers for cleaning the ship's bot tom." If this operation is successful the - firm anticipates that it will be possible to raise the remaining big ships by the samé means at the rate of two a sum- mer; but with the exception of the Hindenburg, which remained up#ight owing to the comparative shallowness of the water, the others are tilted over. The Hindenburg will be beached and broken up into scrap. SOIENTISTS STILL 'DISAGREE ON'BONE One Declares it Schoolboy Hoax, the Other a Stone Age Relic The figure of a horse's head graven on a bone, found by two schoolboys at Sherbrooke, Dorset, has drawn twe | distinguished scientists into direct con- flict. They are Sir Arthur Smith Wood- wandy who declares the head was drawn many thousands of years ago by an artist of the Stone Age; and Professor W. J. Sollas, who says that it was drawn. by a 20th century &choolboy. Both men are past presi- | dents of the Geological Society, The bone ~-now in the museum at Sherborne School, labelled *'a rare ex- ample of paleolithic art"--was found in 1014 by twg boys of the school, Araldo Cortesi and P. C, Groves, in a- heap of quarry debris. A PRACTICAL JOKE, Professor Sollas states in a letter 10 Nature, that the drawing "was per- at far the finders of the 6 were in. volved In the affair there is nothing to show; one or other of them may have been innocent of it. But that some of the boys in the school were not quite so ignorant as Mr. himself to be is sh by the fact that they were familiar with! '* Barly Man in Britain' and the illu- stration of the Creswell Crag horse given there by Sir W. Boyd Dawkins." The Professor adds that the drawing on the bone shows ble features of resemblance with this filustration of - the Creswell Crag horse. He is sup- ported in Ms theory by C. J. of Oxford, who was engaged at th schobl at the time of the discovery ip arranging the museum collections, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. Sir Arthir Smith Woodward, dis. cussing the find said that the bone, which is semi-fossilized, 'must have , been graven witii'a flint by the people of the Stone Age. The bone is thou sands of years old, and, in my opinion, the drawing was made bone