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THE OBSEJRVEJR, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932. ULSTER RAILWAY OUTRAGES. BAND OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. FEANCE'S NEAR EAST POLICY. Waring Gillows THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

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Sir James Craig, accompanied bv Sir Ernest Clark, returned to Ulster to-day from London and unveiled a. war memorial at Coleraine. He will go back to London shortly in connection with the settlement of outstanding questions, Armistice Day was widely observed in Northern Ireland, and at Belfast an open air service, attended by the Lord Mayor and Corporation, and detachments of all branches of the services, drew 20,000 people to the City Hall. Many wreaths were placed on the cenotaph. A railway outrage is reported from Manilla Junction on the Midland Great Western lino last night.

Points at tho junction were tampered with, and a train from Dublin, instead of keeping to tho main line, ran into a siding, at tho end of which tho engine dashed into the buffers and was hurled into a deep embankment. The engine-driver and fireman were pitched into a dyke, and some time afterwards were removed in a stimned condition. The carriage immediately behind the engine was partially telescoped, and a number of soldiers in it had a narrow escape from death. Tho ticket-office and waiting-room of Kil-free Junction, County Sligo, were burned to the ground yesterday, and an unsuccessful attempt was made to ljurn the signal cabin. Raiders smashed the staff instruments, but the telegraph and telephone were untouched.

Tho safe was emptied of its contents before the place was set on fire. FIGHT IN DUBLIN HILLS. BAND OF LOOTING REPUBLICANS CAPTURED. After a fight lasting half an hour National troops captured five members of a flying column of Republicans in a cottage in the Dublin Hills early yesterday, taking arms, equipment, wines, brandy, whisky, and cigarettes The round-up took place following a raid last night on Sir Stanley Coch-rano's residence, Bray, when wiuea and whiskv were taken. Troops surrounded the cottage, and when the occupants refused to surrender, fire was opened with machine-guns and rifles.

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259 296 A STRIKING MEMORIAL PADDINGTON. AT There was an impressive ceremony at Pad-dington Station in the morning, when Viscount Churchill, chairman of the directors of the Great Western Railway Company, unveiled a memorial in honour of the 25,479 men of the Great Western Railway who joined His Majesty a forces and the 2,524 yvho gave then-lives. The memorial, ejected in the centre of the principal down-hne platform, is a striking piece oi sculpture, it represents in more than life-size the figure of a Brit'ai soldier garbed for the rigours of winter trench life. He wears the sheepskin jerkin, a scarf, and greatcoat, and the gas respirator is "at the alert." "Tommy is not seen either with a bayonet pointed, standing at ease, or with the "ifte at the reverse," but innocent of arms and reading a letter from home. The big background of the statue is of white marble and granite, and the badges of the Navy and the Air Force are engraved on each side.

A roll of the names of those who gave then lives has been deposited a casket beneath the figure. Mr. C. S. Jagger, a winner of the Military Cross, was the sculptor.

Close upon five thousand people gathered for the ceremony. Directors and staff were present, and relatives of the men who gave their lives came from all parts of the Great Western system. The Archbishop of Canterbury offered tho dedicatory prayer, and gave an address following the singing of God Our Help in Ages Past." His Grace said that Armistice Day while life lasted would be memorable to all thoughtful people. They observed the fourth anniversary in proud bereavement and in deliberate Christian hope. The Great Western Railway Company was a mighty band of public servants and an honourable fellowship, a.nd those in it did their duty gallantly in the Great War.

From what they and their comrades did we had learned to what a nigh level the ordinary man could, God Helping bun, attain when the call to high enterprise rang out. Viscount Churchill, in his speech prior to removing the Union Jack and Air Force num liij luc-uiunai, aiircsseu, prni- I cipally, the bereaved relatives. He expressed the hope that the figure of Tommy" in tho homely act of reading a letter from his loved oncti would bring solace to the hearts of many- who cherished the remembrance of the many messages wiueu tney sent to those yvho fought. Lord Churchill added that he was proud to bo chairman of a body of men so eager and ready to serve their country. His lordship laid the first wreath, whieh was on behalf of the company.

The General Manager (Mr. F. J. C. Pole)" brought a floral token from the whole staff, and then the visitors filed past.

Long before tho crowds had left the station there was a great pile of flowers at the base of the memorial. CANTERBURY'S CHIEF CONSTABLE. Over six thousand people have signed a petition asking for a rehearing of the case against Mr. U. H.

A. Carlton, recently re. duced from Chief Constable of Canterbury to Sergeant for accepting passes to the cricket ground ana on a local company buses. The petition will be presented to the City Council on Wednesday, and if it is refused the Home Office will be asked to hold a public inquiry. Mr.

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COLDNESS TO THE BEITISH OFFER. PUBLIC OPINION FAVOURABLE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PARIS, Saturday. Cousiiirraule prominence has been given iu tho Paris papers to the friendly declarations which have been made to Franco in tho speeches of Lord Curzon and Mr. Bonar yaw.

Will tho Government tako the offered hand Tbe.ro is little doubt that public opinion will support thorn in doing so. The same public opinion, which had grown into tho habit of suspecting that there was a catch in any offer made by Mr. Lloyd George, wus no doubt behind the Government which refused the offer which he made at the beginning of the year at Cannes. Those personal doubts no longer hold to-day. And yet, although there is a change in the spirit of the pubiic, on cannot bo sure that tfiero is tho same change in that of M.

Point-are. At such i tho deduction which is drawn from his refusal to see M. de St. Aulairc on his recent visit to Paris, and still movu from his Kopuridious speech to the Senate on Thursday. As M.

Turdicu points out. in view of the constantly-changing aspect or i-no iieparuliuiis question, it is of little practical uso vehemently to repeat previous declarations or to refer to previous British refusals to support those declarations. No one. in Kuropo or America believes that France will use forces or that she will act alone. On the other hand, if tho threatening part, of tho spewh docs not carry much weight, with the intelligent, thero is general approval of thn plan to place nil outstanding questions together on tho table at the Brussels ('uiiferpneo.

Liberals would even go far as to include the Versailles Treaty among the question which oro open for complete discussion and revision. TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT. I'iin fact remains and it forgotten if we- are to must not understand French attitude to England that thero tiro two parties in French which are iriendiy to us, each in a ditlorent way. 'lhcro are tho Clemenc.ists, who regard us always as tho ally against (ieruuiuy. always tho enemy, and the liadi- tails, who would like to so an understanding with the Jtritish democracy, but ulso with tho democratic elcmrnts in every country.

In the last few days the Cleincncist has sullen little. M. Louchcdr's business-like speech in Hi Chamber marks a great step in the appreciation of economic and financial realities, and is; the boldest de-duration which ha: been made to the French public for many month. In spite of his hint at a prolonged jnccupniioii of the Rhine, which mny have en- connect! h- 'u! inn.nlitc tlixk what he said was that ltc.pu.rat ions arc only a part of F.uropean reconstruction. It might alnirist have been Mr.

Lloyd George at Genoa. The speech is no doubt a bid for the succession of M. Poinenre. and by it M. Lou-cheur probably replaces M.

Tardieu as first favourite. Its boldness in telling unpleasant truths was accepted tho more readily as this man of affairs gave his hearers the relief of saying that the truth was not so bad as thev had thought. The rapid rlw.lino of the franc, in Kpito of attempts to attribute it to sneen. lation and even to an international nlot to force France to give up her Reparations, has not inspired confidence, and the business world wanted comfort. A POSSIBLE FLECTION.

Tho next move is with M. Tardieu. Ho is credited with the intention of making a big on the Government's foreign policy next week. It may be doubted, however, whether either of thiwo champions will dislodge. M.

Poineare from tho saddlo. The attack of Tardieu which will equally be directed against the Radicals will even secure M. Poincare a certain amount of democratic support. Tho real change, tho change whieh will bring back the genuine. Radicals, will probably still have- to wait until the election of tho Chamber.

This should normally tako pluee early in 1924, but M. Potneard may possibly provoke an election; his argument that, Hie outgoing. Chamber will not have the fiscal courage to resist voting a budget of doles to officials and reduced taxation to their constituents, lint it will remain for him to ner- suadu the Chamber and tho Senate and the President for, of course, in France a Trimo Minister cannot dissolve on his own responsibility. The act is that re-cent developments in homo and foreign polities have made M. Poinenre far less a prisoner nf the Right than lie was.

The Wight nro attae.kin!7 him for refusing to dismiss Radical prefects on tho demand of the Clericals, and his support alike of M. Ilerriot's visit to Russia and M. Frutik'in-Houillon's friendship with Angora have brought, him Radical support. Dependence on this very support probably mokes him the more disinclined to appear to follow British policy in tho Near Fast. However, iu general, public opinion, which already disposed to support concessions at Constantinople in return for help on tho Rhine, is made even more friendly to Britain by tho insolence of Angora's demands.

This opinion only to-day realises tho importance attached by the British Government to tho need of presenting a united Allied front at tho Lausair i Conference, even to the point I oi i.ue ui.iisii delegates not. participating cannot bo secured befcrehand. M. Poin-carrVs haggling reply that the French delegates will, anyhow, leave for Lausanne tomorrow night, tbnt tho Conference must oren the as announced to the Turks, and that the conversations between the Allies can be held concurrently, with purely formal early meetings of tho Conference, is pro-bnblv far Ipsk generous than public sentiment would warrant. R.N.V.R.

WAR MEMORLAX. A memorial to those members of the Royal Naval Division yvho fell in France will bo unveiled to-day by Lieutenant-Colonel Gough at Boaucourt-snr-Auere. the depot yvhern the division lost very heavily. One hundred and fifty officers and men yvho served with the division are crossing to France to-night in order to be present at the ceremony. Lord Rother-mcre.

whose son. Lieutenant Harmsyvorth, R.K.V.R., was killed at Beaumont Hamel in November, 1916, is responsible for the memo-' rial. Mr. Haldane Macfall has written "The Book Lnvat Claude Fraser," which will be published by J. M.

Dent and Sons on the 22nd i list. PROHIBITION ISSUE. NO EFFECT ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, November 10. The results of tho election this week meant almost nothing as regards our foreign relations.

It is true that many Democrats were returned to power in place of Republicans, and it is also true that the League of Nations was in 1920 the chief part of the Democratic platform. But all this was in the past. Iu tho present campaign neither tho Lcasue of Nations nor foreign relations in the broadest sense, nor the debts due to us from Europe, nor any other aspect of foreign affairs, was an issue between the parties. In point of fact, some of tho most prominent of the Democrats who were returned to power are actually violently opposed to Wilson and tho League of Nations issue. The issues were wholly domestic, the reason a considerable number of Democrats from tho western part of tho country were swept into office is that in that agricultural section there is a good deal of economic distress, with the price of wheat and potatoes actually lower than they were in pre-war times.

Ten years ago this economic distress expressed itself politically in demands for Government credit, and to some extent in demands for financial panaceas relating to Currency. Out of this condition it may arise that in 1924 yve shall have a presidential campaign fought largely on an issue of cheap money, or fiat money of one sort or another. THE DRYS AND THE WETS." Another cause of the supplanting of Rennhllr'Titt bv DflmoiT.it. was thft nrollibition issue. JJroadlv speaking, the republicans are vegarded as the drv party and the Democrats as the wet!" The 'present very drastic law forbids the manufacture or sale of any beverage containing more than a half of 1 per cent, alcohol.

There is a considerable demand that this standard shall be raised to 2i uer cent. or even 3 ner cent. alcohol, so as to permit the sale of light wines and beers. Tho sentiment which demands this undoubtedly relaxation of the present riiriditv of the holic standard of what Americans may legally drink. To an almost negligible extent the tariff may count for a few of the Democratic victories.

The new Republican tariff, which is probably the highest we have ever had and the most protective to American products in its intent, went into effect only about October 1. It has not been operating long enough to create the dissatisfaction that doubtless will ullimately be felt about it. The tariff may readily figure as one of the chief issues in tho Presidential Election of 1924. PERSONAL ISSUES. Several of the results were largely personal.

Senator Reed, yvho is tho most conspicuous Democratic opponent of tho Ijeague of Nations and of an isolation policy for America, was returned to office as a personal tribute. So also was Senator Lafollette, of Wisconsin, yvho yvas one of the principal Republican opponents of the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. A few Senators and Congressmen yvere elected on the basis of their position on the proposal to pay a bonus to the soldiers of tho late yyar. Some 1 more results were affected by a wave of religious and racial prejudice which covers various parts of the country, and in which the anti-alien, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, and anti- negro sentiment is expressed by the curious secret organisation known as the Ku Klux Klan. Senator Lodge, tho present chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of tho Senate, is returned to office, although by a very narrow majority.

There will be no change in the foreign policies of the administration as a result of the election. Those policies will continue for two years and four months to be directed by Secretary Hughes and President Harding, and there is no suggestion of any change in the policy that has been olloyvcd for the past six months. INTERESTING WILLS. FORTUNES LEFT BY BREWER BOOKMAKER. AND Mr.

Henry Hart, of Hove, a partner in the firm of Joseph Thompson and commission agents, who died on October 0, left a fortune of 103,706, of which 96,909 is net personalty. Lady Georgiana Adelaide Peel, of Hampton Court Palace, yvho died on September 25, eldest daughter of the lato Lord John Russell, afterwards 1st Earl Russell, and widoyv of the lato Archibald Peel, left unsettled property of the value of 6,029. Mr. Eiveiyn anaw-iieiiier, o.r.. or vvoiver-hampton, a' partner of Messrs.

Simpson and brewers and maltsters, of who died on July 18 last, aged 61, left estate of the gross value of 256,934, with net per sonalty iZlU.Zlo. Mr. Alfred Martin, of Grantham, Lines, a sporting journalist, and formerly president of the National Union ot Journalists, who died on July 22, aged 56, left estate of the gross value o'f 836, with net personalty 747. A THRILL IN THE AUVERGNE. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich have just returned to Huntingdon from the Auvargne Mountains, where they had a thrilling escape from death.

They were motoring on a mountain road with many hairpin bends and precipices of three hundred feet on one side, when the brake rods snapped. When the chauffeur reversed the gear the axle connection broke, but ho managed to steer the car into a bank. GAS POISONING THROUGH RATS. A young Jersery srrvant girl named Lydia de Rue was found dead in bed yesterday. A gaspipe in a downstairs room was leaking, having been gnawed by rats.

Tho gas, rising into the bedroom, had poisoned the girl while she slept. REVOLVER WITH BLANK CARTRIDGES. When Fired Harrison (27), a commercial traveller, of Chucer-place, Bradford, Yorkshire, was at Bow-street yesterday with assaulting Marie Grafstern bv" pointing a revolver at her, and, further, with being in possession of a revolver without a police permit, tluo prosecutrix stated that just before midnight on Friday the accused, who was a stranger, accompanied her from Leicester-square to her flat in Mncclesfield-etreet, W.C. As she opened the flat door he immediately took the revolver from his hip-pocket, and pointing it at her face, tried to force her into her bedroom. A young woman from a lower flat came to her assistance and shouted for the police.

It was stated by the police that the revolver was loaded with blank cartridges. On -the charge of assault, i3x. Graham Campbell bound the defendant over in 5 to keep the peace, and for having no permit for the revolver he fined him 10, or one month's I i to 411 911 611 159 119 NET CURTAINS. to 159 to 21 9 169 196 pair. Reduced to 11 li- per yd.

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Republicans looted every shop in Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath, an iriaay nignt. Miss Coyle, the Republican prisoner at Bnllyshannon, is reported to be on hunger strike as a protest, against detention without a female attendant. The rail strike of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland was settled yesterday, and the men will return to work tomorrow. CHANAK: A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY.

WHY THE FRENCH WITHDREW. (By Oar Dlplomatlo Correspondent.) It is better to be accurate even about tho notorious Chanak incident, and tho lato Government's manifesto. There is a foreign1 as well as a domestic element in the controversy. It is still represented that the French withdrawal from Chanak was the result of the bellicose Churchill manifesto. Speaking in the French Chamber on Friday M.

Poincare himself gave it as the reason for the French evacuation that, according to the unanimous opinion of the French military and naval advisers, an isolated detachment at Chanak would bo incapable of resistance. What happened in chronological order was as follows General Pelle had in the week, September 916, sent a handful of French troojis with the French flag to Clianak, in order to engago French prestige in its defence. For that purpose a platoon was as good as an army corjs, fur the Turks would only have attacked the British if they could have counted on French defection. But General Pelle is a soldier and recks nothing of politics. He violated Article I.

of tho Angora agreement by sending French troops to Chanak. As soon as M. Poincare heard of it he ordered an immediate evacuation. That order was telegraphed from Paris on Friday, September 15, and the French Ambassador called at the Foreign Office in the morning of the following day Saturday) to inform the British Government of the fact. It was not till the afternoon of that day that the British manifesto was issued.

The manifesto was the result, not the cause, of the French evacuation of Chanak. SOLDIER'S PEACE CAMPAIGN. SIR IAN" HAMILTON AN'O FlUF.NDS." BRITAIN'S Cieneral Sir Ian Hamilton, sneaking last evening at the Working Mon's College. St. Pancras, said a natural and sensible way of making a Ijeague of Nations yvould bo to start by continents.

What Europe should have quickly yvas a true, full League of European Nations, where the or the. Bulgarian coidd state his case, get an international hearing, and then cast his vote. Had Europe been so organised six months ago. the Turkish trouble could hardly have assumod its present, dimensions. We must liurrv up.

or tho whole of the Balkans yvould acain be in a blaze. In Europe," proceeded Sir. Ian, we are surrounded by so-called friends who are enemies, and hy late enemies yvho are at least potential friends. Let us get right away from this ghastly and yvithdraw from a thoroughly unreal situation into the realms of reality. Have yv no friends? If not, let us hf honest and oyvn up to it.

Let us admit the fact, and pursue a really English policy, unhampered by inimical allies. Let us pave the way for real friends by a policy of isolation. American prestige was never higher than when Wilson spoke in a still small voice from over the water. It yvas never so low as during the hour before he quitted Europe. To-day by abstention the United States have already largely regained that prestige of which the personal presence and intervention of Wilson had robbed her.

After yvithdrayval comes co-operation. After co-operation, (Tie real community of interests and friendship. No other friendship is worth having." THE LATE REV. RICHARD MEDDINGS. The funeral service for the Rev.

Richard Meddings. Rector of Leo, yvho died on Wednesday at Tunbridge Wells at the age of sixty-eight, took place yesterday at St. Margaret's Church, Lee. The Bishop of Woohvich, the Rural Dean and the Vicar of Lewisham, and tho Rey. Rupert Williams, the senior curate, officiated.

The congregation included A6sheton-Poyvnall, the Conservative candidate for East Lewisham. The interment was at Hither Green Cemetery. The Bank of England having certified that the average rate of discount at which Treasury Bills were issued to the public during the half-year ended November 1 did not exceed 5J per cent, per annum, the Treasury give notice that no additional interest will be payable upon Treasury Bonds, 1935, on the next interest date, May 1, 1923. (Organised by the Hospitals of London Combined Appeal, under the auspices of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) IN AID OF OVER 100 HOSPITALS This big Competition, with, its splendid Prizes, has been made possible by the contributions and guarantees referred to below. The Competition has been organised to help to raise the last 100,000 of the 500,000 needed to clear the London Hospitals of debt.

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