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11 FEWER TROOPS AT CENOTAPH SERVICE. THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1929. LORD FISHER. MILL FIRE AT BRADFORD. NEW EVIDENCE AT READING.

CLIMAX OF PREMIER'S MISSION. Admiral Bacon's Life. -Two Big Warehouses Involved. WOOL STOCKS LOST. "All Disputes to be Settled by Pacific Means." MACDONALD-HOOVER STATEMENT, By HENRY W.

SETTS SON. Our Special Correspondent with the Premier's Party. Government's Desire to Emphasise Its Peaceful Nature." Youth's Statement on Day of Crime. STREET SCENES. Crowds Mob Actor Helpless Police.

THE ADMIRALTY AND THE WAR. In any case, this mission of the Premier has established true respect ARMS TO BE CARRIED AS USUAL. "Not in Keeping with Armistice Day to Parade Otherwise." urged Sir Laming Worfchington-Evans, then. War Minister, to adopt it. Sir Laming' reply was The Army Council consider that this ceremonv Washington, Wednesday Aftehnook.

The joint document from the Premier and the President is now issued. It justifies expectations accurately, though it is less detailed than was expected. The main substance having been written by the Premier, the statement naturally begins with an expression of pleasure at the welcome given to him, which has certainly been extraordinary throughout. No one supposed that the conversations would dwell much upon naval details as the document shows, the means of increasing moral force for peace in both countries was the chief object, so as to contribute to the supreme problem of peace involving all other nations. Accordingly the Kellogg Pact or Peace Pact of Paris is first insisted upon as imposing positive obligations.

Since this pact was evolved in America the objection which is felt hero to any reference to the League of Nations is mitigated. Here our main difference in national outlook is revealed, because America dreads entanglement with European countries or questions, whereas Britain must necessarily co operate with the policies of the Continent at her doors. It seems to have been a mistake even to introduce the word unthinkable, so long hackneyed and abused, while all the admirals at Geneva were thinking of war between our two countries and of nothing else. But it is some gain to hear that all outstanding questions may now be considered actively without arousing distrust or suspicion. From thiB new angle and new atmosphere the joint document hopes for a complete change in the meaning and character of all mutual problems, and the two Governments will continue to follow the method of conversations as carried on last Bummer in London.

Naval Reduction. As to the minor immediate point of naval reduction, the principle of equality is again affirmed, not only in mass or global tonnage, but by separate categories of ships, which markB a great advance upon Geneva. At the same time it is satisfactory to learn that all other nations concerned have been kept informed, and are now invited to the January Conference, where one can only hope 3imilar goodwill may prevail, JOINT REPORT ON THE CONVERSATIONS. 200 People Thrown Out ol Work. (From our Correspondent.) Bradfosd, Wednesday.

A large portion of the premises of Messrs. Illingworth, Wood, and a branch of Wool Combers, Sydney Works, Fairweather Green, Bradford, was destroyed by fire to-night. The outbreak began in the engine-room, and despite the efiorts of the house fire brigade the names spread to the adjoining wash-house and to the large warehouse in which many thousands of tons of wool were stored. This wool warehouse is six floors in height, and all the floors were soon burning fiercely. Within an hour the fire had spread to an adjoining wool warehouse, and at a late hour this also was The second warehouse is also sii.

storeys high, and, like the other, is over 100 feet in length. The first warehouse is 30 feet wide, but the second "has an extension 100 feet long and 60 feet wide runninc at risht angles to it, and the fire was creeping towards this building at about 10 30. The combing shed and other eheds of one floor, which lie at right angles to the larger building, seemed secure against the fire, but the brigade could not prevent the burning out of the main building. It was reported eoon after the city fire brigade arrived that a horse was locked in the stables near the wool warehouse, and Police Superintendent Johnson, when the door was unlocked, went in and brought out the horse. Thursday, 1 a.m.

At midnight, although portions of the building were still burning, the brigade had got the fire under control and the gi eater part of the second portion of the warehouse was saved, as also were the combing sheds and other sheds in which machinery is installed. The damage will run into five figures, and about 200 people will be out of work. A report of the destruction of the ancient church of Howden by fire is given on page 4. 101 TESTS AGAIN POSTPONED. Shed-Bound by Cross Wind.

(From our Aviation Correspondent.) Cardixgton, Wednesday. After a very wild night last night there was a wonderful change in the weather this morning, and a beautiful sunrise was witnessed by those who went to the Royal Airship Works at Cardinstton in the hopes or seeing 101 taken out of its shed. The wind, however, though not strong, was blowing across the shed, and that made it impossible to attempt to bring the airship out. A wind which blows along tne line oi tne snea wouia nos matter unless it were quite strong, but a cross wind puts a stop to everything. The weather got worse during the day, and at 10 a.m.

it was announced that the ship would not leave her shed to-day. In the afternoon, however, the Meteorological Office was able to announce the probability that tomorrow morning will be more favourable than any day has been for the last week. The town of Bedford is full of excite ment, and everywhere one hears dis cussions as to when the airship will be moored to the tower. It is stranere. however, that amone the neonle to whom I have spoken on the subiect none seemed to realise that the success of the two experimental airships would result in making Cardinston the starting-point for Canada.

India. Smith Africa, and ultimately Australia and jNew Zealand, LANDING PARTY KEPT IN READINESS. The Air Ministry last night received me iouowmg message irom Uarding-ton weather conditions doubtful. Vmf landing party standing by to take advantage if suitable conditions prevail in the morning. A further review of weather conditions will be made about 2 30 a.m OVERHEAD ELECTRIC WIRES.

Brighton-Hastings Scheme Approved. After careful consideration of the report of the inquiry held on September 11 last, and subsequent days, into the application made by the Central Elec tricity Board for consent to the erection of an overhead transmission line from Briehton to HastinEra. via Easthmimo i Minister of Transport has decided to give his consent to the erection of the line along the route proposed, subject to further consideration being given to the position of the line and its supports to the immediate south-west and south-east of Offham village, and subject also to the reservation of a power to review the situation at any time after the expiration of a period of five years. The scheme had been criticised on the grounds that the overhead wires and their supports would disfigure the counirysice. "DISASTROUS FOR Mayor of Eastbourne Shocked at the Decision.

The Mayor of Eastbourne, Lieutenant Colonel R. V. Gwynne, interviewed last night regarding the Minister's decision, said: "I am shocked to hear it. I cannot express to you how worried I am. It seemed to be that the bulk of the evidence at the Ministry of Transport inqury was against allowing the Una to be erected.

I am afraid it is only the beginning of the end, for the board's proposals are not going to end with this line. They are going to extend in all directions, and when they have finished the country will be nothing but a huge bird-cage. In addition to spoiling the beauty of the country, the scheme will rain the rateable value. This part of the world is definitely against the schema. In.

my memory it is the most disastrous "ling which has ever happened to There is hardly a single naval biography that is not worth reading, and when its subject is a man of the calibre of Fisher not even the veriest incompetent could fail to make that particular biography fascinating. And Admiral Bacou is no incompetent. Purely as a technician he is a highly accomplished biographer a careful investigator, a discreet hero-worshipper, a dignified and serious writer who can attain sudden heights of pungent analysis or brilliant description. One believes at least Lord Fisher would have approved his book except, perhaps, some oi tne discretions, and that is praise enough. The naval expert may he trusted to express his own case, and Admiral Bacon has given him all the documents.

The patriotic citizen may, how ever, reasonably complain that Admiral Bacon has not said, enough. No doubt there was, from his point of view as a member of the Senior Service, need for reticence, but others who seek to learn for their country's good may well differ. If the last war was the last war, only private feelings will be hurt by revelations if it is not the last, then no knowledge of any kind should be withheld if the next is to be a less muddled business. For it is idle to nretend that the war pages are not the most interesting to the war generation at least of Admiral Bacon volumes. In August, 1914.

Fisher was in retirement after years of fierce controversy. From the national point ot view his tenure ot office meant that in 1914 the navy was equal to and ready for its task; from Fisher's it may well have seemed, that the net result was that a single-minded patriotic public servant, after doing the. State much service, was livinac in retirement under a cloud. It is offcea said, as if Fisher were a Henry Wilson, that he disliked politicians. Fisher did not dislike classes of men; he disliked men who did not fight who could not make up their minds, whose judgment was deflected by opposition, warped by considerations of expediency, or clouded bv.

self-sufficiency, and in his epoch-making period of office at the Admiralty he found ti.at a number of politicians ucre of these types. The We want eight controversy at least left him with a genuine admiration only for one of them Mr. MeKenna. If the chief opposition against him was the work of a cabal of admirals and duchesses Admiral Baron is very definite but very fair on Beresford, politicians did their share, and in retirement Fisher could not forget that if the bulk of the nation, with its curious instinct for a right opinion, tniBted him, there was a large section to whom he -was a shameless, arrogant, militarist, fit only, for internment in a Pasteur institute, and. another and more influential section to which he was a pro-German who ought to be hanged at his.

own yardarm" for doing his best to ruin the navy. He was pursued even in retirement with positive malignancy, and to many it must have seemed that his career was over. A Memorable Return. But it was the despised politicians who held that his career was not over, and it was fated that a chief enemy in the earlier controversy was to be the instrument of his return. Since 1911 war had.

become if not a certainty at least a likely contingency, and when it came it found a badly rattled Admiralty. Mr. Churchill as First Lord did not pull with his Board the First Sea Lord. Prince Louis, was roundly declared to be a pro-German the fighting admirals save one were Fisher's men, and that one was connected -with a failure, and outside was Fisher in full enjoyment of the public confidence and with all his critical faculties unimpaired. For months the Government had sought to bring the lost sheep back to the fold, and now it succeeded.

Fisher returned as First Sea Lord to work with his old enemy. Mr. Churchill has been praised for his courage in taking Fisher back. It would have needed more courage to have left him outside. The conduct of the naval war in the early, days of the war was deplorable; public confidence was shaken, and it was an elementary bit of strategy to bring into the camp the one man who might have crystallised that shaken confidence into confident opposition.

Fisher's motives in accepting) one may believe, were purely patriotic apart from a very human satisfaction. He believed he could be of service, but he did not lay down the conditions of the possibility of such service perhaps out of that curious, sense of gratitude to Mr. Churchill till it was too late. The state of things at the Admiralty is very fairly summed up by Admiral Bacon after a peculiarly able analysis of as First Lord: We gather from the World Crisis that Mr. Churchill looked on Lord Fisher as an old man, but at the time time genius whose brain could be used with advantage but whose will he could mould to his pur poses fey appeals to his patriotism and by subtle cajolery.

Lord Fisher, on the other hand, had been in constant communication with Mr. Churchill for the previous two years, and had given him much valuable advice both before and also on the outbreak of war. Without doubt he, too, thought that he was strong enough to manage this young enthusiast and to carry on the work with him as he had done with previous First Lords. Both proved to be mistaken. That explains one side cf the Dardanelles tragedy, round which the whole story turns.

Fisher's presence as the Admiralty turned dilatormesa and weakness into swift action and confidence, and resulted almost at once ia the one really decisive naval action, in the war the Falklands. It may be that he himself realised he was too late. His old plans had all been based on instant action, and there is no doubt that had he been in control in August instant action somewhere would have been taken. Such action the enemy expected which explains in some de- free their strategy and, knowing that, isher saw that the essential element, omuija, AIM gVUG. ttUUUII COUlOl still be taken.

In the true tradition he was a partisan of amnhibionn wai1- had raised his voice, a -rather lone, prophet, against tying the British arniy tnnr.n, numiUT. or THK JCwo- ol. London Hoddw and and agreement between the heads of the two most powerful countries of the world, who are pledged to maintain peace not only with each other but throughout the world, so far as in them lies. This document represents the climax and the upshot of the visit, and all but a very few naturally hostile elements and papers are satisfied with the result so far. Details must be left to the Five-Power Conference.

The troubles to be encountered there are obvious, but the close union between ourselves and the United States will prove a strong argument even against the most obstructive Power. PREMIER ON SUCCESS. HIS "More than I Hoped." Washington, Wednesday Evening. The Premier this evening issued the following message to British correspondents: I have achieved more than I hoped. The one thing ever possible from a short visit like this was to get into personal contact with the President, and to get it definitely stated in a common pronouncement that Anglo-American policy would be conducted on the assumption that war between us was impossible, and that our naives would not come into conflict with each other.

We have both reiterated," he continued, "not only our adhesion to the Pact of Peace, but wo have announced to the world that we are going to apply it in our practical policy. We have agreed to keep the Peace Pact constantly in front of us, and to use it for the purpose of coming to agreements upon subjects that have defied agreement hitherto. In consequence of that I take with me to London a series of questions, all of which will now be subject to Etudy by the departments concerned, and between the Dominions and ourselves, with the object of coming to an agreement upon them These documents make a revolution in international affnirs. All this has been arrived at not for the purpose of dividing America and our selves from the rest of the world, but rather to enable each of us to be more effective than ever in co-operating with the other nations to establish security of peace." Peace Pact, must now cease to influence cur national policy. We approach the old historical problems from a new angle and in a new atmosphere.

On the assumption that war between tin Vina henn banished and that conflicts between our military or naval forces cannot take place, these problems have changed their neaning and character, and their solu tion in ways satisfactory to both countries has become possible. We have agreed that those questions should become the subject of active consideration between us. They involve important technical matters requiring detailed stud. One of the hopeful results of the visit which i now terminating officially has been that our two Governments will begin conversations upon them, following the same method as that which has been pursued during the summer in London. The exchange of views of naval reduction has brought the two nations so close, to agreement that the obstacles ia previous, conferences arising out of Anglo-American disagreements seem nav to be substantially removed.

We have kept the nations which took part in the Washington Naval Conference in 1922 informed of the progress of our conversations, and we have now proposed to them that we should meet together and try to come to a common agreement which would justify each in making substantial naval reductions. An agreement on naval armaments cannot be completed without the co-operaiisn of the other naval Powers, and both of us feel Bure that by the same free and candid discussion of each country's needs which has characterised our conversations such mutual understandings will be reached as will make naval agreement next January possible, and thus remove this serious obstacle to the progress of world disarmament. Between row and tho meeting of the proposed conference in January our Governments will continue their conversations with tho other Powers concerned in order to remove as tnnnv H-'fflonltioo possible before the official "formal negotia- ia view oi tne security afforded by the Peace Pact wc have been able to end, we trust for ever, all competitive building between ourselves, with tho nsk of war and the waste of public money involved, by agreeing to a parity of our fleets, category by category. Success at the coming conference will result in a large decrease in the naval equipment of the world and, what ia equally important, the reduction of prospective programmes of construction which would otherwise produce competitive building tt an indefinite amount. We hope and believe that the steps we have taken will be warmly welcomed by the people whom we represent as a substantial contribution to the efforts universally made bv all the nations to gain security for peace not by military organisation, but peaceful means rooted in public' opinion and enforced by a sense of justice in the civilised world.

Further reports on page A5. A GOODWILL GESTURE Mr. MacDonald and' British Naval Bases. (Reuters Nsw York, Wednesday. According to the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post' Mr.

MacDonald will probably offw to demilitarise the naval bases, oi Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, nd Halifax as a goodwill gesture The adjournment of 'the inquest on the Beading shopkeeper last night was marked by street scenes more extraordinary than any that had previously occurred during the seven days which the inquiry has lasted. The crowd outside the Town Hall, numbering some hundreds, cheered as Mr. Philip Yale Drew, the American actor who has figured so prominently in the hearing, appeared on the stairway. Women rushed forward, past the police, into the main entrance and gripped Mr. Drew'a hands and the hands of Mr.

and Mrs. Lindo, his colleagues on the stage. A dozen police made a pathway. The crowd pressed forward, and for a moment the police -were helpless. Eventually Mr.

Drew was carried by six constables and then escorted to the end of the street, the crowd surging round him. In Station Road, where Mr. Drew's hotel is situated, a crowd greater than ever waited to see him. Women tried to throw their arms around his neck. Thank you a thousand Mr.

Drew repeated. It took him at least hve minutes to make nis-way, with- the assistance of the stone balustrade, to the doorway. For a moment he stood with tears in his eyes as a creat cheer went up from the crowd. Then he passed insidS. There were similar scenes in the moraine as Mr.

Drew emerged from his hotel to go to the inquest. People struggled with each other to pat him on the back and shake his hand, and a bouquet of roses was handed to him by Miss Lily Burn, an elderly woman, who said she had come from London and was gifted with spiritual influence, which had forced her to go to Jtteaaing. Surprising Development. There was a surprising development in the inquest proceedings last evening. At the eleventh hour Mr.

Pearnley Whittingstall, who is watching the proceedings on behalf of Mr. Drew, called a young shop assistant named Wells to give evidence. Wells spoke or seeing in a calc on tne morning oi the crime a man whose appearance in many respects resembled the man identified by other witnesses as Mr. Drew. Again in the evening, a short time before the crime was committed, he saw him loitering not far from the shop of Mr.

Oliver (the man who was attacked). i There was tense silence in the crowded court when! Mr. Whittingstall, speaking quietly, asked Wells if he recognised the man again, and requested Mr. Drew to stand up. Mr.

Drew rose smartly, and looked at Wells, who. after pausing for a moment, said: Sit down, Mr. Drew. No, thank you." I Thank you," exclaimed Drew. There was further surprise when the Coroner, referring to the fact, that Wells said he.

had told the police of the man he had seen, declared it was strange that the police had no record of the statement. Mr. Whittingstall asked WellB: Very well, then. Do you swear you made that statement? Wells announced dramatically I do, by Almighty God. Do you swear you made it to Sergeant Colbert?" the Coroner asked, and Wells replied: 11 1 do." New Statement Produced.

Sergeant Colbert was called, and stated that on the night of the murder he had more people coming into the station and making statements than he could remember. He did not recall Wells coming in. A moment or two later a paper was handed up to the Coroner from the table at which the Chief Constable and the detectives were sitting. The Coroner, glancing at it, remarked, This clears it up," and passed it to the Sergeant, saying I think this is the statement you took." As Sergeant -Colbert left the box there was a hum in court which brought a rebuke from the Coroner. Earlier in the day Mr.

Drew had spent a considerable time in the witness-box answering questions by the Coroner, which were mainly directed to the disappearance of the pair of bhie trousers referred to in Mr. Drew's evidence of the previous day. Asked if he had any theory regarding the disappearance at Heading, and the reappearance at St. Albans, of these trousers. Mr.

Drew renlied I have no knowledge." The Coroner asked Did you suspect the theft of those trousers 1" What elae 1 Drew akpd in turn. and a little later described the incident as most peculiar. The Coroner -will sum up this mornin Cleaner's Green Tab. Scotland Yard yesterday issued a photograph of the green linen tab which was attached to the blue trousers belonging to Mr. Drew.

This tab was the one which the Beading coroner referred to on Tuesday, when he asked the press to assist the police in tracing the cleaners. Mr. Drew saw a performance of ''Cooee." the revue at the Palace Theatre, Bending, last night, sharing a box with Mr. and Mrs. Lindo.

He sat well back in the box, but was recognised when he left, and was followed by a number of people to his hotel. Chief Inspector Berrett and Sergeant Harris, of Scotland Yard, with Chief Constable Burrows, saw "Dracula" at the County Theatre, where Mr. Drew appeared in The LFuH report on page 6. FOREIGN TELEGRAMS ON PAGE 15. Premier's Last Day in Washington.

World Bank and Competition. Cancer Deaths in France. A League War on Russia? "Gold Made Gut of Lead." M. Hex-riot and the JUS; of Europe, In view of the criticisms, notably from Labour and religious quarters, of the Armistice Day ceremonial, which, in their view, is too militarist in character, there has "been a good deal of speculation as to whether the new Labour Government would amend to any considerable extent the procedure that has been pursued since November 11, 1919. The Home Office last night answered the question in the following official statement "In the celebration of Armistice Day it is the wish of the Government that greater prpminence should be given to the civilian aspect of the Cenotaph service.

The Government are fully alive to the importance of fostering in every way possible the new spirit of international peace and goodwill and they feel considerable sympathy with the suggestion which has been made that the troops on duty should be unarmed. On the other hand, it must be remembered that the purpose of the annual service at the Cenotaph is to pay a tribute primarily to the memory of those whose death the Cenotaph commemorates the sailors, soldiers, and airmen who lost their lives in the war. It is therefore particularly appropriate and fitting that this service should be attended by representative detachments from the Navy, the Aimy, and the Air Force. "After the most careful consideration the Government have decided that it would not be in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion if the Service detachments were to parade otherwise than in full dress, and they feel confident that this decision will be in harmony vith tho feelings of the majority of the nation. These detachments will therefore be dressed and armed as is customary on ceremonial occasions.

"In order, however, to emphasise the peaceful and civilian nature of the ceremony, the Government have decided to reduce the Beivice personnel on duty at the Cenotaph to the smallest number compatible with an adequate representation of the three A year ago the suggestion was made that the troops should parade without arms, and two Labour members Mr. Thurtle and Commander Kenworthy RIMA TARRED AND FEATHERED. Epstein Work Subject of Outrage. Epstein's sculpture Eima, which forms the memorial to W. H.

Hudson, the naturalist, in Hyde Park, has been defaced with tar and feathers. The discovery was made early yesterday morning by a policeman, who also found a galvanised iron pail which had contained the tar. This is tho second outrage which the memorial has been subjected to Bince it was erected a few years ago. After the unveiling by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, then frmie a fierce controversy broke out as to the suitability of the memorial a panel in bronze containing a figure of liima with flying birds about her and this resolved itself into one of the periodical attacks on iipstein's art.

Later, some persons, whose identity was never discovered, coated tho panel with thick green paint, and traces of this remained in spite of the efiorts of the Office of orks staff to remove it. The latest outrage recalls a similar case last August when Sir George Framp- ton 6 Jreter "an statue in Kensington Gardens was tarred and feathered. A large number of people visited the disfigured memorial during the day. The tarpaulin-covered scaffolding erected i ound it hid it from public view. Behind tho seaffoldine were workmen encaeed on the task of cleaning the tar from the bronze panel.

It was stated last night that the task will be difficult, and will take some time. A policeman stationed at Hyde Park patrolled near the memorial till the nark was shut at midnieht. There is still no information as to the identity of the per son or persons wno perpetrated tne outrage. POLICEMEN TO PAY DAMAGES. House Searched Without Warrant.

Judgment for 75 damages was given at Newcastle County Court yesterday against two police "officers who, it was contended, entered a house illegally. Mk. Moll, of North Parade, Whitley Bay, sued Sergeant Goodfellow and Constable McKane, of the Northumberland County Police, claiming 100. She said that at 12 30 one morning she was aroused from bed by the banging of the door. The door was forced open and Goodfellow and McKane asked many questions, one being whether there was a man in the house.

Tiiis she regarded a stigma on her character. She had just taken the house over and that day had been papering it. She stayed there that night alone. The officers, giving evidence, stated that they believed the house was empty, and that thev had been informed there might be a man in the house for an unlawful nurnose. When they saw Mrs.

Moll in possession of the house they apologised. They never made the slight est suggestions against His. Aloii phntaeter. Giving his decision, Judge Greenwell said that police officers who went outside the law and- searched a bouse without a warrant most pay lor it should be accorded the highest military Honours, ana tne army tnereiore parades in full dress with arms." EX-SERVICEMEN'S VIEWS. One Advantage of the Decision.

From time to time efforts have been made by various bodies to have the civilian rather than the military side of the celebration emphasised. At Bristol the Free Church Council last month requested that all celebrations, and partic ularly that at the Cenotaph, ehould be of a civilian and religious character instead of being made the occasion of a military display. Mr. Laurence Housman, the author, was one of the agitators last year for a Cenotaph service without a display ot arms. He declarwl, If the arms carried by the troops at the service have to be used again in a European war the Cenotaph stands for a sacrifice made in vain.

Armistice Bay ought to mean a communal expression of the country's desire for peace to be permanent." lieutenant Colonel G. R. Croefield, the chairman of the British Legion, commenting to a reporter on the Government's announcement, said that in any case tho representatives of the British Legion would attend in civilian dress. So far as the presence of Service troops in full dress is concerned," he added, all the British Legion desireB is that the occasion should be marked with duo reverence, and that no part of the solemnity of the service should be relinquished. The complete absence of troops in uniform would be strongly resented, as would any attempt to interfere with or minimise the solemnity of the occasion.

We cannot cavil, however, with a reasonable reduction of troops, because it would at least enable ex-servicemen and people who have lost loved ones iu tho war to attend in greater strength and to obtain places nearer the CAR'S CRASH INTO A LORRY. Two Women Killed. A saloon car containing three women and a man crashed into the rear of a stationary lorry on the Barnet by-pass road at North Minima, Herts, last night, and was completely wrecked. Two of the women were killed immediately, and the man and other woman were removed in a serious condition to Hertford Hospital. kuicq were mrs.

Janet liiuaoetn Birch, of Lorraino House, Acre Lane, Wallington, Suirey, and Mrs. Kate C'ort-rieht Birch, ot Waxholme. Filev. Mr. John Kenneth Beaufoy Birch, of Lorraine wauimrton husband of Mrs.

Janet Birch), and Miss Dorothy Feather-htone, of Woxholme. were seriouslv injured. Mr. Birch was driving the car towards London accompanied bv his wife. Mrs.

Kate Birch (his aunt), and Miss catnerstone. The lorry, which had been travelling in the same direction, driven by Mr. A. C. Bcoth, of South Kirkby.

Poniefract, had pulled up to the side of the road. The driver of the lorry said to a roporter: I had not had my lights on long, and noticed that tliey were not fully efficient. I pulled into the side of the' road and asked my mate Wilt red Welsh, of Shafton, near Barnsley, a lad of fourteen see tne rear light was alight, and he found it was all fight. I also cot out of the loiry and was opening the oattery-case when heard a terrific crash, and running to the rear of the lorry found me car weagea, partly ueneath the offside of the Mr. Birch is a retired commander and is a well-known Citv man Besides beinc a director of John Birch and Limited, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C., he is on the board of Birch.

Marr, and Co Limited, and Light Hallways. Limited. It was stated at the hospital last niaht that the injured w-re Fufferinc from severe shock, but that the extent of their injuries had not been ascertained. MISSILE THROUGH CARRIAGE WINDOW. Footballers' Escape.

A remarkable incident marked the journey of the Stoke City football team to London yesterday to play Tottenham Hotspur in the Second Division of the League. As the train in which they wer travellintr was cissinc through North Wembley a bullet or pellet struck players, ana splintered glass new in all directions. The missile nassed between the heads of Charles Wilson, the Stoke centre forward, and James Yallance, the Stoko trainer, who were playing a game ot cards, mere was no indication of the origin of the missile, which it is though' might have been the pellet of an air (run. The matter was reported to the guard of the train, and taken np by the railway authorities on the teams arrival at Euston. It is understood that the police are oi opinion max a peuet was fired from an air gun by a mischievous youth.

After having been in abeyance for 20 years the cnBtom of ringing the curfew bell at Poole was revived last night. The bell is rung from the parish, church, of St. James. (Press Association Foreign Special.) Washington, Wednesday. The following statement was issued simultaneously at the British Embassy and at the White House for publication to-morrow morning The visit of the British Premier to Mr.

Hoover, which has now terminated, had as its chief purpose the making of personal contacts which will be fruitful in promoting friendly and frank relations between the two countries. Both the President and the Prime Minister are highly gratified by the keen interest which the people of both countries have taken in their meeting, and regard it as a proof of the strong desire of both nations to come to a closer understanding. The British Prime Minister has been particularly impressed and gratified by the warmth of his welcome and by the flood of expressions of goodwill which have been poured upon him. At the moment of his leaving Washington the following joint statement is issued During the last few days we have had an opportunity in the informal talks in which we have been engaged, not only to review the conversations on the naval agreement which have been carried on during this summer between us, but also to discuss some of the more important means by which the moral force of our countries can be exerted for peace. We have been guided by the double hope of settling our own differences on naval matters and so establishing unclouded goodwill, candour, and confidence between us and also.

of contributing something to the solution of the problem of peace in which all other nations are interested, and which calls for their cooperation. In signing the Paris Peace Pact, fifty-six nations have declared that war shall not be used as an instrument of national policy. We have agreed that all disputes eball be eettled by pacific means. Both our Governments resolve to accept the Peace Pact not only as a declaration of our good intentions but as a positive obligation to direct our national policy -a accordance with its pledge. The part of each of our Government in the promotion of world peace will be different as one will never consent to become entangled in European diplomacy, and the other ia resolved to pursue a policy of active co-operation with, ite Erropean neighbours, bnt each of oar Governments will direct its thoughts and influence toward securing and maintaining the peace of the world.

Our conversations have been largely ccsfined to the mutual relatione of the two countries in the light of the situation created by the signature of the Peace Pact. Therefore, in a new and reinforced sense, the two Governments not only declare that war between them is unthinkable, bnt that distrusts and' sos-p ideas arising from doubts and' fears, which may have been justified beforothe Vp. xxvui. 312; vui. 328.

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