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THE EVENING STANDARD Monday December 4 1922 High Tide London Bridge to-morrow 29 232 VILLAGE WEDDING STRAITS PLANS £6000 DAMAGES FOR DOCTOR LONDON BATTLE STRAND WAR SCENES: PHINEAS RECAPTURED ARMLESS BATTERED TROY STRATEGY OF UC the steps and was the centre of a mass of human beings surging and writhing like eels A shout went up and there was held aloft an arm torn from its socket But it was the red and black painted arm of Phineas who had been dismembered in the struggle The University College men had laid their plans carefully They now emulated the wooden liorse strategy at the siege of Troy There drove up to the gate and were admitted by the liolice two huge furniture vans each drawn by two horses But the College men were not to be deceived and before the doors at the back of the vans were opened detachments had surged THEM TO ALL LAUSANNE DEBATE COMMENT ON TURK SILENCE Discussion of the future of the Straits began at Lausanne to-day when the Conference entered on a crucial stage This vital question came before Number i Commission on territorial and military questions The Russian delegates including Chicherin and Rakowski were present Close the Chicherin (telegraphs Reuter) said that Russia had cancelled all the agreements giving her Constantinople He had no idea of consenting to any arrangement which was directed against the security of Russia The Straits were important for her economic life and the Straits must be closed for warships) for her protection Both Russia and Turkey he said depended upon this solution He declared that the safety of Constantinople was only to be assured by closing the Straits It was necessary that the present situation should be replaced as soon as possible by a permanent settlement Duoa (Rumania) was ready to agree to disarmament on the Black Sea while Stambuliski (Bulgaria) consented to the establishment of a system which would assure freedom of passage for merchant ships in peace or war Turkish Silence Lord Curzon in his remarks upon the unreadiness of tho Turks to state the'ir case before tho Commission declared that Russia had put forward a complete and careful scheme It was remarkable that such a programme could be put forward by Russia while Turkey refused to speak The meeting has on the whole left a favourable impression The commission heard three proposals the Belgian the Rumanian and the Russian The Turks supported the Russian proposal excluding warships from the Black Sea and leaving the guardianship of the Straits in the hands of the Turks in other words a return of the policy of Tsarist Russia The Turks were not ready fully to state their case which elicited the rebuke from Lord Curzon The Commission adjourned to examine the various proposals and to give time to the Turks to formulate their reply INJURIES RECEIVED IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT UNABLE TO PRACTISE Mr Justice Rowlatt in the Bench Division to-day awarded Dr James Dunlop residing at the Onslow Court Hotel South Kensington j(6ooo damages in respect of personal injury arising out of a railway accident Defendants were the Midland Railway Co ease was that a bone at the back of his neck was broken when the train in which he was travelling from Upminster to London collided with another train near Barking on Deeember 8 1920 He had continued his practice for ten days after the aeoident but eventually was obliged to throw it up altogether because of the condition in which he found himself Lord Dawson of Wimpole-street was one of the medical advisers who gave evidence that Dr Dunlop would he unable to resume practice again Sir Charles Ballance who gave evidence for the defendants expressed the view that plaintiff was suffering from neurasthenia and would improve considerably SAVED HIS LIFE POISON PACT IN WOOD MAN SENTENCED A sequel to what has been known as a suicide pact between a Lancashire man and a Yorkshire woman was witnessed at Guildford Assizes to-day when Albert Mills (43) whist drive promoter of Bolton and Dorothy Spring (27) assistant of Grimsby were indicted for attempted suicide The couple had known each other for five years In October Mills was charged with assaulting a girl of seven He absconded to London where he met Spring The two there agreed to end their lives They went to a wood near Aldershot and there Ihe drank a glass of beer containing 25 tablets of veronal and the girl drank two drams of nux vomica Four Nights in Wood The man became unconscious hut the woman regained consciousness and for four nights and three days in bitterly cold weather although lightly clad she remained with Mills in the wood endeavouring to restore him to consciousness When he was found he was apparently dead hut he recovered in hospital The judge sentenced Mills to 14 imprisonment in the Second Division expressing the opinion that he must have been practically out of his mind as a result of the charge at Bow-street Spring who undoubtedly saved life was bound over for twelve months HOUSES AT ONCE WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED AT BRIGHTON Brighton unemployed met to-day when a deputation was appointed to call on the Unemployment Committee of the Corporation The men marched in a body to the Town Hall and the deputation was introduced to the committee Mr Cowley the leader afterwards told the men that several schemes had been discussed and that a start was to be made at once with the erection of 112 houses on the Park Estate The men dispersed in an orderly manner REPLIES FROM ITALY AND BELGIUM A reply has now been received from the Belgian Prime Minister intimating that he will be able to take part in the proposed London conference of Premiers provisionally fixed for next Saturday and Sunday The Italian Prime Minister has written expressing willingness to take part but he hoped that the meeting place would be nearer Rome But it is believed that when the Italian Premier realises that Mr Bonar Law cannot well leave London at present he will endeavour to reach London at the end of the week BROTHER BROTHER When George Holderness (21) as charged at Acton to-day with stealing fowls from the yard of a public-house his brother said that defendant brought the fowls to his shed saying he would leave them there until lie could find a bidder The birds however were returned later A remand was ordered The woman whose body was recovered from the sea at Brighton yesterday was this afternoon identified as Mrs Mary Reade wife of a time-keeper on the Dmdnn and South Western Railway at Eastleigh PICTURESQUE SCENES BRIDE A WAR WIDOW CROWDED CHURCH There was excitement this afternoon in the picturesque little Bucks village of Denham for at the old Norman church of St Lord Plunket married Mrs Barnato the daughter of the actress Miss Fanny Ward and the widow of Captain Jack Barnato The bridegroom is 23 the same age as the bride Lady Veronica Blackwood daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava came from school to be chief bridesmaid and the quartette was completed by Miss Patricia Lyon a oousin and the Misses Diano and Virginia Barnato long before the time fixed for the ceremony a crowd began to gather and by two the cnurcli was packed while the village was thronged with motorcars Among those in the church were the Marquess of Dufferin the Marchioness of Salisbury Lady Victoria Braithwaite (mother of the bridegroom) and Colonel Braithwaite the Hon Ivy Plunket the Hon Moyra Plunket the Hon Mrs Whitborne the Hon Mrs Plunket Lady Langford Lady Carson Lady'Carnoofc Lady Hermione Blackwood Lady Maureen Stanley and Viscountess Novar The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Tuani assisted by the Rev Battiseombe Rector of Denham KILBURN DRAMA DEATH AFTER ALLEGED ATTACK ON SWEETHEART At a late hour last night Cissie Pomeroy aged 18 of Hartland-road Kilburn was saying goodnight to her Roy Bar-tholomey aged 20 of Kcnilworth-road Kilburn when she is alleged to have suddenly produced a razor and attacked him about the face then turned the razor on herself and cut her throat dying almost immediately Her body lies in the Kilburrf Mortuary awaiting an inquest The young injuries are serious A neighbour- stated that before the tragedy took place she heard excited talk outside the house as though there might have been a quarrel It has been known for some time among the young friends that the couple did not get on well together He had spent the evening at her house and the tragedy happened just as he was going home (Cheers atid a Labour Member: Who brought you and another Labour Member The Prime Minister brought them Sir Montague Barlow then suggested that ho would undertake to make inquiry into the circumstances and if a question were put down to-morrow and next day he would give the fullest answer in his power Mr Lansbury after further questions had been asked speaking amid some interruption said A number of men arrived in London to-day' There is no place for them to go If they break windows you will be the first to say they should not do so You are driving the rnen to Sir Montague Barlow repeated his promise to make further inquiry and the matter was allowed to drop The presentation of the Importation of Animals Bill was the next business and Mr Jack Jones said Hear hear Look after the animals! INDUSTRIES ACT SIR ARGUMENTS FOR REPEAL Sir John Simon resumed the debate on the Address by moving an amendment calling for tne repeal of the Safe guarding of Industries Act He contended that it was not a ques tion of Free Trade or Protection hich he was asking the House to consider but simply a practical question in the light of experience of the working of the Act which had operated so badly If they could prove that the Orders under the Act were operating badly and against the national interest there was no reason why those Free Traders who had supported the legislation should not now join in demanding iLj repeal Since the motion was put down said Sir John he had ber-11 inundated with letters pointing out that instruments needed for the purpose of science or in attending to the sick or in the course of dental surgery were to-day being taxed very substantially! This lie characterised as ati alrsurdity A collision between two motorcycles at Hall Green Birmingham late last night resulted in the death of a ttu months-old baby One cf the fiercest rags ever Inown in the irter-university struggles in London raged to-day between mid-day and one in the quadrangle of College in die Strand Nearly a thousand braves of University College swooped down on College vowing to rerapture Phineas the well-known Highlander figure regarded by University College as a mascot which College students triumphantly seized on Friday Wearing old clothes and carrying hastily improvised banners some with mops on top and wearing pieces of rag in their buttonholes as a distinguishing badge the UC men attacked the stronghold front and rear Bodyguard for Phineas Our representative who was admitted as semi-official war correspondent had an interesting time dodging bags of Hour and later handfuls of soot even on the frings of the surging mob who joined oombat Phineas had been stationed on the rollege main steps Hastily the word went round that massed storm troops liad made their way through the back of the building In a few moments the men had rallied a force which must have equalled that of the attackers A strong guard and reserve encircled Phineas almost as effectively as barbed wire the intruders into the building were ejected and then the main forces met in the quadrangle THE HEAT OF BATTLE Astonishing scenes followed The hundreds of surging yelling young fellows flung themselves at each other ihva frenzy The usual sportsmanship of these encounters was observed but sliglit were inevitable As bags of flour whizzed about man after man became covered and with the perspiration streaming down his face presented a comic spectacle (standing on a parapet the leaders of each side exhorted their men Kept back now by a large force of the public in tho Strand peered eagerly through the closed gates During the fight the heavy stone balustrades at the side of the quadrangle collapsed but apart from one University College man hose leg was injured this caused no casualties After half an hour the pavement of the quadrangle looked like the floor of a premises Many of the students wore their overalls others Wore football jerseys The College men wore red as their colours phineas Loses an Arm Just about this time there was a ridden diversion Hundreds of the tudents rushed to the gates saying that Phineas had been recaptured and that the University men were carrying him out The alarm proved false and an equally fierce dash back was made to what were left of the struggling foroos Then the cause of the rumour was evident Phineas had been removed CHIEF WHIP INDEPENDENT NOMINATED AT PORTSMOUTH An Independent candidate Commander George Charles Thomas RNR (retired) 74 Victoria-street London came forward to fight Colonel Ieslie Wilson (the Chief Whip) in the by-election in Portsmouth South when nominations took place to-day It had been expected that there would be a three-cornered fight through the nomination of a Liberal candidate but apparently it was not thought possible to wipe out the majority of 10880 registered at the General Election by Major Cavzer over General Sir Henry Lawson Polling is on December 13 Commander Thomas is practically unknown at Portsmouth and Colonel Wilson does not consider he is faced by any serious opposition RENTS COMMITTEE AGAIN The Ministry of Health announced to-day that the Ear! of Onslow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry is to take the place ir Henry Norman MP as chairman he Departmental Committee which ha en re-appointed to consider and'advise on the operation of the Rent Restriction Act New members of the C-ommittee are Sir Ernest Hiley MP and Lieut-Uol Fremantle MP The Committee is starting work on Wednesday A builder's labourer nanvd Cowell (18) fell from scaffolding in Dalstone-road Hove to-day and was killed Mr Patrick Dempsev leader of the Nationalist (arty in Belfast Corporation died to-dny He unstioceawfully contested West Belfat for Parliament uianyr years ago IN THE COMMONS TO-DAY Continued from Page One The recaptured Pliineas with his bodyguard after the victory of the University College men round and were trying to prevent the emergence of the UC reinforcements which of course were inside This they were unable to do and the battle waxed fiercer than ever in intensity It as in the later stages of the fight that soot made its appearance and a6 the battle reached a close towards one the appearance of 6ome of the keenest fighters was almost indescribable Phineas Recaptured After a fight of about three-quarters of an hour the reinforcements proved irresistible The UC troops made one wild dash at Phineas now completely armless One man tackled the standard bearer so to speak and with assistance succeeded in grabbing body Two other UC stalwarts in the same way each got an arm Then surrounded by their yelling supporters and attacked in vain by the frenzied College forces they fought their way to the gate The police had said When you get him you can bring him Well they had got him So the gates wore opened and the cheering and triumphant University College students marched off with their recovered mascot Only soft and semi-soft missiles were permitted to-day DIVORCE DRAMA HUSBAND WHO KILLED WIFE LITTLE SISTER In the Divorce Court to-day Sir Henry Duke granted the undefended petition of Mrs Bessie Dora Robinson asking for the dissolution of her marriage on the grounds of the cruelty and misconduct of her husband Horace Robinson now undergoing penal servitude Sir Ellis Hume-Williams KC for the petitioner said this was an extraordinary case Counsel mentioned a complaint by the wife in regard to her conduct with her sister Ivy then a chikl of 12 Ultimately the husband killed Ivy by stabbing her with a knife and was tried for murder but found guilty of manslaughter and was now serving his sentence of five penal servitude In 1918 while all this was going on the petitioner mode the acquaintance of a man who sympathised with her and one act of misconduct occurred Mrs Robinson in her evidence said she kept her husband during the whole of their married life They lived at Clavering-avenue Barnes LINERS ROUGH PASSAGE The Union Castle liner Balmoral Castle homeward hound from the Cape reached Southampton to-day after a stormy passage- The commander Captain Culverwcll reported that in consequence of exceptionally Heavy storms in the vicinity of the Canary Island- he had been unable to put into port there and land pa-sengers who had been brought on to Southampton Capt Benn Yes Mr Bonar Law shook his head Mr Tom Shaw asked if his attention had been drawn to the fact that Mr Austen Chamberlain had said that Greece had been sent into Turkey and that the present Prime Minister was one of the jiersons equally responsible with other members of the late Government Mr- Bonar Law This is the first I have heard of it No Channel Tunnel Yet Mr Bonar Law informed Sir Harry Brittain that no decision had been taken by the Government in regard to the question of a Channel Tunnel The amount of employment which would be involved would be very small compared with the cost and he did not think that in the present financial position of the country this was a suitable time to consider it MARCHERS AID THE PROPOSAL TO TURN THEM OUT OF WORKHOUSES Mr Lansbury asked the Minister of Heulth if his attention had been called to the fact that certain Metropolitan Boards of Guardians had given numbers of unemployed men resident in workhouses and other institutions notice to quit immediately And whether in order to avoid the inevitable hardship and suffering and possible disorder the Minister of Health had instructed the guardians to relieve these men according to the law Sir Montague Barlow said the Minister of Health was aware that in certain cases men had received notice of their disttharge from poor-law institutions in Loudon The guardians were required by law to relieve destitute persons within their union The manner in which relief was to he given was within the discretion of the guardians and the Minister of Health had no authority to issue any order purporting to interfere witli such discretion If They Are Turned Out Lady Astor said would not some one do something to get those poor misguided men home and let this be a lesson to those who brought them here.