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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MAY 27 1930 IS THE AG A DERBY HORSES ON WAY TO EPSOM TRAWLER SINKS IN 3 MINUTES CHILDREN NOT TO SEE THE TATTOO SIX LIVES LOST IN FOG COLLISION EXEMPTION SOUGHT FOR CHILD DANCERS 14 MEN PICKED UP RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL BAN HIGHER SCHOOL From All Quarters I LEAVING AGE DRIVERS UNINJURED IN HEAD-ON BUS CRASH The drivers of two omnibuses which collided head-on yesterday in Thurloe-plaee South Kensington escap'd injury although both their weic smashed in One had swerved to avoid a ear when it crashed into the other and the car was also daiua-ed Four women passengers were taken to hospital with slight injuries and shock Lobster Shortage Oil discharged in the sea is blamed for a shortage ol lubbers off the Dorset coast Serpentine The mixed bathing season the Serj lent ine Hyde Park begins on Saturday 50ft Window Fall Mr Sidney Tate 56 who fell 50ft from a window den flat was taken to hospital unconscious 23 Times The Earl of Derby was re-elected president of tlu Liverpool Chamber of Commerce for the 25th successive year Trawler Wreck Inquiry A Board of Trade inquiry into the drawl nf the Hull trawler Siberite in the Orknev at Hull on June 17 Roman Workmen REBUKE TO MP OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE WESTMINSTER Tuesday A plea for the recognition of training schools of ballet or of dramatic art as a form of education tor clnluren ovv 14 was first phase of the reconsideration of lie Education Bill on Report stage This question was brought up in relation the raising of the school leaving age by bill from 14 to 15 Col Sandfman Allen proposed that children over 14 should if their parents so chose not lie required to attend any school digging LCC REFUSES OFFER BY in the to-day to the but one of stage dancing or acting with a sewer trench at Kettering North id- un- FROM Ol OW CORRESPONDENT HULL Tuesday Six fishermen were drowned in a collision between a steam trawler and an oil tanker off Withernsea on the Yorkshire eoast at 753 this morning The 14 remaining members of the crew were picked up by the tanker The trawler sank within three minutes There was a dense fog at the time of the accident The trawler Picador (424 tons) belonging to the Hull Northern Fishing Company was returning from the Bear Island fishing grounds in the Arctic Circle She was within a few miles of the entrance to the River Humber The oil tanker San Salvador (5805 tons) owned by the Eagle Oil and Shipping Company and registered in London was bringing a cargo of oil from Mexico to the Tyne The drowned men all from Hull are: Arthur Sanderson 44 the mate of Havelock-street Louis Iverson 57 third hand of Striekland-st reef Syrian Brooks I he cook of Brooklands-road Harry Raymond Hawker 25 a spare hand of Flinton-st reel Arthur Cavany 22 an extra hand of Victoria-place Frank Keighley 20 a fin-man of The San Salvador arrived off the Tyne shortly after midnight and after picking up two tugs proceeded up the river to farrow oil wharf where she moored Maxwell the Picador's wireless ojierator of Hull whose leg was broken was transferred to a tug to be taken to hospital The 13 remaining survivors will go to Hull bv tram to-morrow the proviso that the academy chosen must art lied two skeletons believe 1 to those Horses to run in the Derby to-day on the way from stables to Newmarket Station where they entrained for Epsom Reading from camera they are: I tala llissar Malupoml and Taj Akbar (last night demised from the Ksitioii of favourite) all owned the Aga Khan and last Sir A butt's Noble King be approved by the Board of Education The Minister of Education Mr Stanley was sympathetic hut declined to give a general approval to any and every stage and dancing academy Under tlie present system the good ones could be and were recognised as tit places of education ENDING INDIAN TERRORISM MEMBER PROTESTS AT ABSURD POSITION An offer to eutl 100 children from the Laniorbey residential public assistance st-liool the 1tndon County Council at Sidcup Kent to see the daylight rehearsal of the Aldershot Tattoo on June 9 at no expense to the I ouncil has been refused bv the Education ommittee Mrs Lowe cliairnian of the Educa-tion Committee stated in reply to Mr Wood Municipal Reformer at yesterday meeting of the Council that the prohibition of the use of tlie school organisation connection with the attendance of children at military displays and similar functions was held to apply to LCC residential public schools For that reason the offer to send the children from the Lamorbey School had not been accepted NO Mr Wood not satisfied with the reply moved the adjournment of the Council He -aid that the invitation for the children to attend the Tattoo had been accepted by the management committee of the school and the chairman a member of the LCC last April Arrangements were made for seeking accommodation and transport and nothing a 'he with three children of Hill: Frede- 3 when the donor recencd an intimation BevIMM1- 4(( named with four children that the arrangements would have to be can- Bey non 40 married with four children of (Tesselly William Jenkins 40 married COMMONWEALTH DEFENCES INADEQUATE of Roman centurions Airman's When a seater aeroplane ran into a tree at Pee marsh near Guildford and was damagi the pilot escaped injury Man Dies Bowls While plavinz tlie Ashford Bowling Club Middle-ex Johnstone 65 of Marlborough-road Ashford collapsed and died Bishop to Retire I)r Shaw 74 As sistant Bishop and Archdeacon of Oxford a former Association and -kci rotii-cs in September owing to ill-health Hospital The Minister of Health has sanctioned a £53000 loan to be raised by the Middlesex extensions to Hillingdon County Hospital Killed Charles Darley an omnibus conductor of Bicklev Kent was knocked down and fatally injured by a ear near Bromley Common while cycling home Ihiy Alfred Richards 17 a Tyne shipyard apprentice ha been chosen as one of six members of clubs invited join this Public Arctic to join this LORI) WILLINGDON AND BENGAL'S LESSON DOMINIONS MUCH CONCERNED DEATH OF 1ION MRS DAVID BAKER INTERVENTION After this there was a droll episode verbal amendment proposed by Leckie seemed to present to many members the opportunity to discuss the general problem of granting exemptions from the new-leaving age After advantage had been taken of this liberty for an hour or more in spite of a warning from the Deputy-Speaker apt Bourne that to argue all the exemption questions would not lie jiermissible the Sjieaker returned to the chair and stopped the debate He explained that he thought the amendment was of limited scojie hilt as it appeared from the speeches that its object was to diminish the number of exemptions it was out of order because by keeping more children at school it would increase the charge on the rates In the debate thus abruptly terminated there was a brisk passage of arms between Mr Markham a National Labour member and Mr Stanley Mr Markham declared that the election pledge to raise the age to 15 gave the impression that any exemptions would be exceptions to the rule Mr Stanley retorted sharply that the statement was entirely untrue A Mr UrJ CONFERENCE MAY Gratification at the way in which under the direction of Sir John Anderson Governor of Bengal terrorism lias been subdued in that province in recent years was expressed last night by the Earl of Willingdon ex-Viceroy of India He- was speaking at the Calcutta Dinner in the Connaught Rooms i This is an annual gathering of those who 1 or have been residents in Calcutta with three children of Jeffreyston Lord Catto of CairncattO presided and One man has been brought to the surface congratulated Lord Willingdon on the mar- BE HELD THIS YEAR is giving birth to twins The Hon Mrs David Baker only sister of Viscount Bridxrt died in a London nursing home yesterday after giving birth to twins She was 25 By IIFCTOR BY V1KK Naval Correspondent Daily Telegraph en could taKe ine tlerp ls little lioie of reaching the other qui-ate conferred upon him by the King of entertamment they slx for at least a week owing to the millions "I remember very said Lo of water which have poured into parents could take the hours He thought of gallons Lord Willingdon the first winter in 1931 developments in Empire defence year Some of now receiving Important sphere of expected this problems are the are tlie the and BRITISH RED CROSS DETENTIONS Expedition £28000 Road Widening A further 200 yards of High-street Bromley which carries heavy traffic as part of tlie'London-t tastings road is to be widened at a co-t of over £28000 Socialist The West Ham Borough Council election on Monday resulted in Mr Lennox holding the -cat for Municipal Reformers defeating Mr Warne (Soe) Fire in New A fire was discovered in the upier floor of a recently I completed but still unoccupied house in Baker-street Bar and the roof was extensively damaged No Ulster Budget Leakage A i Socialist member of the Ulster Parliament having aliened a Budget leakage the com-I jnittee of privileges rejiorted that there had I heen no breach of privilege Mine The King has awarded the Edward Medal to Mr Heslop manage! of the Loft us Ironstone Mine Yorkshire for gallantry in attempting to rescue two men trapped a fall of roof Thought Sovereigns Boys playing on waste land near Witton Black-j burn unearthed two sovereigns which thev i lielieved to be medals not having seen gold I coins before Among some masonry and I cinders more than 40 gold coins were after-i wards found A friend of the family stated last night that the twins a boy and a girl were born prematurely and weighed only about 31b each They were however very und should make good progress Formerly the Hon Eileen Hood Mrs Baker was a descendant of the famous 18th century Admiral In 1933 -lie married Mr David Lawrence Baker following a romantic courtship They had been friends for some tune and in May of that year Miss Hood arranged to travel to Malta to see her brother who was serving with the Fleet Mr Baker caught an express train to Southampton where Miss luggage was already aboard ship proposed and was accepted He then had Sliss luggage brought ashore Mrs Baker was fond of flying and was an exceptionally good horsewoman Mr Baker i- an ex-Master of the Fowey Cornwall Harriers Mrs mother who was tlie actress Eileen Kendall was given the rank anti precedence of a husband Lt the Hon Henry widow her Ison Hood i CABLE TO SIR BARTON tlie mine A TERRIFIC ROAR The disaster occurred an hour before the morning shift was due to cease work Twenty-one men were working on their hands and knees tiOOft below the surface in a drift only 4ft high when one of them struck the roof with his pick There was a terrific roar and water began to rush in at a great rate from an old mine which has not been worked since the days of Queen Elizabeth Some of the men submerged up to their necks in the torrent gripped a steel rope and struggled inch by inch to the mouth of the drift which they reached exhausted Others rushed to an air shaft at the cry of water and escaped One man Garfield Prout was nearly up to his mouth in water when he was dragged to safety by Keith Badham Prout had arranged to be married on Saturday The Loveston Colliery which is owned by Roger Lemonde of Rouen France was reopened in March after being closed for a year when I went to Calcutta I found there a state of extreme depression and uncertainty I would say almost defeatism Terrorism was rising with greater activity throughout the country and the economic and political situations were getting very bad indeed Both officials and non -officials were in a very uneasy frame of mind But I am glad to say that every year after when 1 went there not because I went there of course I found a great improvement in the atmosphere: anil 1 can say I believe that at the present time the citizens of Calcutta both British and Indian are full of hope and confidence and that terrorism is well under RESULT OF DRASTIC MEASURES He juid a warm tribute to the courage and judgment with which Sir John Anderson during the ast four years liad administered the affairs not only of Calcutta but of Bengal generally There terrorism was not a matter of the last two or three years only but a matter of the last 20 years and mo-t drastic and persistent treatment was required to eradicate the disease He hoped that before long by such constant treatment they would see terrorism completely eradicated from Bengal The Marqi ess ok Zetland Secretary of State for India paid a tribute to laird work as Viceroy Sir Sidney Barton British Minister in Addis Ababa has been asked by the Foreign Office in London to investigate the rejrorted detention at Diredawa of Col Llewellyn and Major Bentinck British Red Cross officers in Abyssinia No confirmation of the detentions has been received in official quarters It is understood that Col Llewellyn is attached to No I unit to which Mr Runner also belonged Major Bentinck is celled No explanation was given Mr Wood declared that this was not a case where the children to any place wished out of school that information about the offer had leaked out among the children and their disappointment would be great Mr Wood pointed out that the boys at this school were encouraged to join Army-bands They were now in the ludicrous position of not allowing the boys to see Aimy bands at their best Mrs Lowe said that the Council had decided not to allow the use of the school organisation for such displays and although it was residential Lamorbey was in fact an elementary- school The rehearsal was being held during school hours The motion for the adjournment was lost bv 72 votes to 44 LORD MESSAGE Hie refusal of the Education Committee to accept from the Empire Day Movement copies of a message written by the late Earl Beatty for reading the London schools on Commonwealth Day was also mentioned Mrs Lowe stated that the refusal was entirely in accordance with the long-established practice of that and former Councils not to accept messages from outside organisations of any kind for issue to the schools Earlier this month the Education Coin- i mittee of the Council refused an application by the 47th Division Royal Engineer Cadets for the use of accommodation at the Lillie- road school Fulham on week-day- evenings for company training The committee also refused the use of Battersea Park on May- 24 for an anti-aircraft display by the 52nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade Royal Artillery Territorial Army Later however permission was granted for the display to be given on Clapham Common Socialist proposals to remove Army posters from the Hackney Town Hall and that Corporation employees belonging to the Territorials shall no longer be paid for the eight extra leave granted for their annual training will be debated at meeting of the Hackney Borough Council as reported on Page 13 in 1915 having believed to be connected with the Duchess of unit action father who was killed predecea-cd his TIIE BATON AT FIELD-MARSHALS PALACE closest attention both tit home in the Dominions Tlie League's dispute with Italy eoineidin" as it litis done with revelations of rearmament has impressed the Dominions with the patent inadequacy of tlie existing defences In British service circles it is felt that an Imperial Conference for the discussion of these matters should lie summoned at the earliest possible date 1 understand that it may be held tins year Australia is particularly concerned about the future security of the Mediterranean route which is of capital importance to her alike fur commercial and strategic reasons Further it is already clear tliut in view of the steady expansion of European navies Great Britain is in no position to maintain strong naval forces botli in Europe and the Far East I I EFFORT Australia therefore must henceforth depend more on her own powers of defence and so also must New Zealand Both Dominions are accordingly considering plans for a substantial increase in their naval and mr forces The Italo-Abyssinian war has also had a sharp repercussion in South Africa Local opinion inclines to the view that the British hold on the Mediterranean has i become very precarious and that the Admiralty would he well advised to develop tlie Cape route as nil alternative line of communication with India and the Far East Mr Oswald Pirow the Union Minister for Defence is now on his wav to England to discuss this and cognate problems I learn that the Union Government contemplate- building new dock- at Cqie Town to take the largest men-of-uar and mo lern- ising the defences at Cqe Town and Simon's Town the adjacent naval base The Indian Government is also anxious about the integrity of the Suez Canal route THE EDITERR WEAN Undoubtedly the most pressing problem is that of our future policy regarding the Mediterranean In the Navy itself there are two schools of thought on this subject One takes the view that we could not hold the Mediterranean against a first-class local Power having regard to the proximity of i to foreign naval bases and aero- I Malta TO SALE OF SHIPS ITALY WHEN IT IS NOT ILLEGAL By Our Political Correspondent of British ships to Itr export of British ships to Italy Seven Field-Marshals of the British Army were received by the King at Buckingham Palace yesterday when fie was presented i with hi own baton as Field-Marshal The King assumed tlie rank of Field-1 Marshal after his accession Tlie liaton is a 22-ineh-long staff covered in crimson velvet and ornamented with 18 gold lions 1 On the top is a modelled figure of St George and the Dragon and on the basils tlie simple inscription His Majesty King Edward VIII Field Marshal Jan 21 The top and the base are of solid 18-carat gold The baton was handed fiver by the Duke of Connaught as Senior Field-Marshal The other Field-Marshals pre-ent were the Earl of Cavan wood Sir wode and Sir Archibald Montgomery Massingberd Lord Mime Sir William Bird- Claud Jacob Sir Philip het- The for breaking up i- not contrary to the Sanctions policy according to a letter received by Mr Tom Magnay Secretary of tlie Northern Group of MPs from Mr Kunciman 1 President of the Board of Trade Mr Magnay sent to Mr Kunciman a com munieation from a Tyneside firm stating British ship-breakers felt they were not receiving fair treatment They thought that when other Sanctiomst countries refused their nationals the right to sell to: Italy the situation of this country should be made clear Mr Rumanian replied that in conformity I with the proposals of the Co-ordinating1 the TELEVISION DEBUT 1 i Committee of the League of Nations OyCMflZ NEW VOICES ON THE AIR MYSTERY ILLNESS OF EXPERIMENTER YOUTH IN HOSPITAL Expert are examining experimental electrical apparatus which it is thought may have caused the mysterious illness of 17-year-old Frank Manning of Alexandra-road Wellingborough Northants Manning collapsed in a coma and was taken to St Bartholomew'- Hospital London where specialists were unable to diagnose hi- complaint He was slightly better yesterday It is state'! that the youth created infra red rays with his apparatu- Prof A Low stated last night that this alone could not in any way have caused tlie illness Malcolm Griffin a fnend of Manning stated that Manning had been experimenting with a death ray in a garden shed laboratory Close investigation of illness is still being made at the hospital export of scrap iron to Italy was prohibited' but a ship still fit to put to sea was not dromes and should therefore he prepared I scrap iron If the purchase price were jn divert all eastern traffic via the Cape aid in cash on or before delivery tlie sale when an emergency threatens of ships to Italy was not affected Against this the opposing school argues circumstances and in the (bat the Mediterranean must he held at all costs even if it means spending large sums on the modernisation of the Malta defences goods policy which to add ships to the must not be exported to Italy list of SPEEDWAY I and creating new bases in the Eastern Mediterranean for example at Cyprus 1 gather that no official decision on this vitally important matter has been reached yet though it is obvious that time presses One thing is certain: only the closest co-operation between the Imperial and Dominion Governments can ensure that the defences of the British Commonwealth as a whole are placed on a firm foundation ft has been suggested to me from service quarters that the annual conference of the Empire Press Union to be held in Londoi By Our Television Correspondent Listeners heard th two women television announcers for the first time last night Miss Jasmine Bligh and Miss Elizabeth Cowell each spoke for about 15 seconds announcing two items in orchestral programme Romance in i broadcast from St George's! Hail Mr Eric Maschwitz BBC variety i director who used his pen name Holt Marvel introduced each as a new voice instead of by name It was not until later: in the programme that he revealed the (identities of the two Both women have low voices of excep- i tioriiil clarity and attractive tone Miss 1 Cowell has perhaps greater animation but hers -eemed more of an orthodox BBC i voice Miss Bligh spoke the more rapidly of the two Pictures on Page 12 LAST In the first preliminary competition for the £4000 Speedway Chamion-sliip decided at West Ham last night the heat winners were Byers Parker Harrison Parker Milne Collins Milne Parker Kitchen Harrison Milne and Parker Jack Milne the United States champion had his left thumb severed when he ran next month would afford an excellent oppor into Phi! Bishop (West fallen in front of him Ham) w-ho had unity of placing the farts about Imperial defence before the Dominion Press representatives preferably by means of addresses by Navy Army and Air Force officers LATF NEWS DEBATE ON WHITSUN ADJOURN ENT DUKE OF GLOUCESTER IN NORTH WALES ON SURVEYING COURSE INTENTIONS TWO INJURED Frederick t'harle- 1 James 21 AT EPSOM arker 30 and both of Epsom last night with £10 FOR GBS LETTER ND POSTCARD PROPOSAL TO BURN THEM A po-tcard and letter wmtten by Mr George Bernard Shaw were sold by auction for 10 guineas by Sir Patrick Hannon MP last night to help the Invalid Children's Aid Society Mr Shaw sent the postcard in answer to a request from the Society for permission to make use of a letter he had written regretting that he could not attend their dinner at the Savoy Hotel London The postcard read Yes by all means but as the world is not at pre-ent lit for children to live why no give the little invalids a gorgeou- party and when they have eaten and danced themselves to sleep turn on the ga and let them ail wake up in heaven? Georoe Bernard In the letter he described private chanties as a pernicious evasion of public Bidding started at a shilling Later a diner offered £10 on condition that the pustcani was burnt When the letter and postcard were finally knocked d'wn Sir Patrick said that tie hoped the bid was not made with mcendiarv inte From Our Own Correspondent HARLECH (Merioneth) Tuesday Die Duke ol Gloucester with a number of other officers from tlie Staff College Camberley arrived here to-day for a course of military surveying The party will remain for two days The Duke who travelled in a special saloon attached to the London-Camhrian Coast train is staying with In- brother officers at a hotel overlooking Cardigan Bay By Our Political Correspondent There will be a varied debate in the House of Commons on Friday on the motion for the Whitsuntide adjournment Mr Ch urchill and other right wing critics of the Government intend to press for tlie setting-up of a Ministry of Supply in connection with tlie defence programme The Socialists will call attention to the evidence recently given before the inquiry into the private manufacture of aruis by Sir Maurice Hankey Secretary to the Cabinet They will argue that such evidence should not have been tendered by a Civil Servant injuries received white in an Epsom hotel Early this morning they were stated to be both very BRITISH BOXER WINS New York Tuesday Norman Snow British boxer beat Eddie McGrever 1 on points in lO-muml boxing match this emng Renter KOBKRTI Tuesday Alter lv-a nri ideal i film actress on- senrtting from her Hugh Ern-t a radio 1 that an action for I3UP I A Hollywood thin a year of Lyda Kobciti I tiounces that -li husband Mr announcer and divorce will I RMS IS USING SHELL LUBRICATING OIL exclusively for her TURBO-GENERATORS upon which her entire electrical equipment depends and for the 24 Diesel engined lifeboats CRUISE ENDS IN SMASH A lioat train from Southampton carrying many passengers w-ho had made a world cruise in the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain ran into the buffers at Waterloo Station last night One woman was taken to hospital with a broken arm The Empress of Britain 42348 tons reached Southampton yesterday after an w-hich she absence of five months during HON HOLLAND DEAD The Hon Lionel Raleigh Holland youngest son of tlie first Viscount Knuts-ford and cUjector of a number of com-jwinic- hasnied in a London nursing home at the age of 7 1 MADRID STRIKE FLAK Madrid Wednesday There are fears that a geic: -trike has been called for later to-day Early this morning all cafes were closed and numbers of shock police armed with nfles bayonets and revolvers were ttanding at every comer Reuter LAST BILLIARDS In the second session of the Professional Billiards final at last night lJavis -cored 1045 to 731 the averages toeing 174 and 122 steamed about 30000 miles Davis made breaks of IIMI and 372 Among those who travelled in the liner and Newman 2 full) 129 I twice) and from New York we-e Lord and Ltdy 20 (unfinished) Closing -cores Davis Tennyson Sir George Tallis and Mr Ray-4504 Newman fin play) 2771 I mun i Massey the actor and Mrs Massed NOTABLE INVALIDS Earl ol Malmesbury: Progressing well Early Simon: Unchanged Lady Vincent: Progi casing.