THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948 A TRIP ON THE RIVER WEAVER CALM IN A TEACUP By H. C. O. Rogers LORD SALISBURY'S NEW MOVE Government, to Consider Proposal to End Lords Deadlock In 1934 I sent a check shirt to a Paris laundry and received in ex Salisbury and those who follow him. I hnnp thev will not liphtlv throw away this opportunity which might well lead to an -1- unaerstanuing uu una iiiuat uiui iut political issue." titA siwdn said that since the the mantelshelf was the marble clock, fingerless and silent.
"I had him photographed." Mme. Liffitte "I don't hold with these painters. You can't get a real likeness out of a pot of paint As for the clock, the children had the works out of that years It was in this room that Mme. Liffitte began to read my cup. I quickly discovered that she could get more information out of a packet ef tea.
a pot, and a cup than Old Moore could get into an almanac. "You need good ta. mind." she said, "not this stalky stuff which never seems to take on any shape which means anything." When I went to Paris I never failed change a patched striped blouse. After looking up the necessary words in a dictionary, I went to the laundry to remonstrate, but unfortunately found myself confronted with a languid Parisian who had been speaking the language of the capital for fifty years and was therefore unable to follow my scrupulously articulated complaint. I could not understand him and he could not understand me.
It was well within my power to describe a woodland scene in Higher School Certificate French and at a pinch I Socialist Government had come into office there had never been an opportunity for anyoody else move a bill nr cm a T-ocnlntinn throueh to the end. It is a doctrine that is growing up that once a general election has taken place the people themselves cease to be the real tnvprnnrs nf the country, but that for the whole period of the life of the House of Commons, nowever tne opinions oi members might change, they have had conferred on them the mandate of the The House of Lords yesterday was again crowded for the third day of the "debate on the second reading of the Parliament Bill. Lord SALISBURY (Opposition Leader) intervened to say he had been racking his brains to find some way of elucidating the position and removing the ambiguities surrounding paragraph 1 of Monday's Government statement and now had a proposition to put before the House. He thought that what was wrong in paragraph 1 was not that the words were bad but that they were incomplete and did not seem to cover the contingency of a reasonable period of delay the event of a difference of opinion between the two Houses. The Leader of the House seemed to indicate that it was the intention of the Government that there should be some elasticity in this matter.
It appears to the majority that the words do not carry out the intention. I beg to move that the debate on the amendment standing in my name be adjourned and that an inter-narty conference be to visit tier, and year by year she would swirl the dregs round the could have amused an examiner for half an hour with a recital of irregu supreme interpreters of the will of the people." Nobody in the House of Lords ever claimed to be the -suDreme interpreter of lar verbs or the use of the subsunc-tive in principal clauses. But here was a man who gripped a cigarette with one corner of his mouth while he kept the other stiffly open to assist the ejection of streams of ventrilo-quial vernacular. We began to scowl at each dther across a barrier of mutual incomDrehensibilitv. the will of the people.
That will changed from time to time The people do not go to sleep for five years then wake up and make a new declaration. That is not the process at all." The change of public opinion did not take place between night and morning, but was the "result of a gradual process. "DANGER OF GROSS ABUSE Nobody can go further than I do in bottom of my empty cup, tip it upside down on the saucer to drain, and then gaze into it through the half--moons at the bottom of her spectacles. Then she would put on the severe face she used when looking into the future and make some declaration of future weal or future woe. A journey by sea," she once told me.
That's a boat or I'm a liar. And it will be stormy." This, I thought, was a safe bet, for the bit of water between Calais and Dover is famous for its liveliness. "Do you know a man called James or John she asked on another occasion. "Look out. He's no friend of yours." She was not always wrong, of course the laws of chance forbade.
recognising the immense authority and responsibility of the House of Commons, but that is quite different from saying that we have to treat it as verbally Can I help you any, luv The Lancashire voice belonged to an elderly woman who had just entered the laundry. She seemed so patient and kindly that I was encouraged to hold up the striped blouse and tell her the sad story of the check shirt. She gave the laundryman three brief sentences of liquid French and my shirt was inspired. The function of the Second Chamber and it is an essential function is to secure, certain reasonably inferred cases, trie prospect delay." It tnis measure was nothing more than a tactical cevice so mat a particular measure or programme of the Government should cet on the Statute-book hefnre the eeneral returned to me. That was how I met Mme.
Liffitte. She told me that she kept the little cafe across the way and invited me over for a cup of coffee. election, then it was really a gross abuse of the power which no doubt Parliament had for altering the Constitution. The launch which carried Sir Reginald Hill, chairman of the Dock and Inland Waterway Executive, on a tour of the Jora maim ViSKS doubted whether the Manchester Guardian Weaver at Northwich yesterday. country was solidly behind the Socialist Government in its attitude to the Lords.
immediately convened on the issues of the Parliament Bill -at present before the House without prejudice on either side on the understanding that 1. So far as discussions of the powers of the Second Chamber are concerned these conversations should not extend to any powers other than those at present possessed by the House of Lords, but should be limited to ensuring reasonable time for the consideration of measures by the House of Lords and for Parliamentary discussion of differences between the two Houses, and this is new for the provision of an adequate period of delay in the event of an unresolved divergence of view between the two Houses. "2. The bill now before the House should either be passed with or without agreed amendment or rejected by this House before the end of the present session." This proposal, said Lord Salisbury, incorporated the Government statement and had one addition, that an adequate period of delay in the event of unsolved divergences of views take place. He hoped this would remove the ambiguity which had clouded the discussions and made agreement-so difficult.
I hope Lord Addison might be in a position to inform the House whether this proposition is acceptable to them or not at the beginning of business She once told me that if I cycled to Versailles I should have to be careful, for at the bottom of my cup there was a tea-leaf which was a blob to me but a buckled wheel to her. As it happened I did have an accident: a newsboy, jerking his bicycle through the traffic in the Rue de Rivoli with the abandon and dash of one who was pursued by the second edition while selling the first, bumped into me. But my wheels were undamaged his were buckled. Mme. Liffitte was surprised when I mentioned this accident.
I believe it was the first positive proof she had had of the year the yard built 22 vessels for service at home and abroad. They ne was sure many men and women would support the Lords when their opinion was asked. included grain lighters, steam and Lord LINDSAY OF BIRKER said the A few minutes later I had her story. Thirty years before she had left England, taking with her a marble clock, a gilt-framed Stag at Bay, and a few things that would come in useful, and leaving behind her the maiden name of Smith and a job as cook in a restaurant. My husband was a waiter in the place where I worked.
I never regretted marrying a Frenchman. powers of the House of Lords depended on the quality and wit of its debates and on its Public criticism of the Onvprnmpnt Tf they believed this, as he did, they would give me nouse only tormal power to ensure that its criticism was ample and sufficiently prolonged and listened to with From our Special Correspondent After launching a ship iri the heart of Cheshire, Sir Reginald Hill, chairman of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, observed yesterday that it would surprise many people to know that there were shipyards so far inland where vessels were built, launched, and sent off on voyages of several weeks to distant seas. It was a timber-carrying pontoon built at Yarwood and Sons' Northwich yard, destined for duty in the French Cameroons, that Sir Reginald sent lurching sideways into the River Weaver Diesel cargo vessels, tugs and towing launches and there is a big programme on hand. Northwich's other shipyard recently sent off a new vessel 14,000 miles to the Dutch East Indies and two sister ships are on the stocks. Sir Reginald, who is making what he called a flying tour of the country's waterways, found himself in a citadel of local pride.
The Weaver, he was told, was the finest inland waterway in Europe," and there was much fear of over-centralised control now that it belonged to the nation. This he was clearly anxious to dispel. The waterways executive, he insisted, did not aim said, to try to run these far-flung undertakings from a central office. Whatever changes may be made, local managements will be preserved and given considerable discretion." Rehabilitation, Sir Reginald added, would be the executive's first concern to bring back old traffic and attract new to the canals and rivers, thus relieving the railways. It would be folly to pretend that vast sums could be spent on capital investment, he added.
Large-scale development was for the future. What they intended to concentrate on first was dredging, which had got into arrears during the war. This was restricting the capacity of boats and such restriction, when trading margins were narrow, might make the difference between profit and loss. Dredging would be of mora immediate usefulness than any more dramatic scheme. respect Dy the commons.
There should be sufficient delay for its criticisms to sink in. If they were to have formal powers of veto they would have to begin to count heads and this he thought would have disastrous effects on the House. He could not believe He was a nne nusDana, ine very uebt. That's the very picture, behind you." And there was the stag opposite the oven, still at bay. I began to go there for my meals and before long I was invited into the parlour at the back of the cafe.
This was an old room braced with oak beams which were tunnelled by termites, who could trace their lineage back 200 years. But M. Liffitte, her deceased husband, could ivacp his back nearly as far as the the country would long tolerate a condition of affairs where the Conservative party had a constitutional right to interfere with the Government of its opponents, while its opponents had no corresponding right to interfere with a Conservative to-morrow afternoon. If it were acceptable he would be prepared to adjourn his motion or take it off the order paper pending the results of the with the words name tnis snip Number Five." Though her name lacked glamour she received the ritual christening and the cheers of the men at soulless standardisation they wanted complaints and proposals, a full conversations envisaged in the Govern government. power of the tea-leal.
The last time I saw her was in 1939. There was one question on the lips of mankind. Her face was smooth and taut as she peered into the cup. "He will not march into Poland," she said, looking at me through her upper lenses. "There will be no war." She had four sons and she knew that I knew that she was thinking wishfully.
She died in 1945 and I hear that one of her sons keeps the cafe now. I suppose that the stag is still at bay opposite the oven and the marble clock still sits timeless on the mantelshelf. But seeing that I am neither student, politician, nor deportee there is no chance of my finding out for some years. ment Drotwsals. Consideration of the Several functions of the Oooosition were and frank interchange or ideas.
Parliament Bill would also have to be who had made her and many another workaday but adventurous craft. Last of enormous importance. The Opposition It would be a great mistake," he had often said. We don approve the adjourned for a further period. Lord ADDISON (Leader of the House) general principle behind this bill, but if termites, for there were five portraits said he would see that the new resolu juu miui least au it wen and efficiently." That sort of criticism tion was brought to the notice of his was extremely valuable, declared Lord MISCELLANY Lindsay.
Opposition attacks on the of his forbears on the walls, ana the middle was M. Liffitte himself poking out of a stiff collar and black woollen tie and looking more like a member of the Chamber of colleagues and given caretui consideration. THE PEOPLE'S WILL When the general debate was resumed, Government for its conduct or in criticism of bills, or on what the Government had done or left undone, were also right and proper. It would be catastrophic if criticism was diminished in any way. Lord HASTINGS said that if anyone Deputies than a cafe proprietor.
Un CHURCH ASSEMBLY Stipends and Travelling Expenses From an Anglican Correspondent London, Tuesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury was in the chair of the Church Assembly this morning when the Bishop of specimen of the great court-Galen of his epoch but a great collector." It was remarked at this dinner party that even in Dr. Mead's time "no physician visited the ward of any hospital, nor ever saw the greater number of his patients. The business was transacted by consultations held at the physician's house with the Wind-Power Plans are on foot, after experiments by the British Electrical Research Association, for saving coal by harnessing wind-power to the production of electricity. The windmill, but of course in a modernised form, may return as a common object of the countryside, and a survey is to be made thought a permanent Socialist majority could persist in the House of Lords he was Lord HALL, for the Government, said it was true to say.
even with the ambiguity which might have existed on the previous day as to the intention of the Government, that the Government had gone a long way tn lnv a husis nf pomDromise. The only MR. E. A. MONTAGUE mistaken.
He knew gentlemen whose opinions after elevation to the peerage had changed most remarkably. It was not possible for any Prime Minister of any colour to guarantee that those he recommended to the King for elevation to the Mr. J. L. Hodson writes Those of us who worked alongside well the night of June 16, 1940, in the village of St.
Aubin, near Rennes, a time of defeat and disaster, and how all drew courage from Montague's calm con apothecaries, who related the patients' cases. Dr. Mead used to go into the City obstacle was the suspicion in the minds of Opposition peers. He hoped a successful conference would be obtained, but it should be made auite clear that the Evqlyn Montague as war correspon Chichester proposed a motion instruct to Batson's Coffee House and meet all the dents have a 'deep sense of grief. He apothecaries, hear them, and prescribe." was not always an easy man to know Guveinment must claim that the supreme interpreters ot the will of the people in Parliament must be the directly elected renresentatives of the people.
Doctors of to-day who are murmuring about the number of patients whom they ing the Central Board ef Finance to meet any expenses up to 800 that might be claimed by principal members of the Anglican delegation to the World austere at times and occasionally show may have to see in order to earn a sub. ing more sympathy with the military "We cannot admit that your lordships are entitled to claim to know the will of fidence in JBritams survival ana eventual victory. No other British war correspondent was so kind and helpful to American correspondents. Through his friendship many of us came to know and appreciate the English scene. As a war correspondent he had great ability, courage, and an absolute integrity.
Journalism is the poorer for his death. stantial income may wish perhaps that the of the best wind-swept sites where groups ot windmill generators may be erected. Unrelieved occupants of gale-swept lighthouses might have something to say on that subject, but it is improbable that the coastwise lights of England will be fitted out with revolving wings and have to do double duty as generating stations. Nor is it likely that the Palace of Westminster, which some people might regard as another kind of wind-swept site, will be arfked to contribute to this form of fuel-saving. If the windmills do come into existence Council of Churches to be held at the neoDle better than those members peerage would remember 10 years nonce why they were created Deers.
(Laughter.) A hundred years hence a Second Chamber constituted of 100 dock labourers would be Conservative to the core. (Renewed laughter.) Lord PETHICK-LAWRENCE declared that the business of passine a bill three times in the House of Commons was ridiculous from the first and was demonstrably ridiculous to-day. DORMANT ANTAGONISM Lord DARWEN thought there would have been far more enthusiasm in the country for the bill it it had proposed whnm fh, npnnlo have chosen to renrO' Amsterdam in August. older plan had survived. HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY point of view as it touched our work than was certainly my own.
And yet abiding memories of him are of kindness and generosity and, perhaps above all, of courage. When my own bed had The cause is not popular in the Assembly, specially in one' section but sent them. The present Government wish to be placed in exactly the same position as the Conservative party would be had ihnv ripen the Government. We reauire the Bishop ot cnicnester, wnose devoted services to the cause all men "Politicians in Hungary to-day must always bear in mind that they engage in hfidn nffnnied in Boulogne (about the the powers of this measure in order that legislation submitted to Parliament politics under the shadow of the gallows. time of Dunkirk) by an K.A.F.
man who Warning words from the Hungarian acknowledge, had comparatively little difficulty in establishing his case. He asked that the World Council of during me next iwu jeais suaii mm i niape cm thp Statute-book before the end needed it more tnan Montague at once offered me half of his. We were bombed that night and I was in no aouDt whose was the greater equanimity. So it was the next night, when I repaired to THE FUNERAL The funeral of Mr. Evelyn Aubrey Montague, a former London Editor of the Manchester Guardian," took place yesterday at Golders Green Crematorium.
London. The family mourners were Mrs. C. E. Montague (mother), Mr.
L. Montague and Mr. John Montague (brothers), Mrs. A. P.
Ryan and Mrs. R. Elton (sisters), Mr. A. P.
Ryan, Mrs. E. Churches be considered as part or ine work of the Assembly. The principle at stake was that nobody should be disabled from going to Amsterdam because of lack of money. His motion was carried almost without dissent.
After the rules drawn up under the not only the abolition of the House ot Lords, but also the abolition of any Second Chamber The feeling in favour of the abolition of a Second Chamber had been dormant because the House had been acting in a revising and idvisory capacity and nothing more It would remain so as the wine cellar and ne went to oea as. Minister oi justice. In Communist lands Where Karl left his Marx The gallows-tree stands Forbidding all larks. Political creeds Are all disallowed Save that which proceeds From the dominant crowd, there will fortunately be no argument about ownership in the motive power which drives them we shall not have to nationalise the winds of heaven. But it might have happened at one time.
In Holland in the fourteenth century property in the air, and therefore control over windmills, was claimed by landlords, sacred and secular, and there was a long struggle on that point between the Baron of Woerst and the Bishop of Utrecht, who maintained usual. In about 1942 when his name was down on the list for accompanying one of those raids such as St. Nazaire he was Incumbents Discipline Measure had been long as it was prepared, to act in tnis way. But I think the throwing out of this bill and the passing of the proposed amendment would awaken profound antagonism desperately anxious lest anytning snouiu in the country both to this House and any T. Scott, Mr.
L. P. Scott, Mr. K. jr.
Scott, Mrs. Comyns-Carr, Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
Gething, Mr. G. B. Gething, Group Captain R. T.
Gething. Second Chamber. cu mis faniameiu. aijc uuvci mucin, the dav must assume the day-to-day responsibility for the general conduct tf the affairs of the nation. They must be prepared to deal firmly with all those unforeseen and unforeseeable difficulties which inevitably arise during any Government's term of office.
We on this side of the House cannot allow to go unchallenged the doctrine that the Government of the dry cannot carry out its mandate or can do nothing outside that mandate or which is outside the precise programme upon which they successfully appealed to the electors." Was the Opposition serious in its desire for real reform Had it a plan of its own? Did it desire to retain the principle in any form? "We should like to know what the Opposition intentions are." declared Lord Hall. Our intentions have been made auite clear." NEW PLAN OR OLD Was there to be a new plan or would the Salisbury plan of 1933 be revived All the power that was necessary for the Lords could be exercised in an advisory Among others present were Sir William Haley. Lady Brunner, Mr. capacity. It was a pity to stir up all the James Bone, Sir John Squire, Mr.
and Mrs. Ivor Brown. Mr. Robert Lynd, Mrs. Lionel Hale.
Mr. Drew Middleton possible opposition to tne riouse and a Second Chamber until the country had had a loneer neriod in which to see the House approved the House oetooK itsen to a discussion on the familiar theme of the payment of the travelling and living expenses of its members. The Assembly has hitherto firmly refused to place the cost (upwards of 8,000 a year) on the Central Board of Finance, and certain dioceses have declined to join in a central pool. Dr. Bryn Thomas and Canon Peck had motions on the matter, but these were lost.
It was agreed, however, to accept a motion by A. R. Levett, with a rider by Dr. Bryn Thomas, which asserted the principle that no duly qualified person should be precluded from seeking election through inability to meet travelling and other expenses," and urged the diocesan conferences in those dioceses which had refused to con York Mr. James frouaiooi.
(former London Editor, "Uiasgow that no one had any right to the winds of Zeeland except himself and his Church. Long-Range Treatment Controversies now raging in the medical and political worlds would have been surprising enough to the people of the seventeen-forties. Lord Colchester in his Diary for the year 1796 made some notes cn a dinner party in which conversation turned to changes in the practice of physicians in the previous fifty years. He cited the method of Dr. Richard Mead, famous for his library, who died in 1754 The gallows are there.
So Justice proclaims, To cleanse and repair Political aims. And children of sin If addicted to doubt Are either roped in Or else duly roped out. For the Communist School, Determined and deft. The only safe rule Is Keep to the Left. Opposition's rash crew May hint that they won't We'll be hanged if we do But they're hanged if they don't.
Lucio. working in such a capacity. They should give up such power of delay as could force a general election and say that all they needed was an opportunity to express freely their views on the Government's Herald Mr. R. E.
Loveless Yorkshire Mr. Gerald Griffin Mr. Philip Jordan, Mr. Geo. Morrow, Mr.
Harold Abrahams (Achilles Dolicies and bills. arise to stop mm. it was pari oi uu creed that a correspondent should, from time to time, take the same risks as the soldiers, even if doing so achieved no particular good beyond showing our willingness to be there. As for bis generosity, I had early evidence of this. When the real war began in 1940 I was on leave in England and hurried back to France, arriving at Lille late in the afternoon with little or no time to see anything that day.
Montague at once placed his day's notes at my disposal. I was not a member of his syndicate (we worked in small groups in those days), but I know it was he who took the most excellent shorthand notes of statements made to us and placed them at the service of his syndicate They often spoke to me with gratitude of what he did The fairness and clarity of his mind, the strength and yet restraint with which he wrote of grave and mighty events these are on record A lot of us have regretted that his health did not allow him to write the book on the campaigns that he thousht of. but I doubt if he Lord DE L'ISLE AND DUDLEY said that anyone who declared he was not jn favour of a Second Chamber and at the same time Club and A.A.A.), Mr. E. M.
Inwood ana Miss Molly Hobman (Westminster Press), Mr. R. A. Smith Mr. H.
Ashley Mr. J. G. Broadbent Mr. Alan It might be an obstacle to an agreement if the plan contemplated a Second Chamber of 300 members, of which 150 advocated removing its powers was trying to have it both ways.
It would be a fatal to be elected by the hereditary peer illusion for the people to believe there was a Second Chamber if it had no Dowers. and is described by Austin Dobson 18th Thomas Mrand Mrs. W. H. Zimmern.
Miss M. B. Zimmern. age from, their own numbers based upon Century Vignettes as not only a typical Lord HUTCHISON of MONTROSE tribute to the pool to reconsider the matter. The debate on the report of the committee on the status and remuneration of the unbeneficed clergy.
the deciarea political opinions ui me present 800 peers. There was no doubt Hint 450 of the 800 would take the whip said the bill would bring the Labour party into contempt throughout the country. If they started reforming the House of Lords it would lead to a senate which in the end would be a bad thine. A great deal of play had been The "Manchester tiuardian" was represented by Mr. A.
P. Wadsworth, Mr. J. C. Beavan, and Mr.
Richard Fry; the London office by Mr. Walter Scott, Mr. Gerard Fay, Mr. Charles Burton, and Mr. H.
Nelson; and the "Manchester Evening News" by Mr. J. L. Thomas (London 400 BOMBS SCATTERED REVIEW OF BROADCASTING of Lord Salisbury while the Government would number 44 and the Liberals 71. "The proposals of the Government are declared in this modarate bill.
There has for more than half a century a strong demand for the complete abolition ON RAILWAY By our Radio Critic The great project of the Idea and made about backwoodsmen coming up to the House, and it had been suggested that Four hundred anti-personnel fragmen Beliefs of the Victorians" has opened in the Third Programme, and on Sunday four had much amDiuon in xnai uuecuou in a sense he was above and beyond it. Anyhow none of us needs that help to eminent men. Bertrand Russell. Christopher keep his memory gieen. Dawson, G.
M. Trevelyan, and Lord David Cecil, gave introductory talks. This will AN AMERICAN TRIBUTE tation bombs, each weighing about contained in 14 metal drums, fell on to the railway line beween Gisburn and Hellifield early yesterday morning from a train loaded with explosives, which were being taken to Stranraer, Scotland, to be dumped in the sea. A few of the bombs exploded, but did no damage. The drums fell from the back of a presided over by the Bishop of Southwark, was then resumed.
At the outset Mr. D. Winkworth moved that the report be referred back on the ground that whereas the House of Laity had made a minimum target of 260 a year, plus allowances, the committee proposed 210, plus house accommodation and increments. This apparent discrepancy would, he said. clutter up the matter.
The Bishop of Southwark declined to accept this reasoning and defended his committee as giving more than the House of Laity, envisaging stipends rising to 45f) a year. The House rejected the amendment and received the report. The revision stage of the Dignitaries (Retirement) Measure was concluded. they would spoil legislation trom the House of Commons. He did not believe it.
nor did he believe the House of Lords would change. The people themselves believe in the House and personally I don't see much wrong with the House of Lords, although you can't defend it." (Loud laughter.i The bill was pernicious and bad and the Government was very much to blame for bringing in such a measure for purposes so blatant. The debate was adjourned until to-day. of herrditarv representation in uie Second Chamber. It is strongly contended tiiat such members cannot represent or protend to soeak for the electorate.
We not provoking a quarrel in this matter. We would like a settlement and the Oovernment has eone a Ions way tc meet thp Opposition. In the event of no basis agreed and should a division take olace I have no doubt the Government will be defeated. It would be most unfortunate, b-it the responsibility must rest upon Lord Mr. Drew Middleton writes B.M.A.
ISSUES LIBEL WRIT The British Medical Association announced yesterday that it had issued a writ against the editor and publishers of the "Daily Mirror" claiming damages for alleged libel and asking for an injunction. The matter complained of included -passages relating to the doctors' "plebiscite." be a difficult series to value, for its scope is so large that, taken piece by piece, each talk will only be a very small part of the and when it can all be surveyed wagon on to the couplings, which burst On behalf of the American correspondents who were privileged to know and work with E. A. Montague I would like to express our deep sense of loss at his death. Tiino nf us who knew Mr.
Montague in retrospect view will be immense. the drums and scattered the bombs along both up and down lines for about a mue. The guard applied the brakes and the train was stormed two miles farther on, in Belgium and France in 1940 and in Algeria, Tunisia, and Sicily in 1942 and 1943 considered him not only as one of near the Hellifield signal-box. Warning and the rest of the day was occupied by MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL -Holy Communion: Sundays at 9 a.cn. and alter Matins: Holr Dya and FSdaya at 11 a.m Baptisma alter due notice.
TRADE STATISTICS Production in Textile Trades was passed back to Gisburn to stop other traffic on the line. Platelayers thf most competent of war corre But of these four talks it can be said that -ollectively they did a difficult thing well they managed to be general as such introductory talks must be without ever becoming vague, and to stimulate interest in new points of view upon a period too much taken for granted and apt to be dismissed by ready-made phrases. One was particularly glad to find Lord David Cecil introduced to talk about the Victorian a special meeting oi tne House of Laitv to ascertain progress in their appeal for the increase of clergy stipends. Wednesday. Mauris ana utanr taia at i- i spondents but the finest type of English rv Well were called out and cleared one track so that traffic was not interrupted.
A Evensong at 4 30; Hatit to flat: Anthems. Ym people rend your neartl," If with an your hearts. TOYS IN BATH GAVE IDEA TO INVENTOR Mulberry Breakwaters Experiments with half of a Lilo in a trout pond were described by Mr. R. A.
W. A. Lochner. a barrister, of Hazlemere. Surrey, when his claim concerning bombardon breakwaters.
He had a deep ana aDiaing iaitn in bomb disposal squad from York afterwards cleared the other line. his country and its people. I remember wtercetsion i 25 to i so p.m. "THE WORLD IS RICH" The distributed stocks of coal in the country at the beginning of the current year were nearly double those held at The World is Rich," a provoking docu CROSSWORD No. 30 writers, for, strange as it may seem, in the Drosoectus" which the "Radio mentary film made for the Central Office Times publishes there appears to be no of Information under the direction of Paul the beginning of 1947.
The Monthly Digest of Statistics, issued yesterday, shows that the stocks in March last year were 5.451,000 tons, in November section given to this extremely important Rotha, is to be generally distributed and aspect of the Victorian age. was shown to the trade in Manchester yesterday. The film makes its indictment 16.822,000 tons, and in December 16,035,000 tons. Car exports reached a record of 14.186 27. Canvas-roof (6).
28. A sieve is wet inside (8). 29. Splendour concealing under-rag (8). 30.
In reality (6). DOWN 1. Does such property belong to the common soldier 2. Foam on the card is outside (7). A.
Standard work often read in its head (7). 5. Girl seen in international or national festival (5). 6. Lascars may become rogues (7).
7. Make one (5). ACROSS 1. High one in Jerusalem (6). 3.
Let ricks (anag.) (8). 8. Spirit upset or insect without knowledge (8. 10. Scottish children (6).
12. Unyielding substance (7). 13. Vehicle in an Italian house may be useful in illness (7). 14.
This book is a collection of Anglo-Saxon poems (6). 15. Moral injunctions (8). 18. Call time (anag.) (8).
20. Mineral on tree, on land (6). 24. The corps that gives notice? (7). 26.
More than a little creature to examine (7). Under the heading "The ineory ox Progress comes the name of Herbert Spencer, and under Religious Belief and Controversy we find a mention of George Eliot, but none of the sections described deals with the novelists, poets, and literary men in their own right Lord David Cecil's talk gives one hope that this in October, but fell to 12.627 in December used in the Mulberry harbours, was resumed before the Royal Commission on Awards "to Inventors at Somerset House yesterday. Mr. Lochner, in evidence, described how his daughter's toys, floating in the bath, helped him in designing the Lilo breakwater which preceded the bombardon. "I had been thinking." he said, that the waves of the sea are skin-deep and one didn't need a barrier all the way down to stop them I cut an ordinary Lilo in half my wife sewed The production of 249,500 cycles in October with a direct and effective attack.
It shows us the rich food resources of the world, and then, in a series of terrible scenes, turns to the starving millions. We see Europe, her economy disrupted by war, where the rich guzzle in restaurants there's no food shortage in Italy and the poor fight for scraps, and the East where was also a record, but the figure dropped to 223.000 in November. December figures are not given in the digest The production of cotton yarn, 14.800.000 pounds, woven cotton fabrics. 37.800.000 yards, and woven rayon and mixture fabrics, 9.400,800 yards, set up another post-war racord in November, but drought and nood ormg slow, malignant death. We see the black-marketer growing rich nn misprv smrl th srieculator who wt: 7 bj3 5 6 I iBllll 1 1 SHU II 8 9 'O HT is' 26 29pij pyf tidiest IS a tidiest is 9.
Even the some tapes on and I weighted it at one i'nl in tha Al-lrl (V). is not really an omission but only a lacic of fullness in. the catalogue. From the usual varied output of broadcasts last week some can be picked as outstanding. There was Mr.
Maurice Webb's talk in the party political series. This was unusual because Mi. Webb eschewed the practice which has become too popular with speakers on the Government's side of talking soothingly and kindly as to children. It was a- plain. solution to crossword N.
ghort suppiy, a hundred end. we tooK it down to ine trout pona in'st helow our lawn. My wife made EIDER T. hamnc Been lost: BT EDS mtartMna I IS) waves on one side and we found the GAGED RK KEN BANGS water was stationary on tne ouier. The commission adjourned until to-day.
IBEP1 NNE Vis businesslike, and reasoned statement which paid listeners the compliment of iUBT TEE RANEE osasss, 8 8 ijxSe SID PiVl SADD sharp racks at work to pinch and peel. We see surplus food destroyed because none can buy it. "There never has been a surplus, LaGuardia cries, and Sir John Boyd Orr gives warning that if the nations cannot agree in solving this problem they will never agree on anything. The solution, the film tells us lies with the Food and Agricultural Oganisation, which plans to set up storehouses In years of plenty, and to encourage food production by increasing mechanisation, improving methods of farming, and training technicians, but again we are warned that only our will can force the humane distribution of the world's riches and ensure that the hungry are not sent empty away. C.T..
tne production oi worsted yarn ten irom 15,810,000 pounds in the previous month to 14.200,000 in November, and that of woven wool fabrics from 23,870,000 yards to 21.000.000 yards. The exports of spirits in December, amounting to 936.000 proof gallons, were the highest since 1940. The weekly' gas production in December, totalling 51,400,000 therms, was the second highest figure recorded. Electricity occupied a similar position, with a monthly figure of 4,432,000,000 kilowatt hours. In the third quarter of 1947.
10,834 agricultural tractors, machines, and implements were made compared with 26.281 in the whole of 1946. and 2,385 were exported, against 1.538 in the previous quarter. The-Chilean Ambassador (Sefior Don Mamul "BianchiL the Mexican 16. Not ripe, perhaps, but essential in food 7). 17.
This rate is the best (51. 18. WUd horse of Mexico (71. 19. Fifty gained by labour and acquired knowledge 21.
I sat the wrong way in the sun! (7). 22. Ten stags, all out oi order, came in (7. 23. Suggests things, but noi directly (5.
25. Italian city of no age 5. Sclution wil! De punished to-siiariaw. ELBCI 8815 A Ambassador (Sefior Don Federico Jimenez O'Farrill), and the Colombian i' Affaires (Senor Don Alfredo Gsinf coming trom one aauit to outers. The Third Programme debate on "The Existence of God between Bertrand Russell and Fr.
Copleston had a- rather extraordinary outcome, for Bertrand Russell declared that one ot the main questions which Fr. Copleston put in bis logical development of the debate was meaningless to him and he would not therefore discuss it. For all that-it was an intensely interesting argument. RAN NO Dl NG8 BP I Bo A 8 SAM SISIS DGORi MNAjB Lazano Agudelo) will be entertained to dinner on Monday at the'Tpwn Hall. Mpnche'ster.
by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Miss M. L. Kingsnull Jones). DINGY.
