Abergavenny Chronicle

MARCH TO IIIE PALACE. I Three thousand women war workem ] marched to Buckingham Palace on Saturday to present an address to the King and Queen on the occasion of their silver wedding. The prooession was made up of all branches of women war wo-kers—including tram ocn- ductresses, pootwoinen, landwonien, N-.A.D.s., W.A.A.C.s, and YVrens. Miss F. H. Durham, C.B.E., chief woman inspector, read and presented the address to the King and Queen. This .said:- "For four anxious years it has been our dearest wish and earnest endeavour to devote ourselves, mind aud body, to the service of our King, and humbly strive, so far as in urt lies, to assist our country and our Allies in their contiict against our common foe." The Kin. who was accompanied by the Queen and Princess Mary, smilingly received the address, and replied that the Queen fol- lowed with deep interest every branch of women's work, and added: "The range of war work undertaken by women is well exemplified in your imposing procession."

CGLOFJEL AND HORSES' FOOD. J Colonel Alfred Hornsley-Drako, of 42, London, S.W., was sum- aioned for permitting his two carriage horses to be fed with a mixture containing ■rer-^nl fsodstui^s contrarv to the Horses' Rationing Order. D»f-ndant said knowing oats were net for carnage horses b« obtained tee substitute be could. The horses, he said, aid bc-en used for driv- ing out officers. The jr-agiotrate said he qui*? believed that defendant had acted bona but no must be finod 20s. and 3 guineas coste. —

Major-General Sir P. M. Glubb i pa Kitted Engineer-in^CaU'Cf, atta<hed to Headquarter units, from a Chief agineer. Lord Wirt-crton hiu been adepted as Unionist C"il,1i¿.1" for the new ia or sham and Worthing Division. Mr. Da nie's, Secretary of the United States Navy, au.ueu.nces that the total strength of the American Navy is now 150,000 men. The number of men reporting for service in Montreal is now so great that it is difri- cult to meec the demand fcr uniforms and' other equililwn t. Tbo proroine»;t Bolshevik leader, M. -Yolo- i darsky, C'U'nhvjionor fcr Affairs y;> the Petrr>^i'd Coinmuae, has bc-c-a Úhl< tn the a tract in Tetrogrud.

MOUNTAJN STORMED AFTER FIERCE FIGHT. —— —— HEAVY AUSTRIAN LOSSES. I An official communique issued in Rome on Sunday states:— On the Asiago Plateau, where in the heroic resistance which on June 15 crushed tuo impetus oi pre]>onderant enemy forces, and wnore ia aiaiy acts of bravery the iialitiu troo])s became unitc-d in action and in glory wiLh the British and Frencn oi the vaiiantSixth Army, lighting yesterday began At dawn our troops, sustained by intense artillerv dire and supported by .demoustra- live action with fir-e and (r) parties reso-• lutelv carricd cut by the Allies, attacked Moute Val Bella, and succeeded, after a bitter struggle, in wresting it iroiu the During the day and night large enemy x-es, launched-, to the counter-altacit and to slaughter, were repulsed by our iniantry iind deciinutcd by concentrations of artiilery iiK aud by \tUe machine-gun Use of acro- planes. 'Die position carried was victoriously held ijv u?. Twentv-one enemy -j?c?rs aLd T? ')?her racks belonging to four diii'erent divi- fciuns v/eie made prisoner; cannons, trench- • mortars, &ml ?umerouB machuK-gjuw WJ captured. More to the east, between the Frenzela Valley and the Brenta, one of our parties t.ook by assault strongman U) obivcrvation point on the southern slopes of the Sasso R05S0, capturing two officers and thirty-one On the remainder of the Front, our artil- leries carried out effective harassing bom- berdments. At Capo Sile patrol operations brought us some priioncrs. In the Laga- rina and S ugan- val'eys enemy railway establi-lnnents were bombarded by our air- men. |

NORTH SEA SCRAP. J FOUR BRITISH DESTROYERS ENGAGE I EIGHT ENEMY. Admiralty, Saturday. On the evening of June 27 four of our de- stroyers while patrolling of? the Belgian coast sighted oight enemy torpedo boat de- strQyeis. Our destroyers proceeded in an q-abierlv c^nrs^ at full speed, engaging tne --a e.,n*v at Icnig range. -After an action lasting a quarter of aft. hour the enemy was joined bv three more torpedo boat destroyers, whereupon our force fell back on their supports. The A'tierny, however, did not follow, aiid the I action was then broken off. No damage w" sustained by any of our j "x;e !? )

WAR OFFICE WANR DOGS. I The War Office requjxe a further gift of; logs, aged between eighteen months and fi-yjj vears, for military purposes. Tbo bJeyds" /voqnirwl arc iDaix-s,. ■ paantiffs, St. iiernards, Kewfoundlanils, bull-mastiffe-, re- trievers, collies, eheep dog3, large curs, Dal- jTiatians, lurchers, Airedales, and crcM-brod nhephexds. No dogs smaller than Air^dile' lerriera, and no bitones are required. Dcgs should in the first place be offered to the Commandant, War Do School, Shoebnry- ne.ss. If they are accepted instructions will be •sent for forwarding, and any dogs found un- suitable will be returned to owners carriage paid.

I BROKEN GLASS AS RAZOS. 1 The modern British razor is infinitely superior to the instruments some natfohs shave with. The Chinese razor, fcr example, is a grsat thiclt wedge-shaped a.ffair, t.ha t :L?:? to tear eaGh b iir qtitin- lcad of cutting it off. Befcre stc?I i-azom?. rasie into vogue razors were made of bronze and other metal alloys s^-eeiaUj hardened to take a/sharp edge. But the sharp edge of those^ days would Iw considered pretty blunt now. Most primitive shaving instru- rneijjts were made of sharpened nints. or ci-4 of .sheil. The proseiit-day AndV.man •Islanders consider it a liixitry to have a picco of broken bottle-giass as a razor! ———— 0 1

HOW FlilES ARE STARTED. f Many and strange are the causes of fire. A cockchafer crawled from an oil receptacle I) a gas jet, where the creature's oily body took lira, and, falling, started a conflagra- tion which cost £400. A flood burned a fac- tory by causing a pile or iron filings to orddise rvo rapidly as to become intensely heated, and so fire the woodwork. A stream of water from a fireman's hose, curious as it may appear, started a second lire while put- I ting out the fidt; the water penetrated all adjoining building containing quicklime.

LOSS OF PUBLICITY. ( Mr. J notice McCardie gave considered judgment, the other day, in the I ivction brought by Mrs. Turniii Lena") against the Victoria Palace, Ltd., in which the iury ai,iar,,Icd ;Ll.Ci) to for lo-s of salary and < £ lt)0 for loss of publicity. Judgment had not been entered after tha finding, as the point 3,Yose whether ilrs. TttTpin could recover damages on both ).1r. Justice McCardie decided that, on fief, of the contract, Mrs. Turpm waiss not entitled to damages for !{)8-S of publicity., and avo judgment for her for tlOo on the basis of lo-ss of salary only, allowing costs to the Victoria Palace, Ltd., on the issue on which it had succeeded. —<> ■ I

M3THES ACCUSED CF MURDER. l lVJ J.r. v:J 1'¡;¡\ .C.. I I "They say I am mad, but I am all right. Its aif lies, so I thought I would kill my dear little boy and myself and be out of it. This, said a poHM'-oSc.er, was what Eva it.Thia, Ziilah Hill, the wife of a di"maker, Annie -Zillah Hifl, the w?,fe of a d"<ma:C' told him when arrested in connection with the death of h-er five-year-old son. A coro- ner's jiiry returned a verdict ot "Wilful murder" against the woman. .—————-

A MONUMENT TO GULLS. I The people of Salt Lake City in America I nave a monument built to the memory of ieaguils. In the year 1848 grasshoppers I same in great numbers and played havoc with the crops. Then, suddenly the gulls appeared and ate the grasshoppers, and the Tops were saved. —————

According to Washington reports the crop ;t* tobacco promised this ytar is 12l per eent. si or u than that of last year. The supplementary war pay received by I bile railway clerical .stalls is estimated to sunge between tu. and seven million pounds por mnum.

BRITISH BOMBING SQUADRONS HEAVILY ATTACKED. ,I ON TinONVILLE. The following official communiques have L>oeu issued by the Pre»s Bureau: — Air Ministry, Saturday, 3.10 a.m. On the afternoon of the 28th inst. cut aeroplanes attacked the railway worksiteps/ stations, and sidings at Thionviile. Obser- ration wus difficult, but. direct hits were observed on the works and railway line. Nearly three tons of bombs were dropped. on this objective. Our formations were attacked bv hostile aeroplanes. Severe lighting ensued, during j which three hostile aeroplanes were shot | down and one other was driven down. Two of our machines have not yet returned, one of which is knWn to have 'been forced to land through engine trouble. On the night of the 27th-2Sth our aero- planes made a successful attack on the enemy's 1 aerodrome at Bolchea. Bombs were released froin a low altitude and i»! a chine-guns were fired into' the hangars* All our machines returned safely. "•> The clici-ny OIl? of our last night. No material damage was done. Air Ministry, Saturday, On the evening of the 28th inst. tbo' enemy aerodrome at Fre.-caty was attacked, j Owing to bad visibility the burets were lin-J observed. ™ On the 29th inst. the Badische Aniline und Soda Fabril: at Srannheim, in spite of adverse weather conditions, was very suc- cessfully attacked. Many heavy bombs were dropped, and six bursts were observed on the factory. Our formation wa« attacked over the ob- jrctive by five hostile machines. Three of these were driven down, two of which were out of control. All onr machines returned oi.it o"' contro". All' o-- Air Ministry, Sunday night. On the night of June 29-30 bombing squadrons attacked the railway works at. I'inonville, the sidings at Mett-Sabloils. the* enemy's aerodromes at Freffssty and Bon- Ia?', and other military objectives. Mists Pr-?VL-ntm the ot6r:atiõn of rc?ult?. On th?? 30th inst. we dropp>d Yn?ny bombs at Hagenau aerodrome with good results. The cierc,ro!llp viitit rcsult?. also bombed. The formation over Landau was heavily attacked by hostile aeroplane*. Three of the enemy v/erc d-dtroyed, Tyro ot our machines are missing. • MANNHEIM TWICE BOMBED. The following was issued on Tuesday morn- ing from the Headquarters of the R.A.F. Independent Force in France — In addition to the attacks already reported, on the night of June 29-30 the chemical works at Mannheim were also bombed. One cf the machines reported as missing on the 30th ult. has now returned. On the night of June 30-july 1 further rtiacks were made on the enemy aerodrome nt Ben by, on railway works and stations at Thionviile, Remilly, 'Landau, ZWeibruckc?i, and Sar.rbruckcn. The works at Mannheim were JS^ain t't?c?cd. S.?'ba.m -i J"!? 1 tb? railways and wor?hnps at Kgrthaus, the station at Treves, aucl the Î railway triangle at Metz-Sablons were bombed with good eIred. One -hostile machine was shot down. Two of our machines are missing. 55 ENEMY PLASES DOWN. On Monday night the Press Bureau issued the On June 30 we had a most successful day in the air. In fighting twenty-five enemy: machines were shot down, and ten others w^re driven down out of control. Two .Gemail ? balloons were destroyed in addition. Our airmen carried out a large number of reconnaissances over the lines' both by day and by night, and many aerial photographs were taken. The nmnber of hostile "batteries rekstructivclv engaged by our artillery with ..aeroplane and balloon observation was greater than on any day during the past fortnight. Twenty-nine and a-half tons of bombs were dropped1 By us by day,f and seventeen tons on the following night. Of the latter, over seven tons fell with good effect on the, railway connections at Tournai. From the whole of these operations all our aeroplanes returned safely, with the excep- lion of ono scout and one night bombing ol one scou t-I and one night liom'biiis marne.. ————— ————— t

'HUNTING FIELD LIBEL. I 'I At Nottingham Assizes on Saturday, Mrs. Hathleeu Jtyer, wife of Colpnel Howard Dyer, of *En$t J^letfprd, was awarded = £ 400 damages for libel against Mr. A. Harrison Smith, Carlton Hall, Worfc- sop, and £ 200 against Colonel R. C. Otter, Royston Manor, Retford, formerly cf the Sherwood Foresters, and deputy master of the Grove Hunt. Mr. Smith's wife com- plained of plaintiff Is conduct in the hunt- iHT field, and Mr. Smith wrote to Colonel Otter, who took the complaint to the mili- tary authority. j

SIR ARTHUR LEE HONOURED. I A peerage has been conferred on Colonel j Sir Arthur Hamilton Lee, K.C.B., M.P., in 1 re,ic,gnition of his conspicuous public-seir- vices as Director-General of Food Produc- tion, 1917-18. Sir Arthur Lee has repre- sented the Fareha-m Division of Hampshire as a Unionist since 1900. lIe gave The j Chequers, his hoise in Buckinghamshire, 'to: the nation, as a residence fcr Prime Minigl 1 ters. ■■ ————— ?

1 ? I MX SSilLS.: 4 Tha National Salvage Council appeal to all householders, hotel proprietors, auperin- teudenta of institutions, liospitals, etc., to save all hard nut shells and fruit stones. They are urgently required for war pUT- posed I

FATAL BOXING MATCH. "'1 At an inquest at Denham Camp on Cadet j C. D. Harrison, Canadian R.A.F., it stated that he was knocked out in a friendly boxiug tournament and died a few hours later. "Accidental death was the ver- diet.

Bordeaux has taken the lead in France in starting municipal restaurants. A very fine specimen of the almost extinfet lizard orchid has been found near Brid°ge (East Kent). Oakwood Hall V.A.D. Hospital, noth- ham, occupied by wonnde'l soldi-?,rs, c;'ugi( £ fire and was destroyed. All the p.;tient» were removed. Mr. JVederick, Pwi;ii<"r. ('.I.S.. Is to act as honorary adviser to Ihe Air M.inktry on engineering questions. Miss Laura Clark, who mfrs seriously in- jured after losing control of her bicycle, htta dioJ. ia Scarbaroiigh Hctspital.

I NUIiSES AND DOCTORS AMONG k VICTIMS. —— 0"- 1 BRUTAL GERMANS. Admiralty, Monday. At 9.30 p.m. (ship time), i.e., about 10.30 British summer time, on June 27 (Thursday), when 116 miles south-west of the Fastnet, H.M. hcspital ship Llandovery Castle (Captain E. A. Sylvester), was torpedoed by enemy sub- marine while showing nil her navigating and regulation hospital lights, and sank in about ten minutes. She was homeward bound from Canada", and therefore had no sick or wounded on board, but her crew consisted of 164 officers and men, and she carried eighty Canadian Army Medical and fourteen female nurses. Of this total of 25S, only one boat contain- ing twenty-four survivors have so far reached port. Search is still being made, and. there is a bare possibility that others may yet be •found. It is to be noted that in this—as indeed in all other instances—the German submarine had perfect right to stop p.nJ search the hos- pital ship under the Hagv\e Convention. She preferred, however, to torpedo the Llan- dovery Castle. [ GERMAN BRUTALITY. I The following official narrative had been issued :— Germany's awful debt to the world eon tin uea to grow. Another hospital ship, the Llan- dovery Castle, has been torpedoed—this time 170 miles from the nearest land—and her people turned adrift in their boats to sink or swim as best they might. And though as it happened she had no wounded aboard, the tale of the crime reveals a wanton deliberation on rthe part of the submarine commander that almost suggests a hope on his part that he would find her full of injured and helplosa men. No one on board saw the wake of the tor- pedo. The first intimation of the presence of Hie submarine was the jar and roar of the ex- plosion from aft. Then the liglit3 went out. Along the darkened decks the crew groped to the boat stations and stood by for orders. The carpenter reported that one of the holds had been blown in and that the vessel could not remain afloat. The order was given to lower away boats on both sides and abandon fhip. THE LAST TO LEAVE. I The officer commanding the Canadian Army Medical Corps on board reported that all his people were out. Thia is important in view of the fact that no boat but the captain's has been picked up. Save for any of the .ship's company or engine-room crew who may have twen killed by the explosion of the torpedo, it is clear that everyone got away. One of the small boats, called accident boats, was being held back for those* last to leave the ship, but when all the others got away the captain went to hit; cabin for an electric torch, and returning to the deck, found that this also had foric. The second ofiioer, however, found a lifeboat hanging in tho falls. With the aid of o:¡e of the remain- ing Lands, a steward, he got her into the writer., and those yet on board get into her. They pushed off, and got clear just' in time to avoid being sucked under as the Llandovery .Castle's stern went down, leaving her long, 'lo\vB standing erect from the &'jh. A boiler eWmed to blojv up as the water reached it., Then, fttern first, the ship slid under and dis- rpced.; ten ni i -,iiites Mi? sank in not more than ten minutes ?-om the time of the cxplœlon of the torlodo. THE SUBMARINE APPEARS. I The captain's boat picked up eleven men from the wreckage, and then pulled over' towards a voice that called for help from the \vatei-. It was then that the long black &hape of the submarine appeared. Its conning tower was opened, aud there were vaguely seen figures along her decks. It hailed the boat in iihiglisli. "Come alongside," it ordered. The boat was pulling down to pick up the drowning, man. The second officer stood up and shouted back, "We are picking up a man from the water." "Come alqngside," repeated the brusque voice from the submarine. The beat held on its way, when two revolver shots were nrcd at or over it. "Come alongside, or I will shoot with my bi g gun," shouted the submarine commander. boat lay alongside the submarine, and the captain was ordered on board. in case lie should be made prisoner and ko',t on board, he gave to the second officer, who remained in the boat, the course to steer, and 'was then taken to the conning tower of the submarine, where two olhcers awaited him. COMMANDER S EXCUSES. I The oounn&nder- agked him eharpiy, "• n hat bhipwasthatF" "It was the hospital ship Llandovery Ca^oie," answered the captain. i (: the commander dKi ■ not attempt to appear surprised, "'out you aie carrying oigiit inner lean tiiglvo olhcer.s. h h arc not," replied the captain. have seven Canadian mvUicai officers on board, and the ship was chartered by the Canadian Government to carry sick and wouiRted Caua- aians from England to Canada. And to the submarine commanders reite- lie s iue ec)LiL,,A rated You have been carrying American officers," he added, "I nave been run- ning to clilakia for six months with wpunded, undT 1 give you my word ci honour that ve have carried none cxcept patients, medical fctail, crew, and sisters. The commander then demanded if there any Canadian medical officers in the 'boat, and was told there was one. He ordered him to come on board. "Where are our other boats! asked the captain then. The commander did rot answer he Vas watching the Canadian medical officer ?x;iu? Tcughly hauled on bc'?'d and thrust uio? the deck. This was done so violently nnd with E.uchphin inteutMU to illjun that the Canadian, Aiajor T. Lyon, C.A.M.C., had a small bone in his foot bioKcn by the hand- lilt; he received. ..L,jor Lyon was interrogated, and, after protesting his character as a medical officer, wa» -ordered back into the boat. The captain was also allowed to go. The boat was caat off, and pulled away from the submarine. U-EOAT OIEXS FIRE. I The submarine then began to circle round thy i»reeXage at ful speed. Sometimes aiie shaved vfce boat narrowly, once swirling past within two feet oi it, and once she stopped it again, took the second and fourth oncers on board, and questioned them. By this time tHe submarine commander had invented a new excuse, and stated that there was a big explosion aft as the vessel sank, a-xid that therefore she must have been carrying ammunition. The second officer explained the explosion of the boiler and the falling of the funnel, and they were allowed to return to the boat, which then set sail and proceeded. Again for a while the submarine circled and thio-at'cncd her by swooping close to her; then moved off and seemed to come to a stop. "From this position," says the captain's official statement, "she opened fire at an un- seen target, firing about twelve shells." It is too early yet, perhaps, to guess what the "unseen" target may have been. Possibly the other boats, when and if they are picked up, can furnish evidence on the point. The captain's boat had been- towed for some distance while alongside the submarine. There was nothing to be seen of the others, and the captain decided to make for the Irish coast to send help. After sailing and pulling for about p-eventy miles they were picked up by H.M. destroyer Lysander, .which immediately sent out wireless that search should be made for the other survivors, and carried the occupants of the captain's boat into Queenstown. (

MR. PETHICK LAWSENCE. Before the Dorking Tribunal, Mr. Fredk. W. Pethick Lawrence, the suffragist, zq)- pealed for absolute exemption as a ognseien- tious objector. Mr. Lawrence, who has been placed in Grade II., is prospective Labour candidate for Hastings. "I have been for a long time a convinced opponent of all forms of militarism," he j said, "and the evil fruits of it I saw ex- hibited in Germany have served to j strengthen my conviction. I cannot, there- j fore, accept military service, nor can I pro- mote the war or release other men to take j part in it. The Tribunal decided to give conditional I exemption from all combatant service pro- viding that Mr. Lawrence obtains work of »ir.tional importance within twenty-one days. J Mr. Lawrence: I shall appeal. j *——————

HIRE OF RAILWAY WAGONS. j ——— ( It has, says an official announcement, re- < cently come to the notice of the Minister nr j Munitions that in many case3 unreasonable rates of hire are being demanded for privately-owned railway wagons. The I Minister therefore has decided that no per- mits for hiring will be granted at rates ex- ceeding the following: 12-ton wagon, 8s. 3d. per week; 10-ton wagon, 7s. 3d. per week; 8-ton wagon. Gs. Bel. per week; these rates to include the keeping of the wagon in re- pair by the lessor. About 700,000 privately- owned railway wagons will be affected.

A MODERN BLUEBEARD. I Ah Kent Assizes, Tom Wilkinson, aliaa Tom Williams, was sentenced to seven years' penal servit'nde for bigamy. He had already received seven years at Derby for a similar ¡ offence.  It ia eta?d that he had ?pae through a j ceremony of marriage with five women, and j at the time of his arrest was arranging to ms-rrv three oilers. He had deserted from three regiments. —————* —————

VICAR ENLISTS AS PRIVATE. The Rev. J. H. Hopkinson, Vicar of Holy ) Trinity Church, Colne, and son of Sir Alfred former Vice-Chancellor of Man- ■ Chester University, has left his benefice and joined the East Lanes. Regiment as a pri- vate. Mr. Hopkinson is forty years of age, and the father of five young children. — ——.— ————— 1

I HONOURS OF FIRST ARMY. i Sir Douglas Haig has sent the following < telegram, dated the 28th ult. I To G.O.C. First Arnv.-Pleise congratulate Lieutenant-General Sir R. Uaking and all j] ranks under his command on the successful j operation carried out by them this morning, ) which reflects great credit on all concerned. —^ i

BIG HAILSTONES. I Winter is the season of s,ow but summer j of hail (says a contemporary). Hail is very j generally associated with thunder, and t thunder is more often a summer visitant than not. Some summers are remarkable for » the number of visitations of this kind, and Y/hcn these are execssive in mtmbf?r and i ,?overity it is a bad thi,, r thc fr?it crop, 'or h e, for there is no form of weather more ¿" Etructiv than a h?i!st,om to the orchard and garden. But th? LaH w? ?°t in this ¡ country, although it is occasionally Hk?ncd I ,h it i?; occi-olaal l y to marbles and pigeons* ejrgs and the like, to ba nothing at all compared with the hail th< f get in some it Ti ate parts of the globe. There are -numerous Vell- luthenticated cases of hailstones weighing half a pound and more; but claims which go far beyond this meagre weight are made. S'ones of six to eight ponn-Is arc said to have fallen in Namur in 1719, and the --is- sionary, Father Hue, who ought to be a credible witness, records the fail in Tar- tary, in 1813, of a block of ice as big as a millstone, which took three days to melt. In May, 1802, a Hungarian village re- ported a 1,1001b. block, requiring eight men to move it; and in Tippoo's time one a3 big as an elephant was said to have fallen near Seringapatam. These. are "some" hail- stones.

EARLY RAILWAY GUIDES. I The 1841 Bradshaw does not afford such good reading as a work of the same kind I published six yeqrs earlier—Lacey's Railway Companion. This gives not only the times of the trains but tho names of the engines and of the railway carriages. It also con- tains some hints to travellers, from which we learn that all the scats in trains were then numbered and reserved. "The best situation to have a just conception of the enormous undertaking and to obtain a clear idea of the beauty of the country, is a seat at the top of the carriages." Lacey's work is not so rare as the earlier Bradahawe, being more substantial, and thus not so likely to be destroyed.

I WAR WORK FOR THOSE WHO HAVE i BEEN CALLED. The Ministry of National Service has I modified the order that a man cannot be enrolled as a war work volunteer or apply I for enrolment a6 a war agricultural volun- teer if he is actually under call for military service. Men of the new military age who may be I tinder call may enrol up to an including July 6, so long as they do so on or before the actual date on which they are due to report for military service. o man can be enrolled until he has been accepted by an employer to fill a definite vacany for which the employment of a volunteer is authorised. If a man under call to report for military service on or before July 6 is enrolled, he should return his calling-up notice to the office of issue, endorsed by an official of the Exchange. His calling-up notice will then be suspended for fourteen days, to enable him to obtain a certificate of protection. A man w ho wishes to enrol as a war agricultural volunteer should proceed in the same way, but he can apply either to an Employment Exchanges, or an Agricultural Executive Committee No man who has been finally refused exemption by a Tribunal is eligible for pro- tection either as a war work volunteer or as a war agricultural volunteer. Calling-up notices are not to be issued to men of the new military age until ten days after the date on which they are due to report for medical examination. The men, after their medical examination, can thus offer themselves for enrolment under the war work volunteer scheme, or the war agricultural volunteer scheme, before receiv- ing a calling-up notice for military service. ■ 1 M — —■■■■ ■

DEATH REVEALS SECRET. At Stainc3, after investigating the cause of death of Xavier Carbuccio, a discharged French soldier, a coroner s jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against his wife, Bertha Carbuccio, and she was committed' for trial. The man was found shot, with three bullet wounds in his body. A servant said she knew the accused as Madame Goodman and the deceased man att Mr. Alfred Lccocq. They passed as brother and sister. Oliver Richardson Goodman, of Goswell- road, London, an architect: said he had known the deceased man as brother of Bertha Carbuccio. Tie was under the im- pression they were brother and »ist.er; in fact, he would not believe otherwise now. The deceased man knew of his acquaintance with Bertha. They had mutually agreed to part.

"DEMORALISED YOUTH." "High wages are having a demoralising effect on the youth of the town," remarked Councillor Sneihan, at a meeting of the Pr-estou Town Council. "Most glaring ernes are coming before the Advisory Cornnnittiee," he continued. "One boy of sixteen, applying to the committee, absolutely refused a job at 30B. weekly, say- ing he had been gettin7 40s. and left be- cause his waster gave him a word or two.

fORTCNS-TELLSK Fi.NED. At West London Police-court, Jules An- diger Toyey, !J.vbridge-road, was fined, with cobt3, £ b7~ 12s., and his wife, Alexandra Tovey, was bound over, for- professing "to tell fortunes. Defendants carried bn"T)ttsii iiesa at a "phrenological institute," and it was alleged by the police that numbers of people called for the purpose of having their ,L."ts told by tho cards, etc. —.——— —————

BOY'S LIFE FOR 3ALL At a Bethnal Green inquest on William Deighton, aged nine, a verdict of &Cci- dental death" was returned. The boy was climbing from a window of art empty house to the gUutJering to get an n-diarubber ball when he fell into the back yard. On ilini were eleven other I>all, all of which it is believed he had retrieved from thegnbtering of houses.

SALE OF UNMARKETED SHEEP. At Brentwood Police-court, Thomas Knight, dealer, South Weald, was fined 420 and < £ 10 10s. costs for selling$heep for slaughter otherwise thau in a market; and Frank May, butcher, Brentwood, was fined i-TO and £ 5 5s. costs for slaughtering the unmarketed animals.

WON M.M. THREE TIMES. A Second Bar to the Military Medal has been awarded to Corporal E. J. Cousfcis, ilidulesex Regiment (Mile End').

MAKING BRICKS. Dolomite waste is the material used for A firebrick patented by two Pennsylvanians. The dust and tine fragments produced in granulating calcined dolomite are made into balls with water, and either alone or mixed with other materials, the mass is dead burned, submitted to a brick-making treat- ment, and again burned. The product is dense and strong. The very refractory bricks are claimed to be suitable for basic open-hearth furnaces and other pur8. and to show no tendency to slack, even in hot water.

THEFT BY GERMAN. At West Ham Police-court, on Saturday, Robert Drickel, thirty-four, described as a German subject and a tug driver, was sen- tenced to two months' hard labour for steal- ing a roll of cotton piece goods, valued at .£2, the property of the Maritime Lighter* age Company, and he pleaded guilty.

SUICIDE IN WELL Henrietta Ston&rd, aged fifty-seven, who was for nearly forty years in the service ol the late Rev. J. H. Townsend, vicar of Oat. lands Park, committed suicide by jumping down a. well at Guildford. ■

Of 5,660 seamen who were accommodated ?.t the Sailors' Home, London Docks, last year, 1,447 were officers and men from 128 (ships sunk by the enemy, says the home's annual report. The South Metropolitan Gas Company an- nounce an increase in the price of gas for ordinary consumers to 4s. per 1,000 cubio feet. Ten Canadiian conscientious objectors have been sentenced to imprisonment, for refusing to obey military orders, and taken to Wandsworth Prise n. •

TAMPERING WITH SHELLS. I At a Norfolk police-court William, Camp- bell Wilson, works manager, and Samuel Wyres, foreman fitter, were each fined £ 100 10s. costs for doing acts to shrapnel shells liable to render them ineffective and to deceive the Government shell examiners. They were said to have filled with Swedish iron holes drilled too deeply in certain shell-forgings, and pleaded that they had so acted to make them serviceable. This plea the Ministry of Munitions did not, dispute, but teld 'that the regulations must be en- forced.

PRISON FOR A MUTE. j At the Old Bailey, sentence of four months' imprisonment was passed on Fredk. J Daniel Dowsett, twenty-two, a tanner's < labourer, who is deaf and dumb, for larceny, i There was a long list of convictions against I him in different parts of the country. A probatipn officer said that accused was very fond of reading books of the "Deadwood Dick" type, and he stole more in a spirit of  romance than because of dishonest inten- jj tion. ————— j

AGRICULTURE AND ARMY. t Sir Richard Winfrey, replying to a ques- j' ,tion in the House of Commons, said further calling-up notices of men enga-ged in agri- culture had been postponed till after the j! harvesti Men who had already received their calling-up notices must, he understood, obey them.