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THE

DAILY

MIRROR

June 14, 1909

PAGEAHT OF THE EMPIRE'S SEA POWER.

Oyer 400 Passengers Rescued from Wrecked Cunarder.
Once again wireless telegraphy has proved instrumental ill saving many hundreds of lives at sea. It now appears that it was through the timely receipt of Marconi messages for help from the Cunard liner Slavonia, which went ashore o3 Flores Island, in the Atlantic, that the 410 passeni^ers were rescued on Thursdiiy and Friday last. This is the second occasion this year on which a wileless appeal for help from a wrecked liner has proved effective in averting a terrible catastrophe, the feat of the heroic operator. Jack Binns, w h o tapped off the despairing appeal for help " C.Q.D."and thereby saved every soul on board .the Kepubiic last January, being fr^sh in the minds. of aU. The Slavonia, commanded by Captain Dunning, left New York on June 3 for the Mediterranean, being engaged in the Hungarian-American service. At about midnight on Wednesday the North German liner Princess Irene and the HamburgAmerika liner Batavia received wireless messages of distress from the Slavonia, which had gone aground two miles from Flores Island. Botli vessels immediately hastened to the stranded shipthe Princess Irene was 180 miles distantand by Thursday evening were alongside. At daybreak on Friday all the 110 cabin passengers liad been transferred to the Princess Jrcnc, and the intermediate and steerage passengers to, the Batavia. The wireless operator who was instrumen'tal in saving the lives of the ilO passengers is Mr. S. Coles (says Renter), an English employee of the Marconi Company.

Press Conference Delegate Gives His Impressions of G r e a t N a v a l Review at Spithead.

The delegates to the Imperial Pre^s Conference attended the. great fleet review arranged in their honour at Portsmouth On. Saturday, and one of them, Mr. G. W. McCready, has given The Daily Mirror his impressions of the great spectacle, which will be found below. Mr. McCready, who comes from St. John, New Brunswick, and.is editor of the Daily Telegraphthere, was a war correspondent during the SpanishAmerican war, and therefore he has had some experience of the work of fleets.

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Wife Writes Tfiat They Are Only Wanted When Work Is Over.

STRIKING POWER OF THE EMPIRE.

By E. W. IHeCREADY. AH the world, and,, most of all, the British peoples oversea, will be quick to seize "the significance of the picture of sea power spread on the grey, rainsplashed canvas at Portsmouth on Saturday, when the Imperial Press delegates saw for themselves, and for the dominions whose eyes they are, the striking power of the Empire, concentrated, sombre, ready, Yet had Nelsoii taken his old place on the Victory's quarter-deck after his guns had saluted the Admiralty flag, clapped his glass to his good eye and swept the scene -before him, it'occurs to one oversea observer that die might have been struck TORPEDOING THE DREADNOUGHT. by the absence of something, and have gazed expectantly seaward. No visiting Sovereign' has ever seen such a Far there was good anchorage space and to, spare beside and beyond .that mighty fleet, even though mighty perspective of power as that furnished it represented sea power without parallel; arid one by the huge fleet of 154 war vessels through which, (HfSdently ventures the surmise that Nelson would led by the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, the delehave expected to discern, steaming in through the gates of the Imperial Press Conference steamed on DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED. seaward gate,, the auxiliary fleets of Canada, of Saturday. Australia, of New Zealand, of the Cape. Once Sir Joihn Fisher, who accompanied them, was From the wireless station at Ponta Delgada their anchors had plunged down to bohlmg ground, able to point out to them the grim Dreadnoughts, (Azores) the Cunard Company has received the fol- and the sailor of sailors had seen that one and all the Lord Nelsonsonly less formidableand other had paid his shot, sesraan-like, in the current Im- battleships. There were some twenty-five in all, lowing message : ^ " Received following wireless report from operator perial coin of the hour, one thinks that the great each of them able to cope with any foreign ship . figure here conjured up would have shut his teleof the North German liner Princess Irene : There, too, was the Indomitable, with her sisters, _ " ' The Cunard liner Slavonia called distress scope and smiled, content. His was the great heart. the Inflexible and the Invincible, long, lean greysignal of Marconi system on Wednesday night, at hounds of the sea, yet themselves a match almost ENDrJHING PICTURE, twelve o'clock. for a Dreadnought battleship; and a forest of fun" ' We heard it, and the Batavia, too, afterwards. Well, one widespread conviction growing out of nels and masts.proclaimed the presence of line upon She asked to come right along and help. the-events of the last .ten days is that the shot will line of causers,.grey all and fleet. " ' We cancelled our course and went to the be paid. If so, pageant and powder-burning, even Then the destroyers, that strike and flee; and Slavonia. Our position was 180 miles south. The upon so magnificent a scale, were happily con- then, a ripple on the surface, the suhmarin-s, that ceived. strikes in the dark, deadly and silent. Saturday's was a picture for Verestchagin, who These latter the visitors see at their deadly work won immortality seeking the final canvas in the from the Dreadnouglit, the object of their attack. crash of battle. It had been the good fortune of Destroyer after destroyer.swirls past and discharges some of Sir John Fisher's guests to have seen other its_ torpedoessome to b e caught in the battleship's fleets in stirring days elsewhere, but one and all nets, one or two to penetrate or dive under the of them.had boine in upon them the common and net defence and strike the leviathan's bare Hank.abiding realisation how the gigantic and various Then the submarines and more of this deadly play. armada of Britain dwarfed the fleets of t.he world, "Next tO' Whale Island, where another side of the ahke in power and in purpose. sailor's life and training is seen. .An invasion from the sea; a brisk frght, and the final repulse of the Each, had had his own long range conception of the Navy ; but the thing itself, grouped in its might invaders. under his eye, instantly swept away all previous Then back to London, to end the dy with three The Slavonia. impressions and left a new, a hving and enduring cheers at Victoria: for Sir John Fisher, picture whose effect, carried oversea and forming' (Photographs on pages 8 and 9.) position of the Slavonia was south of Flores, two the basis of innumerable articles in the Press of miles from the shore, outer Britain, cannot fail of some Imperial harvest. " ' We arrived at that island Thursday evenihg at . DELEGATES* COUNTRY TOUR. ' The perfection of the Admiralty's arrangeten o'clock, and took over, during the whole night, ments very one's recognition of the quick and far-' and the passengers, and were ready this morning, about reaching fruition of the idea behind the Press ConThe delegates commence to-day their tour of the (ive o'clock. ference made one regret that the millions of over- provinces, which, with their Scottish visit, will take " ' W e left anchor then and went to Gibraltar. sea Britons could not, by some magic, have been about a fortnight. We cculd not see the Slavonia. She was too far enabled to see, as their delega.tes sawj the massed Leaving Euston by special train from us, and the operator told us this morning that sea forces of their Empire, bespeakmg amazing they inspect the Daimler Company'sfor Coventry,. works there,. the ship is full of water to the hatches. organisation, untold ex.penditure of public treasure, and then motor, via Stratford-on-Avon and Ban" ' The crew could not stay longer, and they went vast and yet silent sacrifice, uniting to produce this bury, to Oxford, Avhere they spend the night, ashore at ten o'clock this moraing. The Slavonia tmparalleled preparation to .keep the sea and thus To-morrow they will be the guests is totally tost and wrecked; she will never slip off make Empire still possible in this day of titanic Curzonj the Chancellor of the University,ofof,Lord' lunthe rocks. That is all I can tell y o u , ' " and ominous competition for place by the races cheon m All Souls' library, afterwards visiting a of the world. number of other colleges. Then tea will be taken Since it ivas impossible that all the far-flung at the Union, and later they proceed by special GERMANY'S LARGEST LINER. British peoples could see for themselves the stage train to Sheffield. as it was set at Portsnio.uth, one's news -sense A number of the delegates attended service at N e w Ocean G i i n t Accotninodating 3,303 compelled the further regret that a.cheapened cable Westminster Abbey_ last night, and the preacher, did not make it a matter of everyday newspaper the Bishop of Kensington, made a reference in ihis Persons L e a v e s on H e r M a i d e n V o y a g e . work to have sent, within a few hours of the sermon to the work of the conference. " A noble ship bearing a noble n a m e " was the apt description given yesterday to the George Washington, the largest steamer ever built in CJermany, just before she left Southampton on her MR. R, E . WALKER'S " D O U B L E " AT STAMFORD BRIDGE. maiden trip to New York. The vessel has a displacement of 27,000 tons, and' belongs to the North German Lloyd Company. She has, a Carrying capacity of no fewer than 3,303 persons565 fiist-class passengers, 433 second-classj 452 third-class, 1,220 steerage, and a crew of 627. A novel feature is the introduction of windows on the upper promenade deck. These windows can be put down or up as required, thus allowing passengers to use the deck in the worst weather without any inconvenience to themselves,

" M e n do not siiend mnough time at home with their wives." This accusation, made against married men in event, an extended story of the day to. the millions' general by a lady in a letter which appeared in last who honour the common flag, but who live remote from the sea, unquestioned command of which Friday's Daily Mirror, has provoked many letters -atojie .makes- it possible for them to work out their. from Daily Mirror readers. destinies untroubled by the stroke of war carrfed " I have a large experience of middle-class Lonto their own thresholds. don families," writes " Mrs. K. G.," from IlampNot a few of the Press visitors had heard over- stead, " and almost every wife I know is quite consea a i^hisper that England was- faltering, that tent if the husband spends an hour or two at home the beat of the heart of the Empire had become in tlie evenings. , weaker. They have seen what to them is abun" A husband is only wanted in the home when dant evidence that the truth is tiie reverse. work is ovet and the wife has nothing to do but to They find the Motherland both alert and resolute, sit down and read or sew. Then, of .course, he is greatly burdened, but more greatly resolved and welcome, and that is the only time when he is really .fitted to play the grim game out^ be its demands necessary to domestic happiness." " A, H . " writes as fo.lows from Chislehurst, to what they may. And.among this evidence of Britain's .sound heart explain the absence of some men from their homes : " T am a husband and have been married teA years, and high purpose we must count no contribution more convincing than the sight of the grey ships " My wife is more devoted to her home than she at Spithead, the most visible and speaking proof is to me, .She seems more particular about the of England's great spirit since " Drake went down drawing-room carpet {widi regard to dust) than my to the H o r n . " own clothes, Gradually I am becoming a nonentity In their own way, but without delay or traffick- in my own house. ing, the outlying dominions will come into line. " What am I to do? There is only one thing Until they do (and the forthcoming defence con- to come home as infrequently as possible. There ference will mark a common and effective agree- is little comfort in smoking by oneself in odd coiners ment) one of Portsmouth's Saturday visitors will of the house, so I go to my club in the evenings." still be aware of a figure in blue on the deck of the Victory, his expectant glass trained upon the seaward gate,

THE LATE ME. CHARLES MORRISON.

The only photograph in existence of the late Mi'. -Charles Morrison, of Basildon Park:, Keading, wfiose estate lias been valued, " as far as at present can be sscerlained," at e,G(Jfi,6ee 13s, 4tA. A snapihoi. it 's considered by the family, to he an excellent likeness. (S. V. White,)

MOTOR-OMNIBUS ACCIDENTS.
M a n y Persons Injured b y Collisions A l d e r s h o t and Clapbam Junction. at

Two accidents to motor-omnibuses, involving injuries to a large number of persons occurred yesterdayone at Aldershot, and the other in London. One of the omnibuses rnnning from Battersea to Highbury was passing cown the slight incline in Falcon-road, when the driver found that he waJi unable to apply his brakes. H e promptly signalled lo the driver of an oncoming tramway-car to stop,. but a collision occurred. Several persons were seriously hurt. One of them, an old gentleman, who had his legs injured,, was removed to Bolingbroke Hospital. While going along the avenue of Atdershot Camp at a speed of nine miles an hour, a motor-omnibus on the Aldershot and I^arnborough service suddenly, .owing to the breaking of the.steering-rod, crashed with terrific force into a telegraph pole, Of the thirty-six passengers on the vehicle more than half were injured, four so seriously that they had to be conveyed to the Cambridge Military Hospital. (Photoaraph on page 5.)

NEW GAME WANTED FOR GIRLS,

H o c k e y D e c l a r e d ' Unsatisfactory " Because It E m p l o y s So F e w Players. Hockey, in the opinion of Miss F . K. Gray, M.A, (of St. Paul's Girls' School), is not an altogether satisfactory game, "because it employs so few girls at a time, and leads so many others to look on at the game." Speaking on the " Right and Wrong of Games " at the annual conference of headmistresses, which was continued on Saturday in London, Miss Gray went on to beg somebody to invent another game which should occupy a large number of girls at a time, could be'played by few or many, and' which would reqnjre no special dress. ARBITRATION AWARD.

HOSPITAL SUNDAY IM LONDON.

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Judges A t t e n d Special Service in St. Paul's.

Hospital Sunday was observed yesterday in London, and the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, attended the special afternoon service at St. Paul's in aid of the Hospital Fund, at which Archdeacon Sinclair preached. The Judges of the High Court were also present, the occasion 'coinciding with the first Sunday in Trinity Terra. EX-LIEUTENANT WOODS' APPEAL.

Mr. Duke, K . C . , the arbitrator in the dispute between the Great Western Railway Company and its employees regarding their hours and rates of wages, has just issued his award. The claim for time and a quarter payment for overtime is awarded, subject to modifications' in the case of some grades

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VILLAGE

ANTI-SOCIALIST

DIN.

It was intimated in the Court of Appeal on Saturday that the appeal of exT..ieutenant Woods against the striking out of his acfion against the Army Council on the ground that it was frivolous rtLd vexatious would be taken to-morrow.

Bugles, clappers,, and other noisy instniinenis were employed, in the village of Tilty (Es^es) on Saturday night by the audience assembled at a roadside meeting to hear a speech in Irivour of Socialism fr,qijn^.Mr.,IIarry Quelch. , ,^