London, Sept, 8.
4 is unnecessary to dwell on the King's splendid. sacrifice of £50,000 of, his Civil List and the Prince of Wales's gift of $10,000 from' his private income, These things. will Uhl the nation and evoke a better response than Mr. Hayday, the chairman's, speech at. the Trade Usiion Congress at Bristol. yeSterday, with its piling up of "sinister influences" and "secret forces" and its complete failure to deal with the realities of the crisis.
His Majesty's contributions national causes ate great. In 1915 he gave £5,000 to the British Red Cross and Order of St. John, and another £5,000 a year Tater. "In November, i917, he headed the King George's Fund with £5,000; and at his and the Queen's silver wedding hhe.-"docided "that. the City. of London's gift of £59,000 should be devoted to helping the disabled In'1915 His Majesty ordered that no" alcoholic liquors, were to. be consumed in any of his houses, so fas to. put himself on a level with all others in this respect. And Jater, when the submarine campaign became s0 bad, he and the Queen put themselves on the national food rae counterpart of His Majests 1 counterpart of His Majesty's Jead is the many letters that Mr. MacDonald is daily receiving from members of the working class all over the country. Some enclose money to help the nation's indebtedness, some have sent pension vouchers which they now renounce, many applaud his action and promise, gladly to accept whatever sacrifices are required.
Tt la, perhaps, a good augury that the day on, which the Government announces its plans. to Parliament is the seronest, brightest of the year.
Mr. Hayday's speech at the Trade Union Congress had nothing constructive to offer and dealt most Jy in vituperation of the bankers an imperious international financial combination, possessing the to bring even a country like wealthy, "solvent and" productive, to its knees.
But Mr. Citrine, in a review of events, quoted an extraordinarily startling remark by Mr. Snowden, when the late Cabinet T.U.C. to discuss what done. chequer suid:
"You do nat know how ser HOH cSuapiesy if the youd fern In. "We believe fernly
iy'deprecigte, you will have chaos ideal in this county; unemployed 1,000, er 10,008,000. trid the Wworkers General Council of the however, were not to be They prefer their own To mention the floods in England inthe same breath with" the cataclysm in China seems. almost impertinent. But though no lives have been lost, the continuous rains the north and northern midlan have done terrible damage.
'At Whitby a lifeboat was sent two miles along a road to save some women cut off by water. Large parts of Derby were flooded by raging torrents from the Derwent, and hundreds of fonlies were' cut off in the upper storeys of their houses and had to be fed by boats. At Matlock. the Derwent suddenly. rose 10 ft. flooding large parts of the town' ruining many shops and turning the park into a Jake. Along the Mersey the floods are the worst known for 50 years. Landslides on railways in the Esk valley are reported and all over a huge area crops are ruined and many cattle have perished.
'When one also reads that storms bitter cold and early snow are afflicting many parts of France and that the Champagne harvest has' been seriously injured, one wonders what evil influence has been at work in the weather of all the world.
Tu connection with China's floods, the following resolution was passed
Cgmmittee of the World Alliance the International "Executive for" International Friendship hrough the Churches, meeting at. Cambridge: meeting. of the Inter-
sites tO express its dee smmitice of the, World felt synipathy with "the People of China in the terrible dis-ater. which has overtaken them, cee eadtar pice mia ur emo The ate Sir Hall Came net ce Si, B08 Seth Satan B00 ere tone. "Ai gla te eck Sit and a id "Cas detec nit be' wee mica the island, the whole is exempt elle etter compete Chine "yeah "Senay teat bal" ander Mace fee ented eae FAY persona ate abet life interest.in the real estate. If ths diss he Na ce ate to. the extent. of - seven-tenths, ultimately goes to Sir Hall Came's inti cee oe We chine kept uP by his trustees, with His literary work is the subject mine Mand that they shall be pal that they shall be pad fees for all Each the power legatees however zealous But in the long run it is beyond
to fix the length of public memory.
'The end of the story of Commdr. Pochhammer's assertion that Adfmiral Sturdee called on him to drink the King's health at dinner in the Invincible, after the battle of the Falklands' will interest you. Pochhammer was picked up it will be remembered when his ship, the Gneisenau ann "and this tatement_ oppos his book:
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