The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-17

dKUWING PhUBLEM
 IN GREATEST CITY London, May 17.-The two militant
 sufragettes who recently captured k The Monument Wren's masterpiece | which stands near the northern ap-
 proach to London Bridge, commence l rating the great fire of 1666, knew 1 that they were in grave danger Of | personal injury from the exasperated crowd which gathered about the base ! of the structure. but they have not yet | learned that their temporary abode I was in even greater peril. Overlook l ing the monument in one of his Ma l jesty's tax collecting offices, and in 1 the office sat one of that type of the 1 Kings tax collectors who never over l look anything that may add to the l Lloyd George budget
 This collector after hastily reading ] the law relating to the imposition of l the inhabited house tax, sought the | besieging the monument and begged him for permission to present the suf- fragette garrison with demand for | inhabited house duty on the ground | that, having dispossessed the care l taker, the two women were the de l facto occupants of the structure. AS ! the tax collector mournfully confess l ed later. the inspector was the usual type of London police official with l out the requisite imagination to grasp 1 the possibilities of this counter stroke, 1 and he refused to@pernit the Ievying 1 of the demand. The collector stated that the tax. would have made no 1 small hole in the war chest of the mil
 itants, because he hattered himself | that the adjusters would permit a I l tiful structure.
 1 The inocuous bombs which have been discovered near various banks 1 in London recently were not placed 1 there by practical jokers, as the police have been inclined to believe, but, ac- l cording to member of the militant
 organization, the fake explosives were left by recruits of the Women's Social i and Political Union. who were being | tested by their, leaders as to their fit ness for more serious forays.
 It seems that a militant member l who was suspected of being an agent 1 of Scotland Yard was given bomb | to place in the doorway of a we'll | known bank. It was of the usual milk
 can variety, filled with black powder,
 and with an electric fuse attached. l The suspected member hastened to i Scotland Yard with the bomb, where
 it was very gingerly conveyed to the | department which makes a speciality | of handling these dangerous contri- 1 vances. After the fuse was removed
 the powder was submitted to the Scot | land Yard chemist, who, after a brief
 examination, pronounced the sub I stance ordinary wheat four, mixed with lamp black. The woman was
 then permitted to place the bomb as originally planned, but Scotland Yard
 fears that the usefulness of it's agent 1 is at an end because she was shadow | oH fn he ma Of
 S. Fl U.
 conference of the leading mari l time nations of the world will be held
 in London early next autumn with 1 the purpose of establishing on an in
 ternationa1 basis the new regulations l for the safety of life and property at
 sea
 In June or July an informal consul
 tation will be held at which time the report of the Committee on Bulk
 heads. appointed to advise as to the
 watertight sub- division of all ner-
 chant ships. will be available. Mean l while the different countries concern
 ed are making preparations and so l far as the life saving rules are con
 cerned, opinions have been inter
 changed for some time The new In
 ternational, Radio-teIegraphic Conven- | ton will come into operation next l July. This is the outcome of the In-
 ternationaI Wireless Convention held
 here last summer.
 A general strike of British searuen l is to be declared early in June as the | sequel to the agitation for a national 1 conciliation board to regulate work ] ing conditions on board ship, and 1t IS | possible, unless the demand is aeced-
 ed to, that the transport workers
 throughout the country will come out l in sympathy.
 Tom Mann, who organized the great l transport strike of two years ago, has
 been engaged by the National Sailors
 and Firemen's Union to carry 8. | months campaign, which he com
 menced on May Day, A6 enlist the sup- port of the transport workers.
 l The actual date of the strike will be
 kept secret, as it was two years ago, 1 the giving of the signal being left to | HaveIock Wilson, the president of the ! union; Edward McHugh, M. P. for
 AEid-Tyrone. and Father Hopkins.
 trustees of the union.
 The first merchant vessel to leave
 England armed in accordance with
 the proposals of Winston Churchill.
 First Lord of the Admiralty, has sail i ed for South America. She is the 1 Aragon, of the Royal Mail line, and
 she brings home from the Argentine | great quantities of chilled meat. Her
 sister ship, the Amazon, which is now | completing, will be similarly outftted.
 The necessary structural arrange nnents were made while the ships were | building, and to each vessel the ad- | miralty has supplied two 4.7 inch guns. The officers and seamen of I the steamers include a, large number of Royal Naval Reserve men. who 1 in case of-an emergency would be ca pablo of manning the guns.
 This armament is of course not in