The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-06-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WOOD CO. Lrait, so. omossaiwome. faxe.o4l.• 4  8o  Senator elainiciians, the well-known professor of the Bologna Univervity; has presented to the military authorities a new mask which will neutralise the effects of asphyxiating ga.es, and *lnch he wnloiderA the best in existence. It has been invented by a lady, Signora Bianca Bordo and is ot a most simple character, consisting of a gauze net with twelie"threada to 6qUale inch, 2,1 inches of elastic, tot a waits cord. The lathes of Bologna are already diligently waking maoks to this pattern for tile army. • • • •  The parents of Sergeant O'Leary, V. 0., have been overwhelmed with inquiriea concerning the fate of their bon .4.'letter revived by them on Tuesday evening fron3H the sergeant himself removes all doubt. In this letter, which is dated May 27, *e writes:—" I have seen by to-day's NtPers that I have been killed in action. No, I am still in the firing line doing my bit for my King and country. I trust God is not going to call on me so soon unti4 I have done a bit 1110 re for my country. I came out of the last battle with only a tew scratches, thank God."  • • * • The Warrington Town Council on Tossdaynight decided to support the movement urging Parlisment to einpuwer ties iunpaliand district councils ta contribute towards the cost of the maintenance and equipment of any orgarrisation for the purposes of home defence. A further resolution was passed that the Council cordially approved of the objects of the Warrington District Volunteer 'fraiMng Corps.  omtPaT BEATING AND OLIIIANINGI —CU Vrtlaitanatilliek"" tOpt7ierDln4a and Ift •  When war broke out Michael Cowen, a 144-year-old Burnley boy. disappeared. His mother published " Missing from home" notices about him, and later found that he had enlisted and was etaHoned near Hull. He is now a private in the ath Manchester Regiment, obioh ie in France. Cowen is probably one of the youngest men in the British ArmY•  The German soldier, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Schmidt, who was shot dead, on Sanday night, while trying to escape from Leigh Camp, was accorded a military funeral on 'Puesday, at Lh Cemetery. Crowds hoed the streets, and the lir:Antis' band played a funeral hypin a. the nortege left the camp. The firing party, nembenng sixteen. came first, then the hearse, then an armed esoort with thirteen German military knsoners in uniform carry. lag wreaths. Volleys were lire& over th• grare.  • • • • 'The newly-appomted Lord Channel for, Sir Stanley ltdekmaster, KC.. wits 0,1 Tuesday forn;Lany sworn In at the Derg Court,. The ceremony, vir4cl was pre, aided over by the Master of the 1R,07.1d,..Wal *trended by moat of the pidgins 0. the High Court, and there wis a croaltivd arterxhanc• of members of the Bar, lei by Sir E Car, -eon, the 4.l;kierneT-Goner*l A domestic tragedy was reported from BadWigton' Northumberland, on Weds'sdey. Two c.hildren,,a bey sod a p• 11, werS farad dead in their cribs with their throats cut. The mother, Mary Ann Her. I bottle. a miner', wile, who is stated to I have attempted CO poison herself, was later remanded on a charge of murder. A double tragedy, oupposed to be a case of murder , sad suicide, was reported to the Spalding police on WeditewdAt A young we'l44m gamed Blida Mule Using was found deed I vitia her throat cut, and a gtaworks stoker L named Herbert Bassett was discovered 'drowned, also with his throat cut.  • • •  A galls& Yorkshire soldier was honoured on Wednesday at Chester Castle in the person of Corporal Dempeey, of the 2utl York. shire Regiment- At a ceremonial parade the WAS preoented by General Sir Henry meckinnttn with the distinguished conduct medal, awarded him for conspicuous gallantry ander fire. Dempsey wile thrice recommended for the distinction, haring cartied deepatches under heavy fire. He has been mince April 3rd a patient at kloole Bank Red Cross Hospital, near Chester, and it' making good recovery. His camracks at the hospital were driven into Chester to witness the aeremony.  At It ilantle in liodson-etreat, Salford, a woman was on WedoesclaY found haft/wed to death, her body 1303i11i a mass of braise/LI Oh lionasy night considerable uproar woe, heard, and on Wednesday, when the bod-1 room door was forced open, the body was. found. A man's blood-stained boote were also in the room. The deceemod wee nivont JO years of ape.