... CANAL MYSTERY SHIP HELPS IN POLICE SEARCH A ship proceeding up the Exeter canal to-day helped police investigations into the mystery of two legs which have been found in the canal. Police officers followed the boat in the hope that the wash created by ...

... DROWNED IN CANAL PYPE HAYES BOY WHO IGNORED FATHER’S WARNING six-year-old boy whose body was recovered from the canal near Hanson’s Bridge Road, Erdington, was the subject of Birmingham inquest to-day. He was Islwyn Jones, son of a builder’s labourer ...

... PANAMA CANAL RISKS ]Y/fTLITARY opinion views with approval the American proposal to construct an additional set of locks in the Panama Canal. The Canal at present is much too vulnerable to enemy enterprises. This is particularly so in what is still popularly ...

... winters when skating took place on the Coventry Canal as late as the middle of > March, or wffien two doctors provided the parish with a wintry thrill. They took part in a pony-trap race on the frozen canal from Longford to Hawkesbnvy! And few there are ...

... LONDON LETTER FOR WOMEN 88, Fleet Street, E.C. 4, Sunday Night National Safety Congress On May 17 the National “Safety First” Association will open its three-day congress at Caxton Hall, Westminster. Its keynote will be the prevention of accidents to ...

... 18 Months for “Savage Attacks” on Stourbridge Women > ' HERBERT WILLIAM BROWN, aged 24, a labourer, who was put back for a medical examination at Stafford- shire Assizes on Friday after pleading guilty to two charges of robbery with violence at Stourbridge ...

... West bromwich boys defied fathers BAN ON CANAL SWIMMING-DROWNED EVIN WANTS •IORE PAY FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS Forking hours “ATROCIOUS” ERNEST BEVIN, y General Secretary of the disport and General kers Union, complained p l ow wages paid to C 'atrocious ...

... man was in the canal. At the canal is thirty feet wide, four feet deep, with an accumulation of mud at aot tom to a depth of eighteen inches. V- Amoving his helmet and tunic, and *‘is lamp to a bystander to shine on the dived into the canal, swam to the ...

... had fallen into the Worcester-Birmingham canal at Worcester. Miss Burton dived in, fully clothed, and brought the lad, unconscious, to the side. . Before Miss Burton's arrival, two women had tried to rescue the boy with a clothes-prop, and one of them ...

... Committee favourably inclined, this will be done. An announcement will be made in the near future. RAIL WOMEN IN AMBULANCE CONTEST Ambulance teams composed of women clerks and typists, a laundress cleaner, and girls engaged as french polishers are to compete in ...

... ANGLING NEWS CHALLENGE TROPHY FOR WOMEN ANGLERS CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS T the quarterly general meeting of the Birmingham Anglers’ Association held on Thursday evening last, it was announced that Mrs. T. A. Waterhouse, a life member of the Association, had ...

... than 20 fire engines were rushed to the canal side oil City-road, London, last night to a blazing factory warehouse. Flames rose nearly 50 feet above the tall building which lies between Graham-street and the canal side. Nearly 100 members of the Auxiliary ...