Digitised by the University of Pretoria, Library Services, 2015 DAILY SKETCH, iVEDNESDAY, MAy n, 1916. A GREAT MAN'S LITTLE ENEMIES.-See Page 5. GUARANTEED DAILY NETT SALE MORE THAN J .000.000 COPIES. • No. 2,255. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, ~fAY 31, 1916. [Registered as a Newspaper.] ONE HAJ....l· .L .1:.~\ -' l. LORD KITCHENER ENTERTAINS WOUNDED SOLDIERS. ' · A N · Home F olkestone whom he entertained at Broome Park. On his right is Miss Harrold (sister Lord Kitchener within wounded charge), soldters and second from onthe. hts Mlanfor e t a Couldr~so ter rmt?'w ow ~rs~fi~ded s in both eyes ' to ;vhom Lord Kitchener addressed many syll]pathetic inquiries. h tting to hts. guests. They d"d1 not fi n d him unsvmpathcttL.• inspecting the tea tables before. the guests. arrived t.ord Kttchener c a . L d K"t h er's ab"tlt"t,· as ecretar)' for \Var there is no doubt that K. of K. sttll retains the confidence and t • 1"1 ttc1ans aS to Of I C en • ' • · " 1 " t b t \\.-'hatever may be the opinions held by ce~ am pod b h h do not know him as a machine rather than a man, the truth IS that Lord K1tchener 1s not on Y JUS u generous the respect of the fightmg_. army.- Often ptcture y t ose w o Digitised by the University of Pretoria, Library Services, 2015 Page 2.-DAILV SKETCH. THE FOOD SCA D L. PLUCKY FEAT BY WOU DED COLD COMFORT FOR THE JOHN MacNEILL GETS LIFE YEOMANRY SERGEANT. I VOLUNTEERS. SENTENCE. Government Devotes Attention To . p 1 S ·t d F P ·d t Of High Prices At Last. Rescues Founder Of Brooklands Part-Wom Equtpment And Arms ena _ervt u. e or rest en After Canoe Overturned. May Be Lent To Them. Stnn Fetn Volunteers. WHY MEAT IS DEAR. RIFLE fA TO THE RESCUE. 0 FURTHER PECU ~IARY HELP. ONCE A CIVIL SERVANT. · t"t d f the The following result of trial by general court rd K.itcl1encr dellned t h e at 1 u e o F rom 0 nr 0 n C orre~pon d e nt• Lo . th H e martial is announced in Dublin:- " Due To The Large Requirements \\ ar Office to ards the Volunteers m e ous Of Our Forces." -Qfficial. 'WEYDRIDGE, Tue day. of Lord la ·t evening in the·e terms:- John MacNeill, convicted and sentenced to Mr. H. F. Locke King, J.P., founder of the The utmost we can do is to ende~vour t~ find penal servitude for Brookland racing track and aerodrome, has part-worn equipment and arms with which ~o Jife; sentence con- WHAT OF THE BEEF TRUST? narrowly escaped death from drowning in d~e tit out Volunt<.>ers who may be employed m firmed bv the General At la-.:t the Government i.: devoting attention River "·ey. His life wa sa>ed by a serge~~ Ill I relieving Regular troops on militarY. duties. Officer Commanding- f.t.> the intolerauly high price charged for meat­ the London Imperial Yeomanry, amidst exc1tlng We cannot see our way to giVe further · Ch f scenes. 1 pecuniary assistance except at the expense of the m- ie · to ay nothing of other fo0d. fi d t Army. The trial (our Dublin Que tioned in the Hou:-e of Common ye ter­ . T o -day M r. Locke King, although con. ne o We have not reached that stage when the correspondent adds) coo- day .. lr. Pretyman (of the Board of Trade) said his room, was recovering from his trymg and Government desires to get all available men to eluded last Wednesday, broadly peaking the high price of mea wa~ exciting ordeal. join the Volunteer Corps. having occupied two Both Mr. Locke King and his wife have been The Government bas endeavoured to find more days. 1\fr. MacNeill was not ~ue to a deficiency of ·upply, hut to the untiring in theu efforts on behalf of woun?ed I work for them to do, but it is not an easy task, defended by Mr. James reqUirement. of the for e!'l in the field. soldiers, and months ago gave up their beau~lful having regard to the limitations placed upon Chambers, M.P., and .Mr. Fab r: I· the deficiency upon the civil bouse at Brooklands for use as a military hospital,! the Volunteers by the calls of their businesses Mr. A. Clery, but the population serious? retaining only a few rooms for themselves.. 1 and other circumstances. proceedings were held Pretyman: is a que tion of It There are about a hundred wounded soldiers This is not the ·moment when we should in private . Mr .. It degre~. in the hospital, and the nurses organised a re- embark upon large schemes involving new Mr. MacNeill was Pro- IS ser10us enough to have had a considerable gatta for their amusement. expenditure of lar~e sums which can only be fessor of Early Irish . effect on prices. In the programme was a Canadtan canoe race; provided by divertmg money from the Army. History in the National JoHN MACNEILL. Mr. Faber: Could not the price be raised with­ each <:ompeting nurse bad to carry a passenger. Lord Kitcbener added that the Government University of Ireland. For many years he was out the supply being materially shortened? Nurse's Passenger. recognised the value of the movement. The a Civil Servant in one of the higher grades at Mr. Prctyman replied that the whole matter M T · f 0 n Volunteers had set a fine example, and the the Law Courts Dublin, and for more than 20 was under consideration. r. Locke King acted as . passenger . or f e country was proud of them and grateful. Person- years was in active associatio? with the work. of nurse, and t.ook hls seat m the frall .era t. all he welcomed the nresence of a large body th G 1· Le of whiCh he was VIce WHO HOLDS UP THE SUPPLIES? Whe~her the nurse was a competent can~lst or j of ydisciplined men whfch might prove of great e aE: IC ague, . not 1s not known but as the race was m pro- . ' · president. T here 1s a growmg ~eelmg an~ong the public gress the canoe o;erturned, and Mr. Locke Kir;tg , ass1stance m~e of sudden natiOnal emergency. He took a leading part in the formation of the that. consumers are bemg expl01ted for profit- and tl~e nurse were thrown into deep ~ater 1n Irish Volunteers in October, 1913, and was makmg purposes, and that the Government must the m1ddle of the river, which here IS about RAY OF HOPE FOR EAST COAST. appointed president of the Sinn Fein sec£ion w~en intervene without delay 160 feet wide. they split from the gen&ral body on t!J.e questiOn Th ta"l b tel bl · h h The nurse came up holding the canoe, but Mr. of Redmondite control. He was editor of the e re 1 u ler ames t e w olesale meat 1Locke King had been thrown a few yards away, Treasury To Consider The Question Of Irish Volunteer, the official organ of his section. salesman; the w~olesaler blames the American and, being an elderly man, was quickly in dilli- Grants To Hard-Ht"t Towns. On Easter Saturday be issued the famous order Beef Trust. It Is for the Government to find · culties. _ countermanding the Easter Sunday parade, and out whether supplies are being held up, and, if I Instantly there was great excitement amo~g the M.P.s for East Coast constituencies appealed in thenceforward was, as far as the public is aware, so, by whom-and then apply the remedy 1 wounded spectators on the ban.k, and, unmmdf~l the House of Commons last night fGr aid from unconnected with the proceedings and un- Most f th ta"l b t h , t · . of the fact that be could not swrm, and had, moie- the Government to help the distressed East Coast acquainted with the inner direction of the 0 elre I u c er s cus omers tbmk the over been wounded Quarter-Master Sergeant towns to survive until the end of the war. movement. b u t cl 1er to w 1om they pay 50 or 75 per cent H ' f h ' · · d more for a joint is ,, mak· d th" t f . owe, o t e Newfoundland contmgent, Jumpe l\1r. Hayes Fisher, for the Local Government tht; war., mg a goo mg ou 0 Imto the water. Board, said he wished he could offer some grain PEARSE A MAN OF TENDER But a wholesale meat salesman at Smithfield In His ''Wounded" Uniform. of comfort or hope that the gloom was· likely to be ?eclared yesterday that the retail butcher is work- B t b . kl . d"ffi u· d the relieved at an early date, but he could not. SYMPATHIES. m~ at ha grehat loss, and cannot make money at the Ithre~ peoe p~:ow:r~s1 s~~gcgtfngmin ~b~~;t:r an The appeals had not fallen on deaf ears so far as pnces e c arges. · he was concerned, and the Local Government Asked why the unhappy man did. not char e still Mr. Locke ~ng had sunk twice, and. was appar- Board was waiting for detailed reports from the Colonel Moore's Idyllic Picture Of The rrtore and so make sure of his profits, the sJesman ently unconset<?US, when Sergean~ Mul~mer~ of the town clerks and borough accountants as to their said: "There's a limit to the public purse.