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He Blood-Stained Jay-Packet District Fire Officer Person. Died in move again. He either said he would not Infantry Brigade killed in action 10 Au­ the year 1911 in London Hospital, White­ or could not, I don’t know which. Seeing gust, 1915, of wounds. He lay in the chapel of injuries sustained attending a that I was of no further service there, I sand crying for water for many hours. fire at Sidney Street, Stepney. The fire withdrew my men from the railway The Turks had bombarded the position brigade arrived upon the scene shortly station/ Benjamin Hansbury, a lad em­ for hours and their snipers were very after the outbreak, but a Cabinet Minister ployed at a tinplate works said that John accurate. The Dardanelles did not fall who was present at the 6 j refused to let was on his right-hand and said to witness, into our hands so that we could gratify Anarchist Weekly © the firemen put the fir® out since a ‘Don’t go, they won’t shoot’. The verdict Russia’s desire for Constantinople despite detatchment of the Scots Guards were brought in, on the suggestion of the half-a-million men sent out to the Dar­ trying to get some gunmen, allegedly coroner, was ‘justifiable homicide’. The danelles. Of this total 43,000 British JANUARY 23 1965 Vol. 26 No. 3 anarchists, out of a building in Sidney jury added the following rider, ‘That we officers and men had been killed, taken Street. When the brigade members were think it would have been better if other prisoner or posted as missing, or died finally allowed- to enter the bumed-out means than giving the order to fire had of disease. The British casualties in­ building, the wreckage collapsed and been adopted by Major Stuart for dis­ cluded those of evacuated sick had Officer Pearson’s spine was fractured persing the crowd’. The troops were amounted to 205,000 — those of the from which he died. The .Cabinet Minis­ called to the district under the instruc­ French to 47,000. At this point Winston ter was the Home Secretary, Winston tions of Mr. Winston Churchill, Liberal Churchill was ousted from the Admiralty Cesspool Churchill. Home Secretary in consultation with the and the War Cabinet and became Chan­ John Henry John (21), a tinplate Defence Secretary. cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. worker of Llanelly was shot during riots John Doe of the Royal Naval Division Thomas Atkins died at Murmansk in on August 19, 1911. A detachment killed in action November, 1914, at an expedition despatched to support of the 1st Worcester Regiment was de­ Antwerp. He was a new recruit and Admiral Kolchak against the newly tailed to protect trains run by non­ badly armed and was flung into action by formed Soviet Republic. This expedition strikers and John was among a stone- The First Lord of the Admiralty who felt was backed by the British War Office of Intrigue throwing party. Major Brownlow Stuart that the Belgians could be sustained to then in the charge of Winston Churchill. tried to reason with the/crowd but the hold out against the advancing Germans. Joe Soap died at Narvik April 9, only response was more stone-throwing The First Lord himself volunteered to 1940, when German naval forces broke South East Asia, the cesspool people of North Borneo thus accen­and a soldier was knocked senseless. A command in the field and give up the through the Kattegat and Skaggerak of intrigue. One can liken it to tuating Malay’s internal problems. bugle was sounded and the Riot Act read Admiralty. Asquith did not accept this seizing on the pretext that Britain had the North American Gold Rush, The two territories are difficult but the crowd did not disperse. Major offer. John Doe had never fired a rifle sown mines in Norwegian territorial with Britain (Malaysia), Indonesia, to administer. At the moment there Stuart warned the crowd that they would nor handled a trenching tool and saw waters. It was said by the First Lord of America, China (North Viet-nam are British Civil Servants in control open fire if they did not disperse within that the Belgians had had enough, their the 'v Admiralty that all German ships Vietcong) staking their claims. a minute. In fact one shot was fired officers had to .beat them with the flats entering the Kattegat and Skaggerak will who will have to be replaced by of their swords to get them to fight. be sunk. They were not sunk hence the Malaysia was born as the result Malays, who are not popular in these before that minute was up. Five or six rounds were fired in all, ‘And/ said The First Lord got away before the death of Joe Soap. The First Lord of of artificial insemination, the pur­ parts, making development plans action, not so eight or nine hundred the Admiralty subsequently became pose, to enable British interests to Major Stuart at the inquest, ‘the stone difficult to implement. The test-tube throwing temporarily stopped. I then prisoners, 138 wounded, and 57 including Prime Minister because of the mistake have a stake in S.E. Asia. The baby of Britain has problems with went to the man I took to be the engine John Doe died. The First Lord was committed by him, when he, Winston Americans have dug well in finan­ more to follow. driver, and endeavoured to persuade him Winston Churchill. Churchill, was First Lord of the cially pouring over £200 million a Continued on page 3 to make an effort to get file train on the Richard Roe of the New Zealand Admiralty. J.R. year into the defence of south Viet­ nam. China on the other hand plays to the crowd supporting the struggle against poverty and imperialism. Obviously the Chinese line must Q N C E UPON A TIME we of the left appeal to the workers and peasant ^ used to sit around dwelling on the population, these people think and particular iniquities of a section of talk in terms of ‘food in the belly’ the capitalist class known, picturesquely, and if the Communists can offer ‘two but accurately as ‘The Merchant^ of bowls of rice'as opposed to one’, the Death’. The late radical Lord Brockway workers and peasants will have it wrote (or collaborated on) a book called he blood-stained The Bloody Traffic; there was even, for and who can blame them. It is no the eggheads, a vast tome called The Kjjgpod spouting to them all the bull Ltd. until 1961 when he joined High Private Manufacture of Armaments by Duty Alloys as a director. the ‘fxee^\%Qrld’ and ‘wqste/7i OYERGROWN CHULDREN^. democracy’ when their kids die of for the second Labour Government to The perpetual wail from the. aircraft hunger and disease before reaching see demonstrations by workers for the industry that they are being sabotaged,, the age of ten years. ‘right to work’ on the instruments of justifies the remark attributed to Mr. Since the war Britain has poured death and destruction incorporated, for Denis Healey: ‘It is not the duty of the privilege of sharing in the gravy for jay-packet the Ministry to wet-nurse overgrown money, men and materials into the bloody traffic, for the public owner­ Malaya to safeguard her commercial ship of TSR2, and for the wider dis­ and mentally retarded children.’ But interests (rubber and tin) and also semination of the blessings of Buccaneers of this country ever to save money on is literally littered with the remains of nevertheless it is not the duty of the workers to copy their masters and the S.E.A.T.O. base of Singapore. and frigates. armaments, it would} be part of a obsolete projects—Black Knight, Blue Just how stable is Malaya itself? We are continuously being told that general economy campaign and schools, Streak, the Brabazon, all obsolete before beseech for work on these instruments the expenditure on armaments would be housing, etcetera, would suffer to the their brief moment of glorious fame. of destruction, the supersonic hedge­ Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Now TSR2 is threatened with the axe hopping bomber on which apparently Minister of Malaysia and Lee Kuan- sufficient to endow numerous schools, same degree. universities, hospitals, houses, etc. The In the second place 51he expenditure in the same way that the joint Anglo- their livelihood, and to believe the Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore upon armaments is of a different order French project Concorde has been papers, the future of the whole British French anarchists for example recently economy depends. One would have may play golf together, but their put out a poster with the following to that of expenditure on hospitals, threatened. The deadly saraband of policies are poles apart. Tunku etcetera. All classes can more easily be defensive and offensive weapons have thought that in these days of full- statistics. One atomic bomber = the employment that the possibilities of a represents the politically lethargic wages of 250,000 teachers per year or persuaded by the State that the expen­ led already to the anti-missile-missile Moslem Malay, Lee represents the diture upon armament^ is justified for why not the anti-anti-missile-missile- sudden plunge into absolute joblessness 30 faculties of science with 1,000 was remote; the most dreadful thing industrial Chinese. Lee, down to students; or 50,000 tractors. Fifty reasons of security and . the easy appeals missile and so on to the nth power? tq fear. Until the day dawns that an irresist­ that could happen would be a transfer earth politician, Rahman the benign hospitals would equal the cost of one to another job possibly in another town atomic submarine.
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