Post by BereniceUK on May 13, 2017 14:16:10 GMT
Aged Sergt.-Major's Tragic Death.
BODY FOUND UNDER THE CLIFFS.
On Sunday afternoon a tragic discovery was made by some soldiers who were taking an afternoon walk along the beach between Hubberston and South Hook forts at a point near Little Wick. The body of a man in khaki was seen lying face downwards. It was afterwards identified as that of Coy. Sergt.-Major James Honey, of the R.G.A., whose home appears to be in London, and who since the outbreak of war had been stationed at South Hook Fort. The body was removed to the mortuary at Milford Haven, and on Tuesday evening Mr H. J. E. Price presided at the inquest.
In summing up the Coroner said there was very little evidence to show how the deceased actually came by his death, but there was a probability that in the darkness and while under the influence of drink he missed his way and wandered over the cliff. He thought the only verdict the jury could return was one of "Found dead," and if anything further came to light which might suggest foul play the police could take the matter up.
A verdict in accordance with the Coroner's suggestion was returned.
(Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 21st July 1915)
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WOMEN'S RIGHT TO SERVE.
GREAT LONDON DEMONSTRATION.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.
Tens of thousands of women marched through London on Saturday with a deputation to the Minister of Munitions to "demand the right to serve."
The object of this remarkable demonstration, as Mrs. Pankhurst stated in the appeal which she made to women to join, was not so much to impress the Minister, who, indeed, was entirely sympathetic, but rather to show men generally, as well as our Allies and the enemy, that "British women are devoted to their country and determined to save it."
Mr. Lloyd George received the deputation in Whitehall Gardens, and afterwards addressed the women from a balcony overlooking the Embankment.
In his speech, he said that 50,000 women were already at work in this country turning out munitions of war. In Germany he believed there were 500,000. The Government had assumed control of all the machine-tool making establishments in the country. He indicated that a national register of women willing to give their full time to the work would be made; promised equal wages for men and women for piece work; and pledged the Government to prohibit sweating.
"Without women," he said, "victory will tarry, and a victory that tarries means a victory whose footprints are footprints of blood."
Other points were:
Mobilising the country's resources means mobilising the women.
Business men must learn that women can do fine work better than men.
Munitions work is for war time only.
We are short of lathes, machinery, and tools.
We are panting twelve months behind to catch up a foe who had been preparing for years.
(Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 21st July 1915)
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