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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1912
Page
26
Dublin dispatch notes a dull Commons debate on the home rule bill with only T P O Connor and Sir Isaacs delivering sharp arguments. Balfour appears disinterested while Maurice Healy and Timothy Healy lead Tory opposition to the measure amid Irish nationalist silence.
Berlin reports Germany has approved new navy dirigibles with 20 000 cubic metre capacity and higher speed than army airships. They will carry large quantities of ammunition and the first craft should be ready in November. Future dreadnoughts will include the most powerful airship types.
Gabriel dAnnunzio and Manscagni wrote an opera to premiere in Paris later this year. The work is described as violent in color and theme with a spare book, drawing on a period DAnnunzio admires and featuring an authentic figure from the tragic Mala family.
Dr. Len G. Broughton, noted for both law and medicine, has left his Atlanta parish to take over the pastorate at Christchurch, London.
Reverend N Bonavia-Hunt of St Matthew’s WilLésden reveals a ten-chord chant derived from infant cries set to Psalm 137. He demonstrates the piece at St Matthew’s and explains how cries rise and fall in seconds and sevenths, mirroring human sorrow in music.
Paris May 18 The church of the Sacred Heart at Montmartre has just received its finishing touch. The colossal edifice towers over Paris and its foundation stone was laid June 15 1875. The Savoyarde bell rang for the first time in the Campanile.
Paris mood turns to humor with two new picture galleries. The Palais de Glace show in the Champs Elys es draws crowds, while the Rue de la Boetie venue also offers entertaining exhibits. A basement comic chamber of horrors provokes loud laughter, a grand Latin Quarter joke.
Arthur L. Young and his wife endured five days adrift off Leyte and Siquijor with no food or water. A lone can of milk fed the child aboard the launch when the engine failed. The couple recovered in Manila showing the toll of the voyage.
London May 18 with the transfer of the first lord of the admiralty to Winston Churchill a new destroyer defense scheme takes effect. England's nav y strengthens with eight flotillas based at Rosyth Harwich Portland Portsmouth Devonport and more totaling 165 destroyers plus eight fast cruisers eight scouts and eight depot ships. The plan doubles the eastern advance guard and aims to counter German scares.
A London message recalls Father T. R. D. Byles of Ongar Essex who perished with the Titanic. Survivors praised his courage and devout conduct during the disaster. His family history links to notable figures including Sir William Byles MP and the Bradford Observer.
Princess Mary of England enjoys films like other girls and asks to see movies. On her fifteenth birthday she persuaded King and Queen to let her three younger brothers join her for a Scala theatre visit to view kinema color reproductions from their India trip.
In Dublin on May 18 the national convention hailed the home rule bill and praised Redmond who envisioned Ireland under a new system. He argued Dublin Castle would vanish and the centralized bureaucracy would crumble as a new Irish executive takes control of departments. He supported a nominated senate and urged a chamber filled with business leaders and professionals rather than past nationalist partisans.
Paris May 18 The noted composer Massenet discusses the value of diary keeping based on his lifelong habit. He recalls his mother gifting him an agenda and urging nightly entries with confession when needed. He recounts stealing chocolate once and logging it, then being forgiven by a forgiving wife figure who praises honesty. He is an avid letter writer and records facts and impressions for later transfer to his diary.
Special table notes Dr Harkov who claims Samara on the Tigris near Baghdad is the oldest city. Relics found suggest Samara flourished before Semitic arrivals in Chaldea or Mesopotamia around 3000 B C.
Berlin reports Dr. Otto Fischer projects war costs at about 1.625 billion dollars yearly for a three million man mobilization, with initial six weeks at 375 million. He argues Germany can cover through bank reserves, taxes, and loans, though public borrowing would face upheaval and require clever financing.
English workingmen create the Unionist Labor Party to fuse conservative and unionist groups. The program calls for direct labor representation, capital labor cooperation, tariff reform, imperial preference, reform of the second chamber, poor law reform, land reform, small holdings, better housing, and support for unions within free religion and Osborne judgment bounds. Local branches multiply. a central executive in London assembles reps from engineers, miners, steam engineers, slaters, tilers, and more.
Dr Len G Broughton from the United States takes over the Christchurch Westminster Bridge Road pulpit in London where a 2000 strong audience greeted his arrival with cheers. He jokes about his promo and promises an active ministry amid praise from Dr W B Riley and other clerics.
London May 18 The duchess of Marlborough will become a flower girl outside the stock exchange for Alexandra day a charity event toward the end of June Society women will offer artificial roses on trays at any price from a penny to five pounds Buyers may not be pressed to buy more Immunity from the money box rattling is promised to the first rose bought and worn all day by the purchaser
Paris reports Romance Conti, a famed Burgundy vineyard, sold without bids from American or British buyers. The estate of about five acres yields roughly ten casks yearly, taxed lightly, with one cask fetching 4000 francs. Louis XVI popularized the wine, aiding Burgundian fame and royal favor.
Paris reports diverging views on Mulat Hafid's loyalty to France. Minister Regnault trusts Hafid’s apparent regard, while officers doubt his stance amid ongoing Moroccan unrest. Readers weigh whether Moors, Arabs and Berbers can become reliable soldiers, and how colonial policy must adapt as German influence grows and France maintains 50,000 troops in Morocco.
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