Lancashire

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 2

Lancashire

Notes on the News

Lancashire, which tne King and are to visit in May. i* * maritime county of England. It hue an area of IMB* square ml lea. and it* long and irregular coast-line on ibe Irish Sea is broken up into two unequal parts by Moreeoinbe Bay. Tin *-111:1'.' northern part is known a** Furnes*. In the east, where It border* Yorkshire. Lancashire L mountainous. IVndlc Hill being over 1806 feet high. In the iiortu the mountain* of the Cumbrian group enter it. Collision Old Man being » feet high, while leader heights of the Pennine Chain cover much of the centre. The level areas are in the south and along the coast. The rivers nearly all flow toward the we-t. the most ini|K>rtaut being the Mer<-c>. Kibble and Luue. There is much agriculture and «»ome fertile laud, er|teciI ally in the south-west, but much **f I the county |« an industrial area, while : in tlie eaet Is some moorland, j Standing on a grert coal-field. SOlll.l I Lancashire I* covered with a net worn of populous towns, of which Mancbcs- ! ter and Liverpool are tlie chief. They include Ashtou-uudwr-Lyae. nklham. Blackburn. Salford. Bolton, Burnley. Bury, Koclidale, Baeup, Pre-ton 1 Bootle. Warrington. Widnes. Bt. Helen* and Wigan. Watering places along lb* s coast include Southport and Blackpool, i The county’* main industry is cot tot, ! manufactures, but engineer ing and , machinery manufacturing figure prominently, a. well M con! mining. Bourke's V.C. Commander Howland K. Bourke. V.C., bas beeu appointed to orguni.-e the British Columbia Fishermen'* Naval Reserve. He report* that 2."i00 recruits and 100 boats have been enrolled for a brief school course. Three V.C.'s were given for gallantry shown at Ostend on the night of May it, 1918. when the Vindictive wa* suns between Hie harbour piers there. Lieutenant Geoffrey H. Drummond. It.N. V.K., was in command of motor-launch No. 254 and Lieutenant ft. Bourke. D. 5.0., 0( 1 lie mm» unit, in comma u I of No. 276. Both followed the Vindictive into the harbour, and it was largely due to the skill aud gallantry of these iwu officers that so many of her crew were saved. Diummoud was wounded and bis vessel damaged early in the fight, but nevertheless he laid her a-ide the Vindictive and took from Her 40 uicn. Bourke was equally intrepid iu refusing. although his launch was seriously damaged, to leave the harbour until be was convinced that no one was left there In jeopardy. The third of tlie trio. Lieutenant V. A. G. Crutchlcy, D.8.C., known iu day* of |»cace as a county cricketer, took command of the Vindictive after hi* two superior officers had been disabled, the one killed and the other wounded, and was res|x»nsible for the final act of putting her in position. He then, satisfied that no one was left on the Vindictive, took charge of the motorlaunch which rescued him. and by his tremendous exertions kept this damaged vessel afloat until H.M.K. Warwick found her in a sinking condition. Sovereignly "What was the meaning of a sovereignty which was pushed on to a I too pie by means of violence?" a-Led Herr Hitler, referring to the posh inn of Austria after the Great War. A sovereign State i* a State whose government, while receiving th< habitual obedience of the bulk of its subjects, does not itself render habitual obedience to any human sui»eri«*r. The sovereign in any independent State is that person or body of t*'r* son* whic|, exercises supreme control, and i* not legally bound to submit to the control of any other authorilv, internal or external. Sovereignty i« the power of supreme control. p»<.se***d by tlie sovereign one or number. It ha* been divided into internal and external sovereignty. The former refers to the final and absolute determination of domestic affair*, the latter to a «ttnllar authority over dealings with foreign Power*