PICTURES' STORY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 2

PICTURES' STORY

RUSSIA. AND MINES. IRONICAL SITUATION. LONDON, September 22. The Daily Sketch publishes on its front page a series,of pictures dealing with the coal crisis. The first shows Mr. A. J. Cook, the miners’ leader, ‘ Thanking God for Russia;” the second, Mr. Cook’s wife, just prior to her departure for Russia as a member of the miners’ relief delegation; the third, Ben. Tillett pinning a T.U.C. badge on the coat lapel of Tom sky, the Russian Socialist who was prevented from attending the British Trades Union Congress; while the fourth, at the top of the page, depicts a Soviet steamer filled with German coal. The steamer’s captain, the only member of the crew who spoke English, declared that it was loaded with 3509 tons of briquettes from a German port, intending to take them to Italy, but it collided with a British steamer on the way, and was forced to dock for repairs at Dover. It then proceeded to Milwall, where it- was now being unloaded. The Sketch points out the irony of the fact that while the Soviet was continuing to subscribe to help keep the British miners idle, a Soviet ship carrying- coal from one of England’s biggest rivals to one of England’s largest customers, was compelled to unload its cargo in London.