GENERAL STRIKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3505, 1 July 1926, Page 1

GENERAL STRIKE.

SPORTSMEN IN MELEE. INTERESTING PERSONALITIES. Some famous sportsmen were among the volunteers who helped John to see the great strike through, wrote the “Chronicle’s” London correspondent on May 20. A. G. VTansbrough, who stroked Cambridge to victory in the last boat race, was stroking a London motor’bus. So was J. G. P. Thomas, the well-known motoring record holder. Graham White the former aviator, drove an electric train on the undergrounud. Seagrave, the mo-tor-racer, was acting as a special constabulary despatch rider on a motor-bike. Viscount Curzon, the scorching M.P., had charge of the most efficient motor pool at the Horse Guards. “Walters,” Eng-i land’s Rugger captain, with his Harlequins in steel hats and armed only with knuckle-dusters, escorted C.I.D. officers in their raids on “Red” headquarters. The lesson of the Great War was not forgotten, and each volunteer was given the most appropriate job according to his physique and special training. A DEMON CIIAFFEUR. One of the best stories of' all, however, and a true one, concerns a lively Irish peer, who is a notorious offender against motoring laws. This young viscount offered himself as a special constable. He said that he could drive a car, and when his license was produced the sergeant whistled. It was covered with fines, and finally endorsed with a twelve-month prohibition;. “W'oTl make, you the inspector’s chaffeur,” said the sergeant with a twinkle. His lordship duly paraded with his own big Vauxhall car, and presently in stepped the inspector, with orders to get a move on for an East End locality where there was trouble. The inspector saw the trouble put right, but he walked back, and demanded a new chauffeur, preferably one with a long grey beard. So the viscount was put on another duty. Eight hefty bobbies were jammed into his car, and he was told to hurry up to a neighbourhood where rioting had started. The constables put down the riot, but the viscount waited nearly three hours before he discovered that they had all walked back.