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From being to most people little can rival the beneficence of its re- more than a name associated with liable sunshine. Indeed, why more the Boxer rising of 1900 and a people do not spend October to reception of Direction' Finding wily Empress-Dowager of pheno-December there now that the wireless signals at the new control menally strong character, Peking trans-Siberian Railway has be tower in the enlarged aerodrome at cornfortable again is Waddon, Croydon (formally towards which the Nationalist come
Under the most com- opened by: Lady Maud Hoare, armies are now pressing, has be strange. come a place in which the ordin-fortable conditions, it is true, the wife of the Secretary for Air), ary Londoner can take an inter- journey by that route is apt to be have been overcome, and
tedious, and by aen Peking is im- entire new system is in operation.
After the removal of the adminis- This change passed through possibly far away. But for these two clearly marked phases, the drawbacks it might well become trative offices to the new building first ushered in by the trans- as popular as Calro and as re-it was found that the new wireless Siberian railway, the second by medial in its effects as the tower could not be used except for THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, the anti-Manchu revolution. Dur- Riviera. "Daily News and West-
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ing became known to a widening LORD TERRINGTON. circle as a place of much anti- quarian interest, politically a A FURTHER REMAND, little nebulous, but diplomatically entertaining, and artistically edu- cative.
During the second, as a result
The hearing was resumed at Guildhall before Alderman Sir Louis Newton, of the charges
transmission, and reception had to
b done through the control station | at Mitcham. The reception of radio messages entirely at Croydon is most important, and perfect accur acy la necessary in order that' aircraft inquiring as to their post- tlon may be answered immediately. This is done by simultaneous bear- ings on two stations, Croydon and Pulham (Norfolk)
of the revolution, the city became against Lord Terrington, imbued with a less academic and There are twenty-one, charges
When the apparatus, which is of more human atmosphere. And it in all (most of them in duplicate) the very latest type, was placed ceased to be a mediaeval back involving a sum of £60,000. It is on top of the new control tower it
channel of alleged that Lord Terrington, as was found that, owing to the im water, becoming a complex but modern forces. In solicitor, fraudulently converted
The change, made apparent moneys and valuable securities mense quantity of iron wire embed- ded in the ferro-concrete, there enough in the city's. external entrusted to him by clients. aspect through the throwing open Mr. Eustace Fulton and Mr. were serious errors In the wireless After searching tests, of reserved grounds and guarded Edwin Clayton appeared for the reception. gateways hitherto impenetrable Director of Public Prosecutions, in which aeroplanes flew round and and shut off from view, became Mr. Harold Simmons and Mr. round the vicinity, the amount of observable also in its daily life, C. T. B. Leigh (instructed by Mr. error in all circumstances was de- both Chinese and foreign. Chin- Shirley Woolmer) represented fined, and arrangements made to ese love of pomp and ceremony Lord Terrington, and Mr. R. J. overcome the difficulty, The Air| gave way to their more democra-Willis (instructed by Messrs. Ministry is satisfied that the in- tic instincts, sociability, for in-Nicholl, Manisty, and Co.) held a stallation is new working accurate- stance, while foreignera, who had watching brief for Sir Harold ly and that information can instant-
ly be given to aircraft. hitherto 'rather Idealised the Reckitt.
As on previous occasions, Lord mystery of. Peking, and to some extent derived individual import- Terrington was brought to the ance from it, bade farewell to Court in a taxi-cab, and was given STEPHEN LANGTON. masquerade, in the process be- a seat next to his counsel. coming less conventional and more spontaneous.
The Forbidden City. But the change has not robbed Peking of its capacity to puzzle or
Samuel H. Scott said that in 1925-26 he was chief clerk at the head office of Barclay's Bank, Hull, where Sir Harold Reckitt and the Little Green Estate Com-
of its oriental passivity. I have pany, of which Sir Harold was a
SEPTCENTENARY TO BE HELD THIS YEAR.
CANTERBURY CELEBRATION.
The 700th anniversary of the the watched Peking pass through director, had accounts. Lord death of Stephen Langton, many crises and seldom seen it Terrington was in the habit from
Archbishop of Canterbury, who display more than local and tran- time to time of drawing cheques was very largely responsible for sient emotion. Always the under the powers of attorney. King John's assent to Magna
Mr. Scott produced a letter, dreamy beauty which delights the eye as one looks across the dated Nov. 4, 1925, from the bank Charta, will be celebrated in Cant
terbury Cathedral in July. yellow roofs of the Forbidden City to Woodhouse and Co., showing
Stephen Langton was burled in towards the blue-grey Western that Sir Harold's private account Hille, through an atmosphere, for was then in debit to the bank to front of the altar in St. Michael's the greater part of the year in the extent of £60,696, a loan ac- Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, but comparably clear, reasserts paci-count to the extent of £7,000, and his tomb is now party inside and fying influences, investing the the Little Green Estate account partly outside the chapel. The feet, in their covering of stone, project city as a whole with a wonderful to the extent of £33,355.
The letter asked that these through the exterior wall. serenity.
usually The explanation In such a place life, if occasion-amounts should be reduced.. He ally anxious and unpredictable, is (Mr. Scott) understood the debit cepted is that when the chapel was for the most part mellow and gay. on the Little Green Estate ac-rebuilt in the fifteenth century it These characterisations are des- count was to be reduced by a sale was necessary to change the posi criptively incomplete, yet they in. of Reckitt shares, and the private tion of the east wall and, rather clude many different though typi- account by a mortgage. In De than move the tomb of Stephen cal scenes. Go outside the Chien cember, 1925, Sir Harold's ac- Langton, the wall was built across Men at night, for instance, and count was credited with £10,000 it, so that the head was left by the witness Chinese capacity for be- from Woodhouse and Co.
Mr. Fulton suggested a re- ing merry and bright. The scene
altar.
ac-
Another explanation is that Mar- is a brilliantly lighted one, reck-mand should be granted, but after lessly extravagant and loud with Mr. Leigh had mentioned that the garet Holland, daughter of the talk and laughter. Or moant a gentleman prepared to go bail for Earl of Kent, desiring to have a special tomb for herself and her pony and ride to Palichuang by Lord Terrington
going country roads sunk deep below abroad on the following week, it two husbands, was given per the level of surrounding fields, was decided to resume the hear-mission to make alterations. through villages where there is ing next day.
no money to be extravagant with, but where a joke will be capped instantaneously and poverty is only ashamed if it is glum.
meaner
Turn, again, from that experi- ence to a round of the show tem- ples, the Yellow Temple outside the Anting Men, the Lama Temple, and the Temple of Heaven with its snow-white mar bie altar and great blue dome,
the taking some of streets and lesser shops en route, and at the .conclusion of these tours the traveller will, I think, agree that the impressions which he sorts out In his mind are, albeit imperfectly, comprised within the two characterisations selected.
was
A MOTHER IN BURMA” Tells How She Cured Her Little One Of Worms And Stomach Trouble With
Ac-
cordingly she moved the tomb to its present place, thus preserving the east-and-west position of the body and leaving the head so that it was still close to the altar and yet out of the way of the priest officiat ing at the holy stable.
The Warrior's Chapel. St. Michael's Chapel is better known to-day as the Warriors' Chapel, as it contains numerous memorials of The Buffs (the East Kent Regiment), including their. Book of Life, which records the names of those who fell in the Great War, and a page of which is turned daily by a recruit from the Canterbury Depot.
Stephen Langton is also known for his part in the "translation" of Thomas a Becket's bones in 1220 from the crypt, where they had lain for fifty years, to the mangni- ficent shrine in the Trinity Chapel, where they were to be visited by
Foreign life naturally takes colour from this environment. After all, foreigners are only a handful, and can have little effect on the final outcome of any given situation. So, in the midst of mutability, they remain philso- The little lady whose portrait pilgrims for three. centuries. The phical, and while they work hard, with her baby girl appears above young King, Henry III., witnessed they play hard, too.
fa Phee Shek, living in the Abo- the procession from the western
BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
At the present moment the ten-quarter, Rangoon. Like thousands nave to the Trinity Chapel, the nis and polo seasons have just be-of mothers in other parts of the bearers of St. Thomas's bones being gun. There are no grass courts, world, Phee Shek is an ardent be- Langton himself, Pandulph (the for Peking in a waterless place. Hver In Baby's Own Tablets. Papal Legate), Hubert de Burgh, Tennis has to be played on con- My baby was troubled with and the Archbishop of Rheims. crete or mud courts, and polo on worms and cried a great deal," she The septcentenary celebrationa a dusty piece of-ground Immo- states "Having heard of Baby's will begin on Saturday, July 7, diately outside the Legation Own Tablets I bought a vial and when, according to the present ar- Quarter.
am pleased to say that these rangement, a visit will be paid The Spring race meeting is Tablets quickly got rid of the to the tomb after evensong probably just over: it is not worms. Baby sleeps well. and eats Later on that day Mr. H. W. C. usually held after the middle of well now and is no longer troubled Davis, Regius Professor of Moderp May. The course is a pretty one, with her stomach,"
History at Oxford, will give an
fringed with willow trees, the Infants and little children need address on "Stephen Langton, and open country beyond carrying the medicine of their own, which will His Times". On the Sunday eye pleasantly to the hills. Near promptly relieve their stomach and
the course, though for the most bowel troubles, pleasantly, painless (July 8) Dr. Claude Jenkins, Pro- part invisible from it, are weekly, and without doing even the fessor of Ecclesiastical History at end cottages some of English, smallest or most delicate child King's College, London, will preach some of hybrid, sino-foreign type, harm Baby's own Tablets exactly at second evensong. On Monday, while a few originally temples, fulfil these requirements. They July 9-the actual anniversary- are still called so to-day. They quickly correct infantile indiger Bishop Gore will preach at choral are centres of much cheery hos-tlon, constipation, colle, vomiting, eucharist in the morning, and in pitality at all times, and twice a check diarrhoes, allay teething the afternoon the commemoration year become rendezvous of So-pains, cool fever, relleve croup and oration on Stephen. Langton will ciety. For the Spring and colds, Bapel worms, be delivered by Professor F. M. Autumn race-meetings are social Obtainable from chemists every- Powicke, of Manchester University. functions, makes
where, or from the Dr. Williams At Its Best.
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