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HONG KONG. MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1928.
THE AUSTRALIAN AIR PRINCESS MARY'S
FORCE
OFFICIAL REPORT
VISIT TO IRELAND
THE RECENT FIRE
SUBMITTED BY AIR MARSHAL | NOW DEFINITELY ATTRIBUTED
SIR JOHN SALMOND
`OBSOLETE MACHINES
Canberra, Yesterday.
Air Marshal Sir John Salmond,
TO INCENDIARIES
PRESS COMMENT ·
Rugby, Oct. 6. Princess Mary and Viscount Las-
BIG U.S. NAVY CONTRACT
$7,287,000
FOR BUILDING TWO GIANT
DIRIGIBLES
BY GOODYEAR CORP.
Washington, Yesterday. The Navy Department Was
in his report to the Australian celles laft London last evening for awarded the Goodyear Zeppelin Government on the Australian Air Dublin on their way to Portumna
Force, states the Force is estab- Castle, County Galway, their Irish Corporalon the contract for the lished for a firm basis and has de- seat, the outbuildings of which were construction of two giant dirigibles veloped on sound linea but, owing partially destroyed by fire on Thurs to cost $7,287,000-Reuter's Ame to the obsolete.type of service day. This is Princess Mary's first rican Service. machines used and the entire ab- visit to Ireland.
aence of reserve equipment, the Princess Mary and Viscount Las- force is not fit to undertake war celles will interrupt their journey to operations in co-operation with the visit in Dublin Mr. McNeill, the Gov- Army and Navy he recommends a ernor-General of the Irish Free drastic improvement and a deve: State. lopment programme extending over nine years costing £1,139,000.— Reuter.
KALAHARI DESERT
TYPES OF BUSHMEN MEET IN "CRADLE OF MANKIND"
LINCOLN'S INN
CHAPEL'S HISTORY OF
500 YEARS
TWO DESECRATORS
The fire at Fortumna Castle fo now definitely attributed to incen- diaries, probably Irresponsible young political malcontents who sought rather to embarrass the Free State Government than to insult Princess! A small but important part of the Mary, it has been found that the extensive scheme of renovation petrol had been poured into the Which is being carried out at |stables and servants' quarters which Lincoln's Inn is liable to escape WHITE MEN'S TRIAL
were burned, and a number of empnotice, for it is taking place in the ty petrol thus have been picked up chapel. For several centuries this gloom of the crypt under the Johannesburg. An expedition of on the lawn. white men over the difficult Kalahari The outrage has provoked indigna-Was & burial-place for the Benchers Desert, has now been completed. lon throughout the Irish Free State of the Inn, and among those lying there are Thurloe, secretary to The party was led by Captain Clif- and particularly in the Portumna
Oliver Cromwell, and William neighbourhood where Lord Lascelles Prynne, the Furitan pamphleteer. ford,, the imperial secretary.
iis held in high esteem. Many types of bushmen were met, The "Irish Times" commenting on feet have almost obliterated the in- Time and the passage of many with in that so-called cradle of man-' the affair, points out that Princess scriptions and coats of arms which kind. Outside Kalahari they are Mary's informal visit to Southern mark the graves, and they are now often regarded as pure savages just Ireland before she goes to North-in process of being restored, a a little removed from the animals ern Ireland la an act of faith in tedious and, in some cases, very they hunt with bow and arrow, but southern goodwill and courtesy, and delicate operation..
to talk with them, to overcome their adds, "We might have supposed that The renovation work at Lincoln's natural auspicion of the stronger, to not even the most illiterate fanatie Inn Includes also the restoration of see their life and general habits at could put a political aspect on this the Old Hall, and the bringing into first hand, is to realise that these visit of the royal lady to her hus-view again of the old kitchen gar- isolated groups of the desert are band's Irish estate."
much more civilised in the true sense than many other natives in South Africa.
Arrival In Ireland.,
London, Yesterday.
den in New-square.
There is mention of Lincoln's Inn Chapel in the records of the Inn so far back na 1428, but it was rebuilt in 1823, from the designs
E.
They also display exciting dances Princess Mary and Viscount Las and their skill in hunting is an art celles were welcomed when they of Inigo Jones, and enlarged in In Itself. They move about the desert landed yesterday morning in Dublin 1882, the year the Royal Courts of with nomadic freedom and appear by a considerable crowd who cheer- Justice were opened. It is built on with startling suddenness. Time and ed them heartily. They motored to arches, which form the crypt which. again the expedition camped in what the Viceregal Lodge and breakfast-like the cloisters in the Temple, was apparently a wilderness of sand ed with Mr. McNeill;-Governor-] was in former days used as a place and scrub with no animal or human General of the Irish Free State,
where members of the Inn might being within hundreds of miles. Yet They then proceeded to Portumna walk and "confer their learnings." within half an hour a dozen bush- Castle, their Irish seat.
The use of the crypt for such pur men would mysteriously appear The little town of Portumna was poses was, however, curtailed, as creeping forward to warm them- beflagged and the inhabitants, as duced through the gradual raising the height of the arches became re- selves against the camp fire.
sembled in large numbere at the the ground, and for a very long Among the many important mat- castle gates, gave the Princess and while it was railed on and kept ters investigated by the expedition Lord Lascelles a great ovation.
private. was the so-called slavery of British The polics have arrested two men Bechuanaland. Naturally an Inac- on suspicion of being connected with ccssible country is the subject the fire,, which damaged part of of extraordinary rumours, and the castle last Thursday Bechuanaland has its mysterious Princess Mary and Viscount. Las- whispers by psuedo pioneers. celles will leave Portumn Castle next Allegations were also made that Thursday for Ulster, where a great conditions analogous to slavery reception awaits them. They will be existed in Bechuanaland. The the guests of the Duke of Abercorn, Bamangwato tribe, for example, did Governor of Northern Ireland and not hesitate to use the labour of the Duchess of Abercorn.
They both bushmen and Kalahari natives will make a tour of the shipyards, and a state of hereditary service rope-works and linen factories and then existed.
attend ceremonies connected with the The British authorities, however, British Legion, Girl Guides and Boy are fully alive to the possibility of Scouts, and pay a visit to Lord Crai- such injustices existing in a protec-gavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, torate and have on frequent occa-at Stormont CastleBritish Wire- slons publicly warned the chiefs and less Service their assembled tribesmen that. hereditary service will not be toler- ated In a British territory.
During the course of their journey the members of the expedition heard one big game hunter protest that Bechuanaland was a country where a native had all the rights and a white! man none. Although an exaggera-
tion, this seems to help to prove that the protectorate. is a protectorate reality as well as in name "The Christian Science Monitor."
£214 LEFT BEHIND BUT TROUSERS GONE.
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The "Black Books" Its first use as a burial ground appears to date from 1625, for in May of that year a meeting of the council took place, which is thus recorded in the "Black Books of Lincoln's Inn.
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Att this counsell itt is consent- ed unto by all the Mrs, of the Bench that the cloyster under the new chapel shall be a place of burial, y itt may be obtayned; and for the effectinge'thereof Mr. Noy, Mr. Sherfeild, and Mr. Hakewell are entreated to attend the Bishop of London."
The ground was consecrated, and thereafter "appear many entries re- cording. payments of £1 for burial
A "CAT" THIEF sites. Not always, apparently, was It treated with the respect due to hallowed ground,' for 'in 1685 the council had trouble with a desecra- tor, one Mr. Nicholas Love, whom they expelled the society. In the Mr. William Ritchie, the golf first place Mr. Love "thrust him- professional at the Addington self" into a chamber to which, an- Club, Surrey, who was staring at other momber had been admitted. an hotel at Le Touquet, has been and refused to leave, "Then, when the victim of a cat-burglar who is brought before the council; he be- believed to be one of an organised haved in an "insolent and peremp gang responsible for,, several fory manner," and, finally, he burglaries here.
Petruck and beate the porter under Saintly, Paradise, and Angell Mr. Ritchie went to bed at 11.80 the chappell, and, together with two were the names of successive ap- one night after having placed his others being utter barristers of this plicants for advice at Willesden clothes on a chair. When he house, did. by vyolence draw the Woman at Willesden: I lent her awoke next morning he found on faald porter to the pampe and there a dress; and when I asked for it the floor two pocket-books and two did pumpe him." Mr. Edward back, she pushed it through the gold coins which he had left in his Heyon, one of Mr. Love's holpere, letter-box. Penge magistrates' clerk: trousers pockets. One of the was "put out of commons and fined (to defendant): Did you deny the pocket-books contained $119 and 45 for helping Mr. Love in the offence when you were stopped? the other £104. They still con- pumpeing of the porter, and for Defendant: Yes, Clerk: What did tained the money, but the boasting and glorying in it at the
trousers had vanished counsell." you say? Defendant: I made no
Counsel at Mansfeld: In Mr. Ritchie looked for another Possibly because the burial reply. light work easy to get in this die suit, but this also had disappeared, ground was become rapidly aited trict?
Man: Everybody wants it, and with it 250 in French with the bodies of those
who had In any district
questionable right to Interment It is believed that the burglar there, the council, in 1857, made an entered. Mr. Ritchie's bedroom order that no-one was to be buried The Western Australian Cabinet through 'an open window,
in the crypt except those who had has under consideration ‘a reduc-
Be chambers in the House, and had tion in companies and personal Samuel Levy, the 27-years-old regularly attended, commons Still taxes. The evening papòra fore- London man who recently swallow-. Ister, in 1791; they further restrict, cast a reduction in the former from ed a table fork in the cells at Cardir ed interments to those of "Masters Ba. to 25, and reductions in the lat Central Police Station, was commit of the Bench, and four years later, ter mainly affecting salaries of ted for trial at Cardiff on charges of it was decided to enclose the crypt from £400 to719007,
breaking dato a shop
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