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REV. L. C.. KNIGHT WINSTON CHURCHILL WELFARE WORK FOR ARCTIC EXPLORING BY “HAUNTED HOUSE"
ANSTEY.
AS A BOY.
His Work for Service Fond of Arguing "About
Mea.
FAREWELL GATHERING.
Anything.
STANLEY BALDWIN WAS QUIET.
SEAMEN.
British Attitude "Disappointing.”
TRAGEDY OF THE SAILOR.
Association
SUBMARINE.
Icefields Not Bergs the Enemy,
THE DANGER POINT.
OF SAVOY.
Many Mysterious Deaths.
Curious rumours are circulating in Chambery, in Saroy, concerning what is known as "the Haunted The attitude of Great Britain to
House." It is an old, four-storeyed | Fied years of indiefatigable, unien- Old Harrovians all over the
Contrary to popular belief, says
building, with an address which your on behalf of Service men in world will tearn with kindly re- the subject of the welfare of sea- Dr.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson. the might have been bestowed upon it! Hong Kong, and the Wesleyan gret that Mr. J. F..Meure, mana mean port was criticised at the Arctic explorer, the most dangerous by a writer of mystery--No. 13, There is a Methodist Church, Wanchai, was ger of the school hookshop, hay Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, part of the voyage of the Wilkins- Rue de Portiques.
night, retired, after 53 years' service,
which was held recently at British Ellsworth Polar Submarine Expedi-tradition that Rousseau passed a suitably reengnised last
winter there with the Baronne de when a new longe, dedicated to the. In the last half-eratury · „prae»
Medical
House, tion is not after it reaches the Warens. Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Kiight Anstey,tically every boy, who has been at
Tavistock square.
Polar sigas, ist before it gets there. | Recently one of the residents of Mr. Leonard Bowden. represent- was opened in the Soldiers and Harrow School knew Mr. Moore
"I feel in a measure responsible the house, le. Fagnot, a spinster
Sailors*
ing the National Union of Seamen, for this expedition," said Dr: 670, died, and an old wooden chest Home, Mr. and Mrs.jand talked with him. For musi Anstey, who are shortly leaving for of the time he was a literary men) referied' to 'a questionnaire which Stefansson to an interview, "he containing the mummified body of cause I first put the iden into baby was found shortly after- Home were also the recipients off tor to them, and many of them was circulated to the Governments wilkins's head. Therefore I am wards in an attic which she had gins from the Chinese staff of the have already written ju him to. ex-by the International Labour Office, anxious that everything should be used for years, as a lumber-room.
There are An inquiry has been opened by Homy, and from members of the press their regret that he has had A disappointing reply was sent by a safe as possible. Wesleyan Church.
Great Britain, he said, to the pre- dangers, but they are not where the the police. A doctor has expressed to leave his famous shop.
general public expects them to be. the opinion that the child was born The gathering included the Hon. He has vivid memories of someiminary question, "Do you con-The worst will really be over alive and that it died or was killed Mr. W. T. Southern and Mrs. of the old boys, "There is Winsider that the International Labour when Wilkins reaches the Polar re as-long-s twenty-five years ago. ston Churchill." he said. "As Conference should adopt a recom-gion. Once i gets there he will Everyone is now wondering what
Sundilands, Commodore A. Htive. You could never shut his Walker, and the Hon. Mr. E: H "He would argue about any
thing, from a bit of string to a Kotevali and Mis. Kotewall
classical book, and he was very fond of taking the opposite view to anybody else.
on the last
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Southorn, i. E. Major-General{small boy he was most argumenta; } mendation on the subject of promo bu travelling the ideal way by Hub- Mlle. Fagnot, who never allowed |
1.
folding Spirit.
In the course of an address the Hon: Mr. Sorthorn sajt:
"I remember that
day of the term. he would not It was with mingled feelings;
hurry off like the other boys, but That received the Committee's' in- would stay behind, and go round vitation to unveil a tablet which with the private detective that the will commemorate the debt owed school then employed.
by
Mr. and
the
has been filled to overflowing with "I also knew John Galsworthy those to whom a night ashore is a when he lived at Harrow, real luxury-ind to none is this "Mr. L. S. Amery was another success due more, tann to Mr. and boy I know, and he could always Mrs. Knight Anstey, who have bem|hald his own
its Inspiration and its guiding! "One of the tallest lads who wa spirit. It is therefore very fittierfever at the school was the present that we should have in the Home Lord Cushendun, who was known a permanent memorial of their ser as 'Paddy McNeill." vice.
1 understand that was what the League of Nations and the Inter national Labour Officer was for.
And what more fitting mem-! "Prince Paruchtra, of Siam, was orial could there he than a new one of my favourites. He was at lounge, specially equipped for ser- Bays very courteous, and in some respects to lack that serious brainy boy. He has a son at the school now, and he always dropped in to see me when he was at Har-
vice men?
A Tower of Strength.
marine."
anyone to enter the attic, knew about this mystery. ⠀
-
A funeral procession was
Clarke ran into the yard of the haunted house, and, seizing a hatchet, killed an old woman and injured a man. Doctors declared that he was of unsound mind, and he was taken to his home in Los angeles by his mother:
People in Chambery are now
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tion of seamen's welfare in ports?" "Is there any danger from ice-
Although a recommendation was bergs??? Dr. Stefansson was asked, i The sinister reputation of, the favoured by Britain, it was quali-
haunted house does not date from No Fisk.
the discovery in the spinster's attic. "None fed by the Statement that the de-
whatever," said Dr.
Women's Suicide. tails of measures to be taken for Stefarsson "That is one of the
Seven years ago a waiter tried the promotion of seamen's welfare the Aretic and about this expedi January two women living in one commonest misconceptions about in murder his fiancee there. In could best be left to the discretiontion. There are no bergs in the part of the building-a mother and of national or other authorities. Aretis, They are only found in the her daughter-committed suicide. "The reply of Great Britain on north Atlantis, which trans-Atlantic No satisfactory explanation of this the general organisation question shipping frequents. The ice in the doperate act was ever found. } His Detective Complex. this Home
is also disappointing," said Mr. Polar sea is not deep. It may be "He might have some idea of Bowden.
More recently, on March 24, an "The statement that fifteen to twenty feet thick; none Anferican visitor named Louis Mr Knight Anstey.nd the becoming a detective himself, andis Majesty's Government doubt has ever been found that is more Clarke was suddenly seized with a honour in November 1927 to lay no doubt he would be able to tell the necessity of the International than sixty feet, and that is rare." !
fit of madnes while walking one of the foundation stones of this the school detective a thing
Labour Office entering into contact: "What are some of the objections through the streets of Chambery, handsome new building. The Home two about his profession.
with. Governmente or national com- raised to the expedition by those and was drawn by some irresistible "I frequently saw his father,mittee for the purpose of pro-who think it is a foolhardy one?" force to the vicinity of the house." .. has more than justified our exper-Lord Randolph Churchill, when he moting collaboration
between all. "The most general fear is that: tations and nireköy there is need came to Harrow to swo Winston. national organisations concerned in the, submarine will be imprisoned; ing. for extension if only the necessary Barrow hay, bat he was very, quiet particularly unfortunate.
"Stanley Baldwin was anotherthe welfare of seamen' appears under great fields of ice; that the funds could be found. The reports and reserved and never had much
batteries will run completely down which have been issued from time to say
"A plea has been made by H.R.H. and the engineers will be unable to for himself: He did not the Master of the Marine Navy come to the surface to recharge: to time have told us how much this impress his personality on
the Prince of Wales) that there that progress will be so slow under Home, has been appreciated by school, although be whs clever
should be Kreater co-ordination the ice that the supply of air will Service men, Time after time enough.
among the national organisations of be exhausted. There is not the Great Britain. If that is wise, slightest prospect of any of these shaking their heads over the death and assuredly it is wise, surely things happening. The North Pole from an unexplicable illness of the laboration internationally. there is need for promoting col-area is not alami of perpetual, owner of the place,, a M. Favre,
In fact, snow and ice. There is plenty of He died recently.
open water all the year, round. In
Summer, when !. fact, during the Wilkins does his work, the Nautilus Trifling with the Question. may sail for hundreds of miles in "On the question of regulations open water. When it comes to an the replies of Great Britain appear icefield... or a big floe it can sail round, or, more likely still, dive. other consideration that ought to have under and come up on the
side, been given.
Under The Ice. "For instance, to proclaim to the The Rev. X V. Halward, on be-row.
world that the placing of minimum "There are those who say the half of the Anglican Churches. Another nice young fellow was age limits for persons employed in craft will be endangered by these said that Mr. Knight Anstey had Ralph Glyn, who is now Conserva-public-houses is not a matter for icefields. because of their extent; been a tower of strength and instive M.P. for Abingdon, One day the welfare of seamen exclusively, that it may take days to go under piration in the conferences that he told me that his aunt was com- and therefore, should
not be in-There may be fields broader that had been held with a view to get ing to see him and he would|cluded in a recommendation, ap-twenty-five miles, but I have never ting together the Churches in the bring her in to call on me.. He pears to be trifling with the ques-seen or heard of one, and even if Colony. He was gind, as an ex did. His aunt was the Princess tion. It is perfectly obvious that the speed below water is only two Service man in testify to the great Louise, who was most interested the question is aimed at suppres-miles an hour, it would mean that ng £26 each, this variety is easily the most expensive of the latest and Mrs. Knight Anstey in their round it."
the biggest field in about twelve "blues," most of which, are grown work for the Home.
The Hard Old Days.
"It is common knowledge, all over hours. Moreover, the Nautilus can in Germany, whose growers for The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall paid
many years have led the world in One of the first letters to Mr the world that port areas are happy remain submerged for five days. a glowing tribute to Mr. Knight, Moore after his rethrument had hunting grounds of the vagrant "Even supping Wilking and gladioli production. The Germans Anstey's work on behalf of the been announced came from Mr. and waster, and the statement of his men become tripped under the brought their exhibits for the show League of Nations. He had proved G. H. Hallam, who was master of Great Britain-"but it may not alice; what can be done? They carry by aeroplane from Stuttgart. to be an extremely dignified, courte- the Third Form
As against their higher-priced as far back as ways be necessary to arrange for drills which can bore through one ous and able chairman. He could 1861. He is now living, at Tivoli, special, treatment in port areas in hundred and twenty feet of fee, blooms, however, there was not adequately express his full gra Italy, in the house in which Hornce the matter is not particularly which is twice the thickness of any wealth of the more popular blooms titude for the co-operation and as-is reputed to have lived.
helpful
icefióe ever known. By a device of-from cottager growers in all parts gistance given him in the work by Mr. Hallman wrote "Harrow is "It is. I think, a matter for in- Mr. Lake the crew could emerge of England, Scotland, and Wales. Mr. Knight Anstey.
playing Eton at Lord's on this day, tense regret that the Government from the submarine and make their There were exhibitors, also from On behalf of Free. Churches, the and so I am aporting the Harrow of the greatest maritime coun- way to the top. They can
New Zealand, India, lso Australia, Rev. Frank Short recalled the many colours."
try in the world has 'damned dynamite. the ice above them with- Kenya, Germany, France, Holland, times he had met Mr. Anstey at ·He recalled to Mr. Moore the with faint praise this important out damaging the ship, and by these and the United States. gatherings connected with that mis-fact that he first took the Third work of the International Labour same means they can also recharge. Mr. A. E. Blake Adams, the sion. Mr. Anstey had been an ard-Form in an old wooden shed at Conference, which means so much their batteries through the ica. honorary secretary of the British ent worker toward unity of the the back of the bookshop... to the seamen of the whole world. They can also repair damage to the Gladiolus.Society, showed an churches..
"That is true," Mr. Mooré said, One would almost think that the hull from the outside under water" tirely new biscuit chrome bloom Speaking for office-bearers of the "and the old school houses were questionnaire had been pitched Wanchal Wesleyan Church, Mr. J.quite different to those of the pre-over to a subordinate with in- H. Gelling alluded to the laborious sent day. The boys, too, experi- | straction to say something pleasant, and uphill fight that Mr. and Mrs. enced harder conditions, not only but for heaven's sake do not com- Knight Anstey bad waged for five in the school, but in their dormimit yourself in any shape years. However, the Church was tories and meals.
form." now holding its own, and the "There have been many changes The Congress unanimously de- heavy debt of five years ago wiped for the better in the past fifty cided that the Social Hygiene Coun
Mr. and Mrs. Anstey's ser years. But boys are always boys.ell should be requested to take the a critical condition, but when inter vice to the Church and to the Home whatever age they live in, and as necessary action to secure that re- rogated he refused with Apache would long be remembered.
far as conduct, attainments, sport, presentation- should be made to the loyalty, to give any information at The Hon. Mr. Southern, with a and general behaviour go, I do Home and Imperial Governments on.all. Police inguiries have revealed, few appropriate words, then opened not see much difference in those the question of improving the however, that during the preceding the new lounge, and after refresh of the present day and those of facilities for the welfare of seamen night he had had a quarrel with ments had been sérved; presenta- Victorian Elmes."
in foreign ports.
another man, known as "Joja of
The mummified heads of two tlons were made by Mr. Yang Chen, Mr. Moore said he had lived at. Mr. Bowden, during the dis-Marseilles."
native Indian women have been on behalf of the Chinees staff of the Harrow all his life, and had seen cussion, said: "The tragedy of the
Pilsener, Belgion, “Lion” brand, per case, In the approved Apache fashion offered to the Manchester Chil Home, and Mrs. S. Hamer, for the six headmasters
there, Dr. seamen, and I have met thousands the two men had gone to a quiet dron's Hospital for auction in Man- Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wan- Vaughan, Dr. Henry Montague who have been all over the world, retreat,, and there, had a duel with chester, the proceeds to go to the Butler, Dr. Wellden (now Dean of is that they see nothing but the knives and revolvers, Jojo receive hospital funds. This offer has been The Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey Durham), Dr. Joseph Wood, the first pub' on the beach...
ed two ballet wounds, but succeed made by a Manchester auctioneer, suitably replied.
Rev. Lionel Ford (now Dean of "There is nothing else for them of in stabbing Doucet twice in the but the hospital has not investigat Tho first part of the evening'a York); and Dr. Cyril Norwood. to do. Nobody cares. I am sure back.
"And of them all, none has been we could get away.
After this encounter, both ad the gruesome after or even con- from an men went home. But the affair had sidered accepting it yet. programme was devoted to a musl- cal programme, when songs were more beloved and
respected than anormous amount of it if we had not ended. At 6.80 In the morning Recently a Ilva rattlesnake was iven by Mrs. F. C. Rendall, Mr. Dr. Norwood," he said,
the thing properly organised Doucet was in bed when his door auctioned to aid the funds, and W. H. Bailey and Mr. Li Chor-chl,
was forced open by Jojo, who, with gifts of a fox cub and of a kan- while Mr. Bailey and Mr. Li sang There is one thing that we can
out a word, emptied an automatic garoo are on record. These were two duets. The accompaniat was do with our mistakes climb on
A man is rich with little while ristol at his adversary. Jojo has bought by the owners of private Mr, HJ, Fountain.
them J. E. Buckrose.
his Judgment. is itue.-Axion. disappeared from his usual haunts, menageries.
debt owed by Service men to Mr. in the book shop, and went all sing the third-party profiteer in the submarine would pass under
out.
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WOUNDED MAN'S SILENCE. -.
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An Apache drama of vengeance eight inches in diameter, while recently occurred in Paris. Early some of the spikes scen exceeded a one morning a woman conducted to height of over six feet. hospital, her lover, Pierre Doucet,
with five bullet wounds. He was in
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