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Hong Kong, Saturday, July 7, 1954.
"A Gaping Chasm.”
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
FEEDING THE EMPIRE
Dr. John Boyd Orr, who recently delivered the Chadwick 'Lecture át the Royal United Service Institu- tion, is the Empire's greatest au- thority on animal nutrition.
THE MEN WHO OWN LONDON
L.C.C. POSSESSES THE
LARGEST SLICE
OLD ESTATES DWINDLING
(By A. P. Lascombe Whyte.)
A Scot by birth and speech, he is customary, in the hurry of estates), but in 1929 the late Lord: had a brilliant career in medicine
everyday conversation, to talk Portman was said to hold over 270- in Glasgow. He abandoned it in
about the land and houses of Can-acres of valuable West End land. 1814 to devote himself to nutrition tral-and even
worse, Greater-j
Originally the family were land- research and founded the Rowett London, as if they were a compre-lords of a great area stretching Institute in Aberdeen.
hensible unit governed by the same north from Oxford-street up to. To-day he is the Head of the laws; a generalisation which is Maylebone-road, and including Imperial Bureau for the exchange palpably untrue,
Portman, Bryanston and Montagu of information on everything to do On the rebound, it is almost as squares, and at the time of his with men's food throughout the customary to imagine that Central death close friends of the late Empire.
London is owned by a few rich and Lord Portman connsidered his Dr. Orr is a plain-speaking man. worthless noblemen an equally estate worth half a million. In his lecture he had some incon-false assumption.
They had forgotten that land is trovertible facts to announce. Actually, for a better grasp of a fickle and a costly servant.
The most striking was his state-
the many problems which a. Social-Lord Portman left £1685 net per- ment that, while only 7 per cent. ofism LC.C. is likely to lay before sonalty and an unsettled estate the population of Britain was en-us in the next three years, it is worth £2,347. gaged in agriculture, the figure desirable to know would need to be raised to only 14 per cent. to supply the nation's entire needs.
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who does own Like the Grosvenor and other jestates, the Portman lands were London,
Out of eight million inhabitants founded on farm. The kind Jonly 40,000 own any of London's thought of an early ancestor of land, and of these thousands only Lord Portman started the family. about a score possess really large fortunes. Over 170 years ago a Dr. Orr made some trenchant slices of the city.
member of the family was ill. The remarks about the milk situation. The L.C.C. is the most important family doctor prescribed asses> Milk, he said. was in the same landlord, with a fault-finding eye milk as an essential diet. It was position as water a hundred years on 280,000 tenants., despatching not a common commodity. So the ago. The provision of an abundant rent bills for £1,600,000 odd every head of the family. bought for pure supply at a price that would year and groaning at a capital ex-2000 a farm and fields on which On these bring it within the reach of the penditure of over £42 million. Ato keep a drove of asses. poorest people was now our most large part of the rest of London is fields have arisen the great squares urgent social reform.
in the hands of a few great ground of to-day.
Those of us who live in Choises. The average amount of milk con-landlords.
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sumed in Britain each day was not) The most valuable' property is have reason to be grateful to the. to the stopping of the war at a
undoubtedly that of the Duke of father of the late Earl of Cadogan, moment when vastly more deci-more than half-n-pint
A pint was necessary for health, Westminster, who, a few years who transformed a huddle of small jaive results seemed imminent, on the plain understanding that especially for children and mothers ago, was described as "owning streets and houses into one of the
of families.
most of the. West End"
well main residential areas of London security was to be given-an un
Yet milk to-day is being sold for as large tracts round
Vauxhall and a soft home for moneyed derstanding never realised. Since
The Bohemia. then, ail France's activities, alli-other purposes at much cheaper Bridge-road and Millbank.
He also transformed the rents. rates than it is available ances abroad and defence mea-
to the estate then occupied approximate-
£3,000,000 Deal public.
ly three-quarters of a square milej sures at home, have been direct- The London Press correspon-ed to the one great object, not of
His conclusion, was that some of London's most valuable space. Recently the late Sir John Eller- late man bought 13 acres of the Cado- dent who declared that the very aggression, but of natural self- better scheme than the present one valued at £20 million. Of first stages of the re-opened Dis- protection. She finds herself must be evolved for the supply and some of this has been sold, and in gan estate, but even in 1933 it was armament Conference had
1930 eight acres of ground on the estimated to cover 116 acres of ex-' re-to-day, after the immense losses distribution of milk. vealed “a gaping chasm" be- and sacrifices of the recent past,.
Millbank eatate changed hands for pensive streets and houses be- tween Britain and France. ex-vulnerable at many points in
Your Daily Smile! about a million. To-day big new tween Knightsbridge and Royal-
Hospital-road. Cadogan joffices stand on the site. pressed a truth not at all unex-face of an unfriendly
and pected. Sir John Simon himself with latent strength probably A London hairdresser claims: But the Duke of Westminster Sloane squares, Cadogan and Kans had already invited exactly that greater than her own. Have we that he can judge men's charac-still owns hundreds of figure of speech when he spoke the right. remembering these ters from the shape of their jaws. fabulously valuable land in May-streets, of the British Government's things, to regard the outburst of Be sure your china will fad you fair and Belgravia, including land Sloane-court, parts of Cheyne-walk efforts to act as a bridge-builder. M. Barthou as hysterical? There out.
Park-lane, Grosvenor-square, Ber-and King's-road, and streets Assuredly, Britain has striven are sober judges who are firmly
keley-street and all that world.leading off King's-road all belong mightily to prevent the revival convinced that Britain's own Quite!
Not many landlords and that all to it
by this time are
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acres of places, Sloane and Lower Sloane Sloane-Gardens and
of militarism and to reconcile realisation of danger is not near-i "There is nothing that causes so their friends are their tenants. Although the eatste was, nomin- old hostilities. Her patient pro-ly vivid enough, in view of her much misery as the winning and When Park-lane was rebuilt the ally, one of London's greatest, posals
aa comparative weakness at sea and losing of money at cards,” states Duke's permission had to be again possession did not bring lengthy as the numerous "last still more in the air. London, a cleric. I agree as regards the sought. Which is fair enough. wealth. The Earl was made bank- appearances" of veteran actors in the eyes of many more than losing.
The boarder who wants his bed-rupt in 1911, and the lands long and singers. No one can pretend the experts alone, is not among
room repapered consults the land-administered by trustees. lady.
But his name lives on in streets,
that she has succeeded. But those places whose geographical Drenching at least she might have hoped to immunity M. Barthou appeared "There is rain high above wait- The foundation of his old estate finns and houses. avoid that fate of offending both to envy. He and other European ing to fall even on the most bril-was laid in Elizabethan times, Lord, Howard de Walden has sides which cynics assign to the observers are at times inclined liantly sunny day," remarks a when the head of the Grosvenor also been dubbed "London's rich- peacemaker. As things are to think that a nation which meteorologist. Anybody who has family married a Miss Davies, who jest landlord, with an income of she would appear to have earned views its own perils with such started to sun-bathe known that, owned a pleasant little property, £400,000 a year (paying for his suspicion from many and grat-calmness is likely to be more
in what is now Belgravia, known horse Blazonry's feed). Up tiu tude from few or none, Sir John|than negligent of perils which New Idea
as Ebury Farm,
1925 he owned 40 acres of the Simon's speech, which carried may strike it indirectly through In one London restaurant, as an It cannot have been a very great heart of London, stretching from with it that note of final appeal others.
experiment, soup was served in or rich farm, for it was valued at Oxford-street to Euston-road, and
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long it developed slowly.. Even street eastward to Wells-street. 100 years ago the farm had only He sold at a good time to a trust progressed inton the district largely owned by Sir John Eller-
'is value
to which we are now accustomed Germuny's withdrawal has cube-form. The silence was said four shillings a year. And for from Oxford-circus and Regent- in British pleadings, was a mix-again been deplored by the to be positively uncanny. ture, perhaps not an unnatural spokesman of Great Britain. Jone, of aspirations cherished and Others, in effect, denounce it as He Is Supreme
realities recognised. The out-a means of disowning all obliga- An inventor has produced a known as Five Fields, neither the man at a price said to be 28 mil- standing points of past discus-itions and restrictions-as wit-cloth-cutting machine which alons to which he in detail re-ness the great increase in Ger-"the fastest and most efficient was considered high, ferred were interesting enough many's military expenditure. thing of its kind." He hasn't seen to the academic mind, but had, Further, what of Japan, what of my Unele George playing billiards. Ebury Farm spreads its shadowy KNIGHT IN ARMOUR after all, little bearing on a si-the United States? It is the tuation which to-day has chang-barest truth that more than one Looks Thai Way
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nor
reputation of which lion,
To-day the ghost of forgotten
[pasture land over the cream of re- sidential London; of Belgrave,
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IN PLANE
Ebory Strange Sight On Reich
Air Route.
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ed so markedly and so plainly of the most potentially danger An American claims to have dis-Eaton and Cheater squares, Eaton- for the worse. The Foreign ons nations no longer owe even covered a new moon. Perhaps place, Wilton-crescent, Minister himself was conscious nominal allegiance to either prohibition was best, after all. of this when he remarked that League or Conference. That in
Istreet and a score of other streets between Buckingham Palace and vague and Inconclusive talk was itself helps to increase the sense As It Strikes Me
Chelsea. calculated only to injure the of insecurity, in addition to the “You, won't see any dangerous cause of peace and damage the open lack of mutual trust among tactics
Many of the original leases in | ACTOR SOLVES MYSTERY in this year's Test these districts fell in recently and prestige of the League of Na-some of those who are still in matches," says a writer. tions. His claim that the Bri-membership.
were renewed on favourable terms.
Munich. Which of them they will be safety-matches! tish memorandum of January now finds any visible comfort in
So enormously has value risen that Passengers waiting in an air last approximated closely to the the Locarno pact? Nevertheless, Facts You Did Not Know alone is believed to have been in were astonished to see
the rent-roll from Eaton-aquere liner at Munich to start for Ber- German declaration, which show-Sir John Simon professes still to ed that differences were being look to limited guarantees of
quadrupled: It is undoubtedly figure in mediaeval armour board narrowed, probably helped more that sort rather than to a scheme tng the establishment of a petroleum of Ebury Farm for all infinity.
The Peruvian Congress is consider- enough to have paid the wages blil the machine and take his seat. than a little to bring M. Barthou of world-wide assurance.
No one could see his face, as Yet monopoly, including a nationally own To-morrow it may be enough to he kept the visor closed. to his feet in pugnacious mood. seeing that it was precisely for ed refinery, The middle path between French the realisation of such objects as
have bought every farm in Eliza Throughout the fourney he and German wishes is hard for the latter that the League of A new holder for cradle telephones|bethan England.
sat without speaking a word, and Britain, or any other mediator, Nations was originally formed, desk or vertically to hang a telephone kindly landlord. When the swel-and. disappeared.
can be used either horizontally on a The Duke is a generous and at Berlin got off the aeroplane Sir John's resigned acceptance on s. wall France's case is not difficult to of a second-best looks somewhat
Herr Heinrich George, a well- understand; and whether or not like a counsel of despair. It is Applications for patents in Germany 1929, and swept a whole district, revealed the secret behind this known German actor, has just it commands entirely the assent true, as he recalled, that: Den last year totalled 72,886, the number the Duke replaced the ruined fur- of the head, it has more than a mark, Spain, Norway, and Bws showing a decrease for the first time niture of thousands of his Mill-He had been taking the part
incident. in five years. tring chair Putting it in a stated their approval of Britain's Weighing only 16 pounds, a full size 2113,000 in cash for rehousing was on his way to Berlin, to open
to the sympathy den have in recent days formally
bank tenants. He later presented of a knight in a play which had land. worth £200,000 and over finished its run at Munich, and nutshell, if Germany cannot be attitude and proposals All of bed with springs has been invanted prevented from rearming (which these countries were neutral that can be folded and carred under 2500 people. probably could only be done by a during the war, and may, there antonsable zest.” [preventive war, a thing scarcely foro be considered as capable of pat
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Partman Estates
to be undertaken by, the wildest taking a detached and impartial sists on thinking in terms less of The Portman family bas chauvinist), then .... France de view. Yet one cannot overlook right than of might. The des called London's second mands such sanctions as may the fact that all of them together pondency of the usually optimis, landlord, “ Largo parts: seem, tas promise" her security, do not. unortunately, count for the Mr. Henderson in hardly mur estate have been sold (aff She contends that she consented very much in a world which in-prising.
fashion of moat big.
been
in the same part there, K.
When he arrived at the aeros drome he found that he had not enough money to pay the freight. on his luggage. As he had to have the armour in Berlin that levening he unpacked it and wore
it during the flight-Beuter.":