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(By the Rt. Hon. Lord Denman, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.D.) Deputy-Speaker Of The House Of Lords
that have for late worked in vain either ignorance or impudence. TRIAL by peers of a member of the executioner's asistant,
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAYS CARTOON
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Byron Acquitted
dis- of their own, order, the whereupon an long are days in which manners
abolition of which has just been pute arose between those un- for its destruction. The man in are not what they used to be."
passed by the House of Lords thinking wretches, which the the street is not impressed;
and sent to the Commons for Sheriff quickly silenced."
It is bad enough to tip the rather he feels considerable dis-THE SACHER TABLECLOTH
One of the most famous rez-ratification, is a matter of his- gust at the suggestions that Bri-
There is a re- wrong waiter; it must be in- tip the DRAKE At the War Memorial tain should play the part of a co-taurants in Europe has just cele-toric interest.
Hospital at 7.30 p.m., on May ward in running away from her brated its past slories in a book-jeord of such a trial being held deed exasperating to
belet. This tells the story of Frau soon after the Norman Con-wrong executioner.
In 1765 Lord Byron (great- 2nd, 1936: Edward Ott Drake, obligations suggestions to aged 53, of the British Ameri- found in the same papers that re-Sacher's historic hotel in Vienna quest, but the procedure was
Its most treasured possesion is first put into statutory form as uncle of the poet) was tried for the famous Visitors Book in the a provision of Magna Carta, murder. He bad dined with a can Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd. port the League's decease.
hus-
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form of a tablecloth, signed by the barons insisting upon it as party of friends at the Star and and
A dispute dearly
many of its aristocratic guests a protection against the tyranny Garter in Pall Mall. band of Florrie Drake, father
had arisen on the question of It was started under the late Fran of a powerful King.
three of Nick and Mary.
For more than
cen-preserving game; his neighbour Sacher's orders by the present Service at the Colonial Ceme
of in the country, Mr. Chaworth, turies afterwards Kings head waiter, Herr Wagner. tery at 4 pm, to-day.-China
Each signature was carefully England managed by various said that strictness and severi papers please copy.
stitched over in coloured silk by devices to evade this provision. ty were the only effectual means the country Case of of dealing with the redoubtable Frau Sacher her- Particularly in the
Lord Byron was for self. The signatories are head-trials for treason, the judges people.
Francis appointed could generally be re-gentler methods; the argument jed by the Emperor
lied upon to do the King's bid-became a quarrel. When Lord Joseph This signature was ding.
Byron rose to go, he found Mr. Outlook For China
tained through the influence of
A trial of which a very com-Chaworth waiting in the pas
The latter led the way
bade TOOM, One cannot but sympathise RAMBOO, one of the most use Frau Katherina Schratt.
The Archduke Francis Ferdin-plete record exists is that of sage
the Earl of Derwentwater and into another with China in her national tri-D ful of all natural products, bulations. There is something grows so fast that you can actual and, whose assassination at Sera-five other North-country lords waiter fetch a candle; then, and infinitely pathetic in the spec-ly see it grow. During my sojourn jevo was the signal for the World who took part in the Jacobite having locked the door, the two
They were men drew their" swords tacle of a great nation-poter-in Tela, Honduras, in 1999, I visit War, is among the many Arch-rising of 1715.
treason, fought. Mr. Chaworth was run tially and actually-being slow-fed Dr. Wilson Popenoe's Estacion dukes who signed the cloth.
King Vilan of Serbia and his charged with high
pleaded guilty and
sen-through and killed. ly drained of her resourses, her Experimental Agricola, where ex- stamina and her will to live by periments with plant growth were luckless son. King Alexander, who tenced to be hanged, drawn and
It was found that a was murdered in 1903, the late!
quartered.
At the trial Lord Byron was Nicholas. a strangling depradatory pro- conducted.
Grand Duke de-Russian shoot
truly
It is a relief to read that this. cess on the part of an aggres-bamboo
not acquitted of murder, but con- It grew ex- and Lord Milner are other names barbarous sentence
He Because she serving of its name.
Lords victed of manslaughter. sive neighbour..
literally carried out. lacks the political cohesion of factly 17 inches in one day-more the famous tablecloth carries.
Kenmure claimed benefit of peerage, and Derwentwater and her more fortunate sisters; be-shooting than growing.
were beheaded on Tower Hill was discharged. cause a continuous process of
Lord Nithsdale managed Benefit of peerage rested on before the a Statute of Edward VI which escape the night execution, and the other three laid down that "a peer convict- ed of clergyable felony is en- were reprieved
titled to his immediate dis- charge without burning in the tically all political stability: for ARL HARVEY, newspaper boy these reasons China, with her of Charleston, West Virginia,
hand or being liable to impri- enormous natural wealth and who has no education whatever. her staggering possibilities for has a most
man, "my of his own tenants, was found onent." "Clergyable felony" covered most offences short of exploitation, is an easy prey to answer
Lord Ferrers' stead-murder, and under the Statute better organised "hustle" than her own. One has a great deal Problems immediately after they wife is absent on a pleasure cruise, guilty and sentenced to
fast bearing on the scaffold won a peer could do any of these "You're lucky," replied the older for him the admiration of the things with impunity once.
Benefit of peerage was claim- of sympathy, therefore, with are propounded to him. For in- and she writes me from every port hanged.
The account con- the persistent clamour of the stance, he may be running down,
Yane from spectators. South-west that the time has the street telling "Extra", when man "My wife is also on a pleasure
tinues as follows: "His Lord-ed by the Duchess of Kingston, someone will ask in a loud voice, craise, but she touches
ship called for the executioner, tried and convicted on a charge come to put a stop to conces How much is 9,372 times 4,890 every part she writes from."
who came to him and asked him of bigamy in 1776; she was un- doubtedly a peeress, as it seem- sion and tame knuckling-under to increasingly arrogant "de-Without halting, Earl will fash
The train was running through for forgiveness his Lord-ed clear that if she were not Wonderful things, ship said, I freely forgive you the Duchess of Kingston she tanael mands." In truth China has the correct answer. One may give!
recent him orally a long colminn of figures long suffered
in
passen Be then intended to give the was the Countess of Bristol greatly
last these tunnels," remarked a these directions, to add and as soon as the months in
(Continued on Page 11) Perhaps the most fantastically figure is spoken, he tells the corger. arrogant suggestion-as from rect answer, and he is equally one sovereign State to another good at subtraction and division.plied the other man. -was that recently announced Earl is always on the job selling |
morning and afternoon as pending: that the Japanese both yen should be recognised as the papers, is very industrious, and
It supports a family of four. basis for Chinese currency. would be difficult to think of a "demand" more wounding to lantry of individual brigades
In and armies; but without national amour propre.
cohesion ali almost the same category is the ordination and
for the their gallantry and sacrifice! complacent
the would be worth less than wholesale smuggling in
attempt North: that the duties should nothing-indeed, any be considered as having been at resistance while the forces of paid on the smuggled goods, the land remain unorganised since the autonomous Hopei would probably be suicidal It charges have been met; or con-would provide an excellent ex- versely, as the Japanese cuse for Japan to overrun the authorities
to land-and everyone knows that are reported have told the British Ambassa-just such an excuse is what she It is an open dor in Tokyo in response to en-is waiting for. quiries, that the smuggling may secret that she is inclined to be put down to the general dis-find one in the alleged Com- It is surely inclination of those on the spot munist menace.
excuse
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Explained Employer: Jackson, I wish you wouldn't whistle at your work"
Jackson: "I wasn't working, sir."
Touching
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This Peer Hanged
In 1760 Earl Ferrers was Two members of a club began to tried by his peers for killing one uncanny ability to exchange confidences. intricate mathematical know," said the young
to worry themselves about the not without significance that all of China's concrete revenues due to the Central news
accomplishments in the social, authorities.
These specious arguments road-building and agricultural are meant to explain or justify fields is rigidly excluded from and only a deliberate attempt to under-the Japanese press, mine the financial stability of reports of internal discord, the the country. Every move that menace of communism and ban- China proposes to make to safe-ditry are allowed to be printed guard her Customs revenues is for the consumption of readers blandly sidetracked by the in-lin Japan. Thus there is being transigence of the Japanese built up an entirely false pic- politicians, and China is help-ture of everything "rotten in! less to do anything more than the state of Denmark"-lead- utter, the usual protests, which ing, of course, to the obvious It is no maxim that only Japan can set are politely ignored. wonder that the semi-indepen-it right, and that it is her dent South-west should be manifest duty to do so. In the agitating for the display of a circumstances it is probably little more backbone on the China's best policy to make part of the Nanking authorities haste slowly, as her leaders humiliating appear to be endeavouring to against these aggressions. But it is equally do, until such time as they can
that evident
Generalissimo find themselves backed by Chiang Kai-shek's hands are, to united country prepared to sup- a considerable extent, tied. For port them' to the utmost. But China simply has not a dog's the contrasting danger should a real not be lost sight of that before chance, if it comes to showdown. She has neither these conditions have time to the troops nor the resources, show themselves the country neither the will nor the means, has been quietly assimilated to resist with any show of and has lost its separate entity force. Nobody doubts the gal-entirely.
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