CRIMEAN WAR
SURVIVORS ARE
REMAINING TILL
PRESENT TIME
Strange And Awkward Uniforms
an
OFFICERS WHO FOUGHT IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES
The Crimean War belongs to epoch so remote that it seems almost incredible that there should be men now living] who fought its battles. The¦ senior officers had served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. To a generation which camou- flaged itself in Khaki their sha-; kos and pipe-clayed cross-belts take on, the appearance of an age "not far removed Fontenoy and Blenheim.
from
Though.conducted in an obscure
These subjects of Emperor Haile Selassie, shown when they joyous- ly welcomed his war decree at Addis Ababa, used these same weapons in a mad revolt which laid waste the capital and threatened the Eves of all foreign inhabitants. The British and French legations were the only refuges in the hate-crazed town, last month.
corner of Europe, the Crimean AN OLD LONDON
War has left a curiously vivid impression. Possibly Tennyson's verses and engravings after Lady Butler have helped to. ax it in our youth. writes a special correspon-; dent of "The Times." Imagination is caught by the dim figure of the Lady. with the Lamp Bosquet's famous phrase, apocryphal or not, "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre," has become part
PLAYGROUND
Rosherville Gardens To Be Reopened ATTEMPT TO REPRODUCE PAST GLORIES
Workmen are clearing
Rosher-
of the English language. The ri-ville Gardens, Gravesend, which gours of the war bequeathed to are to be re-opened during the us familiar articles of clothing rst week in July.
like the Cardigan jatket, the Ba laclava helmet, the Raglan coat.
RUW-
And
For many
years the gardens were the playground for thousands
of Londoners, and it was once a haunt of fashionable society.
and, less commonly worn adays. the Crimean beard. there are men still alive to whom Several years ago the place was these household words were once close. A factory occupies part of
novelties.
First Photographs
the site now.
The gardens originally belonged to the Kent Zoological and Botani- Some years 220
Gardens the late Six cal
Institution. and John Fortescue published a num-among
the promoters.
was Bea-
DROUGHT AT SOUTHEND RECALLED
When The Beer Ran Out
Lendon.-Application was made on behalf of Southend public- Bosses and hotels for an hour's extension on the Saturday night bee Whit-Monday.
The Chairman: Last year, the extension was only granted until 1030, and, if I remember rightly, by that time supplies were al
most exhausted.
Only half an hour's extension was grunted.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1936
LONDON OPENS
WEST END SHOP. FOR MEN ONLY Everything Possible For Male Use
1
COCKTAIL BAR AMONGST -
THE AMENITIES
FIGHTING OCEAN
HOW HOLLAND
CLAIMS LAND
FROM THE SEA
Road Built Over 20
Miles Of Water
550,000 ACRES IN PROCESS OF RECLAMATION
- Leeuwarden (Holland).
An interesting addition to Lon- don's shops was formally opened in Piccadilly last month by Sir Malcolm Campbell. It is the new Simpson Store whose aim is to supply every requirement for men within the scope of its nine floors.
There you may buy a trout fly In Holland is probably the most for a light aeroplane, adress suit remarkable road in the world. It lor a bathing wrap.. an elephant is built across 20 miles of sea. igun, a dog, or a box of cigars. If A solid wall of rock, reared on a hair cut and manicure is wanted (foundations of wood, it runs ar- the barbers shop houses some of row-straight and broad across the the most up-to-date equipment in Zuyder Zee, and is the first com- the world; and there is a cocktail (pleted part of the work of reclaim- and snack bar close at hand. ing 550,000 acres from the sea. It The object behind the store is joins the towns of Alkmaar and the need for an exclusively "man's Harlingen. shop" on the same lines as thone, Half-way between these towns. provided in the West End for wo-jon this wonderful Dkye road, is a men. The building stands on the tower designed by the famous site of the old Geological Museum. Dutch architect, Dudok.
At its Value Of Publicity foot is a stone relief depicting] At an inaugural dinner at Gros- Dutch woricmen laying the basalt venor House, Park-lane, in the blocks on the bed of the sea on evening. Mr. Alexander Simpson, which the dyke road is to rise. ¡the chairmian, said that advertis-
On one side is the North Sea, ing would be extensively used by grey and stormy; on the other is the new store.
the large placid lake, at present "Publicity," he added, "forces still called the Zuyder Zee. and who employ it to give still able to be used by small sail- greater value and better service, ing ships. and to be able to succeed-for any
thoge
The Dyke road divides the two, length of time one must live up to holding back the one from the the advertised word. In this other. The method employed by:
Mr. Bestley: No, you are thinkcountry we are fortunate in hav the workmen in reclaiming a small ing of Jubilee Day.
10% the
greatest advertising piece of land is the method by medium in the world our evening, which the Dyke road was built. idaily and weekly journals, and a Long twisted
great organisation
ropes of £brous! like curs can trees are laid down on the bed off only grow by having its message the ocean in such a way that the read by millions of people." tides do not disturb,-though they!
STAGE STAR RISES
IN A NIGHT
ber of excellent photographs tak jamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Composer Who Saved
They Beaconsfeld.
war.
"
en during the campaign. must be among the very first ever The old bear pit is being repair-1 to have been made at 2 seat of ed and it is proposed to instal a bear during the **week." Other A striking feature of them was animals will be on show. that many among the groups of An effort is being made to re wearing civilian vive some of the past glories and clothes, while the Commander-in-entertainments of the gardens. Chief, Lord Raglan, invariably sported a large, white top-hat andį a caped overcoat.
officers were
"A
This preference for civil attire' can probably be explained by pre-į. vious protests against the unsuit- ability of the existing uniform for campaigning. Lieutenant-
Colonel Lugard, in his book History of the Dress of the Bri- tish Soldier." published in 1852, was most outspoken, and though his own service went back to the Napoleonic Wars he advocated far-reaching reforms which have? only been adopted in our own day. If the officer could find occasional relief, the private was expected to fight in the stiff leather stock, scarlet coat, knapsack and cross- belts, and
unsteady stako OF bearskin, which made of him sol gay a figure in the "tup-pence coloured prints.
Surviving Cavalryman' The last survivor of the 670! men who rode into the Valley of Death was Troup-sergeant-major Edwin Hughes, of the 13th His ears (then Light Dragoons), who died on May 18, 1927.
Sir Fitzroy Maclean of Duart,
UNEMPLOYED FALLS DEAD WHILE WAITING IN QUEUE
Had Not Had Regular Work
For Ten Years
While waiting in the queue for out-relief åt Wood Green relieving offices,
Charles Dickerson aged 55, Lasentis- road. Wood Green, fell dead.
He ires a piano maker, but had been unemployed for some years.
After WCT service, Mr. Dickerson had not been em- ployed regularly since 1928.-
He was a skilled man at his trade, but latterly, seemed to have lost heart.
TEA PARTY FOR
50 WIDOWS
Cavaliers For All
The Situation
PLAYED WITHOUT REHEARSAL
At a few bours notice, a young musician became a successful lead- ing actor. That was the achieve-l ment of Mr. Jonathan Field, who, received an ovation at the Little Theatre for his performance on the first night of the play "White" joaks."
Seven hours before the curtain was to rise, Miss Nancy Price, the producer, found that the lead- ing man. Mr. Patrick Boxhill, and his understudy were ill.
<
No Time For Rehearsals
She was about to withdraw the play when Mr. Field-wro-wrote the music for "Alice in Wonder- land." and "Alice Through the Looking Glass" - offered to take
the part
"He had no time to rehearse ¡with the company," Miss Price
and
are
Earl Winterton paid a tribute to may bend, them Blocks of stone) the enterprise of Mr. Simpson, and other materials piled other speakers were Lordjupon the twisted cane-like ground- Barnby, Lord Herbert Scott, Sir work until a foundation is obtain Herbert Morgan and Mr. Austined. Reed.
PAUL MUNI MAY BE STAR OF BIG BRITISH FILM
£80,000 Production
Paul Muni, star of "I am G Fugitive" and other films, is likely to make a picture in England.
Pard Soskin the dever young producer, is negotiating for Muni to star in his next film. This will be an £80,000 production based.
on a spy story by Llewellyn Hughes, "The Shadow on the Wall"
It will be the first of four big films to be made at Amai- gamated Studios, Elstree, by Soskin Productions, Ltd. Work will begin early in September.
told a "Star" reporter, "but con- "MAGICIANS” FROM
centrated on learning the words.
to
"Thanks
remarkable photographic' brain he was able to do this and he held the, audience spellbound.
Played The Part Naturally "The secret of his success is that he was not "acting at all and, In fact, knows but little of the
Arrangement are being made art. As a temperamental musician
ABYSSINIA
Destitute Refugees Reach Szechuen
MYSTERY OF JOURNEY
Chungking, Szechuen, Eight fuzzy-haired Abyssinians
who is still living, and whose com- for 50 old ladies from the Royal and poet, he entered into the parfrom Addis Ababa, clad in night-1 mission in the same regiment was Cambridge Home for Soldiers of a boy musician naturally." signed by the Duke of Wellington, Widows to attend a tea-party this
"missed the Charge through being summer at the Royal Hospital,
ill at the time. He served with Chelsea.
announcement was made
his regiment in Bulgaria at the This landing in the Crimes, and the by Gen. Sir Walter Braithwaite, ensuing battle of the Alma, and speaking recently at the annual was severely wounded during the meeting of the Home at Caxton
Mr. Field is 22
ANCIENT CHORISTER
Hall. Westminster, at which the in the choir of Christ Church,
campaign. He will be 101 years Duke of Connaught presided. of age next month, and is the sole remaining cavalryman,
case of long
come
church-
gowns and calling themselves "magicians arrived here myster- iously to-day. How they covered the 10,000-mile trek between Szechuen and Ethiopia bafies the police.
Mr. Albert E. Turner has sung them, but the Abyssinians claim The authorities wish to depart South Ashford, Kent, for 61 years matters worse, 'some of the Ethio
they have no country. To make! "When they got to Chelsea," He has seen 20 ministers will be provided for them." added Sir Walter, "fifty cavaliers and go. He has been
pians are putting their magic to warden since 1916.
good practice. They are alleged to have pilfered a quantity of goods from Chinese rice dealers under cover of juggling, which is no mean act among the Chinese) themselves.
Kazakhstan And China
Moscow. Chinese artists,
As they are utterly penniless they are a problem to the authori-
The last known survivor of the terrible soldiers battle of Inker. man died in 1933. The first man to enter the fortress of Sebasto- pol, Captain J. E. Hunter, R. N died as recently as October, 1932. But a remarkable service was that of. Lieutenant-
Valuable material on Colonel John Pauson, the last of tacts between Kazakhstan, Russian objects brought back to the ex-traditional
the con- One of the most interesting ties, who will probably follow the the gunners in the Crimea, who Armenia, and ancient China bave peditions was a cast metal mirror, escorting them into the next police not only served at Balaclava and been discovered by expeditions product of ancient Chinese metal- Sebastopol, and later in China, sent out by the territorial barean lurgy. The back of the mirror is but volunteered for service in the of the society for the study of ornamented with leaves and flow- Great War when he was posted as Kazakhstan. Stone figures offers, hares, Chinese ducks, ✨ and
a quartermaster at the auxiliary women, warriors, and lions, sculp-butterflies in raised work, and horse depot in Woolwich.
The last survivor of the Battle thousand years ago, were found on
tured in hard, grey rock several bears a Chinese inscription.
The metallurgists found that it
district
Chinese method
by
MODERNIST POLICE
Oak desks and steel chairs and
of Trafalgar died in 1884, and of the pasture lands situated on the was almost impossible to scratch other equipment of modern design the Battle of Waterloo in 1894, in Tarbagataya slopes in Alma-Ata the mirror wth a file, so akilful have replaced old-fashioned furni both cases making a limit of 79 Province. The style of the work were the ancient Chinese masters ture at
indicates that it was.
Kentish Town Police done bylin making hard alloyz.
years.
station:
In 1952 the whole work of re-j claiming the land thus enclosed will be completed. The' water which must remain-the rivers Yssel and Vecht running into the Zuyder Zee-will be concerted Krom salt to fresh to use drought and generally for agri culture.
POST OFFICE ROBBED
Three Times In Five
Months
1.
in
notes
For the third time in three months the Bowes-road, Palmers Green, sub-post office was robbed last month. A bundle of valued at £200 was taken, making the total stolen 1,150. The ub- postmaster, Mr. F. Simpson, col- lapsed when told of the robbery.
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