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of Mr. John-
erely using it as a stick able to take part in
har Socialist par
of belabouring Sir
the Bäster, and be accompanied by M. Roger Salengro, the Socialist the German High Sex Fleet in the plural of mom Scapa Flow on June 21, 1919 and-people when asked. the Writer's Name and Address Minister of the Interior.
denly reappeared on the surface "mongeese,” They would, Salengro had been the target at: (not mecessarily for insertion, but
on July 18, 1934, Thickly coated be wrong, though the D- a Prem campaign accusing him with seaweed and barnacles the Hish Dictionary: gives little ez a guarustes of good faith.
of having been a deserter during floated like a specter for about 30 ance on the point. the war. He was exonerated minutes and then as mysteriously
Stafford Cripp "During the night hundreds of as abe had rise she disappeared to committing itself is an oblique MR. OSBERT BURDETT
The nearest approach it makes- people marched through Paris frur viewers
| reference to the plurals "mongoor But for health Mr. Osbert shouting "We will avenge Salen- After Germany lost the War, she mongous" (1228) and un- Burdett, who has died as, the re
was-compelled to surrender her They broke the office windows fleet to the Allies. The ships were tienary calls mongous or mungon Hyde Park Corner Station
kgoes” (1859). An American die-salt of a fall on the escalator at Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 24, 1936 of the Conservative newspaper interned in Scape Flow south of mongooses, which is probably month would probably have play
Figaro
the Oxkagys. As the Allies could The Socialist Populaire, the or not agree on who should man' the gan of 3. Blum, the Prime Minis-ships, the Germans were left in fer, describes the weekly paper, charge, and were enabled to zink Gringoire, which began the can them within a few months after |paign against AE-Salengro, as “the the end of the World War.
infamous sheet of the Chiappe family which is responsible for this death
Fair Play For British Coastal Shipping
one on strike.
Among the things which no one can understand is the slow ness of the Board of Trade to take notice of the extent to
The printers, of Gringoïre have: which foreign ships are enter- ing and cutting into the British
State Funeral coastal trade. It is not fori
Salengra was given a State was want of having the subject at Life where he killed himself. brought to their attention. Last It was made the occasion for a year 15 per cent of certain gigantic anti-Fascist demonstrs- cargoes were carried between tion. United Kingdom ports in for- eign coasters, and the Cornish mass march through to the east granite for the new bridge at end of Faris organised by the Chelsea is being conveyed to Communist party. London in foreign bottoms!
Simultaneously there
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ed a more prominent role, among Mr. Arthur, Bryant, the histon the literary men of his genera
tion. ian, who keeps a mongoose-as s pet at his country house in East As a literary critic, he will be Claydon, where it terrorises nine remembered as, the re-discovered cata, az Alextian, and most visi- of Coventry Patinors. He was also tors, states that if he had a com- the protagonist of the post-war panion for his mongoose he would interest in the Brownings, which probably call them mangeese, “but attained its culmination in Mr. I shouldn't, anyway, “Once" bitten | Rudolf Beader's ~ play, “The Bar- twice aby?
{ retts of Wimpole Street”
But though" he books, and their scholarly charac-
Not Ready ......A -little-ghi was examining draper's catalogue. “Mummy," she said, "why do they make pictures of LOED DARLING'S "RUBENSTM ladies who are not quite ready?”
Supreme Test
"I wonder what has become of the
wrote
The sale of Lord Darling's pic-ter did not prevent some of them tures last month at Christie's ap-suing into popular editions, Mr. 24 peared to be realising pour prices. Burdett shone principally in his They ranged from half a quines table-talk. He seasoned this with for Scott Somervilles and Alfred a nick discrimination in vintages. Thorntons to 30 guineas for #A * His ascetic figure will be mise- Hilly Landscape," by Harpiniened at the Savile, a club which still enltivates the old-fashioned art of This was an exceptional price.
chest expect who used to play games of chess blindfolded 2* numbers in the dark."
"Oh, he's busy now dialing phone
Poetic
"Yes," she replied," "it reminds ̋z me
of a certain poem.“
"What is that?" **When the Frost is on the Pump-
Vessels specially designed for ist newspapers are demanding The young man was prematurely the English coastal trade are that the French libel laws be grey, and was very proud of it. being built in Holland, and
"It looks quite poetic, don't you many of them are run BS & strengthened to prevent in future think?" he asked the girl be had met domestic affair by the skipper anything like the anti-Salengro on the beach and his family at a cost with campaign, which the British owner cannot compete. The reason is that they are exempt from conver- tions to which British vessels must conform, and the crews are not paid at the ordinary maritime rates. They are under- manned by British standards, even if the extent of the under- manning is not such as to
WOMAN GUILTY OF kin
MANSLAUGHTER
Judge's Ruling On Murder Charge
Indebted Forever
A Rubens was knocked down for conversation
Mr. Burdett was the youngest 10gms. That a work of that master should have gume for about a thou-son of the late Sir Henry Bur sandth part of its normal value dett, who was a personal friend of leaves no doubt as to its unren- King Edward VII, in his Mari- uineness.
borough House days.
When Lord Darling tried the {VETERAN M.P. CẦUGHT NAPPING great. Romney-case in 1917, in... Only second in seniority to Mr. which a Romney sold for £20,000 Lloyd George he has sat in the Two men were sitting in a tent in was proved to be the work of House since 1882-Sir Austen Fast Africa
One of them boasted Ozias Humphreys, he quoted the Chamberlain last month fell into that he could go out and H a lion lines:
[an error of which only novices are forthwith. The other bet he couldn't.
maually gully.
“I bet you a pound I can,” said the| first man, and went outside to do it.
A few minutes later a lion put his
render them "unfit to proceed SENTENCE ON MOTHER OF NINE head inside the tent and said. "He|
to sea without serious danger to human life.**
Mr. Runciman stated recent {.
owes you a quid."
Mrs. Amy Lester, 60, of Pear:
“Raktes"
ly that it had been found im Tree-street, Derby, was at Derby
Were Romsey's limning trie, What a lucky dog were you,
Grandpapa! Lord-Darling's executricas
At question time reference was
to the Conservative hard-deputation to Mr. Baldwin, and whether the Opposition had been it. refusesă -gepresentation upon
War the Prime Minister had sous-
ly come in the "Grandpapa” cat gory.
In a small station in India, the bil-TRIBUTE TO CAPITALISM
A very senior officer on inspection
their Austen rose op hat
practicable to enforce rates of Assizes last month sentenced toliards marker had-picked zg, Na, few
Here is an appreciation of wage payment on foreign ves three years penal servitude after English expressions, with only a very benefits of capitalism in Engband:
"May say," he began only to sels. One would like to know a charge of murder against her hazy idea of their meaningɔhes The condition of the workers when and where the attempt had been dropped for one of man" duty, was buying a gene, when be has steadily bettered. The length bez drowned in a chorus of "No!" The House is always zealous of has been made. No other slaughter.
miscued; whereupon, in one breath, of life has increased;, the living the rule that confines all except maritime country would allow The case arose following the ex- the marker care out with: "One | conditions? vastly improved; the Ministers strictly to asking ques- the foreigner to slip in and get humation of the body of a young away, rahten shot."
[ intellectual range, widened. a hold of its coastal trade by married woman, Florence Barker,
The writer is Mr. Tom Johns undercutting owing to his upon whom it was alleged Mrs.
ton. Lord Privy Seal in the last exemption from regulations Lester bad performed an opera
Socialist Government, writing in which are deemed salutary for tion.
"Forward.**
Difference "What's the difference betw salary and wages?" "A" white collar."
own nationals. Public Mrs. Lester is the mother of 16. bodies, we agree, ought to show children, nine of whom are alive. z more. sensitive conscience inf Mr. Justice Atkinson ruled that - this matter, but the compelling there was not sufficient evidence to impulse should come from the Board of Trade.
RAF PLANES · COLLIDE
Parachute Fails To Open
sustain the charge of murder. He directed that the case should pro- ceed on the count of manslaughter. Nursed The Poor Mrs. Lester, in ber evidence, denied' that she performed an operation on Mr. Barker. Whes the woman came to her she did į not seem sane and threatened that if Mrs. Lester did not help her she would do something to herself. Mrs. Lester said that she only Acting Pilot-Officer William Dy-pretended to examine her. cer Coppinger
Idilled last She agreed that on two previous month when his parachute falled occasions she had helped Mrs. to open after a mid-air collision Barker in her trouble.
between two "R.A.F. planes near Found guilty of manslaughter, Peterborough-
Mrs. Lester withdrew her plea of
The accident occurred during a not guilty to four charges relate{ passing-out inspection of No. 7ing to the use of unlawful means Flying Training School, Peter-fer procuring miscarriages" It baraazhegmat
was urged on her behalf that the Coppinger's plane and another had devoted herself to nursing the collided when flying in formation very poor in her focality
with three others, about 1,000 feet His machine tell about alt
up.
a mile from the aerodrome.
Coppinger made a desperate ef- fort to escape. He jumped at a
height of 500 feet, but his para chute failed to open. He fell near his machine, and was killed in- stantly.
SEASON OF BIG CATCHES
Angler's Third Success
There was a record enky, of The other machine was not af-117 for the Folkestone sex angling {pier competition last month. The
ffected..
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Coppinger's home was in Alber best catch was.
ta, Canada.
FLYING DANGER TO STIPLE
Tatt, of Folkesto minutes before be which competition la
of the day. Airmen were asked last month 43/4 Dot to fly near Louth (Lince) prize in parish chur
tored.
was the had the be No 200ft at the Dea
Other Cook Fol Band
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