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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1952.
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Sir Thomas
B
of
on
Avenue
"Number One, London"
Lives Again
Chamber in Windsor Castle, and many streets hove been christened after his most famous victory.
His name also entered the
• languagé In other ways. There were Wellington boots-orice of two kinds, the high boots cover- Ing the knee in front and eut Behind, and
the shorter
worn under the trousers, but
Apsley House Becomes Wellington Museum; Iron
Duke's Treasures On View
now the title is applied to the Ferti familiar high rubber boots- Wellington coats (a kind of half- und-hall greatcoat and under-
By PETER LOVEGROVE++++++
coal, meeting close and square, French eagles and standards; The most striking room is the below the knees), Wellington hats numerous medals; the huge silver '90-foot long Waterloo, Gallery,
key of Chudad Rodrigo.
Bonaparte himself thoroughly choliked the work,. which was packed away out of sight in the Paris Louvre. It was bought for less than £3,000 by the British Government In 1810 and presented to the Duke,ja,
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There are also more human, more intimate possessions. Tho Duke's dressing-case containing, shaving and tooth brushes, razois, scissors and other tollet articles, and
some boxes of:
of pills, one labeled rhubarb" and an- other "calomel." His mule-box-- so called because it was carried on mule-bacic: we would say with windows overlooking Hyde "despatch-box-on which the There are Wellington apples, a
The elaborate silver glit Park and Rotten Row, which Duke wrote his orders during a cooking apple
its of the long. Wellington Shield, presented by takes
nomtes from the battle. keeping variety; and Wellingtonia the merchants and bankers of banquets which the Duice helil trees, the popular name in Britain the City of London (the sume there every June 18 from 1830 for the glant Californian sequoia who once tried to force his recall to 1852. These were annual trees,
froin Spain), which depicts reunions" to which were invited campaign scenes of Badajoz.
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and trousers,
1017,
1
of
Torres Vedras, the Douro, about twenty of the Duke's And slips of prepared hide
f
સ
and
by two great Siberian poryphyry what and low cocked hat
all these
Vimeiro, Assaye, Toulouse, the generals at the battle, though as bearing pencil-written orders in Pyrenees, Vittoria and Salamanca the years went by the number of his own hand - writing and within the
increased and
officers; terse, centre of group of guests
even destined for his Apsley House, which Welling officers on horse-back surround originally junior officers were clear sentences in 2 flowing, ton bought from his brother in ing the Duke above whom is the present.
slanted handwriting can still Lawrence.
to was presented the figure of Victory with
easily be read, laurel Nation in 1947 by the seventh wreath, takes pride of place this room is the original Water- Stretching across the middle of RITAIN'S greatest funeral car made of the metal of and present Duke, who has among
.One, written at Waterloo, be- the many Impressive
loo banquet table on which is the gins: "We ought to have more soldiers do not guns captured at Waterloo stands retained a modern apartment on
centrepiece of the
ornale, In the Crypt. There is a bronze the top floor, In World War Two pieces of plate.
the two high cavalry between always get their
monumental fell
silver dinner ruads, That is equestrian statue of him seated a bomb and a flying bomb
three to say rightful share
.", and con- service, presented by the Princo brigades at least. his famous chestnut charger nearby and did considerable
but the Ministry at Hyde Park damage, public recognition during 'Copenhagen'
Regent of Portugal, and flanked jures up the trim figure in a blue Works has completely their life-time, while the Corner, directly opposite Apsley
repaired
candelabra from Tsar Nicholas
bore the black cockade of memory of their deeds and House, and another on a knoll and redecorated the house with
Collections of cluna in great skill and as near as possible Wellington
of Russia. ncar
lona with the colours of even their names sink into Aldershot.
to the original, and today
porcelain, presents from grateful
Portugal and the Nether- Not or frightened European royalty, The great Constitution Ill graceful mansion from a post glitter under cut-glass chande- treasures are things near-oblivion as generation
ostentatious lands, riding Copenhagen along of beauty; the lanes of weary soldiers, succeeds generation.
Arch is linked with him, as are grandiose age lives again, cully liers, and two hundred paintings and one, Canova's colossal 12- fighting his line as a commander the Achilles Statue in Hyde Park, restored to its old glory, and as
from 05 artists depict royalty, foot nude statue of Napoleon in fights his ship in action, each But the Duke of Wellington the obelisk in Dublin's Phoenix clean as u new pin.. was, and slitl
Allied and enemy generals, and the guise of a Roman Emperor, shift of the long battle eliciting a notable Park, a pillar erected in Somer-
There is nothing here that does battle scenes. They also include which occupies most of the stair- gruff comment exception: he became a popular, set, and a monument outside the
some Velasquez, Rubens, and caso vestibule, in patently ugly. order. Institution during his long gales of his Stratfield Saye Park not remind the visitor of the con-
queror of Napoleon, that is not Correggios captured at Vittoria and in Hampshire. his name and national carcer;
His bust is bo
is 10 stamped with the personality of from Joseph Bonaparte, who had number found in title are perpetuated in
village the Belgian of ways death.
now, one hundred years
ears church of Waterloo and in the very great man, that does not looted them from the Spanish
Windsor Castle, bear vivid witness of his achieve- Royal Collections. after his
Wellington guardroom of Muscum has been opened in and it would be dimeult to list Apsley House, his "Number One, the great number of his portraits, London" residence, and the early four of which are in the National attendances indicate that it is Portrait Gallery. going to be a number one at- traction with Londoners and lourists alike.
13.
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A modest victor" with simple, A ne Oghting regiment, once personal habits, the man who the 33rd Foot, of which he was saved Europe, dethroned an lieutenant-colonel, the head- emperor and restored a king, and quarters of the Brigade of Guards practically, became a European in Birdcage Walk, and scores of Power with his
own Army, merchant ships and two battle- territory
and diplomatic re ships have been named after him. lations, was three times a duke
soon College, near Sand-
was built as a national; memorial to the Duke to form a
Field-
and once a prince ublic school for the sons of
Marshal in the British, Russian and Prussian
Foreign Secretary for four officers. The capital city of New months and Prime Minister for
for Zealand bears his name, as do a thirty-two: Lord High Constable mountain in Tasmania, a channel at three coronations, Chancellor in the Arctic regions, a lake in of Oxford University and Australis, on Island off Chilc Admiral of the Cinque Ports, and towns in Canada, Australia Ten countries rained decorations and South Africa.
and honours on him; Parliament In Britain, countless buildings, granted him £500,000, estates in streets, squares, parks, gardens, North Hampshire and a manor in and pubs up and down the Somerset.
country perpetuate his name,
He han his tomb and monument while a bridge, n railway station, in St Paul's Cathedral, and his a pler, n tower, park, a
A
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM | WHITE
Argentina adds to the gloom at UNESCO
L
Paria. wouldn't be interested in our Vinci
IKE a gentle zephyr in travelling Leonardo da
exhibition. As a journalist
I
know
ments.
When the Duke was later First, the splendour of the making arrangements to return rewards of victory: seven field them to Spain, the Spanish marshal's batons of sumptuous Ambassador in London informed craftsmanship; cleven Orders, him that King Ferdinand VII including the dainty be "touched by your delicacy, does diamonded Badge of the Garter not wish to deprive you of that which was once Marlborough's; which has come into your various sworda, ineluding that possession by means as just as worn on the plain of Waterloo; they are honourable."
The Wellington Shield, presented to the Duke by the merchants and bankers of the City of London,
or a scrawied
The Waterloo Gallery, with, the original. Waterloo Banquet Table, on which is the centrepiece of the ornate and monumental dinner service presented by the Prince Regent of Portugal
TEST-TUBE TRIUMPHS
1 Two American baby rabbits change mothers -and 32 days later they are born here in Britain
BLACK English rabbit in a Cam-
French paintings A bridge laboratory, has given birth to
lotus land, a cool don't suppose you even breeze of economy is who he was," wafting through the cor- Then he added: "You know backward and insular ridors of the United how
Australia can be. Well, we Nations Economic Scientific take some and Cultural Organisation there and show them to some headquarters in Paris. Aussie miners.
The Teason: back
"They take one look at them duce amounting to nearly £360,000 and say, 'Well, maybe there is owed by the "Argentine have something, to these French after been written off as a bad debt, all'"
Lesser defaulters like Boli-
and via; Guatemala
isract are
con-
two white rabbits which are 100 percent American.
The true parents of the white rabbits have never been outside Boston, Massa- chusetts.
Dish of the week expected to pay up before or
OF A NEWLY invented dish (by US scientists took the baby rabbits during the next general
the Duchess of Windsor): from their real mother, by a Caesarean fetence in November. But the consomme jelly with hole in operation when they were so small that Argentine is beginning to
the middle filled with caviare semble a man whose artifees and topped off with our they were barely visible to the naked
in dodging payment of debis
2018 cream: have been so numerous Chht they have exhausted his credit,
The lonely man
From the Argentine Embas-
Parls have sy in
a series GENERAL come of assurances. The debt could
Substantial
contributors to
DE GAULLE'S Party, the French People's not be paid en daliars bit Rally, spilt by the defection of would be, met with sterling, some 36 of his MPs, is in the Sterling was In short supply nancial as well as political and it would have to be. in doldrums, Sursa franca. Switz franca were equally scarce and the the movement how number debt would be discharged in only two or three. Most French French franes.
Industrialists and bankers have French franes proved as withdrawn their
Support elusive as the other currencies their fears of French Com- and an air of disillusionment munism have subaided. reigns at UNESCO.
Others suspect de Gaulle's
The gloom has been lighten- vague ideas on
profit-sharing
eye.
sur-
They put them in a Vacuum flosk rounded by ice. Then they sent them by air to London and by train
Cambridge.
to
The
whole journey took 27 hours
Mr William Marden,
the of University
Cambridge
School of Agriculture. tran- planted the developing Tabbits Into their
a black English doe.
This
KEILIUM foster-mother gavo birth to two First British- mada samole
The white American rabbile zaitis black English forter mother yesterday.
industry, and a few are dwhite rabbits, to which she is no: blood-
ed a little by a seven peryent In
cost-of-living • Increase
becauso they have telation, 32 days later.
salaries. But, the prospect that failed to obtain specifle as- Uliniato purpose of the experiments is to devise some economies are inevitable surances from do" Gaulle," hos ruffed fempers."
France,
...
a
[2] This powder
means' bigger.
Two Astonishing Reports in To- day's Chapman
Pincher Column
crops for much clay soil is improved in three
ways:---
IT can be dug and culti
vated more easily beenise It keeps its crumbly tilth year the after year.
less work. The yellow powder in the guaranteed to give bigger crops for less work.
It is the first British-made sample of krillum, the astonish- ing US discovery, which can turn the sludglest garden clay into easy-to-dig, fertile soll.
Krillum is now being manu factured at a factory in New
2 Since it is porous, the treat
ed soil can hold more water
and so realst drought.
3 It can also hold more air. .So plant roots breathe maro easily and penetrate further:
PERMANENT
Dr Lloyd showed me what krilium means to crops.
Tomato plants grown In port, Mon., and should-be on treated soll were at least a the maricet next spring.
similar ahead of fortnight. In a laboratory at Fulmer, plants which had been put into pro- ordinary soil at the same time. toughest The
Bucks, I saw the British
duct testa,
undergo the
SAUCER TEST.
growth rate of lettuce,
peas and beans had been great- ly boosted.
"Experiments have been, go- mona thần tho
Bearded scientist Dr Arthur, ing on for
Lloyd filled two saucers with years in America, and, so for dry, powdered clay. He stirred as we know, the soil-improv- water into the firet saucer un ing effect til the clay became a
poste in which
grow.
permanent because
sulcky rain does not nothing could krilium," he said.
wash out
About 8 lb. of the powder is after he had mixed a needed to treat 100 square foot saltapoonful of krillum into the of soil. This will cost about.
Then,
second sauver of clay, ho add 50s. at first, but the prico
ed
|_ chactly the same amount of should be sloshed as production" water as beforp.
Increased.
a synthetic sub-
slend of forming a
Krillum, paste the powdered clay. Immediately stance mado from coal for
changed to a pile of crumbly petroleum, in belloved to be at soil, ideal
icast 100 times more offective's Later for garden crops tried, the
the experiment than
_compost"; in *:
De Gaulle has had to shut mothod by which formera can get extra calves from specially: In my garden in Surrey, whore heavy roll. · Mr Foter Bellou, former down a lavish Paris HQ alnah valuable cattle by using poor-quality cows as "incubatole." Australian newspaper [re-his`sialfs' throughout porter, now head of UNESCO's and desolve his Imposing reetod Parisian and provincial body
· Firle "Aris"/«<«Division,, 'me with tho ristament:
If the 'project succeeds, descendants of the best British cattle could be spread throughout the world without shipping adult animals. abroad.
in improving
the coil is, extremely heavy. But it is not a fertiliser, Gar
It worked perfectly, clypondent less by scores chemical fertilisers to keep
deners will zilli have fo- uso f of scientists have moved that, thele finger ro after treatment with hallium, (London Express Service)