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LIDO CLUB DIS- CLOSURES.
RAID PLANS DIVULGED."
WAR
CONSTABLES' BIG WINE. BILLS.
FOR DANCE- PARTNER.
LONDON.
to-all tables and told the Guests AIR DEFENCE CHIEF. BRITISH FARMS DERELICT. that they must hurry with their drinks, and that no further drinks would be supplied. By 12.30 every table was cleared
•
"This incident, quite apart from other matter which I am not going to disclose in a public court, ihows that the management were aware that there would be a raid on that particular evening,
NEW APPOINTMENT,
"
SIR J SALMOND'S FUTURE.
PROGRESS OF THE NEW SCHEME.
„[BY MAJOR Y. A, DE V. ROBEETSON.)
SMALLER CROPS AND NO MONEY FOR STOCK:
no
words can
tell you
ARABLE LAND DECLINE.
Much concern. has been caused by this year's crop and livestock re- turns of the Ministry of Agricul ture for England and Wales
Not only do the returns show a continued decline of land under} crops, but they also show, for the first time since 1921, a reduction in the head of cattle, and, for the
At 2:35 am the club was enter- ed by the police. Forty parsona were present, of whom six said they were members, although only one could be found in the mem- The story of how a police raid bers' register. Fourteen who said It is announced that Air Marshal on a West End club was frustrated they were gucets could not be Sir John Maitland Salmond, D.S.O.. by officia) information leaking out traced either in the members' book
disclosed
A.D.C., will in January next relin- Marlborough or the visitors' book. at Street Police Court.
Mr. Muskett, referring to the quish the Commander-in-Chief of Venice, Limited, the owners of question of membership forms, said Air Defences of Great Brita and first time since 1922, a decrease in the Lido Club, Newman Street, Garrett himself proposed 21 mem-will be succeeded by Alt Oxford Street, W., George Abra-hers and recouded $3. Another
ice the number of sheep. The number hamsan, Abraham Lewis Garrett, person associated closely with the Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Elling-of horses on agricultural holdings and Herbert Francis Barons, the club proposed and seconded in a ton. Air Marshal Sir John Salmond secretary, were summoned before large number of instances. It was, will succeed Air Vice Marshal Sir Mr. Mend for supplying intoxient, he suggested, a farce.he
Mr. Oswald Ellis, a prominent ing liquor after permitted hours.
Philip Wookott Game, D.S.O., on Surrey farmer, and a member of on July 12th and 13th and without
the Air Council as Air Member for the National Farmers Union, a justices' licence on July 13th and 14th.
Garrett pleaded guilty. Mr. Muskett, prosecuting for the police, said the history of the club was unique in his experience. The premises included a long passage with a reception office on the left and a large room divided for the dancing, with an elabor- purpose ate stage at the far end.
An upper floor was constructed sa a balcony with small boxes con- taining a table and two chairs over- locking the dancing room. From
Persoanel.
This announcement is of special
From October 25th. 1927. to Janú ary 31st last the gross profits on wine were 8,534, for February £1,007, and for March £707. Gar- rett admitted he was responsible for the management and with parti-interest in view of the rumour which cnlar frankness had taken alle has lately been current in well- sponability upon his own shoulders.
informed quarters that Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Hugh M. Trenchard intends shortly to resign his appointment as Chief of the Air Staff. Sir John Salmond is the obvious successor, just as in the last year of the war Bir John succeeded
Attractive Young Quicers.
Mr. Myere, defending, said Car- rett was not directly or indirectly connected with the premises until November 1927, when the Lide
Chul was registered, and he was particularly instructed to eay that Mrs. Merrick or any of her reis
the ground floor there was a itae tions had never directly of indirect- Sir Hugh in the command of the
way which led to a basement. where there was a Dutch room."
д
Mrs. Kate Merrick.
ly been connected with the" Lido Club or Venice, Limited.
The books showed that the mem- hers of the club and the visitors The premises, were first used as included men and women who oc
club in 1919 and in 1921 it name to Shepherds changed its Club, but was struck off when it ceased to exist. Afterwards a club called the Folies Bergères was re- gistered, and be prosecuted those responsible for the conduct of the club, the manager being fined £31.. Mre, Kate Merrick, who was now in prison, was fined a like suit and Suma the club was struck off
Royal Air Force which worked with the army under Lord Haig,
At the present moment the ap
continues to decline.
said:
The paint which really a- tounds me is that there is now said to be a reduction in the head of stock in the country.
It is obvious that if a farmer has put his land to grass there. should be an increasing bead of stock; instead of a decrease. If the stock has decreased, it sp pears to be a pointer to the fact that farmers are in such a bad financial position now that they are exen unable to stock the land put to grass.
.
The result must be that we shall get farms which are practi cally derelict..
Decline of 199,000 Acres. The report shows t
that this year there are 10,111,000 acres of arable
land, or "190,000 acres less than in 1997, while land Isld down to per
cupied extremely high social posipointment in the Royal Air Force tions and were members of the which is of the greatest importance learned professions. Such people would not have gone to the club after that of Chief of the Air Staff unless they believed it was a place is the Commander-in-Chief of the Airmanent grass shows an increase of in which they could safely be seen. Defcaces of Great Britain. Sir John 113,000 acres.
Mr. Muskett háa inid,” added
The improvement shown in the Mr. Myen, that the police off- Salmond has been the first Com-wheat acreage during the last two cers chummed up with the dancing mander-in-Chief and has had the years has not been maintained. instructresses.
muck task of laying the foundations of The acreage of 1,397,000 acres re- rather it were put that way than that command. It would be no pro-reduction of 230,000 acres, or 14.6 turned this year shows the large
I would
monses against her daughter were to say that dancing instructresses mation for him to join the Air per cent. With the exception of
withdrawn. The club was struck of the register in May 1923 and the premies diequalified for x
months.
chummed up with the officers.
that body can only mean that he is held ready to step into the highest post of all.
acreage is the lowest on record.
Among the county détresses this year are:
"I Scotland Yard sends out Council, and his appointment to the years 1895 and 1904, the wheat active young officers who are prepared to chum up with young women who are employed as in structresses, I do not think the Limited, or apos Garrett. blame cant be put upon Venice,
A club known as the Broadway followed, but in August 1994 that was also struck off and the pre
A Varied And Adventurous minės disqualified for use as a club.
Career. "There is no instruction from A second application for the re- moval of the disqualification was Garrett er the company to these Sir John Salmond's career has made in July 1996 and this was young women as to what they are been varied and adventurous. He adjourned until August, when the to charge There is no charge, entered the army in 1901 as second magistrate allowed the diequalities and it is sutiraly left to the pellentenant in the Royal Lancaster
what amount he pass them."
Regiment, and served in South
any
tion to be regarded as at an end.
This case showed that alteration of disqualifying period was so solutely useless. On the very day it was removed the Lido Club was established, but it came to grief and a receiver was appointed.
In October 1827 Venice. Limited, came into existence, and he thought he was justified in calling this a cne-man club. It was registered with a capital of £300, and the in- terests in the Lida Club were pur- chased for £3,500, to be paid within twelve months,
The hours for selling liquor were up to 12.30 p.m., but there was no suggestion of drunkenness, undesis able characters, or disorder.
On July 12th, at 11:40 p.m., two contables from Scotland Yard and three others went to the club and paid £ 10s, for admission. None of them was a member. They went to the dance-room, where sixty per sons were dancing and drinking, largely champagne. They were up- plied with whiskies and sodas and their friends chummed up with the dancing instructresace, of whom there were a large number. In- toxicants were obtained after each dance..
At 1.30 dancing ceased and 'a cabaret performance took place Then there was further dancing and further drinking until 2.45 .m., when they adjourned to the "Dutch room in the basement watil 4 am, for dancing and drinking.
Prices Went. Up.
One constable wpent £4 165. 6d. and the other 25 2s. 6d. Prices went up when they went to the Thatch rooth. In the large room small whisky was, is. 6d. but in the Dutch room it was 3. Cham- pagne was sold "at 35s. per bottle, and magmum cost £ 18s. 6d. The recognised fee for a dancing instructrées seemed to be £3.
same
On July 13th at 11.20 p.m. one of the constables went again to the clüh and déticed with the instructress. He paid 85e for bottle of champagat and later be was joined by another officer, and staved until 4.30 a.m On July 17th a warrant was granted.
A Berious Leakage,
"I say without any hesitation at | nil," said Mr. Buskett, that those responsible for the conduct of this club were aware that” a raid' was going to take place that evening. How such information leaked out it is impossible to say, but it is u matter for very serious considera- tion indeed."
son who dance with them as
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BLUE EYED BABIES!
A NEW DESCRIPTION OF AMERICANS.
| FRENCH ACTRESS'S OPINION.
..
PARI8 August 18th. The area under barley this year, Americans are nothing but in- however, shows a substantial re- conscient, blue-eyed babies. Behind with 1.049,000 acres in 1927. Oats there is to be found an idealism covery-1,167,000 acres, compared their reputed business astuteness The sales of food were not out Africa. In 2012 he joined the Royal also show an increase-1,760,000 and romanticism that is little short of proportion to the sales of wine, and the charges compared favour-Flying Corps, and in 1914 went to acres, compared ably with those at any fret-ca France in command of No. 3 Squad-wheat, barley, and oats this year former wife of Masterlinck, pro- The forecast of the production of At least, Mme. Georgette Leblanc, restaurant, and the proprietors put on. Many stories are told of his is 3,494,000 tons, compared with a fesses to have discovered this new than $200 a week for which no on a cabaret show costing more charge was made.
"Mr. Murkett says there has been a leakage of oficial information." continued Mr. Myers. There may have been. I don't know and my clients any they don't know. I am instructed to ear, however, that if it is suggested that some person in an official position gave my cliente the tip that there was going to be a raid, there is not a word of truth in the suggestion. They had no intimation of any kind that the police were coming."
Garrett was an Englishman and had held a licence for 20 years. He had been a special constable since 1916 and held the rank of sergeant.
Mr. Mead: What are the costat Mr. Muskett: £105...
The Fenalties, Mr. Mead fined the club £30 with £30 cost.
Referring to the com- ments of Mr. Myers with regard to the conduct of the constables and the dancing instructresses, Mr. Mead said.
casion during the Battle of Neuve year."
with
1,751,000, of astounding..
daring and initiative. On one oc- production of 3,838,000 tons last phase of American character. But there is a great difference," Chapelle a Morane aeroplane load- But a sharp reduction is shown she continues, in a recent inter ed with bombs caught fire on his in the acreage under sugar-bect, view, "between
juggling with aerodrome. When the fire had which at 175,400 acres, is 47,200 | fortunes, and being practical, and burnt itself out it was found that acres, or more than 21 per cent., can we consider practical men who some bombs had not exploded. lege than in 1997, Other crops in a period of twenty years can. Major Salmond forbade anyone to which show a marked decrease in struct and then destroy three times touch the machine that night. In the area under cultivation are a fortune of billions 1 the morning it was found that the potatoes, beans and peas, lucerne, live bombs bad all been removed. Major Salmoad had got up early and removed and buried the botnbs with his own hand.
.....
and rye.
The area of land returned as bare fallow has increased from 423,400 acres to 408,200 acres, an At the Battle of Loos he was addition of 44,800 acres, or 10.6 lieutenant-colonel commanding the per cent. 2nd Wing of the B.F.C. In February, (1916, ho was
commanding the 2nd Brigade of the 8,028,000. This total is 249,200, or
a brigadier general
The total number of cattle is
Live-stock Slamp.
corps, and in 1917 he was General Officer Commanding the Royal Air 4 per cent, less than the number Force with the army.
In 1999 he returned in 1927. All classes show took command in Iraq, being the reduction. The number of cows first air officer to command all the and heifers in milk or in calf is 2,723,200, compared with 2,790,700 British forces in that country...
On January 1st, 1925, he became in 1997, & drop of over 2 per cent. The total of sheep-16,380,100-is the first Commander-in-Chief of the 830,200, or 4 per cent., less than in Air Defences of Great Britain. This appointment was not only novel but extremely important and significant.
1927.
Mme. Leblanc, who spends most of her 'time on, the Riviera, where she owns several magnificent villas, admits that she cannot understand American manhood.
"They are generous. and inspire confidence. One of them recently proposed an important business.
laying with my cat, began to talk deal to me and then, abruptly changing the conversation while about Paria and its pleasures."
In fact, Mme. Leblanc, who fa- tends to visit both North and South America next year it is even re. ported that she has her eyes set on Hollywood-sums up her im pression of Americans thusly
"They have no sense of respon- sibility; they don't know what, it The number of pigs is not far is. In a great outburst of Hy-...
I think the visits of constables to these places disguised is a very At one time the Royal Air Force behind the record year of 1924.pathy they will promise. wonderful. was regarded popularly as merely The total number is 2,967,800, an things, and eight days later will undesirable thing. But I am clearly of opinion that it is a
& union of the Military Flying Corps increase of 276,400, or 10.3 per have forgotten all about it. If it necessary devil caused by
isn't a matter concerning millions the and the Naval Air Service, design- ccult, over the firevious year. persistence of these breaches of ed to give, air assistance to both evidenced by the natober of foals. fore they leave your home.
The decline in horse-breeding, as they are likely to forget it even be-
the law."
the senior services,
Critics hot
Was
in
to explain this American def clenty. She does find it strange, however that it is accompanied by
I have come to the conclusion unnaturally asked why the union which last year showed signs of Mme. Libland does not attempt
arrested, is agdin not being that pecuniary fines are no deter was necessary when it sent in these cases, They would, found necessary to have an artil evidence. The number of foals is be no deterrent in this case on lery service to supply artillery to 39,100, a drop of 2,100, or over 5 account of the large suma which both army and navy,
per cent, compared with a reduc were received and paid, and
tion of 800, or 2 per cent, recorded which ran into, thousands of
last year. pounds. Thus no penalty I may impose will for one moment stop these proceedings which have been going on for years and years, and which these night clubs, as they are called, are obstinately per sisting in.
matters.
The institution of the command known as Air Defences of Great Britain, under a Commander-in- Chief, marked the fact that the Royal Air Force is something far more than the provider of air arms to the navy and army. It has a separate and highly specialised work to do in studying an air campaign
Sir
too great desire on the part of American husbands to meet the whims of their wives Hundreds, the found during her last visit to the American continent, are actual-, ly ruining their heklif End force in order to meet the exaggerated expenditures of their wives
Bir Eadard Ellington. The new Commander-in-Chief, Sir Edward Ellington, is less well known to the public, but is very highly And is any man practical who thought of in the service. He was gives up his business merely to in which neither fleets nor armies originally an officer in the Royal please his wife. Why, I even knew. are concerned. To John Artillery, and joined the RFC in one who committed suicide in order Salmond was given the task of 1013; Previously he had been secreto allow his family to collect his organising this novelty. Under bis tary to the committee at the War insurance and live extravagantly, command were placed the fighting Office which had been formed to the-related United Fici. area and the Wessex bombing urea deal with flying hatters. During of the Royal Air Force, while the the war he held staff appointments anti-aircraft artillery and search in France and at home. He has MARRIAGE OF BUDDHIST
PRIESTS.
FENG'S MANIFESTO
Unless there are good reasons to the contrary 1 shall inflict im prisourment, because I am sitting here in a futile manser if I im pose pecuniary penalties in these - am told that Garrett is a licensed victualler, and as such he must know the injustice which light units of the Territorial Army since been a member of the Air. these proceedings involve upon were also put at his disposal. Next Council and has commanded the respectable licensed victuallers week the citizens of London will R.A.F. in the Middle East and in who have to put up with this un- | realise something of his work when Indis, and at present commands all As a result of that leakage, he
lawful competition. "Much By I they see and hear his bombers over the Britsal foreds in Trade Ar the continued, when the superinten-
regret to do so I shall inflict one head. The foundation of the special conclusion of the air exercises Inst dent executed his warrant he found
month's imprisonment in the body of coast watchers has also been year, Sir John Belmond remarked
Pekteb, August 24th 14 practically nothing. Before then a
second division,on Garrett with the work of Sir John. His opinion that it would probably take about Buddhist priests in China "are" constable entered the premises at
£30 costs.
and advice on organisation have eight years at the present rate to urged to marry in a manifesto 11.5 p.m. When he went into the
Mr. Mcad also directed that the been eagerly sought by Dominjon develop fally the whole scheme of issued by Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang.“ dance room and asked for a drink club hould be struck off the register Governments. In 1922 he visited air defence. Sir Edward Ellington, The fact that they don't larry the waiter said, "You must have and disqualised for Sve years.
Indis to advise on the development with his long experience of both shows that Chinese priests are be food if you are to her supplied with Mr. Mrers gave notice of appen of the RAF, there, and he is at staff-work and command, in fan-hind the times. Märskel Feng said. drink "Later that evening two against the nonvletion of Garrett presant n Anstralia to advise on doubted the right man to ener He cited d Christian missionarick and other officers entered. It was ob- and he was allowed bail.
the development of the Royal Aus on this development, so ably initiat Japanese monks as evidence that served on that night for the first The summonses against Abraham.tralian Air Force.
ed by Sir John Salmond-Man- religions workers can be "happy: time that the waiters. went. roundi son and Barons were withdrawn. (Continued on nest Column).
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