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QUEEN RECEIVES
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DEBT.
DOMINATING FIGURE OF 1,000,000 FRANC PAINTING. TRAGEDY FOLLOWS DEALS
PALACE PAGEANT.
WONDERFUL GOWN.
HELEN WILLS MOBBED BY ADMIRERS OUTSIDE.
The connect between Dr. E. W. Barnes, the Bishop of Birming ham, and the Anglo-Catholic clergy MISS of his diocese has been resumed, and a notice which he has just issued to every incumbent warning them against employing clergy who are not on the list of those entitled to officiate in the diocese is regard, ed as the first move in the renew- ed struggle.
The first Court of the season was held at Buckingham Palace by the Queen, and despite the absence of the King the ceremonial and the setting provided a splendid and majestic spectacle.
The struggle, which concerns the determination of the Anglo-Catho- The Queen was a regal figure in He clergy, in defiance of the a wonderful gown of iridescent bishop, to reserve the Sacrament tissue, with overdress in pastel in their churches, first began shades.. She wore the Order of the shortly after Dr. Barnes was Garter, elevated to the bishopric of Birra It is the first time for twenty-nine ingham. After the first heated ex-years that a Queen of England has changes, during which the bishop held a Court! refused to institute any, clergy who declined to undertake, not to reserve the Sacrament, the situa tion settled down into one describ ed by the Rev. G. D. Rosenthal vicar of St. Agatha's and leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement in DES VOEUX ROAD Birmingham, as "trench warfare."
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The position on the one hand was that Bishop Barnes hrmly re- fused to institute nay Anglo clergy into vacant livings. On the other band, the "Anglo-Catholic clergy cut themselves of entirely frora all connection with the bishop or the diocesan organisa
tion.
Miss Helen Wills, the famous American lawn tennis star, who was one of those presented, was the centre of attraction to the crowds in the Mall, who besieged her motor-
cer.
Idol of the Crowd in the Mall,¦
The Queen, in her wonderful gown, of tissue, which, changed its hues with every movement, was the central figure in the great ball-room of the palace.
TO GO TO THE LOUVRE,
"D.P." Special Service.]
IN SHARES
INQUEST VERDICT.
Evidence of financial worries was Georges Clemenceau has offered given at the inquest on Lieut.-Col. as a gift to the French nation a
Hugh Meyler, a former Liberal million frase painting, one of the M.P. for Blackpool and head of the most famous, politically, of all firm of HM. Meyler & Co..
It
solicitors, who shot himself with a canvasses.
represents Don Quixotte tilting at a windmill and.
revolver in his office in Churton was the gift of the Ministers of Street, S. W., recently, when the the Clemenceau Cabinet to
sheriff's officer was in possession of wartime Premier on the day the the office furniture for debt, armistice was signed.
Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the coroner, returned
verdict that Colonel Meyer committed suicide, while of unsound mind.
the
The veteran statesman did not make the announcement of the gift publicly but ordered his lawyer to arrange for the gift in his teata- ment, the painting to go to the Government
прод the Tiger's death. It will probably go to the Louvre Museum where it will cer tainly become one of the most famous in popular interest:
A
Mr. Frederick Simpson, a stock- broker, of Simpson, Miller and Springer, Threadneedle Street, said that Colonel Meyler had dealings on the Stock Exchange through his firth for some six months.
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Settlement Promised. “ A small painting by Honore "He bought some shares," said Daumier, one of the most spiritual Mr. Simpson, with the idea of of French caricatural painters of paying for them, which he did not last century, it is. interesting more carry out. We ultimately sold for its subject and its history than them, and had a loss of about £400. by its execution.
He continually made promises about settlement, but never carried them
"A Human Fallacy." "Isn't that true to life," Clemen-out. We ultimately took proceed ceau commented, to-day, as beings for the recovery, and we secur The splendour of the Queen's pointed out the characters of the ed the execution order preliminary dress, as she stood alone through painting which is to become a to bankruptcy proceedings. the long hours while five hundred national legacy.
Mr. Oddie: What is the amount
débutantes made their curtseys, com-Tilting at windmills is a human of the purchase he made ?—I should The rich Anglo-Catholic churches manded every eye. She wore over fellacy.. Look how idiotic Dou think the total ran into £9,000 or refused to contribute to the her gown of tissue an embroidered Quixotte looks on bis skinny $3,000. Colonel Meyler had three diocesan fund, and the poor overdress in soft pastel shade, and charger as he climbs the hill to or four different transactions. Anglo-Catholic churches refused to a train of Indian brocade shaded to the windmill. And fat," contented
Did he apply to you to postpone draw on it. Instead, the Anglo- tone with the gown and lined with Sancho astride his little donkey.levying execution on his property ? Catholics catablished fund of pale gold and pastel chiffon tissue.
His red neck is almost apoplectic; Two or three times, which we did their own, and 'with this fund She wore a diamond and pearl he is asleep at the charge.
on his promises to pay. Messrs. they have been able to support all diadem, and ropes of pearls and "It is a moral of fidelity but a Simmons and Simmons were the the Anglo-Catholic clergy in diamonds. The Order of the Garter satire on the utility of fighting solicitors carrying out our instruc Birmingham for the last four and family orders glittered on her windmills. If I left it to my heirs tions. years, and they state that they are breast.
they would probably sell it, so I
Mr. Albert Warren, managing! able to continue doing so as long The Prince of Wales, in the full have decided to give it to the clerk to Messrs. Simmons and as it is necessary.
dress uniform of Colonel of the State so that future generations Simmons, who had been summoned For all practical purposes the Welsh Guards, stood on the right can draw, profits from its lessons."
to the court by telephone at the Anglo-Catholics have, in short, behind the Queen, and with him On the day of the signing of the coroner's requcat, was called." succeeded in establishing an inde: were Prince George, in naval uni- Armistice, the Ministers joined with pendent ecclesiastical state within form; Princess Mary in white ninon President Poincare in offering a received a note from Colonel Mesler the diocese of their chief opponent. embroidered with diamanté and token of gratitude to the "Father Now, however, it is apparent that pearls, Viscount Lancelles, in the of the Victory." It cost at that against his thirteen rebellious uniform of the Grenadier Guards; time 38,000 franes, but recently an Anglo-Catholic clergy the Bishop Princess Helena Victoria and Prin-expert judged its value at any of Birmingham is at last moving cess Marie Louise.
thing over a million franet." again.
The notice which he has issued regarding the employment of élergy from outside the diocese is regarded as a ban on Arglo- Catholics. It reads:---
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It pleased Clemenceau greatly, favour directly in front of the great I do not think so. and always hung in a place of
the
horseshoe table in the stateaman's library where he did all his work.
Mr. Warren said that his firm was
and
The only other painting of value acting under the instructions of In the solt golden light of the in the study is a beautiful lands-Meesre. glittering candelabra stream of débutantes passed before the rocky farmland of the Creuse brokers.
the longcape by
Simpson, Miller, Clemenceau's lifelong. the throne, made their curtsey to which the master of art gave to
friend Claude Monet, a picture of Springer, Colonel Meyler's stock-
the "Queen and moved to the Long the master of politice fifty years
Mr. Oddie: You have no bias in Picture Gallery.
Ago.
the matter?-No. The writ was issued on January 6.
The scene in the picture gallery
uniforms
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Have you taken any steps that were hard and unreasonable ?The contrary is the fact, I think.
Mr. Oddie said that before shoot ing himself Colonel Meyler sent him a letter in which he wrote:
OLD SHOPKEEPER MURDERED.
BODY FOUND ROBBED AND BATTERED.
Manchester detectives, aided by the police force throughout Britain, are searching for a man, wilb clothes probably bloodstained, who is believed to be the murderer of Mr. George Armstrong, a seventy- three-old hosier, who was found battered to death, apparently with an axe, in his shop in Grange- terrace, Wilmslow-road, Manchester.
Mr. Armstrong, who lived alone in a room behind the shop, was seen by a neighbour late at night, but his shop was not opened as usual on Saturday morning. Mr. Birch," the manager of the Temperance Billiards room a door or two away, wrong, and he informed the police. thought that something might be
"The "attention of the bishop has been drawn to, the fact that some incumbents of the diocese hate recently employed unsatisfac- tory clergy for occasional work. The bishop wishes. it to be distinct- ly understood that no clergyman was particularly brilliant. Men in
navel and military living in the neighbourhood of Birmingham who is not on the list with rows of medals and decora of those having permission to off- tions, Privy Councillors in their ciate in the diocese is to be em-
State dress, diplomats of every ployed even for a single Sunday.country in varied uniforms with
A fortune of nearly £100.000 WAS orders and decorations glittering, left by the Rev, Joba Gamble, men in Court dress, crowded the Canon and Treasurer of Bristol rooms and mingled with the women Bristol, who died aged seventy Cathedral, of Sion Hill, Clifton, guests in an ever changing multi-years, and left the whole of his property, subject to small legalics, coloured throng.
for the promotion and encourage women, meaning thereby the educa ment of the higher education of
A ladder was run up to a window tion of female students in the sub- "Who could blame them?" ask above the shop, and policemen en- jecte or some of the subjects which ed Mr.. Oddie. "I do not. I think tered the room. Mr. Armstrong's to time may compose or form part to the colonel after withholding of the stairs. Blood stains were o for the time being and from time they have shown ample considertion body was found lying near the foot. of the curriculum of undergradu. their hands for so long." ates of any university in the United Kingdom.
His estate is valued at £103,653,
"Gray Scandal.”
•
The four Indian orderly officers to
"Grave scandal may only too casily result from neglect of this rule. If incumbents receive offers of help from clergy, at a distance with regard to whom nothing is the King, in uniforms of scarlet and kaown, inquiries made by tele- phone at Bishop's
green with red and black facings Croft will and turbans attracted much atten- normally lead to definite information. The King's Bodyguard of the
Yeomen of the Guard in their pic turesque Tudor uniforms, were on duty on the grand staircase and in
tion."
This first shot in the renewed war between the bishop and the Anglo-Catholic clergy of his diocese was answered to-day by the Rev. G. D. Rosenthal, who, preach- ing at his
church, Own
Bt. Agatha's delivered", a sermon under the provocative title of, "Should bishops be obeyed!"
the grand hall.
April 30, 1929-This is caused by an abuse of a legal process, A modern Shylock wants his pound of flesh, as the enclosed copy letter will show
Mr. Oddie, in the course of his summing up, said that Colonel Miller, and Springer "Shylocks." Meyler had called Mesars. Simpson,
12,835 MORE EMPLOYED.
WORKLESS MINERS HALVED
IN EIGHT MONTHS...
4
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the carpet, and shop fittings, and bis pockets had been rifled.
Mr. Armstrong's shop lies in the centre of a busy shopping centre, and none of the shopkeepers s anything out of the ordinary in his.
before he closed it.
was short, sturdy, and popular with his customers and peighbours. No one in the district. believes that he had any enemies. strong had little money in his shop. It is believed that Mr. Arm-
The theory advanced is that a
Single Golden Throng,
Alert Worshippers. Miss Helen Wills and some others were presented at the first Court of
When her car arrived in the the season held by the Queen at Memorial, and then made an at Mall it circled round the Victoria
Persons on the employment ex- Buckingham Palace. That at least tempt to slip unobstrusively into the changes registers in Great Britain He said that owing to the scan-
was the impression which one had gunue. Miss Wills' worshippers, on fay 22 numbered '1,140,700. dalous method by which bishops from the crowd which began to however, were on the alert, and they This was 12,835 fewer than a week may came into Mr Armstrong's were appointed as nominces of the gather along the Mall at half-past soon surrounded her car in such before, but 78,415 more than a year shop and concealed himself until Prime Minister, they considered five..
numbers that a mounted policeman before. themselves in the position of judges This girl, whose beauty has be on a large white horse was neces
These figures, issued from the ride the till. He may then have the shop was closed, in order to and magistrates with a first task come almost legendary, and the size aary to push them back in their Ministry of Labour, carry on the waited until Mr. Armstrong had of securing conformity to the laws of whose diamond engagement ring proper alignment on the pavement.
record of a rapid increase in emretired, and have been surprised by of the land. He continued: "It has swollen in popular estimation
No duchess of the traditional ployment noted recently.
him in the act of opening the till. Reservation is against the laws of to the dimensions of a walnut, kind could have exhibited more Commodore King, the Secretary. the land, we are prepared to go to began her triumphant progress from self-control and more indifference to for Mines, stated in Parliament prison, but it is not.
the American Women's Club. in publicity than did this pretty lawn recently that fifty-three, collieries "We will obey a bishop in Grosvenor Street shortly before six tennis champion, who has long since closed in South Wales at the end SECRET MURDER SOCIETY: mitre the real symbol of his o'clock,
been known by the name of Poker of last year have since been re- Face." authority-but we will not obey
opened and employ 14,850 wage A native". She found a large crowd waiting
secret society named The only persons in the early earners at present. him when he exchanges the mitre at the pavement, and a gasp of an- crowd who did not realise what all
the Bazwezi is, reported to have. A tabla circulated by the Minis been discovereil in Tanganyika, for a policeman's helmet.
plauno-which was perhaps a little the fuss was about, was a French-try of Labour shows that unem Qualification for membership is the The difficulty is that there is hysterical greeted her appearance, no appeal from the bishop-except. She was dressed in ivory coloured and he was overheard to re- ployment in the mining industry murder of at least two relatives. mark: Who is Helen Wills?"has been reduced by one-half in It is alleged that a prominent chief the Privy Council.o
tras aman, could judesa, xfrom AYTONA MIZOS Pintades and stoppant sight months Tuake kach sony Peers C
(Continued on next Column),
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the matter.
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