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International Angling Contest: The Battle Of Jutland: Kidnapping Threat Victim Bird Of Paradise Plume: Sir Percy Lorraine: Old Manor House: The
American Navy: Three
New Poems"
(Special Air Mail Service)
London. June 6. When the teams in yesterday's international angling contest at Loch Leven returned to the pier, it was found that Scotland, Eng- Land and Wales bad thirty-eight 5sh each.
Ireland with twenty-five was a poor fourth.
Strong men trembled "with" ex- citement
of as the three lots thirty-eight were weighed on the scales,
Then a mighty cheer went up." Scotland had beaten England for first place by an ounce and a half.
Meanwhile, having Jested about Scotland being bottom in last year's competitition, I have receiv ed a challenge from a well-known
Scottish angler.
It is that I should fish him at Loch Leven from 10 am to 6 p.m., | be to provide the boat and all other expenses, and I the whisky, I accept on two conditions: one, that the contest should be from 10 pm to 6 am. (actually the best fishing time in mid-summer) and, two, that the loser should pay for the Bootch.
MR. KIPLING REAPPEARS Mr. Rudyard Kipling has come out of his retirement and has writ- ten three new poems for the Pageant of Parliament which. Mr. Walter Creighton is producing at the Albert Hall next month. Not only are they the first poems which Mr. Kipling has written for some considerable time, I am told, but they are Kipling of a fine old crusted vintage of the years, when all roads led to Mandalay or there- abouts. Mr. Creighton is so proud of his achievement that he has had one of thein, a stirring hymn,
they are by no means ali-Nepalese. in material. The pearls, diamonds, -and-emeralds of which the cap
made up; come; I was told. from “India, London, or Berlin," Even the bird-of-paradise plume is not & home product.
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Some of the headdresses. how- ever, are of respectable antiqutty. that worn by the present Mahara- Jah being over, a hundred years old. The relative status of each member of the Royal family may be, gauged by the length of the. plume.
That of Gen. Bahadur Shum position, and in the end he wishere is of great length as be- appear in the dinner-facket and with the microphone of the BBC. announcer.
comes the eldest сод
the
Maharajah. The cap is very heavy, a fact which, combined with the length of the plume, gave the general some trouble rester- day.
of
Mr. Creighton in his researches after material has made some amusing rediscoveries of his own- not least among them the fact that in 1779 a body of women
AMBASSADOR'S TURF WIN broke into the Houses of Parla- Sir Percy Lorraine, our Ambas- ment and created a scene of de-sador in Turkey, yesterday gained
the field a victory-not on lightful disorder. This, too, he will attempt to reproduce in his diplomacy, but on the turf of The: great arena.
Curragh, where he won the Irish 1,000 Guineas.
ELS black-and-white colours have not hitherto showed much on English race courses. But it is clear that in Kyloe, yesterday's On the eve of the battle the men | winner, which, started at odds of of Lord Beatty's Battle Cruiser 3-1 on he possesses a filly of Squadron," then stationed in the class. Forth, were pald just before sall- ing.
LIQUID LIABILITIES
To-day's anniversary of the Bat- tle of Jutland brings me a strange story from a Scottish banker.
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They had no idea where they were going, and no time to leave their money with their wives. "
In consequence several thou- sands of poundfür Böhetishs notes are now lying at the bottom of the North Sex,
These notes are a lability of the Royal Bank of Scotland who issued them. If ever they were present ed, they would have to be met.
Against this Hability the bank has to maintain cash
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MANOR HOUSE FOR THE NATION
National Trust, "To-day" the which lately has been adding to its properties in Cornwall and Dovedale, becames the possessor of East Riddlesden Hall, in the West Riding."
This manor house, faced with ashlarstone was built in 1840 and is one of the finest examples of its period in Yorkshire.
'Lord' Zetland, the chairman of the Executive Committee of the or its National Trust, is being presented equivalent with the Bank of Eng-with the title deeds by two mem- land. The Royal Bank thus loses bers of the West Riding County the use of this money.
Council, who are brothers, Mr. J. J. and Mr. W. A. Brigg.
NEW YORK NAVAL REVIEWS
"MERCURY TO THE MASSES"
Mr. Errett Lobban Cord, who is stated to be in London as a result of kidnapping threats, is at 39 one
uf
America's leading car and aeroplane magnates..
President Roosevelt, who is re- viewing the United States Navy in New York barbour to-day, was also present on the last occasion a review was held there. Fifteen years ago Mr. Cord was
That was
"Victory ..when the a motor salesman at a salary of Fleet" returned in 1919. Mr. £7 a week. To-day he has at-Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy,
commercial-fying market, competitors including Mr. Ford
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his
His extremely cheap production of trimotor planes, and the reduc- tion of air fazes to the same price as rallway travel, have earned him the title of "Mercury to the Masses."
took the salute, Mr. Roosevelt at- tending in his capacity as Assis tant Secretary of the Navy.
The manoeuvres of which the present review is the culmination mark the greatest peace-time movement ever undertaken by the American Navy. It is reckoned to have cost in'fuel alone $2,000,000.
YESTERDAY'S SAYINGS
set to music by Mr. Roger Quilter.tained a dominant position in the
The rehearsals for the pageant began to-day, for Mr. Creighton has been lavish with his design, and there will be no fewer than eighty-two scenes, some of them lasting only a few seconds, in his production. The period covered by the pageant will be from the days of Magna Charta to our own, including a glimpse of the suffra- gette movement and the declara- tion of war. The whole will bet Royal held together by a narrator-magnificent headdress such as that though Mr. Creighton uses the worn by Gen Bahadur Shums-its éducation services, word "recorder" who will make bere, the head of the Nepalese Mis- Mr. H. J. Gamh, at the Drap-
is comments an the scenes as they pass before the eye. In the beginning he will be dressed as a mediaeval scribe, at later stages he will be William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon a dangerous juxta
A MAGNIFICENT HEADDRESS
Only a member of the Nepalese
entitled famliy is
Mr. Ramsbotham, Parlamentary to Secretary, Board. of Education,- No other country has so increased
sion, when he presented to the ers' Chamber of Trade Conference. King at Buckingham Palace the -The co-operative societies do not high Nepalese Order of Ojasci Ra-cater for the very poor. lapaya ("Khigship").
Viscountess Astor-Educationists never, are politicians.
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