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Captain Geering's Rival: Mr. Duff Cooper's Successor: Lord Mayor's Bereavements: The Late Duke Of Marlborough
General Von Schleicher Mr.
W. R. Hearst: Ecclesiastical English: Mr. Bullitt's
Air Crash
(From Our Own, Correspondent) London, July 4 LORD MAYOR OF LONDUN. Innumerable messages of sym- pathy were received yesterday «by | frum the Lord Mayor and the Lady Schleicher Mayoress in the bereavement which clouds his year of office.
· He has decided, however, to car-
ry on his duties. He will not, therefore, sign the locum tenens deed.
This is necessary when the Lord Mayor leaves his post, it only to go on holiday.
The term locum tenens occurs in the City, annals as early as the thirteenth century, and the alder- man thus chosen is virtually Lord Mayer for the time being,
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- One night over the teletype câme the message: "Get me conscient- ious reliable man to care for giraf... fes, Salary 950. a. week ***
*" By midnight 27 members of the stair had applied for the jobi. **
ECCLESIASTICAL, ENGLISH.
I was amused by a statistical list of the number of split-inin! itives used during the recent ses- sion of the Church Assembly....... The› total score for the session appar- „ently "was forty-five, distributed
thus:
Archbishops Bishopa
Deans
Archdeacons
Other clergy Lalty...
0
5
3.
8
12.
··17
Kindly pleasant-mannered with none of the characteristics of the Prussian military nobility he sprang, von for long gym- pathetic to the Nex movement. Be committed the error, however, of seeing its faults. Nor did he over trouble to conceal the lack of symferred to such phrases as "passing They are certainly to be pre-
pathy between himself and Etler..
Split infinitives, however, are sometimes no crime, and may add to, rather than detract from, the elegance of a sentence.
through the melting-pot," "wallow- ingin machinery," and "the income
of this is the outcome of that,” also reported to have been used In the Assembly.
SEINVERTED LANDINGS
Mr. Bulitt's air crash at Lenin- grad, I was told yesterday, was rather more unpleasant than at Arst reported.
With his essentially bureaucistie mind, his love of discipline and order, and his instinct for compra- mise, he could have little sym- pathy with men like Grebbels ** Although &'imonarchist at heart." he was always a realist. "Con- stitutions do not fill stomache" was one of his favourite sayings, Those who will take Sir Charles There will be few to mourn Lt. Collett's place at City functions | Heines, the Beslan Police Chief When the 'plane in which the this week will not act as lucum and Storm Troop comman·ler.
American Ambassador was dying tebens.
· About 35 years of age, finely overturned he unbuckled his safety The luncheon at the Mansion built, fairhaired and blue-eyed, | belt in order to free' himself, but House to the Shuir Abdulla on he had the outward seeming of his cost caught on a hook, and he Thursday, which was a personal the perfect hero of the now "Aryan | spent several minutes hanging" face matter, the naturaly been aborder
_downwards/^^. When eventually, TX. andoned.
Waste the pilot released him he fell-head first into the mud
•
Ons when ang dahin guard THE BUKE OF MARLBOROUGH | did he display that viclous tem-
The ninth-Duke of Marlborough, per "which made Breslau one of Mt. Bullitt, 1. hear, trested, the I should say, was much the ablest the black spots for 'anti-Semitic matter as a joke. Other aeronaute of the series since the great foun- | persecution, and the local concen- in a smiliar predicament have not der of the line two centuries ago,tration examp so notorious that | been (so. philosophical. Younger sons of the Spencer-Chur- the Government closed it down: chill house have often achieved WELSH PROWESS AT BRIDGE more distinction than the eldest. Yet his political career was dis- appointing. He never mounted more than the lower rungs of the official ladder on which his feet were placed almost automatically when he came into the title,
On the Tarif Reform issue the Duke took strongly the Chamber lain side. He was at times woun- dingly incisive in his criticisms of Balfourian indecision.
Again, it was at the Conserva- tive fete in Blenheim Park that Carson, "FE.”, and Bonar, Law, fresh from the Ulster Covenant, practically committed the party. to the extreme Ulster position,
The Duke also had views of his own as to the best means of sav- ing British agriculture, for which the times were either too early or too late.
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Capt. Harold Balfour, M. P., tells in his book, of reminiscences the London again proved its super famous flying pioneer who dur lority at bridge on Saturday, whening the retreat from Mons landed the Metropolitan ladies team car- ried off the Lady Milne Cup.
classic story of Gordon-Bell, the..
his "British Ecout" 'plane upside down ir a tree.
The form of the Swansea team;
While he hung there helplessly a however, suggests that Wales Staff officer approached and, mak- rapidly raising the standard of
ing no attempt to release him its bridge. Ecotland and Ireland,drawled, "Have you had an ac-
am told must look to their decident?"
clarations.
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Stamina 18 clearly a necessity for tournament play in Bridge as in other even madre athletic games. The participants in this feminine struggle at Crockford's joined, bat- tle at three, and the tumult and. the shouting died at midnight.......
VERSATILE JOURNALISTS There are many legends about Mr. W. R. Hearst, who is now on a visit to this country. It heard a new one yesterday: e-
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THE SUPPRESSOR OF MARXISM
Mr. Hearst transacts most of his According to its own claim, the business, personal and otherwise, greatest achievement of the Hil-by telegraph. On a good evening ter regime has been the suppres- he will send out anything up to sion of Marxism Yeu Gen von
200 messages, Schleicher, who has fallen a vic tim to the regime, was responsible for the suppression of Marxism at a far more critical moment in the life of Germany;
This was when, during the Spar. tacist revolt in 1919, he brganised. g: body of ex-soldiers which gave the Government the Tecessary armed force..
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N-n-no!" exploded the infuriat ed Gordon-Bell, who was famous for his stammer, "I-I-I always 1-1-land like this, you d-d-dammed £-fool"
MR. HACKING'S PROMOTION. Mr. Douglas Hacking, who suc-- ceeds Mr. Duff Cooper at the War Office, will And the duties compara.. tively light after the Home Office,, But he arrives there at a moment when the Defende Berylces are bound to occupy a position of in- creased importance in public affairs I understand that Mr. MacDo- naid had this fact very much in mind when he asked. Mr. Hacking to move across Whitehall,
These reach one of his Californ- In the House of Commons he lan papers on a teletype. When will be No. 1 spokesman for the things are quiet member of the war once both the other office staff amuse themselves by kiing holders are in the Lords. At the round the machines; "seeing what Home Office he was No. 2, for his the boss is up to." Mak
chier was also in the Commons. Recently the two giraffes on Mr.The salaries of the two posts: Hearst's Californian estate died are the same, but for the reason He bought another pair. These I have mentioned the change began to all
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