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the autumn he will be setting up on estblishment of his own for the first time:
Until now. when not in college he has lived rodms at Oxford, either at Hatfield House or et 21, Arlington-street, the house of bis Like his brother, Lord Salisbury. predecessor, Dr. James, be 19: a bachelor.
WALL STREET ON THE MOORS
Thanks to the recent great im- business
provement in American
and the striking rise in Wall Street prices, there kely to be a big- ger influx of grouse cathusiasts from the United States this year than for several seasons.
This year's "grouse-ship" will be Queen Mary, which, sailing the from New York
on July 29, has oeen booked to capacity for many months.
It would be cicult to nd a
Many well-known American pleasanter place to live. Besides shots, who have been prevented by having the best garden in Eton depleted bank accounts during the the Provost's Lodge contains some depression from making their ann- fine 17th and 18th-century furni-ual trip to Scotland, will be seen ture and some remarkable pictures. again this year on their favourite
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Provosts of the time. Thear in! 3370 2.30
clude paintings by. Romney. Rey- 31.00 nolds and Lawrence: Among the subjects are Charles James Fox and Lord Holland.
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GERMANY WELCOMES COLONIES HINT
"Fair Declaration"
London, July 14.
The statement by Mr. Pirow. De- fence Minister of South Africa, on a territorial compensation of Ger- many for her former colonies is political circles in welcomed in Berlin to-day as a manifestion of fairness."
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SLANG IN THE LORDS Lord Donoughmore, who spoke in the Tithe Bill decate yesterday. not been very often in
the has
recent years, House of Lords of He took a prominent part in its proceedings as Chairman of Com- mittees from 1913 to 1931.
His earldom is an Irish one, and he sits in the Upper Chamber as Viscount Hutchinson. Since 1921 his attention has been divided be-
tween the Impérial Parliament
and the Irish Free State Senate. He was
a member of the latter body from its inception till its abo- tition.
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Incidentally, their lordships heard slang used in the course of the debated rare thing in their House.
"Lord Marley, in denouncing the all, said its effect was to put tithe payers "in the cart."
BERLIN-TAUGHT GOLFER
There has been more active in- quiry for the best shoots than in ady year since the crash of 1929,
COMMEMORATING TWO WARS
My illustration to-day is the re- verse of the bronze medal-on the obverse is the King of Italy's head which is to be issued to the Ita~ llan troops in Abyssinia. Certain sections of war-workers in Italy are also to have
As will be seen, the design in- cludes a symbolical Mount Amba Alaji, with the inscription: "Many enemies, much honour" above Sig- nor Mussolini's signature.
WAITING FOR THE SUN
On Loch Lomond
PATIENCE A VIRTUE IN FILM MAKING
London, July B.
I was introduced to a new game of patience yesterday-waiting for the sun for Alm-making, writes a correspondent.
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With cameras traine don Tar- bet Pier, on Loch Lomond, ready to "shoot" final exterior scenes in the new Dolly Haas and Richard Bartheimess flm "Spy of Napo teon" (the original title. "Fall of an Empire," has been dropped). sound apparatus men waiting the Adams Express world or command from Maurice Amer. Can............ Elves, and the loch steamer Prin-Amer. Cyanamid B Am. & For. Power cess Patricia standing by for the
Am. & For. P. ST p ignal to come alongs.de—we wait- €d:
Scotland and her native Amer. Rolling Mill.....
Barthelmess Amer. Smelting Germany; Richard Rerolled down from the hotel, dis-Am. Sugar Refining 171 movered that the scenes in whien he would appear were not in Im rmediate prospect, and cheerfully warned me of a long walt,
HANGING AROUND "You'll be
surprised," he com mented,
time "at the length of we've got to hang around for the 'shooting' of outdoor scenes."
and And "extras"-young men women from Glasgow, clad in the costumes of 1870-sat at tables of I hear, by the way. that plans an open-air cafe, and others stroll- have already been drawn out for aed up and down the pler-waiting great church to be built on
the
for the sun.
summalt of Amba Alaji to comme- But they all took it philose morate both the present campaignphically. "Patience a lot of its and that of 1896, in which also the what's needed most in this Alm mountain played an important business," grinned Maurice Elvey." part.
who is directing the film, as, char- acteristically, he pulled at a clear -and then buried himself behind
The interior 18 to be decorated with Irescoes by Count Calvi di Bergolo. "The elder brother of this artist, who has a great reputation in Italy. married Princess Yolanda, King Victor Emmanuel's eldest daughter..
LONELY M.P. Sympathy for Mr. William Luna the Socialist M.P., whose daughter- I see that Mr. Basil Newton, the in-law died in childbirth just be- has fore he spoke on the Midwives Bill, British Minister in Berlin, been described as Charge d'Affaires was all the greater because, M.Ps In the absence of Sir Eric Phipps, knew how. particularly devoted he the Ambassador, who is on holl- is to his family. jay in this country.
He comes up to London every Mr Newton is, however, a Minis Monday morning from his Rothwell ter Plenipotentiary and possesses constituency after spending the permanently the plenary powers week-end at home. He is a stolid which are only temporarily confer Yorkshireman, and although he red on a Charge d'Affaires,
has called his opponents some un- There have been Ministers as parliamentary names, he is well well as Ambassadors at the Bri-liked at Westminster. tiah Embassies in Washington and Parts for some yeara It is less than a year since Mr. Newton was thus promoted to bring the Berlin Embassy into line with the other two major capitals.
But he has never concealed his low- opinion of London.
"When Parliament is not sitting I feel lonelier in Landon than if I were alone in the middle o moor," he once said.
The son of a coal miner, eldest of a family of eight,.ne began work in the pit at the age of 12.
Brass band contests delight him; and he himself plays the eupho- nium.
Mr. Newton is 47 and a bachelor. He came to Berlin from Pekin in 1929. He is one of the most en- thusiastic members of the syndi- cate, in which members of the Exa bassy predominate, which takes à shoot in Bavará every season. Hla other sporting enthusiasm is gol, Berliners pride themselves on the fact that it was the golf courses round their city that first persuad-pire. ed Mr. Newton to take up game. He usually plays at one of Berlin's leading clubs near the Wannsee.
TO PLAY TENNIS WELL, UMPIRE If you want to improve your game at lawn tennis, act aa um- This is one of the pieces of the advice in "Hints on Umpiring," by Dr. F. H. Pearce, whom Wimbledon has known in that capacity for over 30 years.
'POET LAUREATE'S POLITENESI
"[
He tells the story of a woman Mr. John Masefield spoke yea-player in a provincial tournament terday at the annual meeting of who brought in a score sheet and the London Library of the days asked if she could play her single when he was a regular student at at once. the British Museum Library.
The late B. C. Evelegh, who was The room in which he used to In charge, said that he never asked read had various habitues. These a player to go straight from the ranged from an Anglican bishop umpire's chair on to the court. "England would welcome an to a syndleate who might have She replied, "One of those pla- equitable settlement. There been working out an infallible yers has a very useful stroke which have been many political, 'stra-system of gambling.
I haven't seen before, and I want tegic and economic changes Swinburne-deaf and old-was to practise it before I forget how since 1914 which have made the an occasional visitor. He used to she made it return of South-west Africa or Tanganyika not feasible."
QUESTION OF JUSTICE The view in Berlin expressed to Reuter was:
read Elizabethan folls and fre Dr. Pearce also recommends um- quently burst out into loud laugh-piring as a nerve sedative. He ter at what Mr. Masefield thought says that umpiring some.
"quiet must be their indelicacies.
handicap is the best way to for- But the strangest of all the fu- get the anxiety of the coming ture Poet Laureate's fellow-readers match, "Germany does not regard the was a small, slightly built "man. Coloniai problem so much as a with question of peace but as a matter smile.
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enigmatic arid cynical
PARACHUTIST'S CEILING Parachute descents from a few
of principle, as a question of jus- One day Mr. Masetield opened hundred feet such as Pilot-Sgt. tice and fairness.
the door for him-a gesture which Davies made near Rochester when
his machine caught fire-arena turally risky. -
als which she now lacked from her own colonial territories.
In making this statement Mr. | was acknowledged by a smile of a Pirow no doubt also thought of warmer and more personal kind.
This mysterious personage, was Africa's future. He undoubtedly Mr. Pirow. who has just re- wanted to express that Germany's Lenini turned from London, said in an presence on the African Continent interview at Pretoria yesterday: was desirable."
This coincides with the Ger- "Very influential quarters in Britain are agreed that there man view. Germany holds that can be no permanent basis for it is in the interests of all that a peaceful agreement with Ger- colonial many unless the Germans are strengthened, that as mudy na given adequate compensation tions as possible should participate for their colorites, meaning terri- in colonial work.""
Apart from that, it was stated, torial compensation, not any- where on the face of the globe, Germany had the natural desire to procure important raw materi-
but in Africa.
solidarity"
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"And mark this the weather was good, as we in Scotland know it, after a morning of rain, but the Comm. & Southern sunny brightness which is neces- sary was not there.
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SUDDEN ACTIVITY So for hours we waited, every thing in readiness for the moment when the sun should appear in all its glory. Then suddenly there came activity. Elvey and his staff peered skywards through col- coured glass, directions were rap ped out and the sun gleamed.
"Lovely blue sky," came a de Douglas Aircraft
Du Pont de Nemours lighted shout from the director. " "Shoot!" And at his word cameras Electric Boat whirred softly, the siren of the Elec. Bond & Share Princess Patricia hooted triumph-Elec. Band & Share antly, and the vessel swept in to-
35 pf...... wards the per-which for the day mec. Band & Share was Genera-and nineteenth cen- tury figures walked along the pler and on board... “Cut." ... The scene was over.
*sbot"
Hours of waiting for a that took but a few minutes!
But there was more to come, The arrival of one of the regular passenger steamers Interrupted the activity, and the sun momentarily vanished behind a cloud. "
AFTER THE SPY
Only a short wait this time, and then once more cameras were in motion, and we saw Richard Bar- theimess run along the pier, pause for a moment, and hurry on board the ship which, runs the story of the film, he had seen his dances board along with a man who he knows to be a spy.
The most dramatic scene of the
film, in which Bartheimess rescues Marjorie Mars after she has jump- ed overboard. is still to come. It will be, "shat". from aboard ship out in the loch-probably the last scene to be taken.
Miss Mars, by the way, was one. of those who yesterday just waited and who took advantage of the op- portunity to whiz over Loch Lo- mond in a motor boas.
There was a clean bill of health the Colony for the 24 hours ended on Wednesday,
airman if he had already dropped from any considerable height.
50-CENTIME ROYALISTS Young French Royalists have in- 5vented an ingenious method of ad- vertising their political sympathies now that their militant organisa- t'uns--the Camelots du Roi and the Ligue de l'Action Francaise have been dissolved
Two thousand feet is the lowest height at which practice parachute descents are made.
A jump at 500ft means that in the most favourable circumstances the parachute would not open fully With regard to the possibility the airman was about 2001t of compensating Germany with above the ground, at th should be
This would give just sumilent territory other than her former colonies. It is held here that such time for his fall to be reduced to territory must be inhabitable and nearly the normal rate of descent of value, for Germany holds that by the time he reached terra frma, alle was unjustly deprived of her On the other hand, a parachute Mark opening at 2001t would not save the colonies.
As a badge they wear in the buttonhole a 50-centime piece, This is a' punning reflection on the present position, as it represents. "dix sous-dissous" (dissolved).
The legend Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" has been altered to "Liberte. Liberte, Liberte
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EMPRESS OF RUSSIA The following passengers rived here yesterday from Northern ports by the R.M.S. Empress of Russia:
• Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Delfös, Mr... L. A. R. Duncan, Dr. and Mrs. 8. Katz, Dr. and Mrs. I. Maxwell, Miss M. Maxwell, Miss R. Maxwell, Master W. M. ́Maxwell, Mr. Q, P. and Mrs. Peniston, Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Parker, Mr. W. L, Parker, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Simmons and child, 'Mra. E. Clarke, Mr. H. K. Chang, Mr. 8. C. Chang, Mr. and Mrs. Fung Kong Un, Mrs. Fung Mak She, Hon. C. A. 8. Hawker, Mr, F. G. Jones, Mrs. J El Murray, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Wyllie, Mr. C. Ross, Mr. W. A. Kearton, Miss M., Alt=" cheson, Mr. W. B. Ashby, Mr. R.
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