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WHERE DO CROWN JEWELS
GO IN WAR TIME?
Stories and the Simple Secret.
Where did the Crown Jewels go in war time?
not
They were taken out of London for safety; but they were [hidden in any, of the romantic ways imagined by the rumourists of the period.
The real truth about the guard- ing of the Crown Jewels aguigat| | German bombe, as revealed by Major-General Sit Üborge Young- husband, K.C.M.G., the Keeper of the Jewel House in the Tower of London, seems, indeed, tame |compared with the imaginative efforts of people who "really knew" that the jawela were
1. Sunt in the Thames off the Tower.
2. In a specially-constructed
concrete vault at Bath
3. In a castle in Comwall.
Hidden in a remate district
in Cumberland.
THE QUIET REMOVAL TU
WINDSOR,
Sir George Younghusband ex- plains in his fascinating book.
The Jewel House" (published today, Herbert Jenkins, 15s.). that after four bombs had drop- |ped unpleasantly near the Tower
it was decided that the jewels would be safer a little way out of Londos.
TALE OF TROOPS AND MACHINE- GUNS.
Therefore, one day, a Royal car drove into the Tower and up to the Jewel House. Into it the more important and valuable portions of the Regalia, already packed in their own cases, weze handed, It was all ́a matter of a few minutes, and then the car drove away to Windsor Castle, and there deposited the | jewels in a secure place.”
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So simple; much, too simple a story for the rumour-mongers. who set to work to invent same-
thing mate picturesque. Sir |Gieorge, with a chuckle, recall-
some of their best efforts..
The fact that the jewels, during their retirement at Windsor, gat a little damp, was possibly re- sponsible, he suggests, for the story that they had been sunk in the Thames, opposite the Tower fr many months. Anyone who
THEATRE ROYAL did not believe this had the
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THE NIGHT.
THE NAUGHTY WIFE.
THE YELLOW TICKET.
LORD
RICHARD IN THE PANTRY.
ROMANCE.
ROMANCE.
BILLETED.
CAESAR'S WIFE.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Booking plas open at Moutrie's,"
FORGOTTEN WILL.
PHILIP CARLTON,
Manager.
Young and of moderate means. By it his father (who predeceased him) and Mr. Frederich Plews were appointed executors,
Nothing was known of this will
choice of two or three other wonderful stories ——
One inspired person mentioned! that from certain information he hari received a castle in Corn-l wail had been secretly acquired, Į
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and that the iwels bat been rather disappointing to learn that taken there at dead of night te the return of the Regalia was no Chin added that in front of the jewel more thrilling a business than its the t
train, and behind it. were two other trains, full of troops, police detectives. machine-gurs, and what not..
have left the romanticists one subs departure. Sir Geotze might | Nati detective, even if he could not
same
admit to officers in silk hats. | Paris No doubt the jewels were ad- ] before This was outdone by Some ingenious person who, on no better silk-hatted subalterns or bowler- equately guarded, whether by ground, apparantly, than that the batted detectives: though they Keeper of the Jewel House had could not be 23 been at Bath, taking the waters protected as in the Jewel House, completely
where, according to Sir George, For the past eight months athere ATE such scientific deep and secret vault, lined safeguards that the inexpert or, throughout with concrete, had indeed, the expert, thief may plexion * Kị been excavated at Bath, and that certainly count on being guil-bright. tre jewels were DOW safelylotined or electrocuted if bel of No deposited there.
makes the attempt to emulate NY, U
told his confidants that-
pos.
years found t
| PESNY DREADFUL HOME-COMING. Colonel Blood's adventure."
The choice of Cumberland a This opens up horrible another supposed hiding-place for sibilities to the burglars, who.. "I b the jewels was apparently due to known by sight to the warders of | years,” the fact that the late Keeper of the Jewel House, have been reen attack the Jewel House, Sir Arthur with their noses pressed against and with Wynne, had settled in that county.the bars, wondering how they Whenay But if the romancers were could get hold of the crowns of severe d disappointed to learn that the the King and Queen, the Orb, the fill up s jewels were no farther away than Sceptre, or any of the glittering was poo Windsor, they made the most of treasures. Even one of the my shou the possibilities of real romance smaller crowns would be enough about the return of the Regalia to set a burglar up for life.
Again, someone in the know" At some time when the jewels provided a really picturesque were less carefully guarded, some picture of the homecoming. Sir daring person found it possible to George quotes one account of the tamper with the King's crown, desperate business:
and substitute an imitation for Aagaificent aquamarine, which figured first in the crown of King
James II..
"I ha Pink Pil when I s newspape
Sucking
begso tregowers, ARE TRUNG condition improved so much after the first bottle that I continued i At dead of night two officers of
taking the pills until I had re- the Grenadier Guards, dressed in
gained my strength. I no longer frock-coats with silk hats, and
become exhausted easily and £250 Annuity Which
each carrying an actomatic pistol,
have plenty of ambition for my Became £368,000,
drove up to the secret hiding THE MISSING SWORD OF STATE work. My appetite is excellent and the pain across my shoulders The story of the will of Mr. by the family solicitors, and it is place in a closed motor-car. With Many historians, says Sir has gone. I not only feel like Arthur Ernest Lawley, of tilston probable that Mr. Lawley himself them were two detectives also in George Youngbasband, mention myself again but my colour no civilian clothes, but with bowlered this stone with speechless longer causes people to think I Park. Monmouth, formerly of had forgotten all about it. Hazeldene, Timperler, Cheshire.] Mr. Plews, however, renounced hats. They, too, were armed with admiration; but under the eI--
of ad-automatic pistols. which was discovered nearly 15 probate, and letters
Beside the lamination of a more expert and am seriously ill." years after it was made, was told ministration with the will annexed military chauffeur, dessed in critical eye the aquamarine
Anaemia is another name for to a reporter at the Manchester have accordingly been granted to khaki, sat another soldier with proved to be nothing more thin blood. If unchecked it be offices of the family solicitore. Mrs. Lawley.
his loaded rifle at the "present" valuable than a ball of coloured comes wose and may end in con- Mr. Lawley died in May, and
By this will be left to his wife In a few seconds the Cown glass. And where is the original gumption. But it can be combated left estate of the gross value of 69 and his bouse-bold and per- Jewels were transferred from the stone to-day?
by the use of the famous Blood- £368,716. He was believed to sonal effects absolutely, together secret strong-room to the car by
tonic Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for have died intestate, and a grant with an anguity during widow, two officers, whilst the detectives covery; but not more so than comes rich and red under this & disconcerting dis-Pale People. As the blood be of administration was issued to hood of £250, or in the event of stood tensely at the alert, their the discovery, during the reign treatment the symptoms disap tis window,
her remarriage a life annuity of pistols cocked. In a few minutes of Queen Victoria, that the Sword pear. Dr. Williams Pink Pills During the proceedings a Mau- £75, and all other property to his all was ready, and the car, sharp of State was lost. For decades are to be had of all chemists, or chester solicitor noticed
father, who, as stated, has pre-ly wheeling on the gravel, sped the priceless weapon was missing, direct from the Dr. Willims' name, and remembered that for
at the rate of forty miles an hour and then one day it was accid Medicine Co., 96 Szechuan Road, more than 14 years he bad had a
to the Tower of London.
entally discovered at the back of Shanghai, one bottle for $1.50, will bearing that name in his A party of 1,350Poles and Letts, WHAT THIEVES MAY EXPECT. a disused cupboard. -safe.
It had been made abortly civilians and troops repatriated
six bottles $8, post free. Write after Mr. Lawley's marriage, from Siberia has reached Ply imaginative effort it is really truly British!
After reading this beautiful
As Bir George remarks: How for the free booklet, * Building up when he was
the Blood." comparatively mouth on their way to Danzig,
the
deceased him.
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