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THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER
OUR SEA STORY IN PICTURES.
UNIQUE COLLECTION IN DANGER.
1. 1927.
THE SOVIET PLIGHT DESPERATE.
EFFECT OF BAN ON PETROL SALES.
OUR DAILY TA ON HEALTH
RIGHT WORK F TUBERCULAR.
GREAT CARE NEE The most recent bullet
"The conscience of the whole world is being roused against the oilfields in Russia stolen by the Soviet, and observers who have by the National Tubercul handling of petrol from British
recently returned from Moscow sociation concerns the typ assure me that the farce in Russia ployment to be followed cannot go on much longer." with tuberculosis, after t Sir Henry Deterding, head of the
This declaration was made by while it is in an arrested Royal Dutch Oil Company and apital or the sanitarium
recovered from the dis
director of the Shell Transport adjust himself mentally an When the person leavea and Trading Company to a Daily cally to the changed cond Mail reporter recently.
life. In the sanitarium he
LETTER ASCRIBES IT, TO "VERY HARD TIMES."
Bertram. Hoarce Kirby, forty- Aix, appeared before the Louth incolnshire) magistrates last
£90,000 APPEAL. month, charged with the murder
The finest collection in the of his wife, Minnie Eleanor Kirby, world of prints and paintings whose body was found in austrating the maritime history codon bungalow at Louth, whereof Great Britain is in danger of the couple had lived with their being lost to the "nation whose cight-year-old son Norman. There deeds it chronicles. were injuries to the head.
It is the Macpherson Collection, formed during many years of 'Counsel for the prosecution said patient search by Mr. A. G. H. that when the body was foundMacpherson and now housed at 9, three letters were lying on the kit-Henrietta-street, chen table. The first was
Cavendish- ad-square, W, where visitors dressed, "To whom this may con-welcomerh
are cern," and stated: "I could tell Prince George. as Patron of of yery, very hard times: My the Society for National Research, pride in life, has realised this appeal issued with the object of darling wife, who is my greatest heads the list of signatories to an fact God bless her. Nobody making what has become a ha- could possibly wish for a better tional asset a national possession vife. We have realised our finan-for this and future generations. clal state of affairs, and come
"We desire (say the signatories) to the conclusion that death is the to call attention to the fact that only way out of them."
the Macpherson Collection at an The letter went on to say that early date may paas out of this panies are closing up this avenue
to sustain the burdens of Now that the Kirby, who sold food on commis-America or to Europe,
great oil com-existence. country altogether, either to sion, found himself saddled with strenuous efforts are being made the stolen petrol-its plight is be who have never suffered wit and I do not think any reputable ordinary observers more He will probably appen debt, that they had nothing to eat to secure it.
companies will continue to handle than most of the people aro
at home, and that he volunteered
where
who visited Moscow to discover once in the routine of daily An American friend of mine able to rest most of the.
that the Soviet is so desperately work. He has not been all the truth of the position told me aide the walls of the institu in need of credit that even
dominant note of his exis sale of stolen patrol, which is its
leave the sheltering walls of last desperate effort, cannot keep colour, and weight have co the regime going for more than the authorities that he will stitution until his robustn two years.
the
to go away with the idea of ob- by Mr. Macpherson without assisties that are being officially cir- much of him, and he will p "The collection has been formed coming more desperate, and the culosis. They will naturally Laining work. It concluded, "Please bury darling Minnie and in a financial sense, crippled him- ance from anyone; and he has,
calated by it are evidence that it try to meet their expec myself together. We have loved
in clutching at any straw. one another."
self.
Untrue Suggestion,
A Great Collection.
This is a serious error. other hand, the patient m fear his disease and be co in habits of rest so that n
The second letter addressed ts "Dear Ralphie," a son in Canada,
It has said that I have tried to of work will seem burdens "The items in the Macpherson obtain a monopoly of Soviet oil-him. This attitude of mi after speaking of the purchase of Collection, excluding the atlases which is untrue-but it does not requires readjustment. a football for him, and express-and printed books, number 11,382. disclose that in the negotiations in ing the hope that he would -pro- spet, said: "Your dear mother time Museum has until recently terested party (very far from even a sanitarium must have wo "The lack of a National Mari- which my group was only an in-ordinary life after a long pe
The patient who comes lies cold and will never be able to presented an insuperable obstacle 50 per cent.) three conditions will be sufficient to provide s write to you again, and further in the way of concerted action. were sine qua non: (1) Indemni- for himself and perhaps yen will never hear from me The Board of Admiralty and the fication of the previous owners family, but which will not ngàin as I am going with mother." Office of Works have decided to (2) no sale need be effected by about a physical breakdown Convert the Queen's House, Green-sellers if the oil should after-excess of exertion. Whenev wich, into the required National wards be wanted for internal cou-sible the patient should try Maritime Museum as soon as the sumption, for which there was to turn to his old occupation, building is vacated by the Royal be no Indemnity; and (3) on ad- this has been such as to be Hospital School..
vances and of credits to be given associated with the attack by any of the parties. Those are disease. If his physical ca
ties. is not up to what it was befo illness, the work may someti modifled to meet his newer
Wife's Unfinished Note.
any more.”
Whenever a patient who h
The third letter, which was ad- dressed to "Dear Auntie Julia and Uncle Fred," asked them to take care of Norman and said, "The
"We (the signatories) have in- other boys I believe are all right.vited Messrs T. H. Parker, the the facts. How I love them. Minnie, she will not have to suffer 12a, Berkeley-street, Piccadilly, dral bomb outrage (in April 1925)
Dear darling Baval and military print-sellers,
As long ago as the, Sofia Cathe to value the Macpherson Collec- Counsel also read a letter writ-senior partner, writes: It la my not to handle the stolen petrol turns to daily life, he should
ton. Captain Harry Parker, the the great oil concerns of the world I was endeavouring to persuade ten by Mrs. Kirby and unfinished, assured belief that the Macpher-which was being used for subver opportunity for frequent m which was found in the
a long period in a sanitariu pocket. It was addressed to "My and priceless, and I have no hesi-world. I wrote to Mr. Rockefeller order that the effects of the
man's son Collection is absolutely unique Dearest Boy," and said they were tation in stating, from a trading
sive activities at last able to send him the foot-point of view, its break-up value handled this petrol were provid-termined and his activities throughout the consulation. This is necess ball, that Harry a son who lived at public auction to be betweening the Soviet with the means to lated in accordance with these pointing out that those who on the patient may be regular away) looked very nice in his new £100,000 and £150,000. suit, and that he went for a walk with them on Sunday. The last tonal purpose such as
"Mr. Macpherson, for a narry on its policy of disorganis-surements. It is a mista two lines, Mr. Saywell pointed out, in view, is willing to abate one-
ing society. we have
go along without control, fo were very badly smeared from quarter of the price he is making by the statistics of production and set in and gain control befor That this is the case is proved disease is insidious and relaps left to right, and there was what abroad for the collection and is sale of oil in Russia. Before the patient realizes his difficulty. appeared to be a scratch with a pen..
mark prepared to accept £90,000.
"On a first instalment of £25,- was 6,418,000 tons
war the average of production -The suggestion was made that 000 being paid to the trustees of which only 735,000 tons
a year, of the woman was struck on the head the National Maritime Museum, ported. Now for the three years ference, which is to be hel with a heavy axe by her husband he will give them the option of 1024-5-6 the average production Sydney, will consider the site and killed while she was writing completing the purchase within has fallen to 5,226,000 tons, while Empire Exhibition of 1931. this letter. Afterwards he left six months. A donation of this the exports have increased to 1,- considered that the Cente the bungalow and sent the boy amount, consequently, removes the 298,000 tons, leaving only 3,928,- Park is likely to be favoured Norman away. The discovery of mediate danger of the collection000 tons for home consumption, there may be a proposal to the tragedy was made by the son going out of England." Harry, who found the place locked
up.
Inspector Davies said that when he arrested him at the White liorse public-house Kirby WAS playing dominoos. He got up and drank his beer and came
out.
رامی
BRITISH SOYA BEAN.
ACCLIMATISED AFTER
14 YEARS' TESTS.
A bottle half full of whisky was found in his pocket.
Kirby was committed for trial at After experiments extending. Lincoln Assizes. His solicitor in-over nearly fourteen years, Mr. J. ciented that the defence would. North, curator of the Royal raise a question whether he had Botanic Society, Regent's Park, mental trouble or not.
MOONLIGHT SEA TRAGEDY:
DISASTER TO A BATHING PARTY.
N.W., has ncclimatised the Man- churian soya bean, an ofl-produc- ing plant. from which products varying from linoleum to printer's ink can be made. It remains, however, to test the commercial possibilities of the bean as grown in this country.
"This year," said Mr. North, "I hope to be able to supply enough of the seed from North Manchuria, which I have naturalised. for two Search was still being made in acres of land, and next year, as- mail week for the body of a girlming that the weather is favour- who was drowned while bathing able, there should be enough for with two others in the moonlight 100 acres. at Eastbourne, and the whole town was thrilled with the story of the xtraordinary gallantry displayed by a bus conductor during rescue operations.
"The bean grows to a height of about 18 inches, and the straw can be used as a food for dairy cowa. The oil produced from the bean is very valuable, and the fat from Hurd, Mabel Guy,
Three ung nurses, Doris Hilda it is worth more than twice 48 and Helen much as the best tallow. For Westgate, of the Royal Eve Hos-making the best soaps the fat ly pital, Eastbourne, went to bathe almost essential and is fetching near the pier, the evening being to-day about £84 a ton."
fine, and a waning moon throwing
a clear light upon the waters. A
heavy swell was running at the launched a boat, with the help of time, however. Miss Guy was a a man named Hearn.
good swimmer, but the other two They rowed about and soon could scarcely swim a stroku. reached a point 150 yards from They had been in the water only a the shore, and then the boat few minutes when the two non-capsized. Hearn shouted that he swimmers got into difficulties. could not swim. Woodard swam
Miss Guy attempted to Miss Hurd, but falled, and narrow-end carried him in a
save rapidly towards him, seized him ly escaped with her own
very ex- life.hausted state through the turbu- Meanwhile the cries of the young lent breakers to the ahore. women had attracted the atten- Woodard thereupon again put tion of Charles Henry Woodard, out in a boat, and, with police a bus conductor, of Marit and other helpers, made a wide Parade, who was walking along search for some time, but reluc-. the parade.
tantly had to give up without find He rushed down the beach, and ing any trace of the missing girl. vithout a moment's hesitatin Miss Hurd was seventeen years of Buc age, and her home is at Fairlight- cceded in reaching Miss West- road, Eastbourne.. gate, and brought her ashore, and This is the first bathing tragedy. Tal. C.678. then on learning that there was at Eastbourne for a very long.
la third woman in difficulties, he tire.
Reiss. Massey & Co. Lid plunged into the sea. He
DISTRIBUTONS. Exchange Bldge.
was ex- The Australian Premier's
This is evidence that the Russian the exhibition on the north si peasants are being deprived of Sydney harbour in order to light and fuel so that the money tify it expressly with the har may be obtained for propagandia. bridge.
SCOTLAND'S WAR MEMORIAL.
Scotland's National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle, was recently opened by the Prince of Wales at a great ceremony of religious and military pageantry. The memorial is one of the most beautiful In Europe. It consists of a gallery and a shrine built on the Castle rock. In the centre is a block of darks green marble on which stands a steel casket containing the names of 100,000 Scottish men and women who fell in the war This casket was presented by the King.",
Above photo shows the Prince of Wales inspecting the Guard of Honour representing various Scottish regiments.
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