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SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1928.
HOSPITAL IN FLAMES.
"OPPRESSIVE" " ACTION BY THE CROWN.
FOR 100-FT. TOWER IN NEW NURSES AND SOLDIERS SAVE HOUSE OF LORDS' CRITICISM
YORK.
New York, Apr. 24.
When the Rockefeller, Memorial
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carillion of 63 bells is set up in the OFFER OF ASSISTANCE. 400-ft, tower of the millionnire family's Baptist church in River- alde Drive it will be the largest set
in the world.
It is announced by the church authorities that the present cari Jon, made at Croydon, England, will be augmented by seven belle, and that eventually 12 more bells will be added.
The 72 bells will then Have a range of six octaves, or slightly less than that of the plans.
Four of the seven new bells will have a total weight of 59 tons five tons more than the weight of the present carillon.
20 Tons for Deep C. "The Bourdon" (the largest of the bells), also cast at Croydon, England, will sound a low C. *.
It will weigh 44,800lb. (20 tons). Altogether, the carillon of 60 bells will weigh 118 tons.
The sixth octave, which will be added eventually, will consist of 12 amall bells, and will present a feat in tuning never before attempled, Because of the size of the larger bells, electro-pneumatic mechanism bus iren designed for the carillonneur (bellringer). Mr. MacNeil.
Windsor, Apr. 25.
Edward VII. Hospital, Windsor, A wing with two wards of King which was opened by the late King Edward in 1900, was destroyed by fire this afternoon, damage estimated at between £10,000 and £15,000 being done.
That none of the patients were Injured or even'in danger was duc to the splendid way in which the nursing staff worked under the direction of the Mairon, and to the admirable manner in which the fire Instructions were carried out. ม
The hospital is not far from Windsor Castle. An Equerry was sent to the hospital to obtain full information and ofor any assist ance which the Castle could provide. The King placed at the disposal of the Hospital Committee the Castle Riding School, food, clothing, and anything else that might be re- quired.
The King naked twice that he might be informed during the night of the position, and said that he hoped the fullest uac would be made of his offer of assistance.
OF TAX APPEAL.
Strong comment on the "oppres- sive treatment" of the public by Crown appeals in income tax
cases was 'mado in the House of Lords recently.
of the Commissioners of Inland The House dismissed the appeal Revenue against a decision of the Court of First Division of the Scasion in Scotland. relating to a claim for repayment of £11 115. 9d income tax by a farmer of Auchterrader, on behalf of his son.
The claim concerned the tax upon the dividends on some shares bought by the father for his sou when at school. The Inland Re- venue resisted the claim for re- payment on the ground that the shares were the property, not of the son, but of the father,
The Lord Advocate (Mr. Wat- son, K.C.) said the Crown would pay the entire costs whatever the result might be, it being in the nature of a test ease. -
Viscount Haldune said he thought it was oppressive treat- ment that a man with two un- animous decisions in his favour should be hailed before the House. of Lords when the amount was only £11 and when no question of At 10 p.m. the matron, in" ne-principle obviously arone, cordance with instructions, tele- Viscount Dunedin said that he' phoned to Windsor Castle and in-would have been prepared to usa formed the King of the position. much stronger language had it not been for the proper under- taking given by the Lord Advocate as to costs..
When the fire broke out surgeons "Son's Love Built Us" Say Bells, were at work in the operating At present 53 bells are in a theatre. With remarkable cool temporary building in Parkness they completed their delicate avenue, New York, awaiting the tasks, and the patients were re- completion of the tower of the moved to places of safety, Baptist Church.
Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, jun, pre- sented the carillon to the church in memory of his mother, and he in adding the other bells mentioned above,
Before the carillon of 63, was sent to America it was heard by King George and Queen Mary at the foundry of Messrs. Gillett and Johnston, of Croydon. The bells were manipulated by M. Lefevere,
the carillonneur of Malines Cathedral (Mechlin).
"The great Bourdon," the largest tuned bell in the world, and the fourth largest of all, is to be sent over to New York Immediately.
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Main Building Threatend. The fire spread so rapidly that the rouf was soon a mass of flames. The block consists of two wards, the
FAR EASTERN CHANGES. King Edward for men on the ground floor and the Queen Alex-! . Notification of the King's ap- andra for women on the first floor.proval of the following Foreign There were about 30 patients in Office appointments is contained in each ward, and as soon as the the London Gazette of April 20:- alarm was given they were removed C. J. Davidson, Esq., C.I.E., C.V.O., on stretchers into the wards on the to be Japanese Counsellor to His opposite side. The Life Guards Majesty's Embassy at Tokyo; 0. from Combermere Barracks, which White, Esq., to be His Majesty's are situated exactly opposite, were Consul General for Cores, to re- first on the spot, and with the side at Seoul; G. P. Paton, Esq., Windsor police rendered splendid C.B.E., to be His Majesty's Consul for the Island of Formosa and its Windsor Fire Brigade was fol- Dependencies, to, reside at Tam- lowed by Windsor Castle, Datehet, sui; W. B. Cunningham, Esq., to MAGISTRATE GIVES UP me the wards were a mass of Leased Territory of the Liaolong Slough, and Eton Brigades, but by be His Majesty's Consul for the flames, throwing off terrific heat. Peninsular, to reside at Dairen; When matters became serlous M. B. T. Paske-Smith, Esq., C.B.E., hundreds of Coldstream Guards to be His Majesty's Consul for the COURT TO BE ABOLISHED AS men from Victoria Barracks were Urban Prefecture of Osaka (Osaka marched to the scene. It is esti-Fu), and the Prefectures of Shiga, ECONOMY.
mated that about 500 soldiers as- Nara, Wakayama, Miye, Aichi, sisted.
Toyama, and Gifu, to reside at Osaka; and F. C. Greatrex, Esq., to be His Majesty's Consul for the Congular District of Nagasaki, comprising the Prefectures of Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Miy-
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A special stipendiary court set up for Chatham and Sheerness in 1867 is to be abolished.
service.
The whole of the contents of the main building were brought out, and the hospital grounds were strewn with bedsteads, bedding, hospital stores, furniture, and other ex-articles.
To facilitate the economies which will follow, Mr. Gibson, the stipendiary magistrate, has pressed his willingness to retire on May 29, 1929; before he reaches the uge fixed for retirement,
No further appointment will be made, and the office and court will lapse.
Women's Heroic Work. Women, too, worked like Trojans in the salvage work. Thousands of spectators assembled in the vicinity of the hospital to watch the efforts The Home Secretary, who in- of the firemen and soldiers. Many vestigated. the matter at the TC- of the patients were removed on quest of the Chancellor of the stretchers to the military hospital, Exchequer, has come to the con- and others were taken to private clusion that the special circum-houses in motor-ears. stances which led to the setting un of the court and to the incurring of special. expenditure to be borne upon national funds no longer ob- tain, und that sumelent provision for dealing with eases will afforded by the ordinary courts.
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Scores of car owners were in at tendance to render what assistance they could, and everything possible was done for the comfort of the patients.
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Kagoshima, Yamaguelii, Okla, Fukuoka, and Okinawn (Lochoo Islands), to reside at Nagasaki (Dec. 18, 1927).
siderably damaged.
Many of the Governors, and the medical staff were in attendance to render the matron and nurses every assistance.
The flames were fanned by a strong wind, and so dense were the fumes that gas masks had to be worn.
Several small outbreaks occurred evening, and the during the Apart from the destruction of majority of the Windsor firemen the wing the main building is con- remained on duty all night..
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