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ESCAPE ACROSS THE NEW THRONE FOR ST.
DESERT.
TWO "GERMANS FROM THE FOREIGN LEGION,
PAUL'S.
BEAUTIFUL WOOD CARVING FOR CHAPEL.
HACKNEY HORSE SHOW.
POOR FIRST DAY'S ATTEND- ANCE AT DONCASTER.
The Hackney Horse Society's Two Germans who escaped from
A Throne, twenty-five feet high the French Foreign Legion in North Africa have, after a series and eighteen feet wide, considered Show, which during the last six of adventures, reached Plymouth as by experts to be one of the best years has been held at Doncaster stowaways on board a British examples of modern wood carving, in Easter week, was this year post- This was done in the hope of cargo ship from Tunis. They are is being erected in the chapel of poned to May.
St. George, St. and Goiger
having better weather, and to al- Joaenf St. Michael and Johann Moldrzyk, aged between 20 and 30. Paul's Cathedral.
It consists of three-sents, the low exhibitors more time to pre- They joined the Legion in a
When the meeting opened how- spirit of "adventure, and under the centre, one of the Sovereign, and pare their horses. impression they were to receive those on either side for the Prince £11 a mouth. They were given the of Wales and the Chancellor of the ever, the weather conditions were sum of two franes after a week's Order of St. Michael and St. George, unpleasant, the ground being af service. Savage punishment was Above the central pediment rises a fected by the previous night's rain,
ingly small. awarded, for the slightest misdc-tabernacle and at the summit is a and the attendance was disappoint- The Show is in every respect up meanour. They were serving im-crown.
"Mr. W. Maldea, of Croydon, who prisonment when they decided to
has been assembling the throne to the average, entries being more make a dash for liberty,
They took ten days to cross the funder the direction of Mr. Mac-than last year, and the quality of . Mr. H. T. Holloway, of West 260 miles of desert to Tunis, their cartney, the Cathedral architect, the exhibits excellent. only guide being the stars and the told a reporter that the work would aun, and their food figs. They re-be completed in time for the annual Lavington, Sussex, this year's pre- sident, secured first honours, bis lieved thirst with the moisture ob ceremony of the Order.
"There is a touch of romance Infine chestnut, Lavington Sirius, of Lavington Fire- tained from chewing cactus leaves. At Tunis they slipped on board the the wood used. for this throne," he the progeny British steamer Ariadne Alexandra, added. "It is perfect specimen of brand, being successful in the class which was being loaded with English oak which I reserved spe-for yearling colts in the hackney phosphate, covering themselves cially for the work thirty years ago.in the class for yearling colts in with cargo
when discovery was The new throne will greatly beau- the hackney stallions section.
"The six stallion clauses found tify the interior of the chapel, likely.
For four days they hid thus, which is also to be fitted with new the progeny of two or three famous
stallions well to the fore. whilst French labourera continued carved oak seats,"
SIR A. CURRIE WINS.
Salford City, owned by Sir Lees Knowies, won in the two-year-old class; Glenavon Controller, belong- ing to Mr. Enoch Clen, of Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, won in the three. year-old class; and Birtroon, shown AWARD OF £100 DAMAGES IN by Mr. Robert McColl, of Glasgow,
LIREL SUIT, ·
to carry the eargo on board. They were without food or water. Just when they thought they were"safe, the, hatches were reopened, and n search. French officials made Again the fugitives buried them. selves in the cargo and escaped de tection. Thirty hours later, when the ship was at sea, the chief on- ineer heard a succession of tap)
Montreal, May 1. nings on the hatch covers. These
General Sir Arthur Currie won were removed, and the stowaways were discovered practically embed-another victory to-day when the ded to their heads in phosphate. jury in the libel action at Coburg Knowles, gained first place in the They were more dead than alive,, würded him 500 dollars (£100) five-year-old stallion class. but recovered, and were in the best lamages against Mr.. Preston and.
f spirits when the ship reached] Mr. Plymouth.
wou in the four-year-old class. All are the offspring of Bertrano. The offspring of Buckley Cour- winner, age, last year's trophy were also prominent, and Buckley
owned by Sir Courage,
Lees
The four classes of hackney Wilson, the latter the mares were also representative of publisher of the Port Hope Guide.the best quality.
the best The special for They were not allowed to land. The General was alleged to have! und it is expected that arrange-sacrificed Canadian lives" umeces- stallion in the first three classes ments will be made to repatriate surily during the last hours of went to Mr. Enoch Glen's Glenavon Controller, while for stallions over 'hem to a German ship which is war on Armistice Day morning. now in port.
Mr. Tillie, leading counsel for four years old, Sir Lees Knowles's the plaintiff, insisted that the Buckley Courage repented his last course pursued by Sir Arthur year's success, taking the challenge The annual report of Lloyd's, Currie at Mons on Armistice Day and special prize. Patrieic Fund shows that during was in accordance with the orders. 1927 the total number of cases of a higher command, whose pur- benefited was 1,150, while the pose was to continue the pressure the strictures passed by Sir Sum rants, amounted to £13.577. Thism the Germans until the last Hughes on the Mons action in the
House of Commons. Fund assista doserving officers decisive moment.
und men of the Army, Air Force, Mr. Regan, counsel for the de- Nayy and Marines, and their defence, in an impassioned address, pendent relatives. The Fund was sought, to justify the libel from the founded in 1803, and has still on evidence recorded, while Mr. Pres- its books the names of a few agedton, addressing the jury on his relatives of officers and men whown behalf, dwelt particularly on fought in the Napoleonic wars.
Justice Rose, in his charge to the jury, laid emphasis on the actual figures of losses sustained in the, Mons advance compared with the acrifice of life alleged in the libel,
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