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NEXT WEEK'S, ROYAL VISITOR. Duke of Gloucester May Marry Lady Angela Scott.
and was
family,
even more en-
than
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 20th, 1929.
EARL'S FAMOUS
MANSION.
MAY BE DEMOLISHED FOR NEW FLATS,
London is in danger of losing still another of her famous old mansions.
The Daily Chronicle was inform- ed recently that negotiations are proceeding for the sale of Lans- downe House to a financial group. If this is done there is little doubt that this stately Adam house will be demolished like its neighbour, Devonshire House, toy make way for a huge block of buildings con- taining flats, restauraht and hotel. Lansdowne House, which, with ils gardens, occupies the whole of the south side of Berkeley-square, is.at present in the occupation of Mr. II. Gordon Selfridge, who secured it on a „furnished tenancy from the late Lord Lansdowne eight years ago,
11 is a typical specimen of the domestic architecture of Robert Adum, who, with his brother, bufft the Adelphi, and was erected in the middle of the eighteenth cen tury for Lord Bute, one of George IIL's Prime Ministers,
Bute, a most unpopular Minister, was largely responsible for the Peace of Paris,, and his enemies. said he used these negotiations to' raise the money to pay for the mansion. He never occupied the house, selling it before completion 14 Lord Shelburne, afterwards fret Lord Lansdowne.
11 was
TO DRIFT AROUND THE ARCTIC.
A GREAT GEOGRAPHIC PROJECT.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
tu
"I want no de luxe retic expedition," sald Captain Bob Bartiell, who is strikingly pictured at the right aboard the tiny vessel on which he has returned from a trip to Siberin. At the left is a view of the Morrissey as it sailed against floating ice in The Arctic.
1 "There's a big job yel Two will have to be pilots as wellStoll-McCracken expedition to be done In the Arctic, as sailors, and scientists, for we Siberia. In 1926 he took the same and Captain "Bob" Bart will take two aeroplanes.
ship into Greenland on an expedi- tion for the American Museum of lett, who has sailed the seas for
Wants Collegiate Crew. 40 years, been shipwrecked ̧ 12;
"They needn't be expert seien-Natural History. With Peary, he of his own times and seen four
Lists, if they are enthusiastic, but explored the Arctic regions for ships sink, plans to do it.
years, beginning in, 1898, being they should be college men. with him when he failed to reach He is going to it up a ship teach them how to be sailers and the pole, and when he did. with enough beam so it is almost how to work. I'll keep them so as wide as it is long, literally a busy with the problems I hand out tub, take it up into Bering Strail, they won't have time to wonder
evenings.
Master of "Karluk."
When. Stefansson took the "Kar-
where it was attended by much
Shelburne, as Prime Minister, negotiated the Peace of Versailles, in 1769, and a popular saying of 28
the time was that the house was let it freeze into the ice, and: Just before the departure for of Gloucester, is the Far East of H.R.1. the Duke jesurated at Sandhurst. He is the bought by one Peace and paid for drift across the polar region into what to do with their long winter luk" into the Alnakan waters, of Gloucester, who is expected in tallest member of the
by another,
the Atlantic on the other side. "But they must not be married, bad luck and was finally crushed was probably is an
Lansdowne House, of enurse, is Hongkong next week, it
"The ship will be equipped," he freely unoured that the engage-thusiastic sportsman
famous for its political associa-said, "with large deck space fitted or too deeply in love," he quali-with the lee, Captain Bartlett was ml might soon be announesh of jævlebrated brother, the Prince of tions, both old and new.
up for laboratories and occana- ed. "Many a good expedition has the ship's master. His Royal Highness 10 Lady Wales.
in the classic drawing-room that graphic work. We'll have all sorts been ruined by men who wanted to Angela Scott.
the old Whig coteric used to meet in the early years of last century. If the emple should marry, this will be the third child of Kine He devotes much time to horse and in recent years it was the conditions, tidal currents and for same trip several years ago, angseafaring men. When Jefferson George and Queen Mary to wed a racing, steeple chasing and rid scene
of many important con-making meteorological observa- had much of the money, for itwas President, his forbears were of British Society and ing to hounds. He is the first ferences of the Unionist party.
appropriated, but the World War Cod fishers on the Labrador banks, memb
During the war he was commis. interfered. He hopes to start, loned Lieutenant-Commander in the second to marry into a faraous member of the Royal Family to Scottish family.
ride under the Jockey Club?rules,
the US. Navy and captained five year from this spring. He is a keen palo player. On his
different troops transports, recent trip to equatorial Africa
"At no time since my boyhood,"
Pretty Brunette,
Keen Shorteman.
Lady Angela Seal, a pretty 28- with the Prince of Wales, he year-old brunette, is the youngest laughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, Showed himself an expert marks- ar of the premier Scottish noblign, bagring many fine specimens
. In fact, there is royal blond of big game.
in his veins, for his annistor, the
The young
DIAMOND-STUDDED GRAVES.
1is He
PREHISTORIC FINDS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Duke takes very seriously. Lance) canfessed that his ambition
Duke of Monmouth, was a king, soldering mag of Charlès The Second,
He has commanded numerous of instruments, for determining hurry home to their sweethearts."other exploring vessels, and comes the depth of the water, magnetic
Captain Bartlett planned this from a long line of Newfoundland
tions,
1.
EASY DIVORCE.·
IS NO ENEMY OF MARRIAGE.
4.
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When Planes Won't Count, "We enn study weather con- ditions, And out where storms are born, learn about the aurora bore- alis, dredge, for polar flork and thinks it is the most healthful and be boasts, "have I ever been on fauna, and determine the oven) happy spot in the world. It was the beach for more than a month. door up there. This will all have the big disappointment of his life save while reenvering to be done from ships rather than that he could not get the navy do-voyage or preparing for another." "I have all admiration for Com- from the air..
partment to fly the Shenandoah
mander Byrd's Antaretic expedi "Someone's got to do it--it's over the North Pole.
Years of hardship have only tion, and I think it will accom- the last great geographic project to be done in the world to-day, and increased the love of the sea which plish splendid results. But The Duke of Gloucester has was to be the "Duke of Connaught"
South Africa's earliest inhabi-the biggest assignment waiting in is the great love of his life. For want no such de luxe trip-just the been à frequent visitor both to the, this generation, for that younger
arelic expedition were buried in diamond the Aretic."
Captain Bob has never married, old-fashioned London house and to the hunting brother of King Edward VII stuck tants
the Army and rose to
the studded graves.
-Captain Bartlett already has Years before the mast have given where you take a few men, pick up seat of the Buccleuchs in Scotland. He has been constantly seen highest commands.
This Interesting discovery to the engine for his new ship, 'and 'him a ruddy face that looks much your Eskinios and dogs, and stay He served for a long time as a gather with others bearing on the plans, and it will shortly he younger than his 2 years. Great there long enough to get the dope about with Lady Angels. Fur-
a strength and endurance are evi-,on the Aretic situation.". themore, he and her brother. lieutenant in the 19th Hussars South Africa's prehistoric pasi, constructed. He reckons on
dent in his stocky build and his As Captain Hartlett now plans hend William Stoff, ar both ind was promoted to a captainey have been made on an island in crew of eight men only.
, the project will cost about "They must be young fellows, powerful shouklers. Captains in the Tenth Hassurs only when he passed his examina-the Vaal River The faland is the and have wen ințante friends' tions like any other offer. He property of Mr. Harry Shepard, ambitions, willing to work, and He has just returned in his $300,000, and the expedition will for years,
was made a Knight of the Garter who purchased it twenty years able to double in several roles, boat, the "Morrissey" from the will be gone three years, Lady Angela, who came out in his 21st birthday.
ago, and has carried out diamond- stericly three youri apo, is a ver Some years ago, when his father digging there ever since. of outdoor sports and a keen rider went to the Mediterranean for con- While digging, the owner en- en the twins. Her father is our valescence after an attack of in- |countered numerous fosgillised re- of the wealthiest of British noble thurriz, a Pommission was apmains of aninials and what ap- men, owning some hundreds of pointed to art in the King's place, peared to be human implements. thousands of are, at land in li consisted of the Archbishop of A short while ago Mr. Sheppard Englant and Scotland. The pre- Panterbury, Mr. Baldwin, the showed some of his finds to Pro-
The good ships Crystal and sent. Blake's grand-mini was Mis: Lord Chancellor, and the "then fessor Inet, discover of the Thungs
Is easy divorce an enemy of
Netley recently completed a voy being beaten by astlina at present Sir Humphry Rolleston, Spattiewonde, fainous the Prince Howy." He was appointed skull, and another authority, Mr. | marriage?
age through London Town with said authores of "Annie Lauris." Vorause his two older brothers, FC, Van Riet Lowe, paid a visit fo
Professor E. Westermarck, the one of the strangest cargoes that physician-in-ordinary to the King, Prince Honey William Frederick the Prince of Wales and the Duke the st.
famous sociologiat, pives a skipper is ever called upon to at a meeting of the Asthma Re- search Council at the Mansion Albert, in other words, the Ipukeat York, were out of the country,
Mr. Lowe discovered three dis emphatic "no" to this question, carry, tinet alyers of soil on Mr. Shep which is, one of many he discusses
Their freight was 100 tons ench House recently, were pard's island, forming an exceed- EARL OF HALSBURY'S the
went on, and to obtain a boat.ingly valuable history book. The "Marriage," a recent addition to of choice sea-water Bay : There was no certain cure for WAR STORY.
Blaikie does not remember Captain bottom layer contained the re- "Benn's Sixpeny Library" (Ernest Biscay "cocktail" for the fish at all forms of asthma, Sir Humphry The water was taken aboard scientific research was necessary. Amery by imme, but he does types of horses and pigs. Along is a feature of this "age of discon-
mains of mammoths and of extine: Benn, Lid). Divorce, in his view, the Zoo aequarium. tecollect a “wee fellow among side them were man-made imple tent." He writes:
and "Crystal" and "Netley" then nerves, and he pointed out, that them."- Mr. Amery now Secrements of an extremely
It is a widespread idea that entered the Regent's Canal Dock victims were more sensitive
than ordinary ry of State for the Dominions, type, thus praving definitely that divorce is the enemy of marriage, and set sail along the canal for certain things
people. was then on active service. He man and the mammoth were, con and, if made easy, might prove Zoo Burbour.
destructive to the very institution! "Murky weather, ahend, cap- Napoleon, Wellington, and Lord layer of of the family. This view I cannotitain cried a fellow bargee, pre-Roberts were instances of three slone imple-
to pastures and Umber lands and "Netley's" special tanks, ed from asthma,
Lord Roberts could not bear 2 oreasionally destroying home- said that when he was a squadron the submarine appeared, and
necessary remedy for a misfor-the commander of the Royal Africaniander
type, while above this again was tune and us.a means of preserving "Mind you aren't seasick!" agitatedly .Swetz
As the barges progressed, the be left alone in a room with a cat. steads and cottages on the out sandy loam layer containing the dignity of marriage by putting
And there were cases of people skirts of the cities where settle. Force, in 1916, he was ordered! Waving
revolver, called: still more advanced human imple
coal, timber, cement, and other who had a fit of asthma following ment is pushing out into the jemotion or the eating of eggs, bush, held up a funeral at Wyong, ments, bringing the discoveries an end to unions, that are a dis-skippers of other traft laden with
grace to its name:
jeveryday cargoes, signalled a almost up to the Bushman period.
or other particular a small town between Sydney and Professor Westermarek shows greeting to the "old salta" on the strawberries It is only in the bottom layer.
eat Newcastle. When the procession and the "Crystal."kinds of good. There was remsins, Switzerland of most primitive of the
ક
REFRISALS THREAT THAT
SUCCEEDED,
same transferred
request. Both in Blaikie's
ancient
has stated that he escaped capture | temporaneous in South Africa. A fine war story has been re by hiding under the stern sheets
Above this was il vealed as the sequel to a speech of a lifehoal, the sailors covering gravel containing
Medical science has confessed to.
cure,
Fresh stocks of the following constantly Arriving :- FRESH HERRINGS FINNON HADDOCK
KIPPERS
FILLETS CANADIAN SALMON, Etc.
from two steamers in the Thames Asthma was a paroxysm of the THE DAIRY FARM, ICH &
COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
One of the series of scrub forest
fires which break out every dry.
by the Earl of Hadsbury, who:bin with their Jegs.)-Suddenly merits of a more refined und later share, I look upon divorce as thejtending to suit the salt-water in 'great military leaders who suffer i Sammer in Australia, doing damage
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by the admiralty to bomb the where is the captain?”, scarest German town, sparing; neither men, women, nor children!
merchant skipper. The Sunday was still in uniform, and of gravel, intermingled with the that the divorce rate, is highest in "Netley"
any European There is something decidedly asthma, dog-asthma and horse
Crystal Clear.
A Prisoner In Germany, certain Blaikie, relating the story, says: if the Germans shot a
arrived at Coorabong Cemetery the Erpress has discovered that the ralled out: Here I am. You had
that diamonds are found. Here country, but is so much higher in novel ln Bay Bisany rough seas asthma, which was a fit of asthma mourners found the graveyard in canal brought on by either seeing or flames. The men joined in heat- caplain was James Blaikie, master better let me have that gun in ense
Ing out the fire, while the women Africa's the United States that the number being transported over a
Other diseases, also certainly as- and children waited in the fierce of the Anchor liner, Caledonia, You shoot somebody! Ile ordered is proof that South who would have shared the fate me aboard, also the general and earliest inhabitants lived in That of divorces there probably exceeds harnessed to modern industrial smelling one of these animals.
the total of European divorces. requirements. of Captain Fryatt but for the staff captain, who probably would long past age when diamonds were
On making Zoo Harbour, Nutleythms, of another part of the body heat and stilling smoke. The threat of drastic reprisals,
and Crystal came to anchor, and were the condition known as sick mourners then picked their way have escaped if they had stayed being washed down the Vaal He adds:-
headache which affected the great between the smouldering tussocks in the other boats. This evidently River. from their unknown source. In nearly all the countries for discharged their cargo through a The Caledonia was a transport, was my lucky day, however. The
which statistics arc available 650-foot hose into the aquarium's est geniuses; gout, the aristocratic and smoking bushes, and stood on and was making à voyage to Mar-Cormans behaved decently. We din- then was taken to Freiburg divorce has been steadily increas-underground reservoir, where disease, of which it had been said ground alniost unbearably hot as
that it attacked more wise men the burial proceedod,' suilles, When it was 120 miles ed with the meas, anit shared their where I spent a month in solitary ing during recent years. This is will remain until needed. out from Malla it was torpedoed at food and wing. The commander confinement, with one meal a day only what might be expected.
than, fools, and epilepsy, from short range. Blaikie, from the told us that he did not expect to low and bread. Every time I When two persons are brought
which many distinguished people other, centras to be formed, so that brider, limped the periscop come to the surface again, but he
Before this Bay of Biscay "cock-suffered. Many of the complaints this group of disorders can be Haw a squad of armed men ap into so close contact with, and tail" in introduced to the 800 or were due to a hypersensitiveness scientifically studied from every and tried to ram the submarine, one no grudge. We talked for proaching my window, I thought into euch dependence on, cach more Bsh in the sen-water tanks which could be removed,
angle. The crippled liner did not answer hours about the war. The only This is it, but it never was, other as is the case with married it has to percolate through ten to the helmi swiftly, but it managed man who disliked me was
In a letter supporting the alms Mr. Ben Tillett, chairman of the to stove in 180ft. of the sub-second in command, a typical Then came the second trial. The people it would be little short of tons of sand in order that it shall of the Council, Mr. Neville Cham-Trades Unión Congress, sald that
court decided that the Caledonia miracle if their wills always be thoroughly filtered.
berlain, Minister of Health, wrote: after 25 years' fighting with, the marine's plating and knock Prussiah, who wanted to put mo The periscope and wireless gear on deck, and then dive and leave and, therefore, I was only doing
was an armed merchant cruiser, acted in complete unison,
"We must have "water that Is! The Medical Research Council guerlila warrior, asthma, he had The Caledonia sank slowly, stern me in the sea.
In modern civilization, where crystal clear," an official of the has made a grant in aid of your come to the conclusion that there first. There was plenty of me
my duty in attempting to rum the submarine, I was amused over life is becoming richer in interests aquarium stated. "That is why we work, and I am glad to hear that was only one thing worse than the Hend all the way to the Bay o'the Halley Stewart Trust has disease, and that was, the so-called the word 'attempting, because and individual differences are Blueny for our supplies. Sea-mado a grant of £2,500 for the es- cures.
am getting more accentuated, the water from the English coast tablishment of asthma research Dr. A, P, Hurst, senior physcian on the choppy sea. One contained the point was raised whether I rammed her all right. I a general, among the crew and was employed by a private firm or sorry she did not sink, but if I causes of diangreemont are multi-would be quite all right from the clinics at Guy's Hospital and Great at Guy's Hospital, said that he had by the Government. I told them ever meet Swetz I should like to plied and the frictions are apt to fishes point of view, but if we Ormond-street Hospital for Sick suffered from asthma for the last outright that the Caledonia was shake hands with him. He is a become more serious and con used it visitors' to the aquarium (Children.
25 years, and he had been disap The general asked for a change an armed merchantman, in the sportsman, and he had no sym-sequently mora. Hikely to end in a would have a poorer view of the I hope that you will shortly ob- I painted at all the cures he had re-
lexhibits," of the Government. I pathy with submarine warfare." rupture of the marriage tic.
to save everybody, and soon there
Eventually wo
the
reached port. were 10 fully loaded hon bobbing At the first trial, on a depot ship,
firemen.
of boat, and the staff captain made service
tain sufficient funds to enable commended.