THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. „TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
20, 1934.
Ancient House Where Britain's Leaders Made Empire History
The wedding took place at St. Joseph's Chapel, Shangbai, recently, of Mr. Charles B. Blaikie and Miss Doreon 'Heath. There was a large attendance of their many friends. Bride and
bridegroom are shown above.
Darwinism
PREMIER LEAVES NO. 10
CHANGES IN DOWNING ST.
BICENTENARY
AT HAND
It has been announced that, on medical advice, Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald has taken up occupation of his house at Hampstead and Is using No. 10, Downing-streot only As an office. During the critical political phase now happily ended it would have been Impossible for him to live at a place that is half an hour from Whitehall by the smartest car, and indeed it is not likely that he will be able to do so for long even now. But for the present, for the first time since Lord Salisbury kept a working room there, but ved elsewhere, No. 10'a occupier sleeps out." Salisbury had key by which he let himself in at the back door, and it is one of the udditles of No. 10 that Mr. Mne- Donald himself has never been given a key, but somehow the door- keeper always knows when he is on the doorstep.
· Her sons gathered about her, in a happy moment in the royal palace at Belgrade, Queen Marie of Yugo Slavia is shown here, hefore the family was bereaved by the asanssination of King Alexander 1 in Marseilles. Left to right, the boys are Crown Prince Pater, who succeeded to the throne; Prince Tomislav and Prince Andrei.
While there in, of course, little parallel between Lord Salisbury "Aitting upstairs," and Mr. . Mac- Donald working downstairs, the re-.. version to the old-practice of using
No. 10 as an office only in Interest now are. But Russell Derby, Ing, for precedent has had a curfous Aberdeen, Palmerston, and Disraeli way of repenting itself at No. 19. until the last three years of his followed When Walpole ceased to live there second administration)
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In 1742 it was not occupied by a sult, even though their town houses Prime Minister again for twenty-)were quite a long way from White- eight years, and when Lord Grey hall,
While Mr. MacDonald's Igave it up just a hundred years ngò i and al deaths were at random for no Prime Minister lived there porary desertion of No. 10 caused in few thousand years, the world ngalo until 1877. The precise by reasons of health, may not in would be a collection of freaks like Tenson it was reoccupied by Bea-tself inturnce its future much, the Crystal Palace Poultry Show.consfield in that year was that the his views about the house And the vast majority of these steep stairs of his house in White-changes there since he became fronks would be right off any line hall Gardens were too much for his Prime Minister a second time may E being employed as altera be Professor Högben has remarked (4 evdution possible in the real Lasthma. Gladstone, who, during well prove of some consequence: Night Watch Patrol, Ltd, thei
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his previous Premiership had been The only way in which he regards that if not only the fit but the unfit
content to live in Carlton House residence there na obligatory in privately controlled force whose undertake police: had survived, all the known forms
Perhaps the commonest mutant terrace, decided to follow his pre- that No. 10 provides a convenient duties hns resulted in publici of life and many more would be 18, form in mammala is FA pink-eyed
example, and
place for the work a modern Prime avery existence. Just where they would white, or albino; but exist (snya Professor J. H. S. Hal- een used, so to say, in evolution, exception of Salisbury, has lived at a Prime Minister from taking a
The new has never Prime Minister since then, with the ster has to do, but he thinks
company proposes to would be nothing to prevent
patrol the streets in police-like dane in the "Rationalist Annual" because it lends to a loss of fitness. No. 10 while in town. he does not tell us, Since the pro- In the absence of natural selection, TEEL AND MELBOURNE house or fist, any, in Smith-square, bents with uniformed men, necom- geny of a single bacillus, dividing peries would vary in every direc
The reason Lord Melbourne did for anywhere near Whitehall, and panied by trained dogs. And the promasters, who include Sir Alfred every twenty minutes, if none died, finn, instead of evolving in one or not take up residence at No. 10 in using No. 10 only as an office. would, at the end of a week, fill a two.
1834, after it had been occupied
And na a residence No, 10, al-Baker and Mr. Edward Shortt, sphere of about one thousand
continuously by Prime Ministera, ways inconveulent, cold, and dark the ex-Home Secretary, announce quintillion miles in diameter, which Darwin was wise in his choice since 1770, was that he had a house (in some rooms electric light is proudly that they have "been able the services of a few would reach far beyond the farthest of title. Each speries is a physio where the Secretary of Scotland's always on) is becoming more and tr known spiral nebula, there would logical and anatomical harmony cut office now is, and Peel did not live more undesirable, even though on experts from abroad whose long fe rather a squash after a thousand off from other specles just because there because his house also was the financial side things have been ganisations and equipment will be
standing experience concerning or million years!
the intermediates are weeded out remarkably convenient. being
alade easier. A few years ago
during the initial But if selection were suspended las misfits.
where the Crown Agent's premises there was a good deal of red tape required
in the official arrangements for period." heating and lighting. If Mr. Mac- Sir Alfred Baker says that the Donald worked downstairs light two foremost Continental exports and fuel were provided for him, but have been studying the position in if he worked in a room immediately is country and have reported that above the Cabinet room he had to conditions in Great Britain are ex- pay for fuel and light himself; and eptionally favourable to the forma Mr. Baldwin had to provide his tion of a private night watch ser own coal for the little room in vice.
Members of the Shanghai French Concession Police Force presented a most impressive sight when they hald their annual review in Koukuun Park. Upper left shows the Conasi General, M. Mayrier, pinning a long servics decoration on a member of the force. Upper right; M. Meyrler, M. Fabre, Chief of the French Police, and M. Grobole, head of the Volunteer Corps, watch the parade.
Below, a photograph of one of the units of Colonial troops.
which he had breakfast, and that They say that the need for auri though his coal collars were used to a force in England is Infinitely stack coal for the Government (greater than on the Continent bes Departments. Now the Prime cause England lives ln the main in Sinister can warm and light any unguarded private houses instead of room in the house at Government in blocks of flats with the stator- expense up iu a limit of £200 ation of a porter or concierge.
year.
EXPENSIVE TO RUN Nevertheless, such is the size and age of the place of which the rontage gives no conception that even as a Ananelal proposition à Prime Minister is probably out of pockel through living in it, rent and rates-free though it be. Mr. Mac- Donald has had to keep three or four more servants thai he would otherwise employ. As to its lack
There has been loud protesta chised against the proposed guard. Already there are guards organisa- tions in England. They Include the Corps of Commissiounires, the Police Pensioners' Employment As sociation, the Veterans Corpa, the Artillery and Guards Corps, and the district Messenger and Theatre
Ticket Company.
of homeliness, there is now not a did not like to accept the place as a single room on the ground floor and gift, and insisted that it should be in the basement that is not given for the use of every First Lord of up to business, and several others the Treasury thereafter. have been taken over as well,
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It may well be, therefore, that an serves No. 10 after two centuries residence for Prime Ministers No, or use as an official house.. But for 10 is in its last phase. It will be that a comfortable modern house, exactly 200 years ago, on Septem-with a separate house in the rear ber 23 next, since Walpole took for official business, might be residence at No. 10, having "got built. Gladstone was able to use It annexed for ever to the office No. 10 as a home and No. 11 as an of First Lord of the Treasury, oille. Nevertheless, No. 10 George II offered it to him per-surprisingly unsentimental in the Penally, but as Walpole's crítics nenae that it contains no memento were very active at the time, he of its roll of distinguished tenants, unless, indeed, the improvements affected by individuals would be rogarded as such, Lard Livornani, who occupied
upied No. 10 longer than
Here are some of the scenet when the Fourth Marines opone f the U.S. Navy Day programmes with a review at the Race Course in Shanghai recently. At the left la the yaylawing stand with, laft to right, Colonel John Beaumonti Rear Admiral 3. D. Wainwright, Judge Milton Helmick, Consul R. P. Butrink, Mr. F. J. Twogood, and Commodore, F. C. Martin, Opposits are the United States and Marine flags
pairing in review betwaan the stand and the bandegati
anybody else, and was the only mail to live there first as a private secretary and then as a Prime Minister, gave it the room which is about the least official in the house, the dining-room. Mr.
Asquith gave it bathrooms. Mr. MacDonald has been instrumental in providing the Cabinet room with in reference library. But t [s
rather
a pity that the idea of Pitt's private secretaries has never been carried out. They presented No. 10 with his portrait, expressing the hope that every Prime Minister would be renicmbered thus at No. 10, but, although a few years ago the Canadian Parliament was presented from this country with n serice of Prime Minister's portraits. from Walpole tn. Mr. Maldi No. 10 itself has not got such collection. Perhaps te con- tenary year the deflelency will be rectified:
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