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THE PRESS AND POLITICS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

fident that if that was so they SOMALI PETITION TO BEAUTY DIES FOR CASTLE CLAIMED BY

would like to achieve it along the lines set forth in the charter.

He uttered a word of warning about the drift of modern journal. ism, which seemed to him to be

Mr. Gwynne's Warning likely to endanger its favour with

to Journalists.

The annual conference of the Institute of Journalists was open ed at Buxton. :

Mr. H. Gwynne, editor of the Morning Post, in his presidential address, said that journalism was passing through a period of test

the public. However much they might smile at the pages of news- papers of the Victorian age, tho journalists of that day served their public with honesty and sin- cerity, and their successors herited the respect which they in spired. They could only lose it by abandoning their sense of respon

Even in the quest of 'sibility.

in-

THE KING.

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Protest Against Being. Classed as Native

Nairobi, August 18. Another phase of Kenya's racial problems is presented in a petition which the Somali community known as Ishaak. Shariffs have re-

LOVE.

Tragic End of Viennese Actress.

The beautiful Kitty. Girardi, wife of the Viennese actor, has killed herself because she refused to live without the love of the

husband whom she adored.

SQUATTERS.

Family in Camp Defy “A City.

Members of a family named Law camp in the have pitched a grounds of Lauriston Castle, at Cramond, near Edinburgh, to draw attention to the claim that, they are the rightful inheritors to the

£96,000."..

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on private griefs. They must let the rest of the world know that they detested such things as the sending of a reporter to the house of a hanged person on the evening of an execution to see how, the

in our history the Press, was gradually assuming a paramount and almost dominating position in the public affairs of Britain, When it attempted to create politi cal parties and so challenged other parties, or even Parliament itself, it would have to stand violent at- had never ex- tacks which it perienced before. Power unques journalists. tioned inevitably led to tyranny,

and it was also true that no State could suffer a devolution of power from itself and continue to exist. State feel itself Should the threatened, it must fight or ab. dicate its functions of governance. That seemed to be an issue which, was being forced on us.

If political affairs were conduct ed without ability, or if the system under which we governed our- selves became unwieldy, top-heavy, and impracticable, the temptation to intervene in some practical manner might be most difficult to resist. If it were not resisted the-i newspapers of the country might find themselves involved in a con- liet. from which they were bound to emerge defeated. For the anka of the profession, therefore, he earnestly hoped that they would limit their activities to the proper functions of the Press, which were to keep watch and ward, to inform, advise, and instruct. To go beyond them would be to invite digaster.

relations were "taking it."

At no time had the need been greater of raising the status of They wore at the parting of the ways. Either they were to become helots, obliged to perform tasks which might offend their self-respect, or they must position create for themselves under which they could never be compelled to do anything which a gentleman should not do.

A

of her

She was found dead in the bed 19, and it was ascertained that she view to "remedying

The castle is the property of the and had taken enough veronal to poison

Scottish nation. a

The Laws declare that they will ameliorating the harsh and in-two people."

Here is a tragic history. She

a daughter of rich occupy the camp in relays until equitable treatment" which the petitioners consider, they have was the

Austrian industrialist and like Edinburgh Corporation, as truq suffered and are still suffering at thousands of other girls, was, al- tees of the estate, are forced to re- sort to legal proceedings to test the hands of the Government.

The petition asserts that the ways as a child stage-struck.

wishe's Against the

the claim. Ishaak Shariffa are of Asiatic

There are thirty-three claimants,} origin and extraction, being family, she appeared in a smail

a Vienna theatre when thirteen of whom live in the Sun. emigrants from Aden and Southern only 16, but after a short carear derland area. They state that they Arabia, and are, in fact, Many generations of the com- as an actress she met a wealthy have in their possession all the

necessary to pupers

establish munity have emigrated to and per- banker and married him.

This marriage was terminated their claim. mcuted Egypt, Somaliland, and

One of the most prominent is by divorce, and two years ago ahe East Africa.

met Toni Girardi, an actor whose Mr. John Law, aged seventy-seven. father, Alexander Girardi, was He and other members of the of the moat celebrated family have made a long investiga- one comedians in Europe, and amass- tion into the history of the castle

and its early owners. ed a large fortune.

Arabs.

sover.

In countries under the eignty and protection of His Majesty the Ishanks are recognis. By the casting vote of the pre-ed as Atabs and Asiatics and are not treated as natives of Africa. sident, the conference adopted a

The petition recalls that the resolution deprecating the Press riving prominence to suicide and

Somalia were pioneers in the cat tle trade of Kenya and 283erta affiliation cases.

that they have been instrumental in enlightening and encouraging the native in methods of civilised trading, while they also played a part in War time.

Mr. W.. C. Chillingworth, of Dublin, was elected president for

1931.

PANTHER LOOSE.

'AN

STAGE AND AUDIENCE ÎN PANIC.

part at

She was madly in love or she might have hesitated to marry a man who had had such a stormy past.

Toni Girardi had been married twice before, and both his earller wives had, as Kitty has now done, committed suicide.

Missing Documents;

In 1926 they thought they were on the eve of success, but it was pointed out that certain 'documents were missing.

Since then the search for docu- mentary evidence has continued, and it is now assorted that the papers are complete.

Another claimant is Mr. Henry: Lauriston, an elderly

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A few months ago he and his

The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. It is stated that in 1910 the)

wife came to Berlin where he was Governor of Kenya, after repre-

miner, of China Mail Bldg., sa, Wyndham Si sentations had been made to him, acting at one of the theatres, and recognised the Somalia. as Arabs also taking an important part in Marsden Colliery, Durham,

The family is, descended from! and Asiaties by exempting them a film. They took a magnificent. from native taxation and requiring and luxuriously furnished flat. A James Law, who, in 1616,

month later Toni left his wife and Archbishop of Glasgow. them to pay retrospectively the,

a friend and Queen of Scots, it is, stated, was non-native polls tax which is went to. live with

instituted proceedings, for divorce. connected with the Laws by blood payable by Europeans and

Kitty Girardi declared that life ties. Paris, Aug. 24.

Asiatics.

The claimants are not moved by Baker's bet Miss Josephine

In spite of these facts, the peti- without him was intolerable, and tioners say they are treated by the that she would rather die than live the romance and glamour of the

without hia love.

ancient castle. They want the panther caused consternation in a

She tried to distract herself by £36,000 which it is believed to be Paris music ball on Saturday night.Kenya Government as are the the famous natives of Africa, being included The animal, which

at the most fashionable Lauriston was the early home of negre dancer intends to train to ap-in criminal and civil legislation gaiety. She was to be seen sup worth, pear with her on the stage, had only within the definition of the word ning arrived the day before by aeroplane native, and also being compelled restaurants, always laughing and John Law (1671-1729), a finan,

into the night. To drown her and disastrous career. from. Amsterdam, and was evidently to use African hospital accommo-brilliant, and would gamble far cial genius, who had a meteorie He founded the first bank in not accustomed to its surroundings. dation.

In the middle of a much appre- In spite of the representations worries she began to take narcotics

deeply in his wild Mississippi ciated dance turn it auddenly leapt of the last 2 years, they say, no of various sorts as she could get France, and involved that country

Last June she. attempted to scheme. from the box where Miss Baker and action, has been taken; therefore her party were sitting and landed the petitioners pray His Majesty poison herself with veronal, but

The castle was given to Scotland to declare that they should her life was saved. After staying by its last private occupier, the in the middle of the orchestra.

longer be regarded as

Legal Advice. Vienna she returned to Berlin ac- but henceforward have the rights some weeks with her friends in late Mr. W. T. Reid. and privileges of Asiatics.

One of the Sunderland claimanta The Arab residents of the Coast companied by a niece, and it was

hoped that she had put aside said to a Press representative re- of the

cently that the family had been 21, Pottinger St. Province, as subjects

legally advised that one claim was Sultan of Zanzibar, have also sent thoughts of suicide. a petition to the Governor object

absolutely sound. ing to their inclusion in any legis tation under the definition of

Members' Qualifications. Referring to objects and pur- puses set out in the charter of the institute which still awaited ac tion, he said that one of these called for measures for testing the by qualifications of merabers examination. Looking back to the period when the charter was ob, tained, he could not but think that

of the institute! the founders dreamed a dream of a profession, organized on the lines of the Law Society or the British Medical As-

A moment later the animal ap sociation, admitting members after testing their qualifications, re-peared on the stage, putting to flight Uproar and gulating their relations by a code, the terrified ballerina. and bringing them on a level with panic in the audience followed, and other professions. He was per- was increased when the panther, suaded that the members of the getting stagefright, jumped back institute were not opposed to into the stalls and hid under a seat, schemes which had for their ob where it was evenually captured by an attendant and restored to the ject the raising of the status of the journalist, and he was con: owner.

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On August 16 she told her niece that she wished to sleep for a long time. Next morning at 8 o'clock "We are all descended," he said her alece tapped on her door, but from James Law, the Archbishop there was no reply. The door was of Glasgow, He was the ancestor locked, and workmen had to be of the first Marquis of Lauriston, brought to open it. Within was whose 'estates became allenated at discovered the beautiful Kitty, the rebellion of 1745. Girardi. dead on the floor.

"David Law, the her, fled with the Earl of Perth over the border.: They reached County Durham, and were bofriended by miners, who hid them in coal pits for some

G.P.O. "BLIND STAFF." The British public, which is time. usually ready on the smallest pre-į "Subsequently David Law marri-

ad-ed a Sunderland keelman's daugh text to criticise, Post Omes ministration, subjects that institue ter and was drowned a year later. tion at the same time to a pretty His posthumous son, David, work- severe daily test of efficiency as ed as a blacksmith at Harton, near regards the delivery of its letters. South Shields, and' was repeatedly An official of the G.P.O. Inform- urged by Sir Walter Scott to claim ed me, writes a Morning Post.cor, his father's inheritance, but he respondent, that every day between preferred to remain at the anvil 2,000 and 3,000 tetters are receiv We are the lineal descendants of ed, some not addressed at all,

the blacksmith." some insufficiently addressed, others written in avery known language, dead and living, and a few sent by practical Jokers ad- dressed by way of puzzles' of various kinds.

To deal with these, there is a special staff of ten men, known as the "blind officers," so-called be- cause they work metaphorically speaking in the dark.!

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AFRICAN PET.

"It is a common thing to receive "Lutembe," the famous tais letters from people who are on crocodile of Lake Victoria, is fear- walking tours and so forth, who ed to be dead, as it has been mise have left their belongings at some ing for several wecka. farm," said the pelal. "Letters For many years it has been a arrive at the sorting offices enclos- source of entertainment'to visitors" ing rough sketches of lanes, to the lake shore at Mile 18; on Road, finger-posta, petrol stations, &c. the Kampala - Entebbe Some of these are so accurately through Its willingness to eat fish done that they can be dealt with from the hands of the natives. by the sorting staff, but all dif- Its tameness was discovered bý cult cases are handed over to the the natives before the.War. They 'blind, officers"."

found that if they made a noise at Large numbers of letters are re- the water's edge it would come to ceived addressed in such languages the bank and eat from their hands. ДВ Hindustani, Chinese, and It has never shown any liking for Japanese, and these are dealt with human flesh.

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