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A Woman General Booth

General, strengthen yet ther its already established tion as one of the great social stitutions of our time..

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

WHEN PARLIAMENT

BURNED

LAZIMA LONDON'S DISASTER OF

A CENTURY AGO

LOVER OF PERSIA

Sir Denison Ross, whose man tery of Oriental languagesTM is legendary, but whose love of Per- sian, in particular is both audible and voluble, has left for Teheran. He is taking part in the Firdaus! millenary celebrations.

ONLY BARE WALLS SAVED

(By Walter G. Bell)

Firdausi is the epic poet of Persia. Many a so-called illiter-tury ago, traveller's by coach

YOMING up to London a con-water.

late Persian can reel off scores of This lines by heart.

Few Greeks of to-day could do that, with Homer, and how many Englishmen with Shakespeare?

MONSIEUR SANTA CLAUS

London, faced or found saturated' by

Rufus's Westminster Hall was night

spectacle for bours in fearful danger but set before them. Out into the happily stood intact and unharm country the word had gone, "Par led when at length anxiety for its llament is on fire!".

[fate was at an end,

Lat

had

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As they approached near they Great Armada Tapestry saw flames leaping high above the That apart, there were lost the separate buildings, Ullùminating last vestiges of the ancient Palace British toys will make their first all Westminster, and a band of of Westminster, the home of the prominent appearance in Paris dense smoke rolling away to the Kings of England back to the Con- shops this winter.

north before a fresh-wind. fessor. We have still the crypt. Toy manufacture is one of the Darkness had fallen that fate- of St. Stephen's Chapel, so mur- most important seasonal industries]ful day-It was Oct. 16, 1834—|derously treated as to conceal all of France but for some years the when at about 6.30 Mrs. Wright, age and interest, and a fragment French manufacturers have been the Palace housekeeper, opened of cloister that is all. Tunable to produce, enough toys to the door of the House of Lords The House of Lords was the old

satisfy the demand.

chamber. Amid smoke and dust Court of Requests till refitted for Recently, huge quantities of toys she noticed fire rising from beite new purpose at the Union of have been imported from Germany.neath Black Rod's box. (London Great Britain and Ireland. It' Then the Germans put an embargo learned later that that afternoon made no architectural or historical on French goods.

the stoves beneath the peers' floor claims. The Commone was In retaliation the French put the had been stuffed full of old notched different. St. Stephen's. Chapel bad. contingement on German goods. wooden Exchequer tallies, which been originally founded by King-

British manufacturers were quick were set alight for destruction.) stephen. Rebuilt in 1347. to seize the opportunity,

Almost 'quicker than the alarm collegiate church, it was surrend could spread the fames gave the ered at the Reformation. King message to the town.

Edward VI. gave it to the Com-

Your Daily Smile!

An American

Up. for Menths

far

28 a

Old Hand-Worked Fire Engines mon for their sittings. tourist was making

Long, narrow and dimly' light- his way through an Indian reservation Soon after half-past seven the ed, the debating chamber offered when he encountered two Indians, In-Lords' roof fell in with a tremen- little to the eye. A wooden floor tending to be sociable he stopped, and dous crash. Streets and bridge by had been laid above the Chapel fur holding up his hand in salute, he said, posi-White man greets red man. White Watermen 'rowed hundreds of on- troduced and galleries built.

then were choked with sightseers. flag stones, a lower inner roof in- in-mun hopes red moan is well.”

One Indian turned to his companionlookers out on the river.

But the Chapel itself as finish- and remarked, "Say, Mike, is this nut As the night wore on all three ed by Edward III. was of great screwy?" Artificial Radium

regiments of Foot Guards were beauty externally and internally, brought up to keep a clear space At the Union with Ireland It be First Aviator: "No one has a chance around the blazing Palace. The camo necessary to enlarge the Less than forty years ago to beat Bill in this endurance fight Royal Horse Guards trotted in Zabric and walls and roof, ex- Mme. Curie discovered radium.

Second Aviator: "Why?"

from Knightsbridge Barracks posed after long concealment, Then began a new epoch in First Aviators "His wife told him hauling their large fire-engine, were found to be curiously The High Council of the Salva-science and a great expansion of she was planning to start cleaning Other "powerful

We house as soon as he came down." -

engines, as wrought and ornamented with a tion Army has elected. Comman- man's power over Nature.

then counted (manuals which profusion of paintings and gild- Long Preliminary' der Evangeline Booth to there only yet learning the rudi

threw up a jet of water by the la-jing, the colours being still vivid.. ments of the use of radium, in position vacated by the retire the cure of disease. In the dia- Smith to dimer at seven, Mary; bat with haste by the London Fire come to arrest the Five Members Mistress: "I've asked, Mr. and Mre, bour of teams of men), were sent It was there that Charles I had ment of General Higgins. The covery which Mme. Curie's I think we'll give them a quarter of Engine Establishment, the Coun- the fire? time, and the last, that Army's greatest office is thus daughter and son-in-law, M. and an hour's, frice.

seen in Mme. Cutle-Joliot, described to Mary: Well, ma'am, I'm, religious ty Fire Office, Elliot's Palico the Sovereign has been seen again vested, not as a matter of

myself, but I think that's rather over: Brewery, and the recent International Confer-doin it!"

from neighbouring the Commons; there that Crom right but by the free choice of ence on Physics, it may prove

parishes.

well had ordered the removal, of the Army's most experienced off: that the world has been given

Deptford Dockyard despatched the bauble there, that Burke cers. In the family of its founder. something of even greater prac-

two, and a fire doat came up made impassioned speeches that and Fax, Chatham and Pitt, had Thames from Rotherlithe. The news will be received with tical importance than the first

What could they do? Substan-keep foremost place in English

fundamental achievement. They

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

the greatest satisfaction not only have found a way to make other The anticyclone over north-west tially, nothing. Mr. Braidwood, oratory. Therein, too, at a later by. Salvationists but by the pub elements exhibit the special ac- China is strengthening and extend the fire-chief who later met his age, had been heard the maiden Hic at large. Few episodes of re- tivities of radium. They being eastward and southward. A death at the great Tooley-street speech of the young Gladstone. cent times created such general lieve that it will not be long be deep depression is moving eastward fire, was there, but in the muddled the rising hope of the stern un- sorrow as the crisis which led to fore these artificial radio-active across the northern part of the sea state of administration at the bending Tories.”

The place had imperishable. the election of General Higgins. elements can be used in medi- of Japan, according to a Royal Ob-time there was no fire officer to

cine and that their intensity may servatory report this morning. take supreme control. Lord Mel-emories; but of the material There is no need to dwell now on prove even superior to that of

bourne, the Prime Minister, was House the flames spared nothing the painful circumstances of preparations of natural radium. Lung Lan, a 19-year-old girl, of found in town, though Parliament save, bare walls. those days. Enough to say that At the present time, it has been No. 20. Bridges Street, was admit- was up, and was most active in Bitter, too, was the destruction the zeal, of the Army in the estimated, the whole world has ted to the Government Civil Hospl-giving directions, but, he hardly it perished that great Armada

produced but 700 grammes of tal yesterday suffering from the made an efficient substitute common cause sufficed to avert radium. The British National effects of lysol poisoning, said to the feud which at one time Radium Trust has only been able have been self-administered. threatened, so that the Army's to buy 19 grammes: The deve

Historic Relics Saved From the Lords the fire passed

two

of the Painted Chamber, for with

Tapestry This celebrated work of craftsmanship, was divided into

the England of Elizabeth has met tained a portion of the story how compartments, each of which con-

Around the compartments, form-

work was not seriously anected forment of the treatment of The R. M. E. Empress of Asia rapidly to the Painted Chamber by the dissensions at its head-malignant disease by radiology left Vancouver for Hong Kong on conferences between the quarters. But memories must has been greviously impeded in Saturday and is due here have remained, and their bitter every country by the scarcity of Thursday, November 24. She will in that historic room-and thenes inga border, were portrait heads on Houses had customarily been, he and defeated the might of Spain. ness has now been finally assuag- the natural element and its enor leave for Manila on the same day to the Commons and the Speakers of the several gallant officers who ed. The first General's daugh: mous "monopolist price. If the

house. All were consumed dur commanded in the English Fleet. ing the night, together with the surrounding Parliamentary, offices needle-work it stood second-in im- As an historical document in The Are burned with great fury portance only to the aariler Bayeux A Morning Chronicle" reporter Tapestry. described the sight, perhaps somewhat inadequately

(Continued on Page 11.)

ter is now General in her expectations of M. and Mme. The R. M. S.

5. Empress of

of Japan father's stead, and the name of Curie-Joliot are realised and left Shangháf this morning and is Booth regains its old pre they have been confirmed by the due heré on Friday at 9 am. She eminence in the Army's hier results of other investigators will leave for Manila at 5 pm, on archy

the hospitals will, for the first the same day. In wishing the new General time, have at. their command all All success in her tenure of the the radio-activity which they can The Indian Silk Merchants As- post to which she has been usefully employ, for the process sociation is to-day celebrating the of artificial production should be Devall Festival at Lady Mody's elected so auspiciously; would pay our tribute to the ser-heap. We may then have a bungalow, Condult Road, The vices rendered by her predeces great development of medical celebrations, which include bilings, driven by the shifting

llards, singing and tiffin, will con- sor General Higgins took over practice.

tinue until 7 p.m.

we

his office under conditions which

made the stability of the whole

great organisation dependent on

Personal Pars

"That International sporting

his tact and good sense Happle Mr. J. P. Sherry, manager of contests are imperilling interna ly for the Army he made no slip the Hong Kong Telephone Cotional friendships," will be the With an unobtrusive devotion to Ltd., returned to the Colony by subject for the first of the sea- duty, which quickly won him the mv. Yasukuni Maru yester-eon's debates to be held at the general confidence, he brought day.

back to the Army its old" effi-

European M. C. A to-night. Meagry S. A Gray and E R. Price will take the afirmative, while Dr.

"The vivid view of the rapid large frontage of public build GENERALÍSSIMO AT fames as they rolled round this

ing flames, the volume of smoke wind the glare of the tower-

which mixed with the raging element the repeated Crashes of the falling roofs all com- bined to impress the crowde who attended the fire with

TATUNGEU

Taiyuanfu Populace Plan Big Welcome

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and feelings of awe never to be Madame Chiang arrived at Tatung forgotten,

fu from Peiping yesterday in con "In the midst of this striking tinuance of their northern tour. scene the Chapel of Henry VII. Marchal Chiang will shortly leave and Westminster Abbey appear for Taiyuanfu, the pro

ciency and with it the old Salva Mr. B. Naess, of Messrs. Kar tionist pride in the work done sten Sarssen, and Company, re- EL. Allen and Mr. Dr J. S. Cro-d and to be done. Hence it is that turned to the Colony by the mv. zier will take the negative. the High Council, meeting now in Yasukuni Maru yesterday.

an atmosphere very different

ed enveloped in flames, capital of Shansi, where the popus At some risk of life, Mr Butte, lace are planning an elaborate re

Suffering from head injuries the son of the Serjeant-at-Mace, ception for China's military head. from that prevailing when it as- Mrs. J. H. Seth was among the after being felled by a plank of saved the Chancellor's, mace. It Marshal Chiang will be met sembled in 1929, has been able to passengers who returned to the wood while working on the Hong was the mace which was borne General Yen Hsi-shan, "The Model give full consideration to ques- Colony on board the m.v. Yasukuni Kong and Shanghai Bank site, Tsol

More King Charles I. V when he Governor.“ tions of procedure then neces Maru yesterday, sarily left in abeyance. The

Shing, a mason was sent to the Government Civil Hospital yester

cautious approach to the election The forthcoming wedding of Mr. Bay made it certain that the Coun- Ubaldino Faranciaco Avelino, Chiet cil's choice, when finally made. Officer of the s.s. Ou Chao, to Miss would be accepted without cavil Chan Sui Chan has been announced aa authoritative and binding to take place shortly May the consequences of this elec

tion be altogether worthy of the The hopes which it inspires, and may yesterda the Army, under its first woman

here

A fine of $10 was this mar

iding

Mr.

cal

to execution. An, histori

ent of matchless inter-One case of smal arrant, for Charles's of diphtheria, six

mwell.

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