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Mr. Cox, His Apple And Story

FAMOUS FRUIT “INVENTOR”,

It is the singular fortune' some men to leave behind them ja name which has made them.) if constant repetition and univer sal familiarity be the test of fame, more celebrated than the celebrated. Time has consigned

their careers to oblivion, but has handed down their names household words

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The most striking example of this kind of immortality is, 1 should think, Mr. Mackintosh. During a spell of wet weather his name must be daily upon the lips of thousands, who neither] know, nor indeed care, that his Christian name was Charles, or that he was born in 1766 and died in 1843, facts which the dictionary, though not that of National Biograhy, is grateful enough to supply. More is known about Mr. Bradshaw, who must run Mr. Mackintosh a good second, but still he lives as a book, and not as a man.

Who Was Mr. Cox Another forgotten benefactor is Mr. Cox, whose interesting: destiny it is to live as an apple. "How are your Coxes this sea- son ?" "English Coxes, so much a pound," "Coxes.don't do well with us," and so on. Who was ¡Mr. Cox?

When I tried to find the answer to this inquiry I was surprised (writes a correspondent of "The

Times") that, even in the litera-

Here are the ruins of the Government building in Barcelona. where the short-lived Catalonian republic was born and buried all in few short hours. Daring Spain's latest revolution, Senor Lula Companys, President of the Catalonian Generalidad, proclaimed Catalonia a separate repubile, Government troops faid selge to this building occupied by Companys, and after a few short hours of fighting, Companys and the republic both surrendered.

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SOLDIERS AS TREE PLANTERS

Afforestation Aim In Shensi

1,000,000 IN FOUR MONTHS

PRINCE OF WALES ON SAFARI

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They walked with dignity to the cara, and sat down to lunch."

ture of the subject, so little attention seemed to be paid to the inventor of the most famous fruit of modern times. Robert Hogg, the pomological director of the Horticultural Society, writ ing in 1875, mentions in his "Fruit Manual" that the Orange Pippin was raised at Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Bucks, by a Mr. Cox from a pip of Ribston. He Planting one million trees in four his firm camera -and asked Capt. gives the date of it as 1830, but months by soldier labour is the aim Ritchie, the Game Warden, to Mr. Bunyard, in his standard;

Jof an afforestation programune awaken a sleeping rhinoceros. work on fruit, states that this which has been mapped out by the The animal woke, caught sight of variety of Mr. Cox's raising was Shensi Pacification Commissioner's the camera and promptly charged it. The Prince said afterwards

brewer.

Office.

Sian.

In the Masai country came dan- ger of another sort a charging rhinoceros. The Prince arranged

not introduced until about 1850, when it was put on the market

A close followers for Marshal that he felt like a practical joker by Mr. Charles Turner. He adds that Mr. Cox was a retired Chiang Kai-shek who advocates a caught by a victim who lacks a ¡strong soldier-labour policy, General sense of humour. But he kept on Yang Hu-cheng, Pacification Com-turning the handle and hoping for missioner for Shensi, has organiz- the best.

When the rhinoceros was with- Committee which is being entrust-in a yard or so of the Prince, ed with the work of carrying out Ritchie and Finch-Hatton, whose

"heave-to" shota had been kicking, the "million trees" programme..

To facilitate division of labour up the dust at his feet, "Ared into branch committees have been or the brown of him."

TELEPHONED TO THE ed Soldier-Labour Tree-Planting

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Appointment Made To Be Arrested

ENGINEER'S SENSATION

ganised by the various Army Divi- alons, and with the whole-hearted co-operation of the different army units in the province it is believed Evidence that he made an appoin-that 500,000 trees will have! heen ment with police officers to be planted before the end of the Lunar arrested was given at Westminster New Year.

"At the shock he swung a pon- derous point or so, missing the camora by nearly a yard. As he passed out of focus H.R.H. hop-{ ped aside and Ritchie placed a final bullet behind the big shoul

der. The rhinoceros dropped dead."

police court recently when Cyril Shensi troops, it may be stated,

It was bad luck, said the Prince, Southwell Piper (29), engineer, of have been trained to take part in Grosvenor House, W., was remand-reconstruction work outside their that so gallant an old chap should one's hands. But jed on £2,000 bail.

military drills and practices a have forced

(8) He was charged with obtaining greater portion of the highways D. C. Saturday by false pretences a banker's draft built in Shenel having been con- after all the film was a failure, for the Prince, though not moving hiá for £2,000 from James Henry structed by provincial troops, Foster.

To give them technical help, two stance, had stopped filming at the Detective-Inspector Donland gave experts of the Sian Branch of the crucial moment in order to see

what was happening. evidence of arrest in Shaftesbury National Economic Council have ¡Avenue.

been invited by General Yang to Mr. Harry Myers (defending): supervise and direct planning as Defendant-in-fact-telephoned New well as planting work in this "mil 22nd Dec.Scotland Yord and arranged to meet lon trees" programme. Central

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SILVER AS AID TO HEALING

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