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In The Speaker's- Chair

For

Spanish game.

The following are their prohibi-

Don't mukany “Donu akroke Don't drink Don't

It was invented by Daniel is Strauss, who has caused the storm, and by a Dutchman called Perl. The wheel-could-be stop- ped" by any player pressing the button. This, it was hoped, would take it out of the extegory · Of games of chance.

present high

ST. PAUL'S

STATELY FUNERALS OF

OTHER DAYS

ADMIRAL LORD JELLICOE JOINS SELECT COMPANY

(By Walter G. Bell)

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MARL Jellicoe was recently laidythe route before dawit Nelson was borne Velson in the crypt of St. Paul's funeral car which rose 19ft frous Don't incur adverse public Only the foot-passage used by the ground, its ends fashioned in those who make the circuit of the imitation of the stem and stum

For some time it was extremely

separates of the Victory. An Admiral of the White's flag, was flown at half. popular in Holland, whence it was

H Mas Hodges obeys all these I stood at the spot a day or so staff, Britannia and Neptune with brought by M. Strauss. But about two years ago the Minister of commandments the insurance com- before the ceremony, amid numbers Fame were gured, and, amid Justice ordered the closing of pay will guarantee that abe earns of wreaths which already had ar laurels and cyprus appeared the all gaming houses. where is was US$125,000 in the next three fived. The poppies composing names of the hero's battles. The

them flared in the crypt's subdued Prince of

Wales (afterwards İyears. played.

George IV) came immediately be the fourth time lasti

Miss Hodges is a former choir light, making a scarlet bank.

None hereafter-will have dim-Ifore. month Capt. FitzRoy was elect- ANTI-GAMBLING DICTATOR singer. She recently signed a film ed to the Speakership with "the

contract that she estimates should culty in finding the grave, for the

Victory's. Flag hearty and unanimous approval Spaniards themselves, owing to enable her to earn $270,000 in the honour was given to Nelson to or Six Admirals walked bearing of all parties.

cupy the central site of the vast the canopy, and four others sap- It is the first to the activities of M. Strauss, next three years-Rexter,

building which spreads around ported the black velvet pall. În duty of every new House of were enabled to have their onl

him. A line dropped from the all 100 naval officers and 50 mili- Commons to choose a Speaker, brief opportunity to gamble in

golden cross above the Dome tary officers, 50 clergy and 100 before members have them-public for some 12 years or more. selves been formally sworn in

A little distance apart is the Parliament that day might have That in itself shows the out-came into power a law againstį standing importance of

digmised tomb, in Cornish por been counted. So long was the the gambling was enacted.

phyry, where lies Arthur Duke of procession, moving at a slow pace, Primo Speaker in the British Parlia

de Rivera had himself

Wellington. mentary regime. He is at once been a great gambler. He re-

that although its head entered St. Away through the long arched Paul's about two o'clock, it was the spokesman of the Commons,alised the evils it brought in its

corridor may be seen darkly the four before all were seated. The the guardian of their privileges train. however, and enforsed, the

huge bronze funeral car which Cathedral had been thrown open and dignities. the presiding anti-gambling laws with

brought the corpse of the hero of at seven, and many persons wait- officer at their debates and the severity.

Waterloo through London streetsed throughout the hours...

protector should protection!

Shortly before Primo de Rivers AMERICA'S AIRould fall plumb upon his coffin members of the two Houses of

be needed of minorities in PERSONAL SCANDALS

passes

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great

FORCE

To Be Doubled In Size

FIVE YEAR PLAN Washington. As the first step in a five-year plan to double the size of the Army Air Corps the War Department intends to esk Congress for an appropria-

to St Paul's. One recalls Tenny- son's Ode:

About 60 of the Victory's crew- were in the church: All attention man was attracted to them as theg

marched

bore two ap. They Union Jacks and the St George's

Where shafî we lay the whom we deplore?

Here, in streaming London's cen

et the sound of those he ensign of Nelson's flagship, the wrought for.

colours perforated in many places And the feet of those he fought by the enemy's shot and the en

for.

was

zore

He

.

the House itself against either | Government oppression or the

Roulette is an odd cause of the impatience of large and downfall of a Government. There clamorous majority. He is also, does not seem to be a parallel. it is pertinent to observe, the In France, however, Jules final arbiter of when opposition Grevy, who was elected President tion of more than $40,000,000 its legitimate bounds in 1879 and re-elected in 1885, had to buy 800 new planes during

the coming fiscal year. land becomes obstruction. For to resign because his son-in-law This announcement

Echo round, his bones for ever.{Sign literally shattered-it was a obstruction can be as gross. alhad trafficked in the Legion of

made by Mr. Harry Woodring,

day for heroic thoughts, which denial of the rights of Parlia Honour.

Acting-Secretary of War.

Nelson Home

the newspapers did not fail to ex- mentary majorities as the over- Grispi, the Italian Prime Minisded that the proposal to buy When the barriers were erect-press: bearing and brow-beating at-ter. had a charge of "inadvertent 300 new planes annually for ed London's myriad populace titude of a huge majority would bigamy proved against him, and the next five years in general thronged the streets as on other be a denial of the right of the defeat of Adowa completed represents the view of the en-occasions when seamen and sol- minorities to full expression of his political downfall.

Itire War Department."

diers have been borne in public their views.

In England no Government has It was the object of the funeral to St. Paul's Nelson "Happily, in recent years been brought down by a scandal Department, he explained, to comes first to mind. Although there has been very little of the of this sort.

build-up a force of 2,500 ser-Trafalgar was fought on October sullen and relentless Parlia Henry Dundas, first Lord, Mel-visable planes. At present 21, 1805, it was the following mentary obstruction whichville, Pitt's great "friend and or the Army Air Corps has 1,272 January 9 when the final ob older politicians still vividly re-ganiser, resigned the office of first-class aeroplanes in com-sequies took place, the body hay member. Its absence, indeed, First Lord of the Admiralty in mission.

ing been brought home by the provides one of the strongest 1805 when it was found that a Opinion in Congress is said to victory preserved in brandy. grounds for confidence that the subordinate was speculating in favour the appropriation- There was a lying-in-state in British Parliamentary system zaval funds.

the Painted Chamber of Green wich Hospital, and a procession mittal took a full hour, during by barge up-river to Whitehall which time the coffin was placed Stairs. At the Admiralty the under the dome raised high upon A bomb found at Walsall has coffin rested for the night Lara platform whence it was visible been identified as a Zeppelin don can have had little sleep that from all parts of the Cathedral. missile, probably dropped in 1915.might, for thousands were spon (Continued on Page 3)

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