1956-02-04 — Page 5

More trouble

brewin'

with China...

WITHOUT wishing to die courage the beautiful Chinese phile who began training in England fast serek to be atr

between Calcutta, Hongkong, and Singapore, I forecast that the RO.AC. campaign to increase passen. pers on these routen is doomed from the sport.

then all the Mir Sahitis pet eind of what's going on it's a stire bet this aft travel in the Far East will woke the

biggest nose-dive on record;

** Why this sudden erare to Lake the ab Stantrip? You'll go by elephant, my lad -gou'll be safer.”

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956, }

London Express Barvica

A THOUSAND GUARDSMEN TO ARREST ONE MAN

T

THE

E SIEGE OF PICCADILLY

HE name of Burdett

commemoratexi

boday in the many schools and Hbraries

endowed by that beloveri

ONE OF THE

WORLD'S STRANGEST

STORIES RETOLD BY BASIL FRANCIS

Rotten Row with his friend and ardent supporter. Rory O'Con- nor, the Irish patriot.

The printeries of Seven Diuis had worked overtime

second assault

the

escorting Serjeant

A PROVOCATIVE AND PERSONAL REPORT

IS ANY DOG WORTH THIS?

Dadvances

you realise how the

and surgical

women but dogs and cats?

The trend has

been

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

SPECIAL treatments for Record so that other veta may

hormones

"Unfortunately," she writes, sedatives, men and gold injections, monkey gland, "both dogs are now 'addicts in and other powerful the sense that their condition ACTH

franediately if are among the vast deteriorates administered to pele. BгToy 02 drugo now being dosage is interrupted or reduced. "But both have undoubtedly been enabled to live happy, it somewhat limited, lives

for

in medical "slipped disc** in dachshunds hear about the drug's

and Scottish terriers have been possibilities. science nre devised, being used to help not just BARBITURATE launched, sick babies or tiris time un the busement window. The window WOA simonted and

Foodguards

growing for some time. But Colmnun.

now it has reached, in my Victorian, Baroness business of Parliament to allow

rant. As he walked sheepishly They found Sir Francis and

view, the ridiculous. sitting at Burdett-Coutts. As a child the motion to be put for

duur of his family calmly the

away from the front No. 78 a section of the crowd adds (with what

fable; one contemporary account Angela Burdett-Coutts impeachment of the Honourable

sounds sus- [ælentifte techniques to houso- Member for Westminster on the played happily in the great charge of issuing a abel on the

again struck up the Ca ira.

like piciously Up came the angry magistrate licence) that Sir Francis

Journalistic hold pets to an extent which

was house in Piccadilly owned House,

Ing their smudgy masterpieces and for the second time read reading Magna Charta to

seems hardly justifiable except Father, her

the

on the ground of absurd sentl- After an all-night debate the of topical doggerel, and by the Riot Act and ordered the 14-year-old son.

the "ballad-mongers mob to disperse. By now they

mentality millionaire bunker, Thomas motion was carried, and Abbot mid-day

The Serjeant stepped forward handed Lo Serjeant-at-Arnis and pamphleteers were doing o were sufficiently

operations INTRICATE Commun a warrant charging him brisk trade among the

and read the warrant. give him an unequivocal answer, to “....... take into custody the which increased steadily as the to which be swiftly countered body of the Hvid Sir Francis day wore on,

by ordering out ret more mili tary this time another detach=” Burdett and then forthwith to deliver him

over into

The

ment of Life Guards. one of

the most bizarre custody of the Lieutenant of

By nightfall it scenes in London's history. His Majesty's Tower

almost of Lon- dion"

operation.

مورا

Coutts, unaware of the fact that only a few years be fore she was born the house was the storm centre of

Οι

CORDON

compos-

crowd

After lunch the first real ex- citement occurred when with n During three exciting days in

With strict injunctions to Jingle and clatter of accoutre- the spring of 1810 the Riot Act avoid any fuss, and in particu- ments

of Life Guards troop was rend twice in 24 hours and lar any public show of force, rode up from the nearby bar- Piccadilly echoed to

the trump the Serjeant hostened to No. racks and began forcing the and clatter of detachments of 78. Piccadilly, 10 collect lily crowd back and cloaring M Life Guards, HotBo Guards

space before No. 78.

Dragoons and Hussars drployed

in military formation-all for the purpose uf arresting Onc solitary MP, and conveying him

to the Tower of London.

the

1

The man Was Sir Francis Burdett, Angela's father, Member

Westminster, for forthright Radical whose only "crime" was to make a thun- derous speech In defence of the freedom of speech rel the rights of the individual under Article XXXIX Charta.

AGITATION

prisoner.

PROTEST

erל.

**mot

A

to

Francis

was bome" so the Serjeant left

leave polite note begging know at what hour he might "wait upon him" for the pur-

the

Puse

on

arrest.

There was plenty of vocal abuse but no heads were broken; the crowd refused to dispense, and eventually magistrate was secured to read the Riot Act. A hush fell on

ominous

and

the

numerous

to

PRINCIPLE

his

'ADDICTS' NOW

• VETS are applying latest Now

TOW two nine-year-old dogs much Jonger than hod been

crippled with arthritis have anticipated." been saved from the Jothal chamber by Butazolidin, the modern anti-choumetiam drug, So Mist Joan Joshur, a London veterinary surgeon, reported the

have been made on cata.... with masked surgeons, expert. anaesthetists, and all the para- phernalia of the hospital

theatre,"

other day.

How far will this sort of thing go?

application of psychiatry to dogs Some vets have oven urged the and other animals "subjected to the stresses at civilised tito," The dogs are still somewhat

The

British Veterinary decrepit, but provides they t Astociation has set up what is their daily dose ct the drug tantamount to a 999 emergency 12:00 cum enjoy near-normal service for people with sick goldfish and other "less uštini was been repaired with motol splints Miss Joshua tells about domestic pats."

and pins for the sake of "dogs her works in the Veterinary

he he

ipished he touched The had become Burdett on the shoulder. fullscale military slegė o Plocadilly

raised,

Anxious consultations went on in Whitehall until the small hours and finally poor Colman was ordered to take Sir Francis

or cle Fortifled by a promise from the Speaker that a blind eye would be turned on any dam- nge he might cause, ho ad- vanced grimly down Piccadilly and ordered the Commanding Officer to close in on No. 78.

to

10

Piccadilly at the sound of these DECOY of making

words, Burdett replied, equally politely, Burdettites fell back a little. A

Up went a scaling ladder that h would be happy cordon was drawn acrOSS the the drawing-room window, and

from Dover Street to 10 receivo The Serjeant at road

an intrepid constable began his The siege of

wary ascent, the following day Bolton Row.

There was Magna makay of

(Saturday, April 0).

Piccadilly was on!

movement from inside the The Serjeant called again and Sir Francis watched all these house and no opposition until pointed out that his orders were manoeuvres from behind the he flung open the window and to take him "forthwith" and not curtains of the first-floor draw- put his hands on the sill to wait until the next day. Sir Ing room.

to be taken, Francis declined

The mob. now several thou-

himself Ho drew other sands strong, settled down to found himself either then or on any many years from the day he day, and issued an open letter the pleasant task of "chivvying" eyes of Rory O'Connor, who was first elected to Parliament to his

protesting authority with jeers and catcalls was rubbing his hands in glet in 1796 and straightway horri- agulus: thin most enormous and by pelting the patrolling ful anticipation. It must have fied his patron. The Duke or

abust of power and most dan- guardsmen with

beer been a great temptation for the Newcastle, by exhibiting mark gerous of all encroachments bottles,

ladder Irishmah to push the but away but he contented himself upon the rights and ilberties of stirring up ogitation against Englishmen

Sab- by slamming the window down Ön Saturday morning Sir bationi calm in Piccadilly as sharply on the officer's fingers. Francis rose early and uncon- Serjeant Colman made one cernedly went for a canter in more attempt to serve the war-

Sir Francis had been a thorn In the Government's flesh for

ed Left-wing vlewa und by

Pitt and his administration.

The first rumbles of the im- pending storm came on a bleak February afternoon in 1810 when the House was

uncom fortably debating the defeat of the British forces at Walcheren and the Scheldt. The public gal leries were cleared, much to the disgust of a belligerent Radical from Wales, A small-time apothecary named John Gale Jones, who published a sarcastic broadsheet criticising the action as an attack on the tree- dom of the Press.

This article so infuriated Mr Speaker Abbot (later Lord Col- chester) that he readily agreed that Gale Jones had been guilty of a breach of privilege and signed a warrant committing bùn to Nowgate gaol forthwith. This was just what Burdett had been waiting for, and he roma

to demand Gale Jones's Instant polcaso and the benefit of a fair trini.

constituents

empty

Came the dawn there was precious little

and gazing into the

up

But the herofo ladderman was only a decoy; immediately

3

The Dragoons and Life Guards retred their horses and scattered the crowd as Burdett appeared and stepped into the waiting carrings.

ot the

As Burdett alighted Tower Gate the Tower Kuns boomed. He was received by the Governor personally.

can *WELS

The rest of the story briefly be told Bindeft given every comfort and prlyl- lege to which his rank entitled him. A few weeks later at the end of the Parliamentary term he was released (as was also Gale Jones from Newgate) and slipped out the back way un- observed.

Such is the fantastic slory of the Siege

140 at Piccadilly years ago. Was Burdett a martyr or merely a meddlesome trouble-maker?

Those who accuse him of trouble-making should that a few impassioned from him could have touched

off a riot in Plendilly.

rocali words

But he kept silent. He main- tained great dignity, on for the sake of a principle, he defled the might of the British Army.

(COPYRIGET)

PARIS NEWSLETTER FROM SAM WHITE

A MURDERED MAN'S HEIRS

NOW CLAIM HIS FORTUNE

Paris.

Shortly afterwards Skolnikoff's thep off at a brisk rale,

remains were found Majestic and Martinez

The

THE ownership of four charred

leading hotels in Paris inside a bumed-out motoreak on been sold to M. Francois Andre experience French divorce

the

Commented one of them: "It in not as though Aly Khan Jacks

and Deauville courts. As it is one can only si- the Spanish side of the Franco- of the Cannes and the Riviera has Spanish border.

Casinos. The Dreyfus banking poct that his legal advisers Interests were allowed to buy looked. been placed in jeopardy by |·n curious legal action counsel.

According to

tho four Frenchmen Hotel Astoria

plantiffs' and convert Into offlers the old one on Paris as just another

on the Champs

the Can Aly Khan marry brought by the heirs of told the Spanish police that Elysees on condition that they model Bettina eLowhere? Ho murdered man.

Skalnikolt had been killed by took the Hotel de Parle off the can, but only if he is prepared thom while trying to escape. Offelal Receiver's hands.

to risk facing a charge of Five years later a military

bigamy in France. The tangle court In Parla sentenced Now a further complication over this problem of making the and Sir Francis retired to come the Hotel de Paris in Paris, skolnikoff to death "In His has been added. M. Emmanuel Nevada divorce valld hero

the Negresco in Nice and absence and ordered the con- Martinez, who was part owner how so complicated that the the Majestic and Martinez ascation of his property.

of the hotel bearing his name, almofest way out of the 'diff- in Cannes..

was also dispossessed after the culty may be for Aly Khan to BRISK RATÉ

war on collaboration charges. instituto fresh divorce proceed» He is now an Italian citizen ings against Miss Hayworth,

SOUTVOTED

The demand Was

the law of the land

violating Magna Charta.

outvoted

The hotels concerned aro

*

pose a vigorous pleco (to be published in Codbott's Political Register) denouncing the House of Commons in general and Mr Speaker in particular, accusing Tho murdérod mda was a him of selling himself up above |Russlan adventuror, Michael Now Skolnikoff'a helra To and he, too, is bringing on but this time in Paris. and, of Skolnikoff, - who amassed a uppoaling against the sentence action alleging wrongful convic

forturia during the war by note on the ground that a man cane tion. He is being backed. In his QUOTES OF THE WEEK Mr Speaker could not take ing ns a purchasing dgent for not be fried after he has been claim by the Italian Government

the German Army of Occupa“ murdered by the agents of ine and he is prepared to produce: • Playwright Bachu Gültry. ----- tion

Jew. They asked. - too, that documentary evidence at having I must be getting old. The The greater park of this › Skoljukofrs: formår property rendered

to Alled women I meet, now invariably fortune he invested in hotel should be restored to them. If Intelligence offours during "the-look" younger to me then, they properties. After the Alberation tila in mot done they threaten war, he and to Madria

murder charges against the Tour

this attack - lying down, and he hurriedly called in his advisers. The Attorney - Generale: Bir Vicary Gibba,... advised caution, but the Spedker / was "detors mined to teach Burdett a sharp lecom. Burdett must go to the Tower

BhVicary

mat

Four member of General de, then to whom the Spaniards Gaullo's Secret Service were funded over. Shmarfloči

out that despatched to Madej, to bring

in such him back to stand trint on colt for

to laboralion charges. They, sud-

* the cooded in dolt a 140st with the

Okt (32 but Sipariah, zuisöriinni héy could':

Vitty-Uhree-year-old "novelist

•

SHATTERED LIMBS have lives.

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