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OUR LONDON LETTER WHEN THE GREAT AIRSHIP RODE

OUT THE GALE.

HOW HENTS. HAVE RISES IN REGENT STREET.

[FROM OUR OWN CUTERSPONDENT.]

LONDON: April 2nd.

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learn from a reliable source that it

is quite on the cards that the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert upon which the King and Queen are making their. Mediter ranean holiday is likely to be scrapped as soon as she returns home and goes. out of commission. She has never been considered a good sen hoat, bus on this trip she proved herself even worse than had been thought possible. People in a position to krew are saying it was a for- tunate decision to send the yacht round to the Mediterranean to meet their um informed that arrangements are Majesties instead of allowing the King heing pushed forward to equip the anand Queen to embark at Southampton or Plymouth and make the journey all the station which is to form an important way by water. Some had weather was part of the Naval Base at Singapore.encountered, and the Fictoris and „Albert Things are so far advanced that new behaved as hadly as an out-of-date and design of flying boat specially intended faultly designed pleasure craft can he

have in the Bay of Bisery.

in connection with this matter "it is for use in the Far East has been sent to. Felixstowe for official trials by officers rumoured that the other Royal yacht, the Alexandra, is likely to be put into com- of the Royal Air Force. This air craft mission in time for the Cowes Regatta. is known by the name of the Southamp She has been lying up in Portsmouth Har- ton-Napier, the first name bring suggested hour for about sexco yearnt it will hy the fu that it is the first of of type be a mild sonsaffon in the yachting world Sherkes her appearance again with The tu he turned out at Southampton,

the King's flag at her masthead. The flying bolts for Singapore, havellemudeo is a much smaller vessel than Victoria and Albret, but she is compact beon modelled on a design that was origand comfortable, and is easily handled. nally used on the airway to the Channel Islands, and which proved to be so satis faetory that, fitted with two 430 b.p., Napier Lion engines, the air Ministry adopted the design for Service purposes.er hos gale neross the North Sea has

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The thrilling epic of the giant airship Kauwhich broke away from her moorings. huge mast to which she was attached by the nose and drifted before a 60-mile

heen told you by cable; also how she made her way home again in safety as Lovers of music everywhere will be in- terested and pleased to learn that the 500 as the wind dropped sufficiently for great service rendered to British music ber engines to be used to make headway by Sir Frederick Cowen is to be reco to England. The country naturally took nised by the Music Club and will take enonaous amount of interest in the place n the Hotel Cecil at an early date. story, which last nothing in the telling when the descriptive reporters got busy. Sir Frederick Cewan's name is a house The adventure of the airship, of course, hold word with the general public owed amething in its public appeal to through his songs, as for instance, The the imagination to the element of strange- Better Land, The Children's Home," and many thers; but his splendid work ess. The conditions had had no parallel in human experience, but the drama in connection with musical festivals dar

one of man's daring and resource when ing the last 60 years will always command Woven at of what happened was the old the appreciation of the musical world.

pitted against the elemental forces "of Nature.

1 hear that Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P.. 19 to preside at the dinner, and the com- peny will include Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Arthur Mackenzie. Sir Johnstone Forbes Robertson, Sir Landon and Lady Ronald, and Mr. Isodore. Le Lara."

WHU

WANTS A SHIP?

Viscount Inchcape, the shipping mag- nate and head of the P. & D. Co,. is apparently continuing to aet the part be has played so well in the past as ship seller to the Government. At any rate, it is stated that five ex-enemy steamers have been placed in his keeping for dis posal. These ships were seized in Indian porta during the war, and have been on hand ever since.

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I am not sure at present whether the authorities will permit the results of the oficial inquiry into the accident the light of day. But it is a matter of profound interest. having regard to the fact that before long we are promised. commercial airship services to the East. What are the lessons of the experience of the R33 when caught in the gale? Doe or two things are self-evident from the narratives already published to the world. There is the necessity for auch engine power us will enable an airship to hold her own against the stiffest gale; and further, the need for stronger mooring

masts.

The utmost satisfaction is felt in ex-1 Lord Inchcape sok for about £33 pert circles that the giant ship bebaved millions sterling the Government's flects well. The fact has emerged beyond question that the lighter-than-air vessel of standard ships and 400 other ex-enemy when exposed to exceptional risks is vessels, and it is a good thing for the tax developing the capacity to sustain them. payers that he was willing to act as honest broker. There is an object lesson MR, RAMBAY MACDONALD. this week of what sometimes happens when old ships are put up for sale. Four of the "Belle" steamers which have plied for years from London Bridge to seaside resorts along the coast were placed under the hammer and only one bid was receiv- ed, a beggarly £15,000,

A, PRICELESS COLLECTION.

I hear that there are ominous rumblings behind the scenes in the ranks of the Labour Party. There is very little doubt that the extreme men are dissatisfied with Mr. Hamsay MacDonald a leader, and they are determined to get rid of him by hook or by crook if it can be man- nged, and the sooner the better in their opinion. Mr. MacDonald's refusal at the An enormous amount of interest has recea; Trade Union Conference at Glas- been aroased by the brief announcement|cester to," Put a rope round my neck for in the papers that" Almina Countess of other people to pull." as he expressed it. Carnarvon has decided to sell by auction bas angered them. He declines to place at Christies the whole of the contents of himself at the disposal of the wild men her Lolon house in Seymour Place. of the Party and ride at a gallop towards Lady Almina is, of course, now the wife nationalisation, of mines, railways, etc.. of Colonel Dennistoun, who igured as de- and other goals dear to the heart of the! fendant in the recent cause celebre in the out-and-put Socialists. Courts when the first 3irs, Dennistoun sued him for moneys lent and there was a great washing of soiled linen in public. Perhaps this has something to do with the attention that is being paid to the forthcoming sale.

It is understood that secret meetings of members of the Party of the anti- MineDonald section have been held in the last few days, and open rebellion against his leadership has been advocated. More. over, it is said that some of the extre mists have pledged themselves to work for the removal of Mr. MacDonald from the leadership, and further, it is said that

The mansion contains the art collection bequeathed to Lady Almina by Mr. Alfred de Rothschild; and it is no exaggeration to say that there has been no such dispersal the games of several men have been ac of treasures for many years. It is excepted as desirable successors. They will pected that the salerooms will be filled he approached on the subject, and, in due by collectors of all nations. Mr. Roths course interesting developments may be child, was known as an ardent, wealthy expected.

and discriminating collector of great FAMOUS PAINTER

taste,

and he got together French There has been a great deal of cule- furniture, Sevres porcelain, historical gistic writing about Mr. Sargent, the enamels, ancient English and French eminent painter, whose death has taken He was elacks, and pictures and books which are place at his home in Chelsen. Absolutely unpriccable to day.

rightly regarded as supreme in his own sphere, Most people think of Sargent

I hear that the former Countess of Carnarvon has lande upper mine to live a almost entirely abroad in future, and in that case it is obviously of little use to keep apithe establishment in Seymour Place

RENTE IS RECENT STREET.

portrait painter and, of course, in this line he had no real rival among his contemporaries: but he was also great in panel decoration, while his amazing water colours have beyond question the seal of power His greatest decorative panels are in Amerien at the Boston Library and elsewhere, but there is also a noble paner in the Imperial War Museum in London representing soldiers at the front.

Surprising figures with regard to the ground rents in Regent Street, which has been in course of reconstruction in the

The most remarkable thing aligut Sar last year or so since the old lenses fell in, are beginning to leak out: The ground gent's portraits was his ability to depict rents in this favourite shopping centre the personality of the sitter. Numerous are the property of the State, and the stories are told to convey his genins in aggregate paid in 1913, the year before this particular direction. One relates to the war, was £44,000. This year under the a man who, was the patient of a well. new leases that have been negotiated the known doctor. The man of medicine was ground rents have risen to the amazing baffled by the malady; he could not ding- total of £315,000, and the amount will be nose it, and no matter what he did the higher still when at last the whole street patient got no better. Mr. Sargent was, has been rebuilt. Besides this, the new as it happened, painting the unhappy leases are only for 80 years thstend of the persons's portrait, and the finished like- 20 years which obtained before the expiryness showed untaistakably the signs of of the leases that made re-building poss incipient insanity. This the doctor saw ible.

at once, though he had failed, to detect

The remarkable thing is that in spite it until he looked at Sargent's work, and of the enormous increases in rentals the sequel to the story is that the patient which I have mentioned the new proper died a year later a raving lunatic, med In appearance Sargent was the exact tics are so much in demand that would-be tradesmen in Regent Street are actually opposite of the traditional artist. He look budding higher than the ground rents naked like a country squire up in London for ed for. It seems to suggest that big the Cattle Show, with a big frame, burly money can assuredly be made in this and strong, and a ruddy complexion, thoroughfare by means of the gentle art hushy eyebrows, and prominent blue eyes.

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