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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1933.

OUR LONDON AIR-MAIL

LETTER

The Prince as Linguist: Lavery's New Picture: Elephant Charms Queen Mary and French Art Lords and Unemployed Youth Philip Sassoon: D. R. Jardine, the Strong Captain: Eleven Grand Old Men.

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BANDITS IN SOUTH SHENSI

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will just tie his hands." They had boon pressing him for some hun- dreds of dollars ransora which ho declared he hadn't got and couldn't get, and 30 they left him with his hands tied be hind him, lying on the floor. Thøre were others suffering similar treat- ment. At night all were tånd with their hands behind them and they lay on the floor to sleep, while three bandits, loft in charge of them, alept across the doorway.

One night the prisoner was try ing to get free and after some

-cension-in-1643-to-the-death-of-struggling-managed to loosen-the

The Prince's Spanish. London, Feb. 14-Spanish, in Louis XVI. in 1703. which language the Prince of Wales delivered part of his speech at the Argentine dinner last night, is af the moment the foreign tongus which the Prince has most thorough ly mastered.

His success is the reward of very persistent industry: He knew no Spanish before 1925. In that year he picked up a smattering during his first visit to the Argentine Then, when he knew that he would have to open the British Trade Ex hibition in Buenos Aires in 1931, he settled down to really hard study.

He got out his exercise books and his grammars. The Marquis de Merry del Val, the late Spanish Ambassador, sent him a professor, Senor Pastor. Within five months the Prince had achieved a fluent mastery of the language.

Royal Linguists.

No branch of art is excluded, and pictures, funituro, silver, tapestry, bronzes, porcelain and other ob jets d'art have been lent from the best collections here, in France, and in America.

The Queen's Contributions, Her Majesty the Queen has lent a number of delightfal objects from her own fine collection. Many of the pictures which have been cel lected have never been exhibited De- fore.

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Notable among the masterpieces likely to arouse much interest and admiration will, I faney, be "La Belle Strasbourgeoiss," by Largil lière. An ugly-looking dog to which Mme-de-Pompadour was much at tnched forms the subject of a Bou- cher picture lent by Lady Juliet Duff, and of a fine piece of Sèvres China lent by Lord Rosebery.

It requires but a glance at the It is easy enough to learn a for-proofs of the catalogue to imagine. sign language if one is in the coun- the immense amount of work in try in which it is spoken. There volved in organising a show of this are many who try without success soops. In that task Sir Philip has to learn from books and professors had the able assistance of Mr. David

Gubbay.

at home.

The Prince loses no opportunity of practising his foreign languages. The other day he gave a sitting to some foreign photographers and chatted with them in their own

,', language,

i

For Students.

at is a head.

The educative value of such an exhibition has not been overlooked, While the general public will pay bs for admission, parties from schools and large organisations will Although the Prince speaks French, German and Spanish fluente admitted between certain hours ly, he is probably not first in the list. of Royal linguists. Even more accomplished are the ex-King of Spain, the King of Sweden; and ex-Tear Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who has mastered a dozen tongues, including the various calls of birds.

Woman “ Thrift Missionary,”

The London Savings Bank have appointed a woman who is to be a thrift missionary." She is Mrs. Chafy, and her duty will be to stir up interest in thrift.

Her appointment was announced at the annual meeting by Mr. Her bert Warren, deputy chairman, who said they had long felt there had, not been enough publicity given to thrift, so they were trying this experiment.

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ropes which tied him just below the armpits. Finding himself at liberty he woke a young man who was sleeping next to him and sug. gested they should escape. After freeing his companion in distress they both stood up to make good their escape but trembled A that result of their pinioning so they both had to lie down again. However, both men stepped over the bandits watchmen and opened the doors to escape, first removing the bars. This done they tried to shut the doors and run! but alas! one side of the double door fell olat- toring to the ground and they woke up the bandite! The two captives fled behind the house and waited expecting to be caught again, but their captors didn't consider their line of action many minutes. Two of them armed with guns rushed out of the house and down the foot- path to the South West, leaving one armed bandit to look after the other prisoners. The fugitives then made off in the direction of the South East and travelled until day. light without meeting anybody. From that time on they steadily made their way to their own village, arriving during the afternoon, free these evil men. once more from the clutches of

is

The bandit camps in which these men were in captivity number about 160 or, more. The plan of action to make for some town ΟΙ village in small numbers during the daytime and lie in wait until about midnight when they attack the place rob and plunder and carry men and women extort money. After one of their from whom they think they can

raids they rest for a few days be- fore planning another attack. It was during one of these raids that the captives referred managed to escape..

tain of the eleven. The junior mem- bar is Mr. Lloyd George.

The Newest Dog.

From what was seen at Cruft's

Sir John Lavery's New Picture. Sir John Lavery, who, by the way, will be 77 next month, is now engaged upon one of the biggest pictures he has ever painted. In- tended for exhibition at the Royal Academy in May, it represents the

Just to show how up to the The team would hardly care to historic ceremony at the Mansion. House in London when the Prince minute a Government Department stand up to leg-theory bowling, but of Wales, as Master Mariner of can be, the Royal Scottish Museum

no doubt on age, handicap it could the Honourable Company of Mas announce that a model of the mono-play the world at golf. tor Mariners, received the grant of plane which has recovered for Great livery to the company from the Britain the record for long dis- hands of the Lord Mayor. The tance non-stop flight is on view in Prince, who will be shown in his the aero exhibition which the au- blue fur trimmed robes, gave Sir thorities have been running in Edin John & sitting at his Kensington hurgh, A model of the type which studia this week, and will probab- Mr. Mollison is using in his latest ly give another before the picture adventure is also being exhibited. is finished. A number of the other) principal figures in the scans have also liren to the studio, but Sir John tells me that he is doing most of the portraits of the 60 or 60 prominent people represented from memory and the rough sketches he made when he attended the actual ceremony,

Statute of Wesley.

A Dream Realised.

Of all the schemes formulated in London to cater for unemployed youth the latent is most sure of complete success from the point of view of the young men themselves. Departing from every tradition and custom, the M.C.C. Committee has granted permission to the members of two local unemployment centres A bronze life-size status of John to practise at Lord's on five days Wesley on horseback is to be un- of the week. This free entry to veiled in front of the oldest Me to the Mecca of cricket not merely thodist church in the world-called to watch heroes of the bat at play, by John Wesley The New Room but actually to stand at the wickets

on the sacred ground, the realisa in the Horsefair "at Bristol on February 16. It was here that tion of a dream that the young Wesley preached his first sermon in men never dared hope would ever the open air on April 2, 1739. The come true. It is a lead that cricket sculptor is Mr. A. G. Walker, who clubs throughout the country might Nightingale Praise and thanks for by adopting

immediately.

did statue..

the

Florence.

H.A.0.'s Now Colonel.

Sir Philip "Comes of Age.” Lord Galway's appointment' as' Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secro- Colonel Commandant of the Honour-tary of State for Air, who will com able Artillery Company, in succes plete shortly 21 years as a mapbes sion to the Earl of Denbigh, recall of the House of Commons, is one the curious regulations governing of the few Ministers who have held one seat for so long, and is "this"

volunteer corps.

At one time the Company, which dates from 1534, and is the only military body control, claimed the absolute right of electing its own commander.

the election of officers in the famour youngest M.P to have reached his majority. He has been nearly half hie life in the House of Commons, having succeeded his father as Unionist member for Hythe short- ly after he came of age. Fow members possess so many war se crots, for he was confidential seers. tory to the late Earl Haig íb France during the whole of the campaign, and after the Armistice was private secretary to Mr. Lloyd const-George in his last years as Prime

Minister.

Elephant Charm for the Duke. The Duke of Gloucester, has been presented with a bangle made from the hair of the elephant he recently shot in Southern Sudan.

This is in accordance with native custom, Elephant haire. are dered exceptionally lucky. They are taken from the tail.

Elephant tails used to fetch about thirty shillings in the market. Now, as far as lucky banglas and orna ments are concerned, they are often made synthetically.

18th-century French Art.

An Eleven of Septuagenarians..

There was a striking demonstra tion of British hardihood at the dinner given by the Prime Minis ter to Benor Dr. Roca, the Vice- President of the Argentine

The guests included a whole ela- ven of septuagenarians, all of them, in varying degrees, still activa in public life.

It was indeed a lucky day for the Royal Northern Group of Hos pitals when they captured Sir Philip Bassoon as their honorary The illustrisua eloven was made treasurer On behalf of their funds up of seven peers-Lord Sankey. he has, in recent years, organised Lord Faringdon, Lord Reading, five of the finest private exhibitions Lord BE Dayids, Lord Groz, Lorde of art which Toudon his deep. The Abarton and Lord Vestory-on | arth promises to putshine those that Archbishop-Cardinal Bourne; ons have gone before, TIVERIght Sir John Hanbury Wil-

The doors of No. 25; Park Jane Hams and two commoners- are to be opened to admit the pub George Lansbury and Mr. lic to view a really wonderful col George 7450 20 lection representative of 150 years By virtue of seniority of French Art at its most interest Faringdom, who 15 85 must ing period from. Louis XIV.'s ac- Continued on nod

Show the very latest thing in doga is the Finsk Spet. As yet this strangely named dog is known in this country to only a few breeders, but if fashion moves as it generally does it should soon be as popular as the Alsatian and Borzoi have

been in their day. In Finland the Finsk Spot was for centuries the most-favoured tribal hunting dog. but with advancing civilisation "it has become almost extinct, and it is only recently that a serious at tempt has been made to prevent it disappearing completely. The eight at Cruft's, the first to be put on show in Britain, attracted atten- tion as much by their appearance as by their known rarity. They are handsome animals, closely resembl

ing foxes, with their beautiful red-

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