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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933.

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Prince to Visit Scotland: Arms of Dundee: Enterprising Shipowners: A Royal Year: Glasgow Engage- ment: Youth Hostel on "Loch Ard

A Scatted Department: Mr.

J. R. Dickson K. C.:

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EDINBURGH, Feb. 99. asked many questions of Miss Hors Mandarm's Gift to a Scot, bargh, M.P. for Dundee.

The Queen asked particularly A Scottish doctor who lived in the eighteenth century and about uncmployment in Dundee, Chinese object of art which is to where the jute bags are made, and ander the hammer at Miss Horsburgh replied that it was Sothoby's next month have little still very bad. apparent connection, but neverthe less the two did ones come together.

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The article is a beautiful circular table screen decorated in high relief with squirrels on a vine tree, the work being carried out in brilliant enamela of green, aubergine, red, black, and grey, and it is only one of a collection of rare porcelain

Arms of Dundee.

To make the exhibit of jute bags more distinctive they have been marked with the coat of arms o Dundee, and the Queen said, "This

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LION FLAG OF SCOTLAND

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THREAT OF PROSECUTION

(Special Air-Mail Service) Stirling, Feb. 28.-The Lion Rampant flag was unfurled on the London Feb.-28.-A company was formed recently, under the Hegal Cinema, Stirling. The opin- name of Central Air Parts, Limit-ion of the Secretary of State for Scotland had been obtained to the oc, to Beek Parliamentary powers for the construction of an air port, affect that there was no reason to which a few weeks previously the behind King's Cross and St. Fan- discourage the flying of this flag! eras stations, above the railway Lord Lyon King of Arms had or sidings. A board meeting held yes dered Mr. Guthrie, the manager,

Lyon was made under torday confirmed the appointment. man of the company. of Sir Alfred Beit, M.P., as chair. to take down. The order of the Warrant issued by Mary Queen of Scots. The Lyon had threatened to Was Bown. Prosecute Mr. Guthrie if the flag

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At the close of Saturday's eere- Mr. David A. tional Anthem. mony & large crowd sang the Na- Stewart, the managing director, in unfurling the flag, said that letters from Scots in all parts of the world had reached him asking him sunde the authorities to recognize the Bag as belonging to the Scot- tish people.

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and works of art of the T'ang,! At another stall the Princon One or another of them will be used make a strong endeavour to per-

The estimated capital cost of the scheme is £5,000,000. Its salient points are shown in a scale modsi which Captain C W. Glover, the. designer of the air port, has made. The projected serodrome is in plan like an eight-spoked wheel, half a is a good idea, but you have emile in diameter and 190ft. above ground level. The four intersect- used the old coat of arms." She apparently knew that the coat of ing runways are ench 250ft wide. arms had been changed recently.

according to the direction of the wind, and so it will always be possible for aircraft to take off and land against the wind. At night the runway in use will be illumin ated, and the lighting will shift automatically with a change of wind. Large buildings will sup port the aerodrome at intervals. Some of these buildings will warehouses, depositories, cold stores, and so forth, and others hangars for aircraft, which will descend into them from the aerodrome by lifts.

Sung, and Ming dynasties that is Wales was presented with a pair of to be sold. The screen was made 1 silk pyjamas, a silk drossing-gown, to the special order of a mandarin and silk-covered slippers made to in the early eighteenth century, his own measurements in a new and later became the property of shade of blue. his grandson, whose medical adviser happened to be a Scot. This grand

fell ill, and was faithfully MAL

attended and cured by the doctor. to whom, in his gratitude, he pre- sented the valuable screen. It has drifted, probably through many hands, into a Loudon sale- room".

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Prince to Visit Scotland.

The Prince of Wales bought some tweeds in the Glen Urquhart pat-

When Lord Dorby was told that a 10-stone weight bouncing on a chair to prove its strength was equiva lent to 16 stone of human weight, he said, "That is just my weight," and, amid a roar of laughter, the Prince sallied, "I think you might risk it."

And 30 seconds after the Prince had sat on the chair an Aberdonian bought it and immediately tole graphed the glad newn to his family in the North. He paid the usual price for the chair, plus a drink for the salesman.

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The Lion Flag Controversy. The question of the right of pri- vate persons to fly the Lion flag of Scotland has from time to time aroused extraordinary interest Scotland. The immediate cause of the present discussion was the re- fusal of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Stirling to permit the flying of the flag on a picture-house. in the county town. So many pro- tests followed that the Lord Lyon Marketing and Distributing.

King of Arms issued a statement The promoters view the air port that the banner is the personal fing as only one element in a compre of the King of Scotland, that it hensive plan, intended to co-ordinis registered in the books of the ate in one centra, for the first time Public Register of All

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Arma in history, all forma of transportuch, and that it is therefore illegal rail, road, air, and water. The for anyone but the Sovereign to Grand Union Canal crosses the site, display it. and it is proposed to make a con- But the Scottish Office interven nexion with the Underground railed, and the Secretary of State for The scheine contemplates the Scotland announced in a latter to ways. formation here of a great market-Stirling Solicitor that "there is ing and distributing centre, which no necessity to discourage_the_dis would set free valuable land now play" of the Lion flag. The Lyon serving the same purposes elsewhere Office is, of course, in London. Wholesale supplies correct in ita attitude; indeed, ag the Lyon has indicated, a Royal would arrive by rail and water, and only local distribution would

warrant of Queen Mary still exists be effected by road.

instructing the Lyon King to put to death all persons who usurp the Royal ares.

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the whole position was altered. But

The Prince of Wales will visit iScotland towards the end of March to see something of what is being done by voluntary "offort where

Enterprising Shipowners. Junemployment is specially severe.

Shipbuilders could not complain During his visit, which will last

few more ship- three days, His Royal Highness will if there were

owners with the confidence of be the guest of Lord Elgin at Bronhall, and Lord Weir at East Messrs. J. and C. Harrison, Lon- don. In the past three years they wood.

have ordered seven or eight vessels Prince Buys Scots Tweed at B.I.F.

annually, and during the last 18 The Queen visited the textile see months the Clyde has obtained con tion of the British Industries Fair tracts from those owners for 10 at the White City, London on Feb.

steamers, including the With her were the Prince ofenders for the two vessels. Due to Wales and the Princess Royal.

the work that has been carried out

shipbuilders and marine The scheme is divided into several by engineers in the last year or so it sections, each designed to be re- is now possible to build vessels of venue-earning, and the intention is such an economical design that to go forward a section at a time.

It has, however, been argued that ships built ten or even five years The first work to be put in hand in 1603, at the Union of the Crowns, ago cannot compete with the would be the reorganization of the there is much more recent justifica modern products. Shipowners who railway goods yards, and the erec- tion for the popular use of the Lion have the wisdom to take advantage tion of tall warehouses to replace banner. In March, 1907, the use of of the latest technique in ship con- singlestorey buildings on the site. the Royal Standard, of which the atruction are bound to benefit in the The second stage would be the mak Lion flag is now merely a quarter- long run.

ing of a motor-coach station foring, was forbidden by the Scottish long-distance A Royal Year.

traffic from the Office to private persons, and us Scotland is promised its fall North. The proposals involve the this was popularly construed as an clearance of a dilapidated ares of order discontinuing the use of the share of royal visit this year. The Prines of Wales comes next three acres and the rehousing of Lion flag itself, a circular was is month to inspect the social work the present occupants, and the-con- sued by the Office to chief constables being done among the unemployed.struction of a new approach from in Scotland to the effect that the On the town-order "did not apply with equal The Duke and Duchess of York Caledonian Road. have a visit to the North-east planning aspects of the scheme the force" to the. Lion banner. Not- arranged, and the Earl of Hare company is advised by Sir Ray-withstanding the objections of the wood and the Princess Royal will mond Unwis, the chairman of the Lyon of that time, the Scottish be in Edinburgh in June. Then, Greater London Town Planning Office issued another statement in later on, autumn is almost sure to Committee, and on the aeronautic- 1911 adhering to its first decision. bring the King and Queen north to al side by Colonel the Master of That decision is again ratified by the Scottish Office in' its latest com- Deeside. The prospects seem set Sempill

munication. fair for a royal year on the Sent- tish social side.

stall. tern at one

"Send me a book of pattern, please," he said.

like bright checks." After having seen the dimsiest of summer dress materials, the royal party ixcame interested in an ex hibit of rough jute, and the Queen

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Prince's Scottish Tour.

The arrangements for the Scottish tour of the Pros of Wales, which begins at Glagow on March 20, will, I learned, yesterday, lx more or less completed by the end of this week. The Prince is parti- cularly interested in what is being done to provide facilities to meet the enforced idleness of the un-

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Opinion in official circles in Scot. hostel is a wooden building con: land, however, is that the contro- structed on an improved plan, and versy is by no means at an end, will make a link with those already Permission to fly the flag comes established at Inverbeg, and Brig o from a different sources from that Turk, The Scottish Youth Hostels which forbids its use. The view Association also announces that of the Scottish Office is at variance there will be a new hostel at Glen-with that of the Herald's Office, brittle, the second in the Isle of and, strictly speaking, the position could be altered only by a writ from the Crown to the Lyon King, coun-- employed. So during his Scottish If the agitation, in which Sir tersigned by the Secretary of State. visit an endeavour will be made to Samuel Chapman is so actively con-authority, the Scottish Office, or the Which, it is asked, is the superior allow him a variety of schemes cerning himself, results in a

vernment Departments in Edin-tory duty to see that arms are not Glasgow Engagements. burgh, the Department of Health been no alteration in the rights irregularly displayed, and there has It is probable that his engage will greatly benefit. For their staff and duties which belong by statute ments in the Glasgow district will is-scattered over the five different and common law to that official. number eight or nine. A schema buidlings-in Princes Street, The Scottish Office is by centuries of particular interest in Glasgow George Street, Grasamarket, Rose the junior institution. Has it the is the Queen Margaret Settlement Street, and Shandwick Place, legal right to over-ride the decisions in Anderston whero 10 men make

Mr. J. R. Dickson, K.U. of the Lyon King? Though the various articles of furniture for

The King has been pleased, on Lion Flag was restored to its posi their own homes and also repair the the recommendation of the Secretion on the Stirling picture-house, footwear for their families. In tary of State for Scotland, to on Saturday it would be well. to Bridgeton in the physical culture approve.. the appointment of Mr. have the question of the appro- scheme of the Ministry of Labour.John Robert Dickson K.C., atpriate use of the flag made perfect- At Clydebank the Prince will see present Clerk of Justiciary in Scotly clear. the splendid scheme that has been land, to be Sheriff of Argyll in the started by Dr. Boyd, Lecturer on room of Mr. Johm Lean Wark, K.C., Education at Glasgow University appointed to be one of the Senators This is one of the best in Scotland. Youth Hostel on Loch Ard, The Lord Provost, Mr. A. B. Swan, will open the first of the new Scottish youth hostels on Saturday, March 25, at Ledard; as the north reat corner of Loch Ard. The new

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