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THE LATE LORD GREY

never

London, Sept. 12. The late Viscount Grey of Fallo- don was a Whig in a generation" which had forgotten, or known, what Whigs were like, for the type was almost extinct. An air of cold detachment created. the impression, whether justly or not, of immense strength.

reserves of

He had a still voice, which car- riedwell and which he had no need to raise.

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MALANYU PASS

INVADED

By Troops Under Chang Har Peng

Peiping, Outd Malanya Pass on the Great wall has been occupied by Manchukuo' troops" belonging to the command of Chang Hai-peng, the Jehol Governor, accord

to reports reaching Peiping."

news has caused consternation in Peiping

It seems that the occupation took that it was necessary to protect the place on September 29 on the pretext Manchu Imperial Tombs in the vicin-

the Pass.

The acquisition a country club at Hendon for conversion into the college.

The first group of students The special police appointed by be taken from the present mem-Peking have withdrawn from Malanya bers of the police force and re- to Taunhua, where the tombs are cruits to be trained in the same located.--Reuter. building,

In order to attract public schoolboys to enter the police force a representative will tour public schools and address the scholars об the prospects of a police

career..

M1

I never heard him quote, and A STUDY OF THE ROYAL

his speeches gave little evidence of wide reading, though he had been. raised on good pasturage at Win- chester and Balliol. But he wrote

on his charm.

FAMILY

With the exception of the Duke of Gloucester and Prince George,

Paitaiho Seisure

Peiping, "Oot. 4. Changli declare that the bandits who Refugees arriving at Tientsin from occupied Feitaito Beach yesterday belang to the socalled Far Eastern Allied Army

The leader of the gang, it is said, has seized control of the district and has appointed himself Director of Public Safety-Beuter...

hobbies with singular all the members of the royal fam-DIARY OF LOCAL

THE ULTIMATUM TO

GERMANY

The scene in the House Commons when he delivered the of British ultimatum to Germany was the most dramatic in living Par- liamentary memory.

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ily have had biographies written of them. Now I understand this for the first time a detailed study of the whole royal family is to be published at the end of this

Robert Blackham, who spent most month. It is the work of Dolonel of his career as a soldier in India, and was on the staff of the

been of

Amid the ruins of his peaceHe is an expetiert

of India on the eye, af*10%wat policy, he spoke firmly, but with most of his subredt out passion, the words of Fate which brought doom to many listener.

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a technical character. He is B barrister, practising at the Central. The resolution of scores, whe text of his book a remark made to Criminal Court. He takes as the had gathered there determined to him by & French officer during the resist British Intervention broke war to the effect, that, whereas down beneath the reaistless ham- the French had to spiritualise en Chow Street,, Shamshuipo; mer strokes of his level narrative.their tricolour, the English people As he pointed the way of Honour possessed in their royal family a and Duty all-or almost all-fell living drapeau in behind him.

He spoke calmly. but from a full

EVEREST CLIMBER

ENGAGED

heart, to an audience which would have distrusted' rhetorical appeal and would have been impatient of invective, but which accepted

The engagement is announced Grey's words because they were between Capt. Eugene St. John Grey's.

Birnie, Sam Browne's Cavalry'

NO VERBAL PREPARATION

elder son of C. Montague Birnie, of Oak Bay, Vancouver Island, and Marguerite Kathleen, third daugh- ter of the Rev. the Hon. Frederick L Courtenay, Rector of Homton, Devon, and the Hon, Mrs. Cour-

Lords Grey's own account, given in his memories, of the circums- tances in which this speech was prepared is very notable.

Not until the previous evening tenay.

rad

the Cabinet's discussions taken so definite a shape that he could proceed to arrange the ma- terial he was to lay before. the

House of Commons. There was no- verbal preparation at all...

On the day itself it was two o'clock before he was free to "give what final thought was possible to a speech that was to be de-

livered at three.

A PAINFUL INTERVIEW.

Capt. Birnie was a member of the climbing party on the recent Everest Expedition led by Mr. Hugh Rutledge. Owing to his knowledge of the language he had much to do with the selec. tion and organisation of the port ers on the mountain, and played a prominent part in establishing his highest camp.

He was also a climbing mem-. ber and transport oficer of the successful Kamet expedition, 1931. Miss Courtenay is a niece of the

And just at that time the Ger- | Earl of Devon. man Ambassador urgently besought

an interview with him. Prince THE ROYAL PHOTOGRA-

Lichnowsky begged most earnestly

to be told what Grey intended to

say. When Grey refused to dis-

PHIC SOCIETY.

close this to Germany "an hour in The Royal Photographie Bo- advance of others abroad," the city's international exhibition,

3.30 p.m.

Theatres.

Majestic: "Happy Ever After." Queen's: "Rasputin and the Empress,"

Star: "Public Defender;" Oriental:" A Fool's Bridal Night" King's: "The Kid from Spain." Central: "Ladies of the Jury.?? Dances. Tea Dances at King's Restau- rant; Hongkong Hotel:

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel; and King's Restaurant.

Entertainmenta.-Concert Music, Roof Garden, Peninsula Hotel,

Sports. Lawn Bowls: Kowloon Club v..Shanghai.

وانیم

Cricket

and

church were perfectly sharp clear in detail, and the photograph of a printed page from Berlin was as successful.

Among the portraita, is one of Mr. G. K Chesterton by Paul Shil- libeer, who also has a sensitive study of a mother and child. Mr. Pirie Macdonald, a New York pho- tographer, has a happily charac- teristic portrait of Mr. John Mase in the exhibition, however, is that field. The most popular portrait.

a laughing London policeman.

SLOW PROMOTION=-

Prince "implored that we should which opens on Saturday at the I notice that five of the officers not make Belgian neutrality one of society's raleries, is almost Abs- appointed to take the year's the conditions...

wilderingly comprehensive. One is at the Imperial Béfenses

By the time the agitated Am-held up on entering by the des have the rank of maJOE:

monstration of a cinema camera vat lent-col

bassador left him, Grey was due to go to the House, and the speech was delivered from the hare notes arranged the evening before,

A DOCTOR BARONET

While the Viscounty becomes ex- tinct, the baronetcy passes to the late holder's second cousin, Dr. Charles. George Grey

Dr. Grey, a great-grandson of the first baronet, is the senior MO on the West African Medical Staff, Nigeria, and an expert on tropical diseases.

Like the late Lord Oxford and Asquith's heir,, he is a Roman Ca: tholic.

ATTRACTIVE CAREER

The formation of a police college where London's future policemen will be trained is almost complete As soon, as Lord Trenchards re turna from his holiday in Bootland important detalls regarding the opening of the institution will be confirmed.

It is understood that the pro posals include

which in twenty minutes teaches. Three of thèse have the Dao. one more about the making of and MC, That they had batta, a dim than the average cinema Hon commands as the Front goes "fan" ever learns. At the top of without saying yet fifteen-yeară, the house are the stereoscopic ca-after they have not reached the binets with colour transparencies substantive rank of battalion com and specimens of the many scien- mander. tific uses to which photography is This gives a real impression of put. An interesting" series of the present slow rate of promotion photographs has been taken by in the Army. Their appointment the light of an electric spark to the ID.C. means that promo which is so intense that the cation will come in time, but they mera can seize the fraction of a will be well in the forties before second in which a cup falling to they can hope to hold the rank the ground breaks; one photograph in which they acted in 1918. has caught the breakage of an electric light bulb before the fragments have changed position,

The Infra-red photographs-in- alude a clear picture of the York abire Walds taken form twelve miles away and through six miles of fog. In the same room are of a fee photographs transmitted from These guider are to charge is 6d great distances of a clearness for the first hour and that seems incredible to those who subsequent have seen them reproduced only conduct in newspapers. The

of a piece of lace from Copenhagen terior decoration

AB. M. INNOVATION

I hear that the British Museum authorities have granted, licences

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