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London Air-Mail Letter

The Prince And Biarritz Fashions: The Adjutant General To Retire: An Aerial Anniversary: Humour From Berlin: The Lord Mayor's Expenses: Taking

A King's Finger Prints

(Special Air-Mail Service)

THE PRINCE'S BUTTON-

HOLE

London, Sept. 19

The Prince of Wales's brief atay in Paris on his way home from Biarritz has I am told, already had an effect on the world of fashion.

The Prince went for a shopping expedition incognito. The Parisians did not guess his identity, in spite of a somewhat formidable bodyguard of special police agents,

But one Frenchman, who happened to be a journalist, recognised the Prince, and was impressed by the "oeillet" in bia buttonhole. And the dorists in Paris are now trying in vain to supply the sudden demand for

carnations.

SIR CECIL ROMER'S

EXAMPLE

Gen. Sir Cecil Romer, who became Adjutant-General to the Forces last February, is contemplating retirement before his tenure of office expires...

This voluntary sacrifice is presumab- ly intended as a personal contribution towards alleviating the present con- Gen. Homer's gestion in promotion. monted step in setting this example will cause regrets, but will certainly enhance the respect in which he is held.

"L.G." A SPECTATOR-

Mr. Lloyd George, who I'm told, deeply regret being unable to be among the guests was one of those who watch- ed "these modern miracles" in 1908 and 1908. With him was the late Lord French

On the first occasion the dark-haired President of the Board of Trade was just on the point of becoming Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, an appoint. ment which made history of another" kind in 1900..

A STORY FROM BERLIN

The following story, reaches me from Berlin-the reconteur vouching for its truth:

A beggar in the Unter den Lindon stuck a notice in his battered old derby hat, "I take no money from Jews." He got any amount from Christians and others, but towards nightfall a fright ened little Jew crept up to him and aaked, sotto voce, "Won't you takes a mark from me?" ·

"Ja," said the beggar, “of course I will, I'm a Jew myself"

AN EXPENsive office

A City man was explaining to me the other day what it costs to be Lord Mayor of London. The allowance of £10,000 does, not nearly cover the expenses of the office, estimates of the actual cost running up £30,000. An It has been a matter of growing allowance may serve as a rough guess, average of double the amount of the comment that, while admirals and air marshals have for years been making must come out of the pocket of the and every farthing over the £10,000 voluntary retirements to help the pro-Chief Magistrate spects of younger men, generals have hitherto shown no inclination to follow their lead.

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A VIGOROUS

SEXAGENARIAN

Though the Adjutant-General will

The inauguration on Nov. 9 means an outlay of about £4,000 for the procession and banquet. Of this the Lord Mayor pays half, the other half being borne equally by the two sheriffs, as part of their outlay during the year, generally amounting in all- to £4,000 or £5,000.

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be 04 in November, he is physically | HIGHER COST OF ENTER. and mentally more vigorous than many younger generals.

Like Sir David Campbell, the present Governor and Commander-in Chief of Malta, he takes an amount of active sxercise that contrasts forcibly with the sedentary habits other men of his age slip into. Often, after a long day on the training area, he finds time for eighteen boles of golf before dinner.

FIRST LONG-DISTANCE

FLIGHT

TAINING

Lord Mayor's allowance was fixed at It was over sixty years ago that the £10,000, and there has been no rise to meet the increased cost of entertain- 138, & very heavy item, especially in connection with national and interna tional conferences and visits of foreign royalties and other celebrities.

Ratepayers in the City need not be concerned about the £10,000 which is the nucleus of the Lord Mayor's expenditure. They do not pay a penny. of it. It all comes from the City cash -in other words, from the proceeds of Corporation property which also makes large contributions to charit able, educational, and other objects. ROYAL FINGER-PRINTS

One of the biggest gatherings of baby planes ever held will take place to-morrow at Chalons-sur-Marne, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first "long-distance serial fight. In 1908 Henry Farman, the 33-year- old son of an English journalist, flew At the end of this month Supt. some sixteen miles, from Chalons-apr George Cornish, of Scotland Yard is. Marne to one of the principal vineetiring after 39 years' service. Re yards of the Champagne district-the has what is, I believe, the unique first Hight made by say airman from distinction of having taken the finger- one town to another.

prints of royalty.

The serial guests for whom two temporary airports have been con: structed, in widition to the great military aerodrome at Rheims--will also celebrate some other records set up in the following year:

Altitude, by Hubert Latham (about 1,000 feet); Speed, by Glen Curtiss (19 miles in 24 minutes); and Long Distanca, by Farman (116 miles).

HAWAII IN DIFFICULTIES

Government Faces

·Big Deficit

Honolulu, Oct. 2-Declaring the Hawaiian territorial government was unable to meet the October payrolls and aither interest or principal pay ments on bonds, Governor Lawrence M. Judd said today in a statement the legislature would have to correct s Snancial condition which he termed critical.

Without funds in sight to meet obligations due Oct. 1 and afterward, Governor Judd said he intends to call a special session of the legislature to meet at the earliest practicable date. "He estimated the territorial deficit would amount to $3,803,000 by June 30, 1918, the end of the 1934-36 fiscal year, unless the badget is balanced in the meanwhile.

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When King Manoel of Portugal had property to the value of £30,000 stolen Supt. Cornish was asked to take charge of the case. His first step was

to

determine which of the fingerprints at King Manoel's Twickenham house were made by strangers, and to do this he had to take impressions from King Manoel, his consort, and the house staff.

MALTA FORTIFICATIONS

La Valetta, Oct. 2. It is understood that all fortific- ations on Maltese lands which had partly been used for private, pur- posra have again been taken over by the military administration and will be modernised, enlarged and equipped with the latest models of anti-aircraft guns. To protect the population against gas aviacks from the air, many of gas-masks have been stored in the military depots.

Trans-Orean Kuo Min

The annual cloring of roads and paths on War Department property will take place during the 24 hour between 8 am. on October 12 and am. on October 12. All persons not in uniform must ask permission to proceed along these roads during this period. The roads affected will be thuse between Murray Barracka The total bonded debt as of Jane and Kennedy Road, those around

Middle 30, 1031, was $32,000,000, and the re Austía Barracks,

Road ceipts for the 1930-31 fiscal year were | (Kowloon) and the Kowloon City $12,880,762 while expenditures were Rifle ranges. $11,905,803, nearly $1,000,000 less.

But expenditures exceeded receipts in.

some other recent years.

The territorial government receives considerable aid from the federsi 879 alaries University of Hawaii, government at Washington. Aside $120,000; agricultural, extension work from its share in federal aid for of the univormity, 830,622; forestation, highways, amounting to 8154,283, the $3,780, and division of hydrography,

government received these sums from Washington in the 1930-21 fiscal year.

For the Senste, $15,746. for the House, #31,103; governor's office, $20,

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$23,830.

The territorial government is se parate from that of the countles whose tax collections are approxi mately three-fourths that of the larger unit.

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