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A ROYAL PATIENT LEAP IN DARK | WATER UNDER

Operation In Nursing Home

and

The following official bulletin was issued yesterday from the London house

of Prince Princess Arthur of Connaught:-

Princess Arthur of Connaught this morning underwent HJA abdominal operation in a Lon-

FROM PLANE Crowd Sees Human

Shooting Star"

At

THE EARTH Interesting Discovery Reported

The reported discovery of an other inland sea of fresh, water under the surface of the earth. this time in North Australia, holds splendid promise for Empire deve-

(Special Alr-Mail Service)

London, Jan, St. Mr. F. George, an amateur para- don nursing home. The opera-chutist, made a spectacular leap in the dark from a height of 100oft over Hanworth Aerodrome, Middle.lopment, sex, last night.

successful and the

Princess the

Mon condition of satisfactory.

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Harold Chapple,

Archibald Marston.

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He had miniature searchlights Fattached to his waist and wrists, Russell Wilkinson, 16 [and a crowd that collected to watch Arthur of Connaught saw him streak through the dark- ness like a shooting star. He land- is a niece of the King. She is ed safely.

Princess

the Duchess of Fife in her OWD right, being the daughter of King Edward's eldest daughter. who

The problem of the sparsely po pulated North would be solved I another large artesian water aren could be found.

It is because of these stupendous areas of fresh water under the sur- j face of the sol that most maps of Australia are now out of date,

Millions of acres which appear on the map" as " desert" are to-

The object of the dexent was to lest a new device intended to make parachute descents at night safe. was known as the Princess Royal The lights attached to the parachu-day fertile areas, producing rich until her death three years 150tist were designed to illuminate the crops or carrying millions of sheep News of Princess Arthur's iness came as a complete surprise to round and enable him to make a

anfe landing. everyone with the exception of the Royal Family.

4.

Frincess Arthur is "42. Her marriage to Prince Arthur: the only son of the Duke of Con- naught, took place in 1913. She is a qualided nurse, and has done ordinary ward duty at University College Hospital and has, assisted

Only two previous parachute jumps at night have been made in England. It was Mr. George's | first night "drop,"

At the moment of leaving the aeroplane the young parachutist pressed a switch, and instantly he was illuminated by a brilliant light, which was visible, for miles around. at operations. She passed her The light gleamed "on the fuselage as Nurse of the neroplane, and for a fraction nursing examinations Marjorie," and she received her of a second the pilot was almost training at St. Mary's Hospital, blinded. Paddington. The Princess has

and cattle.

On a map of Queensland Ï note. for instance, that the town of Bar- caldine is placed in the "desert " area.

Yet a friend tells me he has been citrus fruits as large as small me lons growing on thousands of trees in the main streets of that town.

OLD MASTERS FOR SALE.

A magnificent picterial pageant

of colour and character is to be staged in May at Christie's sale- rooms. The occasion will be the disposal of a large assemblage of picturés by old masters and lead-

Before pulling the rip-cord which never been seriously ill. but in opened the parachute, the daring the summier of 1928 she spent experimenter fell fur same distance. several weeks in a nursing home Then the watchers below saw, the for special treatment following an movement of the light become grad Indisposition. In November, 1932, ually slower, Carried by the wind, she was taken ill while attending the parachutist drifted to one ending contemporary artists, drawings, & theatre, but she recovered from of the aerodrom The apparatus the indisposition in a few days attahred to his Aying suit Acodlit Prince and Princess Arthur have the ground and enabled him to make one son, the Earl of Macduff, who a perfect landing. was born a few days after the outbreak of war,

are

miniatures, period furniture,por- celain, and rare objects of applied art that belonged to the late Mr. Leopold Hirsch, a noted London collector. Among the oils

Holbein, three Gainsborough, a Raeburns, a Hoppner, Morlands, a Lawrence, 厲 Rembrandt, three Reynolds, and two Romneys. One of the Cainsboroughs, "Madame Francenca le Brun," a Royal Acad-"

This was the first time that the apparatus had been tested. At the News of the operation was telep-present stage it is admitted to be hoped to the King and Queen, who | somewha; cumbersome and heavy, are at Sandringham, and to the but the descent demonstrated the Duke of Connaught, Princess advantages of the apparatus not Arthur's father-in-law, who is at only to enable the parachutist to Sidmouth. Prince Arthur was at see where he is falling, but also for the nursing home- while the signalling to persons on the ground operation was

The carried out."

Anyone living within a radius of Princess was taken to the nursing many miles would be able to see home on Tuesday.

where the parachutist was drop-of Brussels tapestry, woven in col- ping, and would be able to go and oured and gold threads, with The render assistance if it was required. of the attractions at the Loan Ex- Repose in Egypt.” This was one

The doctors who signed the Sir Russell Facey

bulletin

are

Wilkinson, who has been physician to Prince and Princess Arthu since 1918; Mr.. Harold Chapple, F.R.C.8, senior obstetric surgeon and gynaecologist to Guy's Hos¬ pital: and Mr. Arhibald Daniel Marston, honorary anaesthetist at Guy's Hospital.

WOMEN IN WHITEHALL

SAYINGS OF THE WEEK

emy exhibit in 1780, was sold for over £3000 forty years ago. From the same collection,

comes a choice sixteenth century panel

hibition of Memish and Belgian Art in 1927.

New Cermany is man's creation: gest known diamond, but it is un- the inspiration and influence of supported. Two of the largest woman as companion is wholly lack-stores cut from the Cullinan dia- ing. Mr. Rodney Collin.

mond are in the 'British Crown jewels. "

The no half-way house for Britain between greatness and ruin

Mr. Winston Churchill.

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Even members of the Film Society cease despising, their fellow-mem-

Still Regarded With bers when Mickey Mouse appears.

Suspicion

Women are still regarded with some suspicion in Whitehall Bat they enjoy freedom such as they never had in the old days.

Mr. M. Forster.

My conscience, I confess, is noth- ing like what it was in its beak and Wings were rather a terror to the poighbourhood.-Professor Gilbert

Murray.

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Nobody dare disturb the peace so long as Anglo-French friendship endures.-M. Chautemps.

Sir Francis Floud, in a speech to the Ministry of Labour staff, re- called the advent of the first wo man typist in the Board of igri culture. She was given a dungeon- like room in the basement. The I see nothing in Mr. Roosevelt's Chief Clerk sent round an order policy which need be disturbing to that no, one over the age of 15 business confidence-Mr. J. M.

Keynes, must go inside her room

That solitary little typist in her dungeon has now grown to nearly anything, the ideal of self-digial is If you have never denied yourself 80,000 women civil servants.

The Post Office was the pioneer extremely alluring-Mr.

Robert

in the employment of women. But to this day, the sexes are kept a- part during official hours. They are not even allowed to walk down the same corridors. " When, for lack

of accommodation, women are compelled to work in a room with men they are partitioned off behind a high barrier.

Polley to be Abolished One of the great changes to be Introduced this year to which the Government and the Treasury have, agreed is the abolition of this policy of segregation.

For years women have advocat- ed this change, because of their new status in the Civil Service. They have forced every door in Whitehall. Now it is the turn of the partitions to be swept away.

The only sex differentiation that #ill now be left in Whitehall will be the lower rates of pay which women still receive.

Lynd

We are winning international respect.-Herr Hitler.

I feel sure that you would not New Year resolution Mark Twain's like the Government to adopt as & decision to live within his incorne even if he had to burrow to do it. Mr. H. Ramsbotham, M.P.

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Hurrah for the Blackshirts: Viscount Rothermere.

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Sold For £63,000

(Special Air-Mail Service)-

London, Jan. 24. It is understood that the 723- carat diamond, fourth largest in the world, which has been discovered at

AIR MAIL TO SINGAPORE Elandsfontien, was sold to-day to

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for £63,000, A further link towards the estab- The diamond in its rough state lishing of a regular air-mall ser-was valued at £100,000. vice between this country and Jacobes Joukher, the owner (Reu- Australia was forged to-day with ter says is now returning to farm- the arrival at Croydon of the first ing on a larger scale. He has au- all-British air mail from Singapore nounced his intention to purchase s the half-way port on the route. to top hat and frock coat. the Dominion. The intention is His native boy, Johannes, who that Singapore will be the stopp-found the diamond, will be install- ing-place for Imperial Airways ed on the farm as a retainer with linera flying from this country, and liberty to do whatever he pleases. that from there the service, the Sir Ernest Oppenheimer is chair full operation of which it is hoped man of several South African dia- will not now be long delayed, will mond-mining companies. He lives be in the charge of the Australian at Johannesburg. Government, whose air port will The Jonkher diamond, a perfect probably be Bydney. In future the Bawless gut, was one of two found British part of the service will be recently at Elandsfontein, 20 miles run once a week, leaving London north of Pretoria, The other stone every. Saturday, and Singapore weighed 200 carata. every Sunday. The flight occupies

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