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London, March 9. AWARD TO MR. MOLLISON The Royal Aero Club announces that the committee has decided to award the Britannia Trophy for 1933 to Mr. J. A. Mollison for his fight from England, to Brazil to February, 1933. The Britannia Trophy is awarded each year to the aviator who, in the opinion

of the club, has accomplished the most meritorious performance dur- ing the year. Mr. Mollison flew from Lympne to Brazil in 82 hours 8 minutes, and was the first airman to cross both the North and South Atlantic oceans.

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THACKERAY LETTER AND M.S.S. An important collection of auto- graph letters, and other manu- scripts of W. M. Thackeray, is to be sold at Sotheby's on March 28 and 27, as part of the library of a Swiss collector, the Comte de

Suzannet, of La Petite Chardiere,

Lausanne.

Perhaps the most notable or these is the letter in which "Thac- keray, writing to W. S. Williams, reader to Smith Elder and Co., on Optober: 83, 1847, speaks of his admiration for "Jane Eyre"1:-

日柒廿月叁年建批确仟专英

ALLEGATION

Roosevelt Accused Of Communism

Washington, Mar. 26. Preposterous, ridaulous, and fantasic are a few of the epithets appited by members of Congress to the statement of Professor W. the leading American Lancashire would bitterly rue her A Wint Indifference to the Japanese in-educationist, that he has been in- dustrial menace to her world mo- formed by members of President nopoly. In his later years Mr. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust that Waugh turned his attention to the they are aiming to overthrow the more remunerative, enterprises of existing social order and replace it with Communism, using the tin dredging and rubber growing, President in the role of a Keren- and became a director of several companies engaged in those indus- tries. On his return to England permanently afew years ago he refusal to disclose the identity of

was added to the International Tin Committees He had still many friends and relatives in Manches- ter, and be found his chief recrea- tion in fishing the rivers of Cum-

berland.

SEGRAVE TROPHY FOR SIR

MALCOEM CAMPBELL

A meeting of the Award Com- mittes of the Segrave Memoriai Trophy decided at the Royal Au- tomobile Club

to award the.

trophy to Skr Malcolm Camp- bell for establishing a new world

land, speed record of 272.48 miles

per hour for the nying kilometre and 272.11 miles per hour for the fying mile at Daytona Beach, Florida, on Fbruary 22, 1933.

aky

Professor Wirt is adamant in his

bis informants.;

The House of Representatives, this week, will discuss a 'resolu-' tion calling for an investigation. into the purposes of the "Brain Trust."

The general feeling in the House of Representatives is that the al- leged statments were not made, while opinion in the Senate is sceptical, but in favour of Prof Wirt being made to atvalge the

names of his informants-Reuter.

NEW METHODS INTRODUCED

At S'hai Municipal Elections

The trophy is awarded to the British subject who in the judg ment of the Award Committee nem complishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land; air, on water. In awarding the trophy consider- then off to the extent to which the apparatus used repre- insented in

design, workmanship, and material the work of Bri-national Settlement municipal elec- tain

tions which take place to-day and to-morrow. Tea. candidates are nominated for the nine, seats.

"Who the author can be I can't guess if a woman she knows her language better than most ladies, or has had a classical" educa- tion. Some of the love past eges made me cry to the aston ishment of John, who with the coals."

Several of the letters are ad- dressed to Lady Castlereagh, and in one of them, dated January 3, 1850, there is an amusing pass-

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THE NEW GOLDFIELD

Mr. WE Bleloch, who has just age which must wake echoes in discovered a new goldfield in the

many hearts:-

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"How artful of you to say you were just going to read Rebecca Rowena. Ah, madam, do you sup- pose that I am not acquainted with that stratagem? When we get a book from the author and suspect, from his known charac- ter and from the common chan- ces of life, that the book is stupid, we are always going to read it. But why should I complain at be- ing served as I serve my neigh- +bour?"

MR. HENRY WAUGH

Orange Free State, the stormy petrel of South African geology. For over thirty years he has been engaged in controversy with the South African Government geologists over the "Boksburg

Gap theory."

Shanghai, Mar. 26. In striking contrast to the usual apathy is the intense interest that is being taken in the Inter-

M. A. W. Beaumont, editor and publisher of the "Shanghai Specta- tor", is making a strong bid for a seat. He has introduced new elec- tioneering methods to Shanghai, including

rado broadcasts and electioneering, posters.

Besides Mr. Beaumont, who is a Belgian there are five British, two Americans and two Japanese can- didates. the

According to Bleloch, a large virgin goldfield lies between Boksburg Gap and the Nigel Area- of the Far East Rand. Fourteen years ago he formed a £900,000 company to open up thig ares, but the project fell through.

A strong movement "against M Beaumont is cvident, but he is confident of victory-Reuter.

encouraged by the Academy. Long afterwards, when his

Catholicity of taste has, however, rights had expired, Mr Bleloch's been apparent since Sir William faith was vindicated," and a large Llewellyn has controlled the de- number of new concerns have re-inies of the Academy. cently been tormed to exploit this

area;

SICKERT ELECTED · AN · RA

sident has, most successfully dis- The Pre-

criminated between those who paint analytical pictures and or- thodox works,....

Mr. Henry Waugh died yesterday at the age of 58 at Tunbridge Wells, where he had lived for some years since the transference of his business headquarters to London. He was a native of Man- chester, trained to the cotton Mr. Richard Sickert, AR.A., was trade from boyhood, and had elected a Royal Academician at.

LORD BADEN-POWELL spent many years in the Far East

a General Assembly of Academic- The following bulletin concern→ as an agent for the sale of Lan- fans and Associates held yesterday ing Lord Baden-Powell was issued cashire cotton plece goods. He

at the Royal Academy of Art, The to-day from King Edward VII went out to the Malay States in

vacancy was caused by Mr. George Hospital for Officers that capacity as long ago as 1890, Henry (who was elected RA in "Lord Baden-Powell · WAR » Yê- and while there formed the con-

1920) becoming a Senior Academoved in an ambulance to his viction-in this early view coin-mician.

home in, Hampshire this morning ciding with the opinion of the 'late

He is progressing well, but will Bir Valentine Chifol, who visited The promotion of Mr. Richard not be fit for any engagements for Japan soon after the Chino-Japan- Bickert, whû is 74% from an Asso-three months." ese War-that Japanese industrial clate to a Member of the RA Lord Baden-Powell's Hampshire competition would have disastrous :-ja. significant.... Mr. Bickert is con- home is Paxhl, Bentley, which influences upon the Engllar cotton nested in our minds with modem- is just over forty mlies from Lon- trade. Long before the Greatist painting. and modernist paint don. He reached there. this after- War Mr. Waugh prophesied, that ing seems far removed from that rbon,

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