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DEATH SENTENCE THE ACADEMY

IN SIAM

Shooting Instead Of Beheading

Bangkok, May 8.

The three draft Acts which led to dissension between His Majesty and the Government. last year have now been promulgated. They were a draft Act amending the Penal Code, a draft Act amending Penal Procedure, and a draft Act amending, the Renal Code of the Army.

In August these Bills were ap- proved by the Assembly. Before they could be promulgated as low they required His Majesty's signa- ture.

The King, however. Tax not satisfied with the principles in volved in some particulars and re- turned the digits to the Assembly

On Sept. 20 the Assembly stood by its former resolution, and sent the drafts back to His Majesty again for the second time. They were not then signed and returned within the time prescribed in the Constitution.

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DISPUTE

Amazing Charges

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, April 30. Marlborough-Street Police Court will be the scene to-day of the latest development in this year's Royal Academy dispute.

Mr. Homerville Hague, the painter. is to apply there for a summons against Sir William Llewellyn, the president," and the committee of the Royal Academy.

Amazing statements were made by Mr. Hague yesterday when he announced that he was going to apply for the summans.

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Asked why he was going

to apply to that Court; he said that in his view what had been done. in his case amounted to a crime.

"My pictures have been rejected every year for the last twenty-one years." he said. "and I shall charge the Royal Academy "with making criminal use of the money they have as a result of State aid. "Outsiders. like myself. have a right to have their picures in the Academy.

Grave Charges

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Section 39 of the Constitution "In addition, I shall charge the runs the King disapprove "of Academy with burning and des- Bill, the Assembly shall.... re-troying work submitted to them consider the Bull by secret voting.by artists. taken by roll cail. If the Assembly re-affirms the Bill. It shall more be submitted to the King. If the King talls to append his signature to it within 15 days, it shall once more be submitted to the King. If the King falls o ap- pend his signature to it within 15 day, it may forthwith be promul- gated and published as law."

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Acts Promulgated

In April the Chairman of the Assembly approved of that action being taken and the Premier therefore issued three notification on Apr. 29, promulgating the three Acts, in this week's Gazette.

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Formerly the law was that person sentenced to death shall be beheaded. Now death is to be in- Alcted by shooting. The place and time, shall be as determined by the official concerned; but sixty days must elapse after the judgment is delivered before

the execution takes place. All sentences im- posed before promulgation of

this Act will be carried qut ac-

"I have been told that as many

street Police Station every year to as Arty artists apply at Vine-

ask the police if they can help them get back pictures that they submitted to the Academy and

which have been lost.

"I myself lost a picture I sub- mitted to the Academy one year.

"I am not satisfied that poor artists should lose their work.

"I shall apply for a summons before Mr. Boyd, the magistrate. to-morrow morning. If I don't get it, I shall apply for a writ in the High Court.

"Furthermore, I intend to write to the King and ask him to with- draw the Academy's charter."

Mr. Homerville Hague submitted two pictures to the Academy. this year. Both were rejected They Guard in Friary Court, St. James's were olls of "The Changing of the Palace" and of "Senning Bridge on the Thames."

Mr. Hague portraits. of royalty than

has painted more

living artist.

any

To him was pald the unpreced-

cording to the old law, Le, behead-ented honour of being allowed a ing.

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A number of political prisoners are lying under sentence of death for their share in the abortive uprising of October 1933.

An echo of that uprising came up before the Courts this week when the Appeal Court dismissed the action of a Siamese lady who claimed Tes. 3,000 damages from the police, the Ministry of Inter- lor, and the Premier, for violating the law in taking her and her wards into custody, for nine hours and thirty-five minutes during the insurrection.

› released,

She was afterwards

The Courts held that the action of the defendants was quite justi- fable in view of martial law have ing been applied during the period of the insurrection,

room in Buckingham Palace as a studio.

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He stated last night that in 1918 he painted a portrait of the King on Vimy Ridge. It had been sent to the Academy on three succes- sive years and rejected...

A.R.A.'S Anger Meanwhile, Mr. Stanley Spencer, A.RA., is racking his brains to find a way of getting his three accept- ed pictures out of the Academy, whereas most artists rack their brains to And a way of getting their pictures in!

Two of his five pictures were rejected. Mr. Spencer says they his A.R.A. and demanded that all were the best. He has resigned five works should be returned to him.

the

The Academy reply that three accepted must be shown.

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In dealing with the seventh an- nual Report of the Central Elec- tricity Board, which was pub- lished recently emphasis: must naturally, be laid on 'the results of operating the national trans- mission system. During the whole of 1934, trading was conducted in five of the areas into which the country is divided, and during nine months in one other. It is anticipated that operation will begin in South Scotland as soon as the stations of the Galloway Water Power Company are ready to take the load and in North East England when the com-

plicated work occasioned by the standardisation of frequency is completed. The financial result of these activities was EL credit balance of 88,101. on the generdì trading. This S better than might have been expected, and would probably have been better still, but for the depressing effect of a mild December on the maxi- mum demand. The saving in capital investment in generating plant, as the direct result of the construction of the grid, is es- timated to be more than. $.000.- toor, while substantial economies in fuel consumption are reported as a result of the group working at selected, stations.

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During the year, the output in- creased by some 14 per cent, with the result that the spare plant capacity made available by in- terconnection has been absorbed and some 500,000 kw of new plant has been ordered to meet the fur- ther growth of demand that may be anticipated. In this connec- tion, it may be noted that while world output of electricity has only increased by about 30 per cent since 1929, the corresponding figure for treat Britain is 50-per cent. It is also worth noting that the power consumption was 12 per cent, higher in 1934 than in 1933, and that the works' exten slons, of which this is a sign have provided a favourable op- portunity for the substitution of a public supply for private plant.

PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY

A decision of considerable in- terest was reached at the general monthly meeting of the members of the Royal Institution" when it was resolved,to establish a Pro- fessorship of Astronomy. Str James Jeans was nominated for the professorship, and in the event of his election at a ballot on May 7. Sir James will become the first Professor of Astronomy in the Institution. The last oc- casion when a new Chair was created was in 1863. at which time Dr... (afterwards Sir Edward) Frankland W25 elected to a separate professorship of" chem- istry, while Faraday was still the Fullerian Professor of Chemistry. Frankland's separate professor- ship, however, lapsed after Fara- day's death.

The other elected professorship in the Institution, that of Natur- al Philosophy, had been est- ablished ten years previously and was not so short-lived. It was created for Tyndall when he went to the Ititution in 1853, and slace his retirement in 1887 has continued by election and re- election down to the prezent time. Sir James Jeans has thus been nominated to the first new professorship to be established

in the Royal Institution, for up- wards of seventy years. It is. moreover, the first Chair of Astronomy in the history of the Institution. Doubtless it will lead to further "attention being given there to this very import- ant branch of scientific work." -

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Many authorised undertakers have sought the assistance of the Board in the negotiation of Indus- trial power supplies, and up to the end of 1934 such co-operation had resulted in contracts totalling between '700,000,000 KWH and 800,000,000 kWh per annum ma wide variety of industries,

Security of Supply

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