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ART OF THE ORIENT

Special, Air Mall Service)

London, Sept. 30. For about six weeks now the priceless Chinese art treasures which will form the exhibition to be opened at Burlington House in November have lain untouched at the Royal Academy in the special steel cases in which they packed for transport from China

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GREAT WHARF FIRE

Empress A Prisoner City's Trade Blocked

In Her Palace

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Lonan, Sept. 28.

(Special Al Mall Service)-

London, sept xh. The great wharf fire at Wapping New Light on the strange story rutered its fourth day this morn of the diary of the Emperorg. It seems likely to burn for Frederick of Germany, who died overal days."

in 1888, ls thrown by Lord Howard | Last night the fire was apparent of Penrith in his Theatre of fire"ly under control, but 100 remeti pubuished to-day (Hodder and were still at work. Shortly after

S.oughton, 218).

On his arrival in Berlin ás third secretary of Embassy, Esme Ho- ward, as he then was, discovered that the Empress Frederick was virtually a prisoner in her own palace. Even letters and telegrams from her mother, Queen Victoria, were not delivered.

of

three o'clock this morning there were two violent explosions and Names burst forth again.

streets in Dockland will be almost A large part of one of the busiest

at a standstill several days, for figh-street, Wapping, where the wharves are, is one of the main arteries of the City's commerce.

The fire has prevented motor lor ries reaching several warehouses The long-drawn-out ageny the Emperor Frederick's iness where consignments of toys, hard- ware and other goods are waiting to be unloaded.

THE NEW P. & 0. LINER.

Features Of The Strathmore

(Special Air Mall Service

London, Sept. 30

The Strathmore. launched by

the Duchess of York from Messrs. Vickers's Barrow-in-Furness yard. Is the biggest and speedlest Uner built for the Peninsula and Orient Line, and signailses a century or progressive development in con tection with the Europe-Indla service. It has been given to few vessels to be put to the test under severe conditions than prevailed during her recent trials prepara- tory to being" formally transferred from the shipbuilders to the P. in spite of wind and rain, she and O. Company. In the Clyde.

gradually worked up from four- over twenty-two knots which represents a good margin in excess of the speed contracted for

teen to

had no sooner came to an end than nis son. The Emperor William II.

WORKING DOWNWARDS then a young man of 29, ordered a

By keeping up a continual steam cordon of so.diers to be placed of water from their hoses the fire. round the palace at Putsdam

men lave managed to keep the where the Empress was still living. lames from sprending, but the The whole reason for this ex-outbreak is How gradually work. traordinary behaviour on the part ing its way down through the of the young Emperor was, it ap-

lower floors, peared later, that Bismarck and William II. both feared that the Emperor had left behind a diary which might contain unpaiatable sure of the river floats' hoses is seventy miles an hour, and fur

Information about people and things, and especially, it was sup- posed, about the conduct of the

war 01 1870."

A minute search of the palace

·was made, but without success, the Byzan,inism of the proceedings coming as a great shock to the yourhin. mind of the Esme Ho- ward. Meanwhile, the diary had been en.rusted to Mr. Inman Barnard, an American newspaper correspondent, and he' walked ouv

of the palace with it concealed under his waistcoat and delivered It to Queen Victoria.

Lord Howard's book covers the years 1883 to 1905 and in the eyes of to-day It reads like the record of the golden age in the diplomatic service-delightful society, abund- ant sport, and not too onerous duties.

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AN AMBASSADOR ARRESTED He tells the interes.lng story of how "Lord Lyons," Ambassador in Par.s and Edward Malet, his secretary (afterwards Ambassador in Berlin) were arrested as spies in 1870 when the French Govern- ment moved to Bordeaux. They were marched through the streets amid booting cries, to be lodged in jal.

On the riverside flames can still seen shooting from the blacken windows and the terrific prea Jislodging brick by brick the woll of one of the warehouses.

A black pall of smoke hanga over the building, and in the High street the air is thick and heavy with fumes.

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ENVIED SALARIES

M. Laval will continue to press for reduction in the

League Budget.

His attitude has been influenced

by the criticisms of the French the salaries of their compatriots Civil Servants, who are jealous of in Geneva.

They are

arguments about the high cost of

little impressed by.

Hving of Switzerland.

They contrast their own salaries. which during the last 12 months have been uut three times, with

21 KNOTS

The engines having proved their worth, the Strathmore quitted the Clyde and poked her nuse into a tempestuous gale

blowing at.

speed of Dver

three days she gallantly braved the storm with entire satisfaction. for during most of the period she maintained twenty-one knots. The voyage was free from any form of en- gine vibration. and the vessel fully earned the high praise of the experienced officers on board.

HANDSOME VESSEL

The new liner is a very hand- some vessel, but the art of inter- nal construction has probably

the convenience and comfort of never been excelled. Planned" for

luxury ship of outstanding charm. the passengers, in reality she is a

In the vast first-class dining saloon a very pretty complimient has been becu pald to the Duchess of York in the form of a large tapestry of Glamis Castle. The saloon lounge. the capacious read-

the 90,000 Swiss franes (£3600 ating room, the smokers's retreat." par and nearly £8000 at the pre- and the card players rendezvous sent rate of exchange) of the are all decorated with an appeal Secretary-general, the 60,000 of to refinement and in each the air the Deputy Secretary-general and a conditioned so that an equable the three Under-secretaries, and temperature may be maintained the 40,000 of other senior League The cabin equipment has been officials.

established with Indulgent con- sideration, while the state apart- ments aspire to the heights of Oriental splendour, The sports decks, the two tiled swimming pools, the dancing hall, the cinema. The basic salary of a French the children's dining room. All Ambassador is only £1200, which 18 the basic salary of a British commercial secretary.

POOR AMBASSADORS Such salarles are beyond the dreams of the highest French Civil Servants, who, as a class are very poorly paid.

play their part in the general scheme of completion, while the, provision of a mode; hospital With its attendait nurses shows the thoroughness of the Ifner's archi

"Lord Lyons, instead of making trouble about the indignities offer ed to him and reporting the mat- ter home, not only accepted in the friendlest way the apologies of the mas er of the prison, but, as they eft, he made Malet promise that he would never say a word about this to anybody. He then impressed on his mind this lesson; that it is the business of a diplomal; wherever he is, to avoid "WATCHING WHEAT unpleasant incidents.

Meanwhile, M. Laval is watching diplomat unfortunately becomes wheat with as much interest as the cen re of an incident of this he is studying Mussolini. kind, it is probably largely his faut and he had better keep quiet "about it,"

The highest Civil pension in France is less than £500. It com pares poorly with the £1700 of a tects. British Ambassador.

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Early in November he has to submit his economy reforms to the French Parliament. They are i

In April, 1888, Queen Victoria ilkely to meet with a stormy re- spent some weeks in Florence: ception.

"She came with her Indian The peasants are in a desperate. munshi, and John Brown in his position. Their normal objection highland kit. These attendants to paying taxes is being intensifi- greatly interested the Florentines, ed by the speeches of M. Borgères, and the papers of Florence aug leader of the Peasants' Front, who gested that her Majesty must 15 stumping the provinces. have made a mistake in the dates and thought she was coming for the carnival”.

DISCIPLE OF RHODES

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On visit to South Africa Howard made the acquaintance t Cecil Rhode.

"As we walked up to the Parila ment House I saw a large figure of a man, with a rather rolling guit, in not over-clean grey fan- nels, with a somewhat battered straw hat on his head, his hands thrust deeply into his trouser poc- kets and his jacket pulled up to the waist, showing in enormous They

breadth on beam... I gazed on the curious bark, deeply impress- ed with an astonishment that was only to grow as I got to know him better."

on board "HMS. Buffolk. have been awaiting the experts

who packed them, because no

other persons are authorised to undo the wrappings, and to-day the four responsible Chinamen ar rived in London. They propose to

Rhodes made a great impression make an early start on 'what will on the young diplomat, who now be a fairly lengthy and most de-affirms that "Dearly everything he licate task. There is the possibi- foresaw has come true." He spoke lity, I understand, that the ex- as "an inspired prophet." hibition will be widened in scope to include specimens of Japanese art. Although this was the origin- al intention, the refusal of the au- thorities in Japan to participate was announced, but since then there has been a change of mind, and the Emperor of Japan is be- lleved to have consented to some of the Imperial treasures being shown in London.

M. Laval's best chance is in the rise of wheat. Within the last few weeks the price per quintal has risen from, 60 francs to 80 make a difference of two millards francs. If it goes to 90 le' would

of iranes to the peasants.

The rise would be a bull-point for M. Laval.

LORD ROSEBERY'S EPIGRAMS

The strathmore's tonnage. H 23.000. and the following figure tell their own story of the latest contributon tu P. and O, eff- ciency:-

Length Overall Breadth Overall Displacement Draught Speed

Shaft Horse Power.. Gross Register

.065 feet

84 feet

28.400 tons

30 feet

21 knots

24.000

23.427.9

First Class Passengers 445 Tourist Class Passengers 865

The installation of a large re- : frigeration plant will play an im portant part in safeguarding the freightage of food for which the holds are specially provided. All

to British shipbuilding. in all, a truly magnificent tribute

PRINCE OPENS MOTOR SHOW

One of the many pen-pictures of this period is of the Earl of

London, Oct. 18. Rosebery, who seemed to him The 29th annual International Tike a highly polished eighteenth- Motor Car Exhibition will be open- century sauf-box of onyx and ed to-morrow at Olympia by the lapis lazuli. set with cunningly Prince of Wales. The show re- wrought gold and diamonds filled mains open till October 28, with perfumed snuff, which would

There are well over 500 exhibi- be opened on special occasions tors and in the private car section and produce highly scented snuff over "450" cars, representing 29. in the shape of epigramas.... Of British makes and 25 foreign, will him perhaps more than of anyone be on view, at prices ranging from may be said: Wanity of vanities, 211B for the Morris eight horse- all is vanity."

power tourer to £3,750 for the Hispano Suiza,

Filled with Rhodes's ideas on Seeing that Lord Howard has the political and economic develop-never, on principle, kept a diary. The total value of the exhibits ment of the Empire, Esmé Howard the wealth of detall in this book is estimated at half a million went home in the confident belief is a remarkable achievement of pounds. Special attractions in that he would be able to inspire memtry. He calls it "The Theatre clude the famous "Blue Bird on others, with the same enthusiasm. of Life" "because," he says, "I which Bir Malcolm Campbell set He resigned from the Fretg have more than many men, had hp a how land speed-record of 30r Once to stand for Parliament. afront seat both in the pit ond miles per hour and a new Diamler The attempt falled, and he once in the stalls of Life's Theatre. Car Just completed to the order of more entered the Diplomatic Ber-varied with an occasional visit the Queen,

behind the scenes."

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