1936-02-28 — Page 11

LONDON DAY BY DAY

London, Feb. 4

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS

The question of opening treaty talks with Egypt will, I' under sland, come before the Cabinet on Wednesday, writes a correspon- dent, Diplomatic soundings in dicated a desire on both sides to negotiate, and 8 Miles Lampson. the High Commissioner, has been engaged for some time in prepar ing data for the information of the Cabinet. The High Commis. sioner, probably assisted by Foreign- Office advisers, will open" the dis- cussions in Cairo, but it is expect- ed, in view of the importance and complexity of the problems, that after the parties have agreed upon a basis of negotiation the conver- sations will expand into a London conference The military aspect is the major issue. and it agree-1 ment can be reached on matters affecting the Suez Carial, the de fence of Egypt, location of troops, and the protection of foreign in-

Lerests, it is felt that the problem of the Sudan' should not prove a The barrier to diplomatic success. Labour Government fri 1930, it will be recalled, endeavoured to pro- pitiate Nahai Pasha on one or two points, but declined to leave the Status of the Sudan under the 1899 Convention, open "for modification, and it was on that point that the conference at 1939 failed

LORD PRESIDENT'S RETURN

of King Cleorge will be the pust- ponement of the Imperial Con- ference. This was tentacively agreed upon for the end of this year.

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As all the Dominion Prime Min- isters are

come to expected tu London for the Coronation, it may now be arranged that the delega- tons could attend both the Con- ference and the Coronation on one visit to London in 1937.

Omitting the Ottawa gathering. at which only economic subjects were discussed, it will in that case be more than six years since the full Imperial Conference met.

The custom has been to hold one every four years, but the prac- tical elimination of "constitutional problems has reduced the field of discussion.

CORONATION MONTHS Judging by the analogy of King Edward VII, whose predecessor also died in Jahuafs, the Coronation will probably take place in June, 1937.

King Edward VI.'s Coronation Axed for June 28, though i was

owing to his illness it did not take place till Aug. 9.

Edward IV., Henry VIII, and Queen Victoria were all crowned in June. The favourite months have been April and October, in each of which six Coronations have taken place. Next come February (4) July (4), June (3), August (3).

Government party headquarters and December (3).

in London, always confident that i John was crowned in May. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Pre-Elizabeth in January, and Henry sident of the Council, would be re- VI. in November. Edward V. Was

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rurned to Parliament by, the Beat- tish Universities, are more that satisfied with his victory. HL

Bubstantial majority, and the com- plete eclipse

Labour of the nominee, are halled as convincing proof that the electorate, like Mr. Baldwin and his Cabinet col- leagues, see the necessity for the maintenance of the National front. of the Government. It is probable, I understand, that Mr. MacDonald, who came back in London to-night, will take the oath and his sent in the House of Commons to-morrow, when he will be assured of a hearty welcome from all Govern-

Political ment supporters. thorities here tell me that, from -| the reports they are receiving, Mr. Malcolm Marlonnid is likely score an almost equally good vic- tory in Ross and Cromarty,

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GLASS FOR THE QUEEN MARC

never crowned at all.

The only month in which there has never been a Coronation is March.

BURGLARS' PARADISE Avenue-Road, where thieves last night made 8 haul

of £12,800 worth of jewellery fxcm Lord Rothermere's house, is becoming a paradise for burglars.

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Many rien people now live there. Most of the houses have a com- paratively low-walled garden at the! back Burglars have a convenient escape by jumping from garden to garden.

Lord Rothermere's house, which he bought from Mrs. Dudley Ward, has been burgled twice within the last three years: once before Mrs. Dudley Ward acquired it and ance during her tenancy, when Jewellery to the value of between

£5000 and £6000 was stolen.

At one period burglaries in the road became so frequent that Mrs. Dualey Ward entered some time ago into an arrangement with two neighbours, Mr. Alexander Korda and Mr. W. S. Robinson. for tue employment of a private detective.

SCOTS MARQUIS AS LEADER

One of Scotland's premier air- wen and likely one day to be Scotland's premier Peer, the Mar- quis of Douglas and Clydesdale, M.P., son of the Duke of Hamilton,

In the Kensington studio of My. Jan Juca, the South African artist,' I obtained a private view this afternoon of some of the sandt- blasted glass panels that are to adorn the ballroom of there Queen Mary. For over six monins Mr. Juta has been engaged on this commission, and next week the mural decorations are to be trans- ported to Clydebank. Consulta- tion with the artist responsible". the ballroom paintings have ro- sulted in a close relationship m colbur and line between the can- vases and the elégrant and digat-will to-day be receiving congratula- fied glass panels, which are ex- eculed in various tongs of white and silver, the shading being ob tained by the use of special cera mic enamel that is burned into the glass. Neptune and sea horses are the subject of several of the designs, which are etched on the glass with an apparatus resembling a dentist's drill.

SMITHFIELD'S MEATLESS DAY

tions on a thirtythird birthday. Athlete, airman, and politician, he Is regarded widely as a leader of the younger generation in Scottish a Tairs. His popularity in East Renfrewshire, which he has repre- sented in Parliament as a Union- 1st for six years, is a tribute to his qualities in the social sphere un well as in the larger world of af- fairs,

DUEL OF ELEPHANTS Brigadier-General.; LB. Boyd Moss, D.8.0., Koziótarý game rang- er in Tanganyika, tells this big game story in the 1935 report of the Tanganyika Game Department. Out hunting, the General fol- lowed two bull elephants. He shot. and stunned one, the larger. It quickly came to and immediately attacked the smaller, imagining it to. be the aggressor.

Instead of the usual Monday morning bustle in Smithfeld Meat Market, a strange brooding. aftence reigned to-day, and all round the mart were signs and echoes of the unofficial atrike which has paralysed business in Britain's greatest meat distributing centre. Millions of empty hooks proclaim- ed Smithfield's meatless day, and here and there small groups' ul salesmen discussed the stoppage and it effect on trade, while lone The General watched them ight, constables at strategic points seem-Eventually the smaller fell and ed uneasy and out of place on an the larger knelt on him and drove unfamiliar beat. Outside In ad- hls tusks into his side till he was joining, streets

à few thousand dead.

burly strikers introduced a new

note, in the history of industrial

strite by singing "Rule Britannia"

and "God Save the King" with a..

CABIN BOY. WHO LEFT *209,751

BT William Reardon Smith,

troupe of nigger minstrels who of Cornborough, Ts-Gwyn-road, had entertained them for two Penylah (Cardiff), started hours. Meanwhile 250 container loads of prime Aberdeenshire beef remained immobilised in the Broad Street goods station of the L.M.B. It may be some consolation for London housewives to know, how ever, that the latest mehods of re- frigeration used by the raliways in handling this meat trafic ensure that supplies can be kept in per- feet condition almost indefinitely,

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE While the question has not yet officially been discussed; I under- stand that one result of the death

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THE ARMY

New Director Of Mechanization

London, Feb. 6.

The War Office announces that Colonel A. E. Davidson, D.S.O., Aide- de Camp to the King, haa boun appointed Director of Mechanization, the War Office, with effect from June 20, 1936, in succession to Major-General A. Brough, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E. D.S.O. MILITARY APPOINTMENTS The War Office announces following appointments-

the

Colonel (local Brigadier) W. T Brooks, MC, to be Commander, Canal Brigade, Egypt, with effect from October 21, 1936,

Colonel H. I. Allen, D.S.O., to be General Staff Officer (1st Grade), the War Office, with effect from February

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Colonel A. G. C. Dawnay, CBE, D.S.O., to be Army Instructor, Im perial Defence College, with affoes from July next.

Colonel G. C G. Blunt, DSO, O.B.E., A.M.I. Mech. E to be Com macdant, Royal Army Service Corps Training Centre, with effect from April 25, 1936.

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9.--Nobody wou'd read a paper not set in this type (7). 12-Force of motion (7).

15. Send out a change of time

(4).

16. Chemical compound which would seem to be useful to a Cockney tanner (5). 17-A sham inixture this (4). 18. He appears to embrace no-

thing (4),

dying

The February number of The Fron Duke, the magazine of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, contains an account of the Mohmand operations which were concluded in November last. Lieutenant Colonel M. N. Cox. M.C., of the 2nd Battalion, commanded Nowshera and Peshawat Brigades 18-Sound tittered by a alternately, with the result that Major O. Price and Captains V. C. Green and A. & H. talion compare had periods of but Some interesting correspondence is given relating to the Abyssinian the old campaign of 1668, in which 33rd Foot took part. The letters in- cluule some which passed between Sir J. E. Collings, commander of the 2nd Robert Napier and Brigadier-General Brigade, who had previously been C. O. of the 33rd. The regiment was in this brigade and traversed the route now being taken by the Italians in Tigre Collings joined the 33rd in 1838 and retired as a general in 1881.

LONE WOMAN" IN »

5,600,000

Only One In Her Kind Of Job In Britain

London, Feb. 5. One woman stands out by har self from the 5,800,000 women workers in England and Wales.

She is the only woman clerk of works in the country.

Two women harbour officials- the only two-almost equal her i distinction.

In other occupations in which women are rare, six are "plano- tuners, seven stockbrokers, twenty aviators and twenty-four farmi bailiffs.

These figures were given by Mrs. Oliver Strachey, organising secre- tary of the Women's Employment. Federation at a Winner in London last night.

Of the total of women employed. she said, 408,000 were professional

Including nurses- wonen.

and

teachers, and 276,000 were carrying on Independent businesses.

The number in managerial post- tions was 131,500, while 22,000 were

in engaged hair-dressing and beauty, culture.

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There were 11,000 buyers and commercial travellers, 10,000 matrons in schools and institutions and 121 women auctioneers.

STARTING WRONG

Mrs. Strachey said that confused conditions of recruitment and widespread ignorance prevailed in the labour market.

"Girls of promise start on the wrong lines, women who have started find themselves at a dead end, and employers search and cannot get the staff they want."

she added.

Sir John Brook, vice-chairman

of the Electricity Commission, sald that there was a great opening for. educated women in the electrical

industry.

One company stated that older women made a greater impression in this work than the younger

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WIMBLEDON TO RETURN £15,0000

At least £15,000 will have to be returned.

London, Feb. 5. The ballot for reserved seats for career as a cablu, bar,

Wimbledon At his death he was a director the

lavin tennis of sixteen shipping and insurance championships has again been companies Including the Leeds heavily oversubscribed, Shipping Company, Reardon Smith Line., Ltd., Reardon Smith Naviga- tion Company, Ltd., Sir William Applications closed first on Mon- Reardon Brilth and Sons, Ltd., the day and the final post exceeded Devon Mutual Stearnship Insurance | all records.

the Britannia Austin Not to Play-Owing to Association, and Steamship Insurance Association, a mia attack of influenza, ♬ W. Ĺta.

Austin, Britain's No. 2 lawn tennis

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His will published yesterday, player, wil be unable to lead the showed that he left a fortune of London team against Paris at the £200,751, with bet personalty Dulwich Covered Courts Club on

February 13, 14 and 15. £116,483.

frog? (5). 20.-Naturally to be found among

the pick of the poetry (4). 21-480 sheets (4). 24-A song from the trees' (5). 26-A wearer of a tiara (4). 28 Vengeance is mine might

well be her slogan (7). 29-Longed for a change in any

deer (7).

30-Advice of little talie, para-

doxically enough, to those who want to economise (7) 31. Tls Maud we find in the

arena (7).

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2.--Composition from an Aleppo

emperor (4). · 3-We find the team in the

middle of departure (4). 4-Usually contains fodder, but

olis as well (4). 6.----Hait

(4).

(Don't stop. though)

7-Ee prolific (4). 8-You'll find us at the back of of this musical- composition (4).

9-Bird of straw ,(7). 10-Party edible matériai (7).

11. Quick! Here's a word to br thi's found at the top of page (7)

1. 12-Perfectly (7).

13.-This closes à mouth of de- structive possibilities (7). 14-Electrically stimulated, shall

we say? (7). 22-Fish from the dregs (4).. 23.-An ingredient of 17. maybe

(4).

24. They have their points, and sometimes associated

are

with other pointed produc- tions (4).

25.-It's Atting to give 7 a turn

(4). 26,--Gosd. In a sense (4).

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27.-Country of S America (4). YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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Old Clothes at.

The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:-

Across

Down

1. Egyptian; 8, Antique; 9. Con- 1, Etcetera; 2. Yankee: 3. Tick- science; 10. Rough; 12, Twenty; 13, tack; 4 Aged: 5, One: 6, Vigo; 7, Hire: 14. Bad; 16. Chap: 17, Bleeps: Bung, 8. Acrid: 10, Register; 11 18. Aback; 22. Balustrade; 23, Bale-Hogshead; 13. Hap; 14, Banal: 15. Decamp; 19, Boar: 20, Crew: 21, ful; 24, Interpid.

Turn; 22, But.

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