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It is a tribute ellher to the con- scientiousness or the wisdom of MPs that Ascot does hot seem to be luring many from their posts of duty. A large at- tendance yesterday was rewarded with some Lively passages during question, ume.

Mr. Robert Bernays, who has

constituted himself the critic

of

the women M.Ps, succeeded in í silencing Miss Wilkinson with al remark which drew laughter.

Miss Wilkinson, was showing a keen interest in the placing of or- ders for defence materials.

Suddenly Mr. Bernays said. "I the Minister of Defence not aware that the honourable lady has op- posed any form of defence on every occasion?"

MR. SMITH SCENTS A PLOT

It remained for Mr, suis smien, of Staffordshire, to bring the big- gest laugh of the afternoon. This new member has a voice consider ably larger than the rest of him,

Yesterday he was deeply con- cerned about the counwy-house meeting of Herr von Ribbentrop and Alr-Marshal Sir Edward

Portland,

A model of the battle-cruiser Repulse will visit Swanage on July 22 and Weymouth, and Dor-

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connection with Navy Week. Axminister, Lyme Regis, and The picture, which has been

Benton will be visited the next commissioned by the governors of day, Lieut. French of the hospital and by Old Bart's H.MS. Vernon, will be in charge men all over the world will be of the model. painted by Mr. William Nicholson.

H.M.A. Torrid, which was for When it is finished it will be merly in the First Anti-Submarine presented to Lord Horder, who will Flotilla at Portland, and which in turn present it to the hospital. has been it will be placed on an easel in the ance last autumn is to rejoin the រ

serving at Alexansizla

Great Hall beside the 25 other por- | Botilla at Portland shortly. traits of famous Bart's men will be under the command of the past.

Com. C. G. N. Graham, why Among these the best known. is hitherto has been in command of that of John Abernethy, the grea- the Colombo in the Nore Reserve test surgeon that ever came" out of Upon his retirement after 4writers, Gramophones and Records, Bart's. The most recent is that of years service in the Navy and Cash Register, Befrigerator, Sewing Sir Anthony Bowlby, formerly Pre-ELM. Dockyards, Mr. George Bull. Machines, Clock, Electric Table sident of the Royal College of Sur- of Weymouth, has been presented Fans and Lamps, Porcelain and geons, who died in 1929. i.

with the Imperial Sevice Medal. | Glass Ware, Braaa and E. P. Wara, The presentation of the portrait In making the presentation. Capt. Catlery, Mirrors, Pictures, Linen, this year will be peculiarly ap- B. Cloete, Captain-in-Charge Curtains, Ice Chests, Filters, Orna. propriate. It was in 1896-40 Portland Dockyard, thanked him ments, etc., etc. years ago that Lord Horder quali- for his faithful service on behalf congratulated filed from Bart's. He is still a con- of the King. and sulting physician to the hospital.

Mr. Bull joined the Navy

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OF VIEW FROM THURSDAY, THE 29 JULY, 1936.

at the age of 16, when he enter- ONE Steel Desk ged the trainingship Boscawen.al At the Provost's funeral several Portland. After nine years in the old Etonians remarked on the sad Navy he had an accident, and co-incidence that he should have was invalided out of the Bervice. He served during the war and been buried in Ascot Week.

subsequently returned to the They

Dockyard service. were that such meetings must prove. en legend that the Provost, when s tirely advantageous, Mr. Smith drew himself up to his full five i feet four inches,

Allington.

When the Prime Minister said

remembering the

boy, had cycled to Ascot and back during the races.

en-

This was prompted by thusiasm not for racing but for cycling. As a keen cyclist be alght

been able have

to cover, o

"Mr. Speaker. I beg to give notice that at the end of question time I shall move the adjournment of House on this important question."

It must have been a good two a machine of the 'seventies, the minutes before the laughter sub-eight miles from Eton to the course

in an hour." sided.

Whatever means of transport he adopted an Eton boy could not nowadays visit Ascot without de-

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MR. SPEAKER AS TACTICIAN But the new member had not reckoned on that skilled tactician, "tection.

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Mr. Speaker. Ar Mr. Smith began: Tuesday and Thursday in Ascot to unfold the true inwardness of Week are not-as they are usually the country-house plot the Speak-half-holidays. School therefore lasts till four o'clock. Absence is

er rose.

It was one of his duties, he called at 4.30. pointed out, to decide whether a Incidentally, the new Head- motion for adjournment should be master has shown himself to be discussed or not. On this occasion | by` no means prejudiced in the he saw reason to allow the dis- maiter of racing. He went tids year to the Derby as the guest of Lord Derby.

cussion.

"With all due respect," said Mr. Smith. "I would like to say that:

this country is the greatest de- mocracy in the world."

QUEEN VICTORIA'S FIRST

VISIT

Charles Greville, that great rac-

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The ashes of Col. C. Saunders TERMS:-O ON DELIVERY. one-time commanding officer the Dorset Regt., of Weymouth, were scattered on Weymouth Bay. was a prominent Col Saunders member of Weymouth and Castle Cove Sailing Club, and about 30 sailing crait of both clubs salled out in the bay and anchored in the form of a V. At noon. Mr. AD. Hownam-Meck, a personal friend of Col. Saunders, scattered the ashes. all crews standing bareheaded. Floral tributes were cast into the Bax, before tne escort dispersed.

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THE KING TO TRAVEL ON THE 'ENCHANTRESS”

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THREE POWER CONFERENCE

Italy Declines To Accept

Tondon." July 20.- Arrangements for a three power meeting which it is hoped to hold, in London later this week are #tiil under discussion. between'

the three Governments. *** The Foreign Secretary · explained at. the House of Commons' question time that the Italian Govern- ment "were recently invited by the Belgian Government ini accor- For Unveiling Ceremony

dance with the Geneva communi- que of July 3 to take part in the conversations with the British, London, July 20.

French and Belgian Governments. to France The Italian Government had de-

The King will" cross

German

"Even that" replied the Speak- er, "does not alter the case."

ing man, and one of Bir Maurice on the Admiralty Yacht Enchanclined. It is known, however, Mr.

to unveil the "that the Italian and Hardie, brother of the Hankey's predecessors as Clerk of tress on his way ramour Keir, then leaped into the the Privy Council, occasionally Canadian war Memorial at Vimy Governments have been and will fray. He was quite purple with mentions in his memoirs the As- Ridge. His Majesty will embark be kept informed with regard to at Portsmouth on Saturday even-the proposed three-power, meeting indignation when he was ruled out cots of 100 years ago,

In 1838--Queen Victoria's frating and will proceed by a special which is expected to lead in due of order."

train from Calals to Arras on course to & five power conversa- "But I was on my feet," he pro- Ascot he writes: • tested..

A great concourse of people on Sunday morning.

tions- British Wirèlez. "go was I," said the Speakerceived; some shouting, not a great Thursday; the Queen' tolerably re-

British: Wireless. calmly. "The Clerk will now pro- deal, and few hats taken off. This ceed to read the orders of the mark of respect has quite enne day."

CORONATION FIRST COMMISSIONER

Lord Stanhope attended his first Cuoiner meeting yesterday morn- Ing. He had been appointed the previous evening, and was sworn in immediately" before the meeting For the time being he wili, I. un- derstand continue to answer ques- tous in the House of Lords on foreign affairs. His first big pub ile duties as First Commissioner of Works will be in connection with the Coronation..

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out of use, and neither her station nor her sex procures 11.

Two years later, on the other hand, he notes that "nothing could he more enthusiastic than her re- ception at Ascot,"

In 1835, when riding to the course from Stoke Poges, where he was staying, he met one of WIL liam IV's sons."

together FitzClarence said to Gre- As they crossed Windsor Park

vile that he had told his father he must give a dinner for the Ascot races

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Message Receipts

20th of each month, and as the course of these traffic receipts has An index number" will be issued in time for publication on the

always afforded a valuable indication of world trading and com- "You know I cannot give a din-mercial activity, it is hoped that, in addition to providing an in- The Duke of Norfolk, as Earner," William IV. answered. dication of the Company's traffic for its stockholders, it will be Marshal, is responsible for all the cannot give any dinners without round of value to observers of world economic conditions. Coronation arrangements, His has inviting my Ministers, and I would

a Coronation Committee to assist him.

rather see the Devil than any one of them 'in' my house."

VICTORY FOR A LOST CAUSE

Index Numbers

If precedent is followed, the heads of the departments concern- ed, such as the First Cominissioner of Works and the Commissioner of Police, will be members of this committee.

Among his other duties Lord Stanhope will have to arrange the sites of stands on the Coronation Dr. Fotheringham led the anti-a comparable basis route and superintend their erec-smoking forces to a minor victory. tion.

The resolution to allow smoking in The First Commissioner at the the rooms adjoining the Radchre time of King George's Coronation Science Library was lost, th was also a peer-Lord Beauchamp At King Edward's the office was held by a commoner→→Mr. Akers Douglas, afterwards the Arst Lord Chilston; and father of the present Ambassador in Moscow.

These index numbers represent the estimated monthly receipta from traffic as related to comparable trafic in the year 1920. It

There was "a whiff of the old should be noted that since 1929 the operation in various overseas "home of lost causes? Oxford in areas has been taken over at different dates by the local sasociated, Dr. J. K. Fotheringham's remark | companies, and the total figures for 1929 taken for purpose of com- In Congregation that smoking is a parison in establishing the Index 100 have therefore been adjusted very serious interference with in- when necessary by the omission of the receipts accruing in the areas tellectual activity.

affected. The index numbers are, in consequence all shown upon

BARTS TO LORD HORDER

understand that Lard Horder, who retired from the most senilor, physician to Barts last

of

the scene of the last great victory Curiously enough, Abyssinis was won by the anti-nicotiners. The ifts was the Emperor Menelek. Napoleon who gained this Auster-

One day after dinner he smoked a pipe. The consequences were disastrous for his dinner. Menelek thereupon sued a proclamation forbidding his subjects to smoke..

PETERBOROUGH

Monthly figures reduced to working day average. year

Working day average of comparable receipts. Jag pum.00

January February March April

May

June

July

1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1938, 96.0 76.3 73.4 69.0 71.8 73.2 71.2 95.7 81.2 82.8 71.7: 747 844-73.3 94.5 79.6 77.6. 704 72.3 76.1 70.0 949 745 714 TLB 710 74.0 (713) 86.2 68.8 67,7, 70.7 73.1 72,5'-- 67.6.

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