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All the furniture and effects of the Fort were removed some time ago for storage in Windsor Castle. Many offers have been made for a lease of the Fort, and it was believed at one time that the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were to take it over as a country home.

NEW COINAGE FOR

NEW REIGN

Limited Supply Of Gold Pieces

"At a Privy Council meeting the King signed a Proclamation giving currency to the coins for the new reign.

There will be 18 new coina alto- gether, including a limited supply of gold pleces minted at £5, £2.

£1 and 10s...

These will bear the once-fami- lar George and Dragon on their reverse sides, and the King's head on the other.

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certain number of the new coins will be available for ordinary purposes before the Coronation. Special souveni sets are being prepared, and are expected to be ready by June.

One will include specimens of all the coins, including the gold pieces, in a leather case, at a cost

of £21.

Another set, without gold coins, will cost 308.

of our bronze coins.

THE NEW 23 PIECES Now the Mint authorities have yielded so far as to restore the lighthouse, but the ship is still missing.

Advice

Mr. Walter Daniel presided and Lord Willingdon, former Viceroy of India and now Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, was one of the principal guests at the Ramsgate Chamber of Commerce and Ad- vancement Association annual din- ner at Ramsgate."

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

May Lead To Cure PUBLIC AUCTION

For 'Flu The sneeze of a ferret may lead THE Undersigned have received to the discovery of a vaccine which" will make man immune against in- duenza, states the "Evening Stan- dard."

The story is told in the report of the Medical Research Council for 1935-38.

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In the past, although the THURSDAY, evidence was strong that the 'virus propagated in the ferret was the cause "of epidemic influenza in man. it was not complete. At- tempts to transmit the virus to

human volunteers had failed.

Then an accident effected the

transmission which had folled re- search workers,

After 45 hours Dr. Stuart-Harris had a sharp attack of influenza. It reached its climax on the third day with a temperature or 102

ANTI-VIRUS

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APRIL 22, 1937.

Commencing at 11,00 À.M.

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Lord Willingdon said that from his experience of India. he thought it was much better at this junc- ture to leave the administration of India to the people who were there on the spot. He had perfect con- fidence that the Viceroy and the Governors would deal satisfac- torily with what appeared to be rather a dificult situation.

Virus originally obtained from a Referring to his return to Eng-human, but afterwards passed FURNITURE & SUNDRIES land after 25 years in other parts through 196 ferrets in serica, was of the Empire, Lord Willingdon used to infect a" small batch of said that he found there had been

ferrets. One of these, heavily in- enormous political changes, parti-

fected, sneezed violently while it | TERMS :-CASH ON DELIVERY. cu'arly with regard to political

was being examined py Dr. Stuart- parties. He could not help feeling

Harris. that the Conservatism of the pre- sent day had gone far beyond the Liberalism that he had known. Fortunately he was in the House of Lords and there was a happy haven of rest there called the cross benches, and he 'proposed to remain firmly fixed on the cross benches and hoped to find there others with whom he could talk about the good old times. He was sure that fundamentally the Houses of Parliament had the complete confidence of the people of the country. He was an Intense believer in democratic rule. While some constitutional changes might arise in the Houses of Parliament in future years, they would all continue to act in a spirit of oyalty and devotion to the Sovereign with a sincere desire for the welfare of all classes of the people and a determination to uphold in every way the influence and prosperity of the greatest Empire the world had ever known.

Suggestion That King Be Crowned In Scotland

Dr. Wilson Smith followed the attack. Samples taken for investi- gation up to the fourth day were directly infective, not only for fer- rets but also for mice. This was the first time, in which mice had been successfully infected with material directly from a human being.

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A sample of Dr." Stuart-Harris's' blood serum indicated that anti- body for the virus of human in- Auenza had begun to appear early In the course of the attack. It con- tinued to develop to the 31st day.

"This experience," states the report, provided the important link completing the chain of evidence for the identity of the virus, maintained and studied for over two years in ferrets, as the cause of human influenza; it also provides additional evidence, of a connection between the virus- FINE BLACK WOOD AND neutralising antibody in the blood TEAK WOOD FURNITURE serum and resistance to infection." Substantial progress had been and Dr.

St. Andrews Town Counell have agreed to take no action with re-made by Dr. Andrewes gard to a letter received from Mr. Smith towards the production J. M. MacCormack, honorary from "the virus."of a vaccine of of the Scottish Nationalist Party, sufficient potency and purity to be asking for support to the sugges-tested for its value in immunising ton that "the crowned in Scotland.

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The letter points out that a Scot- tish. lady has become Queen of the realm. The tendency was to think For many years there has been a popular demand for the restora- and speak of the Coronation as an

English ceremony, and this would | to confer a substantial degree of tion of the famous ship and light-be effectively corrected by the resistance to infection by the rea- house which, until 1895, was an in-crowning of the King in Scotland.piratory passages. Trials of its trinsic part of the reverse design Even if a double Coronation was immunising effect on man are vi

not strictly logical it would be a ready in progress and the value of graceful recognition of Scotland's cultures of virus grown on the me- theoretical equality.

dium containing chicken embryo, There was no single body able to as already tried in America, will be express public opinion in Scotland.

the subject of comparative ex-TERMS-Cash on Delivery, and they were therefore approach-periments."

The report adds the warning ing local authorities with a view to having the suggestion carried that It would be dangerously pre- out.

mature as yet to attempt to esti- Amusement was caused when mate the probability of the suc- cess of such methods in practical Councillor David Fraser suggested that if the King was to be crown-preventive treatment. Further ed in Scotland, St. Andrews would evidence as to the persistence of protective evidence will be requir- ed for any assessment of the prac- tical value of the method,

Last night the B.B.C. broadcast a talk on the coins by Mr. R. J. Martin, who described the new two shilling pleces. Each will have a different "tail" design, but the

King's bead will appear on bath

the coins.

The new threepenny piece will be made of yellow alloy, resem-. bling certain Continental coinage. It will be larger than the existing sixpence, and the design will in- clude the thrift plant.

be the most suitable place.

The Oldest Dukedom

"But," it adds, "while caution is necessary with regard to the Im- mediate prospect, there is ample Justification for new hope of the futura.

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DOCTORS REJECT 11.000 MEN

21,975 Army Recruits Last Year

Mr. Martin said that the five- shilling piece would be struck again. King Edward VII; had the

"The discovery that influenza is crown minted in 1902, but it was

to omitted from the new coinage of

due to a virus, transmissible

The annual report on the Bri- King George V. in 1911. It has

lower animals and thus "available

tlah Army for experimental study, has al- September 30, 1936, Issued recently for the year ended always been an unpopular coin. owing largely to the bulk, and

ready promoted such a rapid and states that of 41,045 men who many people regard it as unlucky, styled the Black Prince than by his accelerating growth of knowledge applied for admission, to the Army, concerning its nature as to justify 21,976 were anally approved. hope that the means for the pro- 11,000 were rejected by medical tection of mankind may eventually reasons, and nearly 3,000 by re- be forthcoming.”

On March 17, 1337, six hundred years ago, Edward of Woodstock, the seven-year-old son of King❘ Edward I, was created Duke of Cornwall He was already Earl of Chester, and a few years later be camo Prince of Wales, though in the history books he is more often more formal titles. The creation was the beginning of a new rank in the English peerage, for the TO EMPIRE

Duke of Cornwall was the first English duke. The title, to which Visitors to the Daily Mail Ideat landa erected Into the Duchy of Home Exhibition, which is being Cornwall were annexed was in- held at Olympis, Kensington, W., tended to be held by the eldest son are able to speak on the radio-tele--| of each English king. For greater phone to various parts of the solemnity the Arst Duke was so Empire and the Continent without | created in full Parliament, and charge.

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£6,000 'PLANE FOR

crafters on other grounds. Casual" ties before attestation mumbered 17,723, and after attestation 1,347.

Thirty-two thousand recrufta were required for the year ending September 30 last. There was a deficit at that date of 10,000...

During the year men were.

DUKE OF WINDSOR

The Duke of Windsor is to sell several times since Parliament has his de Havilland Dragon Rapide confirmed or approved changes of aeroplane-the well-known scarlet attested who were below the inheritance not strictly in accord- and blue 260 horse-power machine physical standard to see it by ance with the wording of the ori- | which he has used since 1933—and physical training and improved ginal remainder.

& new £6,000 plane will be de- diet they could be brought up to Although it is the oldest English livered to him early this summer, standard within a reasonable dukedom it has rarely been the The Dragon, always piloted by period. Out of 33 such recruits 31. actual designation of its holders, the Captain of the King's Flight, | had been made fit enough to start for usually the dukes have also Wing-Commander Edward Fielden, training at regimental depots.ma been Princes of Wales. For most cost £5,000, and carried the Duke

Other steps to improve recruit- of 1901 George V, and for a month as Prince of Wales and as King of 1910 Edward VII, had no higher Edward yuton many momenting. It is stated, have included the title than Duke of Cornwall But ous fights. whether he was known as Prince of Wales or as Duke of Cornwall

the eldest son of an Engilar king to the king having had no son. has always enjoyed the vast re- During the last and the present venuer of the Duchy of Cornwall reigns there has been no Dhike of For more than two hundred of the Cornwall, but if the King were to six hundred years of its existence have a son he would be Duke of the title has been dormant owing Cornwall from his birth.

the

grant of an extra week's furlough to serving soldiers on the under- etending that they devoted time to searching for recruité for their own reglinent.

Investigations were being made

to ascertain if it were possible to obtain recruits from the Do- minions and Colonies.