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INDIAN RULER'S

TOUR.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1925.

OFFICER SENT TO PRISON.

MAHARAJAH OF JODHPUR SECOND FATAL ACCIDENT.

PLEASED.

the 27me It has Insted six

RUBBER FROM POTATOES.

SCIENTIST INTERESTING

OLAIM.

Capt. Hugh Spooner, aged 26, a former officer in the Indian Army Borlin, November 15.-Gormon and now a breeder of pole ponies, scientists accidentally discovered was sentenced to twelve months a process making a good grade of imprisonment in the second divi- rubber from, potatoes, according sion at the last Berkshire Assizes. to an article appearing in to-day's

The Maharajah of Jodhpur and his younger brother, Maharaj Ajib Singh, with their famthes, are on their way back to India after a first visit to England, says

· He was charged with the man-issue of the national scientific, months, and has had a feature of slaughter of a labourer who was journal, Chemiker-Zeitung. In public interest in the prosence of killed by his car.

the course of experiments design- the Maharani and of her sistor-

Spooner had been to an Indian ad to perfect a method of manu- in-law. This is the first occasion Cavalry dinner and in the early facturing synthetic rubber, it of a great Rathor Rajput Prince morning went to a London caba was found that the potato con- After driving one of the tained large quantities of tho being accompanied to Europe by ret. his wife and the maintenance of dancing instructresses home he most important ingredient of strict purdah throughout the drove back to his house at Wok-rubber.

This led to further expori- visit. To secure their privacy ingham, Berks, on the way knock- the Maharajah took the unusual ing down a man named Rance monts, according to the article, step on the part of a visiting just outside the smail Berkshire with the rosult that a quantity of Prince of renting a mansion far

potato rubber" was made and A man who was cycling with found to compare favourably in from Central London-- Belmont, Parkside, overlooking the victim said that Spooner was quality and cost with the ordinary the Putney end of Wimbledon driving on the wrong side of the Malaya product.-United Press. Common. Here a

second sor road and drove straight at them. The defence was that Spooner was born to their Highnesses in the

it is did not see the cyclists until he believed to he the first son was right on top of them. Ho of a great Indian Ruling House said that he had only had two to be born in England, Without drinks after dinner and drank any departure from the rule of nothing at all at the oabaret. He eclusion from public gaze, the explained his prosonce on the Maharani recently experienced wrong side of the road by stating an hour's flying at Croydon that he had just pulled out in

out

Aerodrome.

summer, and

tuwil.

order to avoid a cart.

Dr. Curl said that he examined Though a fine horseman and good polo player, the Maharajah Spooner after the collision. He stood down from, the polo team

was sober though rather excited, It was stuted that Spooner suf- which he brought over with him. The 60 ponies accompanying thefered from a rather peculiar afflic- At timos he team wore re-shipped on Septem-tion of the eyes, ber 12 and have now reached could only see out of one eye India. Before leaving London, though he would not be aware the Maharajah said he had no that the other was not function Loccasion to be other than welling properly.

satisfied with the muneer in which the team had played. noticed how much heavier the ponies were in this country; if the season had been 'wet instead of fine during the height of the summer the lightness of his ponies would havo boon Home- thing of #1 handicap. The Maharajah added that he had much enjoyed his autumn visit to the Highlands, and had found deer-stalking excellent sport. When visiting Lord Belhaven and Stonton, at Wishaw, Lanark, he bad the experience of going down a coal mine and working for a time on the coal face. He

Spooner admitted that his car Hoad killed a man at Sandhurst, Berks, in January and that he had been involved in six ac- cidents during the past twelve months.

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Amplifying experiments in the House of Lords having proved successful, arrangements were] recently made for the installation of microphones and carpiacos be- fore the next sitting.

The experiments were made before various peers and members of the special Committee," said an official of the Marconiphone The Company the other day. acoustic problems of the Cham- ber have now been finally solvad. The installation will help both the members of the House and the Pressmen in the gallery.

Three miorophones are to be used, two on the table between the "Government and Opposition benches and the third near the hoped at some future time to soo Woolack. They will be decorat- other aspects of British indus-red with a heradie design. trialism. He had met old friends and been privileged to make many new ones, and he would remember his cordial reception and the warmth of the tributes so many had paid to the memory of his uncle, General Maharajah Sir Pertab Singh.

"The Lords' benches will ba equipped with special headphones and double headphones will be available for the Pressmen.

"The possibility of any portion of a specch being lost by anyone. in the Chamber will now be so remote as to be negligible."-

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