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MINE DISASTERS.

AT LEAST 65 DEAD.

Londén, Mar. 2.

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Their Majesties have telegraphed condolences to the sufferers in the colliery disasters. wherein there are at least sixty-five dead.

Despite the official announca ment that there is only the faintest hope of rescuing more of the en- tombed men small knots of wives carrying babes, clinging desper ately to the hope that the тол might somehow return, waited in the cold in vain at the Cwm Pithend all night long. There were harrowing scenes.

LATE SIR ROBERT JARDINE.

FUNDRAL AT LOCKERBIE.

THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.

BOY HERO.

DEATH AS. A LONDON' FIREMAN,

"One of the best-loved men in

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1927.

400-YEARS-OLD INN.

SHORTLY TO BE PULLED

DOWN.

"Ono, of London's oldest inns, The funeral took place on February 3 of Sir Robert W. the brigade," was the unanimous. the Camberwell Grove Tavern, Is Buchanan Jardine, Bart. of Castle opinion of the 50 London firemen being pulled down and rebuilt. Milk, Lockerble, to the family and Salvage Corps men who walk-It is reputed to be 400 years old, burial ground in St. Mungo Churched beside the coffin of Fireman and has many bistorical associ yard. There was a large body of Aubrey Morgan as it was currictions. mourners from Д wide area through a heavy snowstorm to the A Daily Chronicle representn- Representatives from Lockerbie cemetery at Willesden, N. W., re-tive found recently that one-half Town Council and many

other cently.

of the promises had been demo- public bodies were present, as well

Fireman Morgan, who lived, atlished. The old coaching yard as the tenuntry and workers on the

and had Harlesden, N.W..

boon and the balcony are partially estates of Castle Milk, Wamphray, Dinwoodle, Corrie, &c. A service tive years at the Euston fire sta-gone, and the clock has disappear- was conducted in front of the castle tion, died from anemia at the ed from the clock-face in the by the Rev. A. S. G. Gilchrist, B.D., early age of 26. Thirteen of these courtyard. M.C., minister of Applegarth. 26 years were crammed with ad-

The collin of polished oak, with ventures as n Iloyal Marine,

tassels. purple

and gunmetal policeman, and a fireman He was mountings, was conveyed on an the youngest soldier at the open carriage drawn by two horses nowned defence ef. Antwerp, in Although the disaster is atiri-to the churchyard. It was covered which the Royal Marines took a buted to an explosion, few of the by many beautiful wrenlhs from miners heard a sound. They were the family and other friends, while part, in 1914. unaware of their danger until they vo lorries were also filled with throat and began iq Kasp for Castle Milk rising colours of blue felt a clutching stricture of the floral tributes, and draped in the

at

Twelvo canaries' lowered varying intervals were brought up dead before the air cleared and porniission was given to continue

the rescue.

breath.

Tragedy.

Hardly a street in Cwm does not mourn the loss of a relative. One woman lost her husband and two gons, another her husband and son- in-law, another two sons. Ond victim leaves seven children, in cluding a baby two months old for whose life the mother paid with her own.

The rescuers described the heart. ronding expedition below, in one case they found a man lying dead, his two arms still under the shoulders of a friend whom he was dragging to the shaft, where death claimed both.-Router.

Wounded at 14.

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In the wine cellar is a wooden palisade covering a dark passage.

This was said ohee to be the re-entrance to a secret passage, and has been associated with Dick Turpin. The passage goes under- ground for nearly 100ft. after a descent of a flight ofratens.

He was then only 14, but he dia-

played great bravery and was

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Last Thatched Cottage. IL was in Camberwell-grove, Į and silver. The cortego was es-

wounded. When his colleagues which still has its real grove of Limated to be over a mile in length.

to Dunkirk in trees and the last thatched, cot- On arrival at the churchyard the were ordered enfin was carried to the graveside. August 1914 Bugier Morgan wastage in London, that Joseph Cham- by several of Sir Robert's em lold that he was too young to go,berlain was born. ployees. The grave

was lined but his entreaties to his command- Camberwell Grove with ivy, laurels, snowdrops, anding officer were so persistent that associated with the history of the tulips,

at last he was allowed to hecom- Camberwell Club, a society com pany the Royal Marines. An' - posed of clergymen, lawyers and count of his conduct at Antwerp, merchants. issued in November 1914, rel:A writer in Old and New Lon

His bravery was marvellous doa says that "snug dinners, He ran all over the firing zone, stray balls and quarterly feasts taking every manner of risk and were the principal duties which the not a whit perturbed by the members were called upon to shells bursting around him. At perform; and right well did they last' a fragment hit him in the acquit themselves, if report be lex.

true."

The pall-bearers were Sir John W. Buchanan Jardine, Comlongon Castle (son); Colonel Bell-Irving London (cousin); Major Rickman, London (brother-in-law); Mr. John Johnstone of Halleaths; Major H. Koswick, Cowhill: Mr. R. Jardine Paterson df Balgray; Mr. W. Jardine Gresson, Stoke House,

Severn, Stoke: Captain J. Bell- Irving, Whitehill; Mr. D. Landale of Dalswinton; Mr. I. Caven Irving of Burnfoot; and Mr. J. M. Aitken, Norwood.

The chief mourners also included HANDSOME DONATION. Lady Buchanan Jardine, Castle

JAPANESE GIFT FOR JAPANESE STUDENTS,

Milk: Mrs. Owen Peal, Castle Blehanan Milk: Lady J. W. Jardine, Comlungon Castle; Mr. Anthony Lowther, representing the Earl of Lonsdale; Mr. J. H. Milne Home, representing his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch; and Mr. John Henderson, representing Mr. Hope Johnstone of Annandale.

He was nursed in Antworp by the Belgian Countess Gonslose.. who wrote to the boy's mother, God bless your dear, brave boy."

A Reply to the King.

At the immortal attack on Zee-

Brugge, Morgan, then only 18, again covered himself with glory. When the King inspected the men, before they left for their great ad- venture he remarked that Morgan leoked very young.

"But I'm 19 and old enough to

Parta, Mar. 3. The papers report the recent signing in the Chamber of Deputies Among the general body of by the Reetor of the Paris Univer-mourners were Mr. J. Hartley" proudly replied the youth. sity of a dued donating 8,050,000 Bibby, Liverpool: Air R. T. He was brought back the next day, franes given by the Tokio citizen, Waugh, Newmarket; Mr. Stanley gassed. Jirchachi Satsuma, for the build-Smallwood, representing Mr. Al

One of the most prized posses

Charles Dickens gives a vivii account of a ball which took place in the grounds of the tavern in his "Sketches by Boz." The dance was got up by certain "aspiring" inhabitants.

Another celebrated character has associations with the Grove Tavern. In 1802 an engraving was published showing that the

the scene Lavern was

of some famous political meetings. Mr. of Tierney, the great friend Charles James Fox, was elected M.P. for Southwark in 1802, and the picture shows "Citizen" Tier- ney being drawn 'in a carriage in

ing and operating of an edifice to be Tred Smallwood: Mr. T, Coulth- ions was his certificate of service state to the tavern. reserved for Japanese studying in white. Hednesford; Mr. R. J. Coll- Paris, as well as for Japanese pro-ing, Bedford Lodge, Newmarket; which contained the following i fessors and scholars making re- Major Galbraith. The Baronyeption: "Participated in ballot searches in Paris.-Navas,

Colonel Carruthers, Dormont; for award of Victoria Cross grant Mr. 11 W. F. Hunter-Arundell, for operations against Zeebrugge Barjang; Mr. J. Stewart Lyon of and Ostend on the night of 22nd Kirkmichael; Mr. D. J. Bell-Irving, fie 2lrd April, 1918."

He left the Royal Marines in 1919 and became a policeman for two years.

THE GLADSTONE DOCK. The Hewke; Mr. H. S. Gordon of

OFFICIAL OPENING BY THEIR MAJESTIES.

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London, March 2.

The Gladstone Dock at Liverpool which has cost about £7.500,00 and adds 66 acres of new dock and nearly three miles of quays to the port, will be officially opened by Their Majesties the King and Queen next July. The flooding of the new docks began some weeks ago. British Wireless.

BIG WHISKY HAUL.

12,500 CASES SEIZED ON PACIFIC COAST.

Glenne.

During the hours of the funeral the shops and places of business in Lockerbie were closed.

OBITUARY

JUDICIAL COMMISSIONER OF MALAYA,

Briddell was the Thomas - Bruddell,

120-YEARS-OLD PARROT.

GOOD OLD DAYS OF 1801.

eldest son of feathers and 2

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SIR HARRY LAUDER.

TO ACT IN NEW BRITISH FILM.

Sir Harry Lauder has just ar- ranged to take a principal part in a film to be made in Great Britain this year based on Mr. John Bu- Gan's adventure.novel "Hunting- tower."

Sir Harry will play the elderly Scot who suddenly goes knight- erranting in company with a young man and some undaunted Boy Scouts,

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"MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO"

A parrot, belleved to be more

Sir Harry's engagement for this Sir Thomas Braddoll, lato Chief than 120 years old, is at present Judicial Commissioner, Federated living in a house in Philbeach film should ensure a market for the Malay States, died at Folkestone Gardens, S.W. This bird, though picture in America more favour- on January 21, at the age of 70. devoid of feathers on its brea-table than could have been secured Thomas de Multan Leo and back, still has fine red tail by the engagement of any Ameri-

mass of grey can film star: C.M.G., of feathers on its wings. All day Rabeengrany, Ca. Wicklow, who was Attorney-General of the Straitstalks, swings on a rope, and plays long, despite his reputed age, be

Settlements for 15 years. Born on November 5, 1850, he was sent to with a ball. Brighton College, and afterwards went up to Worcester College, San Francisco, Mar. 2.

Oxford. In 1879 he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, inl," The "Federalship," the largest. having married Ida. daughter of vessel engaged in rumrunning of Mr. John Roberts Kirby, sailed for the Pacific seaboard, and recently Singapore, and joined his father in transferred from the British to practice. In 1007 he was appointed the Panaman register, has, heen.

n Paine Jugo, and in 1911 he be- seized 300 miles to the southwest cama Attorney-General In 1913 *with 12,500 салев of whisky he went to the Federated Malay aboard.-Reuter's American Ser-States na Ohief Judicial Commis sioner, was keighted in 1914, and retired in 1017.

vice.

THE U.S. NAVY.

SENATE APPROVES BILL FOR MODERNISING.

Washington, Mar. 2. The Senate has approved the Bill authorising appropriations already passed by the House of Representatives for the modernis ing of the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada, including the eleva tlon of the turret guns and the completion of three ships. now constructing-Reuter's American

Service.

BRITISH UNEMPLOY-

MENT.

London, March 2.·· Ometal figures for the week end- 1ng February 21st show a reduction in rogistored unemployed of 74,117 on the provious week.--British Wireless,

Sir Thoms, like his father, was a keca Freemason, and in his time. was master of Lodge St George and of Hond Lodgo, Kuala Lunipur; he was also District Grand Senior Worden. In Was very fond of yachting, swimming, and all sports connected with the sea or river. He was also a gond actor in hin 136 much days. He youngor

character, esteemed for his fine

sincerity, and kindliness. He leaves four sorts and two daughters; his oldest son, Roland,. followed his father as a barrister at Singapore. Sir Thomas's younger brother, R.W. Glen Loe Braddell, won his tennis half-blas at

Oxford, and wha amatour lawn-tonnis champion of the North of England; his son, Robert Lyttelton Leo Brnddell, was captain of the Association football cricket tonm and played in the XI. at Oxford, and also played Association for England.

Sir John Gilbert, an ex-chairman of the London. County Council, at Putnoy sald that the classes for waiters had not been very suc cessful becauso it seemed that the English boy's temperament did not at in with such a profession.

Col. W. B. Ferris, its owner, told Daily Mail reporter something of its story. He said:

WHAT IT REALLY MEANS. Broadly speaking, health is de-

I have known Peter, my par-termined by a sane mind in a rot, for 55 years, and he was just us bald in 1872 as he is

now. time,

sound body. Translated into sim- He was in India at thepler terms, this means right think- the property of theng and right living To imagine Maharajah of Kolhapur, and that one may live as he pleases, was then known to be of great and thereafter look to medicine to counteract neglect and abuse of the system, is fatuous.

age.

The maharajah told me he was originally the tribal mascot of the Rajah of Sutara. In 1801

British soldier captured him spells soundness of the body and after a battle between the Engsaneness of mind, many common lish and the Rajah, but he was maladies would be banished for- uver. It is in the blood-stream reterned later.

that appear, 'eventually, the vital ingredients derived from nouzish- ment, modified by numerous pro- cesses into the required form.

Did the average person but realize how soundness of the blood

In 1844 he was handed to the Maharajah of Kolhapur, who gave him to me. Peter was then known for hundreds of miles round as the "Maharajah Parrot."

Present-day modes of living tend to bring about an unsound condi Since 1908 Peter has been in tion of the blood and nerves. and all the There is no corrective more effi- England with me children round know him. He clent when such conditions aro mimics all their voices and will present than Dr. Williams' Pink imitate anything, such as the Pills for Pale People, the widely- known blood and nerve tonic, "bark of a dog, to perfection.

formula of a When I was Governor of which, being the Aden, Peter nearly caused an highly qualified and skilled physi- "international incident." A cian, are based upon accurate As a re- Russian admiral called on me, scientific conclusions. and when I entered the room I medy for anaemia, "nervous de- saw he was annoyed. "Has that bility, digestive troubles, rheuma- bird been taught to ineult tism, as well as for those irregu-- foreignera?" he asked "No." Ilarities of health which afflict wo- replied. "Well," he added, "When men, these Pills stand pro-eminent. ) I came into the room I said, Your chemist, sells thom, or post 'Good morning. Pretty Polly free, 31.50 per bottle, $8.00 for 6 and the bird replied, "You in- bottles, from The Dr. Williama" fernal bounder."" It took me Medicine Co., GO, Klangse Road, some time to pacify the admiral. Shanghai.

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