HOLYROOD AND ITS HISTORY.
THE RECENT STATE VISIT TO EDINBURGH.
A NEW ATMOSPHERE.
In going to Edinburgh to take up his residence for the fifth time In his Palace of Holyroodhouse the King passed out of a tradi- tion of quiet orderliness into one of picturesque and compara tively recent violence..
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Holyroodhouse affords freshing contrast in the rich variety of its happy or stormy
ACROBAT AS CAR
THIEF..
MAN WHO DROVE: DOWN SPIRAL STAIRS.
Paris, July 20., Aftor a long and minuto scouring of the Paris underworld the police havo aerated five of the leaders of an alleged gang of motor-thieves who are credited with having stolen 10 cars left standing in the streets dur ing the past month.
Grent, however, was their surprise when they found that one of their prisoners was Regor Schlecte), better known as Ronen, the aerebat whe recently performed two dare-devil ently before the pubie.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
HOW TO TREAT SHOCK VICTIMS.
MONDAY,
AUGUST 220 1927.
FUTURE OCEAN AIR HALTS.
WHAT OUR GENERATION MAY SEE.
"All change in mid-ocean!" This sounds rather a disconcert- ing order, yet it is one we · aro promised before long.
MECHANICAL BREATHING.
When a person has been shocked electricity, death may with
American airway experts, whe due to occur instantaneously,
of the
of have been meeting. French techni centres paralysis the brain; interruption of the clans in Paris to examine the pro- the heart be-blem of Atlantis air services by multi-engined flying-boats, are circulation of cause of overexcitation of the heart muscle; suffocation from the now discussing the details of forcible" contraction of all of the geean stations, or halts, at which and where passengers would be muscles associated with breathing; Air-boats could descend to refuel. legs and, if required, change in mid-ocean to the craft of some other route.
memories. Twice was it partly fonts which brought him promin-burning due to the are between the able to alight and stretch their
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patient's body and the electrical connexion; and falling when the person is shocked while at work on a high pole, a tower or some building.
in the chest.
It should be a thrilling experi ence for voyages to glide down to one of these ocean stations which, illuminated brilliantly at night, will shine across vast expenses of
upon the ocean, luxurious. wait- water, and find but there, floating
ing-rooms, buffets, and all the amenities of travel.
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burned and sacked by the Eari of Hertford-the English after-
To win a bet he drove a motor-car wards, beheaded him, although, as down the winding staircase of the they had made him a Duke in the Eastern Railway Station at an angle interval, their action
If the person is seen immediately was. 509 of 60 degrees, mid then capped this sibly, not designed to be a belatell performance by jumping from the and is not dead, the first step is to It roof of a train as it was crossing « remove him at once from the scurce retribution for those actions. was burned a third time, acci-bridge over the Seine at Asnieres of the current, taking care that the dentally, just after Cromwell had and swining safely to shore. person who removes the injured quartered his Ironsides there.
Two of Roneo's companions drow workman does not himself join the connexion and receive shock. Mary Queen of Seots married both her later husbands at Holyrood-revolvers when the police approched Artificial respiration should be house, and buried one of them them, but they were overpowered
The technical problems now
1 Set again. there. It was in Holyroodhouse and disarmed. At their home were started at once. The method most
6 Springing. that King James, half-dressed, found a number of Service rifles and ivised nowadays is the Schaefer
a large stock of ammunition which one pressure method. This is a beine reviewed are many and com-
one-ann method, simple to perform plex. A number of designs have 11 Plunder. had to run down the backstairs it is said, they intended to distribute and now being taught to all first- been prepared for Atlantic re 12 Leap. avoid the mysterious attempted
to anarchist friends.
nid workers in industrial plants.
fuelling stations. In a plan fa- 18 Blemish. coup d'etat of Francis the Wizard-
Two other members of the gang. If the heart needs stimulation, voured by experts the structure 15 The most easy. Earl of Bothwell, of which such
are still at large.
this is sometimes accomplished by
10 Well skilled. assumes the shape of an enormous strange explanations have been
a sharp slap over the heart region horse-shoe, the idea being that 18. One who rates. given. The danger on that ocea-
A physician can, of between the two curval, projecting 20 Blood. sion was so soon over that the
23 Exist. "King still had his breeks in his and Lairds and legal luminarica course, stimulate the heart directly arms would sheltered water upon
which the flying boats could float 24 Belong to armour. hand when he accepted the very and their martial sons who now be the injection of drugs and in
25 Last syllable of word but one. temporary repentance and apolo hear the bow and guard the King, some instances even restore life by gies of his ambitious kinsman, there can be few indeed who are opening the body and directly mas while taking on board fresh petrol. 29 One who enters.
One scheme in which huge 31 Good, A few years later King James not able to trace descent from saging the heart.
Electric manufacturing corpora-stracture like an artificial island 34 Parts of churches, that some ancestor who fought and VI was actually in bed in Palace when Sir Robert Carev roll at Flodden. In its present tions do not incline to the purchase is projected against ocean gales 36 Thin narrow board. imported the good news that he form the Royal Company, with its of artificial mechanical breathing by great curved breakwaters, goes 38 Pole.
s far as to provide a small but 39 At once. bad become King of England. own officers and colours, dates apparatus. "Dr. Fisher states that from the reign of King Charles he does not know of a single case
travellers 44 Sen ducks. Past and Present
11, and it was in virtue of a char of electric shock on record in which completely equipped hotel, in 42 Apertures.
which ultra-modern On the ocension of the presentter of Queen Anne that the Red-the patient's breathing had stopped
tion of going to sleep at night, 17 The devil,.. visit King George V, was chieflydende of "a pair of barbed arrow" and in which the heart had ceased could experience the navel sensa- 45 Rustic pipes,
Wed to beat and responded only with a
49 Cricket sides. concerned with new buildings was offered to the King on
60 Nouns, a new bridge for his lieres to nesilay as the feudal offering twitching, in which a mechanical just as on land, out somewhere 48 Small expanse of liquid.
Moorings. walk over in Glasgow and a new virtue of which, alone of the regi device ever brought about recovery, in the middle of the wide Atlantic. Kelvi tall for them to exhibents in the King's service, it Moreover, the mechanical apparatus
Naturally the mooring problem r wires there, new houses for holds its privilege of clecting its is not present when needed and the them to live in, and a new Warown officers. If the Rayal, Com- delay in its receipt sometimes inter-
feres with the use of the manual is one of the most complex, hay- ing regard to the immense depth Memorial to commemorate their any were indeed
method commonly advised. kinsfolk in Edinburghi
The average person will breathe of water which, in certain casesp from sixteen to twenty times per may have to be reckoned with. Dr. Fisher believes that Some ingenious systems of deep- minute. artificial respiration movements water mooring have been pro- should be given more rapidly than posed, while in other schemes it
He believe the rate driven as it rests on the water by taken in at that rate to comfort ing. the structure being power- the patient.. should be between twenty-four and special engines, these driving a forty respiratory movements per system of submerged screws which are intended to maintain the sta- tions always in one position head- to-wind.
Edin- During a State visit to burgh the English visitor is re- minded in many ways that his Sovereign, by crossing the Border, has entered a different historical atmasphere and has come regarded as the successor rather
of Stuarts and Bruces than
the King's Rodyguard in the time of that Queen's first, siccessor the ques- tion was not raised in 1715; and in 1745 when Priner Charles Ed- as his Ward entered Edinburgh father's Regent the members
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Down.
3 Cut off (Grammar.) 4 Accent.
5 Let it stand.
6 Cease to possess. 7 Always,
8 Through the nose. 9 All (Musical) 10 Warehouse.
in ho the Company, torn like se many of this, since not sufficient air will be is planned to dispense with modr 13 Fetid gum resin.
Dir fellow-countrymen between allegiance and inell. ation. were Tudors and Plantagenets. One of not called upon for the service a reigning the most noticeable of these which is only due to the substitution of the dark green King or his Consert; nor was it minutes, of the Royal Archers, only partly until King George IV. came relieved with a little sombre crime Edinburgh after the extinction of son, for the glowing gold and the Stuart line in its exile that all to status and scarlet of the Gentlemen at Arma, questions as
to
on the figures of the Kin's Bodsovereignty alike were set at rest guard on duty round his person and the King entrusted his perse i or in his Palace of Holyroodhouse, to the safeguard of his Royal It is only very little more than Archers.
Status Confirmed..
The status thus recognized waS confirmed and amplified by his be successor, who confled the Gold
ALIENATION SUIT.
BY FORMER MANILA
RESIDENT.
The fundamental purpose of these fascinating schemes is en- tirely practical. If an ocean, fly- ing-boat service is to be a really Los Angeles, Aug. 18.-Mr. B. C. commercial proposition, it is es- Jacobson, a retired financier,sential that a reasonably large formerly of Honolulu and Manila, paying load should be carried in $250,000 alienation of addition to the weigh of fuel fled a
If, however, an Atlantic ght affection suit here today against necessary for the engines. Mr. Thomas Francis Howe of
has to be made non-stop,
Chicago.
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century since the Royal Company of Archers, as at present constitu ted, first acted as Bodyguard dur- ing the visit of King George IV. in August, 1822; but it must remembered that, save for theStick for Scothind to the Cup Howe is described in the competrol burden may be so great as uneasy "presence of the untrown tain-General of his Bodyguard, ed son of King James VII. at according him a very high pre-plaint as vice-president of the to negative any hope of a Peterhead and Montrose in the cedence at his Corenntinn, an American Bar Association. He is munerative commercial load, un- winter of 1715-16 in time of Civil Silver Sticks to his next two alleged by Mr. Jacobson to have less extremely high rates War, and of his unele King General Officers, thus putting induccil Mrs. Jacobson to leave charged. Charles II, at Falkland and Stir them on a footing with the House her husband in Seattle last May. ing in 1651 in time of war against hold Brigade in England. Cromwell, there had been no king to need a bodyguard in Scotland since 1641, when King Charles I. paid his second visit to Edinburgh. A Flodden Tradition.
Assume, though, that a long ocean air journey can be divided into stages, with refuelling points at regular intervals, obviating the necessity for loading a machine at starting with petrol for thou- sands of miles non-stop, and the prospects of commercial success become much brighter.
Hence the attention now being paid to projects for these ocean halts. They miglit, it is suggest- ed, be established and maintained
The Jacobsons were married in Honolulu in May, 1926, while Mr. and These privileges
pre-Jacobson was in the brokerage Later Mr. Jacob confrmed by besiness there. eminences were
son engaged in business in Queen Victoria, who was once very glad indeed of the presence of her Manila? Afchers when her carriage, was
The Forestry Commissioners in was nearly A pleasing and patriotic tradi-jammed in a loyal and vociferous!
England have given instructions tion, for which no written war-crowd in Leith and
that the red squirreis in the New ranty survives the destruction verturned by the crush.
They have been confirmed also Forest are to be allowed to remain of certain ancient records by fire just before the Union of the by her successors, and the Royal there undisturbed, and as the com- provided with missioners desire to see a reason- Crowns, would ascribe some con- Company is even nexion and continuity of corporaan alternative uniform with plum-able red-squirrel population in the by some form of co-operative ac- tion between the Royal Archers ed cocked bat for wear at Court forest, no more will be killed while tion between nations. of to-day and those Archers of outside Scotland, where, except for numbers remain low. The reil. the Guard who fell, with the other some special reason and by com- Flowers of the Forest, in close mand of the Captain-General, it array round King James IV. at is never worn; for Royal Archers Flodden. So far us existing docu. are considered as being on duty ments run show, however, the con and appear acccrdingly in the ser- nexion between the present Body-vice or field dress with bow and and feathered Bonnet guard and that which did its arrows
wherever their duty to the end in 1513 is one of whenever and blood alone, for of all the Lords Sovereign requires them.
squirrel has been almost.com-
road at
pletely driven from many parts of In the course of excavation in England by the North American connexion with a new
an importation Bihatch, in Bosnia, the workmen grey squirrel, which became so numerous two or found the fossil remains of a three years ago that park keepers mammoth. Work on the road has were ordered to destroy them to been stopped at that point until reduce their numbers, to more the arrival of experts to superin-
tend the removal of the skeleton. reasonable proportions.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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28 Splendours.
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37 Try by eating.
38 Sepulchral slab.
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THE KEW WUZNON REMEDY.
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