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NOTED BRITISH DIPLOMAT AND STATESMAN

London, Apr. 2. The death has occurred of Vis- count Frederic John Napier Thesigr, 1st. Viscount of Chelms ford, the famous Indian Constitu- tional Reformer, and one time First Lord of the Admiralty.-- Reuter.

Frederle John Napier Thesiger, the son of Baron. Chelmsford, was born in 1868, and educated at Winchester and Magdalen. A Fellow of all Souls' from 1892 to 1899, he was called to the Bar and then served for a time on the London School Board and London County Council.

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MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.

LIGHT BLUES WIN.

“SNIP-SNAP" ANSWER"

Tenth Successive Tri- umph in Boat Race.

The above pictura of Greta Garbo gives the correct lay-out of the "Snip Shap" puzzle which appeared on Saturday. A new puzzle will appear next Saturday.

HOLY YEAR OPENS.

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MEDIAEVÁL SPLENDOUR OF SOLEMN CEREMONY

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EVENT DESCRIBED.

London, Apr. 1.

For the tenth year in succession, hua setting a record. Cambridge won the annual Varsity boat race, defeat- ng Oxford by two lengths and a quarter.

The official time was 20 mins. 57 BOCS.

The weather was fine but somewhat full, although the sun burst through it intervals. The wind was almost due

west,

and the water was choppy. Cambridge won the toss and chose the Surrey side, which would give them an advantage for the four-mile Both boats had spine in the race.

and were watched by the crowds. Although the race was scheduled to start at 4 p.m., it was not until“ 4,03 m. when the gun went off. Bpth rews were striking 36. and were, level ∙it the boat-houses when Oxford, pull- ing splendidly, took a slight lead at Beverley Brook.

morning and

bis

After succeeding to the title, he was in 1905 appointed by the Conservatives as Governor of Queensland, and on completing his term there the Liberal Govern ment made him Governor of New South Wales in 1909. In both

Vatican City, Apr. 1. The solemn opening of the Holy Oxford maintained their lead at these posts he was very popular. Appointed Viceroy.

Year, commemorating the Cruci-raven Steps and Waldens, and after During the war he went out to fixion, was carried out by His he race had been in progress for a India as afficer in a Territorial Holiness the Pope in an atmosphere mile, were still slightly ahead. At Battalion and had been there of mediaeval splendour, surrounded Crabtree, there was a great struggle. Past Crabtree, the Light Blues work- Cardinals, Prelates, Am- over a year when in April 1916 by

28 took the

the lead by half a length, at he was appointed Viceroy of bassadors and Ministers accrediteding up to 30 compared to Oxford's

Harrod's. India. He held office during a to his Court

Striking three times with a The Light Blues' lead was due to a very difficult time, but he left be- hind him the famous Montagu-golden hammer on the Holy Door fine spurt as the boats were approach- Chelmsford Report, published in of St. Peter's, the Pope, attired in ing

4 gorgeous mantle of white silk and 1918, upon which the Reform Act old, demanded admission to the of the following year was

Church, while the bells of St. founded.

Peter's pealed the holiday.

In view of the calls which had been made on India's patriotism during the war, it was felt that

the time had

come to assert India's claim. On the initiative of Mr. Besant, Tilak, and others,

Was

Harrod's.

Cambridge increased their lond to a length at Lead Mills, but Oxford re- duced it to three quarters.

At the two-mile mark, bath crew were rowing strenuously

The position was the same at Doves.

Lead Increased.

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Slowly the door began to move, and the Pops, holding a lighted candle in his right hand stepped over the threshold. His Holiness Although the Dark Blues' pulled up was the first to enter St. Peter's in to 30, which was the same as Cam the Holy Year.

bridge, the latter increased their lead

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a scheme was put forward which The Cardinals, Bishops and to a length at Hall. Both were row subjected the executive officials Monsignori followed, each kissing ing strongly, and with a great effort Oxford reduced the Light Blues' lead elected the threshold as they passed. to the orders of an

This legislative body.

The Pope then turned to the adopted by the National Con- crowd which thronged into the gress and the Moslem League and Church, and imparted the Apostolic was known as the Congress-League Blessing-Reuter. scheme. Mrs. Besant's activities

10 three quarters of a length at NUNO

Vatican City, Apr. 2. led to her being ordered to leave The lighting of huge steel Madras and .not to address cross on the summit of Mount meetings a step which was re- Senario, near Florence, by the Pope garded as the beginning of a policy pressing a button in his study, of repression. Meanwhile the concluded the celebration of the Viceroy had appointed the Sadler inauguration of the Holy Year. Commission to report on educa- The Pope in pressing the button tion and at the end of 1916 had directed a wireless wave to the top submitted a reform scheme to the of the mountain, illuminating the

cross, which lit up the six surround-; Cabinet.

ing provinces.-Reuter Special

his services in India he was made a Viscount.

Chiswick

Past Chiswick Eyot, Cambridge | once again increased, their lend and at Chiswick Steps were a length ahead.

Oxford spurted and regained a quarter of a length, but from Dukes Meadowe Cambridge gradually drew At the three-mile mark, they away.

and three one by were leading

length... quarters of a

At Bulls Head, Cambridge led by nearly two lengths, which was main- tained past Barnes Bridge and White Hart, both crews striking 32.

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Oxford's Galland Bid, After Barnes Bridge, Oxford, who were favoured to

to the extent of a length at the bend, made.a galient bid to remedy their desperate plight and spurted unflurriedly, but made little impression on Cambridge who, with- ut increasing their striking, held off heir rivals somewhat easily.

Cambridge have now 44 wins and Exford 40-Router.

But it was not until the end of August, 1917, that Mr. Montagu, the Secretary for India, announce ed the Government's policy, which was to increase the association of

In 1923 he was Chairman of the Indians in every branch of the statutory commission appointed administration and gradually de- carry out in Oxford the recom Evelop self-governing institutions. mendations of the Roya: Commis. In the winter Montagu visited sion on the Universities of Ox India and as a result the scheme ford and Cambridge. Next year, adopted. It pronounced after having received appoint. against the Congress-League pro-ments from the Conservatives and posals, but suggested that de- the Liberais, Lord Chelmsford, TWO centralisation should be carried who said he was not a politician. out by transferring certain sub-accepted the post of First Lord fects to be dealt with by the proof the Admiralty in the short-liv vincial Governments, while others were for the present to be reserved Labour Government. In June.

WAS

Services Rewarded.

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ships annually.

BOYCOTT OF JEWS

SHOT DEAD IN COURSE

OF OPERATIONS

Berlin, Apr. 2. The anti-Jewish boycott was

are

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ed for the central excutive. This 1926, he aroused surprise by un-badly organised in Berlin, so that

dertaking the duties of Agent- Jewish shops in the suburb plan came to be known as the General in London for New South open and are not being molested. "Dyarchy" After the armistice Wales, the appointment being of The boycott is stricter ensewhere, the agiation, however, began fered by the famous Lang Goren hut the only serious incident re- again, the extremists rejecting the ment. He relinquished the post ported occurred at Kiel, where plan and demanding full pro in 1928, and became Chairman of Nazi picket was killed by a revolver the Miners' Welfare Fund, which shot from a furniture shop. Storm vincial autonomy. The Rowlatt Bill dealing with sedition received

windows, and forced an into the Viceroy's assent, and this led Awards ten University Scholar- troops immediately fired a volley to the starting by Gandhi of u

In 1930 he was appointed War- entrance, arresting the proprietor's passive resistance campaign. den of Winchester College, a plea-The prisoner was

son, who allegedly fired the shot. the taken to sant scholastic sinecure, while in police station and shot dead by When the "Dyrachy" became July, 1932, he was made Wardenome persons whom the police ad law in 1919, the National Con-of All Souls. Oxford. He was

tted to his coll-Renier's Spe- gress condemned it, and demand also an Honorary Fellow of Mag-

cial éd the Viceroy's recall. On April dalen College and an honorary 2, 1921, exactly twelve years ago. D.C.L. of the University. Lord Chelmsford handed over the He married. in 1894, the Hon. Vice-Royalty to Lord Reading Frances Charlotte Guest, G.B.E.. | after a term during which he had daughter of the First Baron-oʻ shown much courage, patience and Wimborne, and is survived by messages from abroad indicated devotion to duty, Hia era saw four daughters and one son, the that it will not be necessary India started on the road to self- Hon. A. C. G. Thesiger, who is resume the boycott on April fi.—

Reuter's Special. government. In recognition of heir to the tile,

Résumption Unlikely.

Munich, Apr. 2. Von Streicher, the lender of the to-night that boycott, stated

to

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