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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937.

AN APPOSITE SIMILE

In the midst of the stress and

People Who Make This Week Interesting

By C. A. LYON

Admiral's Mad Order Cost 321 Lives: Squanderer Of

£250,000 In A Year

THIS week' in 1887-

T

Queen Victoria's jubilee year-Jubilee Juggins arrived in London, Some people thought he was the best entertainment of the Jubilee celebrations.

His name was Ernest Benson. He was the greenest thing that ever happened.

Naval Disaster

THIS week, in 1893, a court.

martial was concluded

on

the loss of H.M.S. Victoria.

This was one of the worst dis asters that ever happened in the Navy in peace time.

the Row in a coster's barrow. Then he was drunk for five

He was barred from the ring at years on end.

Ascot because he was wearing He excelled them all in profli- an eccentric hat like a canopy. gacy at eighteen.

He never sat in the House of He tried to steal a kiss from Lords, but once, when he antici- the King's mistress, the Duchess pated doing so, he had a peer's of Cleveland, when she was get- robe made concealing two large ting out of her coach, and when Two proud lines of battleships flour-bags he intended to throw she laid him out with a blow of her hand he got up and paid her are steaming in the Eastern at the Lord Chancellor.

an eloquent, impromptu compli- Mediterranean off Tripoli. At

He married chorus girl, ment. the head of one in the new £700,- He was a loutish young man 600 Victoria, finest ship of the daughter of a Brighton baker's

He lived only thirty years. of twenty-one who had just in- flect, is the admiral, Sir George roundsman, herited a quarter of a million Tryon. from his father, a midlandi mer-

The "Cannibal" Sailors chant.

He is a strict disciplinarian. He gives the order to perform Ernest came to town, and in what is known as the gridiron one year, crooks, women, money, evolution. Each column is to lenders, tailors, barmen, and turn inward, toward the other cardsharpers bled him dry.

until they have turned round and His spending worked out at are again parallel at very close £600 a day,

quarters.

Ernest started with a £900 The ships are only six cables' teams of horses and six car lengths apart, and are almost riages. On his first visit to certain to collide. Epsom he lost £6,000 five minutes after he arrived.

Turf crooks ran special races for him so that he could lose

money.

He plunged in the Sussex rac ing fortnight and lost £30,000.

He put £13,000 on a horse at Sundown. It lost.

The officers explain this to the admiral, yet he gives out the order.

They wonder if he has taken leave of his senses. The flag- lieutenant queries, but the ad- miral reaffirms.

The captain appeals, but with- out avail.

N July 28, 1884, the seamen

in the famous "cannibalism" case were picked up at sea.

The yacht Mignonette, going from Southampton to Australia, sank 1,600 miles off the Cape of Good Hope.

In an open boat were the sur- vivors-the master, the mate, another man, and the cabin boy.

Nothing to drink but rain water. Nothing to eat but two Ilb. tins of turnips.

They caught a turtle and made it last eight days.

Eight more days passed in starvation.

A horrible idea was born.

He disappeared from Court, the name of Alexander and set up a stall at

took Bendo,

LANDRU

The captain and the mate fell Tower Hill to supply beauty The commander of the column on the cabin boy. The captain hints and cosmetics to women. In one night he lost between says he does not understand, but killed him. He was caten. £16,000 and £17,000 at cardy.

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"It is all my fault," he says. He makes no attempt to save himself, but clings to the rail as the ship goes down.

He stole a miser's wife from

woman.

He ordered all his licentious writings to be burned, and his was 80 death-bed repentance

turmoil into which China has been flung by the developments in the North, it is worth while

the admiral signals back, "Why pausing and taking our minds

Four days later they were him, having taken the miser's ure my orders not obeyed 7" back to some of the high lights

Another day he lost £15,000 on Discipline is such that the in- picked up. The story could not secret store of gold and drugged in Japan's policy towards her

horses and £10,000 at cards. sane manoeuvre actually begins. be concealed. In due course the the miser's sister.

The husband hanged himself. The two great ships at the captain and mate came up for neighbour in recent years. The Thirty thousand pounds went to

head of each column, H.M.S. Vic- trial in London. The judicial Rochester soon tired of the girl, He held up the coach of a rich virtual seizure of Manchuria, a moneylender.

toria and H.M.S. Camperdown, ediet was given that:- He lost £8,000 in a day at clay turn-and head for each other.

woman he wanted to marry and which, incidentally, as now, was

"The necessity of avoiding carried her off. He went to the accompanied by a threat to pigeon shooting. He did not They cannot avoid a collision.

notice that the people he was Twice the admiral refuses the starvation does not excuse mur- Tower for it, but he married the

der." occupy both Peiping

and

shooting against had put blank Victoria's captain permission to

The captain and the mate reverse the port screw in an Tientsin, is still fresh in public cartridges in his gun.

At thirty-two, his constitution, were sentenced to death. But memory. Then came Japanese

The Jubilee Juggins would effort to turn in time.

the there was evidently sympathy worn out by debauchery, broke The Camperdown rams

down. He began to have talks penetration in Hopei and Char-stand in West End bars, his

with a bishop and repent his mis- spent life. har, in which, characteristically lumpy figure clad in the most Victoria at right angles.

outrageous clothes, his foolish.

The admiral knows now what enough, the services of Chinese mouth open, a vacuous smile on traitors were utilised, whilst his face, and an imitation diu- he has done.

mond about the size of a walnut last year an unsuccessful en-

in his shirt front, and his hair deavour was made to gain con- carefully curled.. trol of yet another province, Surrounding this prince of Suiyuan. All through these mugs were his "pals."

While eating his champagne ed. events there has been apparent suppers they picked his pockets. The public outcry was enor- a well-prepared Japanesc plan, They would commend some par- mous, and the court-martial which, even on the showing of ticularly hideous pair of trousers, found the drowned admiral to

and he would order a dozen. blame. leading Japanese statesmen, Then they collected commission aims at wresting further ter-from the tailor.

Even Man- ritory from China. churia, with all its wealth and Carle. Ile spent hundreds back extraordinary aristocrat George riches. does not suffice to satisfying hopeless boxers who were to Marquis of Ailesbury, who had

just entered the world this week for them as they were reprieved the greed of Japan's militarists. be heavy-weight champions.

and served six months' imprison- the trustees tried to in 1863 as the heir to many When But China was too weak in 1931

save him one of the linngers-on magnificent titles and pedigreement.

Repenting Sinner to resist Japanese encroach- would BAY confidentially, dating from Henry III.'s reign, menta

her on

territorial "They're only trying to stop you He took to horse racing. By LORD ROCHESTER, who died citement grew. A tenfold mur-

your. own money, the time he was twenty-one he to getting integrity; and, left entirely

was £200,000 in debt. her own resources, she was com-

It lasted one glorious year. He went to the races dressed went to Charles 11.'s Court, with how much he got out of pelled to bow to superior Then he went bankrupt and fad- as a costermonger, military strength. What is led out.

He went to Paris and Monte

Ernest."

Three hundred and twenty- one officers and men were drown-

A

Eccentric Marquis KINDRED spirit with the remarkable Benson was that

LORD ROCHESTER.

striking that sermons were made out of it.

...

But copies of some of his most improper

being poems were hawked on the streets at a penny each immediately after he died.

Bluebeard

Emile Landru was in court this week in 1921.

By newspaper advertisements, by chance street meetings, by his strange personality, this ex- choir-boy son of a stoker had ac- cumulated a file of 283 women friends, carefully indexed.

Ten of them-and the son of one of them-disappeared. AB the police investigated, the ex-

on July 26, 1680, was well- der. born and talented, and, until he

He drove in modest.

They found the notebook, each victim neatly set out, with the price of his return railway fares and their single fares.

THE HUMOUR OF CHILDREN They found hundreds of small

•

·

The story of the ten victims

happening to-day is altogether He came down to living on in line with Japan's ambitions; charity and then wrote a book all the occurrence, or, possibly, about it, dedicated "To all

pieces of bone, which pieced to- stage-managing, of "in-parents to whom is entrusted the

an

women's skulls, gether into teeth, hands and feet. cident," followed by demands responsibilty of making or mar- ALL the stories we are told of the who had been taught to share her which, if conceded, would ring the future of helpless child-humour of children are not true, sweets with others.

but I can vouch for the following. "Do have one for your little girl,"

A little boy had been rebuked for the child pleaded.

Despite his plea that he had rob China of national rights ren entrusted to their care."

rudeness to his nurse. She took him! "I have no little girl," said the not studied his defence because over ·large' areas of her

for a walk holding his hand. His blushing youth. own territory.

But the generous child insisted on he had not enough money to buy In a broad-Philadelphia or Baltimore are other hand was occupied carrying a

sonall parcel. Presently, small pressing a chocolate into his relue-a pair of glasses, the trial start- cast talk

United outlets of Washington. Ignor voice piped. "Please, nurse, to the

will tant palm, saying, "You could keep ed, soldiers with fixed bayonets own it till you have a little girl." States from Shanghai the othering the provisions of the Boxer you lend me the loan of my

|holding back the crowds. day, Mr. Hollington K. Tong Protocol, Japan has greatly hand, to use my hunky?"

A pretty little girl was found pos- A child who had been to auctions a simile which hits increased her military strength front of the looking-glass, where articles of furniture, sec., were was told, from the woman of presented the situation off to a nicely. He both in Tientsin and in Peiping, arranging her curls in different ways. cold, heard her father reading from fifty to the poor little girl who "If you are so proud of your hair the papers an advertisement offering rode a bicycle in boy's knickers, imagined a position in which an both of which centres she is

I shall have it cut off," said her an estate for sale.

and Landru was sentenced to alien force from overseas seized obviously bent on placing under

The child looked round with an George Street", he read. A long own control. The simile the New England States in her

engelle smile, and said, "Even if you description of house and lands for his counsel's cheeks. America, using that territory as presented by Mr. Tong is not cut off my hair, I'll have my face lowed.

Mme. Landru divorced him The litle girl listened with Intense

Hundreds of છે. base of operations for the only apposite, but it serves to left. That's pretty loo, you know."

interest, then enquired naively, "How during the case. conquest of the rest of the explain why China is in no mood

A governess had given a lesson to do they

A visitor had several times said Atlantic Const States, Mr. more than the United States, or brief account of Charles I in his own

king. Some of the people thought she would give her a doll "some Tong pointed out that Pelping,any other nation, would do in words. He wrote: "Charles I was to the little girl of the house that which is Japan's main objective conditions similar to those pre-bim good. Some of them thought day." But the promised doll falled French newspaper put in the exact counterpart of Landru ad- him Bad hind his head off, the others On hearing that the visitor was in the present crisis, is located, yailing in China to-day. There him bad. The people who thought to like Washington, about eighty is a limit beyond which Chinese were very angry-but it's.ali one to again expected, the file girl sur-vertisement to see what would

prised her aunt by saying," Auntle, happen. go. It now me!" miles inland from the seacoast,patience will

"I do not care for sweets, thank when Mrs. Brown comes to-day could

Replies from women poured in whilst its outlet on the coast is appears to have been

you," said the shy young man, when you not pently slope the conversation by the hundred. loffered chocolates by A little girl round to dolie?" Tientsin, just an New York, stepped.

mother. "You must not be vain." "To be sold within Dowell's rooms, death as tears streamed down

country, but particularly the to bow the knee to Japan, any her pupit, and asked him to give a room, popaz Calates into Dowell's French Landrus changed their

over.

materialise.

Elayo

names. name.

His sons changed their

After the case was

over a