The Archive · 1926

Liberal Party Feud

The feud in the Liberal Party. is substantially where it was left after the vote of the Liberal M. Ps. at the House which gave the Welsh {Leader clear majority in his favour.

Every unit in the Command plays its part. Horse, foot, guns, and tanks take the arena' in turn or together, and the new forces of the air wheel across the darkened sky. The music is a convincing example of production, Twenty-three regimental brass bands, welded into ne, 16 drum and five bands equally united, six pipe bands—three of Guards and three of Scottish infantry of the line—and the—combined trumpeters of three cavalry regiments furnish this background for the successive incidents of the evening.

One marvels at the extraordinary versatility of the British soldier. He enacts a dozen different characters with extraordinary zest. You see him as a comic Oriental dancer finan Eastern market-place; asa hairy Norman invader intent on the pillage of London; as a ferocious archer following" King—Henry: through a hail of arrows; as a stiff Crimean lancer charging th Russian guns; and as a submissive Russian captive; as a grim and combatant and as an santly realistic finally you see steel helmet and khaki, swinging' across a hard-won field like the veterans of the Army that vanished but yesterday.

The Horse Show Next week the International Horse Show opens at Olympia. Un. fortunately, the Italians, who hold the cup, are unable to defend their title, for the Italian army is on manceuvres and cannot spare competitors. But France has made up by sending eight officers and 41 horses. Their best-known figure, a Mhero of Olympia in the past few Xyears, who won the King's Cup "Tilee! "Captain de Lainsavdier, {ads the team. Officers of seven tions will jump for the King arge V. gold trophy—Great Bri-in, France, Sweden, Holland, Giizerland, the United States. and higium, "Poland is an. absentee ath Italy. Colonel Malise Graham, their of the King's Cup,. and te

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