In a letter dated October 16 the Earl of Birkenhead stated that, owing to the intervention of "some balance of private convenience" he must ask the Premier to release him from his obliga date than they discussed some months ago. He writes that he is leaving oficial polities finally but in the fullest sympathy with Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues, and not without hope that he may be permitted to offer some unofficial help both in the House of Lords and occasionally in the country. The letter concluded with the remark that Mr. Baldwin's personality had converted the Cabinet into a band of brothers whom he leaves with lotion and affection.
Keplying the following day Mr. Baldwin expressed his profound rekret. The Premier said that the Earl of Birkenhead's counsel in the Cabinet during the past four years had been invaluable. He had been 'a tower of strength in dark day: 'a generous colleague and a loy!
Atlantic City, Oct. 18.
'A party of the bankers attending. the convention of the Investment Bankers Corporation were being taken on a sight-seeing trip over the city to-day in a Junkers monoplane when it suddenly wert into a nose-dive and crashed from a height of 000 feet with the result that two of the passengers were killed and five seriously injured. The wives of the men killed were eyewitnesses of the tragedy, the cause of which is unknown.
The manager of the aerodrome however, expresses the opinion that passenger crawled from the cabin into the relief pilot's cock-pit, got panicky when the pilot executed a wing-over and froze on to the controls of the plane. The pilot, while being carried seriously injured to fnospital, kept shouting out," Get to hell sway from those controls."
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