The British Empire's oldest daily newspaper has passed on by merger with the "Daily Tele raph," as it was feared would happen when it was announced in August that Lord Camrose had bought the "Morning Pos" The name is to be Kept live apparently just as the "News: Chronicle's" name recalls the separate identity of two great Liberal popular newspapers. 'Thus career which began on November 2, 1772 has! fended on September 30, 1937. Two years ago the "Morning Post" lost Lord Apsley, whose resignation terminated a family association with the Journal of exactly 100 years' duration, {or his mother, Countess Bathurst, is the grand-[daughter of Peter Borthwick, M. P. for Evesham, who bought the paper from Crompton in 1835, [Another link is now broken by the disappet ance from an editorial chair of Mr. H. A. Gwynne who, after one of the most. briliia careers as a special correspondent. in, Reuter's service went to the "Standard" in 1908 and thence to the "Morning Post" in 1011. Mr. Gwynne carried the banner of tariff reform to the "Standard"; he maintained the bulwarks of independent toryism in the "Morning Post." commands the greatest esteem from his profes [sion and his distinction of being the last editor of two once grest morning newspapers bears testimony at least to consistency as the champion of right-wing pertinacity. At seventy-one years of age he has earned the right to a happy leisure in retirement as will be the wish for him of his colleagues in Fleet Street. China knew him long ago in 1808 when, for nearly a year land a half, he was Reuter's correspondent in Peking.
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