Lord Nuffield, promoted from a Baron to a Viscount, will have to be re-introduced into the House of Lords when he returns from Australia Should the Viscount eventually become an Earl he will have to go through a similar ceremony all over again, This ritual, necessitating a new set of robes for the chief participant s followed each time a peer is elevate ed to a higher rank.
Nobility is expensive 460, though that, of course, will not bother Lord Nuffield, Lord Willingdon, a com-
It used to be said that the Briti business man lost many trading opportunities abroad because of his linguist shortcomings: that too often he took for granted the foreigner's enthusiasm for learning English. Today, his realization of the importance of speaking to a buyer in the buyer's own tongue is nowhere more clearly shown than at the British Industries Fair, opening shortly in London and Birmingham.
Thirteen thousand catalogues, printed in nine languages, have been despatched 31 countries. More foreigners than ever expected moner who became a Marquis in four moves, found that his four promotion: cost him nearly £1,000 in robes and particularly from Holl Belgium. Germany and France (in that order)
Official interpreters will be available coronets.
Some people pay. their taxe promptly when due ome have even been known to remit before the appointed date. It has now been disclosed tha certain citizens of London but some exhibitors, at least, are not likely to require their services. No fewer than seventeen tongues including Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Turkish and Esperanto, will be spoken se at the Fair " firms each e continued to pay a tax after it have salesmen who between them been abolished. This does not refer to belated remissions of Excess Profits Duty but to payments for which the authorities hade made no application, as all liability had ceased.
These over-zealous taxpayers are Londoners who employ male servant iffeurs, butlers, cooks, gardener speak eight languages and quite a number ure prepared to do business n e or four tongue "Thunderbolt" In London One of the most popular of recent London ts," and a great favourite with schoolboys home for Christmas Kuang, hence more commonly known as the Seventh Prince, was a complete nonentity. He wasa thoroughly stupid person, a dyed-in-the-wool reactionary, and a staunch upholder of Manchu rights and privileges, His views on this point are summed up in his famous saying in 1885, at a time when a war with France was in progress and a rebellion s threatening in South China, that he e Empire handed over to the foreign devils than to Chinese rebels, Apart from the fact that, having 2 had the good fortune to marry the sister of the Empress-Dowager Tzu!
his son became the Emperor of (Kuang Hsü) his only other claim to fame is, that he was the only one of all the Imperial princes who during the whole of his lifetime managed to keep on good terms with his formidable sister-in-law, So much so that after his death in 1891 she issued a special decree extolling his loyalty and his modesty, as proved by his refusal to avail himself of the Imperíal permission to use yellow satin curtains on his sedanchaiz.
It is therefore all the more surprising that the—Empress-Dowager should have laid sacrilegious hands on the burial-ground of this favoured relative. Known as Chi Yeh Fne (Tomb of the Seventh Prince), his cemetery lies in the hills about a dozen miles northwest of Peiping, and until recent times was kept in a good state of repair. At the back of the tomb there once towered a mighty ginko tree, a dozen feet or more in circumference, hundreds of years old, landmark for miles round ith this tree that our story d
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