Paris, Oct. 17 reports that the Turkish Government has already {aken steps to close the Dardanelles rise. Mines. will be 20 as to block the passage, but a marrow way through will be left fo mercantile vessels. Should Turkey, Among the titles of the Duke were those of Baron Scott of Buccleuch, Earl of Buceleuen, Baron Scolt of Whitchester and Eskdaill, Earl Doncaster, Baron of Tynedale, Earl of Dalkeith, Duke of Queensbury, [Marquis of" Dumfriesshire, Earl of Drunilanrig and Sanquhar, Viscount lot Nith, Torthorwold, and Ross, and Baron Douglas.
Educated at Christ Church, Oxfor: ithe Duke entered the Royal Navy a cadet in 1877, but left nine years Tater with the rank of lieutenant He was Conservative MP. for Roxburgh-hire from 1895 to 1906, and has been [Lord-Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire singe 1915 and also Vice-Lieutenant of Selkirkshire.
The son of the sixth Duke and Lady Louisa Vane Hamilton, third daughter of the first Duke of Abercorn, the Duke succeeded to the title 1914 on the death of his father.
His wife, to whom he was married 1093, was Lady 'Margaret Alice /Bridgeman, second daughter of the fourth Earl of Bradford, and they' nad three sons and five daughters.
The successor to the title is his eldest son, Walter John Montagu Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, who has been Conservative MP. for Roxburgh and Selkirk since 1923, and Lord Lieutenant of the Couniy of: Roxburgh since 1932.
'The new Duke, who is 40 years of age, was educated at Eton and Oxford He' joined the Grenadier Guards in 1915 as a Weutenant and was made captain three years later. He roryed jas Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Canada in 1920.—Reuter.
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