Lt.-Col, Sir James Alexander Murdoch died today at the age of 72. Born fand educated in Edinburgh, Sir James [Murdoch went to Australia when seventeen and founded a business in [Sydney, Murdochs, Limited, in 1693 fat the age of 27.
Tu 1915, he was appointed by Aus~ {tralia to proceed to Egypt to put the JAustralian Red Cresson a sound business basis. He went to France in 3916 to organize Red Cross work there. He was mentioned three times! min despatches. Sir James then left for England, where he carried out the some work. His services were en-
{tirely voluntary.
Sir James Murdoch married Miss isabella" Binning in 1891 and had {three daughters.—Reuter.
Mr, William Butler Yeats Sir 'Henri used afterwards to say hat it was fis frat Job out in the Indies which laid' the foundations of his successful "qualities, He. vias. set tovunravel the almost hopelessly com= pleated books of the society's branch Delt, where the bookkeeping, had been decidedly dubious for more than To" his success in_ this' Herculean, take when it looked simest impos Sir Hen owed later his uncanny in unravelling Aigurer, and his, habit of reducing every situation to. its Simplest tris.
Bie Henri spent altogether eight years in the employ of the. Nether lands Trading Society, first ut Medan, trid later at Penang." Then, in 1006, offered his services to the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, snd after only one year's service. he. became AAsslatant Mlannging Director, In 190) me became Managing-Director, and. Year later he. was, General. Aanager tthe whole' world concern.
Sit Henvi "later "organized the federation of Netherlands and: English fil interests, and thus. hed bhi employ some 40,000 people, including more than 6,000 in Engltnd.
"Tu 1020 ho Was knighted for his services" in the promoting of industrial Interest. "in "1926" he" received the honorary degree. of doctor of Pechnical Sclehcos at Doll. University. 139 Sir Henri caused great alarm in Netherlands. financial. circles by""delating himaelt in favour of Holland's Abandonment of the gold standard.
"AS head of the Royal 'Dutch' Sir Henti "Was "obliged to spend the Heater part of the. year in London, though Ne made 4requont visits to The Hague. and' to. Amsterdam for" versations with" prominent. busine mon there:
io War also to be seen at St. Moritz, where he loved "to skate. with, smal daughters.
Sir Henri had two ons and one daughter, by his iret marriage, and two daughters by his second marriage {o Lydia Pavlovna, daughter of the Into General Koudayarot, in 1024, appearance Sir Henri was a sether short man with a Tite white moustache, He was always a great Believer in physical exercise, holding that i was"an unfailing aid to hard Mention, Jan. 29.
The chief interpreter of Celtic myths and tradition, and Teader of the Irish literary renaissance, Profes~ sor William Buller Yeats, died here today at the age of 74 His broad shelf of books, the fruits of a rich and enthusiastic life, includes Rot only the fragile lyric things of his Literary self, but also treatises on all manner of public questions, for nineteen years ago Mr. Yeats became a member of the Irish Free State's first Senate.
From the bony-handed, gaunt and ethereal poet, who was given to dropping the. sugar absent-mindelly into the tobacco jar instead of the tea cup Mr, Yeats mictamorphosed into a hus band, family man, and land-owner, witha Nobel Prize for 1923 in his Durse, and bility Zor preaching the Fights of minorities.
The old days when he was fighting the battle of the National Theatre Movement with keen brain and airy mystic dramas were definitely over Tong before his death. In his last years Mr. Yeats was campaigning for the formation of an Irish Academy of Lotters.
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