Notes

One Major Frank Holmes, engineer, arrived in Baghdad to chat with the Sultan of Nejd about an oil concession to a British syndicate. He will make similar proposals to the Sultan of Koweit and King Faisal of Iraq.

A native weaver from the Gold Coast of West Africa was introduced to the King and then to the Queen. He understood the position of the King well enough, but that of the Queen was entirely a mystery. Colonel Levy, General Manager of the Exhibition, explained that she was "the King's missus."

The Manchester Guardian announced in answer to a correspondent that the last verse of The Red Flag is now read on polite Socialist circles:

Borne high amid triumphant cheers

By three indubitable peers, instead of

With heads uncovered swear ive all,

To bear it onward till we fall.

Come dungeon dark or gallows grim,

This song shall be our parting hymn.

The American rodeo at the British Empire Exhibition is not popular with a certain section of the public. John Galsworthy, famed author, and Henry W. Nevinson, international correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, loudly condemned it for its cruelty. Said the latter: "I think that everybody who agrees with our view of the rodeo should take a vow never to go near such a performance. We should appeal to the President of the Exposition, the Prince of Wales, to say he would never go to it and that would be sufficient in itself to stop it."

The hearts of the four Bolshevik delegates, in London to negotiate a settlement of Anglo-Russian differences, fluttered when they were commanded to attend a levee in St. James Palace. Did they refuse? No!

The British Fascist! have incorporated under the title of "British Fascisti, Limited." The articles of incorporation stated that its objects are: "to revive the spirit of sane, intelligent patriotism, to uphold the established constitution and to prevent the spread of Bolshevism and Communism."

Queen Mary, accompanied by Prince George, sampled the loop-the-loop stunt at the Exhibition. After it was over, the Queen mopped her brow, congratulated the driver on his courage and skill. U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Kellogg gave a dinner and a ball at Crewe House in honor of their niece, Miss Elizabeth Ottiis of St. Paul. Among the 150 guests were the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York.