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Whampoa. With a Japanese war boat still lying in almost every Chinese port last week, numberless Chinese fled inland from their homes. Ten thousand fled from President Chiang's own Nanking. Then in Nanking arrived British Minister Sir Miles Lampson and U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson with his bride. Chinese who had fled at once came back. The Japanese war boats in the harbor would not fire, figured the Chinese, so long as there was any risk of hitting Sir Miles or the Johnsons, bride & groom...
...Oswald's only rival for the title "Britain's Hitler," Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson (TIME, July 8), head of the Blue Shirts, did not cross the floor to the Conservative benches with Sir Oswald. He did not have...
This lyric was personally composed by Commander Locker-Lampson, son of English poet Frederick Locker, maternal grandson of the late Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., a Vermonter, said to have been the first American ever made a British baronet. The music for Commander Locker-Lampson's patriotic song March On! is from the British Gaumont talking film High Treason...
Stirring speeches at the mass meeting were made by Rear-Admiral Murray Eraser Sueter, M. P., and Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft. M. P., as well as by Commander Locker-Lampson, M. P. Cards printed as follows were distributed: "Do you approve of the use of Fear God! Fear Naught! as our motto? . . . the use of March On as our battle song? . . . the use of a distinctive color...
Medals for weight-putting and other feats of strength were won by Student Locker-Lampson at Eton and Cambridge; in 1898 he won the Prince Consort's Prize for German; in 1900 edited the Cambridge undergraduate Granta. Amateur theatricals were still his passion after he became a barrister and later Lieutenant-Commander...