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...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
...Like the Maharaja of Mysore, the Nizam of Hyderabad was prevented from attending the Conference by a tradition that he must never leave India. Ruler of a land larger than New England and almost twice as populous, His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Sir Usman Ali Khan is thrice a Nizam, a Nawab and a British Hon. Lieut.General...
Owner of 72 motor cars of which 36 are Rolls-Royces, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes (see p. 21) brought his two wives with him to London last week, was not accused of bigamy...
Chore 2. As Emperor of India George V must open the Indian Round Table Conference, scheduled to assemble in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, on Nov. 12. Most of the Indian delegates were in London last week, already quarreling among themselves. The more exalted contingent of maharajas and rajas held a secret session in St. James's Palace presided over by H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, famed some years ago as "Mr. A" when a smart Englishwoman worked the badger game on him in Paris (TIME...
...France, blighted more than 2,500,000 acres, caused an estimated loss of $250,000,000. Next it spread to Australia and New Zealand, where French vines had been transplanted. Piercing at last the recesses of Asia, the triumphant plant louse blighted even the vineyards of His Highness the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir...