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Slowly the drama developed. The Prisoner was Norman Baillie-Stewart, 24, a lieutenant in the aristocratic Seaforth Highlanders, a regiment still known north of the Tweed as the Ross-shire Buffs, whose Colonel-in-Chief is Edward of Wales (see cut). As a cadet at Sandhurst Lieut. Baillie-Stewart became still more intimate with the Royal Family by serving as orderly to Prince Henry, third son of George V. The charge against him was selling military secrets to a foreign power. Last week his court martial commenced...
...ceremony took place in London, in the Berkeley Square home of Lady Seaforth, hospital benefactress. Because she asked them and because Mrs. Spahlinger was the Countess Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, member of an Italian ducal family which has become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge...
...inforcements continued to arrive in the Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
...floppy felt hat and a pair of khaki trousers, Markswoman Foster turned in a card of 280 out of a possible 300 at 300, 500, 600, 900, and 1,000 yards on a windy day. Runner-up was a ''man in skirts"-Lieut. Alexander Eccles, Seaforth Highlander, with...
Engaged. Cinemactress Constance Talmadge of Los Angeles; to Townsend Netcher, Chicago merchant. Merchant Netcher will be husband No. 3. No. 1 was John Pialoglou, Greek Tobaccoman; No. 2, Capt. Allaster Macintosh, onetime Seaforth Highlander...