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...announced that his government had heard that Lawrence was in Morocco helping the Riffians. According to the attaché he had been seen on the spot. The Under Secretary who received the Frenchman laughed heartily and replied that Lawrence was a private in the Tank Corps stationed in Sussex. The attaché was unconvinced until the Foreign Office sent for Lawrence and displayed him in the flesh. After the Frenchman had departed, Lawrence flew off the handle and protested bitterly at the inconvenience to which he had been put. He said he was sick of being accused of fomenting every...
George V. A motor ambulance suitable for transporting His Majesty to the Sussex seaside where he will recuperate (TIME, Feb. 4) was driven into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, last week, and later the Royal physicians announced that they had "thoroughly tested its suitability...
...major infection in George V's right lung, which almost caused his Death (TIME, Dec. 24) was announced last week to be entirely cured. Thereupon preparations were made to speed His Majesty by motor ambulance down to the Sussex seaside, 65 miles from London's fogs...
...Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means heedless of the ballot pulling power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens" by shrewd, onetime (1916-22) Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who owns a large, commercial pig ranch and tells his former constituents that "you and I keep pigs for profit, not prizes...
Died. Leopold Guy Frances Maynard Greville, Sixth Earl of Warwick, 45, hero of three wars, British attache in 1917 to the staff of General Pershing; after a long illness; at his home in Hove, Sussex...