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...Navy. The entire fighting strength of the British Navy began manoeuvres off the Balearic Islands in the Spanish Mediterranean. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty witnessed the operations which included a night attack against an imaginary enemy fleet...
...provincial rumor to the effect that the Premier had become engaged to Lady Margaret Sackville, youngest daughter of Earl De la Warr, was speedily denied...
...Earl Balfour, dean of Britain's "Elder Statesmen," intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country...
...Esme and Lady Howard (née Lady Isabella Giustiniani-Bandini daughter of Prince Giustiniani-Bandini, afterwards Earl of Newburgh) have five sons. The eldest is at Oxford and the second at Cambridge. Lady Howard will bring the other three over with her when she rejoins her husband, when they will be placed in preparatory schools. The Ambassador said that he hoped Esme, the eldest, would come to the U. S. after he had finished at Oxford and obtain a good...
...Cabinet. Premier Macdonald, Miss Ishbel Macdonald, hostess of No. 10 Downing Street, John R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, and Mrs. Clynes attended a dinner given by the Earl of Granard, King's Master of the Horse, and the Countess of Granard, nee Beatrice Ogden Mills of New York, at which the King and Queen were present. Ramsay sat at the Queen's left hand...