Evening star., 1923-09-01
Notable Oriental Diplomats
Coming Soon to Washington

wilson societies which gave the
people TO believe that the President
of the United States. instead of having
taken a leading part in the move
ment for the expulsion of the Turks
from Europe. was, on the contrary,
their champion in the defense of the
ottoman empire, in opposition to the
alleged purpose of France, Italy. Eng
land and Greece TO wipe the sultan's
empire off the map. She was aided
and abetted in this policy by Young
Turk publicists, such as Achmet
Emin Bey, chief editor of the Vakit,
and by DjeIai Muri Bey. author of a
quantity of literature aimed agains-
the United States during the earlier
portion of the war.
Lord Falmouth, eighth viscount Of
his line and twenty:fifth Lord LIE De-
spencer, that is to say, holder of the
barony created in 1854 by King
Henry III, the ownership by his fam
| lily of the ancestral estates in Corr
wall, especially his castle of Ire
gothnan, dating still further back.
namely. to the time of King Richard
Occur de Lion, the crusader, has just
completed the sale of his wonderful
old London. mansion, ST. James
Square. to big life insurance COM
pany which proposes to erect an Of
flee building on the site for use as lis
headquarters. known as the Fal-
mouth House, it has, for nearly two
centuries, been one of the most famil
lar landmarks in the metropolis, and
It's disappearance under the pick of
the housewrecker will be widely re-
gretted. 1t has always attracted
the attention of visitors from this
slde or the Atlantic, owing to the odd
looking iron posts in front Of ii.
which are nothing more or less
than guns captured from the French
| in a naval battle off Cape Finisterre
by Lord F'almouth's ancestor, Admiral
Sir Edward Boscawen, who brought
them nome as trophies of his victory,
ana set them up in front of his house
In st. James Square. breech upwards
feet in the ground
The admiral was the naval hero
VINO was known to his officers az
| "ryneck Dick" and by his sailors
as OId Dreadnought," and it is TO
MN tnat Great Britain owes the pos
| session or her vast Indian dependen-
! cy OF Madras with its teeminc- ma
i've population of 10000, 600 ana the
| .sle OF cape Breton, as we'll as the
1ormer stronghold of Louisburg in
this western hemisphere.
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81. James Square, a creation of the
Eari or st. Jarmyn in the reign of
James H. retained, until q quarter of
century ago, its eighteenth CEN
| tury description as inhabited almost
exclusively by the great nobility"
But 1t has fallen from its high estate.
Ihe town mansions there of the Earls
or Derby, of Cowper and of Egerton.
or the Lords Kinnaird. Avebury, En-
| meld and of Sir William watkins
| wynn, the uncrowned King of Wales,
| nave all passed into other hands. that
OF Lord Desborough being at present
occupied by Lord and Lady Astro,
ana, now that Lord Falmouth has
disposed of the mansion bearing his
name to an insurance company, Nor
folk House, belonging TO the young
| Duke of Norfolk and to his widowed
| mother, and in one of the rooms of
| which King George III was born, is
about the only residence. on the
ership.
Tregothnan, the principal and most
ancient country seat of the Lords Of
Falmouth. is picturesquely situated
on the banks of the river Fal in
of the Lizard. Indeed, there is no
more picturesque sail than that down
the River Fal, from Tregothnan TO
Falmouth. The extensive deer park.
richly wooded, as well as the beauti-
tiful gardens are celebrated for their
irhododeudr Onk~