Evening star., 1923-07-07
Duke of Abruzzi Has Transformed
Useless Colony Into Valued Asset

eral elections next fall But the
British government. in view of the
solini's policy and his disposition to
make common cause with England in
everything in the present troubled
international situation. has decided/
of the whole of Jubaland and of the
two fine seaports on the Jubaland
coast to Italy. thus satisfying the
NATIONAL pride and popular .sentImen.
or King victor Emmanuers lieges.
and contributing to the success and
rich developments of the colonial en-
terprise of the Duke of the Abruzzi.
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King George is about TO revive the
ancient Office of master of the kings
tennis court, which was in existence.
in the reign of Henry VIII. and even
in that of his father. Henry VII 4
Capt. Cooke was master of the kings
tennis court at the Palace Of White
hall under King Charles II, and some
twenty-six years later King William
III granted letters patent over his
sign manual. appointing our trusty
and well beloved Henry Eilliers. es-
quire, to the Office of master of our
tennis court at Whitehall, Hampton
Court. and elsewhere, i'll this our
Kingdom of England" The Office was
continued without interruption until
the death In 1889 of its last holder
MAJ. William Beresford, who had held
1t for over fifty years and who had an
offlcial residence in Hampton Court
Palace, where the old royal tennis
court in England, built for Henry
VIII in 1880, still exists No salary
Is attached 10 the post, but II carries
with 1T several highly priced pre-
negatives and membership Of the
royal household King George Is
most enthusiastic tennis PLAYER: so
too, is the Prince of Wales. 1t is in
every way fitting, therefore, that the
>mastership of the most ancient and
kingly of all games should be re-
vived. Perhaps lord Balfour, who'd
still at his age is one of the foremost
exponents of the game, might be in
duced to dignity this ancient Office
with his acceptance.
Lord Latymer's recent death and
cremation-he was the chief stock
holder of the old London banking
house of Coutts. where King George.
like his three immediate predecessors
on the throne. keeps his private ac-
count-has given rise to a very Gu
rious controversy. 1t is one that *
already engaging the attention of that
civil ana ecclesiastical courts of Great
britain, and which also has a cor
siderable American interest New
churches erected in towns and cities
are debarred from the burial of the
dead in their surrounding grounds.
The churchyard' .interment of forme,
times. so dear to our forehears X
forbidden nowadays for sanitary rea
sons. Ihe presence of growing uuan-
tItles or human remains in the center
or crowded urban districts is oppospd
py the health authorities and inter
ments, save in exceptional cases, are
restricted to rural cemeteries In more
or less remote outskirts of cities and
towns.
The recent cremation of Lord
iAatymer has had the effect of rails
ing the question as to whether
the modern objection to entombing
applies to their ashes. In the case of
some of the British peers possessed
OF ancestral estates and ancient fam
i!y mausoleums, they have added ia
the latter stone or marble colum-
barfums, sort of consecrated pigeon
house, for the sealed reception Of the
silver urns containing the ashes Of
their incinerated dead. But where
there is no such arrangement for the
disposal of the dead, the question is
put as to whether the national or
local law will permit of the entomb-
ment of these fnnocuous urns of
human ashes. either in the church
yard or preferably in the church it
self. The issue does not concern
Roman Catholic churches, since they
forbid cremation. But 1t is of i'm
portance to every other Christian de
Britain's ecclesiastical and secular
courts in the matter viii be awaited
with some interest on this side OF the
Atlantic.