NOT FOR SOME TIME

Evening Post, Issue 15, 17 July 1936, Page 9

NOT FOR SOME TIME

AID TO PACIFIC. SHIPPING

SYDNEY, July 16.

The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, states that nothing is likely to be done in regard to the Pacific shipping problem for some time, at least until after the representatives at the conference at London have an opportunity of consulting their Governments.

The special London representative of the "Sydney Morning Herald" has learned on the highest authority (according to a cable published yesterday) that the British Government is planning to assist shipping in the Pacific to meet American competition Jjy.a form of capital assistance from Britain in the building of ships and an annual subsidy, witti assistance from the Dominions concerned.

Cambridge House, in Piccadilly, where the Duke of Cambridge was lying ill. This last attack was the more brutal as she was just recovering after her confinement, her third son, Arthur, having been born on May 1. Both these assailants were sentenced to seven years' transportation under the Act for Securing the Queen's. Safety, which had been passed in 184 V.

Again in 1872 a youth of seventeen, Arthur O'Connor, fired- a pistol at the Queen outside Buckingham Palace. He was seized by the faithful John Brown and was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and twenty strokes of the birch rod. The pistol proved not! to have carried any missile. ATTACKED BY A LUNATIC. In 1882 she was shot at by Roderick Maclean, a lunatic, who fired a pistol at her at Windsor-Railway Station as she was returning from- London, an event which was commemorated by Sir Samuel Wilson at Hughenden Manor when he placed- a stained-glass window in the old home of Beaconsfield "to the glory of God and in commemoration of His merciful protection of her Majesty Queen Victoria from great peril at Windsor on March 2, 1882." It was an event which marked her return to-that great personal popularity with her people of which, a decade of retirement and mourning for the Prince Consort had deprived her. .

King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales, was also the. target of a would-be assassin. His dropping of old links with France at the turn of the century was partly responsible. The Dreyfus case, the Fashoda incident, the attitude of the French, over the Boer War forced him to take notice of public feeling and instead of attending the Paris Exhibition or going to the Riviera he decided to visit Denmark. His saloon car was drawn up at the platform of the Gare dv Nord in Brussels when a youth named Sipido fired four shots at- almost point-blank range. • The attacker managed to escape to France, and there was intense British, indignation when Sipido was acquitted in a Belgian court. One of the most outspoken comments on the incident came from the ex-Kaiser, who wrote in indignation to the Prince of Wales: "Either their laws are ridiculous or' the jury are a set of damned b— : — scoundrels." . THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. One of the attacks on a member of the British Royal Family was made in Australia. It occurred in Sydney when the Duke of Edinburgh was visiting a public picnic at Clonfert in aid of the Sailors', Home. -The Duke was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and at this time was twenty-three years old. He was the first English Prince to go to Australia, which he visited during a voyage round the world on the naval vessel Galatea of which he was in command. He landed at Glenelg, in South Australia, in October, 1867, and was I received with the greatest enthusiasm, and during his stay of nearly five months he visited Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Tasmania. The attack upon Him was made during his second visit to Sydney, an Irishman j named O'Farrell shooting him in the back with a revolver. Fortunately the wound was not serious and within a month the Duke was able- to' resume command of his ship and return to England, reaching Spithead after an. absence of seventeen months. PUNISHMENT FOR TREASON. "To compass or imagine" the death, of the King is a treasonable offence, and in the past the punishment for a convicted man was terrible in the extreme. It consisted of being drawn on a hurdle1 to the place of execution and there being hanged by the-neck. but not till dead, and, while yet alive, being disembowelled, the body then being divided into four quarters and the head and quarters placed at the disposal of the Crown. Until 1790 a woman was burned for treason. In. that year hanging was substituted for burning for female traitors, and in 1814 the part of the sentence relatinjfto" hanging and disembowelling was altered to hanging until death. Drawing, beheading, and quartering after hanging were abolished in 1870, s we. forfeiture of a man's estates except where he was outlawed. An Act of 1814 also enables the Crown, by sign manual, to substitute beheading for hanging. In 1878 and 1879 the existing legislation on the subject was collected and incorporated in draft criminal code. This vode drew a distinction between treason I and treasonable crimes, the former being taken from . le Treason Act of 1351 which included reference to "compassing or imagining the death of the King, ihe Queen, or their, eldest son and heir."i