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JAFFA'S FAMOUS FRUIT, Aberdeen Daily Journal, 23 August 1922
BY MR T.S. PENNY, J.P.
“..For a mile or two before entering Jaffa our train ran through an unbroken succession of orange orchards, and as the rich fruit had not all been gathered in we were able to form some idea of the beauty of the scene when the trees are fully laden. We wondered how the bunches could possibly sustain the weight of the large ripe fruit which still remained. So cheap are these oranges in Jaffa that we were repeatedly offered two dozen for half a franc - say fivepence - including a basket to carry them in! We should have liked to lay in a stock for our children and friends, but alas! The difficulties of transport were insurmountable, and much against our inclination we were compelled to decline the tempting offers..”
TOWN AND PORT
“..But in spite of its antiquity the town itself is not to be greatly admired, for its streets are narrow and dirty, and its buildings save a few on the outskirts are wretchedly poor. Its palm trees, orange groves, and gardens, however, are beautiful. The house of Simon the Tanner, where the Apostle Peter lodged, and on whose open, flat roof he slept and saw the vision of the sheet is still pointed out, but beyond this nothing of Biblical interest remains. As a port it is at a great disadvantage, for a double reason; first, because it is exposed to the full force of nearly every wind that blows; and secondly, because a reef of rocks prevents any ship from coming to anchor within a mile or two of the shore. Every kind of import and export - animate and inanimate - has, therefore, to be landed or embarked by means of long, narrow surf boats. Although in fair weather the passage from ship to harbour is nothing more than inconvenient should anything approaching a gale be blowing the journey is not only disagreeable, but dangerous. On this occasion we were particularly fortunate, and as the Arab sailors swung their oars to the monotonous chant of a ditty which they evidently enjoyed, for it was interspersed with frequent bursts of laughter, we passed without consciousness of danger through a break in the ledge of rocks only just wide enough to allow our boat to get through, and were in due course transferred to the good ship El Kahira.
MEMORIES OF PERIL
“My recollection of re-embarkation is not more pleasant.....some forty or fifty of us were crowded into the surf boats, which pitched and tossed to an extent that to a landsman at least was very alarming. At last we came alongside, and then came the question how we could possibly mount the ladder on the side of the steamer. This problem was solved by two of the Arab sailors lifting us - ladies and gentlemen - in turn into their arms, watching their opportunity when the surf boats would be carried by the waves to the right level, and practically pitching us into the arms of the steamer’s men, who skilfully laid hold of us, and got us all aboard without accident. This, we are told, is by no means an unusual occurrence - in fact, a smooth landing appears to be the exception.”
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LORD ROSEBERY, 23 August, #1922Live, Northampton Chronicle and Echo
“Lord Rosebery, who is 75 years old, has lived in retirement for many years. The death of his son, the Hon. Neil Primrose, in the Palestine campaign of 1918 was a terrible grief from which he has never recovered. Mr Primrose had his father’s interest in public affairs, which Lord Dalmeny does not share. Lord Rosebery’s own career up to his retirement was brilliant in the extreme. He married one of the richest heiresses in the country; he not only achieved his ambition of winning the Derby, but won it three times; and he became Prime Minister..”
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LEAGUE DELEGATES, 23 August, #1922Live, Daily Herald
“Geneva, August 21 - The Secretary of the League of Nations announces that at the third assembly Great Britain will be represented by the Earl of Balfour. Mr H. A. L. Fisher and Colonel John Ward, assisted by Cecil Hurst and a woman delegate - Reuter.
[*It is reported that the woman delegate is to be Mrs Ethel Snowden]
Another Reuter message says it is announced that the next session of the Council of the League of Nations will start on August 30.
The agenda comprises the final settlement of the question of the Holy places in Palestine, the observations of the Permanent Mandates Commission on the administration of territories placed under mandates, the question of minorities in Albania, Latvia, Esthonia, and the question of the frontier of Austria. Yugo-Slavia and Hungary, the appointment of a native inhabitant of the Sarre district as a member of the Governing Commission of the Sarre, and the preliminary measures with a view to a plebiscite in that district.
The question of armaments will be examined by the Permanent Consultative Commission and the Temporary Mixed Commission.”
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A Real Conservative Party, 23 August, #1922Live, Belfast Weekly News
Ronald M’Neill MP: “Conservatives have always frankly recognised that the support of British interests should be the paramount aim of British policy. Can it be maintained that the policy of Mr Lloyd George and the Coalition in Ireland, in Egypt, in India, in Mesopotamia, and in Palestine, has been based on this principle? In all these cases British interest have been disregarded or relegated to a secondary place..”
JAFFA'S FAMOUS FRUIT, Aberdeen Daily Journal, 23 August 1922
BY MR T.S. PENNY, J.P.
“..For a mile or two before entering Jaffa our train ran through an unbroken succession of orange orchards, and as the rich fruit had not all been gathered in we were able to form some idea of the beauty of the scene when the trees are fully laden. We wondered how the bunches could possibly sustain the weight of the large ripe fruit which still remained. So cheap are these oranges in Jaffa that we were repeatedly offered two dozen for half a franc - say fivepence - including a basket to carry them in! We should have liked to lay in a stock for our children and friends, but alas! The difficulties of transport were insurmountable, and much against our inclination we were compelled to decline the tempting offers..”
TOWN AND PORT
“..But in spite of its antiquity the town itself is not to be greatly admired, for its streets are narrow and dirty, and its buildings save a few on the outskirts are wretchedly poor. Its palm trees, orange groves, and gardens, however, are beautiful. The house of Simon the Tanner, where the Apostle Peter lodged, and on whose open, flat roof he slept and saw the vision of the sheet is still pointed out, but beyond this nothing of Biblical interest remains. As a port it is at a great disadvantage, for a double reason; first, because it is exposed to the full force of nearly every wind that blows; and secondly, because a reef of rocks prevents any ship from coming to anchor within a mile or two of the shore. Every kind of import and export - animate and inanimate - has, therefore, to be landed or embarked by means of long, narrow surf boats. Although in fair weather the passage from ship to harbour is nothing more than inconvenient should anything approaching a gale be blowing the journey is not only disagreeable, but dangerous. On this occasion we were particularly fortunate, and as the Arab sailors swung their oars to the monotonous chant of a ditty which they evidently enjoyed, for it was interspersed with frequent bursts of laughter, we passed without consciousness of danger through a break in the ledge of rocks only just wide enough to allow our boat to get through, and were in due course transferred to the good ship El Kahira.
MEMORIES OF PERIL
“My recollection of re-embarkation is not more pleasant.....some forty or fifty of us were crowded into the surf boats, which pitched and tossed to an extent that to a landsman at least was very alarming. At last we came alongside, and then came the question how we could possibly mount the ladder on the side of the steamer. This problem was solved by two of the Arab sailors lifting us - ladies and gentlemen - in turn into their arms, watching their opportunity when the surf boats would be carried by the waves to the right level, and practically pitching us into the arms of the steamer’s men, who skilfully laid hold of us, and got us all aboard without accident. This, we are told, is by no means an unusual occurrence - in fact, a smooth landing appears to be the exception.”
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LORD ROSEBERY, 23 August, #1922Live, Northampton Chronicle and Echo
“Lord Rosebery, who is 75 years old, has lived in retirement for many years. The death of his son, the Hon. Neil Primrose, in the Palestine campaign of 1918 was a terrible grief from which he has never recovered. Mr Primrose had his father’s interest in public affairs, which Lord Dalmeny does not share. Lord Rosebery’s own career up to his retirement was brilliant in the extreme. He married one of the richest heiresses in the country; he not only achieved his ambition of winning the Derby, but won it three times; and he became Prime Minister..”
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LEAGUE DELEGATES, 23 August, #1922Live, Daily Herald
“Geneva, August 21 - The Secretary of the League of Nations announces that at the third assembly Great Britain will be represented by the Earl of Balfour. Mr H. A. L. Fisher and Colonel John Ward, assisted by Cecil Hurst and a woman delegate - Reuter.
[*It is reported that the woman delegate is to be Mrs Ethel Snowden]
Another Reuter message says it is announced that the next session of the Council of the League of Nations will start on August 30.
The agenda comprises the final settlement of the question of the Holy places in Palestine, the observations of the Permanent Mandates Commission on the administration of territories placed under mandates, the question of minorities in Albania, Latvia, Esthonia, and the question of the frontier of Austria. Yugo-Slavia and Hungary, the appointment of a native inhabitant of the Sarre district as a member of the Governing Commission of the Sarre, and the preliminary measures with a view to a plebiscite in that district.
The question of armaments will be examined by the Permanent Consultative Commission and the Temporary Mixed Commission.”
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A Real Conservative Party, 23 August, #1922Live, Belfast Weekly News
Ronald M’Neill MP: “Conservatives have always frankly recognised that the support of British interests should be the paramount aim of British policy. Can it be maintained that the policy of Mr Lloyd George and the Coalition in Ireland, in Egypt, in India, in Mesopotamia, and in Palestine, has been based on this principle? In all these cases British interest have been disregarded or relegated to a secondary place..”