Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Hay, G.C.8., F.K.G.S., celebrated on August 22 bis eighty-fourth birthday. Lord .Toiin Hay has been an Admiral of tho Fleet ten years longer than any other officer whoso name still appears in Iho Mavy List. The veteran admiral enteral tlio Navy on August 13. 1810, at tho ago of twelve. In tlio great English, storm of 17011. which lasted two days, 8000 people wore drowned. 20,000 trees were uprooted in Kent, and ,£2,01)0,000 worth of damage was done in i/ondon alone. Burglars broke into ClifTcot, Bournemouth. tho residence of Mrs. Desmond Humphreys, better kuown as "Rita." the novelist, "on Sunday night, August 20. Mrs. Humphreys's jewel eases were broken open and all tho contents, of the value of some -C2OO, were stolen.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 12
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128Untitled Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 12
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