COMPLAINT SHUT UP LINER’S BARS.

Shannon News, 31 December 1926, Page 3

COMPLAINT SHUT UP LINER’S BARS.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR’9 WIFE TOLD HUSBAND. NEW YORK, Nov., 28. Lady Isabella Howard, >vife of Si :• Esme Howard, British Ambassador at Washington, has succeeded in. getting the bars of Cunard and White Star liners closed so completely that it is impossible for the officers to purchase any liquor while in port, according to the New York World. ' Returning from England in May, the report states, she was shocked to see drinking while the Aquitania was stea ing from quarantine to the pier. She reported to Sir Esme Unit this selling of liquor in port was a violation of the agreement between Britain and the United States. The Ambassador wrote to Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks, a director of the Cunard Company, and also to the White Star Line. The result was that when the Majestic reached quarantine yesterday all the seven bars were closed.

Lady Isabella is an Italian princess by birth, but her father, Prince Gius-tiniaui-Bandini, is also a British peer, the Earl of Newburgh, and when she married she dropped the title of princess. 1