Foreign News: Tanker Jack

An ornate person is the Vice-Chamberlain of Great Britain. He helps with the domestic accounts of the Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from...

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