Foreign News: Penniless Peer

John Romer Boreland Campbell, 34, Lord Glenorchy and heir to the 9th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, might easily have won fame & fortune as the hero of a P. G. Wodehouse novel. He is tall, languid, perennially short of cash and preoccupied with strange solutions for his problem. Lord Glenorchy has tried his luck as barman, bagpiper and laborer to supplement the $28-a-month pension he draws as a wounded veteran of the famed Black Watch Regiment. No luck.

One day last month, in desperation, Lord Glenorchy picked the lock on a public lavatory in a Sussex pub and pocketed the contents:...

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