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DEATH OF LORD NORTHCLIFFE

PART PROPRIETOR OP. "TIMES"

. (United Service Message.)

"SL ' landon, August 14.

? * - me death is announced of Lord . Northcliffe.

- » [Early thia year Lord Northcliffe

visited Germany incognito and soon «fter . his return Buffered with ptomaine poisoning« Other develop- ments followed and his heart became very weak, so that for the past fort- night .at least his recovery had been regarded as hopeless. Lord Northcliffe visite^ . Australia last year and Irom here went on to the Far East, Canada, and the United States. Lord North-

cliffe was 56 years of age. He was the

eldest son or the late Alfred Harms worth, barrister at law. He was the founder of the great Harmsworth publishing house and caused a stir in 1896 by founding the London "Daily ¡Mail," a halfpenny morning newspaper. ¡ More recently he "became chief proprie-

tor of the London "Times." He was created a baronet in 1904, a baron in 1905, and viscount in 1917. He pro- moted an Imperial interest in airman- ship by offering £10,000 for a flight

from London to Manchester in 1906, und £1000 for the crossing of tho ', Channel by aeroplane. In 1911 another

¿10,000 was given for an aerial flight round Britain. During the war Lord . Northcliffe, waa Director of Propaganda

in Enemy Countries, and was nead of the British War Mission to the United ftateaj ' ' _

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