River
THE CHINA MAIL.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 1923.
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Marvin Bystem for recording the rise and fall of streams. The float goes up and down inside a hollow piling, and its movements are recorded on atape in the instrument.
Ku Klux Klan murder sensation in Louisiana F. Watt Daniel, uz service man, and Thomas F. Richards was kidnapped by a masked band. Governor Parker ordered State troops to guard the divers soaking the bodies under direction of J. D. Rooney, United States Troops Agant,. While the divers were at work unknown men set off a charge of 1.000 pounds of dynamite in an effort to destroy the bodies, which, however, were brought to the surface, They had been weighted down.
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Blinded nine years ago by a fireworks explosion, this 18-year old youth-
may have his sight restored through a unique operation which will remove the sightlers eye and replace it with an ays taken from a pig: A limitar operation by the same aurgson has already proved successful, Panniless the boy is attempting to earn enough money by playing the accordeon to pay his hospital bills.
Basilica in Quebec.
Burning basilica-of-the-Catholic Cathedral at Quebec, have been daa- -troyed, with a loss of $500,000. Church and civic authorities auerted that
members of the Ku Klux Klan were reponsible for the blaze.
The United States Government is spending large sums fighting the menses of forest fires. Fire look but haves been placed on the bighest peaks of the forests, this particular one being on Castle Peak, Colorado, where observers, with powerful glasers, can scap thousands of square miles of forest. Where took out toware are not practicable rangers patrol immense districts on horseback.
Prince Aage, son of Prince Wal- demar of Denmark, has again joined the Frenen Army as a major in the Colonial forces and will be stationed'
in Matoooo. He was several years ago, an officer in the French Foreign Legion, but resigned to assume a command in the Danish Royal Guard. Prinon Waldemar, his father, re nounced his sight of succession to the Danish throne when he married
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to the throne, is shown here leaving The Prince Regent of Japan, heir
a temple in Toky.
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