FRIDAY JULY 4 1924
HUMANE WORKERS.
S.P.C.A'S JULY REPORT.
We are indebted to Mr. B. L.. Frost, hon. secretary of the S.P.C.A. for the inspector's report of joint work for the month of July, as follows:-
Transport.
'529
Poultry, crates ...........
Poultry in trucks and lorries,
loade
112
Poultry in junks and ferries,
crates
Pigs in junks and ferries
306
2,095
Pigs in trucks and baskets.1.000 Cattle in junks and ships Cattle ashore
Sheep and goats".
Cages of smatt-birds.
Imports.
Poultry, crates
Poultry by rail, curates Pigs
366 520 34
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IN SECLUSION.
HOW THE CALL CAME TO TAGORE,
اره ما
HIS PARTING MESSAGE,
Freedom versta bondage was the burden of the lost message of Dr. Rabindranath Tagore ere he left Chine It was made on the ccasion of a visit to the newly opened social Club of the Confian Club.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"KILLED SCHOOLBOY.
MILLIONAIRES' SONS' AWFUL CRIME.
KIDNAPPING SEQUEL.
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PRINCE GEORGE.
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HIS SILENT NAVY' JOKE,
Prince George, the King's fourth con, chamued everybody Who sự hin enrolled as a Freeman of the
VOTES FOR GIRLS;
FRANCHISE AGE TO BE LOWERED.
SODERING MARRIAGE.
BARRIE AT SCHOOL.
"AN IMPERTINENT YOUNG
ARSENIC IN SHOE.
FIND LEADS TO POISON, TRIAL.
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Jeanne
At Liége Assizes, Motton, 33, and Joseph Persoona, 31, said to be her lover, are being tried for the attempted murder of the woman's husband by poisoning
The husband's fortune consists of about £1,000, which, in the event of his death, was to go to his wife, It is alleged by the prosecution that the wife, during six months, doctored the food she prepared for her husband with arsenic sild to
· RASCAL” -
The decision of the Town Votes for girls on the same terns Council of Dumfries to confer the An amazing story of callous City of London at the Guildhall
asinen are assured in Great Bri- freedom on Sir James Barrie There was happy blend of crime has been related by an
bill amending the law directs attention to a period of his American millionaire's 'son, who, boyishies and "just-come-of-age in,, a with a killed, and disfigured a fourteen--in his hearing when he stood in
companion, kidnapped, dignity-he was 21 last December securing general support in the life of which comparatively little
House of Commons.
has been heard, states a home year-old schoolboy."
Giris to have votes at 21 years paper. theanilst of scarlet-robed aldermen of age instead of 30, as at present,
Barrie's childhood is Nathan Leopold and Richard and gorgeously uniformed repre- is the recommendation of the Pur-
associated with Kirriemuir or Dr. Tagore commenced by re- Loab, sons of leading Chicago sentatives of the Services and liamentary Standing Committee, Thrums," and his student days Chinn for welcoming him so kindly. least £5,000,000, confessed to an had conferred on him. In naval during the consideration by the between these periods he was a turning thanks to the people of families whose wealth represents at thnked the City for the honour it which provoked a lively discussion with Edinburgh University, but in
have been obtained from a Gorman. He had made. friends with sonic amazing crime, which included the
It was stated that the husband whom he had only known a few kidnapping and murder of Robert figure. Women who sat ner hintroduced by the Secretary for It was at Dumfries that the lure of chance remark led the doctors to uniforu, le was a slim, smart Horse of Commons of the bill in schoolboy at Dumfries Academy, was at the point of death when a months but who were now as dear Franks, a schoolboy of, 14 to him as he was to them.
"We had been reading stories remarked upon his buoyant smile Scotland, Mr. W. Adanson, to printer's ink first attracted the suspect the real cause of his illness.
and such uni the flush on his clear cheeks. amend the Franchise Act. His had been a hasty visit to a about kidnapping
The future novelist and dramatist. His On removal to a hospital bis con- .2.776
775 country with, such a glorious his-adventures," said Leopold. We "A jolly boy-quite a sailor," they menure is assured of pussigo."
first contribution to the Press was a the wife lived was searched, but no dition improved. The house where Lord Eustace Percy (C) said be 8,623 tory as Chinn hut he could see that had all the money we needed, of whispered.
course, but we thought it would Prince George made it clear in had never been able to see the letter to a Dumfries newspaper the spark of greatness was still in give us a new thrill to kidnap his speech that be was very prond reason for the inequality of voting signed Paterfamilias," protesting her being and it would again be some youngster and hold him for to be a sailor-thigh and ages, but proposed 25 years instead against the excessive amount of 36 ignited and burn brightly.
'ransom. At first we didn't plan joke at the Navy expense. He
as servant. In an attic she found 21. He added that it would be home lessons given out to Academy to murder him, but then we found declared that Sir A. Pollock, the disastrous for the country if girls pupils. He also edited a school away in the too of an old shoe. a small packet of arsenic tucked Dr Tagore dealt with the curly that the only way to play safe was City Chuimberlain had said were squeezed into party moulds magazine coples of which are no period of his adult life in which he to kill him.
The charge against the wife ad in his own words heen
his task of replying, had been wide many nice dings about him that
at an early age.
longer extant. Some of his con- | resulted:" 14 nothing but a poet in seeluxion
Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle temporaries, however, have a und one of the wall which had
very difficult-particularly as is.) reumfked that most marriages lively recollection of some of
¿ to him there from the
profession is not namily held the ongst spinsters usured about the Barrie's contributions. famous for lequence 17" he added. 275 children of men to rescue then
age of 21, and he pointed out that Near Dumfries there is an as marriage 116 from the prison house of edan.
was one thing that attractive trouting stream, with the He said that one of the many tional systemis,"
He had answervil
advantages of the Service to whichbered women, it was only reason peculiar name of Ae. It furnished the call and had taken up the task on the head with an iron bar, and he was proud to belong was thable that they should vote at that a theme for one of his earliest essays in humour. The Academy it enabled one at an early uge to; age. see something
Mr. Isue Foot (Lab.): Why magazine had an article describing of the world
should old people in bath-chairean Incident in a railway journey In the course of have a vote in preference to young in the course of which the train between Lockerbie and Dumfries,
people?
crossed the Ae. 'An elderly and Mr. A. Hopkinson (Ind. Free somewhat irascible old gentle trader): What about votes for man sitting opposite Barrie, so
Pigs by rail
29
Cattle.
1,037
Cages small birds
Rabbits, hutches,
Doga
Wild Cats
Turtles, baskuts
Cages of crickets.
Exports.
Poultry, crates
Cattle
Sheep and goate
Horses
Cages Small birds
Visits.
Markets
Birdshops
Cattle depots
Landing place.
Town
Poultry depots
Kennedy
Dealershops, Mongkok.
Dogs' home.......... Pig pens. Yaumati
Railway stations.....
Miscellaneous.
Watching Peak Tramway.
station, times
Ignorant crucity easus cur-
reeted
Watching ferries, times Markets watched, times Cautions given:
Prosecutions
Fines. Total
ONCE AGAIN.
2
18
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HOW THE' CANT, CAME.
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of giving them freedom and joy 3 and of bringing them back to the
aring of other nature.
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He made no pretension" "to academic learning and had not been 24 example Tor school boys onder 17 the Education, rode to follow, but 13 he had the gift of imagination and from his very childhood had had a the freedom of creating his own 16 dream world and of living his life
in that world,
"We figured it all out last Christmas, and we wanted some boy whose father had plenty of money. We rented an auto and went to Harvard School just when the boys were coming out, Robert stepped in when we asked him to come for a ride. We tapped him
fually gave him ether, which I had obtained from the college laboratory.
"We choked him to death, and threw hydrochloric acid on his face. hoping that when found he would be, so badly disfigured that he could not be identified. I wrote a thousand dollars from Robert's ransom letter demanding ten father."
The only important clue apart from the letter was the finding of
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When the husband returned,
cured, he engaged an old woman
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THE SCOTS ACCENT, since leaving the Naval College. babies. "None the less, it had been sufficient |
"I was meditating at the time," The Home Secretary (Mr. Barrie wrote, to convince him of the truth of the
'so only answered Nations had fought for freedom a pair of horn-rimmed glasses saying, "East, west, hothe's best. Arthur Henderson) said that the Ae."" Mistaking the monosyllable Noor, taking Passengers and Cargo for 4. from outward restraints but there alongside Franks's body. Franks It had shown him enough of these to both sexes at 21 years of stranger repeated his query, and Eh?", the Clovernment wanted to give the for the more familiar was something still greater to did not wear glasses, so it was at cities of other lands to make him age, and did not want to disqualify got the same answer. He trierent France and London (under arrangement) Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, 89 fight for and that was the freedom, once suspected that the murderer-
question a third time in different will be conveyed by this Steamer pro- 15 of inner relationship between man had dropped these. It was found appreciate the particuling clar existing voters.
and merita of the City of London, j
form, but again the answer seemed 2fald man. Boghind had fought for that similar ones had been sup
Marriage is generally one of the form the unattractive. Scottish ceeding to Bombsy and there tran- this freedom and it was in as much plied by a leading optical firm to (Cheers).
Discles to a successful career,
Eh?" In camion with all other British Viscountess Rhondda Leopold. The latter had, how.
Thereupon he lost his hipped to the on-carrying Steamer for
Marseilles and London, 4s she realised this reintionship of ever, a good libi, and was actually travellers, e Ind come to realise Parents'
told the temper, and in explosive language $70 sympathy and justice between pan set free until the Leopold family's that special affection for London, Union, which was discussing the impoliteness of the "impertinent The contents and value of all package
Parcels will be received at this Office Education said what he thought about the until 6 P.M. the day before, sailing. and bar that she could be said to chauffeur gave the lie to his story, the headquarters of home, as it choice of u career, be free. The greatest nations He shrugged his shoulders, and might be called, which all whose
young rascal."
must be declared. were not those that were great in said, "I may as well tell.”
She added that a country which According to his contemporaries,
For further particulars apply to- | Į size but "those which had found] Leopold is the youngest student business took them overseas were told a large proportion" of its men Barrie was the shy reticent person
bound to experience, the best relationships.
MACKINNON, MACKENZİB ("Hear, and women to choose between mar as a boy that he proved to be in
& 00.. hear.") It was an affection which riage and a career which was most later years. His intimates, how
&gents, was combined with very genuine seful to the community and best ever, who were able to penetrate Fride and veneration.
Boogkong. 2nd July, 1924. London was for themselves, was doing a stupid this reserve, found in, him a very far more them than merely a thing. Civilization should have engaging and entertaining friend. friendly town to which, laving discovered a way to allow them the travelled, one returns again. It
career they desired was the one place in the whole
marriage, world of which every man of Bri 'tish blood fels he was in the widest sense of the word-a-citizen POISONED BY MISTAKE.
PEKİNG CABINET LOSES
IT'S LEADER.
A Renter message from Peking| SHOT FROM
states that a presidential nuusdate
has been issued, arrepting the re- signation of Premier Sun Puo-chi. Dr. Wellington Koo has been ap pointed, to act as Prensier
An exclusive message, to the
CATAPULT.
ROCKET PLAXES AT 400 MILES, AN HOUR
FRANCE'S SECRET.
Daily Bulletin from Peking throws | Jules Verne's '
ever graduated by the University
of Chicago. He is a son of the
president of the Morris Box Company. Locb's father was formerly vice-president of the Sears-Roebuck Company (the great mail-order house)..
Medical examination showed that Franks had been attacked by
а тогол.
story of the
✓ DID
further light of the foregoing, journey to the moon will not seen') Under dat of July 2, we read: so fantastic if the latest French
The "Cabinet debacle appears to design of rocket aeroplanes be complete to-day.
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perfected.
SOLOMON FLY.?
WOMAN LECTURER'S
STORY,
SILVER COP MEMENTO.
National
as well
as
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Barrie had a deep affection for the old school, and especially for the plain wooden desks of the mathematical master's room which, with scores of others, he carved his name with a pen-knife,
Barrie delivered-his-first-public- speech at Dumfries Academy prize
CONSIGNEES.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.
day. It was an impromptu. He THE Steamship had stipulated that he should not
be asked to speak. Seeing around
"ROSANDEA" TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, PORT SAID, MASSAUA, ADEN, COLOMBO, PENANG & SINGAPORE.
him, however, large gathering FROM of his schoolday acquaintances, he stood up and recalled incidents of his schooldays. One of the ladies If the audience, he mentioned, he
The quaintness of the ceremonial: form which had to be observed often brought a merry twinkle to the Prince's blue eyes. Try as he An inquest was held at St. San Paochi's colleagues`ub- The nematical correspondent. The astonishing statement that might, he could not force back a Anne's, Blackpool, on John Archi. viously joined him in resigning only of the London Daily Mail dislases King Solomon flew over the Dead smile when the Principal Clerk to bald Barber, 22, who was found 29 1 mutter of loyalty to their seline which, if perfected, wild Sea centuries ago in an aeroplane, the Chamberlain, reading the dead in a house in St. George's chief, whom all respected, but there translate into het Jules Verne's and that the people of Palestine, "Declaration of the Compurgn-road, St. Anne's, is no new Premier in sight at pre-fantastic story of the journey to tacked some device on to their fors, Bùnounced that Prifice It was stated that pinned on his had not seen since an occasion of CONSIGNEES of are hereby sent, for Wn Vodin, Dr. W. W. the ineon The seret "ket heels and flew without the aid George was a man of god name bedroom door was found the fol- their meeting at the Academy. Informed that all Goods are being She was running round one side (anded at their risk into the S and Dr. Willington Koo have aeroplanes" of the French experi Miss Mills Meyer, who recently Freedoin of the City whereby to
of a machine, was made by and fame who does not desire the lowing note:
of the school and he was running Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow- Urgent:--Please get all put forward objections to their mental programme include a man-
Iam nearly round the other. They met at the toon Wharf and Godown Company, doctor at once. forming a Ministry, but the opinion currying plane possessing neither returned from a visit to Palestine. defrand the King" and that he
comer. He was afraid, he said. Ltd., at Kowloon, whenes and/or from Miss Meyer said she made this would pay his scot and bear his
dying. I took some posion in. I resem-statement on information received
he did not is generally held that the situation engine nor propeller.
apologise then the wharves delivery may be obtained." mistake and I cannot speak. My
but he did so NOW, Barrie's will merely result in a reshuffle of bles the "machine suggested by Sir from Mr. Lockwood Marsh, secre- lab, and so say all.",
Optional Cargo will be forwarded mother's address is, Mrs. Barber, the portfolios under Dr. Wellington Oliver Lodge, which would be tary to the British Aeronautical The cup. presented to Prince
residence with his elder brother, before 2nd lost. propelled by the ejection at high Society, who said that ancient George as a memento was of the
Mr. A. O. Barrie, Inspector of No claims will be admitted after the Meanwhile, the usual exchange speed of gas, from the stem. documents obtained from Palestine old silver and was made in 1763 in He took ammonia in mistake for Schools for the South of Scotland, Goods have left the Godowns, and all
now in the British Museum con- Old Jewry.
whisky prescribed-for him for who appears in the pages of Goods remaining undelivered after tained pictures of aeroplanes used
The Prince of Wales, in naval | diabetes.
"My Lady Nicotine." The ancients of Palestine, Miss uniform, and Prince Henry were
A policeman said that Barber Meyer added, were well advanced among those who witnessed the told him that he took the ammonia in engineering, mining. and architecture.
Afterwards the three after he had got into bed, and Princes were the guests of Sir being in a strange house did not
like to bother the householder. Louis Newton, the Lord Mayor, at
The verdict was Death from luncheon in the Mansion House,
Misadventure.
Koo,
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While she was in Palestine she
ceremony.
of views are occurring hetween The all is fitted with apparatus Peking and the outside military for producing, under pressure in a lenders.
| combustion “chuber, gus, which is tal through The President has not yet replied ejected from the
This ceaseless discharge to the Cabinet resignations, but it nozzles. is expected that after one or per-is calculated to drive the winger haps two rejections their acceptance "rocket" at unprecedented had seen the places where years will be granted.
speed, probably at nearly 400 miles ago great mines were located, also an hour.
the spot where the famous engi. The experts realise the riskiness neering works of Jerusalens once of the experimentation stages, and stood. These works brought water with this "jet propulsion". they to the city from the mountains 15 IMPROVING THE will not at first attempt high speed.miles away, and were larger than With the view of overcoming the any modern works. Palestine was difficulties of ascending and aliglit-destined to become one of the ing, they will launch the machine greatest wheat-growing countries. Suteide during temporary in- by a hydraulic rainpult, and acnity was the finding of Mr. Barringo for landing upon a skein MIRAGE AT CENOTAPH.
Hamilton at yesterday's of elevated wires. inquiry into the manner in which! Discussing Britain's purpose in
EUROPEAN'S SUICIDE.
ANXIOUS TO GET BACK TO POLICE FORCE.
W.
A POOL
.. 16, Green-lane, Killamarsh, bear stay at Dumfries was while in unless notios to the contrary be given
Sheffied.
3
One of the pupils attending the
Academy at the same time was
the 8th inst. will be subject to reat.
be
or
All claims against the stemmer zurh
presented to this Undersigned on before the 18th inst, or they will
not be recognized ga
All broken, aliafed, and damnged Goode are to be left in the Godown, abere thay will be examined on the 8ch inst. at 10 s., by our surveyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
Mr. Norman McKinnel, who has appeared in Barrie plays. Barrie was a regular visitor to the pretty Solway village of Rockcliffe A friend of one of his nephews killed in the war says they knew Too Late Then to Hunt
him there as "Uncle Jim." He No time to buaf fore doctor or drar used to send them to Dumfries No Fire-Inquranin has been effported.. PORTS.store when enddenly sized with awoniz to buy tobacco and new pipes. Bs of Lading will be countersignce
log intestinal cramps, deadly, nause He always brought cheap pipes, | by
Chamber. and prostrating dirrhoss
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Far-reaching recommendations
a European, Mr. W. G. Douse, calling an international conference MEMORIAL MIRRORED IN mét his death on June 17. He for the limitations of serial forces. was found dead in his bathroom,] Popolo d'Italia (which, Maya the with a large wound in his throat. Milan correspondent of The Times, Cenotaph in London on May 11. A mitage was" seen at the by the room boy of the boarding is supposed to reflect the views of It appeared at 3.30 p.m. when of British Chambers of Commerce house in Nathan Road in which he the Italian Air Department Whitehall was batched in sunshine. and the Federation of British
as living.
declares that Italy will not favour A Daily News representative, | Industries. Sergeant Tuckett, of the Hong-such a purpose, and that the passing through Parliament Square, The committee was appointed kong Police, said that he had Italian Government will support its saw the phenomenon from a street following a complaint by foreign known deceased for a year, during point of view with the argument refuge: immediately opposite the shipowners of delay at British the greater part of which he had that aviation is still capable of carriage entrance to New Palace parts, alleged to be due to the been in the Police Force. He had great development, which must not Yard. Here the road is slightly absence of modern loading and below the level of Parliament discharging facilities. The ports left the police as he said he was be prevented.
fed up with it and had gone to
Street, and looking towards the were declared to be in many respect Moreover, says the paper, far Cenotaph he saw the mirage on obsolete. The report is based on an the China Tight and Power Con- from reducing the British air pro- either side of the memorial. The exhaustive survey of the 27 prin- pany. Latterly he had been an-gramme, the Macdonald Govern- Cenotaph appeared to be standing cipal ports of England, Scotland xious to get back into the Force.ment is spending more money on on a strip of land with water on and Wales.. He had appeared rather depressed. it. **Without being particularly either side.
Generally speaking, it is stated, Withoss did not think that he was alarmed at the uerial preparations Motor-buses and taxicabs were the port authorities are alive to in any financial difficulties. of other countries, Italy cannot reflected as in a lake of still water, the need of developing their ports,
"Mr. H, & Brower, of the Chinu afford to ignore them. She has and the stonning figures.of.plgrims and in many cases schemes-kes-in- Light and Power Company, said only recently begun to develop laying flowers on the memorial operation or in contemplation.
The cor
The committee express the that deceased had been employed military aviation, and she is deter were plainly mirrored.
线路 mater inspector for a little mined to bring it up to a standard parative scarcity of traffic on a opinion that a great deal of good over a month. His work was quite worthy of her political situation." Sunday made the illusion more would accrue If the Chambers of
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Commerce were to co-opt on their. atisfactory. His salary was $200 The paper concludes by declaring The mirage was not apparent in local Port Committee a representa, that only when this standard is any other sections of Whitehall or tives of Labour. They are, con As stated above a verdict of reached will Italy maider any Parliament Street, Streetmirages vinced that many disputes and -suicide during temporary insanity proposal for an international air have, bean seen in L don in misunderstmediasecould, this he
was returned;
recent ears, notabi
month.
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