SATURDAY, DECEMBER
DIVING CRUISER.
SUBMARINES IN FUTURE
NAVAL WARFARE
Professor Oswald Flamm," des. igner of the glant submarine cruisers, has contributed to "the
Latest fasue of the "Marine Rand schau," an article giving further particulars of his plans writes the naval correspondent of the Daily Nows."
be noted, is the official naval organ,
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A PUBLIC DANGER."
CONSPIRACY TO EVADE DEPORTATION LAWS.
'London, November16:-Mention was made in the "News of the World" some time ago that the
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The superstition of their religion ST. taught the Indians that some one of their number, some sorcerer and maker of "bad medicine." whose witcheries' Invoked the wrath of the ovil spirits, had brought calamity on the tribe.
Suspicioa fall on the youth Atol. The tribesmen, led by the aged squaw, lovaded his shack at night, found him mumbling strange words over his wood fire, and laid hands on him.
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One of the finest pictures seen here in many a day is Cecil N.. London, November 16:—An HIGHWAYMEN'S COUP.
A message received at Van De Mille's Paramount production extraordinarily audacious coup on the part of a London postman was Canadian Mounted Police at far packing the Queen's Theatre at couver from a trooper in the Royal of "Saturday Night" which is London, November 16.-Through" described at the Old Balley, where authorities were on the track of a out yesterday the London police Albert William Henry Rickard, away Telegraph Creek announces every showing. The story is one that. after trekking for of exceptional appeal and the gang who were actively engaged were investigating one of the short and wiry, and aged 37,
through Northern British in promoting bigamous marriages most daring highway robberies pleaded guilty to having stolen Columbia, he is returning to civil action throughout is as rapid as committed in London for some two mall bags, containing notes, sation with an aged Indian squaw
it is thrilling. in order to defeat the émigration time, The outrage occurred in bills, and cheques of the face and four accomplices who killed The Marine Rundschau," it should laws. For a pound or two men Seagrave road, one of the loneliest value of £95.592. The theft was Atol Moassin, a young brave, by capable hands of such players as The leading rôles äre in the of the German Ministry of Defence. were being found who were wilt.), districts of Fulham. the victim carefully planned by Rickard, who inches, because his
sorcery Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, While Professor Fiamm thinks ing to go through the ceremony of being Mr, Stanley Barneschone, was employed as guard to the brought the wrath of the evil spirits Edith Roberts and Jack Mower battleships and other surface men marriage with foreign women of a cashier, employed by Messrs. J. Lombard-street postal van. on his tribesmen. of-war are still indispensable, he certain character, so that the latter, Lyons and Co., who was carrying month before the robbery he
satchel
Hunting a year ago, said the containing money engaged a furnished room in message, suddenly became very claims for the submarine, a higher when arrested, flourished a marri
of Stamford-street, and here he poor among the Indians of the place in future naval warfare than age certificate and claimed. Im. intended for the
The wages. At the time of the attack took the bags after diverting northern wilderness. A long, cold it occupied during the late struggle munity from deportation.
attention of the Britain's efforts to secure the authorities. learned that for the he was just leaving a taxicab in the abolition of the submarine at the past two years the gang had man- which he had travelled from Cadby delivery postmen Washington Conference, and the aged to get these women into Hall Kensington, to a garage Frightened of the bills, cheques,and eventual agreement to limit ital
England, 'married" them to in Farm-lane, Walham Green. coupons, he burned these, retain size, he condemns as a display of Englishmen in many cases ex- The driver went to Seagrave-road, ing only £2,550 in bank and
convicts and criminals-and then where the back entrance of the Treasury notes. **Anglo-American cant;"
Then, shaving installed them in Juxurious West garage is situated, and found that off his moustache and changing his Turning to his own designs, he end flats, for which as much as £20 the gate was closed. Suddenly name, he went to the neighbour emphasises the suprame import a week was paid. One of the two men-one with a handkerchief hood of Edgware-road. There he ance of stability in submarines, leaders of the gang has, however, concealing the lower part of his placed a parcel of the notes in the This problem, which is supposed fallen foul of the law, and for a face stepped out of the darkness. care of a barmaid whose acquaint to have baffled foreign designers, long time to come the police will One of them told the driver to put once he had made. By a lucky has now been solved by adopting not be troubled by his activities. his hands up and flourished aacddent Rickard was traced to a new form of hull, of which a sec For bigomously marrying two revolver. With this he struck the Stamford-street, but it was nearly tional diagram is given. It ensures Frenchwomen, Louise
00 Jeanne cashier heavily
the head a month before he was run to earth perfect stability, he claims, while Heber and Berthe Aufray, at immediately after he stepped out Only £413 was recovered of the diving and when running sub London register offices, Arthur of the cat. As Mr. Barneschone £95,000, and Mr. Percival Clarke.
They led him to a sapling," merged, conduces to steadiness of King, 38, clerk, was, at the Old fell the money bag was snatched prosecuting, suggested that a good head downward, and let him hang THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD. trim, and enables relatively Balley, sentenced to three years from his grasp... It was all over in part of the £2,550 in notes had for days, slowly dying. enormous weights to be carried on
penal servitude. Although King & few moments, and the robbers been planted" for,, future, use.
The aged woman at length. From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO, the upper part of the hull.
was only charged in respect of had dashed off in the direction of Rickard, who is "married, entered
ANTWERP. LONDON, AND One of his largest projects is a two offences he is believed to Walham Green Church before the the service of the Post Office in grew impatient that Atol died diving cruiser of 7,067 tons, which have."married" no fewer than 10 driver realised what had happen- Jan. 1921. He had been a regular trooper's telegraphed account, and the slowly, according to
STRAITS.
Would carry
defensive armour women. He was also instrumental ed. A passen by, who was not soldier, and bad a good character. so she cut his throat with a hunting weighing 6144 tons
was employed in getting some of them expensive near enough to interfere, raised Prisoner armament of turret-guns, quick-flats in the West-end. Mr. Travers the alarm, and the cashier was some considerable time as guard The story filtered through to the firers and torpedo tubes with a Humphreys, prosecuting, explain conveyed to West London to the Lombard-street delivery mounted police over the tails, weight of 500 tons.
ed that prisoner was married in Hospital, where he was found van. Vans are allotted by the "His submarine minelayer, of August, 1916, and the bigamous to be suffering from a wound on City, and as the Lombard-street from camp to camp and one of its 7.334 tons displacement, would marriages were contracted within the forehead and another over the van served chiefly banks anders accordingly set forth to
Yesterday morning a thousand mines, each month of each other in February eye.
he financial houses, and carried huge bring the slayers to justice. weighing a 10. Of the two and March last, The object of the recovered consciousness and made sums of money, a guard was.em- ships," he thinks the mine layer marriages was to enable these statement to the police. The ployed as an additional protection would be the most formidable in women to pose as the wives masked man he declared, exclaim-to the driver and two delivery | Batt", "BARIDA ANTPORE
of British subjects, so that ed, "Give me the money!" at the postmen. At 7 30a.m., on Septer had taken the room in Stanford- Discussing the tactical value of if they were convicted and same time pointing the revolver, ber 10, the van drew up as usual street. They went there and the goods have left the Godowe, monster submarines, he points out recommended for deportation When he made as if to get away, in Lombard-street, and the two discovered the two empty green and all Goods remaining undeliver that such a vessel, mounting one they could produce their marriage the stranger pressed the trigger at delivery men, named Bunworth mail-bags and the ordinary bag, ed after the 2nd Jan. will be subject or more Lavy guns in deck tur certificates and escape being sent point-blank range, but the weapon and Cox, proceeded to deliver the and saw the burnt remains of to rent. reis and having its sides plated back to their own country. It was failed to go off. Mr. Barneschone mall bags. Rickard had to stay the cheques and bills and corres-
All claims against the steamer ith armour, could rise to the well known to the police that there then showed fight, whereupon the and guard the van, and, usually pondence. They also learned must be presented to the Under sace and, with only its upper was at present in London a gang man turned the revolver round one of the pilier men would be that the fugitive had visited the signed on or before 15th Jan.. works showing, cannonade with of men living on these women and and hit him violently on the head present while the other was away. barber, and a careful watch was or they will not be recognized. deadly effect the unarmoured who had brought them from France with the butt end. A struggle On this morning, Rickard met kept for him. At last, early in
All broken, chated, and damaged sides of an enemy Dreadnought and other countries for the pur although the man got some of it towards
'ensued for the money, and, Bunworth 25 he was coming October, information reached them goods are to be left in the Go The submarine itself would pre. Apse. King had been paid a sum £250 according to one account trolley, and told him Cox had house in Connaught-street. When ed on the 2nd Jan., at 10 am.
the van with
his, that he was visiting the public downs, where they will be examin sent an almost invisible target, of money in each case to go and could only be hit by chance through the form of marriage, and the cashier retained several an extra heavy package, and that he reappeared there police officers No Fire Insurance has been
The big mine-lager, however, the women had actually obtained packets, which were found on him he wanted help. Unsuspecting, were waiting for him. They asked effected. would be even more dangerous, passports as British subjects. They in bospital. It is feared that Mr. Bunworth went off to assist Cox him if he were Rickard, but he
BUIs of Lading will be counter thanks to its huge stock of mines, were now, however, in France, Barneschone may lose the sight As soon as he had gone. Rickard stoutly denied it. My name is signed by .8
of his left eye. its high speed, and wide radius of Det. Sergt. Berringer stated that he
slipped into the van and seized | Jack Jarvis," he asserted. "I am GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. action. It could cruise at sea for and Chief Inspector Savage had
two green registered mail bags, professional backer of horses."
Agante.. months, independent of bases, so been engaged in examining the
Owing to police instructions, it He was told he would be put up
Hongkong, 27th December, 1924, that, once it had left harbour, none ramifications of the conspiracy,
would have been impossible for for identification, but he persisted Rickard would know of its whereabouts. It which was of an extensive char
to have got out of in his denial. Then one detective
·could appear suddenly c aacter In November, 1915, King:
Lombard-street with these bags remarked, "I shall fetch your. hostile coast, sow its mines was sentenced at Marlborough-
showing, but he had calculated his brother to identify you." Accused observed and leave at once for street to six months and three
needs, and had an ordinary mall saw that he was caught and another sphere of activity...
months' imprisonment respectively
bag ready, Into this he slipped replied, "Don't bring my brother for embezzlement and larceny, Atf
the two green bags, and "as to it. I am Rickard." He was search" postman he went off without any ed and £17 in notes was found London Sessions he was sentenced
London November -Casual trouble. When Burworth returned on bim. Prisoner declared. that -to 24 months-hard labour for living ties on an unprecedented scale a few minutes later, he found to was all that was left of the robbery, upon the earnings of two women have been inflicted since last Mon- his astonishment that the guard but the police ascertained that he The sentence was afterwards re-
Great Britain...
He at once informed; the police. she had spent £7 and the rest she the judge remarking that he was by the Court of Criminal Appeal,
The National Rat Week just Rickard, meanwhile had gone in gave up. They also learned of the ...bility on ballast. which is so
sorry prisoner's physical condition closed was by far the biggest all haste with his booty to a house parcel he had left with the barmaid much dead weight to
did not permit him to receive cor- effort of the kind ever made, and in Stamford street. He had been and took possession of it. In it While admitting that British con- structors are likely to turn cut good poral punishment King had been the cooperation between local preparing his scheme for some were 41 £1 notes and 624 10s. notes
employed as valet, waiter, and councils and farmers, millers, little time, and on August 25, took a £953 in all. Again Rickard in designs, he finds it impossible to cellarman, on one occasion obtain factory owners, hotel and res furnished bedroom at this address. sisted that this was all he had, but judge the quality of their boats without knowing how stability is ing a situation at a Holborn club taurant proprietors, and house. He left his wife occasionally be the police were not satisfied. From by means of a false character. He holders was so.. extensive and Iween taking it and September 10, Brixton Prison he wrote on Oct. astured. "If no ballast is used, had been concerned with other enttshusaile that those controlling 50 that the landlady would know Is that some "Jew boys" had the system of construction must border on that which I have patent-women, for one of whom he obtain the campaign declare that the him. On arriving at his room he robbed him of £300. Counsel ex- ed in all the leading countries. In
ed a furnished flat at five and a results on this occasion alone are locked the door and then proceeded plained that his statement could any case, the British have known half guineas a week. In another greater than those of all the pre- to turn out the letters and examine not be accepted. He could not the contents. In one, bag, ad have got rid of over £2,000 in such of my detailed plan since the year case he posed as the husband of a vious post-war efforts together 1919
It is estimated that thirty-five dressed to the Clydesdale Bank, a short time, and the "prosecu- notorious Frenchwoman, for whom? At the present time," continues the obtained a fiat at six and a half million balts were laid throughout were 5 Bank of England notes, tion believed it had been put the Professor. "Britain is building guineas a week, paying £50 in the country, and the immensity of value £1,000. and £ and 10s aside for future use. That Rickard worth £1,550. used sore of the money in bet- the big submarines X-10, which advance. At the last sessions of the destruction of the pest can be Treasury notes
the Court a man was convicted of gauged from the fact that on the These he placed on one side. ting was obvious, because a nume carry heavy guns. Ty compensate bigamously marrying a French-average 20 per cent of the baits There were also cheques totall ber of £5 notes which came for the heavy burden on deck, 250 woman, and he declared that he were sound victims. tons of ballast is stored in the was induced to do so by King
ing £81,752, bills for £3,676, back had been traced to book- bottom,
From the reports received, the and coupons for £19. In the makers at various racecourses The latter was present at Quite apart from the useless marriage" and signed the re- particularly fortunate in that it Ruffers and Sons, of Lombard Percival Clarke suggested that the week's wit seems to have been second bag, consigned to Messrs. where prisoner had been-Ma dead weight it Involves, this bal last restricts both the speed and gister as a witness. The officer coincided with the annual migra-street, were cheques only, these sentence might be postponed to the radius of action, besides adding added that the police were satisfied tion of the rodents from the fields being of the face value of £7.59 give Rickard an opportunity of, to the cost of building and upkeep. that King was one of the principal to the barns, warehouses, and Rickard was frightened of the disclosing where the money had There is also a great danger of members of the gang-Judge buildings generally. The Army cheques and bills, and these he gone.-Det,-sergt. Sanders, who is such boats capsizing in a seaway Atherley Jones, in passing sen and Navy and the Office of Works plied together with the envelopes, attached to the Post Office, stated or when diving in tough weather.tence, declared that the offence fock a big share in the scientific and correspondence in his grate that so far accused had given no The British Navy has already struck at the very root of our and co-ordinated campaign; and and burned the lot. Under his indication that he was willing to suffered from the consequences
marriage laws. Ir constituted a there can be few survivors among room was a barber's shop, and here assist the police-Recorder; Six of this method of distributing rave danger to the public and was the enemy" in military barracks, he had his moustache 'shave off Ernest Wild:
I don't like to weights, for the battleships of
a serious offence against the State. camps, and depors, at the naval Returning to his apartment, he adopt that course. It seems like dockyards er in the Government made the notes into a parcel, bringing pressure. The Home storehouses. Local authorities locked his door, and made his Office can always reconsider a everywhere dealt with refuse way to another room, he had taken sentence if such assistance is Sume of the above statements The Vicar's Visits.
dumps, sewage farms, sewers, off Edgware road Here he given-Counsel pointed out that are inaccurate, and others must be
and other places in their areas called himself Jack Jarvis." Two Rickard had mentioned in his The Rev. J. H. White, vicar of where rate congregate and brred days later, he became pure" surmise. For example, it is
3 cus letter that he destroyed everything public-house. in excepting the Treasury notes. not true that ten submarines of the Clifton, Bristel, addressing mem estimated that rats were last year Connaught-street, Edgware-road, Rickard:
Mary's. Tyndall's Park, The Ministry of Agriculture tomer at a X class are building; only one has hers of the Church of Englard directly responsible in Great He became friendly
I did not, mean been built so far.
with a bad destroyed the bank notes. And as all Men's Society on parochial visiting Britain for the loss of at least barmaid, and on September 24, said, when I was arrested, that I particulars of the X-1-10 have been said it would not be correct to £15,000,000 worth of foodstuffs and he asked her to take care of a had lost them.-Ia passing sentence withheld, the amount of ballast, if receive him in anything short of material, and in addition, directly parcel for him. Prisoner told her of five years' penal servitude, the any, which this boat carries is the best room. mere guesswork.
"And though the or indirectly, for much other loss to keep it safe, as it contained Recorder remarked that the man eldest daughter may walk the due to their acting as carriers of money, She locked it up in a had robbed the van he was paid to Professer Flamm has sill to ex-street without a vestige of sleeye disease, while they are suspected hax until September 30, when guard. The result of his crime plain why he and other German designers were unable during the upon her arms, it would be shocking of having been active agents in the Rickard asked for it back. He was that he had made away, with were her mother to be found with spread of foot-and-mouth disease took ont some notes and then property valued over £95,000. That war to turn
out heavily-armed her own rolled up, engaged in among cattle. One officer of the returned it to her. Meanwhile, was not the actual loss, but it had submerines of good stability, honest tell. "Where the company Ministry reckons that every dezen there was a great hue and try in caused endless trouble and con- whereas British constructors suc gathered round, the fire is dis- rats cost, in one way or another, the G.P.O. for the missing postman, fusion. Rickard had, however, ceeded in building boats which cussing, the theatre or the Turf, about £5 per annum. mounted in. guns and yet pos- there is no occasion, on the entry
Fortunately, the police were able had £2,550 in notes, of which only sessed a high degree of stabilty of the vicar, to switch on to bymn research chemist of the Rais Rickard's few, hinders that he in no way assisted the authorities, Mr. C. L. Claremont, formerly to find out roughne of £413 had been recovered. He had lunes or foreign missions. The Branch of the Ministry of Agri-KASON aguchi, but had endeavoured to throw dust De You Dread the Might?. clergy are apt to get rather overfed culture and now Director of the. An Zakaspijo Liniment; In their eyes.When the sentence
There is no gapetever from lock with these somewhat threadhare Rodent and Insect Pest Destruce as floc toho reallink frem & was passed, prisoner merely Coughs and enlds always seem to grow wore st tight fall and ricup comes subjects. There should be notion Society told a Press represen- would who winch bf Pain falm nodded. Behind the dock a woman without warning at midnight. Avoid an occasion, on the entry of a tative that the poison__most_fanpappily applied is antisepilo fell-to-the-floor-in-a-faint-She mocady, feverish, kireplace night by keep clergyman, ・ to. cover up the generally employed in the past hard destroyo the geime. which cana, was carried into an adjoining ing in the home a bottle of ( hamberlain's decanter with an antimacassar or eck was red squill, which has these diresses, also casce wounds to waiting-room and a doctor called Cough Benedy. It is soothing bling to throw cards out of sight so, as to the peculiar property of being best without paturation and in one to her. It was some time before and contaics no narcoticsFor sale appear deeply interested in
avery toxic to rats, but harmless to trestment. For ile everywhere
thid the time required by the or she had recovered sufficiently to domestic animais.
BRITAIN'S NEW BOATS.
Professor Flanin states that all the principal navles are now
building undersea, cruisers 4,000 tons and more. So far
of
GREAT DESTRUCTION IN ONE WEEK!!
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as is known, he says, theseduced to 18 months' hard labour day among the rat population of and two mail bags had vanished. had sent his wife £50. Of this |
vessels depend for their sta
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the Royal Sovereign class, once they start rolling, are never os
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