SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927.
SEAMEN'S ORDEAL.
THE CHINA MAIL.
£500,000 PRIZE.
MARY OF SCOTS.
RIGOURS OF ARCTIC, WINTER.
RESULT OF A SPANISH LOTTERY.
PURCHASE OF A. FAMOUS- PORTRAIT
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STRANGE GLASGOW INCIDENT.
London, Dec. 29.
A THRILLING ESCAPE..
London, Dec, 24,
Terrible experiences of the
QUEUE AT THE MINT,
Madrid: A long queue waited
London, Dee: 23: The Glasgow Corporation, in spite
it.
TRAGIC GRIEF.
جميلة
INQUEST ON A SOCIETY GIRL
VERDICT OF SUICIDE.
SIR H. SAMUEL.
BACK TO THE POLITICAL FIELD.
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Rugby, Jan. 7. Sir Herbert Samuel, formerly High Commissioner of Palestine, and Chairman of last year's Coal Commission, has returned to de-
Presidency of the Paddington Liberal Association. Sir Flerbert
Governments until Mr. Asquith's!
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FORBIDDEN DANCE-HALLS.
London, Dec. 31. Suicide when of unsound mind" rigours of the Arctle Winter by throughout the night for admission of opposition from some Labour was the verdict at the inquest at mestic politica; having accepted the Į the crew of the German trawler to the Royal Mint where tickets for members, has decided to purchase a Swanage on Mias Una Crowe, "Island," which foundered in the the groat Christmas lottery were £7,000 portrait of Mary Queen of whom witnesses described as an ex- White Sea on December 13, are drawn, the principal winning ticket Scots, pulpted by a famous contem-ceptionallyy brilliant girl who ob- I held Miniatorial gosta in Liberal related by four of her. sailors being worth approximately 2500,000. poraneous French artist, which has tained an honours degree two years The Government makes a proffs of open in the possession of the url before she was entitled to receive who have arrived at Aberdeen.
The vessel sank a few minutes 40,000,000 pesetas, the Govern of Morton's family since 1580:
A-Labour membar supporting the She was in good health and spirits after striking a rock!
ment and the King sharing One The crew, drenched to the skin full ticket, which is a high denomin-purchase produced a skull in the and very much devoted to her mo- with icy water reached land ination, may be spilt the small frac- Council Chamber, and declared then with whom she always, went was the skull of a soldier killed in out. But she changed when her a small boat. They were scantitions.
Those in the queue were for the the battle of Langside, when Mary father died and became depressed ly clad The Captain was with-
most part poor hóping to sell places Queen of Scots' army was defeated and lost interest in things, out boots.
They were The party was forced to walk at the last moment.
"ABSENT GUESTS.” to prevent their being frozen. regaled with hot coffee and toust Bruised and bleeding, they climb-supplied by the Police, white u popu- ed a cliff, the crevices of which actress distributed smokes. were choked with ice.
Owing to the vast number of When they arrived at the top shares sold in the winning ticket
London, Dec. 20. no habitation was in sight, but the prize will be Split by a host of they finally reached a deserted participants from the middle and Over 300 of the poorest men in hut and kindled a fire.
working classes. The second prizes London will be the "absent They resumed their march of 10:000,000 pesetas will also be guests" of friends in Cairo at a without food and when they much subdivided. The third prize dinner to be arranged by the were peur exhaustion they were was won by a resident of Cuba. Church Army in London greeted by a man ski-ing gerosswhile officers and other ranks in December 29. the snow. He led them to a vil-In Red Cross attached to Sara- lage, from which they were later gossa gubrisons share the fourth. taken to a port and embarked for home.
DIVORCE LAWS.
INDIA AND THE CROWN COLONIES.
London, Dec 1.
PAPER STRIKE.
RIGHTS OF A WOMAN REPORTER.
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A TREAT FOR LONDON'S POOR
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The finder of her body testifled that her legs were tied with pink tape and her face was bruised. The body had possibly been lying in the Espot several days before it was dia-
covered.
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"This girls dancing mad. She has had more than 50 situations, but has lost all of them. through die- honesty. She steals Anery to be able to visit dance-halls," said woman probation officer at Hull of A doctor expressed the opinion Emma Higgins, aged 20, a domestic that death was not due to drowning servant, who pleaded guilty to steal- When the magistrate said that he but to cardiac syncope caused bying a gold ring from her employer.
would place her on probation, with shock following exhaustion due to
the condition that she should enter immersion in water.
a home, if the probation officer de- sired, Higgins said. "Rather than go into a home would go tol prison."
AN INTERESTING LONDON CEREMONY.
The absent hosts will sit down EMPIRE, PUDDING. to a dinner at Cairo consisting of lentil soup, bread and cheese and water, coating 3d, for which they will subscribe 58. a head. the balance being expended on the! absent guests.
London, Dec. 20: An interesting ceremony took
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DAME ELLEN TERRY.
The Magistrate: You silly little You have not the least idea what you are talking about,
Higgins eventually agreed to ac-l cept the condition, and the magis- At a dinner, which will be held place this morning at the pre-trate further ordered her, to keep simultaneously as that at Cairo rises of the Overseas League away from dance-hallş. London, Dec. 21.
and at a pre-arranged time both here. The editorial stuff of two Glass absent hosts and abaent guests The Dominions representatives gow weeklies, the Tastern Stand will tonat each other.
participated in the formal mixing. Amongst those present, at the of an Empire Christmas pudding In the House of Commong tod" and the "Southern Standard,"
will be Lord which will be presented to the day. Earl Winterton (Under-truck, alleging certain grievances. London dinner Secretary for India) moved the including the victimisation of Daryngton, President of the King. Each of the Dominions the ingredients.
Rugby, Jan. 7..... second reading of the Indian and woman reporter, who was dismiss Church Army, and Sir Arthur contributed to
Yapp.
South Africa was represented by
Although still very weak,, a Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Billed.
The Cairo dinner will be under raisins, Australia by sultanas alight improvement was report- conferring upon the Indian and
and currants. Canada by floured yesterday in the condition of Dominion Courts jurisdiction in the National Snion of Journalists the Presidency of Lord Lloyd.
Was D-
Demerara, sugar. "Scotland by the famous actress, Dame Ellen marriages, the parties to which deciures thas the strike
beef and suet, England by apples Terry-British Wireless Service.. are domiciled in England er Scot- plicial lie stated that the Union
and eggs, India by spice, and and though living in India or the bad advised the men to return to
Jamaica by rum Dominions, and validating the dework pending investigation of their crees granted.
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HIS LAST WORDS.
DEATH OF AN ITALIAN SURGEON.
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After the stirring ceremony The strike has avoked, surgastic
the toast of the King and the Sir BIN Hume Williams (Unionist) said that the Bacuinment inasmuch as Mr. Jobn
London, Dec. 24. Empire Christmas pudding was might have gone further. The Wheatley, M.P. (Labour), holds abl
Geneva-Continue the opera-proposed by Lord Meath and English Courts had no jurisdic-important interest and is a director tion in divorce over a respondent of the firm publishing the papers. tion, my eyes are giving out" were drunk in South African Hock,
The alleged victimisation follow-the last words of an Italian surgeon, who was domiciled in India or
operating on a patient in his private Australia, although the offence an agitation to forck up salaries Dr. Lumbardo, who collapsed while might have been committed in to trade union scale.
The Manager, who is ex-Secre-clinic at Bergamo. the self-
Nurses curried the doctor from England. Why were
the operating theatre. governing Dominions exempted, tary of the Glasgow LLP.. und an
Parliamentary tan- Dr. Lumbardo died without and why were no steps taker for ex-Socialist
didate, declares that the dismissal reciprocal legislation?
The Bill was read a second was due to the need for re-organis-covering consciousness.
ation und economy! thne,
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THIEF'S RUSE.
"GAY YOUNG MAN" SENTENCED,
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EUROPE FREEZES.
GREAT SNOWSTORM SWEEPS SPAIN.
RACE AGAINST DEATH.
San Diego, Dec. 28. How the US. destroyer, "Farragut," steamed out of the re-harbour here at full speed for Ensenada, Mexico, in a thrilling VALUE OF CHEWING GUM. race to save the life of Leighton Hope, the American Vice-Consu there, is revealed.
London, Dec, 29, The use of chewing-gum is officially recommended for pilots in the British R. A. F. Providing saliva, it overcomes the difficulty experienced in swallowing during accents, "owing to the throat. be coming parched.
EMPIRE MEDALS.
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No merchant vesseis for San Diego
frum were sailing Ensenada and an appeal to the local naval base was made. "The Farragut made 80 knots down to Ensenada and 82 coming back with the sick man.
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London, Dec. 28. A wave of extreme cold is London, Decaï. Finding a lady's name and ad sweeping over Spain with the dress in a diary which he stole from temperature far below freezing a room at the Savey Hotel occupied point. At Segovia and Burgos by Mr. I. A. McLaughlin, secretary the temperature ie. down to 30 to Sir Neville Bawse, a thief named degrees Fahrenheit. Traffic is "James Fleming (26) telephoned to almost suspended. A number of
ner in McLaughlin's name, inviting deaths is reported. her to meet him at the Savoy. While the lady was en route to the hotel The Daily Mail" bulletin says Fleming entered and robbed her re-la great snowstorm accompanied has decided to extend the scheme to taken to the naval hospital suffer.
sidence.
The prosecution described Flem Ing as a gay young man who liked hotel lide. He also pleaded guilty to five other hotel thefts, and was sentenced to three years" imprisen
ment.
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London, Dec. 29.
London, Dec. 23.
SAILORS POISONED.
San Diego, Calif. Dec. 28. Twenty-one bluejackets con Encouraged by the success of dis-fined aboard the receiving ship, tributing medals symbolic of the "Rigid," at the destroyer base Empire to school children on Em-awaiting trial for court-martial pire Day, the British Empire Union offences, and three santries, were
by gales swept Spain. causing much loss of life and enormous year. damage. Six millions sterling of orange crop has been lost, light- houses shaken, and fifty ships sunk.
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the Dominions and the Colonies nexting from ptomaine poisoning. None were, dangerously ill, Tin- red beef hash is believed to be the cause of the trouble.
WORLD'S RECORD GLIDE.
London, Dec. 20. Rome The aviator Cattaneo glided about 7% miles which is claimed to be a record.
DIAMOND THIEF'S FRIEND.
London, Dec. 21,
Frost
The Police at Strasbourg have ar- and ΜΠΟΥ prevail
friend of throughout France. The south-rested Eugenio Decurty. ern part of the United States has the alleged diamond thief, Kauffer. also been visited by great rain Decurty denies knowledge of the and slect storms and many theft. people have been drowned in the foods.
NOVELIST'S SUICIRE.
THRICE A PEERESS.
The Countess of Yarborough died
DAILY FOOD "PRICES.
Geneva, Dec., 2. The average family's daily basket of provisions, including meat, vegetables, bread, coffee.
at Brocklesby Hall near Grimsby, milk and butter, was the basis of
London, Dee. 1. in mail week, aged 63. She had! the League of Nation's Labour
Allen Upward, the author, who re-been in Indifferent health for more Office's inquiry into the cost of living in the chief cities of the gently committed suicide, left all than a year. About 5 weeks before he possessed to Mr. Stephen her death sleepy sickness developed, world...
Lodz, Poland, is the cheapest | Gmbem, rether of numerous books followed by pneumonia, which was death: Lady, Yar- city, with two shillings, and on Tsarist Russia and other works, the cause of Philadelphia the dearest at 9s. 1d The "Daily Express' says that the borough was thrice a peeress. She was the Hon, Marcia Amelia Mary Sydney comes next at 8s; id, and amount is not stated. London, 7s. 1d., is eighth on the list.
PRINCE CAROL.
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12th
To the will we added a desire to Lane-Fox, daughter of the be buried in unconsecrated ground Lord Conyers, upon whose death art at aflence; and Upward for she succeeded to the title. In 1903 bade any memorial.
she established her claim to the Mr. Graham, in an interview ex-Barony of Fauconberg; thus becom pressed the opinion that Upwarding Lady Fauconberg, and Conyers right. She married! committed suicide in order to draw in her own attention to his work, "a desperate Lord Yarborough in 1886, and had measure which he mentioned to me three sons, the eldest, Lord Worsley, Roumania for dynastic reasons. some years ago, but to which I had being killed in action with the
There is no suggestion that the no idea he would resort.”
París, Nov, 29.
It is reported that Prince Carol has secretly agreed with his wife to return to her and reside in
arrangement necessitates
the
breaking off of his relations with
Madame Lupescu.
TURKEY PROHIBITS VEILS.
Constantinople, Dec. 7.
WOMEN APPROVED.
London, Dec. 1. Cambridge undergraduates de- bated the motion "That this House disapproves of womer,"
Guards in the early days of the war. She was a Lady of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem, and took an active part in charitable work.
MAJOR CASHIERED.
مینور
The "London Gazette announces
The Government of Trebizond has which was defeated by 191 to 164. that Major C. Goldard, M.C., of the prohibited women from wearing the Supporters of the motion fa- Royal Artillery, has been cashiered
veil because it is unhealthy, and be-youred the womanly woman. The by order of a general court-martial, cause it Interferes with the right proposer, Mr. A. King Hamilton,
Major Geldard was found guilty
court-martial at Bordon,! of carning their own living, and declared that the modern woman, at a furnishes an easy disguise.
with arms bangled, hair bingled, Hampshire, on September 28, of In future wearers of veils will be and face bungled, looked like no- seven charges of making false en-
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Home reports that after New
tries in the accounts of the 92nd Battery, in which there was a de Following stringent Investiga- falency of £182, and of misapplying use. Major Year all ministerial documents are tions the Roman prefecture will money to his own
ac-Geldard admitted negligence, but cording to the "Popolo di Roma," denied any fraudulent intentions.
to be dated from the beginning of close all night-dancing halls the Fascist era..
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT..
London, Jan. 7
An official communication from Cap Ferrat with reference to the condition of the Duke of Con- naught, says that the Duke was unwell a little while back but now recovered. Reuter.
HOTEL AS SCHOOL.
Fifty boys from the Broadstairs Preparatory School, Stone House, have arrived at a Cromer hotel.
The school had been closed owing to an outbreak of infantile paralysis and the boys were sent home, but
now that they are out of quarantine and free from infection the school has been temporarily transferred to. the, Cromer hotel, aaugly closed during the winter, for the remain- der of the term.
None of the boys had suffered from the complaint.
The Civil Servants Trade Union. Congresa at Paris decided to strike "if necessary for better pay...
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A passenger from America, by the President Cleveland," fined $50 by Mr. T. W. Ain- sworth, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday, for being in possession of a dagger.
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