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SIR ARTHUR HOLLAND.
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German Fakir's Long Sleep.
6 DAYS IN COFFIN.
M.P.' Fine Record As Artillery Man Who Willed Himself To Sleep
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Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur: A. E. A. Holland, M.P. for Nor- thampton, dled in mail week aged sixty-five.
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WOMAN EXECUTED.
Sequel To American Trial.
MALE ACCOMPLICE.
Murmurs Verses From Bible On Way To Chair,
Berlin, Jan. 8.
New York, Jan. '12. Tokha, the German fakir who Mrs. Ruth Snyder and her: boasted that he could will himself Faramour, Henry Judd Gray, to sleep for 120 hours while buried were electrocuted at the state pri- He had been ill for some days underground, was exhumed ataon here to-night, paying with with bronchial trouble, and a fort- Stuttgart last night before a crowd their lives for the murder of night ago was removed from his of 5,000.
Albert Snyder. Mrs. Snyder's country house, Hanslope Lodge, Except for 4 bad headache, husband whom they killed in order Wolverton, to London for Tokha declared that he felt quite that they might pursue their special treatment.
illicit love affairs without inter- Sir Arthur, who was formerly During his sleep he had lost ference from him. Commandant of the Royal Military 22 lb. in weight. On reviving he Academy at Woolwich, had a fine was given water and soft food. record in the war.
Tokha, who put himself into the As commander of the first Army trance last Monday, slept in a Corps he was specially congratulat- glass-topped coffin at depth of 6 ft., ed by Lord Haig on the fine defence a shaft to the surface enabling which his corps put up at Givenchy those above to see him on the when attacked by eleven German coffin. divisions.
He had a fine record as an ar- tillery officer.
During the South African War
he won distinction by hauling two guns of his battery up the pre- cipitous slopes of Coles Kop and shelling the Boer laagers below.
His death will cause a by-elec Hon at Northampton, where at the General Election the figures, were: Sir Arthur Holland (C.), 16,017; Miss Margaret Bondfield (Social- lat), 15,046; Mr. J. Manfield (Liberal), 9,436.
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Once he was nearty awakened by the visitors calling him loudly by
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LITTLE WAR,”
BRITISH IN ACTION IN SOUDAN.
REBELS RETREATING.
Mrs. Snyder went to the chair first, muttering Biblical quota- tions as she was led to the execu tion. Just before the current was shot through her body, she cried, "Forgive them, Father, they know what they do.". She was dead at 11.06 p.m.
Gray's lips moved as in prayer as he was placed in the chair, but he made no sound. He was dead at 11.14.
Snyder, the art editor of a motor boating magazine, was kill- led in his home last March. He was struck over the head with a window weight while he slept and then was chloroformed and gar- roted. After the slaying, Mrs. Snyder and Gray placed the house Khartoum, Yesterday.
in disorder to make it appear that A Flight Air Force machines the crime had been committed by company, mounted rifles, Soudanese a robber, and before he left, Gray machine gun battery, five companies bound Mrs. Snyder's hands and of the Equatorial Corps, two com- feet. Police quickly discovered panies of camel corps and a de. discrepancies in the woman's tachment of engineers comprise the story, and obtained a confession British forces in the "Little War"
from her. Gray's arrest and a
in the Soudan arising out of the confession from him followed. murder of Col. Ferguson.
At their trials, the pair turned The rebellious Muong Clan haveing the other. Gray, testifying in against one another, each accus- retreated to islands surrounded by his own behalf, said that Mrs. Vest swamps in the Shambe area Snyder planned the murder and which is now cordoned by the Bri-that he executed it. tish troops. The latter are enden convicted to death. Their execu
Both were vouring to communicate to the tian became. Nuer tribesmen that the innocent, this week when Governor Al a certainty earlier have nothing to fear.
Smith refused them executive Simultaneously, operations
are clemency.-Associated Press. directed proceeding in the Lau area where
London, Yesterday. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in hia speech at Birmingham said that the danger at the present time was not so much (if at all) direct hostility
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A MATTER OF WORDING.
RUBBER COMBINE.
RUMOURS OF NEW RESTRICTION.
London, Yesterday. Another rubber amalgamation is announced of the British Rubber Estates Java, Ltd., Weverley Flana-| tions, Ltd., Toegoesuri Rubber and Coffee Estates, Ltd., Tybar (Java) Plantation, Ltd., owning estates mainly vested in Dutch Companies and covering a total area of about
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London, Yesterday, A new Frayor Book lawful peaceful advocations.....We forecasted by the Archbishops of capital is likely to approximate
measure, cannot permit ourselves to be de-Canterbury and York, has been £620,000. prived forcefully of our treaty published. The changes are chiefly The "Financial News," under the rights, but we are ready at any a matter of wording in order to heading "Canard Week in Rubber," moment, in a generous spirit, to remove possible misunderstanding, says "the rumours that heralds a negotiate with anyone able to speak notably as regards the reservation new rubber restriction in certain for the Chinese people, and to take of the Sacrament and the powers quarters, where it is assumed that and fulfil engagements in their of the Episcopate.
An explanatory note
this occasion form a reduction or by the
name, in order to adjust old treaty Archbishops says the changes may abolition of the pivotal price or rights to the new position, and to seem few but must not be thought both, are completely discredited in give generous satisfaction to the unimportant in view of the stress response quarters. legitimate demands of the Chinese laid thereon by critics.
ter.
Further- The "Journal" is of opinion that
for the development of their na-more, it should be understood that the restriction cannot be ended ex- tionality and independence." the measure is not necessarily final. cept when the exportable quota is
Concluding, Sir Austen hoped It will quire the approval of the 100 per cent. that the British communities, and houses of Bishops, clergy and laity, particularly the British Press in and it is hoped to be presented to that in 1927 rubber imports into The Board of Trade returns show China, would do their share in Parliament before Whitsun-Reu- the United Kingdom were 145,321 bringing home to the people the goodwill entertained for China, not only by His Majesty's Government, but by all their coun-; tryman--the desire we all had to live in peace and friendship with them-Reuter.
An Act of War.
Chinese
London, Yesterday.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, dining.
COOLIDGE HOME.
Washington, Yesterday. President Coolidge has arrived from Havana. Reuter's American Service.
tons and exports 85,075,-Reuter. Millions Lost! Washington, Yesterday.
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at Birmingham laat night, review- which was now doing most damage. monopoly American tyre purchasers! ed the Chinese situation, which, al- Despite this Britain maintained her had lost millions of dollars. He al though still causing anxiety was, ploley of patience and concentra-leged that Britain's reduction of No. 6, Wyndham Street. he believed, less critical and anxious tion. We did not want another the rubber production kept the than a year ago. He described the inch of Chinese soil and had no in- world near to a buying panic and forceful seizure of Jawfully held terest except peacefully to pursue at time lifted the price beyond rea- British Concessions as an act of our trade relations, without injury son-Reuter's American Bervice. war directly provoked, not in the in-to Chinese liberties or interests.
DEATH OF A FAMOUS PHYSICIAN.
terests of China, but of world re- Sir Austen Chamberlain continued: SIR D. DUCKWORTH. volution, of Soviet agents. In spite "We stand by our polley of peace- of this provocation Britain had re-ful conciliation. We cannot perinit fused to treat it as an act of war. ourselves to be deprived by forceful: No act of such generosity in such action of our treaty rights, but we circumstances would have been posare ready at any moment in a gen- sible to any government that was erous spirit to negotiate with any-,
London, Yesterday. The death is announced of Sir not conscious of its strength and one who can stand for Chinese Dyce Duckworth, the famous con- power, and no such act of genero- people and can make engagements sulting physician, born at Liver eity, no such exhibit could be found in their name and full engage-pool in 1840 Reuter.
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