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Berlin-Am espionage trial of to sell an article, which will not unusual dimensions and. Interest General Sir Webb Gillman has sell Itself a second time without ad- was opened before the Supreme drawn attention to this question by vertising,” Bald Sir Charles Court at Leipzig. Nearly 100 wit- recommending the cadets at the Higham, addressing the members of nesses will be called, and the hear- Royal Military College, Camberley, the Incorporated Secretaries' As-ing is expected to last three weeks. to avoid matrimony until they are sociation, at the Cordwainers' Hall, The most unusual feature of the int least 30,
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case is, however, that the presiding Famous men in the Army, the Navy, and Air Force have married much later than 30. Here are some
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Earl Halg 44.
Sir Wm. Robertson 34,, Gen. Sir George Mile 39. Sir Ian Hamilton 34.. Earl Jellies 48.
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Mr. Baldwin 25.
Mr. Lloyd George 25.
The Lord Chief Justice
Hewart) 22.
now departure.
Advertising was no longer n judge announced his intention of theory or experiment, but it was taking in public sitting all the evi- the most powerful and the cheap-dence with the possible exception est force for selling known, and yet of that of experts from the War there were hundreds of firms lack- Ministry.
This is quite a alg trade who had not commenced to use it. All advertising was sub- The scores of espionage charges conscious. It was "pat over" which have been preferred during through the subconscious mind. the past few years have almost all The fraternity with which he was been tried throughout in camera, associated was responsible, through and the public has had but the the use of advertising, for the em-faintest idea of the facts on which ployment In the British Isles of they have been built up. There Mr. Ramsay MacDonald 30.
not less than one and a half mil-are, however, apcctal circumstances Famous men in the legal world on people, who would be out of in the present case which may ac married even younger:
work but for advertising. There count for the anomaly. It is said (Lord were to-day probably at least one that a great deal of the informa- hundred entirely different occupation which was received from the (Lord tions in the advertising business. accused men by the Polish Intelli- and which Eighty per cent. of advertising gence Department, passed through the offices of the largely dealt with the connections agents engaged in it, and at least between the Reichswehr and illegal one hundred, and fifty millions a semi-military organisations, W38 year was spent in the British Isles passed on to the German pacifists, alone in advertising, in one form who exploited it in articles in their or another, with twenty thousand own and in the foreign Press, people engaged in it. There were These articles are stated to have six advertisers in the world who played a big part in the negotia- ench spent one million a year for tons as to the withdrawal of Al- that purpose, the British Govern-led military control from Ger- ment being one of the aix, while many, and to have retarded the en- there were stores in London alone trance of Germany into the League spending half yearly in the same way.
a million pounds of Nations.
The
Lord Chancellor Cave) 29.
Lord/Merrivale 21. Literary men, artista, and actors were usually under 30 when they
married:
Mr. Rudyard Kipling 27. Mr. G. K. Chesterton 27. Sir William Orpen 22. Mr. Jacob Epstein 26. Sir Frank Benson 28.
Mr. Henry Ainley 24. Dignitaries of the Church also must be numbered among the later victims of Cupid:
The Archbishop of Canterbury
30.
The Bishop of Birmingham (Dr.
Barnes) 42.
Dean Inge 45.
Would-be Army chiefs will no doubt marry at what age they choose, in spite of examples or ad- vice.
"OWD BOB.”
DOG SAVES EIGHT SHEEP.
SUN ECLIPSES.
THREE ARE DUE THIS
YEAR.
According to the prosecution, however, much, of the accused per- sons' information was Invented by them, so that the public hearing may place upon the pacifists the double odium of trafficking with a potential enemy and circulating false accusations which have caus- Fatherland. At the same time, a ed demonstrable injury to the
Last June's total eclipse of the sun was a glorious spectacle charge for those who saw it. Southport secrets cannot be based on the sale of disclosing military. and Giggleswick were so favour of falsehoods, and, if only for the ed. But hundreds of thousands sake of his own indictment, the jot people assembled on the State Prosecutor was compelled to shadow track, 30 miles in width, admit that some of the defendants' "Owd Bob," a sheep-dog belong-that stretched from Cardigan confidential information was ing to a Potters Bar (Middlesex) shire across Northern England to rect. farmer, feels justly proud of him- Durham, suffered disappointment self. When the blizzard around by reason of clouds. They saw no. London was at its height on Christ-thing. This year will provide Johann Schreck, the chief of the mas evening the farmer missed three solar eclipses, but, unfor- three accused men, has had a re- ten sheep from his fold. A four tunately, little of outstanding in-markable and typical career. or five days' search by farm hands terest is to be expected of any of is the son of à Bavarian mason, amid six-foot deep snowdrifts fail-them.
and, starting in his father's trade,
Remarkable Career,
cor-
He
ed to locate the missing ewes, The first is total, on May 19, gradually worked his way up to a which were given up for lost. but that can be only for an in-leading position - in civil engineer- At dawn Bob, was heard barking stant. As computed, the cone of ing. At the outbreak of the war at the back door of the farm-house. the moon's dark shadow should he was chief engineer to a big The farmer dressed hurriedly and just about reach earth, perhaps company in Berlin.. He then, how- went down. There, safe and sound, grazing it, perhaps not. All ever, moved to Switzerland, where two of the missing sheep stood depends upon an extreme nicety his activities were veiled with a bleating in the snow.
of calculation. The sun may be certain amount of mystery. Under Dug Out Unaided.
cxpected to be covered sufficiently examination he stated that The farmer drove them into the to give momentarily & total he worked there for the German warmth and safety of the fold, but eclipse. As that, however, can Intelligence Department, for whom when he returned to the house the only occur in a amall region of the he arranged the transport across dog had disappeared.
South Atlantic Ocean, it has small Swiss territory of a consignment About an hour later Bob turned value. Partial eclipse will be of explosives with which it had up again with two more sheep. visible on this occasion only south been arranged that Italian Anarch- As soon as the farmer took charge of the equator.
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ists should blow up an Italian battleship. However, the Swiss police get wind of his scheme, and
of these, the dog ran off again. A partial solar eclipse on June It was discovered that the sleep 17, and that very small, will not had sought refuge behind a hay-be seen from Great Britain. arrested him. By an arrangement stack and the drifting snow had "Visible at Greenwich" is re- with the Bavarian Legation in completely submerged them. The corded of the third solar eclipse, Berne, he feigned paralysis, and dog's keen scent had succeeded in on Nov. 12, and that gives more through a deft exchange of tubes locating them and he had set to promise. Again it is only a par- containing spinal serum convinced work to dig the sheep out unaided. tial eclipse, and again it is of the Swiss doctors that he was They had been able to eat the hay small proportions, barely one-suffering from this disease, and got from the rick and had huddled to- fifth of the sun's face being cover himself removed to hospital. Then gether for warmth. Their where ed as the spectacle, is seen from a clothes line was smuggled to him abouts were traced by a blood track London. It begins soon after by agents of the Legation, and from the dog's paws left in the sunrise, and as early 8h 28min with the help of this he escaped. snow after he had succeeded in get the greatest phase is reached. On regaining German soll he was The partial eclipse lasts nearly rewarded for his patriotic services ting eight of them to safety.
Only one out of a flock of 600 an hour and a half, first contact with the Bavarian King Ludwig sheep embedded in a snowdrift in being at 7h 40min, and the moon Cross."
the Devil's Dyke, Brighton, was lost
in the great snowstorm recently.
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When the war ended Schreck had a nice little hoard of Stries france, some at least of which, the pro- secution alleges, were of French Buckingham Farm, Shoreham, were Scientists tell us that man need origin, and with them he was able engulfed in a great drift which pil-never grow old, that it is his deli- to play the part of a grandes in ed up where the sheep had taken berate neglect to
the German inflation period. He his conserve shelter among the gorse.
couple of estates near With functional balance that limits his bought a considerable trouble the animals days to the Scriptural three score
Regensburg, became a prominent were located, but it was not until years and ten.
member of the ruling Bavarian three days later that they were all
branch of civic There is no longer need to seek party, founded a rescued. A number of them were the fountain of youth in out-of re- guards, and was elected to quite a very weak,
way places. The chart to its is number of local governing corpora- covery is in the hands of all. That tions. His affairs, however, soon chart points clearly to the main took a turn for the worse, and tenance of the human system in stabilisation found. him almost normal functional balance, by the penniless. The offences with which STOLEN.
judicious employment of media that he is charged are said to have ro-inforce natural function and been committed in 1925. Faris-The Prince de Robech, thereby help to ward off illness. who resides in Paris and owns a In simple it nguage, the key to the chateau at Breslot, in the Depart-retention of youthful zest for life,
N. Kuasaukoff, a Russian of no ment of the Eure, has suffered with all Its undiminished interest heavy losses at the hands of bur and enthusiasm, is the judicious fixed abode and with 15 previous glars, who have twice rifled his use of a tonic designed to keep convictions to his credit, appeared In the Provisional Court on property. At the end of last personal fitness at a maximum. month they forced six secretaries Dr. Williams Pink Pills for February charged with being and took away silver articles Fale People will effect this for you. drunk and disorderly. The defen- worth 80,000 francs and two gold They are a tonic with none of the dans claimed to be an artist and vases encrusted with precious depressing after effect common to so smilingly admitted being drunk the stones. There are Reubene and many remedies, Based upon the previous day outside the Merchant Van Dyck plotures in the chateau, prescription of an experienced Service Club. He created such a but these were untouched. When medical practitioner, they have disturbance in the vicinity that he the burglars paid a second visit, restored thousands to the enjoy was arrested. The disturbance con- however, they took away two ment of perfect health, which means sisted of the singing of the accused valuable tapestries, one by Aubus the renewal of that intense Interest which he frankly admitted and son depicting a village fete of the in life that keeps everyone young. claimed that he had purposely got eighteenth century and the other, To be had of all chemists, or post drunk as when in this condition he worked in the reign of Louis free, at $1.50 per bottle, 8 bottles could sing much better. The Court XIII, representing Jacob and for $8.00, from The Dr. Williams" fined him $10 and as the accused EBAU The Rouen police are in Medicine Co., 60, Klangse Road, had not this amount he was bent vestigating the burglars. Shanghai, saquén, ai đua tento prison for ten days.
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