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BOY AND GIRL LOVE THE ARCHBISHOP OF MORE ABOUT COL.
ROMANCE
ENDS IN MURDER
+3
CANTERBURY
INDISPOSED
LAWRENCE
OF ARABIAN FAME
|MOTHER· SHOT ACROSS BABY'S SUFFERING FROM INTERNAL SAID TO BE AN ARMY CLERK IN
CRADLE
VERDICT HISSED
Paris:
How a young man shot and killed his putative wife across their baby's cradle and then shot and wounded himself was described in EL remarkable murder trial at [Rennes..
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INFLAMMATION
TO REMAIN IN BED
London, Yesterday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
WAZIRISTAN
MANY TALES
Bombay, Dec. 5.
Colonel Lawrence' of Arabia is
(Dr. Cosmo Lang) is "auffering evidently moving about very freely from an attack of internal inflam- ¡
mation which will necessitate his [jin India; at least that is the opinion remaining in bed for some days. of a section of the Indian Press.
This statement Was lasued. Getting tired of life in England, consultation with Sir Colonel Lawrence came to India and
He, was heard of in Lahore, when he was reported to be busy tracking Bolshevists in the Punjab.
The
The story which ended so tragic- after aily began as a romance be-i tween, 22- .. 'rich
landowner's Hugh Rigby and the Archbishop of quietly joined the Royal Air Forca
Canterbury's own doctor this after- at Karachi. daughter, Eugenic Enger, of Combourgh, in Brittany, and a but noon.Reuter. cher's boy named Valen- tin Fontaine. Both were aged 15: when they became Infatunted with each other. Eugenie. wished to marry Valentin, who called at the Chateau for orders, so her infuri- lated father sent her back to her
convent school at Chartres.
Valentin followed and obtained employment with the butcher sup. He managed plying the convent.
to communicate with Eugenie,"
whom he told he was returning to Combourg to marry another giri by Civil Law, merely to lui her father's suspicions, persuading her that only a religious marriage was lawful.
'Penal Servitude
ENGENE O'NEILL
DISCOVERED AT LAST IN
MANILA
ADMITS IDENTITY
news was promptly contradicted by his secretaries in London, but his personality still haunts the reporters of the "Yellow" Press at Lahore.
He came into the limelight again on the day of Mr. Lala Lajpat Rai's. funeral, when he was mobbed be- cause it was alleged that he intended to throw bombs. He was rescued, but lost some Rs. 5,000.
-Now An Army Clerk
Manila, Dec. 19. The well-known American play- wright Eugene O'Neill, author of, "Emperor Jones," "Anna Christie," Now all of a sudden, he has "Desire under the Elms" and other transported himself to Tochi. Ac- woll-known plays, has arrived here cording to the local newspapers, on the German str. "Coblentz." Colonel Lawrence, under the assum- He is travelling under the name ed name of Shaw, is leading an ob of the Reverend William O'Brien.'scure
life as an Army clerk at
Valentin, who was then aged 20, Eugene O'Neill was a recent Miranshaw, in the Tochi Agency. Retually did this, and Eugenie's visitor to Shanghai, where he had A corrsepondent who Interviewed a nervous breakdown as the result the alleged Colonel Lawrence, says
father recalled her home.
A few weeks later Valentin's ¦ of over-work and an attack of that the Colonel declared he was "civil" wife called at the Chateau, bronchitis. He was accompanied tired of public life, and wished to said she was a school-friend of by a secretary, Mrs. Tuwe Drew, lead a quiet and obscure life in the Eugenie, and obtained her father's who stated she was a Swedish barren hills of Tochi, in Waziristan. permission to taken Eugente for masseuse and graduate physician He is reported to be busy learning a motor drive.
and had been travelling with Mr. Pushtu, from which the correspon- Fontaine awaited them at a vil-O'Neill since he left Europe for dent infers that he intends to shift lage in the Pyrenees and married the Far East. Mrs. Drew's daugh- to Afghanistan. Eugenie in the church there.
ter is travelling with her.
The enraged father took proceed Mr. O'Neill was under the care
ings for abduction, but the case
of a well-known medical practi-'
was dismissed and Valentin was tioner in Shanghai when he sud- THE NEW TREATIES
released from prison at St. Malo.
2
week ago
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VIEWS ON CHINA'S TARIFF RATES
"LETTER AND SPIRIT
London, Saturday. A blessing has been.given to the Anglo-Chinese treaty in a "Times"
The father, meanwhile, learning denly disappeared that Eugenie was enciente, per-leaving behind him suaded her to leave the butcher and which he stated that he came to return home.
China seeking peace and quiet and Valentin broke into the house, "hoping that here, at least, people where the girl was segregated for would mind their own business and safety by her father, and found her, allow me to mind mine, but I've
she refused to return to live the square inch than there are in with him he shot her dead across any New England town of a thou- the cradle. He then shot himself; sand inhabitants. I am going to leader acclaiming the signature as | but not fatally,
Honolulu. and then, perhaps, to a vindication of the polley which The jury returned a verdict that, Tahiti if Honolulu adopts the same Britain has consistently pursued while the crime was premeditated, attitude as Shanghai that I'm a since the Washington Conference, there were extenuating circum- politician whose life must ba It says that compared with the stances. The verdict was hissed in public. At any rate I'll find peace, tariff rates of many European court.
and solitude to work in if I have countries the new duties may be to go to the South Pole," regarded as fairly modest.
Interviewed by Reuter's corres- It rejoices in China's pledge to pondent, Eugene O'Neill admitted abolish likin, the fulfilment of his identity. He denied that which is an essential part of the "there was a woman in the case." Agreement, which should immense- Eugene O'Nelli has been posily assist the present regime and tively identified through his pass consolidate their authority. port, No. 491,350, and by his signa- ture as well as his personal effects, such as correspondence and note books bearing his name.-Reuter.
Valentin was sentenced to penal servitude for life.
DISBANDMENT
SCHEME FOR CUTTING DOWN CHINA'S ARMY
Nanking, Saturday, The National Military Rear- ganisation and Disbandment Con-
ference is opening on Dec. 26.
General Li Tsung-jen (comman der-in-Chief at Hankow) and Mar- sha Li Chal-sum (Commander-in- Chief at Canton)-who are both feaders of the Kwangsi military faction are going to Nanking to attend it.
General Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria is sending a representa-
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con-
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Alluding to the fact that Japan has hitherto not concluded a treaty with China the newspaper states that separate action by Bri- tain proves that while desirous of AT THE adhering us closely as possible to the letter and spirit of the recent undertaking in favour of diploma-i tic callabaration, Britain does not allow its policy thereby to be sterilised.
American Views
New York, Saturday.
It is expected the British Ambas- Britain's formal recognition, of} General Ho Ying-ching. Inspector sador will shortly approach the the Chinese Nationalist Govern- General of Military Training (United States Government on the ment is regarded here as in the supporter of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek), states the
question of the participation of nature of a triumph for British ference is an attempt to deter-American experts in the work of diplomacy. The New York "Times" mine the division of the country a committee to study the German Points out that. "the long views has prevalled," and both the "Times" into a number of garrison.. araas reparations problem. Although and the "World" applaud the "fact and to work out a detailed scheme formal invitation has yet been re that the latest move on the part of ceived, It is understood that Pres. the British Foreign Office has ap of gradual disbandment..
The repatriation of surplus Coolidge would be sympatheticparently ruled out any question of the revival of the Anglo-Japanese alliance."
troops, It is pointed out, will reduce thereto.,
the army from 1,600,000 to 500,000, Pres. Coolidge feels the matter is
and will necessitate the expendi-one almost entirely involving an Exchange of Salutes ture of $30,000,000.
Europe and should be settled by the
annually.Reuter.
The Nationalists plan to limit, European nations, but does not wish
Hankow, Saturday. the total Military, Naval and Avia- the United States to shirk its duty. (Senior Naval Officer, Yangtsze), Rear Admiral H. J. Tweedfe, CB. tion expenditure to $180,000,000 Pres. Coolidge is of the opinion arrived here this morning in H.M.S.
that a study should be made by the "Be," the flagship. representatives who should be laft
Shortly before noon the boom- free by the governments to exercise Ing of guns from a Chinese gunboat A Chinese was this morning their own judgment, as regards the and the "Bee" and the interchang charged before. Mr. R. E. Lindseil, amounts payable.Reuters Amering of salutes announced locally at the Central Maglatracy with the can Service.
"DONE!"
unlawful possession of two tins of fillelt opium. Revenue Officer Ward, who had charge of the case,
Great Britain's oflefal- recognition of the Nationalists. .
The French Treaty
Shanghai, Saturday.
Tariff new Sino-French
INDIA & HOME „RULE
Calcutta, Testerday. The All-Parties Convention has
The
Treaty was
signed at Shanghai
Informed the Magistrate that the accused had been "double-crossed. He had apparently bought the oplum from someone else and was adopted without opposition a resolu- this evening. The terms were not "done" by the seller, as the tion in favour of India's constitution- divulged. analyst'e repart stated that the al position being that of a belf- M. Martel, the French Minister, contents of the two tins found on governing dominion with a status is leaving for Nanking to-morrow the accused were molasses. Ac-like Australia and South Africa by gunboat and thence to Peking
[by train. Reyteri | Reuter.
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