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A DANISH OFFICER | £300,000 TO A HOUSE HINCHLIFFE 'PLANE
SENTENCED
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IN GERMANY
CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE › FIVE YEARS' JAIL
TYPIST INVOLVED
Berlin, Yesterday. The Supreme Court at Lelpzig has sentenced the Danish officer. Captain Lembour," who was arrest ed recently near the German Danish frontier, to Ave years' penal servi- lude for espionage.
The German woman typist, who helped him, was sent to prison for three years'.
Reuter,
HANKOW TROUBLE
KEEPER
LUCKY LADY
HER EMPLOYER'S GRATITUDE
PESTERED BY BEGGARS
FOUND?
ECHO OF TRAGEDY
IRISH COAST DISCOVERY OF RELICS
THE ATLANTIC ATTEMPT
Glasgowy--A fortune of £300,000 Akron (Ohio)-Officials of the and a mansion in Glasgow have been B. F. Goodrich Co. here have ex- left by the late Mr. James A. Wad-pressed the opinion that the wreck- dell," of Kew-terrace, Glasgow, to age recently washed up at Down- his housekeeper, Miss Janet Ormie-ings, county Donegal, is part of the ton, "in appreciation of kindly ser- under-carriage of the Stinson De- vices rendered in the course of trotter monoplane Endeavour, In many years.”
Mr. Waddell died last April, aged 76, leaving £310,401.
After the usual charges and a number of legacies have been paid.
which Captain Hinchliffe and the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Lord Inch- cape's daughter, attempted an east-to-west flight across the At lantic in March last.
The tyre on the wreckage found
The trial was held in camera the residua goes to Miss Ormiston. by the Civic Guards at Downings Mr. Waddell was a keen student, a was of the same size as those used lover of books and birds, and an on Stinson Detroiter aeroplanes, enthusiastic antiquarian.
and the officials added that if the Miss Ormiston, a small, grey- tyre was of the "non-skid" tread haired woman approaching middle type, It was undoubtedly from Cap- age, said she is already being tain Hinchliffe's plane,--Reuters worried by callers and begging let-
LOCAL FOREIGN OFFICE'S MANIFESTO
JAPANESE WARNED
Hankow, Yesterday. Anti-Japanese feeling here running high, and trouble is con- sidered likely to result from the death of a coolie on Dec. 21, who was knocked down by a Japanese Marine motor-cyclist, and died a few days Inter.
The Foreign Affairs Office this morning published in the foreign Press & statement declaring that independent medical testimony as serts the coolie's death was direct result of the accident, des- pite the Japanese medical report being otherwise. ·
Three Demands
A
ters.
She has in consequence decided to leave Glasgow immediately. She is telling one where she is going. She is a native of Berwickshire,
She has lived alone in the big house of her late employer since his death. The house contains much valuable antique furniture.
RAILWAY SMASH
DETAILS OF THE DISASTER
RESCUING IN FOG
London, Yesterday.
In addition to four deaths it is
Although Mr. Waddell had travel- now reported that 25 were injured led a great deal and had financial in the collision near Tewkesbury on interests In Canada he led a retired Tuesday. life in Glasgow and had few friends or acquaintances.
DUTCH ROYALTY
THE QUEEN MOTHER'S JUBILEE
1.
The Hague, Yesterday.
The express out right through the goods train, which was shunting from the main line into a alding. The engine then almost buried itself In the ground, the coaches behind rearing up to a height of thirty feet above each other..
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A hose pipe run from Ashchurch It goes on to state that three
station extinguilabed the fire in the demands have been presented to
In honour of the fiftieth anniver-locomotive, but the water which ran the Japanese authorities, namely, sary of the arrival of the Queen over the wreckage froze, handi- $3,000 compensation, punishment Mother in Holland, Queen Wil- capping the rescuers whose efforts of the Marine, and withdrawal of heiminn gave a great gala din were also hampered by fog. the Japanese Marines from Han-ner at which all the highest author kow.
itles in the country were present.
Her Majesty, in her speech ad- dressed to her mother, declared that
The Japanese have vouchsafed
no answer,
This was so dense that the ambulance from Gloucester had to be piloted by a motor car-Reuter.
THE STREET ANGEL”
ITALIAN SAILORS IN SHANG- HAI CINEMA
¿
The statement concludes that she knew she was interpreting the the Foreign Minister has sent, a wishes of the whole nation in thank letter to the Japanese Consul saying her for what she had done for! ing that in the event of untoward the nation during the last fifty When she was head of the occurrences, as the result of the years. Japanese attitude, the Japanese Government she had won the con-
Shanghai, Yesterday.. authorities alone will be held re-fidence of the nation by her wis-!
dom. The Queen expressed the This evening three Italian sailors sponsible. Reuter.
hope that God would grant. the entered the Capital Theatre where Queen Mother many happy years the film "The Street Angel" was yet.
being shown (which film Mused ini Women's Gift
recently banned from Italy). They The Queen Mother, ever since bought tickets but then went to the this day Afty years ago, the day projection room, two of them pro- of her wedding to King William III. 'ducing automatics and one a knife. of the Netherlands, had held the They arized the first reel which had loyalty and love of her people, An just been run off and rushed from illustration of this feeling was that, the theatre to the street. Fifty of A new scheme of speech trans- to celebrate her Jubilee, the women their comrades were awaiting them mission will be put into use when of Holland and of the Dutch East there and they burned the film Mr. Neville Chamberlain addresses which would be placed at the dia-
Indies subscribed a sum of £24,000 amid shouting and excitement.
The sailors then went to the Ja meeting at Liverpool on Friday week. His speech will be heard at posal of Her Majesty for philan-Carlton Theatre where the same the same time by audiences at Birthropic purposes-Reuter. kenhead, Southport and Widnes.
POLITICAL SPEECHES
HEARD SIMULTANEOUSLY IN SEVERAL TOWNS
RELAY SYSTEM
London, Yesterday.
TREATIES RATIFIED
Nanking, Yesterday.
picture was being shown, but the police had been warned and pre- vented any further trouble.---Red- ter.
WORLD RECORD
The Central Council of the Na- tional Government of China has ratified the six new tariff treaties, WON BY DE HAVILLAND. CO'S. namely, those with British, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish.
CHAIRMAN
Plana are in preparation for relaying other important political speeches by members of the Goy- ernment and arrangements have been made for a speech to be made in the early spring at Bristol by the Prime Minister, which will be re- layed to seven other towna.
London, Yesterday. The Liberal party have already
The Federation Aeronautique adopted this relay system with Three others, the Danish, success, but on a somewhat smaller Spanish and Portuguese, have been Royal Aero Club of the granting of Internationale has notified the scale, in connection with spacches referred to the Foreign Relations
(u.world's record to Alan Butler, the by
Lloyd George British Committee for examination-Reuchairman of the De Havilland Air- Mr. Wireless Service.
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SAMUEL COLDWYN
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RONALD COLMAN.
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OG HENRY KING
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CHINESE PICTURE at 2.30 & 7.15 p.m. "A LADY DETECTIVE"
AT THE
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craft Company, who, on Dec. 7 on a one-hundred kilometre course, accomplished a speed of 182,884 kilometres per hour on a De Havil land: Gipsy Moth. The record is In the two-seater class for light aeroplanes, and Mrs. Butter was the passenger-Router.
A MOVING PICTURE THAT MOVES!
AT THE
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IN
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QUEEN'S
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TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
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THE R 100-EXPERIMENT
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to London than Aberdeen was a century ago, it would be of great value to the British Empire, (Hear, hear.)
Referring to the airship R 100, with the development of which he
The possibility of bringing by had been connected for the past airship transport, Australia within five years, Commander Burney five days of England, and Bombay said it would be able to chrry 100 and Montreal within forty-eight persons, would have a rest-room hours, was anticipated by Com- capable of seating afty, provide a DISTRESSED AREAS mander C. D. Burney, M.P speak cabin and bed for each person, Ing at a dinner of the Knights of and would have electric light, MINING POPULATION BEING the Round Table Club at Simpson's heating and cooking, and hot and
TRANSFERRED"?»
Restaurant recently,
cold water laid on..
London, Festerday.
Commander Sir A. Trevor Daw son, the Knight-President, toasting Sir John Cadman, member of Commander: Burney, remarked that the Industrial Transference Board, he invention, the paravans, for the states that by means of the em- detection of mines, saved 260,000 ployment exchanges nearly seven tons of British shipping during the hundred man, boys and girls were war., (Hoar, hear.), being moved away from the cogl Commander Burney, responding fields every week to other employ said that if we could produce an ment in other places. Three or aerial transport so quick that four hundred more were moving Australia would be brought closer on their own Initiative
Since the end of August nearly, ten thousand people had been
of the exchanges.
That airship was admittedly ex- perimental, but it was an expert- ment that might lead to the build- ing of a vessel with 'a cruising' speed of not less than 105 miles per hour, with a radius of action not less than 7,000 miles, and a carrying capacity of not less than 120 passengers, When, they con templated the possibility of such a rehicle they could imagine the possibility of building up the essential political and economic entity of our Empire. (Cheers;): (5.4); Knight; Vice-President - A. CAR. Carter (K g Arthur's Champion) dollar on proposed time-honoured toast 2/0-5/16 to Kid
DOLLAR.