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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert. but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spallinga, such as harbor, niew, and altho.)
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16
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22
43
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19
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114
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119
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151 152
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL
1-A Shakespearean
charactor
6-The Island of
BE John's exile
11-Constellation
12To awab 14-Article 15-interjection
18-A famous Belgian
Cardinal
18-8trait
20-8mall child 21-Metric unit of
weight 22-Anolent alty of
W. Asia Minor 25-Country of
9. America 27-Perusa 28-A sport, S. E.
Beatland zo-Over (Post) 81-Cowardly mammal 82-Musical Instrument 36-Own (Boot.) 16-Made of oak 88-A spiko or prong 43-A large gonus of
plants
HORIZONTAL (Cant.) | 44-A motardriven
balloan 46-A flower 148-Amount (abbr.)
49-Girl's name 51-One of the
Longobardi 64-Run (Scot) 66-Before Christ
(Latin-abbr.)
|66-50 (Scot)
57-A Jackdaw (Scot) |68-Every twelve manthe 89-Detlefs
* VERTICAL 1-A large packing
backst 2-Exist
VERTICAL (Cont.) 13-Nat poatio 17-A girl attending
collage with men 19-Hurrah 24-One of the churchas
(abbr)
|24–A Spanish sxplorer of California 26-A mandow 29-Possosalvo pronoun 32-A dessart 33-N. Central State of
U:8.
|34–Exlating in nama
only
95-A dépository for
37-English titta (pl.) 38-A vault 39-Alishaft In = mins 3-Bister of Mary and 40-Sodium (chom.
Lazartio
"4-Gives' forth
B-Part of foot 8-A sudden sharp pain| 7-Absenas of
government
..
B-A poem by Scott
9-interjection
F
sym.) 41-Musical studios 43-A canton of
Switzerland 48-8ame az "ramio” |47–Secretary (abbr.)
50-To reoline · 62-One of the grains
| 10-One who sawn wood 68-A radent
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle
will
appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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JARNATIONE
THE CHINA MAIL,
HOUSING SOCIETY":
STORY OF A £12,500 CHEQUE
. DIRECTONS & PROFITS
"WOMEN ONLY "
TRIUMPH FOR MISS WILKIN. BON M.P
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COMMONS RULE CHANGED
Miss The inspection of the affairs of¦
Ellen Wilkinson, ths! the New Era Housing Society Socialist M.P. for Middlesbrough, Limitsd Was continued by Mr. recently celebrated her victory in John Fox, the Assistant Registrar the battle she has waged with the of Friendly Societies, at 17, North authorities of the House of Com- Audley-street, W. The proceed-mons to secure equal rights for wo- ings are the result of an applica- men members, at least in one re tion by Alderman Walter Lee. [spect,
SMALL CAST
PLAY WITH ONLY TWO CHARACTERS
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
but we Such a
A glance at their programmes showed the audience at the For- tune Theatre, London, that they were about to 'assist" at a great M. flasco or a great triumph. Loala Verneuil's French original of the play presented In Mr. Eugene Walters English under It had been previously stated by The authorities have now agreed the title of "Jealousy" In à comedy Mr. Fox that the society was of to the proposal, forced through in three acts containing only two the type known as a "public utility the Kitchen Committee by Mdas characters. True, there is also a society." The scheme evolved by Wilkinson, that women should be telephone, through which we hear the promoters seemed to have been permitted to have their meals in of half a dozen others; to get another company,' known as the Strangers Dining Room at the only see and hear two, "Modern Homesteads Limited," to House, thitherto reserved for men, limitation involves rare skill on the bulld houses and for the New The new regulation, which applies art both of the author and of his Era Company to obtain the sub- to dinner only, will permit either interpreters if it. is to spell suc sidies. Both concerns appeared women or men.M.P.'s to invite wo- cess The curtain fell amid a roar to have been promoted by a third men guests to meals in this room. of cheers, so after all the audience
Mias company, "L.B.C. Truet Limited."
Wilkinson entertained,
asaw a triumph. Mr. Fax said Alderman Lee, was party of eight, all women, ta dinspir The story can be briefly told. apparently the only subscriber of in the Strangers Room. As the The scene is the handsome" apart- the shares.
explained to a reporter, she thinks ment in Paris of a young woman In his application Alderman Lee It is just as well to establish the whom we know only as Valerie. alleged that the society had failed position without delay. Her She has married Maurles, and it to file an annual report, that guesta Included four women is their wedding night. The cheques had been drawn on the journalists and Mr. Ramsay Mac-room has “a touch of Versailles," banking account without the au-Donald's private secretary, Miss for Valerio in as clever as she is thority of the company, and that no Rosenberg, who is a popular and pretty, and she has a shop that jordinary meeting had been held. familiar figure about the House.
He also alleged that he paid
£200 on the representation that Mr. W. B. Luke, the Willesden this sum was required to qualify magistrate: Malignant people can him for a position on the manage make a house intolerable without ment committee. There wore coming within the four corners of further allegations that the money the law, and all you can do is to had been improperly dealt with. exercise the priceless virtue of
Meeting That Was Not Held I Mr. Llewellyn, who stated that [he had been, secretary of the L.B.C.
Trust, gave evidence.
patience.
"Was it a double pram-children fore and aft?" asked Mr. St. John In reply to Mr. Fox he said the Morrow, the magistrate, at West L.B.C. Trust did not hold its statu-Ham Police Court when a peram- Itory meeting. He was questioned bulator was mentioned.
regarding a transaction whereby
the LE.C. Trust received £12,500 from another company as under writing commission.
Mr. Fox: Was the only pay- mont made to the trust by this company in respect of their liability a conserved cheque for £12,500?- Yea, and another similar amount for $10,000, which was the sum the vendors had agreed to pay to the L.B.C. Trust for the formation of the company.
It was ascertained by Mr. Fox that, the L.B.C. Trust having falled to carry out their underwriting obligations, the sum of £12,500 was returned to the company, with the exception of £400.
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Mr. Fox: Do you know, secretary of the promoting body, why the statutory meeting of the trust was not held? No, excepté that it might not have been con- Įvenient.
Mr Fox: It seems to me it might have been very convenient to mem- bers of the public who had sub- scribed the £10,000. Do you
think I should be speaking too atrongly if I went so far as to say that the non-holding of the statu- |tory meeting was a fraud on these people -Whateve. the position | w88. the holding of a meeting
would not have helped them.
Mr. Fox said there were three directors of the Modern Home- steads Company, and asked who appointed Mr. Bell as chairman.
Mr. Llewellyn: Mr. Griffin was not then a director, and only Mr. Bell and Mr. Cantlon were pre- sent.
Mr. Fox: So that Mr. Cantion appointed Mr. Bell.
"£22,000 Paper Profit"
Mr Bell, giving evidence, agreed that the promotion profit to the L.B.C. Trust on the formation of the United Caterers' Company was £22,000, but it was only a paper profit; owing to the fact that the directors took shares. In the com- pany and lost their money.
Mr. Fox: Why was not the amount received in ensh 7-Be- cause we were bally fools enough to underwrite.
Have the company's offices shift- ed from Winchester House ?—Yes. The tenancy expired, and we did not renew it.
Did you inform the share- holders' 7-I did not do eo personal- ly.
Mr. Fox said that a sum of £500 (had been mentioned earlier. as having been received by the L.B.C. Trust h respect of the Solmar Soaps Company. "Do you accept the statement that that was your share of profit ?" he asked.
"No; 3t was a draw," was the reply:
What do you mean, a lucky draw-It was a draw.' Directors entitled to live, and as we are had done a lot of work we were entitled to draw this very small sum.
Wonders
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The hearing was adjourned.
After “Death”
The 18-months-old, Vielot Smith, of Newark, N., who was pronounced dead after eating strychnine tablets which she mistook for sweets. Her heart was “started" sgain by the use of the drug adrenalin and a few minutes later the above photo was taken.
paya. She also has a middle-aged guardian, one Lambertier, a rich banker who has helped her in business; and-Maurice is jealous, For Mauries, though only an un- known young painter, knows the Lambertler typo. He also knows the Valerie type; and, although he loves his wife passionately, he is conscious of certain possibilities— and when Lambertier rings up his wife after eleven p.m. his jealousy flames forth.
The wife "llas like truth," but
as often as his suspicions are al- fayed they blaze up anew; and, as the play proceeds, Valerie gets deeper and deeper into the mire. In the end, Maurice goes to Lam- bertier's house and strangles him. He then confesses his crime to the police, and the curtain falls on his going to meet his captors, while his wife swears that she will get him off. And, as she has let us sea quite clearly the sort of 'man Lambertier was, and as we all know the usual fate of a. French citizen charged with a "crime pas- sionel," the ending of the drama has every right to be regarded an
happy one.
The whole thing is quite splen- :didly acted by Mr. Crane Wilbur an the husband and Miss Mary New comb as the wife. The art they display is a delight. Whether speaking or listening theys are al ways graphic. The nervous force of their work is of a quality we pea oftener on the French stage than on the English; and again and again it sent a manifest shiver through the audience. Not a word, not a glance failed of its effect; and had the brillant young French-
man who constructed the play been prosent, we think he would have been satiofed.
Mias Newcomb made a modest speech of thanks.at the end of the avening. She and her partner (not forgetting the "stager" of the play, Mr. Guthrie McClintic) had given us an entertainment which eary lover of good acting should see-HMW. in "Daily Telegraph."
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