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MATASHA
The Innermost secrets of the Russian court in the last days of Cser Nicholas and the tremendous power wielded by Rasputin, the "Mad Monk" constitute the drama that began to unfold in a dingy London courtroom as the suit of Princess Irina Alexandrovne (Princess Youssoupoff), came up for hearing. The Princess is seeking $2,000,000 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd., of London, for damages the charges her character enstained as the result of the flm "Rasputin and the Empress." She claims the "PrincesS Natasha,played by Diana Wynyard, was intended to portray her. As "Natasha" is shown objectionably linked with Rasputin, played by Lionel Barrymore, in the film, the princess considers berself libeled. Sir Patrick Hastings, ons of England's most brilliant lawyers, in counsel for the princess. His star witness was Prince Youssoupoff, aclf-confessed assassin of Rasputin
CALAMIT Y
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PROVED
Time passed, overhead the lurks wonderful spider. Young Mat had
Homburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & twittered Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
For a unheeded. The little never seen anything like it. group around the telephone began to moment he stood staring at it, They had fuscinated and curious. The spider show frayed tempers. Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, been nearly two hours trying to es-moved alightly, and he stepped back
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &tablish communication with Youngla pace.
full.
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Mal on the telephone without suc- "What a whopper!" he murmured,
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broakdown in the organisation was truded itself. The bananas came Spring, missed him and fatally Mayor Cermak of Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London unforeseen. Young Mat had failed. from Central America, where scor-wounded
Trouble is when to know how pions and snakes abounded. Per-Chicago, had a "normal brain," Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &
decided of the Dr. Adolph Meyer has Hull.
Isoon to expect 'em," muttered Fin-haps this spider was one
nigan. "Go and lay a smoker down, blood-sucking variety he had heard after months of study of the brain.
1 Dr. Meyer,
noted brain We'll stop everything! about when he was small. It looked & Wave your arm if anything comes horrible enough' for anything. No specialist at Johns Hopkins Hos-
round the bend."
doubt it had come over concealed in pital, stated that there was "no But he spoke too late. Even be- the bunches of fruit, kept alive by corelation between the deed
Would it jumped out at homicide" (for which Zangara was At the electrocuted) "and the type of Con-re Louis Brant had moved towards Insects.
the road, the roar of an approach-him and suck his blood? the ing motor lose to a crescendo, pass-thought he felt a cold shiver pass brain.
Dr. Meyer's findings, reported to ed, and was quickly followed by an-down his back. Ife kept at a res-j
N. Greene, local other. They had a glimpse of a pectable distance, and the spider, as Dr. Ralph shining black closed van-the if reading his thoughts, executed a psychiatrist, were as follows:-
"The fisuration of the brain second car, and simultaneously the little shuffle which made him jump three men shouted.
again. Then it remained passive, showed no striking deviations such but with its eyes fixed on his, and as were formerly emphasised in be, curlous at the unfamiliar sight literature on the criminal brain.
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ROBERT CLIVE OF INDIA
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SITE OF OLD FORT RALEIGH DEEDED
Restoration On Previous
* Lines Planned. At his first home-coming he had
-Raleigh, North Carolina. been hailed as a youthful hero;
The site of old Fort Raleigh. now he was accepted as a great man.
on Roanoke Island, where Sir Pitt described him as a "Heaven-Walter Raleigh sent a group of barn general.' The King paid acttlers in the first attempt of him particular attention. His en-the English to colonise Ameri- plied it to his mouth and gulped Just then the telephone bell tin-1
brought back assassin on the night of Februaryemies among the directors were ca, has been deeded to the State as the latter joined forced to defer to him. He was and will be beautified through
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Clive now went to India armed
with full powers and proved him-
self one of the greatest reformers
of chasing was obvious. They had thing, approached closer again. Hecated a condition such as is en- have came to surprise and had, instead, even held up his thumb to compare countered in patients who been surprised. It was all
over its size with the spider's fat body, suffered from prolonged fevers or enough For a moment the men locked at Presently he found a long straw and intoxication and often
The spider scurried without any clear accounting for B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for each other with varying expressions. tickled it.
Incredulity, chagrin, disappoint-away to security, reappeared after the condition observed.
"There was no evidence, how- {ment.
an-a vain attempt to get round to the
other side of the bunch, and again ever, of any disorganising process EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, Louis Brant strode to the van and shuffled and seemed to blink its har-going on at the time of Zangara's
death" xrasped the whisky bottle. He ap-frid eyes.
Muyor Cermak was shot by the
steadily. Ikey Mo began to pour kled, and Mat was aut a stream of the most profane with a jerk to the realities of life. 15th, 1933. 30th June Manila, Rabout. Brisbane, Sydney & words that would come to his bid-He would kill the spider and get on. Roosevelt to Miami. Mr. Cer-immensely wealthy. He secured a the use of $20,000 (£4.000) in
C.W.A. funds, scat In Parliament, he formed with the business. ding.
It was announced He drew the automatic pistol mak died on March 6. Zangara political connection, he was raised
that the Mat Finnigan said nothing, did}
to an Irish peerage. But India Roanoke Colony Memorial Asso nothing.
The cellar paid for the crime with his life on But his hands clenched from his hip pocket.
called him for the third time, ciation has deeded the site of and unclenched.
was soundproof. Raising the pistol March 20.-Reuter.
The administration had relaps 16.45 acres to the State His They were all thinking of Young with a steady hand he took alm
The Tientsin Chinese Chambered into its old lethargy and cor-torical Association.. the Mut. If Young Mat had known along the sights and pressed
of Commerce has petitioned the ruption, and within a few years of what they were thinking it might trigger.
Plans call for the restoration Plassy all was once again in jeo-of the Fort along its original. There was a deafening report, a Tlentsin City Government for
pardy.
lines of architecture.-Reuter. But he did not know.
primrose stab of flame-but the reduction in taxes. According to When the van had gone and he spider was still on the bunch, though the Chamber, 2,991 shops have The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and turned back to the store he knew one of the yellow banana pods above been compelled to suspend business he had an hour to waste. His had a clean hole drilled through it, during the last six months due to
and administrators of Indian his- Parliamentary inquiry, A cease- nerves were making him fidgety. He raised the pistol again, and for depression and heavy taxes.
tory, He prohibited private trad- less persecution hounded him to He went down to the cellar with the the second time he missed. This
Ing by officials. Proper salaries his death. His health broke idea of testing the telephone connec-time the spider scuttled on its long
fruit, but the shock sent him stum- were provided by the imposition of down, he sought consolation, In tions. They seemed to be in order. legs. Then he proceeded to making him-j The telephone continued to ring bling back. His heel landed fairly a salt tax. A mutiny of English opium, and at last, when only 49. In pay was he died so suddenly that his end self a cup-of-tea. He moaned about intermittently. He half resolved to on a discarded banana skin, his feet officers against cute with hands plunged deep inte trou- leave the shooting practico until he shot into the air, and he fell heavily, foiled by his Sepoys. Justice was was long attributed to suicide. Amoy, Shat Mejl, Kobe & Osaka.
a proper footing,}. Clive passed away rich and hat- Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.sers pockets. The only food in the had answered the call, but the in-striking the back of his head on the placed upon
Steady revenues were established ed; als victories were forgotten, Amoy, S'hni, Moji, Kobe & Onaka.
store was fruit-bananas. ·
strument was on the wall very near cement floor."
The telephone bell continued to for the Government. Corruption and their consequences not yet He went back to the cellar to to the bunch of fruit on which the
It tinkle as he lay on the floor sense-was as far as possible stamped understood. His third visit to In- obtain a supply. As he flung back spider played hide and seek. the door a whiff of hot, gas-heated might jump down his neck while holes, and when it finally ceased the out, and a horde of disappointed dia and great, though brief, admin
hiss of the escaping gas pouring in- fortune-hunters returned disconistration by its austerity. Inflicted The spider reappeared in to the room from the punctured salate and furious to London.. censure up on the unprincipled ro
When, two years later, Clive left mantic episodes of his youth. It He approach-pipe was the only sound that broke! S'haf Maji, Kobo, Osaka & Yokohama strong exudations of gas from the favourable position.
India for the last time, be had probably seemed to him in the Yokohama Shanghal, Kobe &
{fruit itself, enveloped him. The ed a little closer and took aim, fac-an otherwise intense allence!"",
When the van finally stopped inlaid the foundations not only of closing years of his life that he hal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai,
ghai,
Moji.
cellar was lit only, by the gas jef low ing more towards the light from the Kobe & Osaka. Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
down on the ground that heated the gas jet. Again the report of the the yard the three men dropped from "John Company," but of what had tolled and dared in vain, and eventually became an Imperial ad-¡that his countrymen would neither Yokohama Shanghal Kobe &
air to ripen the fruit. From habit pistol stunned his genees--but this it with considerable haste.
Brant's eyes had narrowed-elther ministration.
value nor preserve all that he had S'hal Mejl, Kobe, Osake, & Yokohama he closed the door after him to con- time darkness followed. · · The gas
Hounded To Death' gained for them.› But the greatest · Amoy, Shni, Moji, Kobe & Onaku.
Mat S'hal, Neji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama surve the heat. Then, in the unger-jet had flickered and gone out from whisky or rage-nearly to a
The last phase in his life was age of British splendour billy tain light, he proceeded to choose At the same time he seemed to squint. Ikey Mo, was livid, banana. He wanted a ripe one, and feel in the intense darkness a tie-Finnigan, senior's, expression was melancholy, The new rich from ahead, and a grateful posterity India were viewed with envy and has enshrined him in the foremost the bunches were hot quite ready kiing across his face. He whirled marderous for the catting knife. It was on around, shrank, find fired the platol They tumbled down the stairs on suspicion; his name was burden-rank of national heroes the fourth bunch he examined that two indiscriminately into the dark top of each other, Mat Finnigan ad with the unpopularity of a Now, in this period of exhaus-
}when : he saw the spider,
ness. Where was the thing? led the party, Brant fellowing, and whole class, decried and denoun- tion' after so many triumphs It jolted him upright with "aur Which side? Furiously he slapped Ikey Mo closely in the rear. It was ced as tyrants and pillagers. our very right to reign and rule in prise to find his face within seven his head, dropped the platol, and Mat Finnigan who swung back the The fiercest propaganda of de-the East is assailed by morbid sub- or eight inches of the huge Hairy wiped his hands over his face, hair, door of the cellar and stood In the traction in Parliament, by pam-versives or featherheaded senti thing, with ́stütlikke lagu su jongsar and rack to be certain it was pot doorway peering into the darkness, phlet, and in the news sheets, was mentalists, it is refrembing, and, launched against him. The ques- indeed, inspiring to renew your a man's middle finger and a fat upon him, As he moved something "Gaat he breathed.
tionable actions of his early days contact with the uplendid vigour ware exposed to the full glare of of our forbeara
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Its eros protruded, touched his cheek. It was the cold Ikay Me pushed past him..........and
Truly cares of a bunch of the hanging struck match, Lo see....
bloated body, malevolent end, plercing,