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Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented)
Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures) Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
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THE CHINA MAIE, JANU
OFFICER DEFIEL
AVALANCHE
London, January 5.
Captain Ronald Percy Tulloch, Assistant Pro- fessor of Science at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, lies in a chapelle ardente at Davos, his Swiss holiday-home-victim of a spirit of adven- ture.
The tragedy of Captain Tullock began on Mon- day when he met a friend, another English ski-ing enthusiast, in the street at Davos. "Coming over the Maierhofer route with me to Wolfgang?” he in- vited.
"No." said the friend, "that
route has been closed by the POLICE BATTLE
patrol service because of avalan- ches."
Captain Tullock smiled, and set out on his own. He was never
again seen alive.
WITH OPIUM SMUGGLERS
A search party found him dead REVOLUTION DUEL
beneath five feet of snow. Seven avalanches had crashed down the slopes since he set out.
ON QUAY
Herr Frietlaender, manager of
New York, January 7. the hotel at which Captain Tul-j
One of the most thrilling episo- loch has been staying, told me yes-des in the history of the New York terday over the telephone:
police ended shortly after dawn to- "Not until yesterday morning, day in a pitched battle, in the when we found that his room had course of which dozens of shots not been used, did we know he was were exchanged, three alleged missing. A search party set out smugglers were captured, and over the forbidden route he had £20,000 worth of opium was seiz- taken.
ed.
"They found ski marks not far
The coup. came as the climax of up the valley-side, but they had to give up because they, too, were al-three months' investigation in the
classic detective most caught by an avalanche.
story manner. Posing as ex-criminals, two detec- "Later in the day, another party tives worthed their way into the of experienced guides set out, and gang's confidence and pretended to towards midnight they came back bribe a third detective to use the carrying Captain Tullock on
a police launch for bringing con- stretcher. The doctors say he died signments of the drug ashore from immediately after an avalanche
cargo boats anchored in the har- overwhelmed him on one of the
bour. lower slopes."
STUDENTS VANISH
an
The gang's organisation was so elaborate that it included- arrange- ments for communicating by short- Captain Tullock, who was
46 wave wireless with accomplices and a bachelor, served with aboard foreign vessels. infantry regiment during the war
Early to-day members of the and was twice wounded. He had
crew of an Italian cargo boat low- been on the staff of the Royal ered four large containers into the Military Academy since 1922 and
police launch happily ignorant of Was an authority on electrical
the fact that they were being se science as applied to military pro-cretly photographed by a policeman blems.
armed with a camera.” Later they His home was at Eltham, Kent.] were arrested. It is believed that his only near relative is his father, who lives in France.
Policeman Wounded
The "Daily Mail's" Geneva cor-. With its cargo. of contraband respondent states that three of five the launch sped across the bay to Swiss students who were swept the pier in Brooklyn, where four away by an avalanche of powder ringleaders were waiting in com- snow on Tuesday are missing. plete ignorance of the fact that
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Bringing Up Father
OH-DEAR-I'M THINKING OF OUR SON AGAIN-T JUST KEEP WONDER- ING IF HE IS HAPPY- JUST THINK-OUR OWN DARLING BOY
IS MARRIED — —
YES-AN' HE'S GETTIN' DEARER EVERY DAY- WHAT'S WORRYING ME IS THAT HE JUST THINKS OF GOING
ΤΟ WORK-
NOW-WHO IS THIS ON THE
'PHONE?-T THOUGHT SO- YES-W'LL PAY THE LONG- DISTANCE CHARGES-
WHAT? SAY- DO YOU THINK I'M MADE OF
MONEY?
YOUR DARLING SON CALLED AN' SAID H TWO SUITS OF CLO HERE CO.D. AND I'N PAY FOR THEM AN SEND THEM TO HIM :
Cope, 1938, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved
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