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THE KING'S GIFTS TOL MARITIME MUSEUM
Capt, Cook's Logs
Gifts by the King and Queen and Queen Mary to the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, opened by the King in April, 1937, are reported in the first annual [report, just published.
Rebel Chief Dies Fighting
MEXICO CITY, JAN. 13. TRUE TO HIS BOAST THAT HE WOULD DIE FIGHTING AND WOULD NEVER SURRENDER IN ANY CONDITIONS, ĠENERAL Gifts by the King include two SATURNINO CEDILLO, 60 model rudders, made of ivory and YEARS OLD MEXICAN REBEL silver, and Capt. Cook's log jour- LEADER, HAS BEEN KILLED nals.
IN A THREE-HOURS BATTLE
The Queen gave an autograph-WITH GOVERNNMENT TROOPS. He was a rich farmer, of ex- ed letter dated Sept., 1813, and written by a seaman of H.M.S.cellent Mexican-Indian type. Hibernia.
Four of his most faithful follow- ers died with him, after they had Queen Mary gave a number of exhausted all their ammunition Nelson relics.
and other means of combat. Among other acquisitions dur- Government forces had hunted ing the year, were a portrait of him in his beloved mountains in Charles I.'s Queen, Henrietta the State of San Luis Potosi, where Maria; the gold medal of King he had established his stronghold Gustavus III. of Sweden com- since last May. He had spurned memorating the battle of Svensk-several offers of an amnesty, sund in 1790, when the Swedish
the Russian, fleet defeated fragment of the Bellerophon's
al-
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BETRAYED BY BOY SPY Á
It is said that a 'farmer boy spy colours shot away at the Battle informed the military that Cedillo, of Trafalgar, five brass cannom
a
of Charles I.'s reign, dated 1639 with 20 followers, had hidden in and 1640, and a chart of 1456 by wild, mountainous spot at Las Vene- gas, a few miles from San Luis Jacobus Bertram.
City.
During the year a total of 167,- The authorities immediately 755 visitors went to the museum.sought out Cedillo with a picked
CAT'S 6 MILES ON CAR AXLE
In one day a kitten belonging to a Fakenham, Norfolk, firm of corn merchants, "lost" two his nine lives.
of
Its home is in a warehouse, where at night a lorry is garag ed. Pussy used to sleep curled up on the back axle until
command of Indian soldiers, who crept up to the rebels' "hideaway."
After fierce fighting, the captain Cedillo's of the troops demanded surrender, assuring his followers of the an amnesty, but all rejected offer and increased their fire..
At nightfall the surviving rebels, seeing Cedillo and others lying dead, surrendered.
...
Cedillo had evaded the constant combing of San Luis State by troops and aeroplanes for eight months living much like an animal in his
determination not to surrender.
ex-
The lorry driver delivering
AN ex-MINISTER goods at Weasenham St. Peter, Norfolk, six miles from Faken- In Government quarters it is said ham, heard meowing coming that he would not have been from the rear of the lorry, and ecuted had he surrendered, but it found the kitten still clinging to is believed he would have been ex- the back axle.
pelled from Mexico, and it seems that Cedillo preferred death to ex- pulsion.
The driver took the kitten back to its home in the warehouse. It was sitting curled up in the hay when
A dog saw it, made a spring for pussy.
The kitten jumped out of the dog's, way on to some moving machinery.
In à matter of seconds it would have been crushed to death, but someone saw it and rescued it unhurt.
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He had held several high offices, including that of Governor of San Luis State. He was also Minister of Agriculture.
an ex-
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