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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1939.
Lifery, Segrees Cent
Wild West Drama
MASKED BANDIT WOUNDED
New York, August 1.
Passengers aboard train No. 43 out of Chicago did not know until they disembarked at Champaign this after- noon that there had been a gun bat- tle on board as they rolled through the prairies of Illinois.
Two bandits, wearing overalls and masked with soiled handkerchiefs. boarded the express as it pulled out of Onaraga station after a brief stop.
In true Wild West style one of them stuck a six-shooter into the ribs of the engine-driver and ordered him to .drive on without giving the alarm. The other clambered into the baggage -van and pointed his gun at two train- ¡men.
DEMANDED BOX WITH £11,000
up
"Hand it over," he ordered, appar- ently referring to a box containing £11,000 intended for the army post at Rantoul. The trainmen put their hands but did not show him where the money was. And the gun- -man did not notice Mail Clerk Earl Boothman in his cubby hole, in the train's post office.
Boothman drew a gun, took careful aim and fired. The bandit fell with a wound in one of his legs. Then the trainmen pulled their guns.
the
The
gunman, crouching in. swaying car, emptied all the chambers of his six-shooter. He wounded the trainmen, but they fired back.
Asbon as his gun was empty he picked up a piece of iron and began clubbing another mail clerk who had heard the shots and ran to his colleague's assistance. At last the gunman saw he was outnumbered and tried to jump from the train. But his wound prevented his moving quickly enough.
O.T.C. cadets who are making a round of R.A.F) stations visit- ed Calshot where they were taken for flights in Singapore flying Boats, inspected high speed launches, and the pigeon lofts. They heard a 'talk on training and use of the pigeons. cadets emplaning in a Singapore Flying Boat.
Photo shows
In Train
Scarcity of Expert Civil Servants
London, Yesterday.
Meanwhile, a car driven by an
CONSIDERABLE INTERNAL CHANGES at the accomplice along the highway adjoin-Colonial Office are: ing the track
e expected as a result of the recent ap- train. The
the pointment of Sir George Gater, Clerk to the L.C.C., to the guarding the engine-driver saw his office of Permanent Under-Secretary of State. .companion had failed, and, ́pushing
had overhauled bandit who had been
his prisoner into a corner, he leaped
from the cab into his confederate's
çar.
WAR OFFICE DELAY ALLEGED
reason for his appointment; it is to be found in the scarcity The "Daily Telegraph" says that the official is the real of Civil Servants of the calibre necessary for the big task which lies before the departmental head of the Colonial Offee.
It is probable that the appointment of Sir George Gater will be only the first of a number of such appoint- ments, other men at present outside the Civil Service being invited to take over important administrative A War Office "gentlemen's agree-work in Whitehall. Reports are cur- ment" was referred to at Kingston rent that University dons may be County Court when Judge Haydon asked, in one or two instances, to fill adjourned a judgment summons for key positions. for inquiries to be made.
PROFITS TURN TURTLE
cows at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Turtles have been caught milking
BIG INCREASE IN GUARD ON THE LOUVRE
Paris, Yesterday.
Another 184 attendants have just been engaged for the Louvre to keep guard over the priceless possessions of the great French national museum, including its thou- sands of masterpieces of oil painting and other art trea- sures of inestimable worth.
The requisite sum to cover this ad- ditional expenditure has just been placed at the disposition, of the French Ministry for Education by the Government.
This measure is the outcome of the theft a few months ago of Watteau's masterpiece "I'Indifferent." Trans- Ocean.
HOTEL OWNERS ALARMED
Young Chinese women and girls travelling alone, may, in future, ex- perience difficulty in securing accom- modation in local Chinese hotels and boarding-houses.
This is the sequel to many
sui- cides, mostly young women and girls, which have recently occurred.
One hotel proprietor said yesterday that he had directed his staff to re- fuse accommodation to unaccompani- ed women and girls.
Young women and girls arriving without luggage will not be allowed to stay in any hotel
ARMED CABLE SHIP TO BE BUILT
two cable ships, Monarch and Alert,
The Post Office, which already has
has ordered the construction of a
will be armed.
The new ship, to be named Aerial, third to be built on the Tyne, and she
will be 250ft. long, 35ft wide and 1,470 tons gross. Her speed will be 13 knots and her radius of action with- out refuelling will be 4,500 nautical miles.
The Aerial will be equipped with the best and latest navigational in- struments, such as two special, echo- sounding apparatus, larger range finder, wireless, direction finder, sub- merged pitometer, log and wireless telegraphy and telephony apparatus.
Refrigerating machinery and cold storage space are provided in order A dairy farmer, Mr. John Snyder, that fresh food can be carried suffi- Meanwhile civil
reported that he had to kill two land cient for any normal trip. service quarters turtles because of indisputable evi- answered the summons, sald: "I am created by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's his profits. The turtles weighed 181b, be fitted with defensive armament,
are meeting to consider the situation dence that they had been
The total complement will be about an officer attached to the Ordnance action in appointing as the perman- and 141b.
drinking 67 officers and men, and the ship will Corps at Didcot. I have been there ent head of his department an official since June and have not received any who has not passed through the Civil pay. There are brother officers of Service machine.--Our Own Corres- mine who have been without pay pondent. since April. We are waiting to be gazetted, resp
Mr. E.
Grant Edwardes,
who
Judga: Haydon: This, le most ex- traordinaryo is it a voluntary arrangement between you and tha..
· War Office? - No, it is what the War Office calls a gentlemen's
iamant.
P. Williams, for the credi....
tor: How are you living at Didcott-
BRITISH BOMBERS FOR POLAND ?
Het adred 27
Copenhagen, Yesterday.
WANG CHING WEI DENOUNCED
Chungking, To-day.
including high-angle and low-angle guns for defence against aeroplanes and submarines,
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK FINE
Wang Ching-wel's peace arguments | were the subject of a scathing: "des nunciation by Mr. Pan Kung-chah, ~ Considerable loss was Deputy Director of the Central Pub-
the godown of
licity Department, in a broadcast.. Bank in Peipips
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