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occurred at the corner of Nanking THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. There are about 200 I.R.A. men now in London-Road and Sun Company at 11.15 o'clock yesterday morning in derry Gaol. All these will be transferred to the Shanghai. prison ship.
The vessel has already been examined by Ulster Home Office, officials, and reconstruction of the interior will begin immediately the ship reaches the Ulster port.
Three hundred cells will be
£80,803 CASKET OF
JEWELS
A dispatch from Shanghai stat- ed that three gunmen calmly stop- ped the Company's shroff as he stepped out of the department! store on his
way to a nearby bank, and at the point of pistol robbed the man of $60,000 cash
and a $40,000 check,
As the street at the
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moment!
built between decks and ac- Guardedly described as "the was jammed with pedestrian and commodation for the governor property of a lady and her daugh-vehicular traffic the robbers made| and wardens will be provided. Iters." a casket of jewels was good their escape.-Central News. There will be a separate section brought to Christie's by the for the master, mate and crew. owner's agent recently and the
gems sold for £80,803.
To Be Anchored
A pair of magnificent diamond' shoulder straps formed the chief,
RAILWAY'S GIFT
OF SPITFIRE-
When the prisoners have been cynosure. M. H. Klean, of the transferred to the ship it will be frm of H. A. Byworth, emerged| anchored in 2 stretch of water from his retirement and won the "Bombay, Baroda and Central prize, at £11,200. Next, Mr. S. India Railway Spitfire Number
well away from land,
A special staff will be picked H. Harris gave £4,000 for a dia-1" will shortly take the air in Bri- to man the ship. When the men mond bracelet and £4,100 for altain alongside other fighters. It are due for leave they will be necklace of 47 diamonds.
is believed in Bombay this is the taken ashore by special tender. Two diamond rings brought first aeroplane to be presented by
The prison ship will not re- £3,800 between them, and a dia-ļa railway, company of the Empire.|| turn to port until the end of the mond tiara £2,250.
-Reuter. war.
Ever since the I.R.A. prisoners have been in Londonderry Gaol they have been a source of worry, to the authorities.
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Last Christmas they started mutiny, and it was soon after this, that the Ulster Home Office off- cials conceived the idea of revert- ing to a policy adopted by the Ulster Government during the troubles of 1922.
Steel Walls
They then converted an Ameri- can-built wooden cargo ship, the Argenta, into a floating prison and placed 400 Sinn Feiners aboard her.
The Argenta, a 4,000-ton vessel, was 300 feet long and 50 feet wide. The prisoners were accom- modated on a deck which ran more than half the length of the ship and was divided into eight compartments by steel wire net- ting.
There were three large sky- lights and two companion hatches Prisoners slept on iron-bunks which were fitted with wire mat- tresses and straw palliasses, The whole of the upper deck above the living quarters was reserved for exercise.
The exercise deck was enclosed! by walls of steel wire netting.
The new floating I.R.A. prisor will be reconstructed on similar lines.
Sick Bay
Prisoners will be given the same kind of work that they have been doing while at Londonderry and will live comparatively the same sort of life-that they lived] there.
The authorities anticipate that it will be some time before the 1.R.A. men become accus- tomed to sea life.
They are providing a sick bay with a full, staff of doctors and nurses. A priest. will visit the ship, and there may be a resident chaplain.
The use of the ship will enable clearance to be made of Lon- ́donderry Gaol, where most of the internees are now situated.
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The lifeboats on board the pri- son ship will be kept outside the wire enclosure.
REINFORCEMENT IN PUERTO RICO
The War Department announced in Washington yesterday it has moved two groups of medium and long-range bombing, and recon- raissance, planes as a step towards strengthening the aerial defences of the Panama Canal A
The planes will be stationed permanently at the new army base at Puerta Alco, whence they will be able to guard hundreds of miles of the Atlantic approaches to the Canal-Reu
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