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GREAT CRIME WAVE IN FRANCE.
THREE MURDERS. DAILY.
OUTDOING WRITERS OF
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DIARY OF EVENTS.
Today.
(December 9tik.)
St. John, Apostle and Evangelist Sanitary Board Meeting, 4,15
Golf Christmas Meeting, Fan-
Queen's Theatre: The Divine Woman."
World" Theatre: "Seventh Heaven."
night."
Star Theatre: Paris at Mid-
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotal" and Feninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: St. Francis Hotel
„Mora.shan-ete
garrotters and gun men' Snow.......... fenture
France, p.m. in the daily life of.
trail sufficiently spreading gory to make Chicago sit up and take notice. Three muring. der victims a day is a newspaper One of the brightest chapters is estimate of the gunman's “ that in which he deals with the during the past few months.-
The "crime passionnel" is and oddities" of St. Stephen's.
always has been a prominent fest," he says, where two or thres Signifying to the Frenchman, how Now, fanatics are always mani-feature of French arime statistics. are gathered together to do good or ever, little more than a bootlegging harm. Certainly it is true that all case in the States, these dramas, new partics seem to attract an some of them charged with suff alarming number of fanatics, and cient emotion, action and horror we in the Labour Party are no ex- to make Grand Guignol stage stuff ception. I sometimes think that all pale by comparison, pass through p.. the fanatics of creation think they the Courts with little publicity, European Mails:-In ward: have a perfect right to flop down the benefit usually being given to Europe rid Siberia (Nagato Maru). with us, and I can assure you they the murderer by sa "understand Outward: Europe vid. Siberia (Che- make things very uncomfortable for ing jury, a jury, that is, which | kiang), 8 p.m. us of the rank and file who distrust appreciates how mad a Frenchmias fanaticism as much as we dislike it. can become when thwarted or
"Then, of course, we get those slighted in affairs of the heart. most terrible people the prohibi- tionista.
Well, I treat ineu like Mr. Scryingeour as you would treat any decent chap suffering from a horrible and quite incurable com- plaint."
Од one occasion, relates Mr. Jones, misguided zealot intro- duced a discussion on birth con- trol." Mr. Jones spoke in strong terms against this attempt to sad dle the Labour Party with such a policy, whereupon he was rebuked by Mr. A. J. Cook, "who got up, and, in great excitement, told me several times that I was the fool of the Labour Party."""
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Spares Foreign Secretary. As an interrupter in the House Mr. Jones is something of an authority, and one is consequently not surprised to read this pro nouncement:
"Winston is not a man to be thrown off his stroke by interrup tions--he thrives on them; so does! Lloyd George for that matter, but there are Ministers who suffer agonies when they are interrupted Sir Austen Chamberlain is very sensitive to interruption, and be seems to suffer so keenly and per ceptibly that I never interrupt him
if I can avoid it.
"I'm afraid I've tried the Speaker's patience to the Limit sometimes a poins beyond with my interruptions."
Hig special pet" at one time, he remarks, was Sir Hamar Green- wood.
Now to these domestic feuds " has been added the hell-fire action of the bandit big and little, pro- riding enough thrills to make the lover of Edgar Poe and Gaston Leroux put aside his book and pay attention to reality,
This new phase in French crime may be dated from the novel-like affair of the taxi-cab of Gaen, en- actul in all its gripping mystery in the quietness of rural Brittany. Two taxi drivers who successively owned the same cab-XV 2035-**** were done to death on a country road near Gaen while driving the fatal cab. The murders occurred at almost exactly the same spot yet the author of the first assassina- paid with his head by the time the tion, a youth of , had already second crime was committed."
A passenger in the tab on the second fatal trip was missed and searched for far and wide until his dead body was recovered from a nearby stream.
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K.O.S.B., Kowloon In view of terrible memories: Bourse, the Marseilles bandits shot University R.A.F., South China groups of business men outside the Palice, Queen's v. South China, Recreio Club. Second Division: down the messenger and removed K.O.S.B., Eastern v. Navy, his antchel, crammed full of bills, then made their escape in several Queen's . Kowloon, Royal Artillery St. Joseph's, Recreio v. South t Small Not many weeks before, repeti. China "B" Chinese-t tion of the infamous siege of
Units. Sydney Street in London was
Queen's Theatre: "The Divine staged in Paris by a solitory ban
Woman." dit who held up squads of police who kept him at bay in a house until a well directed bullet found his brain. this occupy the front pages every Sensational cases like week or so, but tucked away in the back pages one may read daily of
Dinner Dances :Lane, Crawford's murder "The result was a foregone con youth
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European Mail-Outward: the money, so to speak. The hard-
With nearly a million and a half Europe vid Marseilles (Kashima fneed' men were simply left, three foreigners in the country many of Maru), 9.30 8.m. or four moves behind, and there them political and other refugees, was nothing for them to do but a rise in crime statistic might be cheer and be in some mysterious expected, but while many of the way proud that they had got such political crimes, such as
the recent
Here is an excellent picture of Mr. Lloyd George coming down to the House in the first Parliament after the war to sooth his restive follow ers: "He would eroon as softly as 3 anake charmer, a moment later excitedly declaiming in matcher rhetoric: then perhaps there would be a bit of real scb-stuff calcul ated to draw tears to the eyes of a graven image.
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A leader a leader whom they could shooting to death of the Italian not follow, except at a distance, & priest Cesare Caravadossi
A revised estimate shows that leader they were beginning to die. Nancy, are the work of foreigners, Germany's long-term foreign loans trust, even as they cheered."
the great majority of the more in the first four reparations years common type of assasinations are ending August 31at, reached a laid to Frenchmen.
nominal aggregate of 6,459 million marks, the issue price, however, being 8,099 millions.
JAPAN TO PAY GOLD FRANCS.
Freakish Crimes, Freakish crimes, too, are becom ing much more numerous.
This includes the Dawes loan of
The 1924. Of the nominal total, America supplied 1,282 millions.
JUDGMENT CONFIRMED BY closing scene has just been played
APPELLATE COURT..
at Rennes, on a crime story which Holland 769 millions and England thrilled all France the murder by
745 millions. The share in these a family of three, mother, father foreign borrowings by German PARIS, Dec. 14th and son, of the ne'er-do-well youth maricipalities and credit instita- A special message to the Petit whom the daughter of the house tions tended to increase, while the Parisien from Beacon says the had married. The mother, Mme portion of the loans reporting it- Appellate Court there yesterday Clavier, went to prison for life, dustrial borrowings tended to de confirmed the judgment passed by the father for twenty years and cline. Foreign leans of the last- the Departmental Tribunal of the son for fifteen. The son fired named class were 830 million in Haute Stone ruling that the City of Tokyo shall pay in gold francs the principal and interest of its loan of 1912 raised in France.
The Tokyo Municipality floated a 100,880,000 francs loan in France
the fatal shot, but the mother had planned the crime.
in 1912 for the purpose of extend- France
the second reparations years, 437 millions in the third and 201 mil- lions in the fourth.
As for the aforementioned love crimes, o Paris newspaper, Le The Government is now propos Soir, has taken the trouble to make ing to take steps to prevent muni. a computation of the killings in cipalities from selling in Holland ...... because of their internal reichsbank loana, Actuated ing its electric service in Tokye, jealousy or purequited love or out- This practice has practically con- After gradual redemption, the loan raged feelings. He puts the total rituted indirect evasion of the is understood to total 86,000,000 at thirty eight-thirty eight aan control by the loans' advisory francs now. The loan bears 5 per sinations for the first fortnight boards over German foreign bor- cent. interest. In connection with of August alone L
rowing. the suit brought by a French French people are naturally citizen, the Departmental Tribunal wondering how they can check this
at Hante Baone on February star appalling flow of blood, apparent where in France ne easily as one ruled that Tokyo City shall pay ly forgetting that death-dealing boys a handkerchief-and that's in gold frand, the interest and gunn can be bought almost anxiunt the way hat-headed Frenchmen
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