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MOHAMMEDANS IN CHINA,
In addition to the independeat movement of Koreans whose agitation for the liberation of thair fatherland from Japan is causing great alarm, there are certain young Mohammedans, members of į the so-called Langtouhui or Wolf- head Society (a kind of secret
ociety organised by turbu-i lent Mohammedans in Kangu, Shanghai and Hainking who are also secretly agitating for the separation of these provinces from China Proper so that an inde pendent Mohammedan state can be established in the East of Asia. According to reliable Chinese reports, those young Moham- medans have the support of their co-religionista iu Russian. Tur
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SPORTING TIT-BITS.
James Brownlie is now out of the Army.
One hundred and sixty-five Marchistonian's have made the supreme acrifice in the war,
Northamptonshire is the only first-class county cricket club whose officials are all hemerary.
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aud that they are despatching delegates to Paris to have their alleged grievances against the Chinese Republic before the Pesca Conference. The sensational and seditions pamphlets issued by these Mohammedans have been suppressed by the Chinese authorities and three suspicious persons have been arrested at Nanking for distributing seditions literary to the local Moham- melans asking for monetary contributions The movement is discredited by enlightened and responsible Mohammedans but as there are over fifty millions of Chinese Mohammedans in the north-western provinces of Chins, the existence of the so-called Wolf-head Society is sufficiently serious for the Chinese Govern ment authorities to nip the danger in the bud.-Asiatic Netra Agency."
THE DROPPED CLOVE,
The dropping of a glove by a girl of 14 in the streets of Nottingham led to & serious charge ul abduction recently against a captain in the R.FIA, who is 41 years of age. The accused is Captain George Beer} Brockeusbaw, who holds an appointment auder the Ministry of Munitions and the girl is Margaret Kennedy, who lived with her parents at Nottingham. It was stated that the captain's daties took him to Nottingham.
and one day the girl dropped her glove, which the captain. picked up and returned to her. A conversation ensued, and he Then walked home with her.
they wrote letters to each other, the pin signing himself "Elsie." in case the girl's mother The interceptet the lettera letters on both sides were written in passionate terms. Two which were produced ended "Thive for ever" and "Yours passionately." One of the letters asked the gir! to go to London, but warned her
with gold. Another rap, "It seems too good to be true that I
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Major A. H. Ashcroft, the Cambridge "blue" and English internationalist at Rugby football, has been awarded the D.S.O..
John Buchanan, the old Scottish Amateur Boxing Cham- pion, who has been for 35 years in Germany, was one of the seconds at the Synod Hall recent- ly. He was looking very fit.
Odd is it not that Inman and Stevenson, the great rivals in the game of billiards, should have been born on the same day, July 15 The latter arrived six years earlier than luman.
Lient. Croneen, whose best break represents 247, is a man of Kent born at Gillingham, al- though his family live in Scot- land. In the Army he has play ed a good deal of Soccer football, end he is fond of golf.
Mr. H. E. Kingston, the old Northamptonshire cricketer, ad- vocates the heightening of the stamps by three inches, and that batsmen should no longer be given the benefit of the doubt inf the case of leg before wicket.
The Amateur Athletic Associa- tion Reconstraction Committee have been in communication with the S.A.A.A., and the latter have decided to hold over consideration of the proposals put before them until after the annual general meeting.
It is understood that the ruling of the English Union re. Nor- thern Union players affects those professionals at present taking| part in Welsh club games. Ameng Northern Unionista play- ing for Welsh clubs at present!
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Mr. Justice Darling's ignorance of football, and his question- "What is the Dog and Part- ridge?" as revealed in the West libel action now being tried, recalls the query by the famous Justice Hawking, a keen follower of the Turf, who, with all serious- nesa, asked counsel-"Who is Fred Archer ?"
In giving evidence in his libel suit, Enoch West, the old Man- chester United player, alleged that the methods in vogue re- garding the transfers of players were of an underhand character. Players, he said, never knew the sums of money involved! He got £350 on his transfer, and was entitled to a lot more.
shall have you all for my own, Delhi, February 11.-The fult even for a little while." The text of the Royal Warrant, Army captain met the girl several times Order, and an explanatory note in Nottingham, and eventually by the Secretary of State for War she went to London and mayed dated 29th January, with regard at 70, Carlton-mansions, Maida to the grant of extre remuners-
The ation to those Fetained Vale. the captain's flat. girl's father" went the military service, have been receiv It has been flat and took her back to Notting-ed in India. han, When arrested by announced that the question of
With such a string of forwards at their command as Bowie, Detective-Sergt. Barns the cap the grant of extra remuneration tain said: "I did not abduct the to Britishranks of the Indian Army M'Lean, Brown, Cairns, Cunning- girl. She wanted to come to is under consideration by Hishan, Lawson, Aitken, M'Dermid, London. I was going to obtain Majesty's Government and it is a place for her. She told me ahe hoped that an announcement on The girl, in eross the subject will be made shortly. Was 20," examination. admitted she Any such grant wili hare effect, powdered her face and painted so far as may be practicable, her lips and that she bad smoked from the dates from which theto cigarettes and has drinks with concessions to the British Army the captain.
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