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THURSDAY, DECEMBER
1922
PEASANT STYLES
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR-
ANCE
Missing Passengers and Luggage.
Passengers aboard ships have, so far as we are aware, never been known to jump overboard, taking their travelling trunks with them, and even the bold pirates of all usually made their victim+ leave their luggage behind when foreing them to walk the plank," but uclees two Chinese have chosen
novel method of committing suicide, the river steamer Loong. wo, when she left Hankow for! Shanghai on her latest trip, must! have had two mischievous ghosts Jon' her passenger list wtra deng about with them a couple of phantom tanks, says a recent! ssue of the Shanghai Mercury ! The native newspapera dismiss the whole affair by describing it 4s most extraordinary," but we -hould imagine that neither Sir! Arthur Conan Doyle nor Sir Oliver Lodge would be content to let it!
xo at that.
The Loongwo was sailing from Hankow to Shanghai and among the passengers were two men who boarded the steamer at the fornier port, bringing with them a lot of haggaze. They booked Room No. Gestating that the compradore of Messrs Jardine, Matbeson & Co. at Hankow bad reserved ic! for them. Ther were, COL sequently, allotted this room and when The Steamer passed Nanking were
drinking A: 'Wuhu the together. room was empty of passengers
the luggage and
ot. and ficers were puzzled to their wits end for obviously the passengers could not have landed at Nanking for the steamer dil cut stop there The Chinese papers report, that according to the Loongwole ste v ard the two men were Canton- ese and appeared to be wealthy.
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FRENCH CABINET MEETING.
Paris, Dec. 21. The Importanc. attached to the meeting of the French Cabinet is apparently borne out by the subsequent convening of the reparations cmmission at short netice. when the French delegate with the back- ing of the Italian and Belgian delegates carried a resolution, declar- to the sea in ship, only on thing that Germany had defaulted in respect to her timber deliveries.) occasion it concerns passengers
who travel on a great river.
"POPPY DAY" THIEVES.
Twice Convicted Woman as Collector.
Severe strictures on sgidas were made by arrang mests Sheriff Bixir at Glasgow Sheri
fiftees. ("ourt recently, when
Poppy Day" collectors, who had, from collection. -tolen money boxes on Saturday, came up for! ispo-al. One giri, aged 14. bave been discharged from the Police Court earlier in the day.
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"The sooner an inquiry is made into the whole question of this
better. faz-day collecting the the Sheriff said, when three of the women, one with two pre- vious convictions, appeared in the dock and admitted stealing boxes from the £10 asked how
WAY it with two pre- thet a woman vious convictions was accepted Wool Scarfs. and 19 & collector. and said he thought it did not say much for Sweaters. Coat or the organization that women of this description should be allow- style,ed to go on the streets collecting!
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csure that only respectable p-r-i sons should be accepted and a new method of selecting them ought to be devised. It would be! better if the polic were empow ered to issue licences to persone
ntrusted with boxes.
Each of these three women was
Sir John Bradbury alone dissented to the action. This tactical move Conference on the eve of the resumption at Paris of the Premiery" adjourned in London is regarded as affording France an opportunity to act algne against Germany, if she so desires.
Le Matin.indientes that the French Government is completing a plan for the exploitation of the left bank of the Ebine by the estab lishment of a Customs barrier between the Rhineland, the Rahr Basin and Germany. It is stated the plan provides for the seizure of pro- ductive guarantee-
STORM IN ATLANTIC.
London, Dec. 27. Mariners tell thrilling stories of the Christmas storm, which they
extended experience... declare is the worst in the Atlantic within an
The toll and daruge is not yet mensurable, but much wreckage has been washed up. The Londen steamer Maid of Delos was last heard calling for assistance off the coast of Pembrokeshire. The answer. ing steamer was unable to locate her, and it is feared the crew of twenty- six have been lost.
MURDERED IN A TRAIN.
Barilly, Dec. 27.
were
The bodies of an Englishman and an Englishwoman, who travelling on an express train from Dehradun to Gaya have been dis- covered on the railway track. They were apparently murdered after a severe struggle. Hilimen, who boarded the train are suspected, but there have been no arrests.
A RECORD OBELISK.
London, Dec. 27.
A record obelisk, 133 feet long and weighing nearly 1.200 tons. has been unearthed at Aszopan.
sent to prison for one month DANGER OF CIGARETTES. enjoy it but if you don't, you are
YOU ARE JUST AS OLD
Sir J. Cantlie's Advice to
Women Smokers.
only smoking to impress others end make them jealous. Do you smoks to imitate men? Men are poor mortals to copy, but let me tell you that men are stopping! smoking because women have taken it up. The smoking girl! has lost something of her fresh- reas. Give up smoking, especially cigarettes, for you know smoking paper will give you jaundice."
Eight women were each fined £10 or thirty days' imprisonment, for
taling various sums from thei boxes. Two women, one of whom collapsed and hai to be carried out of court, denied the charge.
Sir James Cantlie lectured last and were to be tried later, while two girls of 14 who bad stolen month at the Institute of Hygiene 33+ and made & tearful appeal to an "Smoking and its Effects." the Sheriff for a chance, were dis- Cf the four social poisons, missed with a strong admonition. alcohol, tobacco, tex, and coffee,
"What is the use of me telling the least harmful, he said, was tabacco. Nobody ever died of you to stop smoking?" continued Take tobacco poisoning. The form of Sir James. "You won't.
your tobacco regularly, like your as you feel. A pair of correctly. tobacco which he condemned was
other meals. Take it with judg. fitted glasses is a powerful factor the cigarette, which was a con- in making you feel young. atant source of irritation, and ment, like your matton chop. that you should never be smoked. Oos Thirty cigarettes a day is the Efficiency demands wear glasses if your eyes are not should smoke the same qastity limit; twenty should be the limi perfect. Fully fifty per cent of every day. Tobacco affected the ten should be enough for anybody. the people who do not wear sense of smell and taste even if I would not give anyrody more glasses should do so. A great ons did not inhale. Tobacco than half an ounce a day. Any- many are unaware of the real affected the voice and caused body could smoke that with in-
All these things were punity." condition of their eyes until the cough. examination is made. The Hoog more serious than the affect of Heart kong Optical Co., successors to tobacco on the heart. Clark & Co., refracting and manu- troubles were quickly over, but facturing opticians, located in 53, these other effects were perman- Queen's Road Central, have the ent
equipment to test your eyes 20 Sir James passed on to talk to curately. Testing the sight and
"Do you young ladies giris. fitting glasses is their exclusive smoke when you are by your business.
| melven?" he asked. If you do, you.
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