THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
STRANGE HUNT.
HUNT FOR HIDDEN ARTICLE.
SEARCH FOR HIDDEN ARTICLE,
PROF. LANGSNER'S TRIUMPH.
""Pardon me, gentlemen. Did I take long?"
Exhausted, distraught, but triumphant, Professor Maximilien Langener, seated in the Secretary's Offee at the Hongkong Club, glanced at a fountain pen held tightly in his left hand, and, in his quaint English, brought those with- In hearing quickly to earth with the commonplace remark above. quoted.
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Even then it was a few moments. before anyone found voice, but at lust the spell was broken and this man of mystery indeed was shower- éd with congratulations.
Professor Langsner, telepathist. auto-suggestionist, psychologist and what not, had taken up a chal- lenge by the Hongkong Telegraph to find an article concealed any where in the Colony by independent persons by reading (or feeling, ny he prefers to call it) the thoughts of the hider.
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41 AT THE CLUB.
The task was over, accomplish- ed within twenty minutes.
The
Professor had fully vindicated
His glain.
The actual huni defles adequate description, The performance,
Above is seon Professor Langsner (in shorts) with the Committee comprising Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Mr. D, II. Cameron and Mr. F. P. Franklin, photographed last evening outside the " oflees of the Honghong Telegraph just prior to the first-named's
successful search for a hidden article.
DISARMAMENT IN
GERMANY.
MINOR POINTS STILL
OUTSTANDING.
(Photo: Ming Yuen).
OBITUARY.
"ABE" LINCOLN'S SON,
New York, July 26.
A message from Manchester, Vermont, announces the death; at Replying to a question in the the ripe age of 83 years, of Robert
Rugby, July 26.
if on dares to use the term, wns so weird. His right hand tight- ly bound in a handkerchief, his Hiase of Commons, as to whether Todd Lingle, son of President wrist held by Mr. Cameron,, the the Government regarded the con- Profissor, obviously in an ab- normal state, was sometime liketion of disarmanent in Germany ex-Ambassador to London and as
a man demented.
Abraham Lincoln, who was an
[ éx-Secretary of War.-Reuter's Fas sutisfactory or unsatisfactory,
Mr. Locker-Lampson, Under-Segra-Amiricum, Service.. tary for Foreign, Affairs, said it
At times he strained like a
Robert Todd Lincoln was born bloodhound on the leash, leading as the hope of the dovernmentt. 1849. He was
at Springfield, Illinois, on August the party which gathered in.
educated at strength at every stride, along Nalus vhich took place between last November "that the exchange
Tools Sate University and later Queen's Road Contral towards the City Hall Occasionally he would the German Government at that Harvard Law School but left to dhe Ambassadors' Conference and
at Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, » He. intered pause, take two steps forward and time would lead to a rapid con enter the army on the outbreak of three back as if in decht, andclusion at all disarmament que the Civil War, serving until the end then continue with renewed
tions which were still outstanding,
of the war as a Captain on the of disappointment that there were It was, consequently, a matter
staff of General Grant. He was still a number of points, most of 1867 and practiced at Chicago. He admitted to the Illinois Bar in them, he was happy to say, of a
energy.
Outside the Astor House build ing, he pulled Mr. Cameron into the road, but was soon on the trail
akain, and continued almost with minor nature, which were not yet was married in 1868. In 1880 he
ot hesitation until he had passed the City Hall.
".
setlled.
was delegate to the Republican State Convention and was à Presi
While for this reason Hereabouts he almost ran across The view on July 21st that the post-He served as Secretary of Was in the Foreign Secretary expressed dental elector in the same year. the road towards the Murray tion, was not entirely satisfactory, the Cabinets of President Garfield Parade ground, and walked franhe did not desire it to be conclud- tically along the path, once jumped that. His Majesty's Government 1889 to 1993 was United States and President. Arthur, and from ing up as though to climb the regarded the situation with any Minister to Great Britain. railings. Suddenly he reeled and put his hand to his end and then
disquictBritish Wireless. he headed for the Cricket Club down Jackson Road."
WEIRD SCENES,
At the Club entrance, he made the merest pause, and then hurried towards the Club where he literally pulled his companion through the portait. Temporarily lost. he turned over both mats with his free hand, and then made for the verandah.
FRENCH FINANCES.
MR. POINCARE'S
PROPOSALS.
Paris. July 26.
After this he more or less retired, from politics. He was special counsel for the Pullman Company and, bes came President of the Company on the death of Mr. George M. Pullman. He resigned that post
A 1911 and beadme Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Com- monwealth Edison Company and a Director of several Banks. Of late
It is semi-officially confirmed years he has lived in Washington. that Mr. Poinctire's financial men-D. C.) sures which will be introduced into the Chamber on Tuesday, will ho confined to a revision of or
DISTRESSED
increase in taxes and drastic reCATHOLICS IN MEXICO. duction of exporttitur.
It is estimated that the Treasury
In a row three china flower-pot pedestals stood but, ultering a slight ery, he slapped hard on the nearest, quickly twisted it out of the way and underneath was the missing article, the fountain pen! needs 2 milliards of franes more MUCH CONCERN IN UNITED concealed, but forty minutes pre-before December 1. which will viously by the members of the be obtained from indirect taxes, Committee.
| including a revision of the busi-
tariff's.
J
STATES
New York, July 26, Interest in the distressful statu
GENUINE (FEAT.
ness turnover tax, import duties. on coffee, tea, rice, etc., and an With the "gentlemen concerned, Mr. D. H. Cameron. the head of increase in Customs and transport of Catholics in Mexico is bhcoming
general in the United Staves, where ; the Standard .013 Company, Mr. C.
The proceeds of the re-adjust-the Pope has called on all D. Melbourne, the Deputy Regis
on trar. and Mr. P. F. Franklin,ment of direct taxes will not be Catholics to offer prayers
It is reported manager of the Hongkong available before 1927 and will be its behalf. Telegraph, we are perfectly satis-located. the sinking fund and from Mexico, that the Mexica fied as to the genuineness of the
floating debt.
Department for the Interior haa
feat.
Mr. Poincare means to rush the ordered an investigation, following!
Whilst the article was being measures through Parliament the publication of a pastoral letter | hidden, the Professor and his which it is thought will rise signed by the Archbishop of
Mexico and secretary, were chatting in the about August 8.-Reuter.
seven other Arch- bishops and 20 Bishops pr London, July 20.. posing the suspension of ali buildings, the City Hall, the Franca closed weaker, French services, and the withdrawal Supreme Court and the Hongkong being 1984 and Belgian 101%-of all priests from the churches
office of the Telegraph. The com- mittee went into three public
Club when setting the lost, and it Router.
is to be noted that the Professor passed the two first-mentioned places without the slightest hesitation. ".
LATEST FRANC RATE.
OPIUM FIND.
ON DUTCH VESSEL
Jon July 31. The letter implies that the President of Mexico and other responsible officials may be excommunicated and strongly protests against the new religious regulations as interfering with' constitutional rights. The Mexican Department for the interior" in-
The Professor was exceedingly distressed after the pen had been. found, though up to that time he' appeared to be capable of con- tinuing the amazing capering in Carson, at the Kowloon Magis-letter violates the Constitution, definitely.
tray this morning, Mr. J. H. B. and if so the Attorney General may Nihill made an order for the con-summon the signatories to court is giving a public demonstration of fiscation of 340 taela of prepared or order their arrest. Reutter'a
On the application of Sergeant tends to determine whether the
Professor Langener (Kara )
his most unusual powers at the City Hall this evening.?
AERIAL DISASTER.
SEVEN ARMY MEN KILLED."
Bagdad, July 20.
An Air Force Vickers-Vernon bomber crashed at a local aero drome, three officers and four men being killed and one offleor seriously injured-Router.
opium which were discovered un- American Service,
claimed by the engineers on board".
the ss. Tjlsnrden on July 28, whilst the steamer was at sea.
General Chan King-ming, the In applying for the confiscation southern general, who recently order, Sergeant Carson stated that suffered such complete defout at the eplum was contained in 340 the hands of General Chang Kai- tine and valued at $4,090. It was shek, is reported, says the N. C. handed to him by the chief officer. Daily News, to have sent a repre- It was discovered by the engineers, sentative to Amoy and from thence in the upper cross bunkers, before into the interior to organize Gene- the ship's arrival in port yester-ral: Chen's forces anow, in order day.
to renew the attack on Kwangtung.
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926.
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