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For here team to attempts carry off the Schneider Trophy for seaplane racing this year Great Britain has three different types of machines. The Crusader, seen above, has un air-cooled engine, and much was expected of ker., A news message to-day, however, re- ports that the machine has crashed during trials at Venice.
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mmer is not the season with hone connects ghost stories, the Magistrates at Towcester fust had to listen to one, es an estate agent in a Home .. A man had refused the native accommodation offered is landlord because, according local legend, the rooms were ted by the ghost of a man had committed suicide in more than twenty years It was
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TOLD BY PHELPS HE WAS NO GOOD.
to
Descendants of famous men who The rifle and bayonet are the were gonnected with Sadler's principal weapons of the indivi-Wells Theatre. Rosebury-avenue, dual infantry soldier; the victory E.C., during the 196 years of its can be completed by means of existence, assembled recently these weapons only."
recall the romance of the old stage, and to further the fund for The above quotation has been its restoration
home of the statement Shakespeare in substituted for
North Lender hich appears in "Infantry Train- under the same management as ing, 1926," and strengthens the that of the "Old Vic." view. that the rifle and bayonet The original Sadler, who built
This the theatre in 1683, was represent
stated that this are the final arbiters in war.
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sh tale was so generally be- definite statement from the "come by Mr. Alfred H. Sadler, while
d that no one would live on petent military authority" should Thomas Rosoman, who rebuilt it
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treme view now held in certain which remain to this day, was re quarters that the armoured vehicle membered in the person threatens almost immediately thereat-grandson, Mr. Henry
of the infantry Rosoman. disappearance
Others included four members
has often been suggested b; bus property owner's associa-arm.
that in this matter the law
ires strengthening. In many In "Field Service. Regulations, of the family of Samuel Phelps. 3 of the country valuable pre 1921, tod, authority has been producer of 123 plays a grand- two great-grand-sons and los have lain empty or suffered given for certain alterations which son. bus depreciation through mis-re-established the infantry in its a greatgrand-nephew; Miss Viola vous legends of hauntings or customary position as the arm to Compton, granddaughter of Mrs. tragic association, in the make the final assault and con- F. Bateman, the 19th-century The unfortunate land-solidate the ground won. This is rebuilder of the theatre; Mr. Wal- ers are impotent.
asserted in the statement: "The ter Grimaldi, a descendant of Crimaldi, the famous all arma Proper co-operation of he laws affecting libels
on wins battles and enables the in-clown; and Mr. E. W. Dibdin, viduals arc comprehensive, fantry to confirm the victory." representative of the three Dib- the process of setting them in ation reasonably simple.
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dins intimately associated with
Under the instructions in the the theatre between 1773 and e libels on property have fre- "General organisation of a de 1819. atly proved even more in-fensive position" in the Infantry bus, there are no effective and Training Manual, the following-
Grimalli's Old Home..
ct remedies. It is almost in paragraph has been authorised The meeting was ible to punish or obtain re
8. The most that can
be
ed for is to have the legend
f ventilated by some means
Court and exposed.
A Thoughtless Jest.
be t.
held in Grimaldi's old home-in his day The fire of all arms will
called "The Old Clown" and now with 1 view co-ordinated breaking a major attack in front"The New Clown," Finsbury.
recalled Mr. Chance Newton of the main zone. At the same
kave be how Samuel Phelps once time, adequate support must
a woek at given to the troops in the forward Irving a show for zone, according to the degree of Sadler's Wells. "Before the week
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his was the course taken by resistance which the Commander was out, Irving said, "Phelps RADIO SUPPLIES
lord when he desired to free Ension from a story which hil
intends them to offer."
ined wide currency that it
gave me my notice, and said I was no damn good. He was right, but there was one thing he could not prevent--my going to Sadler's the gallery, according to means), and there I saw Phelps
my
haunted. It had been report"CRUSADER" CRASHES. Wells every evening (mostly in
that workmen on the premises: heard weird noises, and had ally seen a ghostly visitant.
redulous people flocked to the ONE OF BRITISH SCHNEIDER play everything."
mises, but prospective tenants
away. Yet, when the legend
e to be sifted in the merciless
He disliked the phrase "anothe
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Old Vie" as descriptive of Sadler e MRS. J. CRAWFORD. London, Sept. 12. Wells, because the "Old Vic." was The Air Ministry announced no longer for the poor. The cheap light of a Court of Law, it was that the seaplane "Crusader," one seats were filled night after night ved to have no better founda of the four new British seaplanes by people with furs and jewels could than the thoughtless jest of entered for the Schneider Cup and
opera glasses who
These people ractical joker.
competition in Italy, crashed dur afford better seats. nother landlord estimated that ing a trial near Venice. Flying crowded out the working men. ersistent and circumstantial Officer Schofield
at story had cost him over Renter
000. He owned a large and
utiful mansion standing in ju
was injured.---
grounds. It had been ten-pletes the wrong done to the in-
by a gentleman, retired from
ving his country in the East, This two daughters..
nocent owners.
This happened in a city suburb which was the scene of a murder
LAWN TENNIS.
CHINA NATIONAL ASSOCIA- TION FORMED.
At a meeting of Chinese Tennis When the occupier died these mystery. Long after the trial and
Amateur Athletic tional Chinese ies chose to live for some years after the execution of the culprit players held in the offices of the Na- strict seclusion. Then, by u people used to gather outside the Federation, Shanghai, on September 5, ric coincidence, the two sisters house. Thus began the story tinta China National Lawn Tennis Asso
about the same time, and it strange cries had been heard, and ciation was formed.
Mr. Ng. Szokwong, found that they had kept the ghostly figure of the murdered place in a terrible state of woman had been seen at the front known local exponent, was elected bedroom window. No one would first President, with Dr. Philip Tyau flect.
With no other basis, a mysterious ry grew round the
mansi'm t.It was haunted. Consequent- for years it remained empty
the well-
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take the house, and the myth had and Mr. Koo Hool-hye, the Singapore Heiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. a serious effect on adjoining pro-Champion as vice presidents. Mr. Ho Ka-lau, who will be remembered by perty.
A considerate Local Authority the position of hon. secretary.
local tennis players, was chosen for
tried the expedient of changing It is the intention of the Association ly a costly scheme of recon- the name of the terrace, but to send some players to compete in the uction succeeded in freeing the it did not kill the legend. No World's Olympic Games at Amstor lucky owner from the costly in fewer than seventeen house agerts din in 1928 and also to enter China' y of an absolutely unfound ‹‹
at different times took the pro-in the Davis Cup contests in the same el on his property...
perties in hand and tried in vain year
Completing the Wrong-
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This idea has the support of the to secure tenants. At last the owner had to face the expense of Chinese Bankers Association in Shang- CHANGES MADE ON BRITISH:
gentlemen. pulling down the "haunted house" hai did of many influential Chinese
tho on and erecting a new villa aite.
"The evil that men do lives after
Forthcoming weddings announced include the marriage of Mr. D. W
New York, Sept. 12. Colonel Tomkinson, the manager of the British polo team has announced on Wednesday, Captains George and for the second match with America
There is no compensation iress for those who have the sfortunte to own houses in Ich notorious crimes may have: on committed. The reputation them" is indeed a truth when is thrust upon a property is landlords know only too well maging enough. Yet It invari. But they have no remedy; the Wagstaff, Arts and Crafts, 880 Dening to replace Captain Fert and Bubbling Well Evad, Shanghal, to Major Williams as numbers ope and Avenue, Kowloon. Miss J: K. Anderson, 8 Humphroy's two respectivaly. Reuters American
ly happens that a foolish legend fatal myth spreads from mouth to
hauntings follows and coul-mouth, and it is impossible
frace it to its source."
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