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SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928.
ENGLISHWOMAN MURDERED.
FRENCH GOLF COURSE CRIME.
Boulogne, May 21. An atrocious murder has been committed in the vicinity of the golf course in the Paris Plage, the victim being the fifty-year-old Mrs. Wilson, who with her husband had recently arrived from a journey in Africa and Australia. The police sent out a search party when she did not reach her home after game of golf.
The polico discovered her corpso in a thicket bearing a num- ber of wounds; her clothes were torn and disordered and assault had been attempted. Her handbag was not touched.
tim. was
THE NEW BRITISH BANK NOTES.
« TREASURY'S PAPER TO
DISAPPEAR.
The Currency and Bank Notes Bill, which will presently banish the Treasury's paper from our wallets, and give us an unfamiliar legal tender, served the Commons recently as passport into the for bidding regions of high finance.
The majority of the House was well content to leave the excursion in charge of established guides.
The public is curious to know the size and appearance of the new notes rather than the extent of the fiduciary issue or the provisions to make the currency. "elastie," but such trifles did not intrude into the
A doctor concludes that the vic-ponderous thinking of this even- first strangled, but aning's debate. Nor did the Scere- death was not sufficiently rapid,tary to the Treasury drop any hint that the Bank of England ten shill- she was repeatedly stabbed in the ing and one pound notes will go any thebat. Suspicion has fallen on a further than his own Department's twenty-two-year-old deaf-mute, tokens.
Vambre, who denied the charge What Mr. A. M. Samuel did ex when he was examined, in the dexfplain, with great earnestness and
und dumb'alphabet.
Vambre had twice been previously accused of attacking women alone. He was formerly detained in an establishment for degenerates. Mrs. Wilson's husband, who is an week-end visit from England, is employed in a London bank.
careful references to his notes (of the hand-written, not the monetary kimi) is that the Government, by amalgamating the Treasury and the Bank of England circulation, are finally completing the return to the Gold Standard. The powers taken by the Exchequer when war Deaf Mute Clears Suspición.
broke out to issue and, control the Le Touquet, May 21:-The deaf currency, have long been in aber- mute, Vanibre, has apparently clearance, and this Bill formally gives ed suspicion of his being concern-back to the great institution which od with the murder of Mrs. Wilson. controls credit the legal responsi-
It is now reported from Estaples,bility for the note isptic.
a place nearby, that Madame Don voisin, aged 24 and the mother of two children, has been, missing for | the past five days.
The papers are wondering whether there is any connexion be Iween the two incidents.
Arrested Men Released.
Le Touquet, May 22. A Portuguese and an Italian who were detained in connexion with the murder of Mrs. Wilson have been released.
The foreman of a Le Touquet firm has made a statement that he walked along the path where the murder was committed half an hour after the struggle was known to have occurred, and says that he saw a black man wearing a grey raincoat, who was certainly not a workman, disappear into the, thicket.
On the other hand, however, a hornhandled knife of the type com- inonly used by labourers was found on the scene of the tragedy.
Mr. Herbert Wilson, husband of the Le Touquet victim, is the son of the ex-Chairman of Cammell Laird and Company, while the victim was the daughter of Charles Cammell, director of Cammell Laird and Co.
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Another Clue,
Le Touquet,, May 23.-The man with the grey raincoat mentioned In yesterday's message has turned out to be a well known person highly respected locally, but he at any rate has provided an important clue giving the description of a my steribus mun with a bicycle seen near the scene of the murder.
The police are now seeking this nian.
Mr, Snowden's Dilenumn.
The Socialists, like all the other members who have not made a study of finance, found the subject dificult, and their ignorance re- solved itself into a mood of hostility and absurd suspicion. The Govern ment, they appeared to suspect, were engaged in an elaborate trans action to enrich the bankers at the expense of the working man, but the Secretary to the Treasury, in apite of disturbing interruption, stuck to his exposition creditably.
The Opposition consider that the be Bank of England ought to nationalised, with the rest of our institutions, and it amused the House to observe the practical air.. Snowden's endeavours to satisfy the backbenchers while avoiding their nostrum like the plague.
Rejoicing in "a chance to discuss an abstruse and difficult problem," the ex-Chancellor criticised as too rigid the facilities for varying the £260,000,000 fiduciary issue, and urged that an inquiry into. the policy and powers of the Bank of England ought to precede the change in national accountancy now being made.
Sir L. Worthington-Evans is Secretary for War, but as a hobby he studies the vagaries of what one nicmber picturesquely. called the hard, red gold, and he is as sound on the question of sterling as soldiering. Selected
as the Minister to answer criticism, he had come down with a despatch box full. of Socialist publications on finance as ammunition.
Turning the Tables. Quoting from an LL.P. Pamphilet in tones of cavernotis resonance Mr. Wilson has deposited funds Sir Laming's voice is the deepest at the police station to ensure that, in the House and from other the authorities shall not be hamper publications that sound like indis- ed from monetary considerations, cretions, he adduced some delight- and has also offered a reward of ful contracts to Mr. Snowden's 100,000 francs for evidence lead-speech. He also dealt with Mr. ing to a conviction.
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Pethick-Lawrence, another of the Oppositions économiste, by.turning against the Socialist a passage from one of his lectures. "He really must go to his own classes," udmonished the Secretary for War with gleeful and tremendous sonority.
Sir E. Hilton Young, a former Financial Secretary, made a re- freshingly clear speech on an ob The continually growing demands scure theme, and one of the direc- of traffic and the desire to work as tors of the Bank of England, Mr. remuneratively as possible have E. C. Grenfell, remarked with compelled the railroad administra dignity that his great institution tions throughout the world to in- would willingly suffer an inquiry crease more and mere the length-after this necessary Bill was law, One of the noticeable things of the trains operated by them. To
enable them to do su, very power about the debate has been the warm ful locomotives are essential, more tributes paid to the Bank of Eng particularly so in mountainous dis- land and its Governor from every tricts traversed by much-frequent side.
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number of curves are unavoidable. when in working order is 1872 In the mountainous districts tons, and they, are the heaviest served by the South African Rail- locomotives that have up to now way Administration there are a been built in Europe. large number of curves having a Automatic Fuel Supply. radius down to 300 feet. The
Apart from their ability to locomotives employed on such lines negotiate small curves without must be unusually powerful and difficulty, the locomotives referred must at the same time be able to to are distinguished for another in- negoliute these curves without novation. This is the system of difficulty. The usual types of automatic fuel supply which was for locomotives are unsuitable for the the first time applied in Europe in purpose, and this circumstance has connexion with the two locomotives led modern engineers to design 4 built for South Africa. The coal new kind which may be described | is automatically taken from the coal as "articulated" locomotive,
bunker, automatically broken up by Last year as many as ten of the coal distintegrators and co- these locomotives-built by the veyed to the fire, box by two eleva German firm of 'Maffei A. G. and tors. By means of steam blowing known as the "Union" type of engines it is uniformly distributed locomotive-were entered in the over the whole of the grate surface. service of the South African Rail- All the stoker has to do is to attend way Administration, and somewhat to this installation. It may be as- later orders were given by the same sumed that it would be impossible body, for two particularly heavy for one stoker to supply the coal to locomotives also to be built in Ger the large grate surfaces of theso many, These
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were locomotives in the customary way, completed. in November lastle., by hand. andaro Intended for use The entire length of the "art!- Mr. and Mrs. John Courtney, in connexion with the express culated" locomotives in just over Mansfield, is engaged to marry port in favour of a clinic where of Swymbridge, North Devon, who train service on the mountainous 85 ft, their maximum tractive power Miss Dorothea Carnegie, daughter an organised effort can be made to have, celebrated their diamond parts of the line from Capetown is about 16 tons, and the speed for of the British Ambassador at deal with naughty and difficult wedding, have Hvad 60 years in to Pietermaritzburg. Their weight which they are built is 50 miles, Lisbon,
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