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New York, Apr. 15. What residents of the fashion- able winter colony at Miami, Florida, call another instance of the cureless use of firearms by The Government Gazellė notifies | American Coastguards is being in- What His Excellency the Governor yestigated by officials of that ser has made the following promotions | viec. in the longkong Volunteer De- fence Corpa:
More than two hundred from a machine-gun, many of
`FRANCE'S “BLACK”
COUNTRY.
FAMOUS AUTHOR'S KEEN INDICTMENT.
WHOLESALE FLIGHTS.
Paris, Apr. 15.
SATURDAY MAY 11, 1929.
FRENCH ADMIRAL IN
FAR EAST.
- NEW COMMNADER LEAVES FOR COLOMBO,
The Very Idea! POWELLS
A woman's sixteen mile ride be- fore she committed suicide on her own impulsiveness was described Paris, May 10.
at an inquest held at Relgate, on The French warship "Waldeck the body of Mrs. Nellie Ada Rousseau" left Toulon this oven- Pocock of Aylesbury Road, Brom- ing with Admiral Mouget, the new ley Kent, whose body was found in communter of the French naval a pond at Holm Thorpe, Redhi}}, A sensational story of French forces in the Far East.
Ernest Porock, the husband, colonial Maladministration is con- Admiral Mouget will meet Ad-aald his wife often acted on the tained in M. Londres book, "Terre miral Slotz at Colombo, where the impulse of the moment, and shots d'Ebene" (Ebony Lands), just change of flag will take place one occasion entered a restaurant them published here, in which he tells Havas,
and fired a revolver at a waiter.
Lately they had been having
these
L
on
Lieutenant Alistair Mackenzie with tracer bullets, were fired dur, the grim story of his travels increase. The negro is still sum-tifs, and it was following one of
to be Captain, to date from 26th ing the pursuit of a teeing rum April, 1929.
structures ashore were hit, and
the black Africa of France.. ramer in the Miami River, indictment is that in which lie re- country from Dakar, "the port of
The most striking part of his clently fat."
Describing the journey her husband, occupies a houseboatives from on the river, only escaped a bullet by Inches.
Second Lieutenant Henry Ras-Mra. Robert V. Latham, who, with yeals the wholesale fight of NO-
French Occidental our Black Empire," M. Londres
Bell Forsyth to be Lieutenant, to date from 20th April, 1920.
Second Lieutenant Robert Keith Valentine 10 bo Lieutenant, to date from 21st April, 1929. ·
Second Lieutenant Maurice Alfred Johnson, MM, to be
The bullet pierced the cabin wall, ricocheted from a metal travelling case, and passed within six inches
cycle ride.
that sho loft home up saying that she was going for a
Before she left home she went him, and on going out of the into her boy's bedroom, kisued house bade goodbye to her hus band and a friend.
Africa and French Equatorial speaks of the railway. Africa, two vast colonies contain-
"There are 800 miles of it," be ing 20,000,000 negro inhabitants. Baya
During the past three years, hel states:-
600,000 natives have gone to the 2,000,000 natives have gone Nigeria, a British Colony;*
Lieutenant, to date from 22nd of her head, embedding itself in Gold Coast, a British Colony;
April, 1929.
His Excellency has accepted the resignation by Captain Sir Erie Stuart Taylor, O... M.D., of
his Commission in the Corps.
His Excellency has appointed' the following geullemea to serve on the Advisory Committee of the Corps: The Hon. Mr. Jose Pedro Braga and Mr. 1. C. F. Bellamy; Whilst Mr. M. T. Johnson, Mr. L. N. Murphy and Mr. J. P. Warren have been appointed to be members of the Comunitter, during the absence of the Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie, V., Grayburn and Mr. T. G. Well respectively.
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CIGARETTE STALL THEFTS.
BOY DISCHARGED OWING TO WIPNESS" ABSENCE.
A gang of mischievous boys yes-.
upon # terday swooped down
old cigarette-stall kept by an woman at West. Point and carried away a dozen packets of cigarettes, In spite of the owner's protests.
another wall,
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Coastguard hendquarters at first denied that one of their eraft fred the shots, but later admitted they and "had done some shooting," have promised investigation.
FINE CAMBRIDGE BATTING.
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ing snécessful at the Oval by 125 rusa..
The scores were.
Surrey: 229 and 292 for 9
wirkets (dec.)
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tot
A verdict of "suicide while of unsound mind" was returned.
This is the biggest work we have accomplished in Black Africa. If we are not ungrateful we should do more than merely salute this accomplishment.
Both Mra. Pocock and her hus- "We should bring flowers and band were racing cyclists, and 10,000 natives have left their would, at every steeper, honour at Herne Hill,
atrew them on the way. Thus we had arranged to go to a meeting villages to live in most savage the memory of a negre fallen in conditions in the forents of the the cause of civilisation." Ivory Coast.
The children, after having read They have fled, he says, from the distance between the quarries night, had been asked to put the He mentioned one route where a description of the oncoming of recruitment for the army and and the road is making was one-same into their own words, a re- from forced labour on the roads third of a mile, so that "very stone mest that, resulted in the two and railways and as wood-cutters meant that a negro had to walk following contrasted versions:- in the foresta.
Endless Trek.
No fewer than 2,000,000 natives, therefore, have gone from under the French flag in three years, That is just 13 per cent.. of the entire population of the two colonies.
It means between 10,000 and 17.000 every week, or about 2,400 a day.
Such an exodus must be one of
two-thirds of a mile,”
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The first, a girl's, whose spelling was hardly on a par with her poetical strivings:-
"The pieceful sunset faded, and the shade of evening reined.”
The second was a boy's. forceful effort:-
"Night then fell-all over the
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Stavery he asks. Oh, yes, it has been ablished by ministerial declarations in Europe. Oftefally, it exists no longer; in fact it still remains. Slaves go under an- uther name, but "they are still the property of their masters, like cows and other animals, they have remained just where they were--place." that is to say, with their owners." Africa Still Captive.
["The sneeze is Nature's superb "Black Africa," says M. Lon-effort to save us, and yet we attempt the most remarkable in history, dres, "is still captive. For every
"We no longer count the desert-free man there are 30 slaves,
backfire
Dr. Octavia Lewin.] ed villages," comments M. Lon-
"From them the black army is dres..
recruited; and, during the war, it At Mopti, on the way to Tin-was, use often as not, the owners buctoo, he admires the excellent who took the pay. road.
"These slaves are labouring. "Ah, what beautiful runtes," he too; they dig ennals; they build exclaims. The roads are magni-railways and ronds; the pay they At one stage in the match bent. They are all the more re should receive goes to their chiefs, markable because they did not who house, them, feed them and cost us a cowry. We only spent give them a wife or two.
S. Africa: 111 and 285. Vincent took 6 Surrey wickets for 62 runs, in the first innings, but in the second innings, F. G. 11. Fender scored 98 rans, missing his century by the worst of luck.
SEVEN WICKETS WIN.
Derbyshire Put up a Good Fight.
tween Lancashire and Derby at A girl, who was left in teinporary Derby, it sermed that a Light charge of the stall, was an in-nish with Herly on top would portant witness whom the police result, but Lancashire won in the were endeavouring to, heule when end with seven wickets to spare. 100 runs one of the alleged culprits was Derby led by nearly a arrested, but in spite of diligent on the first innings, but collapsed efforts on the part of Sergeant in their second, the scores being: Clemo, the girl was not found.
Inspector Bloor reported to the Magistrate (Mr. E. W. -Hamilton) this morning, that the girl had been missing since the affair.
He suggested that the father of the girl had taken her away, a.jus. sible motive for this being in the Tart that the boy lived on the same premises as the family.
In the absence of suflicient | evidence, this Worship said he had no choice but to discharge the boy, who was, however, caulioned before being allowed to leave. i,
"NO OTHER WOMAN.”
DRAMATIC FILM COMEDY
TO QUEEN'S.
Derby: 181 and 78. Lancashire: 83 und 175 for 3
wickets.
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Richard Tyldesley took a wice els for 48 runs in Derby's first innings, and 55 for. 33 in their second,
Mitchell was responsible for Lancashire's collapse in their first innings, the Derby bowler taking
5 wickets for 34' runs,'
MOMETERS,
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"And after the old men and the Fehldren, the old, worn-out women Reserve Fund of Millions,
are sent to work. Everything is "Are we, then, so poor insed in Afrien." Africa? Oh, no! The Governor- General has a reserve fand-part of the land fusation of I don't know how many millions.
One of the most amazing parts of M. Londres' book is that in which he describes the life of the wood-cutters in the vast forests.
"The forest! The terrible "Reserve fund! What a seandal-, ons expression In a new country! kingdom of the cuiters of wood! Those hur freds of millions should To be sent there is to be con- he need to develop the country demned to death. It is the works and not put away in our old na-of convicts," he says, and he goes
on to describe what he saw final stocking.
་
Roll-call of Dead,
of
The sneeze
Which shakes the leaves upon
the trees,
And makes people edge away From the fringes of the fray Til the sneezer is alone
the danger zone,
la Nature's superb effort to BAVD Us. from consequences grave→→ Possibly from climbing on the
shelf
In the grave itself And yet, though we require. it, . We always do our dernedest to
hackfire it,
And according to Dr. Octavia
howin,
So, when next an incipient
sneeze has you la its grip Let it rip!
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'Fined 10s. at Oswestry recently for A breach of the mintor- lighting regulations, John Thomas Mullins, of Hurdsman Street, was the told that if he had treated policeman with respect he would have been only cautioned.
"A hig reserve fund, but-no) pay-day, motor-lorries, not a single steam- roller for the ronds. Nothing but heroes and negreasts carrying "Zie has earned 77 franes in a each a stone on their heads. Buth. His taxes amount Lo 88 "In our Sudan, the Haute Volta] franes-10 franes head-tax and 48 and the Ivory Count there are 30,- for relief from forced, labour. Willesden Painter- bought 000 miles of ronds. All the After a month of labour in the material to make them was carried forest Zie is in debt to the extent on the heads of natives.
of 11 franes.
elsewhere? Yet
on
TATE AND 'WENSLEY. Worcester Outplayed in
the instalment some books
Second Innings.
system to educate myself, and that is why I am in arrears. Mr. Worcester gained a first innings "There go 1,000 negroes, march- If the negroes are sent to work Lake, the Magistrate-Your wife's lead against Sussex at Worcester, ing in Indian file," he says "They in the forests-which is also support is more Important than but they failed to hold on to their are going to work on the railway forced labour-how can he do the improvement of your mind. advantage, thanka to be bowling at Tafire, in the Ivory Coast re-forced labour
Liverpool Plumbers' Association 470
for miles he has to pay 48 frances because applied
extension of a by Wensley and. Tate, and thegion. That is about southerners finally WOR
with away. Food? Please God, that will he is forced to work in one place licence in connexion with a hot- seven avickets to spare.
bo found ou route. The caravan and not at another."
pot supper. The Clerk-1 thought will take a month to reuch ita The scores were:
"Jeannot," cries the foreman. plumbers were, too busy. The destination.
No one presents himself. Jean-Magistrate-Apparently they are Worcester: 170 and 102.
"Surely these labourers could not is dead. Maondi? Robert? going to another kind of "burst." Sussex: 148, and 133 for 3 he taken there on motor-lorries. They are dead, too.
The application was granted, wickets,
That would save 20 days and cer "A month of suffering in the tainly 20 lives. But buy lorries? forest and for wages only death In Worcester's second innings, Wear out tyres? Une petrol? and debts," remarks M. Londres, tre on Tuesday, has a number of Wensley and Tate bowling prac-Then the reserve fund would de-sarcastically, dramatic ясения whicht create tically unchanged mude short work much sympathy for the character of the home county. Wensley took portrayed.
7 wickets for 34 runs, and Tate
Don Alvarado, the bandsome. young juvenile, who appears oppo- site Dolores Del Rio in Fox Films| version of "No Other Woman," Lou Tellgep's frst production, which comes to the Queen's Then-
2ost of 36 runs.
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In the role of a young French-claimed the other 3 wickets at a man who fears to tell his love to the girl he adores on account of her enormous wealth, and is un- dermined in her affection by hin supposed best friend. It is said Don Alvarado gives a wonderful|112 runs at Leyton, where Ham- performance.
second mond accomplished his century in successive games. He
Gloucester's Victory,
Gloucester defeated Essex by
Ben Bard, famous star of the contributed no fewer than 127 of vaudeville and music box revue Gloucester's first innings total of stages, in the villainous friend of 201. Essex were dismissed for Alvarado in the photodrami which is a thrilling story of primitive 144, Parker taking 5 wickets for passions among ultra-modern 90- ciety folk sojourning at Barritz, France.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam
Milan
Copenhagen
Landon, May 10,
124,20
34.945
26.196
12.00%
,20,46
65 runa.
Gloucester made 189 (B. H. Lyon, 87,Smith 53) in their second innings, leaving Essex to get 247 eans to win.. Essex were dismiss- Led for 134. Parker taking 4
wickets for G5 runs.-Reuter.
WARSHIPS IN PORT,
The following Is the disposition 102.46 of warships in port to-day:--
Basin, H.M.S. Tamar, HMS. 18.105 Seamew, H.M.S. Bruce and II.M.S. 18,205 Sterling.
Borlin
Stockholm
Oxto Vienna
18.195
Prague
.163
Helsingfors
Madrid
Lisbon
Athens
Bucharest
Buenos Aires
Bombny
Hongkong
Yokohama
Shanghai
North Arm.-H.M.S. Sirdar and .34.6311.M.S. Somme.
.193 West Wall Dock.-H.M.S. Corn- .34.025 all.
108 In Dock.M.S. Marazion and .375 submarines L15 und 120. .818%
.47 ↑ .1/5.29/32
.2/6/ ..1/11 .1/10.3/10
.25
--British Wireless.
Silver (spot and forward)
No. 1 Bupy.-H.M.S. Hermes. No. 6 Buoy.-H.M.S. Berwick. No. 7 Buoy.-H.M.8. Serapis and |H.M.S. Thracian.
No. 10 Buoy.-H.M.S. Seraph, No. 13 Buoy.-11.M.S. Storm- eloud
1929, BF HEA SERVICE, SNG-
RESU. & PAY.CFT.
"You see, John is very particular about my hats and I
always have to bring him along to help select."
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Here is a good "Good-night; story," from the Southern Railway Magazine: A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is also the name given to a railway, carriage In which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper fa also the name of the baulks of wood that hold the ralls on which the sleeper runs while the sleeper while the sleeps. Therefore, sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper carries the sleepers over the Bleeper under the sleeper until The sleeper which, carries the sleeper jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper on the sleeper, and there the is no longer any sleep for sleeper sleeping on the sleeper.
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An Aberdeen half-wit was taken to the police office on a charge of begging in Union Street. His lawyer explained that lits client was mentally deficient. "If ho wasna' duft," he argued, "do you think he wad beg here?" The caso was dismissed.
The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended Satur- day last, issued by the Direc- tor of Medical and Sanitary Services, contains the following cases, the figures in parenthesis indicating deaths: Plague, Port Said 1 (1), Baghdad 4 (3); Cho- lera, Bangkok 30 (20), Pnom Penh 1 (1), Saigon 4 (2), Canton (1); Small-pox, Basrah 2 (2), Balik- papan 3, Macassar 14 (9), Belawan Deli 1, Haiphong 1 (1), Pnom Penh 3 (2), Saigon 1, Macao (2), Shang- haf (2), Canton 10 (2), Swatow (20). In addition, 39 deaths from cerebro-spinal meningitis are re- ported from Shanghai and one case from Dairen.
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