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Regarded in offcial circles us one of the most important percotic discoveries in many months in the International Settlement, a raid on a "red pill" factory by detectives from Yulin Road Station, is expected to load to additional discoveries regarding the operations of a drug ring with ramifications in many other contros. The raid which raualted in the arrest of five Chinese and ons' Japanean, and alio the seizure of a considerablo quantity of raw material and manufactured derivatives, revealed an exten alve plant with valuable modern laboratory equipment. Photo shows one of the rooms in the "fac tury" with part of the equipment for the manufacture of the "pill." The glaas entorts, mixing bowls, electric motor and other paraphernalia may be seen in the foreground and scattered around the room.
ARMED HOLD-UP IN FAMILY'S PERIL IN
LONDON
QUICKSAND
Clerk Bound and Gagged Young Couple and Child
By Masked Men
Sucked Down
THEY WOULDN'T HAVE GAS
Amusing Story At Dental Conference
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934.
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TREATMENT OF CATARRH
COVT. SERVANTS AS RESEARCH SUBJECTS.
The British Post Office hus re-
The Telegraph is anxious to ascertain the views of its readers cently experimented on members of its staff in selected districts with concerning the continuation or otherwise of sorial storica which a vlow to ascertaining the efftency have been n feature of this of vaccine treatment for catarrhal Journal for some yearn pant,
allments.
Our. last serial, “Stay Out of My Life" concluded
This, experiment, which was un- Thursday on last, and enquiries, have sincojdertaken with the approval of the renched us as to whether we in-staff side of the Post Offico Whitley tend resuming this feature. If Council, was subject to the condi there is a demand for serials, wetions that the majority of the shall be only too happy to comply local staff were in favour of the therewith, but for out guidanco
we would appreciate expressions proposal, that the medical officer of opinion on the matter from was personally Interested, that no our renders.
single oflicer was inoculated against Those interested are requested his wish, that no charge for the to fill in the fort given below and treatment should be made, and that return it to the Editor na carly nathe vaccino should be fresh, possible.
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WINE MAGNATE'S ROMANCE
Sir Walter Gilbey Marries Widow
The Post Office is now examining reports from the selected districtă which give particulars of the catarrhal sick leave taken, during the experimental period and of the irented and non-treated officers. It expects to be in a position to re- port on the experiment in the autumn.
NOT TO CONDUCT FOR JEW
MISCHA ELMAN ON BERLIN WARNING.
Mischa Elman, the famous Rusa- an violinist, announced at Buenos Aires, recently that his participa- tion in an orchestral concert at the
conductor Herr Fritz Busch, had
It was revealed recently that Colon Theatre, under the German Sir Walter Gilboy, Bart, and been cancelled on the ground that Mrs. Marion Miller Broadhead, of the conductor was unable to find Farnley Tyas, near Huddersfield time for rehearsals. were married at a Huddersfield! register.offee last month,
M. Elman states, however, that
There were no bridesmaids at he had learned through private the wedding, and only five local sources ikat Herr Busch had been friends of the bride and bride-i warned from Berlin he would not be allowed to return to Germany groom were present.
The register gave Sir Walter's if he conducted for a Jew. He Inddress as 22 Downe Street, added that he was unwilling to An amusing story was related to peradilly, and he was described belleve this, but the position was satisfactory. and he had delegates of the British Dental Ax-simply as a "Baronet, previously most
wasted much time in practising sociation at their annual conference married, now divorced,“ at Dundee, by Mr. It. C. Scott Dow,
for the concert, of Edinburgh.
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His age was given as 74, and that of the bride as 39.
M. Elman further declared that The bride is the widow of Mr. though unable to play in Germany Wilson Broadhead. a director on account of his race, he loved the their firm of gas engineers at Elland,Gorman, though tire nume "they near Huddersfield. She is hitler filled him with aversion.
Inte Mr. James Roberts, a brewer, of Farnley Tyas.
·Two masked men, armed with a A young woman's terrible experi- 'revolver, raided a booking office in
lence of seeing ber husband and the subway of Moorgate Metro- politan Railway station shortly child become cumpletely engulfed in after midnight recently, and, hay-a stretch of treacherous quicksands
Mr. Dow said that maly patients ing bound and gagged the clerk, while she herself was sinking on sitting down in certain Dougins R. Foot, of Milstead deeper and deeper is reported from dentist's chair, changed Street, Brixton, stole about £12.
Burnhamon-Sea, Somerset, on the minds, doclaring that The subway was deserted at the south share of the Bristol Channel. wouldn't have gas to-day.” time except for one passer-by, who
This puzzled the dentist, and one The young couple, Mr. and Mrs. any the men running away, tried to stop them, and was knocked down. W. G. Cox, of 3 Lyneroft Gardens, day he sat in the chair himself,
and Baw across the street The men excaped in a motor-car. Hounslow, London and their small following legend, painted in big child, were on a motor tour in letters on the wall of the Salvation Foot was checking his takinga
meet when a man asked for change for Somerset and had stopped at Barn- Army citadel "Prepare to
rour God," a 108. note. As the clerk turned:hum.
The dentist subsequently ru- moved his premises.
the
Sir Walter, who has strong ideas on the propriety of dreas, was married in a smart grey lounge suit, and he wore a bowler
LYNCHING
FUED
of
hat with the new-fashioned brim BOY AND TWO MEN. and carried yellow gloves.
Sir Walter is the second baṛo-| net. He married in 1884 Miss
HANGED
to get it a second man opened the They had walked some distance
Ella Fowlie, daughter of the late A boy and two men were lynched door, and, pressing a revolver
Mr. J. C. Fowlie, of Coombe in a village near Kowel, in Eastorn against his aide, forced him back along the sands just south of the
Khigaton ̄ ̄ ̄Hill, Tão Poland, ns the result of a quarrel with his face to the wall, keeping lighthouse, but as they had been how a celebrated Welsh internation-marriage was dissolved in 1923. over pasture lands between two
Mr. R. Willcox, of Clifton, related Warren, the revolver close to him all the warned that the place was danger at footballer, under the influence of There is one son, Mr. Walter Ruthenian families.
our they decided not to bathe, but an anaesthetic, went into violent Ewart Gilbey.
time.
The other man entered the book ing office and pulled down the shutter in front of the window, The two pinced the money sprend on the table Inte bags, bound and
the child between them gagged the clerk, and pushed him Mr. and Mrs. Cox, neither of whom under the desk, and then, having are swimmers, had just reached thei cut the telephone wires and smash-water when the sand beneath them ed the electric lamp, ran from the started to silde away.
office.
.
A young boy in charge of a herd to paddle only. There were other paroxysms. As soon as the dentist Sir Walter has long been known people paddling nearby. The tide hnd simply removed a tooth the as the "champion of the horse."of cattle grazing on the disputed was out.
footholter seized him by the thigh. Ife takes a tremendous interest land was seized by the rival family throw him against the wall, and in horses and riding, and is often and immediately hanged from a With
enused the nurse to jump through to be seen in Rotten Row.
nearby tree. the window.
He a firm upholder of the
The boy's parents and relatives tradition and etiquette of riding. succeeded in catching the two men lipshod rider in Rotten Row and dered the boy, and they dragged He has no sympathy with the they presumed must have mur- has more tipin, once. attacked in what he described as slovenly riders for turning out in The Row them to the village market place.
nttire.
also played the game, tackled the The anaethetist. a Scotsman, who Welsh International, who was final Mrs. Cox's cries attracted the efforts of the anaethetist and the by mastered only by the combined Information was given to the City police, who searched the attention of other people and a dentist. station but found no trace of the crowd scon collected.
men.
.
Proudly starting her ascent Into the stratosphers, the world's 'largest balloon curried three in- trepid flyers from the earth at Moonlight Valley, South Dakota. Eleven miles up the hugs bag ripped and the Right ended. Army balloonleta sscaped death
by parachutesiol
Kinsmen of the boy, armed with pitchforks, clubs, and hammera, Sir Walter has been present at gathered in the market place and every Shire horse show in London hanged the two men,with cal- and was culnted and deliberate slowness.. from 1877 onwards, president of the Society in 1927,
Sir Walter's father was the
Police were dispatched front a "That tient was a real sport," Fender of the large wine business nearby town, and the two families observed "Mr. Willcox.
with which he is associated.
are now in prison.
As he came round, the patient. Mrs, Cox and her husband and said "I feel I have been doing child, however, continued to sink in something. Will you accept double the treacherous sands, and for a fees as compensation ?" moment all that could be seen above the water was the woman's upraised hand and arm.
The husband and child were not to be seen at all.
Scen
Mrs. Cox was eventually pulled out in n semi-conscious condition.
Meanwhile the
man had struggling hard to extricate him- self from the sands. He managed. to retain the child's hand in his. His struggles took him further out to sen, and there in a short whic he emerged to the surface.
A human chain was formed of the onlookers, and Inspector Hig gins, of the Llanelly police, who happened to be near, plunged into the water and pulled Mr. Cox and the child to safety.
Mr. and Mrs, Cox and their child all recovered after treatment at Burnham Hospital, though Mr. Cox was detained for a time suffering from shock,
Mr. Cox, in an interview, said that although he could not swim. he was determined to make a fight jor it...
"It all happened in a minute," ho said. "The water was Just lover our feet and the next minute I felt myself being sucked under. I went on my back, and the water came over me, but I kept baby's hand in mine I kicked out,
but could not come to the surfaco. Then I got into a current and came up.
I don't remember much elad. until I found myself on dry land."
A dramatic attempt to set a new airatosphere record unsuccessful, army balloonista kro skówn working harofenily to sara valuable'sulentläu Instrumenta after their hugs.bag,ripped 60,000 feet above the earth. Capt. A. W. Stevens attacks the gondols of the ship with an axe to resch Instruments within
after it crashed in Nebraska.
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