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IT
SAYS
A
MOUTHFUL
LLANFAIRPWLLGHYNGYLLGO CHIN
The name board of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllogerychwyzndrobw)l-idantys Hliojozogoch Station on the Isle of Anglesy, which is the longest in Wales, containing fifty-eight letters, is removed every November and stered' safely until the following spring. The station is called Llamiąty P.G. for shart, and so it re- malia throughout the winter, but when the board is returned in the spring passengers amuse themselvės by trying to pronounce it in full before the train leaves.
London Man Returns From
AIRMAN
ARRIVES
AFTER FIVE DAYS' SILENCE
LOST IN WILDS
Port Moresby (New Guinea),
Dec. 1.
AFTER disappearing in the
U.S. 'Devil's Island': Free After 13 Years
Plymouth, Dec. 1.
A shy, tired-looking little man stood by the rails of the liner President Roosevelt as it approached Land's End from the Atlantic and smiled with relief.
"Gee. It's good to be back in England a free mun after all these years," he said.
He was Harry Johnson, once a famous ice-hockey player, a Londoner from the East End, now a deportee from America.
In his pocket was a pardon wilds of New Guinea for from President Roosevelt for the second time in less than the alleged murder, of two wo four months, Flight-Lieuten- men in Alaska, for which he ant Stuart Campbell, an Aus-received a life sentence. tralian airman, arrived safely
at Fly River Camp to-day.
"When I left I was asked not to tell what I know about the prison, and promised I 'wouldn't ́ until I got over this
sido.
but I have paid my debt to society. "What my future is 1 don't know,
I tripped up when I went to Alaska with five other fellows trying to start an ice rink.
"While there I went on a hunt- We got mixed ing trip with a guy. up with a couple of dope women. "But now I can forget it all; I'm a free man."
He has served thirteen years Ile had been delayed by a forced in all. first in Leavenworth landing to make adjustments to his prison, Kansas, and later in the machine, a Short Seich double-rockbound escape-proof fortress engine 180 h.n. scaplane. of Aleatras off San Francisco.
Twenty-two years ago be left the East End of London a boy of sixteen, and emigrated to Johnson was reunited with his two There was a touching scene when Canada. Two years later he sisters on the deck of the liner. was in the trenches with the They had not met for eighteen Canadians, and at eighteen he years.
Meanwhile, Papuan Government vessels were searching the const and swamps in the region where he disappeared last Tuesday,
He lost here to return to the Fly River Survey Camp, and landed at Keremu, 140 miles further up the const. Later in the day he left for Kikori, some 110 miles further wealward round the Gulf of Papua,
was a machine-gun instructor.
"I had four years over there;"
But he did not rench Kikori, and he said, and got five medals, in- some fear was felt for his safety cluding the Mons Star. owing to the number of water- ways over which he would have to ByRenter.
SECOND DISAPPEARANCE
"WITHOUT A DIME"
"I went back to Canada with two thousand dollars and a wound Jungle and swamps of the wild pension. I am landing in England Fly River district were searched to-night without a dime. Nat even!! intensively for Flight-lieutenant my street-car fare, and I won't take Campbell at the end of last July, a penny. - when he was missing for four days
"I'm going to start work. They
between Daru and a depot 600 turned me out of Alcatraz with a miles, further up the river.
Famous
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Both the Liverpool Gloucester distinguished them- selves in the war.
suit, a shirt, a handkerchief, and a pair of boots, but no underclothes and to overcont, An emigration officer in New York gave me a pair of socks.
"That prison is the world's woYRL. They drive men mad there. Fortu- nately they didn't get me.
"After a turn in the cells in solitary isolation they put me in the kitchen. “That's where I lost my anger."
"Drake Millions Mystery": U.S.A. Trial
DET-INSPECTOR BISHOP,
of Scotland Yard, is on his way to America to give evid- ence in a case which has be- come known on two continents _as_the_“Drake_Millions_My«
'stery."
The investigation of this case involves the millions left or re- uted to have been left by Sir
Francis Drake.
The investigation began when a He showed his right hand; the man named "Baron" Oscar M. "trigger" finger of which is miss-fartzell, who claimed a fortune jof £70,000,000, was deported from ing.
England in February 1933.
CHICKEN FOR CAPONE
"One of my jobs was to wait on Al Capone, We were good friends. The Gloucester hung dog-fle's one of the finest fellows I ever gedly on to the tail of the met. Goeben and Breslau in the "I used to smuggle pleces of Mediterranean in 1914 before chicken. for him from the kiteben. they escaped into the Dar.
"For that I got put in the 'hole,"
collected large sums of money Hartzell alleged to have
from people in Americ, England
and Prance who subscribed to
estate.
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OUR BRITISH crosswords
21
25
26
ACROSS
1 All resign whom this soldier
changes.
Be this a thrash,
10 Hardly the home of reason. 11 If this animal had swallowed
nothing before a cat, the situn tlon would have been evident, 12 Norwegian town.
13 Mournful and there isn't a
couple of brace inside.
15 If a tenor'a senle is on the down-
ward run, how many notes does this include? 10 Poetlenily numerous. 19 Insect.
20 In
21 Set Rong with a note between funds to enable him to claim the 22 Florence and Edward.
Aperture,
1 his Book appears "Grent is truth, and mighty above all things,"
plense.
capital.
When Hartzell was deported he
dineliza. Her captain on that|which is an underground dungeon was arrested
in New York, and for a game (hyphen
later sentenced to ten years Im-31 prisonment for using U.S.A. malls | 32 in order to defraud thousands of Middle West farmers.
#
serret Information about a
3).
occasion is now Admiral Sir where they used to torture Spanish Howard Kelly.
prisoners long ago,
"Then they put the third degree The Liverpool will be built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Over ine because they knew I had Engineering Co., Ltd., the Man-found out some anerets of the prison. chester by R. and W. Hawthorn) 1 know how stuff was smuggled in Taalla nnd Co, lät, and the and out, how spirits were actually jon bail 21 men, who were alleged in a run for a great art-expert. PENDANT MENGIKIA | Gloucester at Dovonport Yanqıl, made and drunk to the prison. to be his agents, were arrested on
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MADE SONE TÜRILLING
NAPLUGBE
He appealed, and was allowed bait of $25,000. While he
34 The scene of the first gate.
crashing on record? was at A Norwegian means of progress
20 Ton
thought I would have been charges of continuing to necept 37 A fixed iden. released from Leavenworth. money in connection with the My sister came over from Lon- with complieity.
claim. Hartzell was also charged dain in order to do it, but al though she spent a lot of trial at Ohio, and Detective- Now they are all to appear on money tho was unsuccessful. Inspector Bishop will give evidence, I got the President's pardon there of Hartzell's activities in three weeks ago.
NGNÁ, I'LL NEVER FERGAT. TH TIME I /RUSCUED A GIRL IN A HIGH-RUNNING
BEAT
SNATO
London,
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rushed me Back
TWO YARDS!
OH, HOW DREADFUL! HOW ON EARTH DIDJA EVER GET TO SHORE2
DOWN
2 As a clue it is right, but is left
when changed. 3 A féminine name. 4. Bounds..
& Buck up.
6 There's a ginen top to this com
plimentary speech.
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2
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8 Re-reading (anag.).
9 Tons slowly.
14 Plane pretix.
17 Striking in a sense.
18 Start game in different style to
get trick.
19 Attached to a general.
20 Plaything.
In a doctor, it would be made to
23
20
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In more than one sense, the point.
ia in the root here.
27 Clear out!
28 Object of care in custody,
20 Sisera (anag).
30 An inhabitant of the Far North maites a Scottish river confess it is nothing at all.
33 Imposition?
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