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TUESDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 2, 1919

'TRAGIC DEATH OF MR.

FE WEISS.

MURDER OR SUICIDE?"

ARMED ROBBERY IN WANCHAL

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THE

THE COTTON PLANTER'S

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A PEN FICTORY: FROM THE EASTERN SUDAN,

Sta men def who were armed The N. Body Mries of August with evolvens, and the slath with 25 reporter Bine mysterious disapu [twa dagger ereted the Tô Hing Captain A. H. M. Thomas, Sea Mr. F. Wess, jcholing Fiber Yard at Wanhad forths, formerly of the 'Straits Times Peri ter Feneral Agents to the pipe, st night or the purpose of staff, is not returning to journalism Pet Devan Services, sultanated frotoruitting a reabberty. They took du mtengie' discovery ribota zaldu gins Patio, amevudige of Bit time the

in the Straits after his long period of cra-Erday, where his dead belly we bet piroue wie, the intimating war service. Instead he has taken discovered or a derek sport the face onetes and gugging thom, after up an appointment with a large Yanstven so district Long to which they broky open as a cotton-planting property in the Ber The medial evidence, dently adjatole Sale The Deen then disappeber province of Egypt. The following devumili fan 36 to 48 hours prior at. The Blive a scamber for

to the degrery, and it would, theks jahein. Brent barve makin pian on M

is time um retrde decasand er bas Boug by Wechswel Roud oon Washers

day evening to keep a bosites all pointulaus, anji one other veagentont & the burture of which

The was

in, the tinut, apowertip Butlletenlķ with mover, afterwards tout lebeg! Ch. Sunds evening hay canchher Prince Topy or taniye feet away hind best an Astodie Detalem empany's the buku At the this was manner1967 reported to as superior thas the to three the cause of this which was hing off Sashup

Ihub bem parated by tom mnenj bat murther mashination revealed a bullet wound through the leak of the with pavefvers and skiggANS. The brad, vadi, as we be even hade def valdi had been beken into oni tie

aim.

CHINA MAIL.

PLAY.

BY PROFES90K. MARCUS HARTOG.

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towards the prey, any more than giving game "law" does in the sportsman. Thus we find the same element of make-believe in hunting for sport and not for the pot. This Play may be defined as the exercise the resting bird or beast, why we fish is why we abstain from shooting ät of the animal without the conscious end of definite advantage. In this for salmon and trout on an all

but too thin

we thus gain it is a contrast to work, which has it be only to escape the penalties of some definite advantage in view, if

the delusion DA a hard-earned idleness. As writers have pointed big

victory. The sport of hunting:

game 31 foot

Or from out time and again, the instinct of a platform on a tree adds to our play brings with it the advantage of pleasure of selfrealisation, like any of the instincts that make for the speaks of the scorching wheel gras training the faculties, and so is one danger successfully baffled. Horace efficiency of the individual, then the turn, as a cyclist might preservation of the race. But the

That the hunter's game vivacious record of first impressions conscience of this end must be may be worthless in itself makes no

difference to him. absent; and herein we go to the root and experiences will be read with of the utter loathing of the child for

Of plays of courtship we may say interest. The letter containing this instructive games so soon as he is with Heine. "Sweet it is to play NO PIRACY.

is dated from Berber province, July wise enough to recognise their deceived, sweeter still to play the 21. After expressing regrets at his

Flay must be real play, dupe most admirable characte er he will have none of it. In isation of true flirtation, which, like DISHONEST CARETAKER'S DODGE.severance from the Straits and the the performance of this we find other sports, has its element of friendships. he made there during that to us, conscious and intelli- danger to the players. The sense five years stay, Mr. Thomas goes on gent, the chief pleasure in play is that aimlessness is of the essence of self-expression and selfrealisation. sport was seen in the general repro- to say-

A little tot of the age that is counted bation of the winner of a sculling "This is not a bad place but it by months was trying to walk. At race at Henley some years ago. wants getting used to. I am on the the end of each effort she sat down. His competitor broke one scull west side of the Nile between Atbara proudly and exclaimed in triumph almost immediately after the start, Me!" We may find the first ele-but, though he saw this, he rowed and Khartoum. There are five white wife at the investigation giver bebay, Releeteis tans amlen, The Simshuri men scattered over a big estate. I movements of amabe, perhaps the obtained the prize. He won the ments of play in the questing over the course and claimed (and bis rend injury supports a short pe Pere were concicated with live. fortunately, with another raan, lowliest of animals, recalling those reward due to towing proficiency suspicionet del

and they made certain investigations. The spot where The lowly was Mills ped the story the Sein a brick and mud bungalow on of a settter or pointer, which go on for mere superiority in the soundness Kali Pes in open csutry trident The corker heal steen the us the western verge of the plantations until they bring it within sensible of a piece of wood. He did not distance of some prey then at once carry the make-believe through and by Wind Singhs and Minguet and to alloy sus had and there are 3,000 miles of light the movements pass into work, for was most justly condemned; he Thanks, in forly and editat pun prdu tiss report. Need to say sandy soil, and all the Atlantic, be they become directed. Among fishes worked for the pot, and had a and chestarei dy drome growth tie vartalor wa- rosted by the tween me and the next white man there are series of actions quite un

real aim not a fictitious one.. patapas grass. The holy lyn the

on the west.. So I am spared the determined by any other motive than

There is one essential of play: it „dep grass avinst a gravi tuootud, p

Bandmann: Opera Company, and the love of motion. One dry summer must be spontaneous. or at least which is alanın 15 yards away from

cannot spend my wealth a riotous I observed from our college bridge a voluntary. The schoolboy feels that die neumesh pathway bing to T

living. My dress clothes have gone shoal of some thirty salmon in a deep

compulsory games" are a fag and Bong Bowl, seno 500 pands distant.

to the bottom of the box for two reach of the river Lee, playing the a misnomer, until he grows to like New by in a saudi cek. There I

years to come my tennis racquet is game of follow-my-leader in a space them and they cease to be was n chung at ul in the para muam

wearing its gut out; and, unless of some sixty yards on either side of sory." Conversely, when two chil take to making bunkers in the the bridge, though the reach was dren had been left to play on Bar- Sahara, I shall have to send my golf much longer. Insects swarm also mouth sands a big black retriever wewe found a mew, which pero iMb, e'. Pulaur Johnson, is starte

for no purpose, dancing about the came up when they were digging. ecmid-lently are bosonging to the

"My Life: Having slept the night same spot; drone bees lead a playful and asked unmistakably for them to doned; a silver dollar which had done the littery for using local equivalent of the larkto ait, occasions when

Ing the Mitoni Bisen Kaisha out on the roof I am up with the life, varied only by the rare and tragic throw the spade into the water for chopped in the gram, and

an inutation of their stemmer de the fly, damn his eyes at daybreak, queen in her nuptial fight, doomed to great fun. But when their parents they follow the him to fetch. This they thought But merit in one of de fark a report of 2.041 sacks of It breaks about the same hour as in end in the death of the accepted rejoined them the game had ceased

He was stil wear hour. The Sum involved is $7,000 Singapore. I am in the saddleshort-spouse. ing his ruuvo ring. At the time of and the case has been remondet tilly after six and start inspecting

to be one for them: they were dvising home on Wedayday earnext Tuesday,

As we rise in the scale of intelli-tiring of it, and moved to go away ing, thevused was wearing a wrist.

cotton, in various stages of immatur-gence, play becomes more varied with the spade, but every time they wate. Bi ham not her hansh

ity at the moment. Our estates are and more intensive. In parrots we tried to the dog firmly and gently divided up into ten acre blocks, each see a closer resemblance to our own seized the boy by his knickers and farmed by a native Hodge on a co-play. I have a singular affection for drew him back to the water-side. operative principle. The canal system cockatoos, and never miss the oppor. They were now a very weary pair, is curs and all the water for the crop tunity of making friends with them. for the game bad become compulsory. A poignant future be the trigin

A Plonese arrested for being in is pumped from the Nile by the com- A rose-coloured bird in the London An instinct is partly explained by its gfreunstances of the wise is thunktwal possession of t their of pany's plant. We supply, in fact, all Zoo accepted my friendly approaches object, or at least by its effect, but dead's tear all star were predeces, ndi Magistrate all the essentials, and Hodge does the and, put down his head for me to not wholly. When we seek to ex dia t write in Shanghai om thut the dhg was Goverment open sowing, and the hoeing and the scratch his neck. So soon as I did plain the origin of play, it is no, set by bun for medicinal purposes, harvesting under the skilled supervi- he turned up his head sharply and bit answer to say that it makes for the hasble bewar ing bodied forward t | Mr. Windsell serut nis, the analys'ssion of such as myself.

amme, as gently as an affectionate dog efficient training of the individual; by Mr. We wil bed report and then remedied: Enerta auper Hodge, and play the would do. An old time friend of we want something more. Probably of father and mother and mine is a great sulphur-crested cock-Ita orizin was in the impulse of the well with preparation te ri reftately for you, the analyst says it parts

trustee and general tyrant as well, to atoo, who will play with a child of individual to act, and that this im ception need was DF

about seventy tenant-farmers. That, four and let him take all kind of pulse has differentiated in the two Despite many ruins to the pot.

Mr. D. V. Steusenon need for at present, is my allotment a lump liberties with him, and never lose his directions of play and work as the trary, the box be he undertalan charged with the unwind of land about a mile wide and three temper, no matter what his playmate actions became more varied and the desek pnent in investigation of the possesion of 102 huis of a miles long, not all under cotton. does. His bites, too, are the purest lintelligence more developed.

When I speak Arabic better and know Weiss case- 'Fae'r rede

He picaded guilty to the the people and the cultivation thor- compte mystery. The fidest pan. harga tuting that the women with si impities areng behou her way to her native vigoughly, my domain will be increased.

• The two biulente that a rep the he wasted. A few articles !

traseel's pestelen

A bunch of hese, witte um fentifica

riot tub, brauks saamalle, in a hiek

pocket wallet which he nemulfy Fed, are all brzinom lig

A

Saturday, the visi

nge, and ..

Pate

AN INTERESTING CASE.

TWO WELL-KNOWN FIRMS.

Menete. B. Skeet a do, tightclubs home again.

OPIUM SMUGGLERS.

pot fi cornment opiuto. $20 fine.

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Hings and bad on debt ben meil the teed of unscrupúlous men. The

plug was brutal in a. False-beton Stunk,

Mr. Bandeel fined the

relation both to the theory of sur cal and that el matrim. but the timit in the light of present inhandled. revene and the tubing Indria!orl ||

ses are still to see. Prek,000, Acar the gravy, around is to bul

dredged - serra tus tiche condition

can

compul-

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make-believes," though he bought. He delights in cleaning a "Well, I was at the point of having chicken-bone, and then holds it down set out on my fiery country bred to the house-dog, immediately draw- steed about 6 am. I lollop round the ing it away. This game, goes on! fields and the canal banks on this again and again. task of supervisión until about 9 when In all more or less intelligent | wunbreakfast calls me home. Very seldom animals the aimlessness of play is have anything to do in the fore-made more evident by the make noon so I stay in out of the heat and believe factor. I first came to realise swat Arabic, or write letters or this in observing a kitten, whom I de farvennad die. It is possible lur And is

er the weapons used, it potter about the stables. After presented with its first mousetrap see ilmuntion uy be gathered [by"dirunased, why should the revolver lunch the siesta is the usual thingped and killed, of course. She sniffed fran esmundaties of the decused's Fluore been thrown away out of sight but the habit has not got me yet, at it a little, and finally made up her private paper, but those dand now if it were possible for him to turve and at 4 o'clock I go out again on mind that it was a good toy. MY been looked over of the line offrono w as "the dinumetanses) and another round of inspection. It is slippers were lying about on different writing.

the auther left on the ground? Saver about seven when I finish that parts of the floor. She went up to ment a SURGEON, 00 Board a I has her been ascertained that the medical evidence showed, it journey and the rest of the evening one and deposited the mouse in it, Steamer, sailing or Singapore or deceased possessed, three wolves, would hay "bon easier for devased is very short-a bath, change, dinner and then immediately proceeded to Penang Apply MEDIC3, c/o*« CHINA He, was kruin to have two, a tied to have themove away the mzoe than and so to bed, rather tired, any look for it in the other. The greater | MAIL." jus recently been found and anallthe revolver, how crimes the over time after 9 o'clock, The simple the intensity of the play the more

"to the police. e of the time to lue arrieing and the mantlegte. life, forsooth. No clubs, no soda serious the make-believe, which

WIND SAW MR. WEISS LASTY

The Bikes age wushus to receive

with it, no ice and no poisonous ironically strengthens the aimlessr.ess pahits (although I have the address therest. The card player who does

vi emulher edine Alain than virki And if the weapons, are used by which the antal injury was hailiensk jamaher pigson," "way should the This may possibly have some prozor have been lett to suggest of a merchant in Khartoum—) not do his best to win is one who "I own two ponies,the breed a does not really enjoy the game.; the being it the theory of soleile, joille when the revolver wound would LES the whole eroon is Bi a state of ¦tlisclose the inredate vopre

sort of Sudan Arab and very useful, existence of a stake heavy enough to ་་ inde

On Sunday afternoon the manager make a real difference to the player The shople explanatim is offered and another man come over our way (I do not speak of nominal stakes) the revolver may have been and the four of us-yesterday there changes the interest proper to the forbi Iron FLEY person who hard and appropriated by a pas from Khartoum way, so we had five moncy, or that of a passion for gam

was a visitor, the general manager game into work for the love of Chinese, but in such an eyeat

means that the finder would and a native syce made. six-play bling, which is quite another thing. scratch polo in the desert. I, of In gambling there is the real excite- have cast an eye on the cameo

course, am only learning-have playment of money-getting, and that is Ering

ed two such games and had a few alien to genuine play. WINCH THEORY TO CHOOSE?

hours' solitary knocking so far, so it The hungry cat, of whatever species Aguinst the theory of suicide is, is all I can do to manage a brisk up to the lion, kills its prey at once; It is the entire ance of a pony in a big rush, and my hitting otherwise it makes believe again and actually kept any such appointment,ins motive, and the facts that does not score goals for anybody yet again that the unfortunate prey car either by nab arnegerns or by deased enjoyed good health, had Still it is a splendid game and the escape, and that it still has to chase esling without previous insinationated a position ujven which he there-Inould be some able to inl been very keen: and above all I shall get plenty of practice."

game most played in the Sudan, and it. 'Cat and Mouse" does not Horm the Police on the anatter. The

involve a sense of cruelty in the cat

y have seen deo used after 9.30ing on Wednesday evening last, the true of his kaving the Pace Hotel with

the expressed intention of keeping

an appoint at Sicensrei, or inj that neighlenthood.

the family arrangements

H

upon

fact that no such information which he had been so busily engaged. been volunteered suggests either a motive for conveukrent, or simply

It has not, however, been definitely That no such viot was paid by the Proved that deceased could not pos

sibly have injured Himself both with

deceased. He may have decided on the razor and the revolver. It may a casual call not previously arranged for and, after starting of, have sud-ave been possible for him to have denly charged his mind and turned to the revolver after the fast buck; or he may have spoken of a wound, but supposing this to have proposed vivit merely for some obstally happened, it would seemn cure resson connected with later almost impossible for him to have developments. The fuot remais disposed of the weapon, or to have that no further information doing Positive proof that the re- boen conscious of any need for so forthcoming either as to Mr. Woiss having been seen in private or public alver in nowhere in the vicinity after leaving the Palace Hotel. For would not necessarily involve A the time being, must remain a second individual, since, as angest- matter of conjecture whether he

|ed above, it may have been taken went direct to the Yangtzepoo diep by a Chinese, who may also have taken the days, watch, came and pocivet wallet But again, in this, ATTEMPT AT CONCEALMENT. case, why not the ring? There are Circumstances are no less difficult no marks of identification on, the in connection with the appirent at razor which was found. There may tengel to conceal the identity of the have been on the revolvETEN ZION-- body. If any much attempt was with explanation of its now being actually made, the question urines, sing. There are difurtiva 20 why were the installed articles dis every point in the case, and further arded and the ring and cigarette evidence at the inquest is being. ive retained?

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