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CRIMEA FIGHTING.

ATTACK BY OVERWHELMING RED FORCES.

cavalry.

WRANGEL'S RETREAT.

“SING A SONG OF

SIXPENCE."

vil

· OUR NURSERY RHYMES.

WHAT THEY MEAN TO AMERICA.

seen

Mr. Ezra P. Pilkins, of Ypsilanti, Mich., is in town. In the language of the local reporter, he was by a representative of the Daily Expres. He, was putting up." appropriately enough, at " Ypsilanti,” a "home from home" establishment in Bayswater, one of those quiet, backwater establishments where Americans may browse contentedly on huckleberry pie, crullers, hoe

Mr. Ezra P. was smoking a large silver embossed briar pipe. Not that be appeared to like it, but because, "you see, if you are in Rome, do as the Romans do, so that they may take you for a native."

LONDON November 10: General Wrangel, in a communique, claims that his forces, after five days of attack by overwhelming Red Forces, including cake, and sundaes. 25,000

fortified successfully retired behind position at Sisash and Perikop. He explains that after the Polish peace, the Bolsheviks concentrated 100,000 men, including 11.000 of General Budlenny's cavalry, with a view to cutting off the retreat to the Crimea. The enemy's cavalry, with Lettish and other infantry numbering:

It had come to listening ears that over 10,000 sabres and 10,000 bayonets, attacked from Kakbovka eastward Mr. Ezra P. was the inventor of a and fouth-eastward, concentrating 6,000 cavalry against Salkowo. The new fuel, and for that reason he was cavalry broke through, but the shock troops brought up and pinned them i "Nope." he answered, "I guess against Sivash, resulting in two Lettish regiments befog captured, also 15 that's wrong. I'm not an in ventor. I came over to collect five million dollars from a guy who died somewhere in Essex. His lawyerj ; advertised for me in the papers, and¦

14 HOURS IN A COFFIN. LATEST SHIPPING NEWS CDs and a great number of machine guns. The Don Cossaks captured two regiments" with 15 guns. Our troops destroyed most of General Budienny's cavalry which broke through.

EXCEPTIONAL CASE.

WOMAN NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.

In a recent number of a German!

DEPARTURES.

The 5-5 "Haiching," Captain Med Stewart, sailed for Foochow via Wochensch, there appears an account Swatow at noon to-day with 1,500

medical paper Deutsche

by Dr. E. Rautenberg of an excced-tons of general cargo.

ingly narrow escape from being

buried alive. Happily the coffin was

F、UME INDEPENDENT.

ADRIATIC DISPUTE SETTLED AT LAST.

LONIKIN, NAvember. 11.

The long drawn out Adriatic dispute has been settled at the Italian and reopened for purposes of identifica-The s.s. "Loongsang," Captain Jugo-Slav conference according to the Times correspondent at Santa tion. The following are the circum Simpson, sailed for Manila at 3Marguerita. Fiume will be independent with territorial contiguity to stances as given in the organ of the pm, to-day with 1,500 tons of Italy. Signor Giolitti will sign the new treaty to-morrow. " Medical Research Committee (Medical cargo, Science) >

On October 27, 1919. a hospital

murse aged 23 bought from a cheraist!

The

ss. "Kiukiang," Captain in Charlotterburg for 20 marks a Oudner, sailed for Iloilo via Manila

ROMs, November 11.

seen."

¡I paid a deposit, and here I am."

1. Mr. Pilkins produced a cutting from a Detroit newspaper. It asked

PUT IT ACROSS „KIME,

"I ain't been able yet to find the lawyer," he said, "but I'm going down to Essex to-morrow to see if I can put my optica, on him.”

He imagined that Essex was (as it actually is) a suburb of London, but

also a great county.

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STOWAGE OF CARGO.

A SINGAPORE JUDGMENT.

IMPORTANT DECISION.

The Straits Times prints the judg

then dryness of the wood is a virtue, not a defect as the Marseilles cooper Would have it. If Mr. Hii is right, then no absorbent properties of aur- rounding copra could affect his cil at all, his barrels being impervious to the passage of the oil by reason of the internal fim of ghe; so, no wool and rags could have affected

small quantity of a 35 per cent sola. ¡ at 4 p.m. to-day with 1,850 tors of principle on the basis of the Monte Nevoso frontier, territorial contigui he was surprised to learn that it was tons from Singapore on or aboutput on board the fighters, new and

tion of morphin, and also 10 powders, general cargo.

each containing 0.5 grammes of ver-

onal. She went into the Grunewald, The ss. "Harold Dollar," Capra and at about 4 p.m. swallowed Ridley, sailed for New York via 1.7 grammes of morphin and Shanghai at 5 p.m. to-day with 1,036

of rezonai. She tons of general cargo.

wandered

5

grammes

became dazed and. about until she lost conscious- Dess. The temperature was low and the atmosphere damp and chilly. Next day she was found and taken to the mortuary. A doctor saw her and found her deathly pale and pulseless, nor was she breathing." He dropped some sealing wax on the skin, and no reaction took place. He pro nounced the body dead. and it was placed in a coffin, still in its wet clothes.

GEMARANCEL

The ss. "Chishing Br., cleared to-day and will sail for Tientsin via We-haiwel at 8 a.m. to-morrow."

A message from Belgrade states that Yugo-Slav newspapers report that the Italian and Yugo-Slav delegates have reached an agreement in of the State of Fiume, and Italian with Fiume, the independence sovereignity over the Zara Islands, Cherso, Lussin, and Lagosta, the smaller istands being conceded to Italy,

MESOPOTAMIA."

"

LONDON, November 11.

PUNITIVE OPERATIONS ON THE EUPHRATES.

FORD VANS ATTACKED.

"I've got a little money saved," he mused.

To return to the issue of faulty

for the legal heirs of Mr Henryment in the interesting suit between Toogeed Pilkins, who died in Essex"Moraux and Co., Ltd, and the Com-the oil on the Helene if packed in Mr. in 1869. Just one of those ramps paie des Messageries Maritimes Hirs casks, whose dryness is their intended to catch what they call which the plaintiffs sued the firtue.

suckers" in America's boundless defendants for damage done to some SHOPOWNERS NOT AT FAULE.

copra oil which they undertook to Mr. Hill remembers, or has per ship to Marseilles under contract. suaded himself that he remembers, West. And it caught Era P.

The judgment decided the important this very shipment, and says the

not accountable for easks were new and fit to carry copra - question of faults." In the course of his judgment oil to any port anywhere. Plaintiff's the scting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice clerk remembers, or has persuaded Sproule, said Plaintiffs shipped 295 himself that be remembers, this same barrels of copra of containing 50 shipment. He says the casks were August 6, 1919, per the Yoshida dry, the hoops rustless. Defendant's Gee!" he said as the truth began Maru," defendants being the ship's consul has called their tally-clerk, who to dawn on him. "Say, I think agents. When the ship arrived in says, in support of the other side, they've put it across me. Well, that's Marseilles on September 12, 128 that the casks were new, the hoops, all right. Cut in Ypsilanti we say a barrels were found to be damaged, despite some ten days in the lighters, Under the Adriatic settlement, which was only reached after negotia sucker is born every minute, and I and their contents reduced by leakage and despite the observation of the from 25,401.5 to 9,292.5 kilogrammes Japanese chief officer, were only very tions had almost been broken off, the new Istrian frontier partly favours guess I'm one of 'em."

Then and there, with the unbound a loss of 17,109 kilos. In all, more slightly rusted. Yet even he says Zara will be autonomoys but under Italianed optimism of his countrymen, Mr. than one-third of the whole consign that the barrels were wet, not only the Jugo-Slav proposals.

Pilkios dropped his fire million ment was lost by leakage. Plaintiffs with water, but with oil 1 thinks his suzerainty, Italy gets the islands outside Fiume.

dollar" dream. No time to waste on now claim to recover that loss from memory and the memory of Mr. Hill

defendants.

and of plaintiff's clerk are astonish- useless thoughts..

ing, considering that they affect I shant be able to go back packing, plaintiffs had to meet the to remember in October 1920, the in my own oil-driven yacht, and I suspicion attached to the packing details of an ordinary shipment of ain't a-going to buy the Waldorf-here in Singapore, Lloyd's report in cargo in August, 1919. I do not Astoria when I get back, but it ain't Marseilles, and the cooper's verdict overlook that Messrs. Richie and a-going to be said of Ezra P. Pilkins of vice-propre-d'emballage Plaintiffs Bisset have written, blessing Mr. that when he was in London he didn't endeavoured to meet all that with Hir's methods of packing copra oil take it in [meaning seeing the sights.] the evidence of Mr. Hill, the manager in general and endorsing his theory A communique states that the Lower Euphrates column from Samawah So, will you please tell me when I of the Oil Mills in Singapore, who of dry casks.

I think I ought to say that it has can see the King on his throne, and sold them the oil, packed it, and carrying out punitive operations on both backs of the Euphrates around if I can get a sight of the Lord delivered it on board two tongkangs occurred to me that Mr. Bill was to in Singapore River, July 25, 1919. a" certain extent, on his defence. The following have been selected Khidra, met with stubborn resistance on Nov. & from an insurgent band Mayor in his circus wagon?

Out of Mr. Hall's evidence arises a Upon the whole case, in spite of the They tell me that London Bridge to play for the United A.C. in a league concealed in the broken country on the left bank of the river. Our infantry.

ach against the R.G.A. Reserves assisted by aeroplanes, forced the Arabs. from their positions. We is still standing, although I was curious conficit of ideas. The Marsdence of Mr. Hill and Capt. Jones, that it had been burnt down, and we every damaged barrel its "dryness." move the suspicion attaching from to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. on Navy lost two men killed and 2) wounded. Operations are being continued. taught when I was a little shaver seilles cooper ascribed as a fault of I think plaintiffs have failed to re Ground "A"-W. McLeod, A. N.

In his summing up, he condemned the first to their packing and confirm the barrels by reason of their easy ed by after-events, and are debarred Other. D. D. Urquhart (Capt.), W. In the Diyala area 19 Ford vans from Teheran moving from Shahraban made up a little song about it.

under the fence of from leading that the ship knew of drying F. Baker, D. Laing. C. Logan, H. without the cognizance of the authorities were attacked in a pass in the

"I want to see that ' old house

temperature. Capt. Jones' indict and waived any faults of packing. Knight, P. Brown, C. H. Blake. E Jebeihamrin Range on November 4. One agent with three cars got back

is based Plaintiffs, whatever you may ay Reserve: the poison, the limbs and trunk Fincher and G. Chubb.

to Shabraban. A column was sent out immediately and found five cars in the City-road where they say "Popment of the stowage

upon the foundation that the regarding packing, have failed to deserted in the pass. The remaining eleven reached Kizilrobat safely. Roes the weasel, and a girl friend of

mine who does the ice-cream for you Casks allowed of absorption, prove negligence in stowage even if is believed that tribesmen captured 23,000 rupees.

in a store has asked me to be sure through their material of their any other fault of the shipowners, and put a posy on the grave of a guy contents into the surrounding copra. even of the clause "not accountable called Oliver Goldstein, or something In the case of the Helene the for faults" be disregarded. I find of that sort. I've got the name in

virtue of the oil-casks was that loss, was due to leakage for my grip.

assumed to be their saturated charac-which the shipowner was not repon- 'I don't want to leave this great ter, and the leakage was stated by sible. and growing city without visiting the experts to be due to the wood drying For these reasons, the claim must Tower, where they done in those and shrinking and so causing leak-fail and be dismissed out of cout triplets, and I'd like to find time to age. Every layman, moreover, knows with costs. It is believed that the week-end will see the beginning of a complete have a look at the bakery-I'm told that a new water tab usually leaks cessation of traffic on nearly all the Irish ralways excepting the Great it is still doing business where that until the wood gets waterlogged and .. Say! that's a pretty old becomes watertight. Mr. Hill, there Northern. This will be a sequel to attenuated staffs in consequence of feller "Alfred burnt the flapjacks swells and so closes its grooves and ber 8 the patient was convalescent. I hear him. Mr. Hall further stated frequent dismissals on the ground of the men's refusal to, handle Govern Store. We haven't got anything like fore, appears to stand alone against | 7 HEX you have a bad cold you want

Some 14 hours later, on October 29, the coffin was reopened so that a lawyer might identify the body. It appears that the undertaker's men saw that the cheeks were blue and

that the head moved slightly. The same doctor *xas recalled and now beard fairt heart sounds, but there was still no pulse and no breathing.

The patient was taken to hospital, and at 10 am on October 29-e. .42 hours after the swallowing of

FOOTBALL

UNITED v. R.G.A. RES.

became partially stiff, She was J. Marshall.

stil

unconscious

and showed

no reaction to stimuli. The heart sounds could now, however, be heard over the breast bone, the heart beat- ing at 3.80-40 per minute. There was

When a Japanese was charged

still no pulse and no breathing. before Magistrate Orme at the Magis- The skin and lips were deadly

She remained well.

Tê-

that the

tracy this morning, with the posses pale, but the cheeks bluish (leicht sion of 40 taels of raw opium, Mr. A. cyanotisch"). Active treatment for E. Hall, in defence, pleaded that the morphin poisoning morphin was found in the stomach now began. Opium belonged to another gentle Than, defendant merely being in The stiffness passed away in two

charge.

This man's secretary was in bours, and consciousness W23 gained on October 33. On Novem- Court but the Magistrate declined to owner provided defendant's The case is clearly of an excep bail of $5,000 and was prepared to tional nature and leads some support pay the fine. A penalty of $350 was to the view that sleep and hiberna-imposed the Magistrate remarking ation have points in common. That that as the fine was forthcoming he the human body can "suspend" its did not see that it mattered much who most vital activities, would also seem was fined as long as Mr. Hat's client to be suggested, though the evidence would not have to pay the money. on this point is by no means com- plete.

SHANGHAI SWEEP

WINNER.

INDIGESTION AND BILIOUS-

NESS.

LONDON, November 10.

IRISH TROUBLES.

POSSIBLE CESSATION OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

LONDON, November 10.

It

ment monitions and troops etc. It is reported that the Irish railwaymen have decided to fight the question to a finish.

HOME RULE BILL.

In the House of Commons the report stage of the Home Rule Bill was concluded without material alterations. This evening's amendment was agreed to providing that the control of the police should be handed over to the Irish Parlament three years after the Act came into operation, and providing that an absolute majority of the members of each Parliament was required to carry a Fusion Bill

REVOLUTIONARY SPEAKER.

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ARRESTED.

OLIVER GOLDSTEIN.

CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGHL

REMEDY.

remedy that will not only give that

common and, indeed, "notorious " He talked on. All bis knowledge knowledge in Liverpool, against Capt. relief, but effect a prompt and permane of England was based on

a Jones and against the Marseilles ent cure, a remedy that is pleassat to cient English nursery rhymes, on experts, who, I suppose, since take, remedy that contams nothing injurious. Chamberisin's Cough Remedy which the children of the Mid- the beginnings of history have meets all these requirements. It sets to deal with the on Nature's plan, relieves the lungs, aide die West have always been n'- tured. He knew "Mother Hubbard," problem of packing olive oil. Mr. expectoration, opens the zemretions and and "Mulberry Bush," and "Sing Hill pins his faith to a dry cask, its rotores the system to healthy condi sale and use, and can always be depend- song of sixpence" ("I never thought staves and bungs and bilges protected on. This remedy has &.world wide I'd ever see a sixpence alive, like from oil-saturation by a strong intered ups. For sale by all Chemists and this one") and "Baa, baa, black❘nal file of glue. If Mr. Hill is right, storekeepers. sheep.".

Mr. Ezra.F.Pilkins goes home in the steerage of the "Aquitania" a wiser but not a sadder man, and his little They were saying at lunch to-day YOU should not eat food of any kind

sojurn in England proves once more when bilions, but take a full dose that the winner of the biz Shanghai of Chamberlain's Table's and drink Mr. Malque, M.P., who made a wild revolutionary speech at the Albert that our old pursery rhymes stand sweep of $167,000 is Mr. Arnold, plenty of water That will cleanse the Hall on Sunday and suggested the hanging of Mr. Winston Churchill and for Old England in America against Shanghai manager for the Arnolditomach, move the bowels and 500 Lord Curzon as beginning, was arrested in Dublin prior to addressing a all the Poles, Slovaks, Armenians, Karberg Co.

Jestore the system to a healthy condition. Our Shanghai correspondent when For sale by al Chemists and Store" meeting on the subject of Bolshevism. Doubtless this is a sequel to the and Italians that can ever be ferried

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