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November 30, 1919, Tomperature 64.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 30, 1920, 十一月十申庚大圖年九網民

Es, Queen's Band Canizal, Ilangkung

November 30, 1920, Temperature 63.

No. 18,121.

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MIŞSING MILLIONAIRE.

FUGITIVE SECRETARY REPORTED ARRESTED

A CANADIAN MYSTERY.

NEW YORK, November, 24. A message from Portland (Oregon) states that Doughty, secretary to the Canadian millionaire theatre proprietor, Mr Ambrose Small, who, with Doughty, mysteriously disappeared, nearly a year ago, has been arrested. He is stated to have confessed that he took $100,000 worth of bands which were missed when Small disappeared, but denies that he abducted Small.

A SCIENTIFIC BURGLAR.

CHLOROFORMS AIS VICTIMS.

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ELUSIVE CRIMINAL IN CEYLON,"

A scientific burglar of a mest dar.. ing and elusive type is at present at work in Colombo, and there is evidence that he possesses a thorough knowledge of European habits and uses chloroform and other drugs to stupefy Eis victions.

THE NEW WOMAN.

DECISION OF PARIS.

RETURN TO MEDIEVAL PASETONS.

THE DOLLAR.

'To-day's closing rate 3:41 2

To-day's opening rate 3.5

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

(Reuter's Servios to the China Mail)

SWEDISÉ FINANCES.

STOCKHOLM, November gith. The Swedish finances for 1920 are much more favourable than, budgeted. The ITVERRES exoni 250.000 000 kronor.

the expenditure by

LATE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

LONDON, November 24th. The English state is worth 5950.000. The The Empress Engenie left over £2,000,000- will enjoins the executors to prosecute aar one publishing her memoirs and bequeaths a valuable Greuze to Sir John Burgoyne, who brought her to England' in his yacht Gazelle when the Second Empire fell.

OBITUARY,

LONDON, November 9ith.. The death is announced of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir George Callaghan, G.C.B., GUV.O. First and Principal Navi A.D.C. to the King, who commanded the Nava Brigade, in the Relief of Peking. in 1900.

K.C.C.

Paris has spoken, and the world is changed. We are to have new. women. The statue" and form of the sex must be transformed. The day of the "petite femme is at an

SYDNEY. November Pith. end, and we are to bow our diminisheding from hecesses has recovered and ge Waddington, who as in hospital suffer. heads before the belle dame." Thus joined the Marylebone Cricket Cub team.

CANADIAN NEWS SERVICE.

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DUCAL MARRIAGE.

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Lossos. November 98th. The Duke of Westminister has married By taking Mrs. Violet Rowley, daughter of Sir

William Nelson.

The bride's divorce Cores has just been made absolute.

GERMAN'S SENTENCE COMMUTED,

He is regarded as the highest-class romantically Paris reports its decision. criminal who has ever conducted | We own to some difficulty in relating operations on any extensive these fervent phrases to the facts. scale io Ceylon and," up to We speak not to disprove what Paris

LONDON. November 28th. the present, has completely baffled spoke;

A meeting of the Canadian Press repte- the Criminal Investigation Depart to speak what everybody knows. a solution yesterday to sign an agree are senting the whole Press of Canada passed ment. He is obviously oo ordinary The age in which we live had not met with Reuter's for the supply of direct thief but an "artist in his own appeared to us the reign of the little British cable service to Camda. particular fine; is a student of woman.- Even before. "Waaes" human nature and works on very and land girls, and other Anfazons definite and well-thought-out system. thundered into sight wie. mingled His modus operandi is as follows wonder and fear at the growing First of all he never begins opera- magnitude of woman. tions until after 130 am-doubtless thought and exercise she had within because he knows that it is not safe mortal memory added a cubic to her to rely upon a European household stature. No more was Rosalind, but being safely asleep before that hour. just as high as Orlando's Beart. She Secondly, be confines his attestions threatened to pat him on the heart. to European bungalows-obviously Yet Paris declares that this epoch WASHINGTON, November 25th. because be is aware that European was really the apotheosis of "la

On condition that he leaves America residents keep their windows wide petite femme." The syllogism runs before January 1st President Wilson has throughout the aight. thus: "The short skirt is the skirt: Franz von Rimtelen, who was convicted commuted the sentence of the German. Thirdly, be seldom opens an alquirah for a little woman: we have had a in war-time on a charge of fomenting or a drawer, but is content to period of short skirts, and, therefore, rebellion in Mexico with a view to embar help himself to the watches, gold as aforesaid, the little woman has rassing the United States prior to its entry and silver cigarette cases, pocket been in power." Threatened skirts in the war.. money wallets, and other portable live long. Not once nor twice in articles which are normally left on our rough island. story Paris has the dressing table by the average threatened to extend the skirts of European when retiring for the night. civilisation, and civilisation has shown Fourthly, presumably in cases where the dressmakers a clean pair of heels. be desires to make a more through But we venture on no prophecy. search or where he has reason to Our little fashions have their day. believe that his victim is a very light The best of them cannot be relied on sleeper, he makes use of an "Akelin to endure. Nor do we contend that cartridge containing two frail glass every woman is at her best in the bottles, one filled with chloroform exiguous skirt. The infinite variety of and the other with some oth sleep- the sex forbids that any one costuine producing drug.

should be ideal, or even rational.

open

It appears perfectly obvious that But it is with alarm we read that, in the man whoever he may be works devising the new fashions, the dress- entirely on his own and has no ac-makers have gone to the Middle complices. It seems highly prob Ages for their inspiration." That, i able that he £rst carefully gratches intellectually, the Middle Ages were a bungalow upon which he has de coming into fashion again we knew, signs, ascertains the normal habits of but an affection for their economics the occupants and the lay out of the or their ethics or their metaphysics bungalow itself. He then choose a has not hitherto involved an adop- night for his nocturnal call and tion of medieval costume. Whether? waits until a Police patrol has paid the notion will commend itself to some the bungalow a visit and has passed of cur eloquent mediavalists we can on. Then is bis moment for action. not tell; but Paris should be more pre- Without the slightest trouble he slips cise. The Middle Ages lasted a good in through an open window, visits many years, and the dressmakers the bed rooms of the occupants, car then were no more constant to one: ries off all the small portable love than they are now. If Paris articles he can find and then were to urge a revival of Victorian departs

costume we should want to know The use to which he puts the whether the crinoline was intended, "Akolin cartridges"-one of which or merely the bustle. In the early he left behind on the occasion of his Middle Ages the lady of fashion recent visit to a General's House is wore what may be most liidly obvious. The cartridges are normally described as, a loose and flowing used by sufferers from, insomnia in nightgown. The march of ideas: order to induce sleep. As has been transformed this, first, into some already mentioned, they enclose two thing more like a dressing gown, and small glass tubes, one of which con- then into a clinging garment tains chloroform and the other some veiled in something looser. We ather drug. A slight pressure applied will not continge. When the Middle in a certain way is sufficient to break Ages ended is a matter of bitter con the tube and release the chlorsform. troversy among historians, and we The burglar then gently "waves" the are not prepared to accept the deci cartridge beneath the nose of hission of the dressmakers. But we feel f··· victim. A heavy sleep is thus in that women would like to know, for duced and the burglar is left free to example, whether they are to put carry out his search without fear of their hair up, or wear it in two plaits, interruption.

or crown it with a wimple. We com mend to the attention of Paris the schedule of the wardrobe of the Wife of Bath, whose shoes were moist

How the man succeeds in dodging the Police patrols and how he dis poses of the stolen property are my

and new, whose hose of scarlet red, steries which remain to be solved.

As residents know quite well

whose hat as broad as a buckler, and be Colombo is very thoroughly patrolled who, on a Sunday," were upod her

head at night and it is difficult to move swears, weighed full ten pounds,

a wimple which, the poet

abroad after 1.30 am, without being 9 stopped and cross-examined by the Police How this particular man has been able so long to evade the patrols

is a question which gives rise to various theories.

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INDIGESTION" AND "BILIOUS NESS

YOU should not eat food of any kind Another point of considerable in when bilicon, but take a full dose terest is that none of the articles of Chamitiain's

Tablets and stolen by this particular burglar ever ||romachs move the bows

[planty of walic seems to be traced although the Cey-store the system to a healthy log Police are ordinarily quite suc- For Balp by All Chemists sod: ceful in this direction

keepers:

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

CHINA'S NOTE TO JAPAN REGARD

~ING ANFU LEADERS.

[BY COURTESY "HÚNGKONG

FRESS."]

DAILY

PEKING NOV. 29. The Japanese Legation publishes a Note from the Waichiaopu in which the Chinese Government requests. firstly, that Japan officially express regret for permitting Hst Shu Cheng's escape from the Japanese Legation; secondly, the /punishment" of those responsible; thirdly, it places the responsibility arising from the escape upon Japan; and fourthly, it refugees to be handed over to the requests the remaining eight Anfu

Chinese Government.

Mr. Obata replying under instruc tions from Tokyo, declines to acknow- ledge the responsibility for 'Hsu's escape and declares that it is net in- cumbent on the Legation to hand over the remaining eight Anfuites.

CHINA OBJECTS TO CONSOR- TIUM TERMS.

PEKING, Nov. 29. The Minister of Finance, under in- structions, is planning to fost a domestic loan of a hundred million, as the Consortium terms are cojec- fionable. He Appeals to the Chinese bankers for assistance. 3

Two further charges of alleged embezzlement have been preferred against Mr. Ferdinand G. Boulon, -former-manager and attorney, for the Far Eastern Division of Messrs.

Gaston, William & Wigmore, Inc. in Informations in the U. S. Court for China. The amounts named in alleged to have been misappropriat these two charges are Tls. 1,333.71,

ed on June 28, and Tls. 12,250,54- on June 25,

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