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TO-DAY'S

CABLE.

(Reuter's Savics to the China Mall)

NATIONAL CRISIS,

TRIPLICE DECISION TO STRIKE ON FRIDAY.

* SITUATION VERY GRAYL."

UGLY INCIDENTS REPORTED FROM FIYESHIVË,

:

LONDON, April 13.

The temper of the miners in some areas is taking an ugly tura. For example there was a serious disturbance at Thornton Junction in Fifeshire where several thousand miners compelled a number of railway signalmen to leave the signal cabins, causing practical suspension of traffic; but | marines and sailors were called in and traffic was resumed. The strikers then looted goods trains and two shops but were driven off by police. soldiers, and sailors who were rushed up in lorries. A score of rioters were arrested..

THE CHINA MAIL.

ORENA AG080 20874

THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.

IIL-THE HAND OF A THIEF shor his voice was suddenly arrested

His companion turged and looked at

BY SAIS ROEDER.

(Cordinmed from yesterday.)

(COPYRIGHT, 1910.)

In which is introduced Ead Daxter, American, who only goes in on the big game." The girl with the violet eyes appears again and in this third story of the adventures attending the theft of Mohammed's slipper mystery and excitement are more intense sham

I was prepared for it, yet wM thrilled electrically by the fishing games of the violet eyes-lor, it was shew-the beautiful harbinger calamities!

Į

BCE KANA

ably had Troused the attention of a policemsa. Some-ace was clamour- ing upon the door of the museum, too.: Mostyn raced forward and raised the blind—that_toward which the slipper had seemed to more.

The lower pane of the window wa smashed. Blood-was trickling down upon the, Boor from the jagged edges of the glass.

**Hallo, there: Open the door! Open the door 1**.

Bells were going all over the place

now ; sounds of running footstepa came.

I knew myself helpless, and bend from below; but Mostyn stood staring ing my head with a curious embar-at the broken window and at the solid Jiren bars which protected it without, rassment, passed on hurdedly.

I

1. had work to do in plenty, but which were intact, substantial which could not apply my mind to it; and, showed him that nothing human could now, although the obvious and sen- possibly have entered. sible thing to do was to go about my That was the story as I heard it business wandered on aimlessly, half an hour later. For Inspector Bis my brain employed with a hundred, tol, apprised of the happening. was le conjectures. There was some promptly on the scene; and knowing "How long has he been gone?”

thing magnetic about the accursed how keen was my imerest in the mat The man started and began to peer slipper, for, without knowing by what ter he rang me up immediately. about anxiously.

route. I had arrived there, I found my arrived soon after Bristol and found a That's a fancy thing, sir," he self in Great Orchard street and close perplexed group surrounding the un- said, "I was keeping my eyes speci-under the walls of the British Anti- canny slipper of the Propher. No moe ally upon him. I noticed him hover- quarian Museum. Then I was effec- had dared to vonch it; the dread ver geance of Hassan of Aleppo would visit In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George ing wound while Mr. Mostyn was tually aroused from my reverie.

Two men, both tall, stood in the any onbeliever. who ventured to lay read a letter from the National Union of Railwaymen announcing the Triplice speaking; but although I could have

side of the street, staring intently up we knew it, and, as though it had been decision to strike at ten o'clock 'on Friday night. He said that the worn be hadn't, passed out, he's) shadow of,,a-doorway on the opposite hand upon the holy, bloody thing. Well No one venomous scorpion, we, a.company? at the Museum `windows. Government deeply deplored this decision. Undoubtedly the situation was very grave but he hoped wiser counsels would prevail. Meanwhile the Government is concerting all necessary measures to meet the emergency.

A SERIOUS BLOW.

PREMIER'S HOPE.

LONDON, April 13.

LONDON, April 13. The locomotive enginemen and firemen who have their own union Independent of the National Union of Railwaymen, and whose attitude up to the present has been doubtful, have decided also to strike on Friday. Mr. Lloyd George has written to the leaders of the railwaymen and trans port workers asking the grounds on which they have decided to inflict such a serious blow to their fellow countrymen..

NEXT PEACE MOVE?

LONDON, April 13.

It is expected that the next peace move will come from Labour leaders outside the Triplice. It has not yet been ascertained how many unions will support the Triplice but Mr. Thomas, announcing the decision, added that many other unions had applied to join in the strike. He stated that these include the electrical trades union. On the other hand, district returns in the ballot by the sailors and firemen's union up to the present show substantial majorities against a strike.

NATIONAL RALLY.

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vous rumours.

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at a meeting in Edinburgh unanimously passed a resolution calling on ex. Service men to assist in preserving life and property in the grave national crisis.

gone!!"

"You didn't notice his departure then?”

**I'm sorry to say I didn't, sir." Bristol at the far end of the room, was signalling to më. I walked back and joined him.

Come over here," he said in a low voice, and pretend to examine these things"

He glanced significantly to his left. Following the glance, my eyes fell upon the lean American; he was peer- ing into the receptacle which held the boly slipper.

**Did you notice that man I glanced at?".

** Yes."

else was in Orchard Street-that odd of up-to-date prosaic men of affairs, Little backwater the time, and stood around that dilapidated markoob, they stood gazing upward intently and kept a respectful distance.

Mostyn. an odd figure in pajaZERS and gave me not even a passing giance.

| and dressing gown, turned his pale, But I knew one for the Oriental intellectual, face to me as I entered.

"It will have to be put back~~ visitor of the morning, and, despite broad noonday and the hum of busy secretly," he said. London about me, my blood seemed His voice was very unsteady. Bris to turn to water. I stood rooted total nodded grimly and glanced at the the spot, held there by a most surpris-two constables, who, with a plain ing horror.

clothes man unknown to me, made up that midnight company.

For the gray-bearded figure of the other watcher was one I could never forget. It was Hassan of Aleppo!

"I do it, sir," said one of the constables suddenly.

If he saw me, it either of them

What I "One moment," Mostyn raised his saw me, I cannot say..

**Do you understand fully," the should have done, what I might have, hand.

**the risk you done, it is useless to speak of here!

Well, that's Earl Dexter, the first trook in America: Ssh! Only goes on very big things." We had word at the Yard when he landed; but we for I did nothing. Izert, thrilled by curator continued, can't touch him-ve can only keep the presence of that eerie, dreadful,ra

"I think so sir," answered the con- our eyes on him. He travels openly being. I watched them leave the ' and in his own name; always dresses shadow of the doorway and pace Stable, but I'm prepared to chance the same and has just given me 'good slowly on with their dignified Eastern, it

**The hands," resumed Mostyn

three

weeks bence.

Man We heard this morning that he That right the devikry began., slowly of those who hitherto have The national sally in support of the Government continues. Recruiting day They call him the Sombrero gait. for the defence force has greatly increased, following the killing of mischiend booked two first-class sailings on Mr. Mostyn found himself wholly un- ventured to touch it have boot?!!

A committee representing ex-Service men's organisations the Oceanic, leaving for, New York able to sleep. Many relics have cari-he hesitated cut off."

Now. Mr. ous histories, and the experienced. All right, sir," said the man with archaeologist becomes callous to that a sort of studied truculence, "I'll take Cavanagh, what is his game?"

"It has occurred to me before Bris- uncanniness which seems to attach to my chance." tol." I replied, "and you may re-some gruesome curios. But the slip, I tried to stop him; Mostyn, too, member that I mentioned the idea to per of the Prophet was different. No stepped forward, and Bristol swore you, that there might be a third party mere ghostly menace threatened its frankly. But it was of no avail interested in the slipper. Why shouldn't Earl Dexter be that third party?"!

MUI TSAL

-NO-LOCAL BOARD_OF_INVESTIGATION? CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.

LONDON, April 13.

holders; an avenging scimitar follow- A sort of chill seemed to claim ed those who came in contact with my very soul when I saw the con- ft; gruesome tragedies, mutilations, stable stoop, unconcernedly pick up murders, had marked its progress the slipper and replace it in the broken throughout.

case.

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"Because he isn't a fool," rapped Bristol, shortly. Earl Dexter isn't a man to gather up trouble for him. The night was still-is still as, 1 "All you want is a new pane of In the House of Commons, replying to Lord Cavendish-Bentink, Mr. S. More likely if his visit has any- London night can be; for there is al- glass, sir," he said, " and the thing's

thing to do with the slipper he's re-ways a vague murmuring in the done." Winston Churchill said that he was not aware of the appointment of amined by Hassan and Company. metropolis as though the sleeping city: Constable Hughes has no further board of investigation to inquire into the system of aui isai in Hongkong. He Museum-breaking may be a bit out breathed gently and sometimes stirred place in these records. He was pick- ed up outside the section house on in its sleep. of the line of hashishin !"

Then, distinct and amid these usual the following evening with his right was informed that a committee of Chinese ladies was being formed to

This latter suggestion dovetailed assist in this connecion the Po Leung Kuk (home for destitute women and with my own ideas, and oddly enough nocturnal noises, rose another, unachand severed just above the wrist.

The day that followed was one-of girls) which was of the greatest assistance to the Colonial Government in there was something positively whole-countable sound; and hated crash!

the hottest which we experienced dur- some in the notion of the straightforfollowed by a musical inkling. all matters connected with the protection of women and girls.

|ward crookedness of a mere swell Mostyn sprang up in bed, drew on ing the heat wave. It was a day

cracksiman.

* dressing gown and took from the crowded with happenings. The Bar- small safe at his bed head the museum, ton room was closed to the public, keys and a loaded revolver. A some; whilst a glazier worked upon the what disheveled figure, pale and wild- broken east window and a new blind eyed, he made his way through the was fitted to the west... Behind the private door and into the ghostly pre- workman, guarded by a watchful com cincts of the Assyrian gallery.

HONGKONG NAVAL HOSPITAL

QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

LONDON, April 13.

In the House of Commons, replying to Commdr. Bellairs, Colonel Amery stated that the maximum number of patients that could be accom- modated

Hospital, Hongkong. was 134. af the Royal Naval maximum

The

¡1920

Were

and

minimuma 52, respectively.

in had

accommodated

99 and

Eleven convalescents been sent from the Hongkong hospital to the Yokohama Naval Hospital in 1920. The latter was not reopened until June 16, 1920, which was after the usual time of the year for the transfer of convalescents thither from

Hongkong.

HOLLAND AND BRITAIN.

NEW DAILY AIR SERVICE INAUGURATED.

LONDON, April 13.

Then happened a singular thing, and one that effectually concluded our whispered colloquy. From the top end of the room, beyond the case con- taining the slipper, one of the yellow blinds came down with a risk.

Bristol turned in a flash. It was not a remarkable accident, and might portend no more than a loose cord, but when, having walked rapidly up ite room, we stood before the lower- ed blind, it appeared that this was no accident at all.

a piece of linen a foot square had been neatly slashed our.

Bristol stared at me in perplexity.

ed-" and what the blazes for?"

the door.

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SUPERSTITIONS,

SINGING BEPORE BREAKFAST.

He was a gloomy killjoy who first missionaire, yawned the shattered case: The funeral of the late Mr. John said "Sing before you eat, ay before Along its ghostly aisles he passed, containing the slipper.

Graham Gray of Messrs Snowman & sleep. The superstition is purely At about 11 oclock, as I hurried Co., whose death from blood poisoning psychological, in, origin,-jana gets and before the door which gave ad- mittance to the Burton room paused, along the Strand, I almost collided occurred at the Government Civil up in the morning and comes down with the girl of the violet eyes? She Hospital, took place at Happy Valley singing to breakfast. Before bed- fumbling a moment for the key."

Inside the room something was turned and ran like the wind down last evening.

time something has gone wrong and moving

Arundel street, whilst I stood at the The chief mourners were Mr. R. T. Jane is in tears. Then somebody.. One side of the room lay in black-corner staring after her in Hank Matheson, of Canton (brother-in-law), says "And, she was so happy this Some four feet from the bottom of est darkness through the furthermost amazement, as did other passers-by; and Mr. Clifford Kågembe, partner morning; I heard her singing all the

way down stairs."- the blind (or five teer from the floor) window of the other a faint yellowed for a man cannot with dignity race of Messrs. Snowman & Co.

luminance (the moonlight through the beadlong after a pretty woman down a

This contrast between Jane's state Among others who formed the blind) spread upon the polished par- public thoroughfarer quet flooring. But that which held

| her state of mind at zight makes an "It's the most horrible and con- cortege were Mesars. R. Dyer, Tof mind in the early morning and Who on earth did it," he mutter- the curator spellbound was a beam of fusing case," Bristol said to me when M. G. Brayfield, G. M. Elliott, Wimpression, naturally, upon the whole cold light which poured its effulgence joined him at the museu, that Budge, W. Skinner, W. B. L. Shenton family brings into high relief, ine The American gentleman has just fully upon the case containing the Pro- the Yard has ever had to handle. ItA H. Crew, H. W. Lucas, S. J. Syrett, fact that she sang before breakfast gone out, Sir," said the sergeant at phet's slipper: Where the other ex bristles with outrages and murders. A. Stevenson, F. Smyth, D.K. Blair, on the day of her sorrow. There is hibits lay either in utter darkness or God knows where it will all end. I've H. A. Taylor, H. M. Nemazes, W. at once a suggestion of cause and I nodded grimly and raced down the semi-darkness this one it seemed was had London scoured for a cine to the Logan, D. L. W. Williams, S. Berg, effect.

The many hundreds of times, per- steps. Across the hall in front of me supernaturally picked out by this lunar whereabouts of Hassan and Company, E. L. Hosic, H. A Lammert, F. M. 1 saw Eart Dexter passing out of the search light!

and drawn absolutely blankt Then Crawford, W. Forbes, L. H. Fox, haps, that Jane has sung before I followed him-through It was ghostly unnerving, but the there's Earl Defter. Where does he H. K. Morton, H. Dryer, A. Worsee, breakfast and things have gone into Kingsway and thence to Fleet first dread of it passed, Mostyn re- come in? For once in a way be's Hy-J. H. Scott, W. F. Stevens, B. smoothly with her all day are sow Street. He sauntered easily along, a called how thuring the day a hole in- ing in hiding. I can't find his head-Griffiths, Dr. E. A: Jay, Captains remembered. Why should they be? nonchalant gray figure. I had begun explicably had been cur in that blind; quarters. I've been thinking " Hover, Bygate, W. C Bird and E-violent contrast between her state in to think that he was bound for his he recalled that it had not been mend. He drew me aside into the small Jones, and the Portuguese and Chinese the morning and her state in the hotel and that I was wasting my time ed, but that the damaged blind had gallery which runs parallel with the stalls of Messrs. Snowman & Co.

evening to impress. them upon.site when he turned sharply into quiet merely been rolled up again.

Assyrian room.

The following sent wreaths mind. We make our psychologica Salisbury Square; it was almost de- And as a davning perception of the

"Dexter has booked two passages The Committee and Members of the superstitions out of coincidences for serted.

? truth came to him, as falteringly be in the Ocemic. Who is his com-Institution of Engineers and Shipwe are impressed by coincidence and My heart leaped into my mouth advanced a step toward the mystic panion?" with a presentiment of what was com- beim, he saw that one side of the case I wondered, I had wondered more builders of Hongkong, Messrsi contrasts while ordinagy, It is understood that Shimizu bas cabled from Calcutta that he willing as I saw an elegant and beauti- had been shattered he saw the than once, it his companion were my Moller & Co. (Hongkong), Ltd., kares our imaginations untouched.

fully dressed woman sauntering along broken glass upon the Bow, and in beautiful violet-eyed acquaintance. A Messrs, J. Ullmann & Co., Messrs. In the course of a contes be unable to represent Japan, in the Davis Cup Hes this year. Further in front of us on the far side. the dense shadow behind and under scruple-perhaps an absurd scruple Thoresen & Co., Messrs. Goddard & efforts are being made through the National Tennis Club of Japan to obtain bis release from business with a view to his participating in Japan's debut in international tennis. Tilden, the world's champion, expresses the opinion that Japan will be the challengers if Shimidzu plays.

Holland and Britain are being brought into quicker communication by the inauguration of a daily Dutch air service between London and Amster dazi. The schedule time is four hours and the ten fare guineas. An air conmuseum.

pection from Amsterdam to Copenhagen is made with "flying pullmans" luxuriously fitted with armchairs and writing tables.

DAVIS CUP TENNIS

EFFORTS TO SECURE SHIMIDZU FOR JAPAN.

KAVAL ARMAMENTS."

LONDON, April 13.

PAVING THE WAY FOR NEGOTIATIONS FOR REDUCTION. » »

WASHINGTON, April 13. Senator Borah introduced into the Senate a resolution authorising the President to open negotiations with Britain and Japan as regards the reduction of nayal construction. ...

there was, upon those occasions, NO

tine

Was it that I detected something the beam of light, vaguely he saw a hitherto had kept me silent respect Douglas, Messes. Lowe, Bingham & to the For Eastern Frytmightly, d

ing her, but now I determined to take Matthews, Mr. and Mrs, C. Edgcumbe with the recent history of Cinere familiar in her carriage in the poise dalk red object. ... of her head something that remind- It moved--it seemed to live! It Bristol fully into my confidence. A Mr. R. M. Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. H. finance and railway development ed me of former unforgetable encoun- moved away from the case and in the conviction was growing upon me that Gray, and Mrs. Gray, Mr. A. Worsoe, Mr. Emil 8, Fischer deplore the fact ters, encounters which without excep- direction of the eastern windows 1

she and Ear! Dexter together repre- Me. J. S. Agunit, Mr. and Ms H that the new Republican Goverishent, tion had presaged attempts upon the "My God!" whispered Mostyn sented that third party whose exist Dreyer, Miss Helen Clarkson, Mr. Ain spite of its attempts stroforms and slipper of the Propher? Or was it "it's the Prophet's slipper!"

epce we had long suspected. Whether W. Enowman, Mr. B. Griffiths, Mr.s.constitution, was unable to carry that I recollected how Dexter had And wildly, blindly, he fired down they operated separately or on behall Lam Fai Ting, Mr. E. B. Ray, Mr. Wout the construction of radwaza and booked two passages for America? I the room. Later he knew that he had of the Moslems (of which arrangement A. Dowley, Mr. H. M. Nemazce, Mr other developments into Far: Western carrot say; but I-lelt my heart leap: Fred in panic; for nothing human was I could not conceive) remained to be and Mrs. F. Smyth, Mr. W.F. Stevens, Chine. If this were accomplished to-- I knew beyond any possibility of doubt or could be in the place; yet his shot seen. "I was about to voice my doubt Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lucas, Dr. C. day, China would have been able to that this meeting in Salisbury Square was not without effect. In the it and suspicions when Bristol went on Forsyth, Mr. D. L. W. Williams, Mr. feed its starving millions in the north- marked the opening of a new chapter stant. of its flash something struck hurriedly.

M. Nemazee, Mr. C. W. Olson, Molile, eastern section of the country when in the history of the slipper... sharply against the dimly-seen blind

"I have thoroughly examined the Jean de V. de Beaufort, Mr. ET. H. the present famine exista Chenin is Derter slipped his arm within that of one of the east windows; he heard: Burton room, and considering that the Banje, Mr. and Mrs. W. J Cooper, plentiful in the mountain sections of of the girl in front of him and paced the crash of broken glass.

He leaped to the switch and flooded windows are thirty feet from the Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Wardlaw, 3 A Kansu Province,, but, its apot slowly forward in earnest convers tions I suppose fat action was very the room with light. A fear of what ground; that there is no sim of slid E. Hall, Major G. F. E. Rapeon, Mr. from, the western hinterland by da amateurish and a piece of very poor it might hold possessed him and he der having stood upon the lawn, and and Mr. H. M. Crawford, M. & Berg, the cast is an impecability as there that the iron bars are quite tact, it detective, works for readiess of disturned instantly,

Mr. P T. Hingkes, Mr. and Mrs B. Jis not a milway yet and the Yellow Hard by the fragments of broken slook hady poses for In the Senate, Senator Knox introduced his peace resolution. It con-obvery crossed the road and passed

** close-by-thig part pos

glase upon the Boor and midway be to have been in the room last night Syrett, Me C. Fauntsen, Mr. B. River is not navigable all the way

prior to Mostyu's, and to

8. Hodge, Mr. Sin Tak Fan, Mr. H. C. account of the great obetaçlarla žia tained &-clause reserving. American rights

reaty of Versalles |--ver/Permain unt Detter was egeak-

farabadie, Mr. and Mrs. De Kg Blaiz (To be cotébenză. ing ax 1 Canis tip, the well out ti zazó window lay the slipper. A bell o

PEACE RESOLUTION IN SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April K.

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