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Haircut Assuages Stormy Sea!

One of the most fantastic of sea legenda is reported to have weathered the test of modern scepticism in the course of the latest crossing from Christiania of the Norwegian-Ameri can liner "Bergensfjord." According te the report, the vessel ran into a storm in mid-Atlantic, and there were indications that the supply of fuel oi would not be sufficient for the voyage The commanding officer, Captain Oie rell is represented as having recalled an old Viking superstition to the ect that when storms refuse to eld to man it pleases much the gods if sailors part with their blond, shaggy locks." The ship's barbers were promptly pressed into service, the seamen were shorn, and the storm subsided. When the vessel reached New York on March 27, just one day's supply of fuel remained. The Complete Answer.

The trial of the Communist leader,! Max Holz, for acts of brigandage in Saxony is continuing in Berlin.

Max does not believe in wasting rds. The following dialogue took slace between him and the judge

Did you blow up Dr. Judge Exen's house?"

Holz: "Certainly." Judge: "Did you take hostages and knock them about?"

Holz: "Certainly." Judge: "Did you threaten to shoot them if they did not give you money?"

Holz: "Certainly."

Judge: "Did you take 117,000 marks (nominally £5,850) from Post-! master Werdei?"

Holz: "Certainly."

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When the White Star Line steamer "Olympic" left Southampton for New York she carried a specially appointed lady hairdresser member of the ship's company.

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"New Zealand is going to become the dairy farm of the Empire," said Mr. Massey, its Premier, at e dinner. "We have got tremendous water power" at which there was a yell of laughter.

la the House of Lords judgment was reserved in the betting by cheque appeal which raises the question whether money for a last bet paid by to order" can be crossed cheque recovered from the bookmaker.

A dispute in a separation suit over whether a man should pay his wife 35, or 10s, a week was settled at Sheffield by the solicitors tossing a coin in court. The woman's soliciter called "heads" and won the 22 a week for her.

The Australian Press Association learns that the experiment of convey. ing mails to India by aeroplane will probably be undertaken in September, and that in the event of the experi meat proving successful a regular service will be maintained.

Appearing with his face scratched and bruised and two black eyes, a Grimsby fisherman was asked how he : received the hurts. "A little domestic difference with the wife," was the re- ply. "If I'd a wife like that I should keepquier,"com.mented the magistrate drily.

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The officials of the Home and Territories Department at Melbourne state that up to the present there are only four syndicates endeavouring to It is stated that both the Cabinet quality fer the Commonwealth bonus and the Labour caucus have agreed, of £10,000 to the first person who

Capital Punishment.

to the abolition of captral punishment discovers petroleum oil in Australia

in New South Wales. The abolition; in commercial quantities.

of the death penalty for capital! crimes has been on the Labour plat form for many years. No amend ment of the Crimes Act in this direc elon, however, has yet been atterupted It is now stated that this will be one of the measures on the Government's platform for next session Parliament During the past ten years the death sentence has been carried out very rarely in this State, Since the present Government assumed office it has not once been put into effect. Oa several occasions, however, the death sentree has been commuted to one of permanent incarceration for life

never to be released." World's Oldest Motor-Car.

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TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

RUSSIAN HORRORS.

STARVATION AND PLAGUE STALK THE LAND.

PEOPLE LIVING ON GRASS.

LONDON, August S.

Mr. F. L. Thompson, representative of the American relief administra. tion in the Brest Litovak and Fiosk area, has arrived in London. He says that when he left refugees were pouring into Brest-Litovsk at the rate of 2,000 a day. They had nowhere to live except in ramshackle degouts into which many crawled to dia. Many were unable to walk owing to swollen bodies and legs due to starvation. Mr. Thompson said that in ose town he found ten of the wealthiest families living on bread made of straw, mud, and grass. Thousands of others were living on soup made of grass. A telegram from Riga via Copenhagen states that there were 130,000 deaths from cholera in Russia to the end of July.

BOMBAY LAWLRSSNYSY INCREASING.

WARNING TO LEADERS OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN,

BOMBAY, August 8.

The Governor of Bombay, in welcoming the non-Brabinins' offer of co- operation in quelling violence, solemnly warned the leaders of the anti- Government campaign of the consequences if they did not abandon their attempts to subvert law and order. He said that press and platform attacks had passed legitimate bounds and lawlessness was increasing. The Govern ment however intended to continue a patient and tolerant policy.

IYDIN TIMPLE RIOT.

PRIEST DIRECTS MASSACRE OF SIKH MERCHANTS.

LAHORE, Augus: $.

One of the men arrested in connection with the riot between Sikh merchants and pilgrims at the famous shrine of Nankana Sahib in the Punjab on February 26 has confessed how the priest secretly collected hundreds of good fighters, including Pathans, who massacred the Sikhs when the latter arrived. The priest was on horse back with a pistol. He directed and participated in the staying. All the

dead Sikhs were burned except four.

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

WASHINGTON, August 8.

The Commissioner General of the Bureau of Immigration has ordered that immigrants in excess of the July and August quotas now held up at various ports will be admitted under personal bond and charged to the year's totals. The order admits about a thousand immigrants.

"STONE AGE" MEN IN 1921.

CORAL ISLAND WALLED IN FROM THE WORLD,

VEILED WIVES.

PRAISE FOR ENGLISH

CLOTHES.

A cloudburst at Toronto flooded

A fascinating story of life on the NIGERIAN POTENTATE'S IMPRESSIONS, the streets to such an extent that motorists were forced to take refuge least visited land in the Pacific, on the tops of their cars. Tramway. Reubell Island.. 120 miles south of car passengers had to stand on the Guadalcanar, in the Solomon group, seats. Three women in a moter-car, has beer supplied by Dr. Northcote after being swirled along a tramway Deck, a missionary at Aols. to the track, were rescued from drowning Royal Geographical Society. by wokers with ropes.

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There are only about 500 inhabit arts. and because of their virtual Mr. Hatfeld, who is at Medicineolation, through lack of ship's an Hat, South Alberta, on a contract to homage, even their dialect has never cause rain, is now facing the supreme been studied. They are almost cut test. Owing to the unusual heat from the outside world by walls more rain is essential immediately if the crops are to survive. An indigna- of corel limestone. 300ft. high, and tion meeting of farmers decided that were found to be still living in a man-

before the Stone Age." Hatfield does not produce rain ner

Dr. Derk has made a series of visits.

they will conduct him over Cypress Hills into the United States.

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The Premier of Katsina, the Nigerian potentate who is visiting Britain. inspected the Liverpool Town Hall. He sat in the Lord Mayor's chair in

CHINESE WILL DISPUTE.

The hearing was continued in the Supreme Court to-day before the acting Chief Justice (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz) of the action begun yester- day in regard to the will of Lau Kong | Hing, a Chinese merchant who died in 1913 leaving a large fortune in China, Saigon and Hongkong.

The eldest son. the willow and others are seeking to have the will set aside on the ground of its in- i vidity,

They allege that the testator was of unsound mind and was unduly executor. Lau influenced by the Shui Teun, who is the defendant in the action.

Mr. C. G. Alabaster instructed by Messts. Dennys and Bowley) is appearing for the plaintifs and Mr.

Wilkinson and Grist) represents the F. U. Jenkin (instructed by Messrs.

defendant.

As the party propounding the wil!! the defendant is putting his case forward first. The evidence of the first witness called had not been con cluded when this edition went to

press.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

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sentative form of Constitution in Hongkong will be collected from the places where it has been deposited for signature, on MONDAY, 15th ist. Hongkong, August 9, 1921.

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the Council Chamber, remarking to THE Undersigned have received in. structions to sell by Pablic Auc- those present I am now greater than my ancestors and greater than my ton inheritors, because I am sitting in the chair of the Great White Chiefs."

Gazing enraptured at a statute, be touched it several times, and, observ ing a portrait remarked, "He is alive. See, his eyes are looking at us."

The electric lights were turned on

On first landing he established friend, in the dining-room, causing the visitor

ly relations with the natives, who to remark,

Residents in the Avenue-road disappeared heavily armed.

It might be the whole world." He stood in silent admira-

trist of Highgate were surprised to They brought every available tion before the large mirrors. The find that during the night someone object for sale," he says.

Chief."

The oldest motor car in the world, a puffing. hiccoughing thing running on wooden wheels, will shortly be sold in Paris. It has an interesting history. Teis "oldest carriage with-- out horses" is the property of the

to obtain Premier introduced the Lord Mayor Abbe Gavcis, Cure of Rainreville, in the Somme, who was given a trium had camouflaged the local pillar-box. the much-moveted iron. All were to his two wives as the Great White phal reception when he drove into It had been neatly painted in black smeared with turmeric, giving them a Paris, making the journey at a speed with white stripes, and the work was bright yellow colour, and were tattoed of nine miles an hour without a clearly the work of someone skilled in regular patterns according to rank.” breakdown. The priest is very proud in the art of camouflage. The post-

On the second visit the doctor tiously, but to his great relief there found that the island had once been a was nothing harmful inside, and the gigantic atull: the coral was fissured letters were al undamaged. in all directions, the interstices filled with red soil said to be of volcanic origin.

of his machine, which is thirty years man who went to take the first old, for it has rendered him inestim clearance opened the door very cau able service in his parish and tas only once been in the hands of the repairer. He bought it as a bargain in 1895 paying 1,800 for it. The Abbe Gavois is loth to part with it, but he wants to raise

money

for the clergy of Picardy. hard hit by the war and the lean years of the peace. He hopes to get more for the vehicle than the price he paid

FOXES TEETH AS MONEY.

Caves were seen swarning with

The Premier and his wives left by motor-car for Manchester. The wo men were beavily veiled, and shuttered wiadows prevented them from seeing the outside world.

His baggage included a monstrous

On his arrival in Manchester the Premier delivered himself of the gener al impression that "England is a blessed country. It is so fruitful and At an inquest at Manchester on

prosperous that there seems no rest Ethel Lawrence. 19 domestic servant, who was found shot on a Tuesday flying foxes, whose teeth seem to and no waste land for stooting in." morning. Arthur Dolphin, a young form the only currency on the island. watchmaker, said the giri said to Ten miles of winding track brought meiou. some bowls for rice, and a him, "Will you come out with me the party to the shores of a fine inland kettle. His wives strolled after him and kill ourselves? He answered, lake, ten miles long. with islands into the Midland Hotel lift cach dress. I would, except for my mother," dotted over its western end. It is led in Turkish trousers, blouse, and a and the girl replied, "Oh, that is a

cotirely separated from the sea on kind of toga, extending from the You are not man Mr. Justice Darling pointed out a good excuse. curious anomaly in the law of arrest enough." Part of a letter was read all sides, but communicates with the shoulders to the ankles, and a cloak Asked their opinion of English- at the Old Bailey the other day. It from the girl to Dolphin in which sea by fissures in the coral. Its with the hood covering the face. seems extraordinary," he said, "but she said, You ruined my life, but waters were too salt to be drinkable it is true that without a warrant the it makes no odds; you also are by the visitors, though used for drink- women's clothes, the wives replied: They are very nice but they would

We are never seen." police have no right to arrest any ruined. Do you always play the ing by the natives.

be no use to us. person they suspect of attempted white man? I've tried to, bot it burglary. "If a man who knows seems I've failed." nothing of the refinements of the

for it. When Bill Sikes Can Defs The

Law.

law is shot in trying to stop such`a

The natives navigate the lake in big unwieldy canoes, resembling Bloating platforms. In one of these a native village was reached, and here spears of hard, black wood, 12ft. long the visitors met the most important and six pounds in weight, with 15 to chief on the island. He arrived with a 20 barbs on either side. The making feet of ranges from the largest village of them seems to be a lost art,

on' WEDNESDAY, August 10, 1921, commencing at 11 am.

at their Bales Rooma, Duddell Street.

10 cases Sheep Skin,

4 cases Needlea,

1 Dictaphone,

5 Dictagraphe,

? Shaving Machines,

1 Noiseless Typewriter. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

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WIDNESDAY, August 10, 1921,] commencing at 11 am.

et their Baler Hooms, Daddell Street,

10 cases Logwood Extract,

2 caser RazoTE

2 bales Seaming Twine, 1 case Horse Clippers, 1 case Scissors,

7 dozen Black Shoe Leather,

bales Cow Hides,

30 baies Malting,

1 case Kola Astier,

30 dozen bottles Sirop allax,

44 boxes Colcored Plumes, 80 bares Eye Remedy.

Also

A Quantity of Provisions, Printing Ink, etc. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers. Hongkong, August 9, 1921.

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suspect, it is not murder. but with other malefactors. He was manslaughter. But the police have also told that another offence would a right to arrest without a warrant involve sixty days in jail. Ruth if the suspect is armed. What sort

-"a dignified, powerfully built man, "Throwing spears are also used," TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND of a place will it be." he asked, "it fretted exceedingly, because under the rules of the owners of his team

says the doctor, with points made

OTHER INSTITUTIONS. people go about armed, and thee is liable to a fine of £100 when 6ft. tall, and broad in proportion."*

The people still possess little of human leg and arm bones, and police cannot arrest them without absent from work. Moreover, he going to a magistrate and saying receives £100 for every home run here," says Dr. Deck," and appear in tipped with a bone splinter designed

coming meetings, lectures and they had bulky pockets, and that they would like a warrant to search can hit. The American sporting fact to be still living in conditions to break off in the wound. Although ALL preliminary notices of forth. spirit very keen, and as a result that existed before the Stone Age. most friendly, they are great thieves. Ruth was credited with an hour's The only implements or weapons of They murdered three native teachers entertainments, sent for insertion in reduction of sentence for good be- stone that were seen were two stone left with them, apparently for the the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each, Babe Ruth, America's champion haviour in jail, and at four of clock maces, symmetrically ground, with sake of their goods.

"They seemed to feel keenly the as announced in May and June of home run-getter, has been released was again in his racing car spreding eight knobs, bound to a handle with from jail before his time, in order to to the baseball ground. He had been senrit, and seemingly for ceremoni monotony of their isolation, and last year) providing that they do zot play an important baseball game at sentenced for guinz twenty five miles use. One of these is now in the showed a settled melancholy, both in New York. In the early morning he an hour, but.friends declare that to had been sentenced to a day's his credit the popular player must imprisonment for exceeding the have gone at least, thirty miles an motor-speed limit, was duly fingerbour-to-reach the baseball grounds. printed, and put pehind iron bars and start playing when he did.

them?" Baseball Flayer's Luck.

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