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Furnished with a long pipe, a won derfully tall, crooked stick, and a big smile, Sir Harry Lauder left Waterloo for a six months' tour in Canada and the U.S.A. Lady Lauder accompanied the boat train for the

him on "Aquitania."

The train started half an hour later than had been expected, and standing ou the platform during the wait the comedian radiated merriment.

"That's 'im," said one porter to another, indicating a crowd round a saloon carriage. And without even seeing him, hit by what is called the association of ideas, ca h of the men smiled and hummed one of the old Lauder songs as they banged the luggage about.

But they missed something by not seeing Burry. For in addition to wearing his Scots dress, a kils of Lauder tartan and borne, he carrier a large, light, varnished cook as tall as himsell.

"Yes," he said, in reply to a Press representative. this is my new masrot. It's going on the stage with me in America, and this is its first

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RIVER BURSTS.

HUNDREDS FIGHT FOR LIFE IN TERRIFIC STORM.

A large part of San Antonio, Texan, one of the most beautiful cities in America, bas been devastated by a flood wave which burst from the San Antonio River. Forty bodies have been recovered.

The flooded districts cover an area about 23 miles long by 1-mile wide. Several streets were swept bare, houses being carried away bodily and piled in heapa lower down the river. Several big buildings, including hotels, clubs, the city ball, and the

THE CHINA MAIL.

BLACKMAIL" PLOT.

THREE YEAR SENTENCES IN

CAMERĂ CASE,

"If the prosecution have established their case, then this is the most cløver, the most cunningly devised and diabolical scheme of blackmail that has ever come before a British court of justice," said Mr. Justice Acton, in summing up the evidence in the Woodford blackmail case at the Old Bailey, Lordon, last month.

The jury returned a verdict of "Guilty," and the prisoners, Amie Montigny (26), mechanio; Gerald Douglas (22); engineer: and George Thomas Moody (21), engineer, were sentenced each to three years' penal

servitude.

May Levy (20) an actress, who was recommm nded to mercy, was sent to prison for three months, Douglas collapsed in the dock.

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A PILGRIM IN EUROPE. HAIG'S SECRET PAPERS.,

MRS. PHILIP SNOWDEN'S STORIES OF HER TRAVELS.

Entertaining descriptions of her travels in many lands are told by Mrs. Philip Snowden in her latest book,

Political Pilgrim in Europe" (Cassell and Co., just published.)

record among laywomen, for she has Mrs. Snowden probably holds the

visited America, France, Germany, Hangary, Switzerland, Georgia, Rus- aia, Sweden, and finally Ireland.

The pan-pictures of the people she has met, among them an alarming unmber of aristocrats, are the most striking features of her book.

Mrs. Snowden's observations aug gest that the post-war period has been a bad time for large numbers of

The case was one in which Mr. | women.

John Blake, after being decoyed into A Maniol girl of 18 told her a house by the woman. Levy, was painful atory of an unscrupulous and threatened with exposure un ess he elderly admirer.

"I will give you two fresh eggs purchased for £500 photographs and dictaphone records alleged to have day if you will be my friend," ho A similar that was made to Mrs.

been taken in a bedroom at the house. I said.

Blake.

When the case opened Mr. Justice Acton, commenting on the fact that there, were four women on the jury, said there was an element in the case which made it particularly undesir- able that a mixed jury should try it. The women were replaced by men.

police beadquarters, directly in the Counsel stated that the prisoner path of the flood, which were not Douglas had worked at the sama pl. co carried away, were filled to the second as Mr. Blake, and knew that he had

"We ate all hungry, and my mother is sick, but my Socialist faith .kept me," commented' the girl.

Socialist circles, she confesses, mads

The women outside feminist and

poor impression on Mrs. Snowden. She writes:

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I wearied of it almost before understood the sex game as it is played in the cosmopolitan cities of Europe. provocative dress, the tasteless con- The insolent sidelong look, the

women habitues of fashionable hotels,

floors with the rushing torrent. The come into a large sum of money; and versation, and gross manners of the loss of life was heaviest in the thickly Mr. Blake, in evidence, declared that populated west hank of the river, he was immediately suspicious of where thousands of Mexicans area ereen in the bedroom, and "with are a weariness of the flesh to the self- my eye on it was keen on following the thing through."

homeless and destitute.

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respecting,

when the river banks burst, and the A terrific thunderstorm was raging

There are two good jokes in the Montigny, in evidence, said that book. Ons is contained in the follow- lightning added to the terrors of the Douglas proposed to play a practical ing message, quoted to show how night as, in complete darkness, joke on Blake, but when the photo-meaningless the word "comrade" may graph was taken it was proposed that as they were out of pocket over the matter, they should sell it to Blake.

hundreds of people fongh, for life in the waters. The city is now without an electric power house, water supply, and telephone service.

The flood wave which rushed down the river is stated to have been 20ft. high. It was the result of a virtual cloudbur t in the valleys to the north "It was presented to me by Lord of the city, down which run the Stamfordham at Buckinghone falace, tributaries of the main river. In When my wife and I were up at some places 12 inches of rain fell in Braemar we motored to Balmoral, 36 bars, culminating in a tornado. after lunch. The head stalker show- The damage at San Antonio is ed me this holly stick, which I ad- estimated at £2,250,000. mited very much.”

QUEST FOR A WIFE,

"NICE LOOKING MAN” APPEALS TO BRIGHTON'S MAYOR.

RARE PLANT DISCOVERED.

PICKED IN AZORES NEARLY

CENTURY AGO.

▲ belated discovery of plants nearly a century old, and believed to be now extinct, has just been made,

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No threats were used to Blake.

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Moody also said that Douglas called the scheme a practical joke, Blake was rather loose in his habits with women.

Police Sergeant Hider told the court after the verdict that Douglas had an excellent Army record. He had taken a pilot's certificate and received an honorary commission in the R.A F. His real name was Paul. Moody was also a man of excellent character and good Army record. He was the son of highly respected people. The police knew nothing against Levy. Montigny, whose real name was Craig, had a motor business at Rochdale which failed, and had after- wards worked in coal mines in York- shire.

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become. Dear Comrade. What do you mean by selling out like you did? I ate a liar and a scoundrel. You, ought to be shot, you filthy dog Yours fraternally.

The 'her is the simple fact that Mr. Arthur Henderson who had per suaded her to go to Bolshevik Russia, prevented her, in the intereste of her own safety, from accompanying the Labour Party's delegation to Ireland.

-TO-NIGHT I AT THE

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"THE CIRCLE"

HINLOO MERCHANTS

TRADE GUILD FORMED.

Hindoo merchants trading in Hong- kong have formed a trade association

Early this year, writes a Daily Chronicle representative, the Royal Botanic Society of London were asked AEROPLANE USEFUL ONLY FOR which has been registered at the

COAST DEFENCE,

That the battleship is still the back- bone of the modern navy is the deci sion 'embodied in the report of the

Any lady wishing to marry a "nice-looking man" owning a rauch in Vancouver should apply to the Mayor of Brightou, who has rceived by Mesra Joseph Barber and Co of the following appeal :--

the Minories to accept a case of dried Duar Mr. Mayor, Will ̧you' plants, specimens from the Azores. kindly see if there is a lady The plants had been in their ware from about 21 to 35 who would house for many years,

come out to Canada | A specimen was sent for examina-Joint Commission of Navy sid Army and marry a man aged 36, with blue tion, and, according to the Quarterly eyes, good teeth, found in mind and, Review of the R.B.B., the name of limb, having a clean sheet mentally the collector (Mr. Carew Hunt H.B.M. and physically, Ruskin, Hall, Oxford, Consul at the Azores), the name and education, world-wide tr vel, three place of finding of the plant and the languages, and jolly disposition, date of its collection (1834), were

given on docket.

Bare

to

I have a third interest in a ranch, "but don't like rauching. I'l leave it. You say about my looks-I am reckoned nice looking. I guess that is all. Widows not exempt; in fact, otherwi

Please ask applicants to enclose photographs.

Photograph which the man arude the Mayor is of a nic-looking, clean shaven man, with a broad, genial smile,

The Mayor is quite prepared to receive applications hom ladies who wish to enter the mariisge market, either for the first or second time,

In order, however, that applicants may give the matter due selection, the Mayor warns them that he is setting out ou holiday until the end of the month.'

LOCKED UP IN BRITISH

MUSEUM TILL 1940,

If the secret documents relating to Lord Kitchener are deposited in the British Musenim for 60 years, as is propose i by Lord Esher, they will be locked up in a special cupboard with

the war. Lord Haig's private papers relating to

It is not generally known, writes a Daily Chronicle representative that about two years ago Lord Haig's per

sonal notes and documents, which must be of immense national and historical interest, were given into the charge of the trustees of the Brit ish Museum with instructions that they were not to be opened until 1940.

Although he has received many tempting offers the Field-Marshal has refused to write a book on the war, and he has always maintained great reticence about the secret bistory of the campaign in France, of which he must know so much.

It was through Lord Esher that the documents came to be deposited in the British Museum, an official of the institution explained to a Daily | Chronicle representative.

of the other trustees, and had the ** 1 ord Esher obtained the consent

ocuments locked up in a special cup board," he said. Very few people; can know anything of their contents. Personally I have not even seen the papers.

have been made to safeguard the No very elaborate arrangements papers, but you can take it that they are locked away sately, and that arrangements have been made for protection against fire, as in the case of everything else in the Museum.

"When the time arrives in 1940

the documents will be opened and examined by the trustees. I suppose will not be decided until then what use will be made of them.

it

"It is not an infrequent occurs in the museum for a stated number for private documents to be deposited

of years, but there are not many ins- tances of papers of military interest being an dealt with.

Quite a number of valuable literary manuscripts have been de- posited here, and a number of private papers relating to Lord Byron were locked up for a number of years.

"They were eventually examined by the trustees but it was decided not to make the contents public.”

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WHISKY SMUGGLING.

DEALS INVOLVE £100,000,000,

DRUG-TAKERS TEEBLED.

The resumption of liquor smuggling from Canada into the United States is reported on a scale surpassing any. thing previously known,

This follows the decision in the magistrates' court at Windsor, Ontario that the laws of the province, which is itself dey, do not prohibit the ship- ment of liquors through it for export,

Secretariat for Chinese Affairs as "the Sind Hindoo Merchants' Guild." Its existence Logan on November 1.

The objects of the Guild, as set out in the printed rules, are, inter ália, Within a few hours of this decision Officers on the recent manoeuvres o to promote and protect Indian trade in more than 700 lorry loads of whisky the Virginian-codat. In these several Hongkong and Canton, to establish a and beer arrived at Windsor and types of warships, including the commercial exchange and to arbitrats Sandwich City for smuggling into the former German Dreadnought Ost in trade matters affecting members of United States by the Detroit River friesland," were attacked by aircraft. the Guild,

and Lake Michigan. That aeroplane," says the report, Any Sind firm or merchant of good The magnitude of the illicit liquor “instead of furnishing an economical moral character may join. The trade

emphasized Not having a herbalium, the Royal instrument of war leading to the foundation members, who will carry at a Cabinet meeting when Botanical Society wrote to the direc-abolition of the battleship, merely on as a Board of Directors "until the President and his advisory tor at Kew asking if they would care added to the complexity of nava) their successors are elected" are considered the whole. ques to have the find.

warfare. The report points out the Wassiamal Assomal and Co., repre- tion of prohibition enforcement, Colonel Sir David Frain, in a reply. difficulty of drawing from the man seated by Pareram Lakumal; which has become acute. The turn says:--Thomas Carew Hout is well-oeuvres an exact conclusion as to the Pohoomall Brothers., represented by over of smugglers' rings all over the known as a student of the flora of the ability of aircraft to hit surface vessels, | Thakurdas, A. Mahtani; D. Chellaram, country, the President was inform- Azores, and his collection is the more as they were not conducted under was presented by W. Naraindas; K. Aed, amounted to not less than valuable, as it appear to contain conditions. It is regarded as certain J. Chotirmal, represented by V. J. £100,000,000 in the last 13 months : plante which have not been found that the number of direct hits under Detaram, Dialdas and Sons., represent this in spite of the fact that millions since in the islands, either because such conditions is relatively few. The ed by Manghanmal D. Mirchandani; of gallons were seized by the enforce- they have become extinct or have greatest damage was done by large Watanmal Boolchand, represented by ment authorities. escaped recent observations. A set bombs exploding under the water Parscam; T. Pursumal represented. The Commissioner of Public Welfare, of Hunt's plants is at the Natural alongside.

by Lekhraj V. Sawlani; K. Hasaram in his annual report, shows that the History Museum, but Kew does not Ia coast defence operations," saya and Co., represented by Watumal number of persons addicted to druga possess, any. Thus the sequisition of the Commission, seroplanes possess | Lækbraj; Hasarmal Lilaram and Co.; who have been dealt with by Now. Mr. Hunt's plants would" be highly important strategical and tactical represented by L. D. Karainey; R. York police has been trebled since appreciated by ún.”*

qualifications. In adequate quantities] N. Dhupamal and Co., represented by prohibition came into effect. they may prove the decisive factor in D. Lalchand. Mr. T. A. Mahtani has cases of alcoholism also continue to such operations."

been elected secretary.

The specimens have been transferred to Kew.

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