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Staphest von Lorthy, wife and challen

Stephen von Lorthy, Jr., a Hungarian nobleman, faces doportation in Chicago on a charge of entering America illegally. His wife is an American girl, and his baby was born in America. He might never have been found out if he had not applied for naturalization papers to become an American citizen. His father, Baron von Lorthy, has lived In America for ten years as head of a Chicago film company. An appeal has been filed in Washington to permit him to remain and be

come a citizen.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923

ISP Colorado,

The U. S. S. "Colorado," mightiest warship afloat and the last Uncle Sam can build for ten years, under the Naval Disarmament treaty, has reached the Brjoklyn (N.Y.)'Navy Yard and will rem in there for two months, while her fire-control system is being installed. The vessel is 624 feet long with a normal displacement of 33,600 tons. She is electrically driven, the electricity being generated by oil-burning

enging..

M.Vauclau

Most people pay doctors to cure them, but not Samuel M. Vauctain, millionaire head of the Baldwin Wireless once more has been used successfully in the medical Locomotive Works, of Philadel-world, this time to diagnose disease. Dr. Lee Nicholson, of Char- phia, Mr. Vauclain has signed a lottenburg, Germany, has perfected an apparatus by which he can hear ten-year contract with a prominent the heart-heat of a patient miles away. Efforts are now being made physician to keep him well, and

the doctor must pay Mr. Vauclain to continue further development of the instruments so that doctors on for all the time he is sick, Mr. Vau-shore can hear heart beats of patients on vessels at sea, and thus order clain agreeing to do everything treatinent on, ships which carry no physicians. his physicians prescribes in his manner of living.

Miss Evelyn Smalley, daughter of G. W. S.nalley, of New York, has been awarded the Legion of Honour decoration, in Paris, in recogni- tion of her canteen work for Freach soldiers under shell-fire for two years in the World War and at Duisburg, in the occupied territories, since the war. The presentation was made authe Invalides by General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris. Miss Smalley already possess ed the Croix de Guerre and the Med tille Miliriir, the latter France's

highest valour award.

A British war tank, which was sunk in the mud while in action on

+the Ypres (Belgium) battlefield, has been put to a unique use It serves

as a

war memorial in the main street of the village of Ramscapelle. Behind the tank may be seen the memorial to Guynemeyer, French ace of aces, who ̈inet'his'death in seari! combat over the village.

Do you experience difficul

WHAT'S THAT?

ty when reading at night?--

If so you should consult

an oro specialist. Then

reading by lamplight will be

Miss Wan Ying Hsieh, talented Chinese girl, has entered Welles- ley College, Wellesley, where she will work for a degree of Master of Arts. Miss Hsich is the author of numerous books of verse and short stories, under the nom de plume "Ping Hsul," which means

icy heart."

IO LIKE TO HAVE HAD THREE OF EM IN THAT POKER GAMË LAST NIGHT:

Although the Chinese game, Maḥ Jong, which has taken such a hold in the United States, was an old game in China when Confucius was a little hoy, James P. Babcock, an American, is called the father of the game in America. With his wife, he has just returned to San Francisco from China with 170 tons of Mah Jong tiles, counters, ∙racks and other accessories.

BRINGING.

WHO'S THE FANCY GUY

OUTSIDE?

UP

HE'S ONE OF THE EXTRA HANDS: HE'S PLAYING THE PART OF THE KING! IN THE NEW

KREEL

FATHER.

HEY! KING!

Fifteen cats, with one handsome feline named "Juic" és "the bentral star, figure in a new "eternal triangle” brought to light by the suit, for divorce filed in Fort Worth, Texas, by Ed Carr. On All Fools' Day, 1922, he married a woman who called herself "Mrs.. Womack,"

though he now alleges that was not the true name. However, all went well until September 2, 1922, when "she took in a bunch of cats upon 'which to lavish her afféctions." About one, “June," "she was extreme

ly foolish." A divorce is the only solution of his domestic troubles,

he declares in his suit,

HOW ABOUT THE QUEENS?

RUN OVER-TO: THE, LUNCH:WAGON ON THE CORNER AN' GIT TWO HAM SANDWICHES TELL HIM TO PUT PLENTY OF ONIONS IN EMİLÇ

AN MUSTARD

ON MINE;

a pleasure, not an infliction, Your sight is also protected. CHINESE OPTICAL CO.

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