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The British authorities have decided to take proceedings against the persons who are alleged to have been implicated in the unlawful export of arms in con- travention of the Firearms Act and the Customs and Excise regula tions. It has now been established that the steamer “Helder" took a. cargo of machine guns to Petrograd, and that a consignment of spare parts was conveyed as steel castings in another vessel to

Amsterdam.

the

And

now we are reminded of another problem, hardly less fascinating, by the reissue of Stevenson's unfinished masterpiece. "Weir of Hermiston" What would he have done with it? We know from his letters what he meant to do-if Scots law would have let him. With his

usual

care

TUESDAY - AUGUST 12 1924.

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jolat director of the exploration Dickensians, rage among them expedition to Tell-el-Amarna, selves to this day about the addressing a meeting of the mystery of Edwin Drood. Egyption, Exploration Society at Burlington House, explained that the city. was founded in the four teenth century BC., to establish now religion, the worship of the sun's dise, and is stuated 160 mlies south of Cairo, After four months work they had unearthed the house of a rich Egyptian, containing twenty rooms on the ground floor. The palace as yet only half un earthed-covered an area of 144

for metres by 115 metres. (about 430 detail and ассигасу he feet by 340 feet] and was in good had written home two years enough preservation to show the before his death, to find out if Xpe of decoration used in the it would be necessary to strain a rooms. The house, with its point to bring his tale to the grounds and outbuildings, occupi-tremendously dramatic climax he Genava's Wilson Memorial.

ed 250 by 240 feet. Although the United States is Butcher's Confession.

had devised: young Archie Wair tried for murder before his father, not a member of the League of

The butcher Haarmann, who had the Hanging Judge, and, by that Nations, Geneva, where the head- quarters of the League is situated, already confessed to murderingfather condemned to the gallows. Commemorated, on July 4, the late seven men, has now confessed to It is easy to imagine what Steven- President Wilson's efforts to create five other murders, making twelve son would have made of it: not sa that institution. The authorities in all. In response to an appeal easy to understand how one who of the city of Geneva have named by the police through the medium had had some training in the law Promenade facing the of newspapers and cinemas many could ever have thought that, a forward to father would have been allowed secretarial offices the Quini Wilson, people have come. and the inauguration ceremony volunteer useful information about to preside at the trial of his own was attended by the President of the case. Some of them tell of son. Sir Sidney Colvin, in his the Republic and the Canton of buying meat from Haarmaan, and note to the book, says that such Geneva, by the Mayor, and Sir they now believe that what they a situation would have been im

The possible: that at the most Weir Eric Drummond,

bought was human Ash: Secretary- General of the League of Nations.

could only have been present on the bench at his son's trial. Yet, Raisuli's Condition.

renewing acquaintance with that revolting but wonderful character of Weir of Hermiston-coarse-1 2 tongued, a bully at home and on the bench, dour and unapproach- able as a father, foared as a lawyer and a judge, but of a certain rough and engaging honesty-one almost¦☛ feels that Stevenson might have strained the law to the breaking! ●◄ point, if he had lived to write that Scene: and no one but a lawyer with a mind: made of parchment would have said him nay. What a pass for the man who rejoiced in his title of "The Hanging judge!" whose savage pleasure in the sen- tencing of a miserable wretch caused his own son to denounce him in public as a murderer. Would he have gibed at his son as he gibed at Duncan Jopp? Surely Stevenson might have driven a coach and six through the law to show us the Hanging Judge engag ed on the business of hanging his own son? Never a doubt but he would have done it-if the law would have let him. You cannot read

The malady from which Raisuli is suffering has made, rapid progress in the past few weeks, says a Madrid message of July 4, despite the efforts of his medical advisers, and the prognosis is unfavourable. He is suffering from dropsy, complicated by nephritis. The Sparish authorities have advised Raisuti more than once to go to Tetuan or. Arzila, so as to get better treatment, but he refuses to leave Tazarut. Persons who have seen him recently say

acute crisis in condition is expected daily. His attendants, who are aware of his condition, have advised him to go 10 Tetuan, but they have been un ble to persuade him to leave Tazart, In the zone controlled by Raisalt, there is perfect tranquillity.

that an

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How to Kill A Rabbit.

his

A demonstration of how to kill a rabbit was given in Shoreditch County Court on July 4, by Judge "Cluer. It arose out of a possession. case in which a landlady co plained that her tenant killed rabbits in her garden and left blood about the place, Judge Cluer said: "There need be no blood spilt in killing a rabbit Just hold it up by its hind legs and give it a crack on the back of the neck like that demonstrating with his hands) and it's dead. (Laugh- ter.) "That

should not be a nuisance to anyone. Killing flies is an annoyance to some people. It will soon be that the R.S.P.CA. will say hat flies are domestic animals and must be protected." Sunworshipper's Palace.

It is hoped that excavations to be Completed next year will reveal the only complete plan of a residential Egyptian royal palace yet found. Mr..F. G. Newton, a

search for remains of murdered men continues in the River Loine, which has been dammed about the suspected reach, so as to give a dry bottom. A number of sacks, says a Berlin message dated July 6, containing human bones have been found. Other arrests are being made in connection with the crimes.

Lourdes "Miracles"

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Fifty-four doctors met at the Hospital of St. John and St Elizabeth, St. John's Wood, on

6, July

to -investigate Lourdes cure, claimed as miracle. A girl arrived Lourdes on May 28, 1923, with the fingers of the right hand tightly contracted into the palm, with Sinkers immovable, and suppurat Ing wounds thereon. Evidence submitted to the doctors gathered

hospital at the

included the following statement by a nurse: "When the 'patient came for her first bath on May 29 the fingers of the right hand were contracted into the palm, and there were suppurating wounds and ulcers in the palm and back of the fingers... when she came

out of the bath there was no pus. In the afternoon she had her second bath, and in the evening

there was no sign of pus and the wounds were closed." The investigation took three hours, and afterwards the Rev. F. Woodlock, S. Medical Registrar of the English National Pilgrimage to Lourdes, 1914, informed a repre- sentative of the Press Association that the doctors had passed a re- solution as follows: evidence submitted the case is not

proven."

Unfinished Masterpiece.

'On the

"There is always a fascination about the book left unfinished by its author-because Death wrote Finis in the middle of a chapter.

Weir of Hermiston" with- out being sure of that. It would have been one of the greatest scenes-in-our-literature But-all- we have is an unfinished story. Stevenson, "Weir of Hermiston," The pity of it! The Tusitala

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