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ABDICATION.

KING HUSEIN RETIRES.

RULER OF THE HEJAZ.

-ASSUMED - TITLE-DURING ), WAR

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, October 3 The abdicatish of Husein ibn Ali, the Emir of the Kingdom of Hejaz, is announced.

ASSUMED TITLE IN 1916.

Early in the war the British "Government guaranteed the autonomy of the Hejaz, in the event of a successful revolt and on June 5, 1916, Husein Ibn Ali, the present Emir, proclaimed his in dependence. In November, 1916, the Emir Husein issued a proclamation assuming the title King of Hejaz The Treaty of Peace with Turkey recognis ed the Hejaz as a free and independent State. The capital is Mecca, and the chief port is Jidda, on the Red Sea, population about 20,000. The chief pro- duct is dates, of which the large crop gathered from the Medina'oasis ranks highest; but all are consum. ed locally. Hides, wool and gum are the principal exports, but the volume is never large, and less now than before the war. Imports are mainly foodstuffs and building materials Taxation Is light, but irregular requisitions and customs dues at the ports are often heavy and furnish the bulk of the King's revenue. Great Britain pays him a considerable subsidy to enable him to maintain independence. and provide for the Pilgrimage.

OBITUARY.

SIR MAX WAECHTER.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, October 3. The death is announced to-day of Sir Max Leonard Waechter Kt.

[Note: The late Sir Max was born at Stettin, Germany, in 1837. He went to reside in England in 1859 and was naturalized in 1865. He was appointed High" Sheriff of Surrey in 1902, Richmond has benefited by numerous gifts from him, including Petersham Ait, for the preservation of the view from Richmond Hill.].

FINE ART OF MURDER.

SKILLED CHINESE

PRACTITIONERS.

DATE CRINE.

Writing from Peking to the Sydney "Sun," G. C. Dixon paints the following pictures:-

A sweating coolio, straining at a heavily-laden wheelbarrow, pushed his way through the traffic, and, in obedience to the policeman's signal, came to a halt at the corner.

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NEGOTIATIONS END UNEXPECTEDLY.

BOTH SIDES RETICENT.

POLITICAL SITUATION RESPONSIBLE..

(Routery Service.)

LONDON, October 3. The conversations between Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald and Zaghlui are concluded. Zägħlu! will return home shortly,

SPECULATION_RIFE.

The early conclusion of the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, coupled with Zaghlul Pasha's intention to depart a week earlier than originally anticipated, has created the impression that the conference bas not advanced beyond the stage of generalities.

Both sides are most reticent, and decline to state whether the cryptic official announcement of the conclusion of the conference implies a rupture. It is, however, understood that Zagħlul Pasha's silence is partly due to the uncertainty of the British political situation.

SUICIDE

LATE MR. J. Q.: ROWETT.

(Reuter's Servics.)

LONDON, October 3-

At the ioquest held into the cause of the death

of the late Mr. John Quilter Rowett, a verdict of suicide was returned.

DETAILS OF TRAGEDY.

A Router's message yesterday read: Mr. John Quiller Rowett, managing director of Rowett, Leaky & Co., Ltd., founder of the Rowett Institute of Research in Animal Nutrition In Aberdeen University and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, has been found hanged.

The dead body was discovered in his residence at 9 Hyde Park Terrace, London W.

The late Mr. Rowett mainly financed the Shackleton-Rowett expedition of the "Quest" to the South Antartic in 1921-1922.

According to the papers, Mr. Rowett lost £15,000 in the Shackleton expedition. He was deeply affected by the death of Shackleton, who was a schoolfellow of his, The financial crash of Sir John Stewart, the whisky distiller, who.com. mated suicide, is believed to have Cost Mr. Rowett £100,000.

chango your mind, America Ist appears that he had alienated universally accepted as the place the affections of a concubine be- where the genuine red-blooded longing to a general at Canton, and 100 per cent desperado is to be the story goes that that worthy, seen in his fine dower, but for having "lost face," resolved to re- sheer ruthless villainy and cold establish himself in the eyes of the PRIMITIVE BUSINESS AND UP-TO- Chinese cut-throat against any self-respecting Chinese.

world in the only way open to a blooded daring. I will back

two-gun- màn or bobbed-haired Accordingly a party of five bandit who ever breathed. In soldiers or at all events men in China assassination is a rs-uniform-journeyed to Hongkong, gular, ancient, and almost honorand, to facilitate the killing and able profession. If you want | subsequent getaway, engaged the anyone removed, you have entire front row of the stalls. The only to pay the trade union fee, arrangement was that if one varying according to the difficulty missed the others were to take up of the job and the importance of the shooting. But their aid was the victim, and the thing is as not needed. The leader brought good as done. Rates range? I him down first shot, and the five am told, from about £5 upwards, gun men instantly sprang for a

methods and the.

vary from side door and vanished into the public stabbing and/or shooting to night. And they have never been a judicious dose of powdered glass seen since. The most that is or tiny bamboo splinters ad- known about this murder is that a ministered privately with your man rose from the middle of the food.

stalls, walked down the aisle, fired Altogether it is a thousand one shot and escaped through a My friend laughed.

pities that de Quincey did not visit side exit during the easylog 'Oh, yes, that's the way it's China before writing his famous confusion.] always carried in Shanghal," he assay on Murder Considered as assured me. A New York buxi-One of the Fine Arts."

What has he got there?" I asked gazing at what looked like solid silver ingots, but obviously couldn't be.

"Silver." I was told

"What "Silver? A barrow- load of it! Pushed through the streets by a coolle without arms or escort!"

THREE OPEN KILLINGS.

In case you should set this down

"Lutive" TreaNING.

ness man became rather excited

A Dutch syndicate is to make one day when he saw a party of

an sitempt to recover the treasure coolies dragging some hundreds of

sunk in the frigate "Lutine" off the thousands of dollars' worth of silver from the Customs House to as an attempt at humorous ex Dutch coast'in 1799. The value of one of the banks, and I believe he aggeration or plain ordinary the treasure, consisting of gold tried to establish a clearing house, lying, it might be as well to and silver bars, and specie, has But the idea was regarded as quite recall what happened to three been variously estimated at sums indecently revolutionary, and of well-known men in the great no to £1,207,000, and only £100,000

British port of Hongkong.

has been recovered A British course, nothing came of it."

One was a wealthy Chinese salvage expedition in 1910 found After which it was not in the business man attached as com-insuperable difficulties in the sand least astonishing to learn that when one bank wants to send pradore to a British shipping in which the ship is buried Con- 10,000 dollars or go to another bank company. The writer evidently siderable interest is being taken it-estrusts the cash to a Chinese means Jack A Tai's compradore. In the project at Lloyd's where the who was not attached" to any frigate's recovered bell hangs in coolle receiving a wage of about itish company 1 During the a bracket and is rung when six shillings a week. A few days great seamen's strike he tried to announcements are

made of ago a footpad held up a messenger

on missing ships, strolling along with 5,000 dollars page non-union labour for a overdue

The and Vessel lying idle in port.

where the chairman's tucked under his arm, and the only Chinese strikers promptly hired an throne and the committee's table festure of the affair that anyone regarded as peculiar was the fact experienced assassin, and he was are made out of the "Luiine's

shot dead-not in a dark alley, but rudder. Any treasure recovered that the coolle escaped,

as he rode in his ricsha at mid- goes equally to Lloyd's and the PROGRESSIVE BANDITTI.

day through a crowded city street. Dutch "finder of wrecks," by an ***For if China is the land of primi- [The murder took place near the arrangement between Britain and. tive business, it is also the land of Star Ferry wharf about ten o'clock Holland in 1822. efficient and up-to date, crime, in the moralog-1

Youthful Burglars. The merchant who settles an The second was the sub-contrac At Airdrie a boy of 12 was sent account will probably calculate on | tox of a dock at Kowloon, on the to a reformatory for five years, and a board of counters, and pay you opposite side of Hongkong five others, of whom' be" was the In casb,, just as his ancestors did harbour. This, fellow, also1; a ringleader, were put on probation ten centuries ago. But the bandit Chinese, had somehow made him for six months, for arteries of thefts who robs you at the first self unpopular in militant labour by housebreaking. They broke into corner will use a Mauser automatic circles, and the result was that he Messrs Macfarlane's bakery in pistal; quite possibly throw pepper) was blabbed to death, in a crowd Manse Place, stealing „biscuits, in your eyes, and then dash off in by a gentioned with a steel-file | cakes, and cash. After breaking | a high-powered. American motor] This, by the way, la 's favourite..opan: an automatic","chocolate

espon "of the really expert | mechino --and – taking-cash--and-

„Sharpened to a needle sweetmuais the yamashed a window causes Hitle or no Weed-bof the ticket office in the stition, alone shown a proper apprechtoning, and leaves do external trace pillaged the tif, and ransacked of the value of modem sciênče: excepteriniull, dark triangles fell the leftluggage and parcola, hey, The Chingre, ata reckon, Lin The third putrage, lifnitrates, wound up the series by breaking "porceable' race, and somehow onci even better, the Chinese panchanti, muy a house near by, the occupants never associates them oldu derdi for staging tunne, adairs in sin) of which twem, du holiday, and *** of violence. Bittente o China Hon The victim is) the stelling: 43 Jaymoney and som

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