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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1924.

THANKSGIVING DAY.

AMERICANS AND CANADIANS CELEBRATE.

· ZINOVIEFF = "LETTER.

RUSSIAN COMMENT ON" CHAMBERLAIN NOTE.

(Router's Service.)

INTERESTING ORIĢIN.

To-day is being visserved by all,

MOSCOW, November 26. Americans and Canadians in tla

Commenting on the British Colony as Thanksgiving day and notes the official organ" Izvestia wherever possible focul" American' firms have given their employees says that Mr. Chamberlain does holly. There will be no official prove the authenticity of the

Zinovieff letter. His ceremony of disservance but Mr. G. 1. Benson (general manager for Par Kust, The American Express Co., Luc.) and 3ls. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar and Mr. and Mrs. G. Dulos will give dinner parties after which there will be genen gathering together of all the American commmmity at a dane at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Pander.

The origin of Thanksgiving Day." >aid a prominent residen: to "Chino Mail" reporter this morn ing. is no quite clear. I, like. many more, am inclined to believe! the story that it originated when u group of early American pioneers frisk a bad patch' as regards the shooting of wild gone on

which they were et certain periods largely dependent for existence and just a things were genting just about as -bad us they could be a flock of wild birds; sent as it were from heaven, were sighted.

"One can easily funging Huse early settlers falling down on their knees and thanking the Alug giver for is mens and that the day From that time forward shout he decided is a day of thanks giving.

SERVANT'S CLAIM,

THE CHINA MAIL.

FAIR IMITATIONS."

detective: He appeared at Mari- borough-street on a charge of pos-

FEAK RESIDENT SUMMONED. EXPERTS NOT DECEIVED BY sessing and uttering a forged our..

...

*** FINED" FOR RUDENESS.

""'DUD” NOTES.

RRASSURING STATEMENT.

note,

were

rency note for £1-He was also harged with possessing a forged currency bote for £1.-Mr. Oly lou, for the Public Prosecutor, Captain Montanaro, of II the

stated that on September 15 pri- Peak,

was summoned by his London, October 6-Following her entered u public-house in former houseboy at the Central upon the seizure of a large quantity Soho and passed a £1 Treasury Magistracy yesterday afternoon of counterfeit Treasury notes at

There was now pnother Greenwich and the numerous charge that on September 16 pri- for $13.13 arrears of wages.

The claimant's story was that he aurosts of persons who are alleged er went to a public-house at asserted entered the service of Captain to lays "uttered" bad notes, come lampstead and passed another connection between the Com-Montanaro on Oct. 12 and had only an alarming statement that there ole, Pieres of paper he threw on munist Internationale and the been paid up to the end of the uro in circulation speciinens of the the ground when arrested Soviet Government is simply month although he had stopped forgers art which see suck won- found to be a Treasury note. "All absurd. We must consider Mr. until Nov. 16. He had beon derful imitutions and

the three notes came from the same are printed Chamberlain's note not only as an offered $10 for his services in Nov with such perfect finish as in defy plate,

und all had the same attempt to exert pressure on the but as he claimed to have been even experts. The Greenwich serial number," added counsel.- Soviet Government with a view to engaged at a salary of $25 a month notes were stated to be only toler. Mr. Charles Henry Parker, super- compelling it to

he did not accept this. grant conceš-

ably good copies of the gonuint intendent of the office of Director sions, but as a great provocation

Captain Montanaro in evidence note, and their faults obvious to of Stumping Inland Revenus). which we regard unmoved. Our stated that the man's salary was bank clerks and others who sub- Somerset House, declared the thres position is strong and we will not $22 a month. Outstanding pages jected them to a close sernity; but notes were forgeries. They were retreat,

amounted to something like $11.75 the latest counterfeits were genuine notes.--Prisoner, who re The" Pravda

crude, but boro a resemblance to Mr. Chamberlain of trying to but the fines inflicted on him for posed to have been executed shuffle the cards.

being rude reduced It to $5.

with exceptional ukill and The Magistrate (Mr.J. R. Wood): to have succeeded in eluding ex You have no right to fine him. perienced bank officials. In official Captain Montanaro said that the circles, however, this startling as man was a bad servant. He was sertion is discredited, and the fol- incorripetent and had a

savage lowing notice was issued by-the temper which he sometimes show Treasury- ed to witness's wife when he

RENT WAR.

accuses

GLYDESIDE. TROUBLE IS MORE SERIOUS,

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, November 26. The Clydeside rent assuming alarming aspects. Cam- war is bustang and Clydebank are the storm centres. The tenants in both

16 days' wages at a rate of $22 month wis made.

AIR TRAFFIC.

districts are determined to resist SOME BRIGHT VISIONS FOR round for alarm in respect of for notes she banded them to a su

FUTURE

whom she lived.-A son, with remand was ordered.

served his defence, was committed for trial. He applied for bail, but this was refused.--Substitution of forged notes for genuine ones was hinted at when Eugene Jackson, 97, of Goodwin-baldings,. S.E.; appeared at Tower Bridge charged The attention of the Lords Com

with, possessing counterfeit Trea (witness) was absent from the missioners of His Majesty's Treary notes. Mr. Wallis, prosecut house. An order for payment ofury has been drawn to reports woman named Violet Peters ten- ing, stated that in September a which have appeared regarding dered a bad Treasury note at a forged currency notes. These i statenients are incorrect.

Ipublic-house, and she produced two There other apurious, notes, has been no such conference be-.

A signal- tween the Home Office, Somerset man-gunner was arrested on the House, and the Bank of England Violet Feters stated that after the information of the woman- as was retsed There is no soldier gave her four £1 Treasury all evictions forcibly. Scouts and

geries of encrency notes. bellringers have been organised

The forged notes are described as for safe keeping

Tawson, whose room she had used.. "It has got to be looked att var to warn of the approach of the

fair imitations, but lamentably de-some notes back the next morning. She received much as a sort of borr Thanks Sheriff's officers.

New successes in the electrical ficient in the hands of exports. An Mra. Lawson declared that the giving day, as it not?" queried

The police have been largely guidance of aeroplanes are being elaborate and scientific system has notes had been changed by Jack- the rearter."

reinforced with a view to emer discussed at the International been developed with mathematical Yes, vory similar to the harvest gencies. In one case the evicted Commission for Air. Navigation, precision in the hands of the Scot- festival, servings which are held in family was restored to the house which was opened in Paris in land Yard authorities, and they are Fight..

For Americans and late last night. The Clydebank September. Latest experiments able by this means immediately to Crundians, whose interests are factors are holding a meeting to show that not only can a plane be delect any forgery.

The present closely bound up with the land, consider plans for wholesale kept on its course, by night or in Treasury, notes were issued follow- the day has a particular signif. evictions.

mist or fog, by signals sent up ing the discovery of a remarkable cance. "Thanksgiving Day' is

from an electrified cable' ran forgery of the original Brad- always cherted at the last Thors

across the country GD polesburys," in 1916. That counterfeit day in the month of November."

or sunk a little way in the was deseribed as a "gen of the ground, but that now instru- forger's art," and hud apparently ments, recording very sensitively defied 95 per cent. of the expert the strength of the current radiated tests ut the time. There is an in- upward will tell pilots their height teresting story of the running to above the ground. Wonderful earth of the master-forger in this progress has been made in im instance. When the authorities" parting such stability to glant discovered that his handiwork was commercial aeroplaner that they in circulation, balance themselves automatically spared no pains or expense to put the Government PARIS, November 26.

in flight; in fact, the big 105 mile un end to bi nefarious operations. The press is still devoting

an hour Napier D. H. expresses One of Scotland Yard's ablest in- columns to events in Egypt, harp- now used on the British Imperial spectors was entrusted with the ing on the League of Nations, Airways are so inherently stable regarding which" L'Ere Nouvelle that once off the ground all the notes that nearly the whole British pilot has to do is to keep them on press is opposed to the intervention their course by movements of the of the League. It says that France ruder.

President's Proclamation, President Calvin Coolidge, in Bccordance with custorn, has issued aprelamation which reads as follows:

MORYENANT.

CALVIN COOLIDGE.

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INTERESTED.

(Reuter's Serrice.)

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the inspector laid his plans so well Helena May Institute, 3.30 p.m. will not forget the fact when In view of what has been that he was able to bring of a Britain Intervenes in any European achieved, and in the light of dramatic coup. The master-forger question in which French claims further developments, the electri-was found to be a man living in a are at stake.

cal operation of perfected airways luxurious establishment in the best Pertinax In the "L'Echode Paris" is now being discussed suggests that the time has come to and

Up" down air-lines, a certain style which betokened the poses

part of the West-end. He lived in! 're-temper the Anglo-French number of miles apart, will alliance and to discuss the ques separate streams of traffic flying to printing plant was not to be found p.m.

sion of wealth. Obviously the tions of the Cologne zone and the and fro between great cities of his residence, but he and his con- de-militarisation of the Rhineland, Europe, passenger expresses and federates were patiently shadowed also the measures to be taken to good splanesbeing gulded automa to West London, where the real Jockey Club's seventh extra race guard against Spanish withdrawal tically by the electric cableway's. In from Morocco.

the control towers at air stations headquarters were. The conseceting. big illuminated indicators, operat-quent raid was so well-timed that

LAND SALE. ed in conjunction with the cables, when the detectives invaded a

December 1.-Two lots of Crown. will show the position of every stable the forgers were caught red-Land, at P.W.D. Offices, p.m. aircraft in flight along the various handed. The plant was actually in

PUBLIC AUCTIONS. routes. In the V-towOTS, auperation, turning out counterfeits. sisting traffic controllers, will and there was found on the pre- November 28.-Lammert Bros., ba wireless telephone opera-mises paper sufficient to print many at Godown No. 18, H.K. & K.

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hundreds of thousands. Notes of a Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd... Heralded as one of the most give them any necessary instruc culation, and it is claimed that they 10.30 am..

pilots while they are in flight and new design were then put into cir- Kowlcon, miscellaneous goods, "We approach that senson the year when it has been the versions of any James Oliver proposed, be divided into classes to

picturesque and compelling screen

dons. Air traffic shall, it is cannot be forged in such a way as November 29.-Lammert Bros., custom for the American people to Curwood story yet filmed, "The according to its speed-one being Yard's unceasing vigilance renders etc., 11a.m.

escape detection. Scotland at Sale Room, hand ice machine, give thanks for the good fortune Golden Spare, produced under for specially fast mail planes, an- forgery so precarious as to bring which the beauty of Providence the direction of David Hartford other for super-speed passenger swift retribution through the generosity of nature for release by Associated First craft, a third for medium-paced breakers. On a statement being of shareholders of the Rah Synd

to the law- has visited upon them. It is al-National comes to

December 23.-General meeting the Queen's together a good custom. It was Theatre for an engagement of four passenger trafic, and a fourth for made on behalf of the Public Pro cute Ltd., Prince's Building, the sanction of antiquity and ap days, commencing to-day,

secutor that there was no evidence Chater Road, noon. probation of our religions convic- Lewis S. Stone, who has dis- tions,

tinguished blmself in other Cur "In acknowledging the receipt wood pictures, notably

Artillery; stationed at December 4.-Sale of Work, in of Divine favour, in contemplating: River's End" and "Nomads of the

Shoeburyness, was acquitted at the Compounds of Union Church, the blessings which have been North," Is the featured player in Dismissed From: Army.

Phares of uttering forged Treasury. 3 p.m. bestowed upon us, we shall reveni "The Golden Suare," in which he The decision of a general court other men, Albert Deighton and notes. At the same court two the spiritual strength of the is again seen in his familiar and martial at Aldershot that Lieut. Jolin Mullins, charged with posses popular role as a member of the Ronald Thomas Groube, Ist Batt,sing forged 1 notes, with which Royal Northwest Mounted Police. the Cameronians, was guilty of it was alleged they paid for drinks. When changeable western exte The year has been marked by a Ruth Renick has the leading conduct to the rirejudice of military at the public-house, were further to cold and we sang Uhamberlain's pontinuation of peace, whereby our feminine part, and others in the discipline and sentenced to be remanded. When Joseph Phillips, Cough Remedy. Standard for over fty country has entered into a re case are Wallace Beery, Melbourne dismissed from the Army was 37, an engineer, of no fixed abode, peers, and strengly recommended for lationship of better understanding MacDowell, Wellington Playters, Bromulgated. It was stated that with all the other nations of the Francis MacDonald and Baby Lieut. Groube, instead of report was arrested, it was stated that he stubborn, weakening coughs For sals

ing back off leave on February 28, had a struggle in the street with a everywhere. remained absent until August 1. During his absence he was mar Devonshire, where he met with a red and spent the honeymoon in bicycle accident and afterwards had influenza. It was stated that medical certificates to this effect were sent to the commanding

nation.

earth.

Ways have been, revealed to us which we could perform very grea: service. through the giving of friendly counsel, through the exten-

Esther Scott.

"The

"As the Nation has prospered. sion of financial assistance, and let all the people show that they through the exercise of a spirit of are worthy to prosper by rededicat neighbourly kindliness to less ing America the service of God favoured peoples. ・・

and men.

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slow cargo planes.

to sustain the charge, George Pacey, a private, in the Royal Gar- rison

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"We should give thunks for the Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, officer..! power which has been given into President of the United States of An Oxygen Explosion. our keeping with which wo have America, hereby proclain and fix been able to render these services Thursday, the twenty-seventh day An extraordinary to the rest of mankind,

of November, as a day for national occurred on October 16, At home, we have continually thanksgiving.

Greenock. A steam lorry, laden had an improving state of the pub recommend that the people with oxygen cylinders, was lic health, the production of our gather in their places of worship unloading in the main street when Industries has been large, and our and at the family altars and offere cylinder fell to the ground, Harvest have been bountiful. up their thanks for the goodness resulting in a terrific explusion or "We have been remarkably, free which has been shown to them in all the cylinders and wrecklog and from disorder and remarkably suc such a multitude of ways,

setting on fire a crowded tram car cussful in all those pursnits which | Especially I urge them to sup

standing opposite. It injured all fourish during a state of domestic plicate the Throne of Grace that the passengen, some of them pener.

hey may gather strength from seriously, while horses over an An abundant prosperity has their tribulation; that they may wrecked. Some of the pasEONECTI ures of: 150 yards were partially overspread, the landanin humility from their victories, These favours and bounties with a plaining the burdens that shall be occupants of another tram were We shall an well to accept all that they may bear without com jumped into the street from the top of the tram,éwhile, séveral becoming humility and delicate placed upon them; and that they injured, The street after the them to the service of the right ons may be increasingly worthy in all occurrence looked like a phelled

ause of the Giver of all Good and ways of the blessing that shall Perfect Gifta, 09 sztuk

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