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MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1925.

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LOCAL

Two hours after an appeal ap peared in a local paper, a British Legion branch received a bath chair for a crippled ex-Service man.

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AND

GENERAL.

The return of notifiable dis- eases for the 24 hours ended Friday shows one Chinese case of enteric fever.

and

Enormous coloured goggles are the latest Wear in Berlin's smart circles. In the Palais de Danse, along Separation of the church and the familiar

Kufurstendamm, fictional state in Argentine is advocated in in the wine cabarets, “henna- characters. Tom Sawyer and a bill presented to the Senate bhaired women are wearing great, Huckleberry Finn, are making the Socialist senators; Bravo aul their appearance in a Moscow Juten. motion picture house. Mark Twain has always been a popular foreign author in Russia and "Tom Sawyer" was successfully dramatized and produced at the Moscow Children's Theatre.

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evoning vivid · with show rooms at Queen's Buildings, glasses a yellow rims. The This "Equiluxo" Glassware men confine themselves to plain possesses unequalled properties ginas in black and white checked for elimination of glare when used rims, with striped ear pieces. Mr. Lane, wife of Sub- with G.E.C. Gasfilled half watt Inspector Lane, was forced from lamps, resulting in a delightfully her ricsha when approaching the soft diffused light most agreeable Star Ferry, Kowloon, yesterday) and restful to the eyes. morning. Her aggressors were a party of Chinese and as the nature

Says an Australian paper- An unprecedentedly long record of service in the overseas trade Napia, the famous All-black, with Australia is shared by the of their intentions appeared decid-occupies a very high position steamers Taiyuan and Chang- edly unfavourable it was fortunate among the Maoris, and there was sha, which have been voyaging that the police were near at the a grent trek to Wellington to wel- continuously between China and time. Mry. Lane was taken to the come him home. His father was Japan and Melbourne via Sydney Water Police station not very among them, a man only 42, but for close on 40 years. The first much the worse for this very the impression left on the mind worn-out cable in the Melbourne unpleasant incident.

of the secretary of the Rugby Tramway system was taken by Union, who had to deal with the the Taiyuan to Hongkong at an applications for admittance to the early stage of her career, wharf is that Nepia Senr, out-broken strands being converted Solomones Solomon. applications were 23 mothers of tea chests.

Among the by Chinese into, nails for use in Nepia, 17 fathers; nine grand- fathers, and over 100 brothers and sisters.

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Kagawa Toyohiko, a Labour leader of Kobe. Japan, arrived in London recently to study the workings of the British Labour Party as an aid to organizing a Labour party in Japan. Mr. Toyohiko said the Socialist and Labour leaders of Japan had com- bined in efforts to further the movement and that while the Japanese Labour Party would be modelled after the British system it would function in some ways along the lines of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

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DRAMATIC CRIME.

BALKAN LEADER SHOT DEAD.

WOMAN'S VENGEANCE.

The Correspondent of

to

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and as soon as the chance was right I fired "

Apparently Madame Dimitroff threw herself between her husband. and the line of fire at the crack of the revolver, which expialned how the second bullet. found its mark in the skull of the dead man's wife. Dimitroff's companion, a man

The murder occurred at the

What must have been amusing spectacle, though porduc Rome has for long been re- tive of a certain amount of anxiety, cognized as the city of fountains. eurred recently in the Mersey These are always playing, and

River. A hopper with a crew of give the city a gay and lively nine men was blown on to sund aspect. At almost every corner, bank during a high gale. A life- especially in the ancient part of boat put out and stood by the hopper the town, you are bound to and fill the crew decided that it was no

place for them. one, and their number has in-off and tugs remaned by the hopper "Chicago Tribune" writes: Vienna Damed Bagatinoff, had just been

They were taken creased to such an extent that the to take her off at high tide. A new kind of "death roy," ex surpassed imperial Rome, at least tum of mind and slipping off the years. There is only one topic

claim that, modern Rome has

this hopper was of an independent sensation it has had in recent killing Dimitroff.

is discussing the most dramatic pocket when Mencia fired again, able to get his pistol from his She will therefore dispose of the whole of her valuable any previous device, rumoured or fully justified. Besides the large bank she made for home which amongst the Viennese, that is the moment when Peer Gynt was

ceeding in its destructive capacity where fountains are concerned, is stock in all departments at enormous reductions.

realised, has been reported to the and well-known fountains, such she passed no fewer than fifteen in the Vienna Municipal Theatre. Sea. The Viennese actor, Herr Commerce Department Washington

was the Sandon Dock. On her way extaordinarily dramatic murder supposed to be drowned in the ng the claimed accomplishment of s

as the Trevi Fountain, German inventor: Mr. William T. Fontana delle Naiadi, or the one how of one and under the stern of gathered

or the ships, wending her way across the Before hundreds of spectators Tressier, who was playing the Daugherty, Trade Commissioner at at the Janiculum, there are another. The tags which had been tragedy, "Peer Gynt," Balkan came back to life, and addressed Berlin, forwarded a summary of an numberless smaller fountains in ready to tow her off had nothing to hatred suddenly blazed out from the audience from the stage, urging

witness Ibsen's

part, emerged from the waves and article describing the invention,

various parts of the city which do but follow her. which is called "heliotnéub," with are scarcely ever visited by opposite her dock gates, which were At the very moment that Ibsen's

As she arrived the darkness of a private box them to remain in their seats. the startling assertion that its foreigners and the very existence open a high water, mysterious waves are capable of of which is even ignored by thought she was going to bump into on the stage a beautiful young the political

onlookers Peer Gynt was simulating death

FOLITICAL MURDER. paralyzing life for six hours over a many Romans. Many of these the dock wall, but avoiding this sho Macedonian woman, Men cia Car- dramatic murder. From the bis Police investigation establishes distance of forty miles and to an are really gems of art, hidden in sailed serenely into her own dock, niciu, rose from her chair in a pri tory of his past activities in Balkan character of the altitude of more than 45,000 feet. remote and obscure corners The highest elevation reached by an zones now mostly inhabited by charge of her and led her up at her with a party, drew an automatic that Dimitroff was responsible for in where human beings once more took vate box where she was sitting politics the police have confirmed airplane as yet is about 39,000 feet. people of the poorer classes.

pistol, and fired six shots into the the death of two Macedonian dress circle a few feet below.

When the lights were turned up, Garbanoff, in

leaders, Boris Sarafoff and Ivan Todor Dimitroff, a Macedonlan years ago. Dimitroff, who was Sofia seventeen secret agent, was found shot dead, 50 years old, had been living in his wife mortally wounded, and Vienna during the past few months another person badly hurt. After at the apatiments of a prominent a breathless moment the audience Macedonian patriot, Philip Atlana rushed to the woman's box and driven from Vienna by the police. stampeded for the exits. Police soff, but the latter was recently arrested her. She declared she Recognised as a sworn enemy of had avenged treason against her the countrymen by the act.

present Bulgarian Prime Minister, M. Zankoff, Dimitroff According to the story of Mencia went in fear of his life. He was Carniciu as hastily told to the always accompanied by three or police, the man she killed, Todor four. Macedonians armed, with About 100

Dimitroff, betrayed two Mace- automatic pistols, ready to protect received free baths at the annual donis comrades in Sofia several him from assassine. Baby Welfare and Health Ex-executed, and she was appointed Mencis Carniciu's friends, an Years ago, They were both According to a number of hibit which was held at the to avenge their death. Nautao Christian Institute. More

element, of mystery in the case Upon searching the clothing of is now presenting itself. Her lo- than 2,000 persons attended the the dead man's wife and her contimate friends declare sho wax figures illustrating common wife was carrying a small revolver, her immediately after the tragic ditions. The exhibit consisted of also wounded, it was found the killed. When the police arrested. exhibit despite the disturbed con- panions in the theatre who were madly in love with the man she and dangerous diseases. The ex- and the men were an armed and murder she had a smoking pistol in hibits were borrowed from the well provided with ammunition. Second Normal Scool, the China,

one hand and a razor in the other.

of the British team that lately Dispensary, Allen and Harbury's She is in a desperate condition.

Mae, Dimitroff received a bullet She admitted that she intended to A. E. R. Gilligan, the captain poo Social Centre, International penetrating through to the throat too stunned or had no time in Council on Health, the Yangtaze through the back of her skull, commit suicide, but she was either visited Australia, and F. Cand the YM.C.A. In addition to Toone, the manager, have, accord- the exhibits there were talks on

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An all-night queue was formed! at Hove to secure the privilege of being allowed to erect tents on the beach.

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Queen Victoria's paint-box has beeò presented by Louise to Brighton Museum.

Princess

James Braid has reported favour ably on a site at Kingmoor as a municipal golf course for Carlisle.

The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. U. Simpson Grant Semsion, missionary, re-) Passengers who left. by the siding at St. George's House to President Lincoln Included Mr. Miss Helen Gaynan Hoffman, also J. T. Hegarty, Mrs. B. Lenox missionary, living at St. Simpson and the French boxer, George's House.

Mr. Andre Dupre.

A stand of Vancouver Island Infants' Hospital. Vincent Square, When Prince Henry visited the timber has been purchased by Wesminster, Dorothy Galliford, a Frank J. Barnjum to be pre- tiny mite of two, kissed her hand as served in a park as an example to a good-bye to the Royal visitor, posterity of the tall monarchs that existed in British Columbia before they were levelled by the

woodman's axe.

Mr. A. G. Warren, late lecturer in Engineering at the University, is now engaged in research work at Woolwich Arsenal. Mr. T. W. Mathewman, late lecturer in Physics, is now in India,

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I never leave anything easilving to Mr. Kirby Hewlett, joined health and a health film was striking figure when she appeared paper drawn up against Dimitroff,

the British Fascists.

and my footsteps are dogged throughout life by a kind of affectionate tenacity. I like what To swell the funds being raised

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which to do it. PRISONER'S STORY,

In the files of the Vienna police head-quarters officials have. Mencia Carnicia presented a found an old Bulgarian extradition before the Chief of Police to be charging him with being a member I am accustomed to. I love my locally for St. Dunstan's Hospital ed Mr. Kopp, the Soviet Ambas-richest families in Macedonia. She

examined. She is 26 years old of the Macedonian Revolutionary The Imperial Family entertain-fand is the daughter of one of the Committee. relations, forgive my friends, am for the Blind, a competition was sador in Tokyo, to Indifferent to my enemies, and held at Rokkosan, Kobe.

VICTIM IDENTIFIED. a luncheon is a young woman of extraordinary envy nobody. Mrs. Asquith ditions were, 18 holes against Imperial Palace on the 29th ult. back hair and blazing black eyes, ascertained to be the notorious party in the Homelden Hall of the beauty, tall and svelte, with jet the Burgtheater has now been The victim of the tragedy In (Countess of Oxford).

Bogey under handicap, first round at noon. Her Majesty the She was utterly deflant in face of Todar Panitza, the founder and of the day, entrance fee Y.2.50 to Empress and the Prince Regent the murder charge. She told the lender go to St. Dunstan's. The latest Cross Word item

of the Macedonian present, and Baron examining magistrate she vowed Federalist comes from an American com-

organisation, Shidehara, Foreign Minister, Dr. two years ago to take the life of twenty years ago murdered two mentator, who, discovering in record tiger-shooting perform Minister, Count Makino, Lord the lives of two Macedonian ment, Sarafoff and Garbanof la Mra. Charlotte Cameron's book,ances duly authenticated bave just Keeper of the Pivy Council, and Dimitroff betrayed to their death led to

be Ichiki, the Imperial Household Todor Dimitroff as retribution for leaders of the Macedonian move "Mexico in Revolution," a thirty-been announced. Mr. N. V. Wat- Mr. Tanaka,

patriots whom, ske declared, the streets of Sofia. Panitza hen five-letter word "Mihuiittilmoyoieson, 21st Field Battery, R.A, Russia, were also invited. At the prondly, the related how she came where he organised revolutionary

Ambassador to cuitatonpicixochitl,"

the mountains in the Telling the story quietly and Macedonian regions of Bulgaria, remarks, stationed at Mhow, bagged three dinner the Prince Regent express- to Vienna and contrived, through bands and lived like a palace, with some truth, that though ngora in ten minutes near Harda,ed his thanks to the Soviet a woman who knew the Dimitroffs, though he was always in dread of there is no record to show that the in Central India. Even better was Ambassador's present of coins in, to arrange the exact seating for assassination. He came to Vienna Aztecs were addicted to Cross the achievement of Colonel on the gold, silver, and copper, Word puzzles, they certainly had Staff R. J. Collins, Director of current in Russia, some wonderful material. They Military Training, who during a had.

recent visit to Gwalior shot three tigers with four shots in two minuten.

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now both parties in the Municipals few days before to adjust differ Theatre for the performance of encer which had arisen between Ibsen's "Peer Grat." Deliberately Bulgarian emigrants there. He she told how she had visited the was always attended by heavily. A letter of protest was sent to theatre and witnessed the perform armed companions to guard bim the Treasury by the London ance earlier in order to judge the against attack and murder, and his says:Visiting a remote suburb The search for a fourteenth against the loss and Incon-

General Shipowners Association best moment to open fize....... boy in uniform riding a carrier cheon at the House of Commons, the King's birthday being cele So I schemed to sit behind him, to Bulgarian emigranta. last Sunday afternoon, I met a guest at the Lloyd George lun-venience which would result from Ing attack, and always ready to which resent such abuse of the "I knew he was always expection In Austrian political circles, presence occasioned much irrita tricycle and gazing anxiously at at which it was found that only-brated on Wednesday, June 8, as the windows of the houses as he thirteen guests had been invited. A public holiday at London docks,

attack, Mencia Carniciu declared, rights of asylum being extended- passed. As this struck me as an threatens to become historie. But whit Monday fell on June 1, and unusual phenomenon for the this superstition is even more rife with a second public holiday on Sabbath, I made inquiries and in stage circles, of course. found that the carrier was full of box-office keeper at the Hay very little business done at the The the Wednesday there would be Ice-cream for delivery to anyone market was saying that many docks before Thursday, who algnified his (or, her) deatre patrons refuse to take a seat Treasury sent a reply that the for this luxury by putting a card numbered 13. Yet at the Savoy data fixed for the celebration of The in the window. Feeling at the Hotel a little while ago, having the King's birthday cannot be moment more in need of hot deferred to this belief and subaltered without "grave, incon chestnuts, the enterprise did not stituted 128 for the fatal numbervenience," to which the ships attract me, but this successor to on a room door, the management owners repiled that commerce, and the peripatetic vendor of mudina was told by so many people that shipping interests would suffer and crumpets may prove quite al 18 was their lucky number that if fa boon-I Summer Comer-

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