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Dantist
Harry Tong, Dentist
I flecz No. 744 Queen's 16 ́à Carsten. Tol. Contral No. 1255,
Engineers & shipbuilders # 1. Bailey & Co. Ltd.
Engine and Shipbuilder
Kowloon Bay New Work and Repairs
Call Flag "L'
Importers & Exporters
Kwong Sun & Co., 66, Queen Trad
Photographers
Mès Cheung, Pétographer 13, Ice House Street,
Beaconsfeld Arcade Branch, Developing & Printing undertaken.
Printers
The Chiun Hail," Goseral Printers.
Publishers and Bookbinders,
8. Wytham Street. Tel. 0.32.
Contral, Eo Chi Chang (Manager), Bhip Chandlers Kwong King Him (Asst.). Tal. Cen. 3159.
Land & Estate Agents
Pas Tick ho, Land & Extater zents
Tel. Central IL-1987.
35, Qacon's Road Central.
Modistes
Madame Flint
I. Bing & Ca.,
15 Wine Wo Street. Tel Contest (11Ḥ Metal Morchat & Ship Chandlere, Managing Direct - Mr. H. 8. Chin.
Crepe Rub. sole Canvas Shoes $7
Buckskin
11, Queen's Road Can, T. Can. 688. Repairing & Soling a Specialty
latest Parisian modals),
Ontician
ite Honour Optical Co. Phone 223,
68, Queen Bad Central
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REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
DINNER DANCE
SATURDAY, 12th SEPTEMBER
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STRANRAER HEIRESS porated when the women apering
A SENSATIONAL POAX RECALLED.
GUSBAND IN COURT,
another ne upon the public
became known that she intended en- toring again into the bonds of matri- текту. The lucky man 毕福 hammerman in Glasgow, and who hus ትን፥ ነኝ” appeared before the Sherifi For failing to port his wife. The marriage cere as the novelists would my book place in Chisgov Sheriff say, was heard in Glasgow Sheriff Court and many were the congratu Court when a hammerman named tions hosped upon the happy
Thus sequel to a "Hattered
romance.
Robert Tuner (26) was charged with having in April last failed to maptain his wife, Janel Alexander or Turner, whereby she a chargeable to the Parish of Grad in July.
Behind the Court case lies one of the most remarkable stories heard in
Scotland for many years.
Dr.
THE FINAL, TARILL..
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A few days after the ceremony, ever, mother and final thrill was ided by the womull. 1 came 4" to the public that the story of the fortune was a myth, and when confronted and asked for details the woman admitted that the story was an invention,
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Glasgow Sheriff Court Mr. Matthew Reynard, Inspector
of
In 1922 the womu" Alexander ampied the spotlight of publicity for some time us the result of the
Poor for the Parish of romantic story that stie und fallen her to a fortune of £25,000 through Glasgow, stated that the recused the death of her late husband' murried his wife under the misap prehension that she had fallen father, a Canadian baronet. While her to e26,000, and when he found working at Gretna during the war she became acquainted, she said, that the money did not exist friction arose between the couple and they with
a Canadian soldier and was parted. He had not supported her married to him shortly afterwards.
Her husband died some time user for six months, and lately she was and
brought from Stranraer to Stohhill the WOMBJY returned to
Hospital where she was at present a patient.
Stranraer. She saw an advertise ment in the Glasgow newspapers,
Turner pleaded for a chance, add- she stated to the effect that Andrew Nichol, Trinity Gardens, Toronto, ing that he was prepared to pay 158. Cannda, sought his sister-in-law, per week towards the support of his
The wila. Jane Alexander or Nichol, widow of David Nichol of the Canadian tinued by Sheriff Thomson until
November. Forestry Corps, and son of Sir Thomis Nichol, of Wareholme Farm, Toronto,
case Was com-
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Menila The employer had almost given fapat.m She communicated with the ad-up hope of his new office bay, for Fort Bayard, Hoihow & Baiphong Song Bo
he seemed to remember no-
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.. vertiser and was told that Sir]
Finthen.... Thomas had died, and that she was thing. One day he advised the
Nan Chang... entitled to her husband's share in boy to make a note of all the the estate which amounted to some things he had to do in order to thing like £25,000, £12,000 of which assist his memory. was to be settled on her little son.
Such was the story which gained wide circulation, and ect many news popers searching for the lady with the intentoin of obaining the fullest details to present to their interested readers.
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BRIGANDS COUP
ANOTHER DESERT ATTACK ON CARS.
DRIVERS STRIPPED;
(Reuter's Service.)
Baghdad, Sept. 9. Brigands attacked four Nairn trana-desert cars not carrying passengers oight miles from Damascus.. The drivers were stripped of their clothing but not wounded. The cars were badly damaged.
[This is the second attack on the Nairn Trans-Desert motor convoy
between Baghdad" and Beirut, the first being on August 27 when a party was held up. A fusilade followed in which, the brigands got the upper hand and they stole a consignment of gold liras despatched to Syria by the at Imperial Bank of Persia Baghdad. The French authori ties, it was thought, would take steps after this to patrol the dis- turbed area with camel corps and acroplanes and instructions were issued that trans-desert traffic was suspended.]
AMUNDSEN'S LATEST
TO FLY NEXT YEAR.
AIRSHIP BOUGHT.
(Reuter's Service.)
Oslo, Sept. 10.
Details of Amundsen's polar flight in 1926 are given by Lieutenant Riiser Larsen 86cond in command of
in Amundsen's expedition
the summer
Amund- who said sen has bought a £15,000 semi- rigid airship from the Italian. Government with three engines capable of doing 115 kilometres hourly and a cruising speed of eighty.
The crew will consist of 16, in- cluding Amundsen, and Ellsworth who accured half the capital from America.
The Italian Colonel Nobiler Riser Larsen and other Italo-Nor- wegians have planned to start from King's Bay across the north pole to Alaska. The airship will be ready by Christmas and they will begin trials in the New Year.
OPIUM SILENCE.
PRINCE AND LEAGUE
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UNFAVOURABLE IMPRESSION.
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LINCOLN AGAIN,
PARDON FOR FORMER SPY.
IS HE IN CHINA NOW?
(Reuter's Service.)
Geneva, Sept. 9. Prince Arfaed Dowleh, of Persia, being invited to furnish regarding the explanations alleged illicit traffic in opium in the Persian Gulf, at the League Council meeting, merely stated that Persia would welcome a European commission of enquiry
Berlin, Sept. 9. into oplum cultivation in Persia. Among the beneficiaries of the He added that as soon as amnesty granted on the occasion conditions permitted Persia would of President Hindenburg's elec take steps to curtail cultivation. tion is Trebitsch Lincoln, the for- The Prince's silence regarding mer Liberal MP, who acted as the alleged illicit traffic unfavour-chief of Kapp's press depart ably impressed the Council. ment. He is reported now to be Arfa did not again mention the political adviser to Wu Pei-fu and loan to enable Persia to curtail or organiser of much anti-British abolish the growth of the poppy. propaganda in China. ⠀
[Lincoln was a notorious figure in the war, acting as a spy for the Germans. He was implicated in the Roger Casement plot:]
FIERY CROSS.”
GERMAN KU KLUX KLAN PLANNED.
FOUNDERS ARRESTED,
(Reuter's Servicą.)
Berlin, Sept. 9. Thirty "Knights of the Fiery Cross" have been arrested by the police who claim that they have discovered a dangerous, extremist organisation of a thousand mem- berg:
The founders of the new order are three Americans who are among the arrested men. They came to Germany, to create an őr- ganisation on the lines of the Ku Klux Klan in order to liberata Germany from. pezzana „not:"100. per cent, trus Germans.
$2.000.000 FIKE.
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong. 10th Fepten bær, 191. On Londos
On decorada 51/15
Credita. 4 months" sight 103,6" Documentary, 4 mon’bs sight w/5. on Fartam
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Credits, 4 monthɔ" #igitü, 1810 Ou Berlinus
Ondemand...
KEEPING ORDER.
SOLDIER'S AND CIVIL TROUBLES.
FIREARMS IN, INDIA..
(Rexter's Service.)
Simla, Sept. 9. The new Commander-in-Chief General Sir William Birdwood, in his first speech in the Assembly opposed & bill introduced by the Indian Rangachariar to regulate the use of firearms in dispersing an unlawful assembly
General Birdwood emphasised the soldiers' repugnance to being called on to assist the civil authorities. He said the officers sense of personal responsibility was the best safeguard for eng ing the proper execution of duties. in aid of the civil power, and he deprecated anything which would tie the officers' hande and difficult situation more and complicated.
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