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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1927.

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TRIBAL OUTRAGE.

FRENCH CAPTIVES IN FRIENDLY HANDS.

HEAVY RANSOM LIKELY,

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TANGIER INCIDENT.

ITALY ON CLAIMS OF FRANCE.

NOT RECOGNISED.,

Rome, Yesterday,

SYRIAN JAILED.

ECHO OF CANADIAN CINEMA

FIRE

78 CHILDREN BURNED.

Casablanca, Yesterday.

Montreal, Yesterday. The Resident General, Mr. Stong, Sig. Tittoni President of the

The Syrian, Ameen Lawand, pro- states that the captives are now in Senate, in a statement to the Press, i prietor of the cinema which was the hands of a native chief who le declared that the claims of France burned.last January, whan 78 chil friendly to the French and who in Tangier were never recognised dren perished, has been sentenced bought them from the tribesmen by anyone. who carried them off. The captives long to the French zone

Tangier does not beto two years' imprisonment and two or the of his employees, also Syrians have say they are well treated but very Shereefen empire which is imprisonment each, All-wore-con- been sentenced to twelve months' tired after the long marches- they ject to the Franco-Italian agres-victed of manslaughter.-Router.. had to make. Apparently A very ment of 1916. heavy raniom will be demanded. Router.

The captives mentioned were hunting party consisting of two Indies and two men who were taken captive on October 28.]

KING AND DYING SOLDIER.

POIGNANT WAR INCIDENT.

London, Sept. 27. A poignant war incident, in which the chief actors were the King and a dying soldier was revealed to-day by the Rev. Leslie Hope of the Unit ed Free Church, Huntley.

War

He recalled the Notes exchanged between himself and "M. ́ ́Briand, wherein the French Government de- clared that despite the nothing was altered in regard to the rights enjoyed by Italy by virtue of her adhesion to the Franco- German Convention of November 4, 1911. He claimed that this con- firmed that Tangier was excluded from the zone of Morocco in regard

MADE

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FORTUNE.

FOUNDER OF MANILA BUSINESS FIRM.

Daniel D. Denniston, former to which French rights were re-Manilan and founder of Denniston's cognised. Reuter:

Inc, on the Escolta, died at his home in Oakland, California, on October 20 according to private cables received in Manila, reports the "Bulletin." He is survived: by his widow and a son, both residing in Oakland.

TO GAIN WEIGHT.

Denver, October 8. The slogan of the United States

Mr. Denniston was one of the He says that a famous surgeon recruiting service is "The Army first to Introduce commercial photo- related the story of how a soldier Builds Men." Harvey Turney was shot in the spine. The doctor attempted to enlist but was told graphy in the Philippines. - He asked if he wished for anything. he was underweight. He demand- went to Manila in 1900 and started He replied: "The day I was wound- ed a literal Interpretation of the Photo Supply store on Plaza ed I was recommended for the Dis slogan and, so was taken to a camp Banta Cruz, later moving his place tinguished Conduct Medal. I and fed on bakad beans until he of business into the old-Pero- would like to give the medal to my gained sufficient weight to permit Samanillo Building on the Escolts wife, before I go west." The doc enlistment.-United Press.

which was destroyed by fire last tor wrote to the King who promised

February. He remained in the to come early on the morrow.

photo supply business until 1907 when he sold out to F. O. Roberts and returned to the United States.

The dying man's wife and seven children were summoned by the King, who, speaking loud enough to be heard throughout the ward said: "This man showed the spirit that Britain needed. It is an honour to myself to pin on the medal."

The soldier died at midnight,

MONS RETREAT.

EPISODE OF LOST DRUM.

London, Oct. 1. - During the Mons retreat a drum-i merboy of the Second Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers was hard-pressed and hidi his drum in a bush in Le Cateau. The advancing Germans found the drum and eventually it passed to Herr Eiffe of Hamburg who is

Rear Admiral Newton A McCully, who in 1920 adopted seven Russian orphans while com- manding American naval forces in Russian waters, recently married Olga Krundycher, a 29-year-old Russian woman.

LIFE'S TROUBLES

greatly interested in improving become magnified in the imagina- Anglo-German relations,

Herr Eiffe who recently visited tion through purely physical London and saw the Mons film in causes. Gently stimulate your which the incident was reproduced, liver and accelerate the stagnated offered to return the drum to the digestive processes with a little Highlanders who gratefully ac-dose of Pinkettes, and you'll feel cepted it.

100 per cent, better, brighter, and The newspapers recall the fact fitter to face life's problems within that General Tom Bridges, while a few hours. rallying stragglers at Le Cateau Gently but speedily Pinkettes found the Highlanders drumless. dispel constipation, billousness, He dashed to a shop, secured" a liverishness, sick headaches, ald child's drum and tin whistle and digestion, banish the "blues." Your himself beat the drum and a fifer chemist sells them, or post free, played the whistle which revived 60 cents the vial, from Dr. the stragglers' spirits. The Mona Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Klangse film shows General Bridges' exploit. Road, Shanghai,

Returning to Manila again in 1910, Mr. Denniston Immediately organised Denniston's Inc. He re- mained at the head of this firm an- til 1920 when it was sold to its pre- sent owners, Heacock and Company. He then returned to the United States where he stayed until his death.

Those who know him well in Manila said that while Mr. Dennis- ton was there he accumulated a fortune. On returning, to the? United States he purchased a block of stock in an Oakland bank, it is said, and secured a position for his son in that institution. He himself went into the insurance and real estate business on a small scale.

The 26th Army having been transferred to the war front, the 22nd Army has been brought to Shanghai to take Its place.

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