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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1927.

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COMMUNIST RIOT.

FOLICE ATTACKED IN DERLIN.

SEVERAL INJURED SEVERELY.

Berlin, Sunday. Communist demonstrations here ended in the arrest of 15 sym pathisers who attacked the Police whilst the latter were trying to dls perso the crowd.

The attackers used flagpoles, sticks, and umbrellas.

Several of the Police, including the Chief of Police, were seriously Injured.

The Police oventually truncheons and plstols.-Reuter,

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Allegations against the Shang- hai Municipal Police detectives, reads an article in the "Sinwan- pao,"

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DIRIGIBLE CRASH.

DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT IN JAPAN,

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

The

"AMERICA FIRST.”

CHICAGO MAYOR'S LATEST STUNT,

"TRUE" HISTORY WANTED.

Chicago, Sunday.

A new impotus has been given by Mayor Thompson to the slogan "America Fira" by an announce- will be awarded to the author of a ment that B $10,000 prize new all-American history text-book, "which will tell the truth" for use in Chicago Counell schools, the bid- judicators to consist of a Commit- toe of competent (in Mayor Thomp BON'S

Dirigible N. 8, belonging to the Japan's largest naval aircraft, Kasumigaura Naval Aerial Corps, was lost by explosion stor the sea in the vicinity of Idzu, Oshima, is land early on Sunday week. crew of the ship, numbering seven, had a miraculous escape though Warrant Officer Toyosaku Zazawa was seriously injured in the head.

The ill-fated aircraft, commanded by Lieutenant Fujiycahl, left Kasu- migaura naval aerodrome shortly before nine o'clock on Saturday vice. night to participate in the naval manoeuvres.

On her homeward voyage, the N. 3 encountered a gals of great severity off Idzu, the heel-shaped penineuls bordering the Sea of. Sagami and Suruga Bay. Finding it impossible to approach her base she attempted to descend Oshima Island, which is located about 70 miles south of Tokyo.

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opinion) teachers and judges.-Reuter's American Ser-

ELEPHANT & CHEMIST.

GRATITUDE FOR A DRAUGHT OF PHYSIC.

and

"With reference to the search

London, Sept. 27. made at the house of Yih Yoong-- The crow of the dirigible leaped

To the legion of animal stories taung, at No. 9 Yu Ching-li alley-off as she touched the laland, It there must now be added the story way. off Kung Woo Road, Chapel, was then that the warrant officer of the Resourceful Chemist on October 22, by C. D. I. Lok was injured, by a fall over a cliff.the Grateful Elephant. Li-kwe, of the Shanghai Municipal The crew attempted to make fast The Elephant's name was Lizzie, Police, together with officers of the the N.3 but she was torn from her Fifty years ago she was one of the

She was an African elephant.) Chapel No. 4 District Police Station, scoring and swept out to sea. 48 published in this paper on Octo. Here she struck the surface of the prime attractions of Bostock's! ber 26, we are now in receipt of a water several times, finally burst- menagerie. letter from the Shanghal Municipal Ing into flames. All members of

While on tour she was taken Police stating that the report is in the aircraft's crew were picked up at Tenbury, with a severe attack correct.

by boats from a destroyer which of colle, She was obviously in was cruising in the viclalty.

such pain that the local, "vet” not An investigation of the disaster being within reach, Mr. Bostock will be made shortly, when the com-called in the local chemist. mittee organised for the purpose will examine each member of the

"It is stated that at 9.20 p.m., on October 22, detectives from the Shanghai Municipal Police, with the assistance of the Chapei police, arrested a male and female robber In Chapel, who were wanted on a charge of armed robbery committed that night, and that there was proof to substantiate the information, They were handed over to the Settlement police by the Chapel authorities.

crew.

The loss of the N.3 is the third catastrophe of its kind. In 1922 the N. i was burned in her, shed at Yokosuga, while sometime later the s.s. No. 3 and, her entire crew of six men were lost while flying over Ibaraki-ken.

The N3 was the same type as the Norge, which flew over the North Pole last year. She was construct- ed at Rome under the direction of Major-General Nobile, the Norge's designer, and reassembled in Japan, also under his direction. She cost approximately half a mil- lion yen.

She made her maiden voyage on April 8 last year, flying over Tokyo with General Nobile at the helm. Her speed was 75 kilometres per hour with a capacity for a 44-hour continuous flight. She was equip- ped with 240 horse power engines.

"Through information supplled by the female prisoner, she stated that Ah Yoong, alias Yoong Taing, was one of the accomplices. Officers were detailed by the West Hong- kew police to accompany the female to the Chapel No. 4 District Police Station to seek assistance. Accom- panied by the Chapel police, the party proceeded to the place to make inquiries, but Ah Yoong's wife refused to open the door, whereupon it was, forcibly opened. A pistol was found on a bed, and Ah Yoong, was then taken to the No. 4 District Police Station. As the female prisoner refused to Identify him, he was accordingly-Japan Times. released. The detectives, their informers, and the Chapel officers were not armed with axes, etc. No money or jewellery is missing. The search was conducted by the Settlement police, in conjunction with the Chapei police, and the later have received no reports from Yih of money and jewellery mies. ing."

A BRITISH DRUM.

RETURN PROMPTED BY SCENE IN FILM.

One of the drums lost during the

Mons retreat by the second batta Hon of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders has just been returned to the regiment by Herr F. F. Eiffe, of Hamburg.

Herr Elffe, who had come in pos- session of the drum after the war, was in London recently and saw the film "Mons," in which the less of the drum is depicted,

Ile, was so moved by the film scene that he decided to offer to return the drum.. The offer was gratefully accepted by the Army Council and the regiment, and the drum has just reached England.

POLAR CAKE

ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS

A homing pigeon, winner of the Senton-Swindon race in 1924, and missed in the Jersey race later in that year, has turned up at the loft of its owner, at Workington.

CHILDREN EVERYWHERE Find Help In BABY'S OWN TABLETS.

tion. I gavo. him Baby's Own

Though unused to prescribing for elephants, the chemist made up a draught which the elephant swallowed without demur and with immediate good effect. The colle was conquered, and in a day or two Lizzie was horself again,

The Sequel. New road,, in Mr. Bostock'a words, the sequel:-

men-

"Four years later the agerie was back in the same; town. -

. The local chemist, keen to have a look at his former: patient, was standing on the kerbstone, watching the entrance of the menagerie.

"Immediately she came abreast of him the elephant recognisedi her former benefactor, swung round, deserted the formation, and with a 'honk' of joy almost rushed the gentleman off his feet. Playfully she then fondled him with her trunk, and the procession was held up for several minutes by the animal'aj exuberance."

The elephant's owner, who had boen so prompt with measures of The rellef, also had his reward. atory of the grateful elephant's re- cognition of its benefactor gol about and proved the best adver tisement the menagerie could have| had, with consequent effect on the takings. sop, one feels, would have found a moral somewhere in|| this story.

MERICA: Mrs. C. R. Lee, of 40 Foster Street, Barre,

The Rival Proprietors. Vt.. writer: "My little ons WILK This is only one of Mr. E. A. troubled with obstinate constipa-Bostock's lively memories of fifty Tablets; they relieved him at once and years on the road with "Men- he has not been bothered since," ageries, Circuses and Theatres" (published to-day, Chapman and Hall, 188.). Elephants figure largely in them: perhaps because elephants are the first necessity of any menagerie,

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novelty had worn off, and then he went one better than his rivals by producing a wrestling lion,

There was always the anxiety that some of the animals might tern dangerous Elephants bo come wicked sometimes, and fons, in Mr. Bostock's experience, "are subject to moments of uncontrol- lable passion."

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