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CANDID VIEWS.

LIVELY PICTURES BY MYSTERY

M.P.'.

AUTHOR.

WOMEN M.P.'8

and vice versa,

London, Feb. 6.

walk in and pretend!

"Lady Astor," he says, "is con- vinced that the House of Commona -indeed the whole world-needs lecturing. She has yet to learn

MAN-EATING ·LIONS. | LOVE & EUGENICS.

EXCITING ESCAPES OF AFRICAN HUNTER.

A BIG BAG,

Some interesting details have

There was

The

lioness fell on her back, tearing at

a fatal wound in the cheat.

A Native "Alarm,"

When camping near Selengal, Mr.

that, even if it does, it will not take Hunter was awakened by the Its lectures from her."

menta:-

.

frenzled barking of dogs, and his

The following are extracts from native "boys" etme running into other of "The. Janitor's"

com-his tent in terror. Just then there was a deep-throated grow! just be- Duchess of Atholl, M.P.: Her yond the canvas walls of the tent. outlook is always cautious and and explanation was unnecessary. often limited; so much so that when Without stopping to dreas. Mr. in 1925 she attended the meetings Hunter seized his rifle and a torch, of the Assembly of the Lengue of and, on going outside, saw stand- Nations at Geneva, the French dele-ing in the light of the camp fire gate, a naughty fellow, christened three lionesses and a lion. He shot her. "La Duchess Not-at-all.” · two lionesses in quick buccussion, Mrs. Hilton Philipson, M.P.but the other animals ran off into found ("Mabel Russell"): On the stage the darkness. They were she had won a certain success, most-fand killed the next day.

There was a remarkable change ly of the music hall or variety kind, although she took a prominent part from cowardice to bravery in the in Arnold Bennett's play, "The Masai natives who accompanied Great Adventure."

Mabel is a very Mr. Hunter. The Government au charming and piquant personality, thorities some time ago prohibited and if that were all that is requir-the natives from using the tradi- ed of a legislator she would be per-tional long spears and big shields feet in the part.

which have been the equipment of Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P.: She the tribe for centuries, and short issued to Mr. had a moment of notoriety when Sir black spears. were

The Hunter's guard.

natives, Frederick Bunbury addressed her as | "Miss Perky." The lady herself however, refused to fight with them, and when any' danger threatened they ran away,

DOES EXERCISE PROLONG LIFE?

diseases.

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE RED-HAIRED.

DOCTORS DIFFER FROM LORD HEWART.

A DISADVANTAGE?

Men and women with

ara

An advantage over their ability to enjoy

Beautifying of Station Gardens

Buried under the white shroud off

TIENTSIN OUTRAGE.

SOLDIERS ASSAULT

·OPERATORS.

SERVICE SUSPENDED.

Tientsin, March 9,

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1928.

GIANT LIZARDS,

SAVAGE MONSTERS ABOUT DFT. LONG.

HUNTING STORIES. ·

ly.

Mr.

THAT £500,000. · SECRET CONDITIONS OF GIFTS

'DISPOSAL.

The identity of the donor is not the only mystery that is bound up In this spectacular financial sueri- fice.

Cash and securities worth £500,000 have been deposited with Baring Bros., the banking house of which Lord Revelstoke is the head, but the conditions on which the trust is to be administered are closely-guarded secret.

quoted in tho.

Fewer than a dozen people know the donor's name. The Primo Minister, Mr. Churchill, and a few of the higher officials of the

A Treasury are in the secret. number of names stand out pro- minently among those of the of many millions who could make- such a great financial sacrifice.

"Lucklest Peer."

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DEBT REDUCTION. GIRLS V. ENERGY,

Only a few years ago it became Nation-wide interest and curiosity" Robust views of health fade- Is red hair a disadvantage?

Telephone subscribers who known that on Komodo, a small have been aroused by the announce Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief One question that will be asked been received in London of how views with which many people will by nearly every M.P., in the House Mr. J. A. Hunter, who was engag-disagree are contained in a book Justice, during the trial of a man wanted to make calls in the Head island lying to the seast of Java, ment of the gift to the Government. were un- giant. lizards. This information | trust to accumulate at compound of Commons this week is "Who is ed by the Kenya (East Africa) by Dr. Logan Glendenning, a lead-accused of murder at the Old Office District yesterday after there was still living a race of of £600,000, which is to be held f

Капзав City practitioner, Bailey, said people with red hair noon found that they "The Janitor'"-the

Inquiries excited great interest, and vari- interest and then applied to reduc-. anonymous Government to kill lions and other ing

able to get through. author of "The Feet of big game on the Masal Reserve; which has lately been published in commit suicide.

Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, who elicited the information that a ous people have now visited this tion of the National Debt. England. the Young Men," with the conducted his campaign.

"Men are not going to embrace has made a study of the effects on serious outrage, for which Chin obscure island to obtain specimens Candid sub-title, "Some

Com-

ese soldiers were responsible, was and information. Into the three months which he

"They are character of hair colouring, said:

In "Dragon Lizards of Komodo" ments on the Rising Generation" took to account for eighty lions eugenics," he writes.

the cause of the interruption of the been "My experience has

the service. It appears that Mr. W. D. Burden, a leader of one (Duckworth, Bs. Gd.), published to-and eighty leopards, as well as a going to embrace the first likely, day. The book denis mainly with variety of other animals, he pack trim-figured girl with limpid eyes reverse of that suggested by Lord about 3.20 p.m. a doughty war- of those expeditions, tells of his

ed. more thrills than occur in the and flashing teeth who comes along, Hewart.

is red hair have much more vitality rior by the name of "Li," who pre-exciting adventures in pursuit of fers in spite of the Tupan's these monstrous lizards, which "The Janitor," who in apparently lifetime of most people. Only the in spite of the fact that she

orders to reside in the Italian grow to 9 feet in length and are a Conservative M.P., knows Lady fact that he is a dead shot saved probably reeking with hyperten- than dark-haired people and Astor, and writes: "I know some Mr. Hunter several times from besion, colour-blindness, hay fever and better able to resist disenes.

It is thought to be due to some Concession, rang up from No. 449 of a savage nature and carnivor amyotrophic lateral sclerosis."

East and wanted a call putous. Here is his first glimpse of one who spent a very pleasantjing mauled to death.

On the subject of fashionable dis- glandular advantage possessed by week-end at Cliveden, and has dined His method was to "apoor" the

Far from lead-through the Head Ofce. It is al- one of them.

He was a monster-huge and leged that he experienced some

A "Daily Express" repre- at the house in St. James'-square. animals from baits of meat to eases: "Surely everyone can recall red-haired people.

was informed that He has never spoken to Lady Astor their lairs in the jungle, and when one or two friends who have coming to suicide, these fortunate delay in getting the call he want- hoary. I scrambled, up to a point sentative

Revelstoke ed. Be that as it may, about 3.40 of vantage, taking great care, Lord

had decid- before, during, or since" the ex-on the track of a lionces in the plained all their lives, and have people have

ed to p.m, three armed soldiers appear-however, not to expose myself, as

add nothing to' his planation being that Lord and Lady Kidongai area the hunter had one lived all that time in the most others in Astor both ask a lot of people for of his narrowest escapes. Sudden- perfect conditions of health. They life.

A prominent physician said: Red-ed at the Head Office Exchange the eyesight of these beasts is letter to the Chancellor of the Ex---

which is on the borders of the much keener than that of deer. chequer, which was the week-end at Cliveden, and that, ly he came upon the animal in are inclined to bave fashionable'

a

haired people are of a much more

the The lizard was working his way offcial Treasury statement announc Japanese Concession and if Lord Astor does not happen to thick thorn bush.

Thin And Fat People. nervous temperament than those Chinese City-and announced slowly down from the mountaining the gift. know a guest, he assumes that the growl and a rush as the lioness

dark hair. They nre "In 1885 they had too much uric with

that they had come to show the crags. The sun slanted down the "Lord Revelstoke will make no jolly, and guest wae invited by Lady Astor, shot out of the bush. She was ac-

impul Staff what would be done to them hill so that a black shadow pre-statement, nor will he answer any tually in the air and almost above acid. In 1890 they had chronic high-atrung,

In 1895 they took sive. Depression is when he pulled the appendicitis.

practicni-

if they did not get through their ceded the black beast as he came questions," said his secretary. "It is said," adds "The Janitor," the hunter

In 1900, ly unknown. to them and

warrior-master's calls the mo- It was a perfectly marvellous "that anybody can spend an un-trigger of his rifle, dropping flat on the Kneip water cure.

ment he rang up. They then sight-a primeval monster in invited week-end at Cliveden." You the ground immediately.

assaulted and chased out the ex-primeval setting-sufficient to changed operators-some seventy give any hunter a real thrill. in number and proceeded to The Komodo lizard is indeed a smash up the head-phones at most formidable animal. tached to the switch-board. Burden narrates a story that was After doing some $900 worth of told him of one that leapt at a damage, and completely inter- horse and "took a great piece out rupting the service they left the of his side." They cat voracious building.

One of the richest men in the The Foreign Engineer was en- On one occasion a lizard swal- gaged in work outside the Ex-lowed the whole hindquarters country is, probably the Marquis of change at the time, but on his of a boar at one gulp-hoofs, Bute, who has been termed "our His income is return issued and fixed up new legs, hama, vertebrae, and all. If luckiest peer."

than £200,000 head-phones, and did his best to he is surprised when so engaged reputed to be more

His property in Cardif restore the service. It was not, the results are apt to be disas- a year. however, possible to restore even trous, for this beast is easily ex-alone is said to be worth more than a limited service until 6 p.m. cited and immediately digorges £7,000,000,

Another great landed proprietor The Head Office Exchange himself.

Lassoed.

is Lord Howard de Walden, who serves, the whole Japanese Con-

London' cession, and though it is situated

Catching these huge lizards has been described as

He received in Chinese Territory, it is expect alive is a ticklish business. First richest landlord. ed that the Japanese Authorities they are trapped and then they nearly £4,000,000 for a part of his

estata in the west of London in.. will have something to say about have to be bound with this savage and unprovoked out-This is the most difficult part, and 1922.

One of the nation's wealthiest by Chinese militarists. Mr. Burden describes such an in-

men, whose name is famous for Obviously, an exchange in Chin- cident.

The Malays did not dare go his great philanthropic donations, ese Territory cannot be consider- ed satisfactory if at any moment within several yards of our cap is Mr. Bernhard Baron, the tobacco His contributions to some skulking militarist can send tive, so now it was time for millionaire. members of his bodyguard to in- Defosse (a member of the expedi- charities in recent years amount to timidate and drive out the operat- tion) to get into action. He had something like £1,250,000.

Mr. "Solly Joel and Mr. Jack ing staff, and smash up the been practising with the lasso for switchboard equipment.

Presumably, like the "high months past, and accordingly he Jool are both helieved to be worth military official" who could not be stepped into the ring. A strange more than £20,000,000, and the took no offence at the silly fellow,

pair they made, the. old hunter riches of the eighty-five-year-old. but blushed and giggled like an or

dealt with in connection with the and his grim antagonist, who, by Lord Ashton, who amassed a great. dinary woman.'

In desperation the District Office,

theft of a foreigner's motor-car- this time, was lashing himself fortune out called up the Masai fighting men 1995 and 1910 they had other trou- | belongs almost exclusively. to those details of which were printed in into a frightful rage, the foam the same gigantic scale. Mias Margaret Bondfield, M.P. and challenged them to produce

If red-haired these columns recently the mili- literally dripping from his jaws. In 1915 they all had their with dark hair. bles. She is probably the best speaker of twelve or fifteen of their number

But Defosse was wise. He was In 1920 they had people commit suicide it is because tarist "L" will escape the penalty all the women M.P... But she who were not afraid of lions. non-surgical biliary drainage. In they are creatures of impulse and of his underlings' crime. Wretch-taking no unnecessary chances. Lord Vestey are names that at once. bas one gift far surpassing in value They replied that they would be 1925 they had inferiority complex, not because of any lack of charae- ed civilians who will not cash an- The first throw missed, and he spring to the mind when the subject... the most practised.oratory. She prepared to fight anything with

"Exercise and fresh air are sup- ter. As a rule boys with red hair are secured paper-notes at a fictitious coiled his rope again as method of great riches is under discussion... has courage of a sort that the men the spears of their fathers, but posed to be the sovereign augumen- full of adventure and hardly know rate, or who in other ways incur cally as if he were practising on

Lord Benrated's father, the oil of her party might well cultivate. they were afraid of using theters of long life," continues Dr. how to keep out of mischief. At the displeasure of the almighty a tent peg in camp. The lizard magnate wa a millionaire many She is never afraid to tell her little black sticks." The long

over. Lord Vestey, the own people unwelcome truthin, as spears and big shields were, there- Glendenning. "I admit they make one time the majority of boys in militarists, are shot out of hand. was clawing frantically to get times on the occasion when she blandly fore, returned to them, and they one feel better. That they promote reformatory schools were found to But a rascally military officer away. Defosse stepped up quite meat and shipping magnate

have red hair, longevity I seriously doubt.

may, apparently, hold up the enclose behind him, while he was trols extensive financial interests, "An impartint examination of all Miss Ruby Miller, the actress, tire telephone service, and des- thus engaged in his struggles, and and Lord Dewar's whisky interests the means yet proposed to prevent who has deep red hair, said:

troy much valuable equipment, roped him about the neck. The have brought him fabulous riches. Beast Versus Shield.

I have always found that a red- simply because a number he end of the rope was made fast to a The next lion the natives en-early death or lengthen life leaves

She is wants to call happens to be en- tree. A third rope about the Though not nearly to attractive a countered was quickly disposed of. me with the conviction that nothing haired woman is sincere. character as Margaret Bondfield, she They found him on the plain, and, anybody does to himself after he is never lukewarm; she loves fiercely gaged, or, for some other reason, tail, to prevent that weapon from has much of the latter's application forming a

circle with the lion in born makes more than a few hours' and hates with fury. If she is cannot be got the moment, he doing damage, did the trick.

your friend you can never shake wants it.-"P. and T. News." and a fair portion of her poli- the centre, they advanced menae- difference at the most."

Discussing thin and fat people, that friendship. She will work tical courage; in fact, it would ap-ingly inward. One of their nut-

"The thin type harder than most and is almost pear that in the Labour Party at ber, throwing caution to the winds, the doctor writes:

than he violent in her carneatness at play. present it in the women who wear crept stealthily up to the animal, has enormous lungs, more the trousers

armed only with his shield and requires for his nutritional needs, 1 prefer dealing with red-haired Sir William Joynson-Hicks-Aspear.

roared The lion

and so that air does not blow in and out women, the only really honest ones very good fellow, of course; strong, sprang; the native threw his spear of all his lung spaces, and these I know.

are peculiarly liable to sensible, a Churchman; no clever-and went down beneath his shield, people ness, mark you, but just a plain Bri-with the lion on top..

A timely tuberculosis.

People Who Worry. ton; and yet the idol of Bath and shot from Mr. Hunter saved the

"The heavy one, on the 'contrary Bournemouth, is not necessarily the man from death, but he was badly

has very small lunga, and because Idol of Liverpool and Birmingham. ¡mauled.

Mr. Oswald Mosley, M.P.-Revo- That the man-eating habits of he does not regularly breathe in and lutions are notoriously unkind, es many of the lions are due to the out a good-over-supply of oxygen to Masai natives of burn all the food he eats, it ac- pecially to their masters, whose practice of the

in the cumulates in the form of fat, and hands they have a nasty habit of throwing out their dead biting. That is why, should I ever hope that the bodies will be de- this may find myself faced with the melan- voured was the theory Mr. Hunter with his obesity. choly spectacle of Mr. Baldwin advanced to a representative hanging from a lamp-post in White-the East African Standard. hall, I have a presentiment that

informed the extremists that they went to the hunt with new zest. were "not fit to run a fried fish shop."

Miss Susan Lawrence, M.P-

of

winter at its depth, the station grounds, right of way and surround- pes of Canadian Pacific Railway lines give no promise at this time of year of the beauty of color, perfume and flower adornment that will) feature them in a few months.

The horticultural department of the railroad, will during the next few weeks, distribute to its agents; Rection foremen and others for

planting, several thousand seeds. At plant is desirable, the bulk of the Bolected points special packets will display will be made by pansies. By be sent for growth under glass, thus far the greater part of the garden producing an earlier display. Addi-work is done in the spare time of tions are to be made this spring as the station agents, from the motive usual, to the stock of trees, shrubs for love of gardening, pride in their and perennial plants which form the surroundings and in competition for permanent basis of C.P.R. gardens. the numerous prizes offered for In the territory north of Lake displays. Approximately 1,500 Superior, where a particularly hardy gardens are now maintained.

teeth extracted.

have something to do'

"The thin ones seldom have heart]

or arterial diseases, and if they

"If a body is thrown out and re-live past youth, the period of

if, after a moment's reflection on, mains more than two days, un-ruberculosis, they are likely to live the mutability of human affairs, enten," he said, "the Maan! think for ever; notice that at least 60 move a little higher up the street. I something is wrong, and insist per cent. of very old people are of shall be pleasantly rewarded by upon the deceased's relatives offer- this type." finding the next lamp-post adorned, ing up a bullock as sacrifice." by Mr. Tom Morley,

FORCEPS IN MAN'S BODY.

Dr. Glendenning does not believe

Mr. Hunter also thought that that a person should be medically the Masai had greatly deteriorated examined once a year.

"I have seen the plan in operation, since their warlike activities had been discouraged. The young men, and I have seen practically nothing he said, are no longer the fine result but grief and unhappiness. specimens of manhood their fathers "A middle-aged man is the usual In the great majority of were, but lead a life of idleness, victim. Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Charles-and have no thought beyond eat enses if such men have anything to be found wrong with them it Is worth, a widow, of Burley-grove, ing and love-making.

elight defect of the heart, some kidney change, and a beginning of the hardening of the arteries, or hypertension. 7

Frodsham, lost the action which

she brought against two Bur

geons, Dr. R. S. Graham and Dr.

W. G. Love, alleging negligence

MY HAT!

London, Feb. 21.

Fearing The Worst. "This report is handed to a man

Not ono

rage

ropes.

of linoleum, are on

Other Magnates. Lord Bearsted, Lord Dewar, and

con-

Lord Cowdray inherited one of the largest fortunes in the country from his father, the first viscount the head of the great firm of con-- tractors.

Lord Derby ja perhaps the mos famous of the multi-millionaires Financial support being un- whose wealth is inherited. Hist The Vienna police have arrested satisfactory, a proposal to form a fortune is believed to be consider- an Albanian, named Ibrahim Lura, light aeroplane club, at Hull, has ably more than £5,000,000. The in connection with an. alleged plot been abandoned, and the subscrip- Duke of Portland is certainly Int to murder a former president of tions, including £100 from Sir the same class, and the Duke of

re- Westminster has enormously valu The Persian Gulf light dues have Albania, Hasan Bey Prichtina, who Charles Wakefield, are being

turned.

able property in London. has resided in Vienna. been reduced.

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