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JEWEL DEALER.

A PARIS CRIME RE-ENACTED.

murdered man.

ANTS' SECRET.,

HOW THEY GET CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY.

1

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cident helped Mr. Marais to out the secret.

Work Never Stopped.

LONDON POOR,

VIEWS OF COLOURED SPEAKER.

MR. CHUNCHI OF MALAY.

London, March 24,

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· NIGERIA TRADE.

PRODUCTION OF PALM OIL, ETC.

PRIMITIVE METHODS.

The main economic problem is the oil palm industry. The pro- ducts of the palm, oil and kernels, were valued at over £8,000,000 in 1926, and made up nearly half of Nigeria's exports for the year.

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1928.

FROM THE STARS.

STRENGTH TO REPLACE WORLD'S WASTAGE.

U.S. SCIENTIST'S THEORY,

Now York. The world is not fading away, doomed eventually to die through lack of heat and energy. Instead elements born unceasingly in stars and nebulo.

are

This startling new theory of the universe was advanced by Dr. Robert Millikan, of California In stitute of Technology, speaking be- fore his associates at Pasadena.

He asked that they await further experiments before accepting his theory as fully proved, but said that his recent experiments with mysterious cosmic rays left doubt in his mind that the process of creation was now going on in

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CURIOUS TURF CASE,,

Paris. For the second time thero

Johannesburg, March 27,

Mrs. Emina

or Grace Caird,

Two problems, those of econo- has been a reconstitution of the Where do ants get their water "The general impression which! Marryat, Dundee and Flanart, Loch mic development and public murder of Gaston Trupheme, the during drought? Dr. Livingstone the man in the street has of a Loog, Dumbarton, Interested in health, figure prominently in the jewel dealer whose boily, half burnt, thought that they must have dis-Christian is a person with a Bible Caird (Dundee) Ltd, jute manu report presented to the Empire was discovered in the forest of covered a way of manufacturing under his armpit, a byman book in facturers, etc., a generous bone Parliamentary Association by the Armainvilliers. It was desired to water synthetically. A South one hand, a glass of milk in the factor to the city, of which she was delegation which recently visited ascertain whether the crime had African scientist, Mr. E. N. Marais, other and a bun in his mouth," said accorded the freedom, who died in Nigeria. The delegation com- been committed by one man or two, has hit upon the real solution. Mr. Kamel A. Chunchi, a coloured December last, aged 78 years, prised Major Walter Elliot, M.P., whether it was possible for the It is common knowledge in South speaker, at a meeting in connection widow of Lieut. Colonel Marryat Mr. William Lunn, M.P., and Mr. murderer to have carried the body Africa that,

a three with the evangelical mission being and sister of the late Sir James G. M. Garro-Jones, M.P.. from the Afth por of the house in years' drought, when there is not held at the Mission Halls of the Caird, left personal estate in Great the Rue Saint Augustin, where he a blade of green grass in sight, a Muswell Hill Wesleyan Church at Britain now valued for probate at had his oflices, to his car in the white ante' nest is always saturated (Pembroke-road and Sydney-read; £1,197,505, of which her holdings in street, or had placed the package in with heated water vapour. Ac- Mr. Chunchi comes from an ancient War Lours, etc., amounted to £606, the lift. The drama was re-enact-

find Malay family and his father ie ons 002 and in Caird (Dundee) Ltd. to ed to clear up these points.

in £202,440. She gave: of the leading Mohammedang Several thousand people, assembl- During the digging of a wall on Ceylon. As a lad Mr. Chuneh! £200,000 for the foundation of There is, in addition, a rapidly ed in front of the house, and hostile a Transvaal farm, Mr. Maraia and went to a mission school, entered travelling scholarships in engineer-growing local consumption of the eries were raised as soon as the others came upon a 2-inch-shaft the Coylon Civil Service and latering, electricity, neronauties, and oil as a food. murderer, Mestorino, was seen. running down into the earth. became an Inspector of Police. music, to be known as "Sir James Almost the whole of this pro- the heavens and that our earth was A sack filled with sawdust re- Careful digging proved that the He volunteered for active service Caird Travelling Scholarships," duce was collected by the natives not, as had been long believed, a presented the weight of the shaft ran from a neighbouring ants' in. 1914, went to France with the eligible to natives of Scotland only, from their forest or semi-culti-disintegrating planet.

Mestorino related neat to A depth of more than 65 Middlesex Regiment and became a £100,000 to the Town Council of vated palms, and treated by them His investigations of cosmic, But rays have been conducted in high] with extraordinary calmness the feet below the earth's surface, Christian in the trenches, in the Dundee, upon trust for investment for the oil and kernels. story of the crime. He imitated where water was available, Up face of fierce opposition from his and to apply the income in the ac-Nigeria, and even the West Coast, mountain lakes of California and

no longer an unchallenged Bolivia. quisition of land in or around has the blow under the chin which and down the shaft passed an end- family.

rays have been caused Trupheme to fall to the floor, less procession of white ants,

a great Dundee, for the benefit of the com-monopoly in this production. The studied with the aid of self-record- Mr. Chunchi has done and, the moment the man acting conveying water to the neat and the deal of work among the poor of the munity, this fund being known as menace of outside competition being electroscopes sent by balloons Trupheme pretended to recover con- miniature gardens of fungus which East-end and he said on Wednesday "The Sir James Caird Land Ac-gan to show itself in 1925, when nearly up to the full extent of the Sumatra exported 9,000 tons of earth's atmosphere. Dr. Millikan sciousness and make an attempt to form their food supply.

night that he had shown many quisition Fund." rise, Meatorino bounded upon him

£20,000 to the Caird Jubilee Nur-oit and kernels, and development people in Limehouse and Poplar with a "tribonlet," ' steel-instru-

By marking individunt ants with that Christians were not the milk-sing Home, Dundee; £5,000 to the there is proceeding so rapidly ment for measuring rings, and

He Royal Dundee Institution for the that about 100,000 short tons dots of aniline dye, it was ascertain-sops some people imagined. struck him on the head. It wased that they never stopped work, had mode wife-beaters and Blind; £1,000 each to the United will be produced there in 1936. this blow

An important factor is that which fractured

the Church, Garelochead, by Free but went on day and night. It took drunkarda Trupheme's ekull,

The police had not accepted this about half an hour for each ant to giving them a good thump under Helensburgh Infirmary, the Society while the Nigerian product is ex- for Indigent Gentlewomen In Scot-tracted by simple native methods, his the jaw. travel down the shaft, draw

in Sumatra the oil is extracted by version. Tiroy were of opinion load of water, and return to the The speaker told some of his land.

And subject to other gifts the modern machinery, yielding a far that Trupheme was struck from

nest. During the night-time how- experiences as an East-end mis-

higher proportion of good oil than behind while he was sitting in an ever, the streams of water-carriera slonary.

He intended to visit a residue of her property:

As to one Armchair. A painful incident now

half to the Dundee is obtained in Nigeria. At Vic- thicker. grew

Seemingly toilers man of colour in an East-end street occurred, Mile. Charmaux, the

of the Cameroon murderer's sister-in-law, had de-/employed on other work during the one day, he said, but he knocked at į Royal Infirmary, for a "Sir Jamestoria, in the mandated area, Ger- Scientists learned 30 years ago that

Caird Bequest" upon trust for in- man owners clared that on entering Mestorino's daytime were concentrated on the the wrong house. A young wo

vestment and to apply the income plantations have established a irrigation shaft at night. The in man came to the door, followed by a office she saw him strike Trupheme. cessant trumpeting of the hurrying little child obviously in need of food. for the benefit of that institution system of oil-extraction by a pro into lighter ones. It should there-

cess involving the use of benzine She stated that sha BOW the

in-as a solvent. It may well be that fore be expected that somewhere in body wrapped in sacking when Me-ants was at this time clearly audible. Mr. Chunchi went down the road and of the Sidlaw Sanatorium.

Mr. 'Marais also noticed that, and returned with a loaf and a tin

this process is the most signi- the universe a building-up process storing was preparing to carry it though the irrigation shaft jigzag-of sardines so that they could eat. stitutions and schemes for the cant development in the pair oil was going on to replace the des

no difficulty downstairs. He had

Bo He spoke kindly to the woman and benefit

tructive force of radio activity. ged east and west, there were

Įsituation to-day. in showing that he had required no heads north and south. Possibly, he as he was engaged in conversation and sailors disabled in the war

He believed that his present dis- There is, the report points out, assistance in moving the body. He

may decide handled the sack of sawdust as earth's magnetic linea of force, as along the road shouting about a directing that her name and that of in Nigeria and elsewhere being such creative process-that every- every reason for attention both coveries were the first evidence of thinka, the ant are affected by the big burly navvy came hurrying as her trustees

dirty nigger speaking to his wife, her late husband should be associat-devoted to these developments. where around us, either in are certain Australian ante. An Ingenious Swindle.

the woman became ed with this bequest.

They concern

rebule, Of the two plays in which the Immediately

the prosperity of stars, in the whole palm belt and to that depths of space, creation was pro- One of the biggest long-firm Czech authors, the Kapek brothers, terrified and the child ran scream- frauds of recent times has been had a share, which were produced in ing into the kitchen and hid under

extent the power of absorption of ceeding. "'Drunken Harry' (as brought to light by the first brigado London some years ago

almost a table.

British goods which the West As a commissioner Coast market has recently de- from the fact that one epidemic of the Mobile Police at Argenteuil, ainultaneously, one, "R.U.R.," the husband was called) lunged at them have it."

The attention of the alone, that of relapsing fever, is where a band of seven swindlers is presented by the Reandean manage- me," said Mr. Chunchi, "but by the in the police he had to learn boxing,veloped." said to have had its headquarters. ment, is better remembered because grace of God I gave him one under Wrestling and ju jitsu and he had Empire Marketing Board might estim, tad to have filled in Kanor be directed to this question, and Province alone between October, Four men alleged to have been it added the word "Robot" to our the jaw. He came at me again not forgotten it.

Mr. Chuncht also told in thrill-it is also a matter of vital inter- members of the gang are under language. But the other, staged and I gave him another. Then a arrest, but three others, including by Mr. Nigel Playfair, and known Voice came to me, saying, 'Let us ling terms the story of his remark- eat to the commercial firms, who 1924, and March, 1925, 128,000

So I said to able recovery from a terrible illness ought to lend every assistance.

persons out of a population of the chief of the oganisation, are be- over here as "The Insect Play," had reason together.'

two and a half millions, lieved to have fled into Belgium. a remarkable scene, in which auts the man, Let us reason together, after his life had been practically When he declared

Live Stock Trade.

Turning to "political" or com- The attention of the police was were shown working with, military my friend" (Laughter.) Yes, it despaired of.

pulsory labour for public works, first attracted to the operations of precision and automatic tireless- may make you laugh," said Mr. that he was not going to die after

Concerning live stock the re-the delegation points out that the hammer Chunchi, "but I can assure you It having heard the Voice of God port stats: Nigeria is one of the rate of wages is 9d. an hour, and the group last October, when uness in answer to the

saying that not one hair on his

big live-stock areas of the Em-the period of service a month. tradesman newly established at strokes of a foreman. There was was not funny at the time."

head would

come to harm the Argenteuil was find to be selling no pause, no change, no rest; the Procceding, he, said:

pire, containing over 3,000,000. The difficulty sometimes experi- all kinds of goods, ranging from teil was as insistent as the noise. into the kitchen with him and prof-doctor said he was delirious, gave head of cattle, over 4,000,000 enced in securing voluntary la- We him an injection and he slept for goats, and 1,700,000 sheep. The bour is not so much due to the ready-made clothing to bicycles and It is this picture of insect labour, jfered him my cigarette case.

export of hides and skins in 1926, native's dislike of the kind of typewriters, at prizes which seemed endless, unwearying, mechanical, talked and I asked the wife to tell forty-eight hours.

Doctors had salda by-product only, came to over work to be done, as to his natural much too low to be honest. Natur which is recalled by the true story her husband how the child had that was rapid.

complained of hunger. When she that the black people had remark-

£600,000; considerably more inability to see the necessity for had finished the story the little girl able will power which enabled them than the value of the exports of it when he can live well enough

sald to pass through such a terrible crept up to her father and

mahogany and rubber put to- on his yams and cassava or corn, 'Yes, Daddy.",

It was nothing of confirm to

her illness.

gether. With all this, meat is a and his petty trading, without The man sat and kind.

He had prayed and trusted relatively rare article in the diet- taking other employment. wept like a child.” The speaker to God, who had work for himary of the native, and there is

It is his growing wants, which went on to say that the husband do.

actually a small annual import of induce him to undertake labour, honestly purchased the business, So far police have not discovered had attended the mission meetinga The object of the mission week le milk and butter. The stock in- either for a few weeks or for and would have nothing to do with the murderer of Angelo Savorelli, regularly and had become a good to make people in the Freehold dustry is undoubtedly capable of longer periods in the year. his predecessor's debts. This said to have been the victim of a man. After a time he addressed district take a greater interest in great expansion: method seems to have been followed political crime because he had re-a large crowd near his home

frequently has as his object the 01 Christianity. The services have There are many problems accumulation of a little capital in in several other places. When nounced his Anarchist faith,

what Jesus Christ had done for him. been of a bright character. The which confront the medical ser-order to launch out on some en- things became jou het for the man A strange and intensely dramatic Mr. Chunchi does not mind in the hymns have been popular, the advices and the Government, the re- terprise of his own. In a grow- who had ordered the goods and career was that of Savorelli, which least if rowdy youths who have dress interesting and evangelical port continues, and it is obviously ing number of cases these enter disposed of them at any price with-is narrated at length to-day. ou paying for them, he handled fervent. partisan of the entry of who are "out for

A just a little too much to drink and and the enthusiasm displayed very impossible to contemplate staffing prises are succeeding, and some a row" try to encouraging to the organisers, a service for 20,000,000 African of the African traders in the large over his affairs to a successor. Italy into the war, he fought for her upset his meetings. "For," he among whom are the Rev. Colin inhabitants with Europeans. The towns are men of considerable

The police found traces of the cause, but was later prosecuted by said, "if they want trouble I can let Roberts and Mr. Mesange.

scale of the task may be judged wealth. gang at Caen, and 500n these who had disapproved of his established that they had to deal action. Tried on a murder charge, m with a cleverly-conducted organisa-he was acquitted. tion. They received no fower He came to France, and obtained than 300 complrints from whole-employment in a hospital at Nancy, sale merchants, who, it is alleged, but continued to meet Italian anar- have been swindled to the extent of chists, and was expelled. At the 3,000,000f.

time of the Catalonian conspiracy ho went to Bordeaux. Five Italians';

though it was a light thing.

ally, he had an Immense turnover. given above.

But the goods had been bought

on three months' credit, and when

the bills fell due the merchant dis- trustee to dispose of the horses im- mother's story. appeared, to be replaced by a auc-mediately by auction, cessor, who claimed that he had

Savorelli's Adventures.

Rate

Racing Stable Dilemma.

An action of considerable interest wore arrested there. The papers to followers of the French Turf hзs of one of these men were not in just been settled by a judge in order, and he was brought to Paris. chambers, who has ordered the sale The man was Savorelli, He had by auction of twenty-one racehorses been told Garibaldi had been guilty belonging to the well-known stable of treason in the Catalonian plot, of M Marc Guggenheim. These and, disgusted and exasperated, he' animals include Rose de Noel, told all he knew about this affair- Menetrier, Enoch. Goudar, Farethe organisation of the conspiracy In an Italian cafe near the Place well, Satanas, and Bebe Jaupe,

An application for the appoint- de la Nation, and the manufacture ment of a trustee was brought by of bombs by Italians in Paris.

Savorelli was released. As he a number of Guggenheim's oredi- tors, who naked that the horses had no work the lawyer who bad. might be sold immediately. These

defended him at his trial for creditors included thetrainer, murder gave him employment on a Reuse, who had entered a claim for paper that had been started, bat be 250,000f, Other creditors, how was looked upon as a traitor and evor, asked that the sale of the was menaced. Then Savorelli did horses should be postponed, as a bold thing. He had had enough several of them were entered in of revolutionary agitation, and he races which they had a good chance sought the pardon of his Govern- It was granted, and he of winning, and it was argued that, rent.

If they were allowed to, run and made arrangements to return to happoned to win then the creditors Italy and rejoin his wife, who was would benent considerably by the about to become a mother. He was increase in their value.

to have started after taking a last The trainer, however, declared meal with his friend Berrachiola. that he was not prepared to feed He was tracked and murdered the anfinale any longer without that day. His wife, who is a payment; and unless they could be schoolmistress In Pezarro, kas sold at once then some provision claimed his body, and it will be sent must be made for their upkeep. to Italy.

on

The judge; after hearing the argu-rag ments of both parties of creditore Four mountaineers and· numers and representatives of, the French ous cattle have perished in the Steeplechase Society and the Societe Daghestan mountains in the Cau- d'Encouragement, which cor casus during an avalanche, The responds to the Engleh Jockey roads are covered, with snow, and Club," made an order appointing a many villages are Isolated.

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