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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1929.

THE

IMPORTANT RE-SHUFFLE AT

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BIG FIVE"

THE YARD

THEIR NEW JOBS

P'RAPS --

PRAPS NOT!

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Ho: "I've waited more than an hour for you!"

She: "Why, I thought I told you r'd be a few minutes late."

There is a noticeable tendency Inj Detectives who have played a the democratic Pross during the vital part in sensational murder aixpenny bar of chocolate. Core- Jack, on his honeymoon, bought a weeks of debate over Germany's Re-trials, mon who are all members of fully breaking off a plece, he handed paration payments to check the pre- tho Yard's "Big Five," are Involved the latter to his bride. After a war and present, strength of her in an important re-arrangement while, seeing that no more millionaires and the taxable value of duties. of their estates.

forthcoming. Jean' asked shyly if The compller of the pre-war Mil-cipal officers has been brought chocolate. "Na, pa, Jean,” replied

The big re-shuffle of these prin- she might have another piece of ̧· lionaire's Handbook, Herr Rudolf about by the appointment of Supt. Jock, "that's for the balrus." Martin, formerly an offlelal in the Ashley to the rank of Chief Con German Home Office, has been at stable after the retirement of Mr. some pains to discover the read-Wensley. Justment of property to circum-

Although at present there is no atances. His conclusiona point to official announcement the fact that the arch-enemy of the areas these officers will command of the new German magnate, Poland, which (writes an "Evening News" corres- annexed some of the finest and most pondent), it is understood that, to hammer home this saying of "Now," said the lecturer, "I want lucrative properties in Silesla, has with one exception, each of the pre- Lincoln not done more than check what sent superintendents will be given would have been an unfair growth a different area from that now in of the prosperity of one or two Ger-hia charge. man subjects due to the increase] Those men of the "Big Five" have. in the price of wood and

timber und them about 900 defectives sent his two children to school the The day after Mr. Newrich had In general.

London is divided into four areas,! His list of the ten richest men each in the charge of a superinten

bookseller's representative called. in Germany to-day is sad reading dent, and the "Big Five" is cant school," he said, "you ought to buy "Now that your children go to for Republicans. .Seven princes pleted by the Superintendent at the' and three industrialists share their] Central Office In Scotland Yard it them an encyclopaedia.” country's richest spolls between self.

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"With mullets toward none. I hope," said a volce.

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"Buy 'em an enclopaedia?" was the reply. "Let 'em walk, like I did!"

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First Doctor:

"Did you ever lose a patient?"

Second Doctor: "Yes; there was

them in almost exactly the same The Flying Squad Head ratio as they did before the war. A further important change ta The paper-mark period has been a new head for the Flying Squad- aafely weathered; coal under the Detective-Inspector Hambrook. ground and trees growing above it

His area is one which includes have not proved false to those who the night club district. originally placed their faith in cently he was the head of the Fly- young Dinks. Ho recovered; and ing Squad, Many crooks have

hasn't come near the place since." found to their cost the iron will and the great, brain of the new chief of the West End.

them.

Entil re-

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Mrs, Ager: "My husband al- ways takes a day off when he has a birthday."-

"When you have one I suppose you take a couple of

Mrs. Kutting:

The Kaiser's Millions In spite of all that has been written to prove the contrary, the ex-Kaiser remains very much the Night club proprietors are well richest man of his country His aware that this man with the quiet fortune is estimated at fifteen Way, who might be mistaken for a alllion pounds, and the extent of lawyer or a bank manager, is mas years off."

[ter detective who stands no on people and widened her outlook!

the estates belonging to him at sense. over two hundred thousand acres, The foreigner is no longer There are another hundred thou- a stranger or an enemy. He is sand acres owned by various mem-habit of running illicit clubs wild water heater with: "There's cer And those crooks who are in the advertisement for an automatic not only an essential element in bers of the house of Hohenzollern. hear to their dismay that it is like-tainly nothing more

Illicit Clubs

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A copy writer for an Austràlian- advertising agency wound up his

automatic in

her prosperity, but an eager help though the ex-Crown Prince's pre-ly he will be in charge of future its action, unless it's the solar sys er and friend in the reconstruc-of his father's private property.

sent home at Oels, in Silesia, is part raids.

tem." Six replies came in. Four* The Central Offee-where every people asked for prices and particu- tion of her constitution.

The reasons for believing the ex-hour, day and night they receive lars of the solar system, and 'two Too often, alas, alien ways of Kaiser in a worse. financial position cables from all parts of the world-asked where they could "see it in

than that of his countrymen whose will be under the control of Super operation." kindness are mistaken for inter- fortune is nearly as great, is that intendent Nicholls.

pre-war

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The departing guest had been

given his bill, and shortly after- wards the manager said to the head walter: "You gave the man in room 20 his bill, didn't you?"

"Ya, sir," was the reply.

"Not that I know of," answered the walter.

"Strange, very strange," inutter- ed the other: "I can still hear him whistling!"

ference and exploitation, but the he has forty-nine families for With him he will have men trained Very stout lady to shop assistant: time must surely come, and not which he is technically responsible, to deal with the correspondence of "Have you washing frocks in my in the distant future, when the and, a head of his house, he may all nations, inc.uding detectives size?" people of China must realise that out large sums required by any with documents in remoto Eastern very big range of tab frocks just be called up in at any moment to pay who have no difficulty in dealing "Certainly, madam. We have a the world regards China with member of it.

languages,

now. I'll show you some." benevolence, and is earnest both Prince Albert of Thurn and

The man controlling the Central Lady (frigidly): "You need not to aid the Republic from the Taxis, in South Germany, has gain Office brings the Yard into touche trouble.

I never met such impertin- economic as well

ed so much by the increase in value with other countries in the cease-ence in my life!" as from the cul-

of his woods and forests that he leas tracking down of those highly- Walks out. tural aspect, by which is meant ranks as Germany's second richest skilled rogues working on the Con the international endeavours to man, with a fortune of thirteen and tinent and on both sides of the At secure peace in labour trouble. a half million pounds. As third lautic. Superintendent

Nicholls ranks Frau Bertha Krupp von knows by heart, all the intricacies of In the present strife in Man- Bohlen and Halbach, whose ten milextradition procedure. churia, the Western nations have lion pounds to-day representa a far, Man Who Tracked Robinson made friendly gestures and offers smaller sum than her

Superintendent Cornish--the man of arbitration, and it remains our possessions. In consequence of the who tracked Robinson, the trunk "I didn't forget to charge for any most ardent wish that the dis-readjustment of Krupp's works to murderer, from a tiny mark on a thing. did 1957

peace-time production, swords be. duster-ls to control the Northern pute will reach an early and satis-Ing turned into plough-shares and area, which has grown considerably factory settlement.

cannon Into cameras and stainless in recent years.

His tenacity will be useful in In regard to her internal steel knives, the coal mines, the dealing with motor-bandits, who

blast furnaces, and améiting yards affairs, which of late have not of the Krupp family have trium-have been prominent in these dis- been of the happiest, China must phantly overcome all the difficulties Supt. Savage is to have control

A man visiting a new town went work out her own destiny. As that beset their production after of the Stage 18

to a local barber for a shave, The Supt. Brown is to remain in com- barber made several slips with bis mand of the Southern area, which razor, and each time he would paste Tha Thyssen Steel Worka

includes the Croydon district. This a small piece of paper over the cut" Frau Krupp's nearest rival is decision means that he will be able to stop the bleeding. When the unity and loyalty. Her fate is the Ruhr magnate, Fritz Thyssen, to continue the investigations into operation was over the victim hand- the hands of those who adminis- whose seven million pounds re- the great anenic mystery. trate the Government, who build the property owned by the several roads and railways, who amend brothers of this house. The the legislature,-and-who-have in Thyssen steel-works are very little their hands the policy of her for great Rheniah iron-master, Otto wealthier than the works of the of their leaders. Still unsure eign trade,

Wolff, of Cologne, whose personal of ita power, still a little With sincerity and an unswerv-six million pounds, are certainly drugged by the political sleep ofing purpose as her undying stan equalled by the fortune of his part-

A verdict of accidental death was raced up the steps of the museum. centuries, this new-found free-dard, China must develop into a

returned at an inquest on Frederick dom has found the right track great nation.

In that develop-cognise that the books giving details sham. Bucks, who was knocked kin only give your old sheebang a Students of, economies will re-Gladián,, 65, a labourer, of Amer./uniformed attendant at the main

we have remarked before in these columns, a strong hand is need-

REPUBLIC DAY

Eighteen years ago the revolu- tion opened at Wuchang and saw the dawn of a new era for China. These eighteen years have noted to guide her peoples to greater been characterised always by peace and joy, but a change,

unique almost in history, has slowly been wrought by the per- severing endeavours of the masses to follow the ideals

the Armistice. The firm is a family

concern.

presents only a small particle of

ner, Ottmar Strauss,

trlets,

A FATAL VOW.

MAN

WHO WOULD NOT WALK

ON PAVEMENT ·**

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ed the man a shilling.

"Keep the change, barber," he Bald. "It's worth a shilling to be shaved by a versatile an artist. Why, man, you're a barber, butcher and paperhanger, all in one.”

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The American tourist slipped out of his six-seater Petroline, and

"Say, boy!" he addressed, the

entrance to the institution. *I

at last, and is engaged now in ment, she has our sympathy and of the great postwar fortunes of the down by o pedal cyclist while walk- few minutes, go tell me what's the Stinnes family and, certain of their Ing in the roadway in Amersham extra special curiosity you've got. making it a modern, efficient road. our aid.

contemporaries are out of date. High-street.

NEWS IN BRIEF

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All these names belong to the days It was stated that years ago Glad-on show, and I'll make right for during and before the Great War man slipped on the pavement and that!"... Neither revolution nor inflation sprained his ankle, since when he "Well," said the attendant

affected their owners permanently: had refused to walk on the pave thoughtfully, "there's, the mummy the Ruhr occupation led to a re-ment.

of King Wumbus the First on the by the German

second floor."

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Perhaps not all those who flung the cares of yesterday and to-morrow behind them when they rejoiced on the "Double Tenth," ushered back their minds Shanghai, Yesterday. The Nan-Imbursement to those eventful days only three king Foreign Office intends to Government; the struggles between

"Sure it's something very rare?" years before the World War, or Polish treaty and has wired to the more embittered in this part of the has occurred, at Ridgefield, Con patiently.

publish the text of the new Sino-Capital and Labour always, it seems, New York, Yesterday. The death snapped the tourist, chewing "Im- even considered that thousands responsible Polish authority. In country than elsewhere, have cer-necticut, of Mr. Jonathan Petersoni, had to suffer and die before the China for his opinion on

"Rare enough, I reckon!" growled the tainly not shaken the foundations of the President of the United States the attendant,"considering tr ideals of the democrats were decision.

those industries, whose importance Tobacco Company.

the only one of him!" realised.

to-day in the question of Repara- Shanghai, Yesterday.-A message ions paymenta is infinitely greater, Human nature is noted neither from. Harbin states that Col. Gfat-than when they supplied the Im-

Patsy O'Toole was a ladley' man and fond of their company. Untor. for its gratitude nor its memory.zintoff, a railway police detectiva, parial Army.

between three and four million tunately he made love to two coun- It forgets of the past all but the was murdered yesterday evening by Prosperous Princes

pounds.

try gfris at the same time with the lurid and the picturesque. It is sent unknown.

three men whose identity is at pre- Prince Johann Hohenlohe Oehrin Prince Henry of Pless, though he result that they quarrelled over him Col. Glatzintoff gen, whose land in Silesia has rich too, lost money when he lost land and all three were brought into well that the past be forgotten, was an er-Colonel of the Imperial deposits of coal and zinc is Ger- to Poland, has the richest coal de-court for branch of the peace. if it deters or influences the Russian army.Reuter, s many e- nixth richest man, with posits under his sud of any manPatsy, being the cause of the actions of the future, but how'

a fortune of more than six million in Germany. Nearly ten thou• trouble, was” zddressed by the London, Yesterday The fist pounds. He is run very closely sand-miners are working in his magistrate: "And so those women 'AIRY NOTHINGS' ideals helped humanity to build the Chinese Legation in London, Furstenberg, whose Black Forest prices has more than outwished you are a sort of Lothario,

often have history and past Chinese wedding to be celebrated at Price Maximilian Egon zu mines, and the increase in coal were fighting about you?"

I belavo ao, Bor." anew? History, since It resem took place to-day, when Miss Chang woodlands were valued, when he loss of his Polish domains. His bles itself, is experience, and we Klang-au, the Governor of the Bank before the war at over Zour equalled by the fortune of Prince "Ser?" said Eatsy, with his eyes

Chia-jui,, the sister of Mr. Chang daked for a loan from the Deutsche five million pounds; and, more are then?” .... may extract from it the materials Bank of China, was married to Mt. million pounds. Timber has in Feledrich of Prussia, who is the starting from his head, and his face with which to build the future,

Chu Wen-hulung, a son of Mr. N. treased lu value since then, so that of the Prince Albrecht, former turaleg pale at the indictment. *** Think of China eighteen years K. Chu, a well-known Shanghat Prince Maximilian is another two prince regent of Brunswick, whose “I say you are a Lothario," re-

China

*** merchant, ago, and think of China as she is ping, the Chinese Minister in Ber- to-day than Prince Guldotto Henckel bed by the German Government. Sü"Oh, no, yer worship, never as had

General Chang Tso-millions to the good, and richer palace in the Wilhelmstrasse, is peated the magistrate. to-day. What vast changes, both in, officiated, and the guests in von Donnersmark, who suffered to thy for visiting potentates and as that, but I've been in gol for political and moral, have recluded the Lord Mayor and Lord depredations by the Poles, and who, whore money is derived from past stealina horie fashioned the characters of the Mayoress of London.

oqually with his brother, possentes estatos on the Rhine and in Silestar | culpritish va bude

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