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THE CHINA MAIL.
HOLIDAY SPENT WITH A CONVICT.
And the Girl Who Is Waiting.
REPRIEVED MURDERER.
ROTARIANS DISCUSS DISARMAMENT.
Alleged Spies of League of Nations
A SURPRISE STATEMENT.
A sixty-year-old signalman will The two thousand delegates at leave his box at Low Moor, tending the twelfth annual confer- Clitheroe, and take a train to once of Rotarians of Great Britain which opened at Maidstone to spend his annual and Ireland, week's holiday-for the sixth time Llandudno recently, were surprised visiting a young convict who is by a statement of a speaker closely the work of the serving a life sentence In Maid-associated with stone Gool, writes a. Daily Express League of Nations that "secret
diplomacy had resulted in an im representative in mail week.
mense amount of official spying among members of the League.”
The signalman is Tom Robinson,
of De Lacey Street, Clitheroe.
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STRANGE THEFT.
Adventures of a Church Window in Austria.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION. THAW ICOP
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"Austria's oldest stained glass ple ture and oldest window, showing Mary Magdalene, dating from the second half of the twelfth century, has undergone a strange migration It formed part of the church of St. Magdalena at the village of Hadernitzen in the Alpine province of Carinthia
December or the pieces of last, Adolf dealer's shop-
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The convict is Wilfred Gould, Professor C. Delisle Burns, of now aged twenty-seven, of Somer- London, who made the allegation, r18- set, who was sentenced to death ferred to the dangers of the war
chemiets of America, he said, were young man and, reprieved.
Mr. Robinson is à cheerful little dévoting their whole attention man with a ruddy complexion and producing new gases; and even
Britain we were spending £200,000 iron-grey hair.
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that Governments have discovered "He was a complete strui er' to the advantage of secrecy, and
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if. could see the boy during my amount of official spying among members of the League of Nations." Jannual holiday.
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Every month for the last six sears a letter has been sent from cently advanced by the study of sheep's Head & Foot per act 90. 60 70
The delegates laughed this signalman's home to Gould. lunatice." Parcels, of magazines used to be when he added, "Until we studied sent regularly until this was. pro-I will not say lunatics, but abnormala-we were really unable hibited by the prison authorities,
Sucking Pigs, to order Mr. Robinson has met Gould's to understand the politicians."
Bust, Beef They had to put peace in the relatives and every year he con-
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In Somerset. He has also met did not mean merely chasing around the mulberry bush with their bro- Gould's sweetheart.
"She has stuck to him through then, the French, but by working thick and thin." Mr. Robinson for an advance in the civilised life Psychology re of the common folk. said. "She visits Wilfred gularly at the gael just as though was 'making headway, and he claim. Barbel nothing had happened. Her faith ed that, given another five or ten 'years of this progress, peace would in him is wonderful.
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Catfish
In the half-hours we are allowed on the map at Geneva. That Codfish together, we talk about all sorts of was a very great advance. things.
Crabs
The Earl of Lytton urged that
"I chip him about the defeats of peace could be obtained only when Cuttle Fish the Bristol team, and he retaliates, the peoples of every riation studied ab
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by telling me of his own prowess it positively and constructively. Dace
He was not advocating a further Dog Figh at football.
Eels, Conger "He is the goalkeeper of the diminution in the strength of our prison football team and a member armed forces.
"In the matter of unilateral dis- of the cricket team.
Wilfred will be armament," he added, "I think this Frog "Next year moved, perhaps to the Tale of country has shown a very good Garoupa I think that we have Gudgeon example. Wight. I shall see him there."
gone as far as our international ob-Herringe
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OXFORD DISCOVERY
ligations demand.
have gone as far as safety permits." Labras He suggested that the nations of Loach
Strange Behaviour of the world should agree not to build Lobsters
Gas Mixture.
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battleships or submarines, Mackerel
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To-day the world Mullet except in war. was spending on armaments alone Oysters nine hundred, millions a year, or Parrot Fich fifteen hundred pounds a minute.
What Russia is Doing.
Perch Pika.
One of the delegates, who said Plaice
A chemical discovery of great interest has been made by Dr. H. W. Thompson, of Oxford. When oxygen and that notorious gas called hydrogen sulphide, and that he had been a soldier most of Pomfret, White known popularly as "rotten eggs, his life, asked what useful, purpose Pomfret, Black are mixed in certain proportions could be served by discussing dis Prawns and under certain conditions they armament so long as Russia was do-Bay.... up revolution Rock Fish explode. Dr. Thompson finds that ing her best to stir
but and class hatred in every nation of Roach, they explode not once only continue to explode at intervals of the world and maintained her. vast Sanom
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Lord Yytton replied that at the Skate cracker.
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One can see, immediately that, forthcoming Disarmament Confer-Shrimps must be ence Russia and the United States Snapper something very strange occurring because one would na would both be represented, although Soles.. turally expect the gases to be en- neither was a member of the League Tench tirely combined with each other of Nations.
after the first explosion. How
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Government to ensure that the Dis
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Taucous cries of "Chellaol Chellao!" his customers he makes sure that (Go along! Go along!) as he drives it is small and certainly not bamboo, his buffalo past your window on his for that type of cane la hollow and A way to the back of the bungalow for can be made to carry water. his daily visit to the kitchen. "doodwallah" who rests a piece of Water buffalo are the only source bamboo cane against his knees' as
of fresh milk supply in most places he milks his buffalo is looked on in India, and although they are with suspicion, for although it may As the bull-frogs in the tank near great, slate-coloured, hairless, ugly be examined by the cook on many the temple cease their monotonous beasts that like nothing better than occasions, and found to be nothing. eroaking, which has been continua pool of muddy water in which to more than it appears to be, it is ous throughout the whole of the wallow, they are patient, and harm- etrange how often the milk is thin,
Their milk is fairly good,Angle Indian Evening News. hot, steamy, Indian night, the grey loss.
the explosions in the engine cylin ders could be abolished. The
peed of the engine would be re A giant among skyscrapers was sulated entirely by varying the dedicated recently with elaborate streak in the sky announcing the whilst its freshness is assured be down sends the owls and flying cause the "doodwallah” milk them in President ceremonies in which mixture
Secondly, the continuously ex- Hoover-took part. The structure is foxes screeching to their daytime the presence of your cook.
The small procession that daily, at ploding mixture may solve the pro- the Empire State building on Fifth hiding-places and awakens the
numerous crows In the "mango" this hour, wends its way through. blem of the gas-turbine. Al pre Avenue and Thirty-third and
the rising mist is a picturesque one. sent the temperatures and pres- Thirty-fourth Streets, erected by a trees.
Actual sleep soon becomes impos-First came the two buffalo, slowly sures produced by the burning of company beaded by the former gases, are too great to be handled Governor of New York, Mr. Alfred aible and you lie beneath the white placing one foot before the other, practically in a turbine, If the Smith, on a sito previously oc mosquito net in that delicious state their great honde swaying as they complete combustion of the gazen cupled by the Waldorf Astoria of semi-consciousness when dreams walk; the milknian follows, his only at an artifsed to drive such a turbine could Hotel, New York; The office build come easily
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TRAGIC EX-SOLDIER.
His Only Friend
Dog.
When George Clarke, of Pools- square, Stepney, London, was found dead in his room with his head In Clothing a white loin cloth, and a gas oven, a note lay near his body. "I have failed all my life. I have In the distance the sound of brilliant scarlet turban; while be. It ran: animals being driven through the bind him trote the small naked ast thick dust the roadside can be brown body of his son, who carries not looked forward since I came out heard, and as you turn over in your on his head a large, polished brass of the cursed war. I can see no Inders back to vessel, which throws back the first way of paying my debts, so I must your last
You hear light of the morning. Every end it all, hoping that someone will again the che
atle and the passer-by on the dusty road between see that my only friend and yet, the early the thick cactus hedges is greeted Florrie, is put to death as soon as
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