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MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1932.

WOMAN TOURS THE WORLD ALONE

Fulfilling a Thirst for First-Hand Knowledge of People.

A KIDNAPPING ATTEMPT.

Adventures at Mukden: Opium Smoke in Hong Kong.

A thirst for first-hand knowledge of people and things, particu larly people, has taken Miss Winifred Howard, daughter of the Rev. Henry Howard, a clergyman of world-wide fame, wandering unaccom panied all over the globe. Below she tells in an interview some of the adventures she has had during her tour.

When the wanderlust first urged; I had the impression of evil, and me to start out, people said it was felt that anything might happen to not to be thought of. You see, my me. father is the Pastor of the Fifth- avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, and my friends said I could not possibly do all the things wanted to do without sort of com- promising him.

But when i told my Father

Around Peking, to which I jour- neyed alone, the atmosphere was quite different, and I felt absolute- ly secure.

The ship was waiting for me at Dairen, and when I set off to travel across Manchuria to reach it the

wanted to go to all the out-of-the- | troubles were just starting there. way places, and see all the things I ought not to see, he was most sporting about it. "You have to live your own life," he said, "and I am only sorry I can't come with 300,"

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Only Woman On Board.

I travelled in a troop train, chock-a-block with Chinese soldiery setting off for Mukden, and it was quite a comfort to find the next carriage was full of British Tom- mies going up to Summer camp. They came and talked to me and

a wonderful feeling of safety.

So I booked a passage on a Bri-smoked my cigarettes, and gave me tish cargo ship sailing from New York. I was the only woman on board.

The officers were British, and there was one other passenger, a young fellow of about sixteen tak ing the trip for the good of his health.

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ARREST OF NOTORIOUS CROOK.

Belgian "Raffies.~~

by the

Stephen Otto, one of the most, Allen's breant. resourceful and talented of inter- A banquet was given national rogues, has been arrested general in Otto's honour. But The official summary issued at Graz on a charge of fraud, when he left the staff officers found; by the Stock Exchange to while posing as an Englishman. that he had made a big haul of! day states-

"George Shelking."

valuables and money from their In spite of the fall in exchange This Belgian "Raffles" has per quarters. To prevent Gen. Allen: the market opened with a sub-petrated an amazing series of being exposed to ridicule the Bel- dued tone, but prices were un-audacious coups. He speaks six gian Government promptly sent altered.

languages fluently, is young, hand him a genuine Cross of the Order some, and has great charm of man- of Leopold.

$2

Saics,

Banks, $1,420.

Trams, $224. Cements (combined), $19. Ewo9, s. 16. Electrics, $78.10. Providents (old), $5.35.

Впуста.

Benguets, $11.85. Hotels (old), $15.10. Ewos. Tis. 16. Singapore Tractions, 3/. 'Sinceres, $16.

Hong Kong Government Loan,

per cent premium. Providents (old), $5.30. Providents (new), $2.40. Chinese Estates, $95. China Lights, $26.30. Ropes, $174. Constructions (new), $1.80. Sellers. Indo-Chinns (Pref.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. Electrics. $79.

Entertainments (old), $16. Raubs, $39.

Hong Kong Lands, $82% Dairy Farms, $30.

ner.

He was the hero of a famous opisode in 1919 at the beginning of the Rhineland occupation, when, jas Otto de Berney, he decorated the American Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Allen, at Coblenz, with the highest Belgian Order.

Audacious Spoofs. Otto first announced by letter that a special emissary of the King of the Belgians, M. de Berney, was bringing the Cross of the Order of Leopold specially to Coblenz, the American general headquarters. A full parade was held of thousands of troops, before whom the swindler solemnly affixed the Cross to Gen.

BEATING FOREIGN DYE MAKERS.

Agreement Sought with Britain.

Continental dye manufacturers,

As A King's Son. Before fooling Gen. Allen, Ottal had stolen from several British officers' messes at Cologne, where he had been an honoured guest. He carried several other coups as "Duke of Tervuren." As a son off King Albert he decorated the Sul- tan of Morocco with the Order of Leopold, at the same time relieving him of valuable jewellery.

In June, 1925. also as a son of the King of the Belgians, he arrived in Berlin and ordered a whole floor) of an hotel to be reserved for his suite, which was to follow. A special police guard was supplied 'for this international criminal.

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Now He Is At Cambridge RED HORS

-But His Record Standal

An Evening News correspondent)

hit by British competition, have writes: I made my way to Lancing

At Mukden I had some three and "OLD MOORE'S" PREDICTIONS. made overtures with

a half hours to wait, and in setting off to see the town 1 very nearly got kidnapped.

The rikisha boy went right past ene hotel where he had been instructed to take me, and declined

The Rescuer.

Better Times For India And Britain,

a view

to College to find the boy who, accord- | agreement.

ing to Mr. C. H. Blakiston, the Meetings have been heid during headruaster, created a record at the, the last few days between repré-college by eating no fewer than $2 sentatives of the Continental pro- crumpets at one sitting.

But I found that this mighty re- Better times both for India and ducers and Imperial Chemical In-

dustries of which Sir Harry cord is not a new one: it was: The engineer officers and I made to stop until he reached a huge Great Britain are foreseen by that

established in 1928-and has stood a bargain that i should undertake compound in the coolies' quarters, famous prophet "Old Moore," whose McGovern is President.

Substantial progress has been fast against the attacks of Lancing duties in the engine room in return where he pulled up at what I after almanack for 1932 has been issued. for their escort at some of the ports, wards learned was a house where He optimistically suggests that con-made towards the conclusion of a scholars ever since.

'ditions in India are likely to be more Keneral agreement.

And the boy who made the re-. and I had the greatest fun getting many women had disappeared.

This development is significant cord is now at Cambridge—although in that engine

settled during the coming year. Tho thoroughly dirty

Having nothing whatever with author explains that Sagittarius, the of the growth of the British in whether Cambridge bakers have room.

has met with an increased demand for Day after day on the voyage to which to defend myself, not even a ruling sign of 1932, is a sign of dustry. whose competition

the last three) Panama I climbed into a boiler sult hatpin, I declined to get down, and world trade, shipping expansion and hitherto been scouted by the Ger- crumpets during

reman and other producers.

years I do not know. and went below to learn all about he declined just as firmly to take the growth of international

lations, and the next year will pro- Going off the gold standard has Lancing boys, however, have by the duties of a "greaser." and I bee anywhere else.

Edgar Wallace vida the first real glimpse of pro-given Britain a big advantage in no means abandoned hope of break- felt just an so fascinated that I almost

He also predicts that aur-the last three months in competi- ing this rare college record. Several wished I had been born a boy and heroine, but, thought 1, "There is sperity.

two no handsome hero to come and res- ing the year the spread of the oction with German, Swiss and other boys had attempted eating was going to be an engineer.

cult will be unparalleled and there manufacturers.

dozen crumpets at a sitting-only to British exports of dyestuffs for fail on the last lap. But a reseurar did appear in the will be revolutionary discoveries in

the first nine months of this year. When I saw Mr. Blakiston I ask-i person of a little Japanese who electricity and wireless. happened to speak English.

At the end of May a "grave naval show considerable improvement, ed him whether the record was He kicked that coolie until he disaster" is predicted and soon after while those of other countries have achieved in some competition. plcked up the shafts and took me midsummer "there will be danger of fallen.

"Oh, goodness, no," he said. "It off to the hotel, and it was only hustilities in the Near East."

was a wet day and two or three boys! when I got there that I realised how utterly alone I was.

came

The officers challenged me to take the middle watch, and of course I accepted, and went right through with it at the second attempt.

Scume With Crowd,

cue me."

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British dye manufacture isteworthy that in the protected Industry. Its develop edition of the almanack published in ment has taken place under cover Not a soul knew I was in Muk- the Summer af 1930 it was predicted of the Dyestuffs Act passed some den, and I could have disappeared that in October 1931 there would ten years ago, without trace.

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had sat down to a pile of crumpets. One of them ate 32.

"His name? No, I'm afraid it is not for me to give away a secret he

And A Banana Record.

Mr. Morris Thomas, known to the

It was in Panama that I met my first real adventure, when the men took me to see the native quarter. My flowered cotton frock and bare had seemed to arouse the re- gontment of the Spanish, negro and

be "a. political crisis of the first Dye users have not been en- might now prefer to be kept." half-caste population, and some- In spite of the somewhat unples magnitude followed by the fall of thusiastic about the measure,

General many complained-particularly in! thing like a riot resulted, especial-sant experience determined to see the Government, and ly when one of the local ladies something of the surroundings of Election, in which a new national the early stages-that their choice boys as "Old Mose," of the school thought I might become a source of the town, and got a taxi-driver to party will be returned.”

was restricted and, their costs in-tuźkshop, has catered for the wants competition, and tried to tear my take me out.

creased.

of the boys of the college for the

hair off.

Whether the prestige now secur-past 37 years. Taxi-Driver's Songs.

"I should think you like prison," ed by the industry is due to that The men were able to fend off the

He has a remarkable memory for infuriated woman, and we got away

When a tyre "went" in a lonely said Mr. Hay Halkett, at Marylebone measure or to the enterprise of Im-faces of old boys, but he could not lane miles away I thought this was police court, to George Weston, 67, perfal Chemical Industries is all right.

a remember the boy who ate 82 another attempt at a hold-up, but a dealer, with no fixed home, who matter on which opinion is still crumpets. it was not.

has spent about twenty-five years | divided. The driver found a coolie, sent in prison since 1904, and who, to theft, was now him off for a relief car, and sang pleading guilty

From Panama we worked across to San Pedro, and then to Manila. In the latter place I attended the famous Santa Anna cabaret, which

is the resort of all sailors when a ship is in port.

I was interested to нее that though the place was divided into halves by a curtain to separate the whites from the blacks, white men were not bound by that rule. They could go anywhere in the place, and passed freely between the two sec-

tions.

me pretty little Chinese songs to sentenced to six months' hard labour! while away the time. But I was and an additional three months on very glad to get back to the station non-payment of a £50 fine.

in time for my train.

Mukden is far too much like a

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"Boys eat so many crumpets," he said, "that 82.would probably pass unnoticed.

western town, but the mixture of Japanese soldiers and arrested on subject, and, having travelled the and his name was Irby... races makes the most Interesting a charge of espionage, gathering in the world.

People

from all the continents rub should-

Court-Martial: Release.

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THE BEST COFFEE.

"But I do remember, however, thej After luncheon one day the con- boy who ate 28 bananas at versation turned to coffee, for my sitting. companion was a connoisseur on the

"That was nearly 20 years ago,

world far and wide, has brought | "They were Canary bananas, but,! back, at one time and' another, sam-nevertheless, I think his record still The Japanese were convinced Ples from almost every quarter of stands.

the globe where coffee grows. From "And the way they eat toffee! ers in its streets, and one can hear they had been taking photographs him I heard an expression of opinion Last term the boys ate no less than every language of the world. of the munitions dump on the hill,

Dairen was the scone of a little and had discarded their coats with which,/ in times such as these can two cwts.

"In a week we dispose of nearly adventure which is worth mention the pictures in the pockets when in hardly be too widely known. "

have just found: the best coffee 1200 dozen crumpets and probably | ing, although I was not personally danger of arrest......

concerned in it, because it shows The commander of the district have ever tasted," he observed. "It 100 dozen other kinds of cakes.

"And the boys have four meals a There are wide lawns where they how jumpy the Japanese were ever was sent for and that boys were put comes from Kenya." East Africa lay-out the "dead" to sober up beat that time.

on trial by court-martial, and in not, of course, the only part of day!"

the British Empire from which we fore they return to their ships. I My youthful fellow passenger the meantime a whole regiment was

Import, coffee. But it should be in- rows and rows of officers and men and one of the apprentices set off out searching for the evidence. laid out there, just like tin soldiers, to climb a small mountain some five Of course they could not find testing to many of its drinkers to know that they can have the best miles from the port. As the day any, and the boys had to be releas in the world and support an Empire was warm they discarded coats. ed, and the little officer looked as

Half-way up the mountain they mad as a hatter at having to let trades at the same time, writes "Peterborough" :th the Daily Tele found themselves surrounded by them go.

graph.

Laying-out The "Dead." Manila, of course, is not dry, and they are used to the sailor enjoying himself.

Hong Kong, our next port, standa out in my mind as the place where

I had my one and only oplum smoke and tasted my first real Chinese din

- ner.

The first was a disappointment, but the dinner was wonderful. Both experiences were at a real Chinese hotel at West Point, where the stevedores entertained the

THREE HUSBANDS AT 27

officers of my ship and me in right "I have heard many sad cases *** It was stated that owing to un-Mr. Craske (prosecuting) said: royal fashion. take during the ten years I have sat in happy home surroundings the "She seems to have had bad luck When dinner was cleared away a this seat of justice, but I have woman ran away when she was 19 with two of the men. Ona is almost troupe of beautiful singing girls never heard, a sadder case thaif and married a man who, it was insane, and the second is a bad lot came in. They wore long, tight this, remarked the Recorder, Sir alleged, suffered from mental gowns, with high collars and tight Ernest Wild, K.C., at the Old Ballsy trouble, and told her to go. ly fitting sleaves...

| in pausing a nominal sentence of Their singing voices spoiled, the four days' imprisonment effect, and I liked them best when | Rope Silver, aged 27, they just talked and firted with the guilty "to" a charge,

Mra Silver would

Shanghai I thought i place – had ever seen. All the time, plained, at ónës bë, zelezzed,

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She then went through a form

but the third is a respectable man and thinks

who was ver had, beed in.

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