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Secret Wars

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HERE, THERE

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EVERYWHERE-

COMIC-OPERA POLITICS

The exploits of M. Philibert Besson, the French ex-deputy, who has once again escaped from: the arms of the police, are in the best comic-opera tradition of French politics.

A year ago he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for

VANISHING LADY CASE IN PARIS STRANGE STORY FROM POLICE ARCHIVES DUPLICATION BY WELL-KNOWN LADY NOVELIST

THE

(By Alexander Woollcott)

THE story was told me same was weeping for very desperation, found. years ago as a true copy of before the medicine was

the dread secret arwrapped, and turned over to her. resisting gendarme. But while leaf from

Bland Enquiry Parliament was sitting he could chives of the Paris police of the

who disappeared during Then the snail's pace trip back not be arrested. He therefore

one.

woman

used to leave the country by air the World Exposition as suddenly, to the Right Bank was another directly a session ended, returning as completely, and as inexplicably nightmare, and it ended only when as did Dorothy Arnold ten years at the cocher's mulish determina- at the beginning of the next

later from the sidewalks of Newtion to deliver her to some hotel in the Place Vendome, she leaped In January, however, his de-York

As I arst heard the story, it be-to the street and in sheer terror puty's salary was confiscated to

1. passing pay the costs of the trial "My gan with the arrival from Mar-appealed for help. means of livehbood have been cut seilles of an Englishwoman and young man whose alien tweeds and. of. To-morrow" I go on

hunger her young, inexperienced daughter, boots told her he was a compatriot strike." declared M. Besson

PUBLIC MERRIMENT

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Local Pride American (an Flying dashes through stationja **I suppose you call that an express!"

to

a girl of 17 or there abouts. The of hers... mother was the frail, pretty widow. He was still standing guard be- of an English officer who had been side her five minutes later when stationed in India and the two had at long last, she arrived at the

home.

cross

Fortunate Booking

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TIBLE

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her key, only to have the very after clerk who had handed her a pen to soon register with that morning look at sign her without recognition and bland- hasly ask. "Whom does Mademoiselle

even as the be

In March the Chamber revoked just come from Bombay, bound for desk of the Crillon and called for his Parliamentary immunity. M

In the knowledge that Besson, whose proposed hunger

reaching there, she would strike had left him in excellent

have to.

to Paris to form, spoke for an hour- Finally he declared. magnanimously, some papers affecting her

band's estate. she decided at the wish to see?" abide by your decision, and even

passage last minute to shift her

At that a cold fear clutched her pardon you. All the säme,

to a Marseilles steamer, and, by heart, a sudden surrender to a panic are a gang of assassing.”

going direct to Paris, look up the that she had fought back as pre- While the vote was being taken lawyers there and finish her busi-posterous when first it visited her as: he slipped away, and since then ness before crossing the Channel she sat and twisted her handkerchief has defied every attempt by the to settle for ever and a day in the in the waiting-room of the doctor's. police to capture him.

Warwickshire village where she office on the Left Bank; a panic bora was born

when, after the doctor had casually. The French public, which likes

told her he had no telephone she the contest is within the boun-nothing so much as seeing author-] Paris 7 25

tumultuously heard the fretful ringing of its daries of one State it remains ality mocked — as in the case of M.j domestic matter and can be regu-Leon Dauder's famous escape from crowded for the Exposition that Bell on the other side of his wal-

even President the Sante welcomes

this new they counted themselves fortunate put door.

But, no, Mamzelle must be mis-- Theodore Roosevelt did not find source of amusement

when the cocher deposited them at this an easy job. It is when

the Crillon, and they learned that taken. Was it not at some other their precautionary telegram from hotel she was descended? Two these wealthy corporations aim at

Marseilles had miraculously more clerks, came fluttering into a world monopoly that their

caught a room on the wing the conference. They all eyed It may be taken for granted joperations must be studied if wel

Former Mistress: "I should like to double room with a fine, spacious her without a flicker of recognition.

the

Did Mamzelle say her room was that the big world-war is too are to understand current his-

The long negotiations give you a good recommendation, Eliza, sitting-room looking out on

No 3427 Ah, but 342 was occupied but my conscience compels me to state Place de la...Concorde. costly to be fashionable. In the tory. lelaborate treaties of such writers about Mosul in the North of Iraq, that you never got the meals ready at|

M. Quelquechose. Yes, a The girl was the more relieved by as Sir Norman Angell and Mr. A-the withdrawal of the Iraq Man- the proper time. I wonder how I can

that there would be no need of a French client of long standing. He A. Milne we seem to be watching date, the cancellation of the put it in a nice sort of way

Eliza: "You might say I got the house-to-house search for rooms, had been occupying it these past these benevolent gentlemen busily D'Arcy Concession by Persia, fol

for the mother had seemed sandnd two weeks and more." Interest lowed by a new Treaty, the whole meals the same as I got me pay." pashing an open door.

No Record durably exhausted from the Jong has shifted to the enquiries of the long war in the Gran

train ride, and was now of such a She demanded the registration whether there are not during Chaco: these disturbing events

colour that the girl's first idea slips only to find in that day's periods of "non-war activities have only one explanation

"What did your son learn col-was to call the house physician, docket no sign of the one she her lege?" which are just as disastrous and That is on the surface. What is

Well, sir, be can ask for modes in hoping fervently that he spoke self had filled out that moming on anti-social and which in the end not so generally known is that we are bound to provoke open war-must seek the same explanation such a way that it seems like n bon English, for neither she nor her their arrival. And

Įmother spoke any French at all. clerk now shuffed the papers fare of the old-fashioned type as for much else that has been ap- our to give it to him.

parently mere unreason, such as

The doctor, when he came & fore her eyes, the stupefying blood- a last resort.

South American revolutions.

dusty, smelly little

with stone which she had noticed on his A good deal of amusement was

wrinkled face-lost in a thicket of ring-finger when he handed her caused by M. Mussolini's recent The joint authors of a book called

Scotsman whiskers, and a reassuring Legion the pen five hours before winked at butbreak of wrath against Ger- Merchants of Death", dealing

of Honour ribbon in the batton-her in confirmation, the many for supplying rides to with the Arms. Traffic, have re

Porter: "Oh, no. That's only George hole of his lapel - did speak 3) Abyssinia, for the Italian type of cently published another volume. rifle as an article of commerce is The Street War," giving, the in- doing a bit of shunting. He'll be back little English

After a long, grave look and house physician who had hustled by no means, unfamiliar to so-ternational history of oil with is a minute!"

few questions put to the tired wo-ber off on her tragic : wild-goose- journers in that part of the world. dates and documents that give

As a Beginner

on the bed in the shaded chase across Paris protested now. No rifles are manufactured in the abundant opportunity for con- Continent of Africa, and the tradiction if they are not accur-

Wallie: "There's a man at the circus room, he called the girl into the that he had never seen her befort. Messrs Hanighen and Zis-ho jumps on a horse's back, slips un sitting room and told her frankly in all his life. trade was forbidden by the ate. Treaty drafted at the Congress of cha have a story to tell that leaves derneath, catches hold of its tail and that her mother's condition was The same hotel manager whe serious; that it was out of the had so sympathetically helped her Berlin. If those provisicas were the ordinary thriller at the post. finishes up on the horse's neck."

The Persian concession" apparent-

Dad: "That's easy. I did all that the question for them to think of go into the carriage when she there extended observed and would be no violence that could ly came to England through one first me I ever rode a horse." not be dealt with by the police. Sidney Reilly, who had been A great deal of the opposition to British Secret Service man in

Russia- D'Arcy was an Austra the League of Nations is due to the publicity given by its Com-lian engineer who had but a missions of Enquiry on such sub-railway for the Shah, and re

The six. Sirdhana left Singapore jects as the Arms Traffic to ceived in payment

last Thursday and is due to arrive his home and fetch him a medicine methods and bargains which for which at one time he was here next Tuesday morning. that his wife would give her. It could not be as quickly prepared would certainly be stopped if the offered six million pounds. After

in any chemist's. ordinary quiet citizen realised refusing this, he handed his con-

Unfortunately, he lived what they meant. Unfortunately cession to Reilly, whom he met During the month of May. 146 all the spectacular successes seem disguised as a priest, on a voyage items, including Dance Programmes, other side of Paris and had no

Chinese and European Studio Con-

telephone, and with all Faris ex to be on the side of the wreckers from Alexandria to New York.

The rise of the two-great rivals, certs, Relays, Lectures, and Chil- lete it would be perilous to rely No advocate of peace has achieved

Bockefeller and Sir Henri Deter-dren's Concerts, were broad-

lon any messenger. such a triumph as the enterpris- ing Mr. Shearer, who let many ding is summarised, and the cast from the ZB.W Station. cats out of his bag when he sued whole of recent history in Mexico During the same period 140 new his former employers for a balls explained as a straightforward receiving set licences were issued ance of pay due for his services fight between Standard Oil and while one was renewed in having wrecked the Geneva Mexican Eagle. In Venezuela,

Under the auspices of the Pro-charge of her most sympathetical K. Dimond, manager of the Penin- Naval Conference.

ily, himself putting her into a sa-sula Hotel, were on May 30 engaged The facts of the Arms Traffic pecially frequent Juan Vicente gramme Sub-committee, the Wah

pin and, as far as she could judge, in fight with a stray dog, one be Gomez has reigned as Dictator Yan Past Students' Association will; however have already reached a large public. An even more in- since 1910, and this phenomenon. hoid the second of a series of volubly directing the driver how ing bitten.

to reach a certain house in the After the fight the stray dog was sidious form of rivalry is what is certainly not due to any personal bathing picnics to Big Wave Bay Ene Val de Grace, near the Ob- taken to Ma Tau Kok, where it died coming to be known as "the Oil merits. becomes intelligible this afternoon. As the launch will Then there is an account of the leate Queen's Pier at 2.15 pm War. Like many another use- ful invention the internal .com affairs of "British Controlled Oil sharp, members and their friends began, for the ramshacide victoris mination and his report, issued on It was then that the girl's agony sent to the Bacteriologist was bustion engine has become res fields", which appears to be are kindly requested to be pictual

crawled through the festive Thursday, indicates that it ponsible for much that the inventourishing in spite of showing a

loss, and which owns leased lands A tea dance will be held at the

streets and, as the afterwards rabid. tors could not have foreseen

realised, more often than not As a result of this, the other The collapse of the coal trade on

in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicara Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow at

three dogs involved in the which British mercantile transgua Costa Rica, Panama, British 4.20 p.m. A half-hourly bus ser crawled in the wrong direction

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where revolutions used to be es-

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

From then on she came only upon closed doors. The samt:

set

ing on to England next day; that forth on her fruitless mission, on the moTTOW she might better denied her now as flatly and some--- be moved to a hospital, etc., etc. how managed to do it with the All these things he would at-same sympathetic solicitude, sug- tend to In the meantime helgesting that Mam'zelle must be

(Continued on Page 21) wanted the girl to go at once to

Agoising Ride

of the

In the lobby below, the man- ager of the hotel, after an excited colloquy with the doctor, took

servatoire.

RABIES MENACE

IN KOWLOON

Stray Dog Dies Of Hydrophobia

DOGS UNDER OBSERVATION

Three dogs belonging to Mr. A

the following day.

Its head

The house in the Bue Val du have also been removed to Ma

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part had to a large extent bear Guiana Colombia, Venezuela:vice will operate during the after Grace seemed to stand at the other Kok, where they are being kept

built up; the problem of dis- And there is the story of Mr.

Peru, Ecuador, and Trinidad noon. tressed areas where the popula-yates, who obtained a concession tion would simply have starved that would have entitled him to

end of the world, when the car under observation. riage came at last to a halt in A report has been made to front of it The girl grew old in Police by Miss Remedios,

without public assistance; these start a rival to the Panama Canal, nalists who to raise our hair the time which passed before any Humphreys.

results were perhaps tavoida

because they were te

cal due to the discovery of

just a few miles to the South.

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