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BAFFLING MYSTERY IN TUBE

YOUNG WIDOW

STABBED

The annals of French crime can murder produce few parallels to a committed in a train on the Paris Underground.

The

IPLEA FOR

WORLD'S OLDEST RACE P

BUSHMEN'S CLAIM

PEOPLE WITHOUT A HOME

The case of South Africa's bush- men, a nomadić tribe which în- habits the Kalahari desert and is fast dying out, held up the pro- . victim, Mme. Laetitia Toureaux, was of Italian origin and rogation of the South African Par- 30 years old. She had been a widow

Gen. Smuts, Minister of Justice, for two years and lived in a neatly described the bushmen as "living

small kept

flat near the Pere-fossils." Lachaise cemetery.

liament.

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Senator Boydell held up the last She had apparently taken the finance vote to make a passionate He des- train at the Porte de Charenton sta-appeal for the nomads. tion and was found dying when the cribed them as people without train stopped at the next station, place they could call home, and the Porte Doree, The train takes declared that to let them die out only two minutes in travelling be- was a crime.

General Smuts said the bushmen tween these stations.

Mme. Toureaux was the only were the oldest race on earth, as passenger in the first-class coach in 25,000 years ago they inhabited not Africa, but South which she was found, though the only South

second-Europe. They should, and must preceding and following

be, preserved. He promised to class coaches were packed with pas-

see clearly allow them to hunt buck for food sengers. It is easy to

in the game preserve... through the glass communication

Prosecution Threat doors into the next compartment,

Despite Gen, Smuts statement, yet none of the second-class passen-the fate of the bushmen is still pre- gers has been able to furnish any carious. The Kalahari desert game clue.

preserve is vested in the Parks What Girls Overheard

Board, which refuses to accept the When the train stopped at the Government's promise to the bush- Porte Doree station a young officer men, and insists that it will pro- wearing the uniform of the French secute them if any game is shot. Army Medical Service and accom- The bushmen are unable to live panied by two young women opened without killing game for food. Mr. the double sliding door of the first- Donald Bain; the hunter who is class compartment. He saw the wo-supporting the tribe, feels that man bunched up in the single seat either there should be an appeal of the coach with the knife through to the Carnegie Trust to purchase her throat.

game country for them, or that He looked at her and is reported Britain should be asked to grant a

said: to have

"Her carotid is game area in Bechuanaland, co

The bushmen recently visited severed; there is no hope."

Cape Town-a demonstration to Three young girls who were en- tering the coach behind him declare emphasise their plea that the Gov- that they overheard this remark.ernment should allow them to live their nomadic existence in the de- Whilst the station-master and the police were summoned his man and sert, and hunt buck with bows and

arrows in the game preserve.. his two women companions vanish- ed in the crowd.

About .50 of them, consisting of men, women and children of small stature, dressed in scanty clothing, seemed to step out of Africa's re- mote past into the streets of a busy modern city.

The detectives in charge of the case so far are at a loss to establish how the murder. was committed. The two theories which they have to work upon are that:

Mr. P. G. W. Grobler, Minister The woman was stabbed before for Native Affairs, was surprised to the train left the Porte de Char- hear that six bushmen were in pri- enton station, and that the mur son for shooting one buck, and he derer then got out of the train promised to try and secure their and mingled with the crush of release... passengers before the whistle

blew; or

She was killed whilst the train was running through the tunnel between the Porte de Charenton station and the Porte Doree, and that the murderer slipped away without anyone noticing hif.

AUSTRIAN SERVANTS

IN BRITAIN

It is stated in Vienna that there are now about. 1,000 Austrian girls working in England as domes-

tic servants.

Suïcide Ruled Out - The theory of suicide has been ruled out as impossible owing to the position and nature of the wound.

Inquiries are being made into the life of the women. The caretaker clerks.

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of the house in which her flat was situated believed that she was a cashier in a cafe or night club, and all her neighbours looked upon her as a respectable, hard-working young widow.

· re-

Search of her flat, however, vealed that she carried on a con- siderable correspondence · with number of admirers, and that she was a professional dancer in night {club.

Many of them are well educated women. Some were secretaries and

There is a keen desire on the part of many other young women in Austria to follow this example.

A special “English Housekeeping School" is popular among such as- pirants. Here they learn lessons which purport to make them able

please British housewives. Cooking, “in the English way” and the preparation of what are. described as typical English meals are some of the subjects taught.

The body of M. Eugene Bosan, for 42 The 2nd Bn. Gordon Highlanders left years a chef in leading London hotels, Gibraltar in the troopship Dorsetshire was exhumed at Dijón following alle- for Singapore, after handing over to gations in anonymous letters that he the 2nd Bn. Royal Norfolk Regiment, was poisoned.