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TENNIS PROSPECTS.

PIGEON RACING.

GOOD SEASON PROMISED. SEASON BEGINS AT HOME.

NEW SCORING SYSTEM.

In view of a particularly interest- ing Tennis season, it is worthy of note that instead of deciding matches by the best of 9 games,

as hitherto, matches will be best of

9 sets.

Most Clubs will naturally attempt to lower the colours of the Chinese Recreation Club, who have been winners for three consecutive sea sons in all the three divisions.

The newly formed Mixed Doubles -League, in which seven Clubs a:

participating, is expected to provide excellent sport.

A POPULAR SPORT.

(British United Press.)

London. April 27-A whire of wings, a sudden darkening of the aky, and thousands of racing pigeons in all parts of the country were re- leased from the baskets this after noon in the first races of the rear when the pigeon racing season in England. to continue until the end of September, opened at Crystal Palace, London,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1929.

RAID ON DOCTOR'S HOUSE. SERIOUS SHANGHAI

TWO OHINESE CHARGED.

STORY OF A COWARDLY GANG.

Two Chinese were before Mr. T.

RIOT.

DAMAGE TO CHINESE CHAMBER OF COM

MERCE.

IETY.

BRITAIN'S MERCHANT NAVY IN WAR.

PRINCE OF WALES'S" TRIBUTE.

5. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon THE NATIONAL SALVATION" of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Magistracy yesterday, on a charge of having attempted to carry "out an armed robbery with three others

BERNARD SHAW "RELICS."

A WARNING FROM THE

AUTHOR.

NUDE SECT ON A MOUNTAIN.

NEARLY STARVED AND FROZEN.

BUT NO DEATHS, A few weeks ago Mr. Bernard Shaw wrote the following letter to the London Observer:-"In in The sixty members, men, women, notorious article under the heading Bocks and children, of the

"Zarathustra Colony" of nude nad MS. for Sale' in your lausun worshippers have been shut off of the 17th I figure as one of the from the rest of the world and authors whose waste-paper baskets nearly starved and frozen. to death for seven weeks on the top of que are proving gold mines to dealers of the highest of the Riviera moun-

tains twenty miles from Nice.

The colony headed by a German, Dr. Goldberg, are sworn to the cult of the nude, and go about their

The Prince of Wales, as Mastor

Fleet, has written a foreword to the third and final yolume of Sir Archi- Shanghai, April 25:-The pre baid Hurd's book, "The Merchant at 50, Lai Chi Kok Road, Shanmises of the Chinese General Cham-Navy," which is based on official shuipe on March 97

ber of Commerce in North Soochow documents. The Prince says:- Road were stormed by agitators "It has been my fortunate lot yesterday afternoon and, during to be a world-wide traveller, and I in relics.

have encountered the British liner the fray, four persons were injured and tramps not caly on every sea, Now, it does not seem to me and had to be taken to hospital but in many a port in both hemis to matte, a rap to the purchaser of pheres. The sight of the Red Ea- a relie whether it is genuine or not, Several were arrested.

The cause of the trouble was the sign has, in these later days, giren of the Chamber say that they and the staff have been subjected by

motoricus anti-Japanese Boycott Committee, which claimed the right to use part of the building as its own. The Chamber's affairs were thrown into confusion by this inter ference, and the Centrul Govern ment was accordingly asked to give a guarantee that the officers of the Chamber would be afforded proper protection and that there would be co such troubles in future, failing which they would suspend business. so the Chamber suspended opera- tions, closed its doors and rester day's attack was the reauit.

Outlining the case for the pro grid that the fat of which the secution, Detective Inspector Fal icon ending is a much bigger raid was made was the residence of chicercise here than it is generally a Chinese doctor and his family The Tennis League Matches com considered to be according to On March 15, a woman combi to mence on Saturday, and a record Major W. H. Osman, formerly of the fat, rented the front cubicle, number of Clubs are participating the British army pigeon service, and later returned with a in the A Division. Club de and one of the leading authorities whom she said was her husband. ceaseless indignity to which officers me a thrill of a very special kind provided he believes it is. But it Recreio and South China Athletic Association are entered for the first on the sport.

man

On the night of March 26, the woman left the flat saying that she hot return, but the husband re- mained at the flat.

for that familiar piece of bunting may matter a little to the person can never fail to recall the wonder- thus venerated. If, for instance,

an authentic part in my platform throughout the struggle of four and

eloquence, I should like it to be half years.”

| daily tasks completely unclad.

When the terrible cold, period set

in recently they were obliged to modify their spartan habits, and had pecourse to blankets Buc

the arctic weather they suffered. in- eredible hardships.

time and they are to be congratu-nited Fress in an exclusive inter. was going to the theatre. She did radical organizations, such as the ful record of our merchant seamen jawbous were sold as having played blankets were scarce, and during

"For instance," he told the lated upon their sporting spirit.

As usual, any player who has, view,, "over a million dollars are won in prize and pool money ench during the season, played twice for

Senior Division League Team is year, and some 15.000.000 birds take ineligible to play in the Junior part in races. In London. alone, Division. Men players in the Mix. there are from 200 to 300 pigeon ed Doubles League are required to clubs, and many more in the north be Members or Subscribers of the ern and midland countries where Chus for which they play, All the sport is most popular. matches are £xed for Wednesdays El Majesty a Patron. and Saturdays, but in case of post. Since the war, pigeon cacing ponermenta the day may be altered. has increased in popularity every By the latest decision of the year. This is due to the extremely Association any standard make of

service during the war, in assisting aviators, keeping communicationa open, and in carrier service.

"The birds used by the service were the best in the world. Ja He so good were they that the American army purchased English birds to start a similar service in their own country.'

Visitors Arrive. The next morning, a man came to visit the husband, and later a knock enme at the door and three more men were admitted whom the husband said were his fokie. After A few minutes conversation, they suddenly came out of the cubicle and held up doctor's family, who were having a meal. Two of the men bad daggers. The other man was unarmed.

One Small Stove,

The colony possessed only one cooking. Bonfires were 1, and the small stove, used occasionally for sparsely-clad members, men, women,

the Bres on their bleak and exposed and children, used to crouch round

They were able, with glasses, to mountain top. look down into the heart of Nice, could not descend to replenish their scanty food supplies because of the ice and, snow.

hall may be used in all competi/valuable work" done by the pigeon carried automatic pistols, and two This guarantee was not forthcoming be found chronicled in these pages. shippers not to scramble too blindly Cannes, and Cagnes-sur-Mer, but

tiona.

HOME FOOTBALL.

ENGLISH LEAGUE MATCH RESULTS,

Grimsby lost their League foot- ball match with Bradford од

Monday, but they have secured "sufficient points, whatever the re- sult of their remaining match this week-end, to gain promotion to the with First Division together Middlesbrough. The following re- sults of English League matches were cabled by Reuter:-

Division I. Leeds U..". 2. Bolton Portsmouth 2

Division II.

Pigeon racing is mainly the sport of the working classes although it has many distinguished patrons, in- cluding King George The King has several first-class birds in his lofts, and it is not many years since he won an important race.

Young untrained birds cost any thing from £1 to £3, while as they prove their worth by winning races 2 and prizes, their value increases, Shefeld C. 3 The record price paid for a bird Their upkeep was £205 in 1924. averages about £1 a week each bird, and while entrance fees are charged For the majority of races, the system of pools as sweepstakes, allows the owner to make a profit of many hundreds of pounds in a year with a good bird.

1 Grimsby Division (Southern).

Bradford

Luton

1 Torquay Division III (Northern).

Barrow

2. Crewe

K.O.S.B. CORPORAL CHARGED.

2

4

DISTRICT, COURT MARTIAL MATTER OF REGT. INSTITUTE FUNDS.

حي ما عده

PhenomeJay Speeds.

Doctor Puts up a Struggle. The Chinese doctor put up a fight and shouted for help, and was stabbed in the head by one of the men.

The noise alarmed the robbers be cause the house was close by Sham shuipo Police Station, and they left in a hurry without stealing anything. Two of the doctor's sons gave chase, but the men got away. Two-automatic pistols, which had been thrown away in the flight, were found in the flat. and in the cubicle were the daggers, and materials for gagging,

A report was made to the police, but nothing happened until April 2, when, acting on information, & Chinese detective arrested the first Yec Chow Street, defendant at Shamshuipo. Later in the evening, the second defendant was arrested at 70, Cremer Street, Shamshuipo. At an identification parade held on April 4, two witnesses picked out the first defendant, but only one witness recognized the second de- fendant

Evidence of the identification C. Calthrop, AS.P., Kowloon, and the case was adjourned.

The Blotors Assemble.

About noon yesterday, members of the National, Salvation Society (formerly the Anti-Japanese Boy cott Committee) and the Greater Shanghai Association of Merchant rions held a meeting in the Third District Higher Primary School, a institution in the Temple of the Goddess of Heaven, next to the Chamber of Commerce, to discuss certain matters."

As far as can be learned, there were no deaths, for these nude open-air apostles have developed into a hardy race; but, illness, calls. ed by exposure, has laid many of them low.

Pointing out that the volume healthy jawbone, and put one raises the curtain on the climax of bearing evidence of diseases from the drama of the War-the enemy's which I have never suffered. If a to be fairly up to my literary mark, plunge into, unrestricted submarine manuscript poem, I should like it warfare on our merchant shipping, the Prince continues: Thus was and not to imply amatory personal provided the final test of a heroism relations which I have never en- and endurance unparalleled ia bis-joyed. seamen responded to the test is to tory, and how magnificently our A Treasure Worth Threepences "May I, therefore, ber my wor The participation of our seamen in for alleged Shavinna? Otherwise the struggle began with the opera they may share the fate of one of tions of the German raiders. There was nothing surprising or anpreced their number. in America, who has ented in the destruction achieved just paid £300 for a copy of Locke's by the Eden and other German Essay on the Human Understand ing, advertised in the sale cata cruisers and armed merchantmen in logue as profusely annotated and Eastern waters and elsewhere.

Before, some- Hostilities were conducted in har underlined by me mony with principles laid down by body else pays £600, or £8,000, for

The colony was founded three international law, and, though many this treasure, I had better state un valuable ships were sunk, the toll equivocally that I have never read years ago by Dr. Goldberg, former of which cities he had trouble with was no greater than might, have Locke's Essay, and that I never dis-ly of Berlin and Dusseldori, in both the police over the practices of his been expected, and not a single life figure books by underlining them. of the captared crews was sacri- my practice, whether as a reviewer ficed. The British seaman recog- or a student, being to make a very strange sect

He also tried to establish a colony nized that nothing more was being light cot in the margin with the

He was asked of him than to accept the tip of a pencil, and note the aum in Italy, where the climate was usual hazards of a naval conflict.ber of the page on the end paper particularly favourable. It was a phase of the War, in short, When I make a marginal bote, expelled by Mussolini and he and

humanity.

which happens perhaps once in his followers established themselves in which the dictates were strictly regarded, and every twenty-five years, I write the letter on a mountain top behind Tourettes and the letter in the ordinary in a tumble-down farmhouse,, that reasonable consideration was shown way, and not as printed. The had not been occupied for many to the passengers and crews of the vessels unlucky enough to be taken. facsimile in the sale catalogue years. The only approach to this shows that the annotator of Locke locality is by a dangerous goat used the printed forms for both path. It takes two hours of hard "This phase, however, was short letters. In short, the £300 treasure walking to reach the site of the speech-making was not allowed in lived. With the arrival on the is worth about three-pence in the colony from Tourettes.

the Settlement without authority discriminate use of the mine the it is worth as much as, or more scene of the submarine and the in- book market, though intrinsically One man persisted in addressing whole position for the merchant than, a commentary by myself.

seaman was changed. He found the crowd, whereupon he was ar

**Mugging Up" Philosophy. kew Station

"Let me hasten to explain that The arrest of their comrade mad such as he had never before expert the case is one of carelessness and

enced, or, indeed, had ever conceiv doned the other members of the two arganizations who set

ed as possible. With the intensi credulity, not of deliberate forgery. p loud howls, demanding also to be arrest-fication of the enemy's campaign. The name of the annotator is de 45 sons and daughters of the Zara However, after following the the British sailor, a non-combatant tually written by himself in the thustra colony. Nor have we pass ed.

following an ordinarily peaceful volume. It is Horace Townsend, of ports or identity cards, as we have arrested man for a short distance, avocation, saw himself directly in- Derry, County Cork. He was my no, nationality. We are creating a they turned back and decided to

volved storm the Chamber of Commercc.

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"After talking for an hour and a haff the demonstration marched en blue to the gate of the Chamber of Commerce and some began to de- liver lectures The gate was closed and locked at this time, in ac cordance with the decision of the Chamber to suspend business.

As the soap-box orators continued tu harangue the crowd. several members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, arrived and told them that

"Tremendous Odds."

achieved by them. They seldom s parade was given by Mr. L. Frested and removed to Weat Hooghimself faced by hazards and perils

The pigeons race all distances, and some phenomenal speeds are at less than 30 miles an hour, while in favourable conditions they have been known to attain 70 miles an Hour.

The most important race this year' on July Before a District Court Martial is the "Grand National," (Major Todd, Capt. Gage Brown 8, from San Sebastian, Spain to The National Racing and Lieut. Vivian) yesterday, England. Corporal Charles Hendry of the Club has guaranteed £300 in prize con- money, and the pools are expected K.O.S.B. was charged with verting to his own use about $1,350 to bring the total considerably belonging to the Regimental In higher. stitute. There were fifteen charges

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No Money.

There are sixty of us living hero as one," the German leader explained to a Fress representative. "We have. no money, no property and ao mariage laws. The child ren have me family names except

to all of which Hendry pleaded not stremious race of the season, for ten days' hard labour by Mr. T. S. climbed over and rushed into the Let us who are land-dwellers noted passages and the marginal notes berg if the fathers knew their own

Kuilty,

friend.

ti

KOWLOON COURT CASES.

in the whole frightful wife's father, and he distinguished world within a world and all we mechanism of war, whose grim oper- himself at his university, where, ask is to be let alone."

An inspection of hall a dozen TRESPASSING.IN BARRACKS.

Wrecking the Chamber,

ation, as I have said, reached its apparently, be was examined in the A Chinese who was remanded on

The front gate of the Chamber is climax in the phase of unrestricted university manner in Locke, and children showed that they seemed charge of trespassing in the an iron one and the demonstratory, submarine attack recorded in detail had to mug up that philosopher to be healthy and normal in every Hankow Barracks was fined $7 or finding it impossible to smash this, in this third volume of the history, accordingly. Hence the underscor. way, but when I asked Dr. Gold. This will be the longest and most

But he assured me that the mothers Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magis Chamber to the number of severa! mince words over this thing. It is in his handwriting, which, I repeat, children he seemed to doubt it. apart from bad weather conditions

bundred. Two Chamber's Chinese the glory of our merchant navy, nobody with the smallest claim to tracy yesterday.

off spring for four years, after Mr. Somerset Fitzroy acted as generally, there are the Pyrenees

The defendant pleaded guilty armed with rifles by virtue of an and will be so acclaimed by genera expertness could possibly mistake were bound to look after their own put into the It is remarkable

which they were judge advocate, Mr. R. A. Wadegat te be crossed.

aidered Chinese territory, tried to out hesitation. the tremendous odds A remnant of my wife's inheri- conducted the prosecution on behalf that a comparatively small propor stating that he went there to see a agreement that the Chamber is con- tions to come, that they faced with for mine.

The members of the colony are Detective Sergeant Meadows ex-stop them, but they were so great and the frequent hazard of death, tance of the Derry library was sold colony's public school. of Capt. Perfect, the official pro- tion of the entrants have ever been

undaunted in spirit to the bitter when we left Adelphi-terrace and mostly Germans, Italians, Spani secutor, and Mr. D. L. Strellett lost in this race.

One American were compelled to unload an inards and Duzea. Among other important races i.plained that the defendant had been ly outnumbered that they were goon · defended.

one from the Faroe Islands to Eng- arrested to put a stop to the petty disarmed and got a severe beating end. Let us not forget, also tha

ly the Locke volume went with the last summer, cheque for $30.57. drawn by the land, a distance of 700 miles, and larcenies which have been going on Their rifles were smashed and the had it been otherwise this country tolerable burden of books. Evident woman spent several months there President to pay for goods supplied another from Lerwick, in the Shet at the Barracks, and he wished this attackers pocketed about 50 rounds of ours must have perished.

Fodder Destroyed. " "One highly characteristic phase rest, which it would not have done The hooligans then stormed the of the work of our Merchant Navy, had either my wife or myself ever Ordinarily, two men garbed in blanketa went down to the coast office of the general secretary and, described in this volume, is that opened it. in the confusion, a number of im covering the activities of the I am sorry to disillude its latest towns twice weekly to obtain the I imagine the purchaser, and can only suggest by necessary provisions that could pot destroyed. Others were lost or Auxiliary Patrol was one of the way of consolation that if the pre-be grown on the mountain top, but mixed up.

most striking, as it certainly was sent rage for relies continues it may the cold weather and the exception.. The attackers then turned their one of the most successful, of the easily happen, that when all my ally heavy snowfall this winter ruin- attention to the staff and a number many pieces of War-time improviz own autographs are appropriated, ed even the carefully prepared hot- of employees who had remained at tion which history will place to the those of my father-in-law may com

house vegetables, killed the chic- their desks during the trouble were credit of the British nation. It was mand equally extravagant prices.kens and ruined the fodder for the assaulted. Four were so wounded born, as need hardly be recalled, Meanwhile, will dealers and collec goats and cows.

The members of the colony were that they had to be sent to hospital.out of those new conditions of sub-tors be reasonably critical and nat

The first charge concerned

A

The second land Islands, also to England, in by the N.AA.FI charge concerned a cheque for addition to numercus races from the $115.86 which was eashed and the continent, and from one end of Eng. money used it was alleged, by land to the other., aocused, instead of being paid into

Three Men in a Boat!

of ammunition.

case to be made an example of.

Three Chinese were fined $50 each one month's hard labour for stowing away on the 8.8; Cremer / portant documents were seized and Auxiliary Patrol. the bank. The other charges were KAI TACK CRASH VICTIMS. from Singapore. Two of the de-

of a similar nature and there were

also counts of falsifying the books.

ALL THREE NOW IDENTIFIED.-

The three Chinese, who were kill-

of

fendants were stated to have been found hidden behind some baggage, and the third on top of a ventilator Mr. Wadeson for the prosecution

in one of the holds. said that although there were fifteen charges, some were closely

Anothea Train Oplum Carrier. connected. Ta

A Chinese who was arrested with goods and is was also given in the posite the Kai Tack Aerodrome on 94 taels of raw opium in his posses- Other clerks, younger and more marine attack and indiscriminate | repest a mistake which only the forced to eat herba and black bread, ebarge was that of embezzling ed in the aeroplane accident op-

and "even these were been sion as he alighted from the Canton agile, climbed over the walls and mine raids to which I have, referred, prevalent mania can excuse?". have

express at the Kowloon Station was fined $2,620) or ten months' hard labour.

some LAZES the

alternative form of fraudulent mis- Saturday evening. application of money. It was im identified. They were: portant to remember that as coon as the cheques were cashed, the money was embezzled.

Liu Chun (23), dye worker em- pluyed at the Yau Tak Shing works, Sheungshapo, a native of Heungshan';

Liu Kam Sbek, dye worker em- ployed at the Yau Tak Shing works, Sheungshapo, a native of Heungshan; and

The charges concerning entries in the books were also closely con- neoted. Evidence would show that money was received from other sources and the amounts given in

Fung Woon(2), photographer other books. He would suggest that the reason was to make an employed by the Mee Kwong entry where no entry existed on Studio, No. 1, Cheong On Street, account of money being misapplied, Kowloon City, a native of Narchoi. The damage to the seroplane is Mr. J. L. Athworth, sub-account-

to £8,000 .amount ant of the Chartered Bank, pro- estimated to duced cheques which had been paid, which means that the machine is a drawn on various K.0.8.B, regi total wreck. The damage to the mental accounts kept with Bank, huts is estimated at about 8250, The cheques were not paid into the accounts hut came to the Chartered Bank from other banks after, they had been caahed.

It is understood that about 20 witncases will bo called.

BANVARD COMPANY. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

TO-NIGHT.

The second of the three farewell performances on the return visit of the Banvard Musical Comedy Com- pany was given in the Theatre Adyal last night, the piece given being "Lido Lady," a lively comedy which went with a swing.

An entirely New Revue" will be given by the Company at to night's farewell performance.

PETROL PUMP EYESORE.

"BRILLIANTLY HUED, CGLY

AND VULGAR.***.

The Earl of Crawford and Bal carres, speaking at a Save-the- Countryside Exhibition, held at Croydon said:-

SANITARY, BOARD MEETING.

PLAN OF KOWLOON TONG

MARKET..

At the meeting of the Sanitary Board on April 16, comment was made on the inadequacy of the vote of 81,500 in this year's estimates for the proposed market at Kow- loon Tong, and also on the con tinued use of wooden chopping blocks in markets.

fortnight, which was agreed to.

thus escaped the fury of the mob. bicycle belonging to an employee of the Chamber was stolen.

"After being in possession of the building for more than an hour, the

nisereants left.

and it gradually evolved into a vast supplementary feet. Here was, in- deed, a medley of small vessels

fishing ATTENTION TO NATIONAL

DEFENCE URGED.

carefully rationed out. It was impossible to send members of the colony for provisions to the const during the snow this winter.

trawlers fresh from our grounds, drifters, whalera, paddle-

Except in the most bitter wea ther, all the members of the colony steamers so familiar to Chancel ex. Four arrests were made in all cursionists, steam yachts so well but, as these were in debateable known in the Solent, motor- Rome: It is the duty of the go about naked, but a look-out is territory, they were later released launches, and motor-boats.

Their Italian Government to take careful always maintained to warn them when strangers approach. Then on instructions from the Police hazardous duties were as varied a note of the state of the nationa! Headquarters-North China Daily their types. In their long hours of defence following failure of the in-they dash into hiding.

Goldberg, who is an unmilitant News.

patrol they watched for and hunted ternational conferences looking to German submarines; they searched world disarmament King Victor anarchist, and one of his wives, put and both seemed perfectly for and dragged mines; they fought Emmanuel said in his address from on blankets to receive me and serve hostile aircraft; they controlled and the throne at the opening of the tea,

happy. examined millions of tons of ship-new Parliament... ping navigating the narrow 808; Voicing the policy of the Faciat and in many other ways splendidly Government, the King reviewed the seconded the efforts of the Grand international situation in some de- Fleet. Varied indeed, these crafts tail, indicating his belief that were in type, but their crews were Italian defences should be streng animated by one heart, and one thened on both land and sea. spirit.

ATTACKED BY HUSBAND WITH A CHOPPER.

WHAT THE POLICE FOUND..

At 0.30 am yesterday morning a Chinese woman made a report at the No. 7 Police Station to the cRect that her husband and attack-

Tradition of Centuries.

£1,500 PEARL MYSTERY.

THIEF CONFESSES»

A break in the crust of an uncut loaf of bread in the latchenette of a The Prince adds: "It has been flat disclose a pawn-ticket, which said that two-thirds of the Eliza solved the month-old baffling mys

These matters were on the agenda of the meeting yesterday when Mr. N. Smith, presiding in the ab- sence of Mr. W.J. Carrie, suggest ed that it be left over for a further ed her with chopper and had "As time went on this collection wounded her in the temple and the of ships was welded into a great The only other matter of public wrist.

The woman explained that they disciplined service of 4,000 vessels, bethan Fleet which met so trium-tery of the theft of a £1,500 pear interest was the announcement that Dr. S. C. He would be retiring

which operations extending We, who are a sensitive race, from the Board shortly, and another Pokfulam Road, and that she could have established all over the coun- appointment would be necessary to offer no explanation of her hus try brilliantly hued and vulgar the Standing Committees to which band's behaviour as there had been petrol pumps which essentially are he was appointed together with no quarrel between them. ugly. Pumps could, however, be Mr. T. N. Chau and Dr. W. V. M. erected which would perform their Koch.

Besides, the President, there were functions quite unpretentiously.

"Some countryside advertisements at the meeting the Hon. Mr. J. F. crowded that few people Braga, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Dr. have either time or inclination to SC. Ho, Mr. T. N. Chau, the read half of them, and I believe Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E, Dr. that, in the long run they repre. H. A. Fawcett (M.OH.), and Mr. sent so much money thrown away."J. Watson (Secretary).

are

far north as the White Sea, to the Armada were merchant vessels, and mont Hotel, Chicago.

Mr. R. M. Rederer, the guest, had Mediterranean and Aegean in the that the proportion of the force south, and westward to the West with which Drake singed the King ordered the necklace as a gift for Indies. The Auxiliary Patrol was of Spain's beard' were much the his wife,

The reception clerk recalled that The police sent the woman to the in its days of complete development same. The relations of the two Government Civil. Hospital and a manned by nearly 50,000 officers and great services have altered since a fellow clerk had boen standing. party proceeded to the house, were men. The figures representative of those days, but the Great War has near when the package was deliver. they came upon the dead body of the full war effect of the Merchant served to prove once more that the ed, and the police, as a last resort, the husband with a deep, wound in Service as a whole would make Merchant Navy is as essential to-day paid a surprise visit to his flat and as ever it was to the operations of searched it, in spite of the protests the throat. The man had evidently staggering totals. Therein it was committed suicide while the wife carrying on, and even bettering, the the Royal Navy and to the safe of his wife

The clerk, confronted with the was on her way to the Police tradition of centuries."

guarding of the life of the British

dramatic discovery, "confessed, Station.

(Continued at foot of next column). Commonwealth of Nations."

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