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DOUG. IN LONDON---

AND ANGRY.

MARY ON HER WAY TO

MEET HIM.

Dongly Fairbanks arrived in London an angry man, writes a Veis Chronicle reporter.

Instead of the dashing, smiling

I.

RUBBER ROAD IN SINGAPORE.""

INAUGURATION LAST WEEK.

The experimental section of the rubber rond in Trafalgar Street

SINGAPORE HARBOUR

MYSTERY.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR- ANCE. OF DUTCH ENGINEER.

Great anxiety is being felt at the disappearance of a Dutchman, Mr. Van den Berg, who was third en gineer on board the .s. Cremer, which arrived' in Singapore last week.

Singapore leading to the Flying and Yacht Clubs, was inaugurated- naa hero of a hundred films, a with a sixw) stepped from the Co-last week by Mr. W. Bartley, the President of the Municipal Com tinental. Jame train which had

According to information given to a representative of the Straits brought him on the last stage of his missioners, the drow twice over

it, and expressed to a' representa- | Times, Mr. Van den Berg and n journey from Indin.

tive of the Straits Times that the few officers from other K.P.M. boats word returning to their rea- impression he got was that it was pertive ships about a am. "more springy than an asphalt | motor boat which was, manned by mad and that it'eases the springs two persons, the helmaan and ag engineer. They had just returned of the enr

from a visit ashore. The motor out hind already gone to Home alips other than the Cremer, and back to his ship, was Mr. Konijn, the last, but one person to be taken third officer of the Mayang, also a K.P.M. boat.

During his hunting trip reports have been spread that a suparation between him and Mary Pickford is pending.

Interference."

There is not a world of truth in them," he told me emphatically "Sach suggestions are an uncalled, for interference in my domnestic affairs which 1 very greatly, resent "Apparently the rumour started in newspaper talk, in the United States, where, it seams, the journ alists of yesterday have become the household spies of "to«lny".

Throughout his four tenths tour in India and the East, Douglas has been in almost continuous com munication with Mary Pickford in Hollywood,

Why

I even spoke to her from Japan. I told me.

It was a 10,000-mile call. Only in Sia and one, or two other places was 1 unable to get, through to her. From Boine was able to speak to her every night.

El shall be able to speak to her when she is crossing the Atlantis and, believe me, I shall not miss the opportunity,

Mary's Journey,

"Mary is now in the train, three days from New York. She will sail from there next week to join

me in London.

"Then we are going to have a really long holiday together in England, and we both hope to get some golf at Sandwich."

As Diglas talked of the coming reunion with "the world's sweet. heart his anger left him and he became his own gay self.

I had a wonderful time out in India. nad shot one tiger and two teopards.

"I tried an experiment. I went shooting without a hat, with my chest hare, and with only a pair of

shorts oa.

"Everyone told me I was crazy and would gel sunstroke; but I didn't. You see, I am used to the sun; ut in California,

was

When Mr Bartley's car went over the road, however, it seen that the road sank a little but lucame normaal the moment the car hul pael. Ap siliciul ex plained that it took about two weeks from the time of laying for the road to harden. The first day was devoted to mying, the second day was a "rest" "day for the road, the next was devoted to making the rond even, while the forth was also a "rest" day.. On the fifth-day, however, the official said, tight traffic up to five ton's would be able to use the road, and as time went on heavier and heavier traffic would be able to go over the road, until about a fortnight when, he said, even war tank could go over the hardened rubber without cracking it, as would be the case if the tank went over the asphalt.

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Mr. Van den Berg was the last man to be taken back to his ship in the motor boat, but on the way from the Mayang to the Cretner, he is believed to have disappeared.- He has not been seen. sine or made (an appearance on his ship.

The police are making investig: - pos

PILOT'S AMAZING

EXPERIENCE.

LANDS SAFELY AFTER BECOMING UNCONSCIOUS.

Tokyo, May 22-Physicians to-. day, were baffled, by the condition of Flight Captain K. Sete of the Tokorozawa Aviation School who miraculously escapred death al. though he became unconscious while lying alone at an altitude of 1,000 metres on Tuesday morning.

"This is the hardest problem that has ever been doire in construction

At the time he Was stricken, work," the official said. "The Captain Seto was making observa- sole object of a rubber rond is to tions. After he became unencions Sound his plane, without a pilot, landed do away with vibration.

safely. Attaches ht the flying waves and vibration are dissipated school, anunted at the plane's lack solely by usher. Another advant of control, helped to bring it to a age is that buildings will be saved halt after it landed.

From Tuesday morning until also. A heavy lorry geing over an to-day Captain Seto remained un He was unable to ex; Asphalt road will shake the build conscious,

plain what happened to him. ings along the road and thus dain-physicians declare that there is no age, the foundations, Bridges alto precedent for the aviator's ex- will be saved. Rubber ronds will perience. enable the structures to last about twice longer than if the roads were made of asphalt:"

The official went on to deal with skidding and said that vehicles would not skid so easily on a rub- ber rond as they would on na as- phalt road. "The cost of a rule Somebody asked Douglas how her road," I continued, "is slight- how many suits he took with hity more than an asphalt road at on the trip.

485 Sults.

"Four hundred and eighty-five," chuckled Douglas without hesita tion.

Was he going to buy any more?

Yes, rather. I always buy my suits in England. They are the best in the world."

As Douglas drove off to his hotel to fill in his Census paper, called back cheerily: "I cannot tell you my age? It's a secret."

first, but maintainance is very Hittle, Wherras asphalt roads are likely to crack from time to time and sections have to be dug up rubber and relayed over again, loads will not crack."

The experiment was madeby Barlow and Co. in co-operation with the Municipality, and is be being prepared under the direction of Mr. G. Parry Davis, who has a wide experience of the chemistry of rubber and whose process is be ing used in the present experiment,

MISUNDERSTANDING OVER VISAS..

NO EXEMPTION FOR FOREIGN. ERS RESIDENT IN CHINA.

A recent message from Nanking, announcing that foreign residents of China, living in Shaughni beforn May 1, when passport regulations went into effect, would be exempt from visa fees, have caused con- sternation at the Shanghai gassport. office. Mr. Chi Hang, head of the Passport Regulation Enforcement Bureau, and that he had reerived no instructions to that effect either from the local Bureau of Public Safety of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to whom the statement wha aftributed.

"JAKE THE BARKER" SURRENDERS.

EXTRADITION TO ENGLAND POSSIBLE.

Chicago. May 20-Jhm Factor, alias "Jake the Barker," to-day surrendered to the police rather than faer bis gangland enemies who are seeking to any him ou the grounds that he broke faith with the underworld. The surrender of Factor brings to an end a nation. wide search by the police on the complaint of the British Consul General here,

of

for years on trans-Atlantic pol senger ships, and contrived to sel worthless stock securities to his fellow passengers.

Factor is accused of swindling moderately wealthy Britons Many people visited the Passport.8600,000 or more. He travelled Bureau ofices at 1, Hankow Road, since the publication of the dia patches and claimed exemption from risa fees. These were all fo. fused free visas, and charges were made on a reciprocal basis, as was stipulated in the original regula tions.

Commissioner Walker of Chiego has granted five days to the British authorities in which to preparo ex- tradition papers under which "Jake the Baker can be taken from the United States to stand trial in

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Mr. Chi Hung told the North- China Daily Were that for more than two years all foreigners have been assessed visa feca proportional Factor had nothing but denin to those demanded from Chinese in to make when he surrenderød to thị foreign countries. Until the depart. police to-day. He denied emphatic ment receives other instructions ally that he has any connection vian costs will be computed on this with gangland. He scoffed at the bosis regardless of how lorg the theory that he surrendered because visa applicant has been in China. his underworld enemies are plan

The passport official said that ing to "put him on the spot." little trouble has been encountered Factor to the police that the during the three weeks operation of charges of his swindling British the office. A number of destitute travellers are false, Russians have attempted to enter It is not yet clear whether Fac the country without visas. Most of tor will fight extradition to Eng- these were turned over to the care land. Officials at the British Con of the Russian Immigrants Commis-sulate General, howoyer, aro pre- sion and Relief Association, while paring the papers demanding the the rest were glovn vises and re-extradition of the alleged criminal leased. The latter class looked sis It is likely that court hearings though they were capable of caring over the extradition demand will for themselves, Mr. Chí Hung said. behold.

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