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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 26,- 1915.

HUNTING MEXICAN BANDITS WHO HELD AIRMEN TO RANSOM.

This picture shows U, S. cavalrymen setting out in pursuit of Mexican bandits who held two airmen. Harold G. Peterson and Paul H. Davis, to ranson

Above are seen some of the Mexican handits rounded up in the successful hunt.

Here is one of the Mexican settlements through which the pursuers passed.

LORD HAIG'S TITLE.

John A. Maxwell Edington, in the New York Times writes:

His son.

From Perrus de Haga until the last proprietor in lineal descent, the Lairds of Benersyde number-

fifty or sixtyears, there is once more in Seatland a Haig of Bemersyde, the first of a new, and, let us hope, a long line.

M. Pierre Volagolsky. Pra- sident of the Council of the Koltchak Government, sared at his deak in the Admin- istration Building at Omak.

MANILA AND PROHIBITIN.

MEDICAL PROFESSION AGAINST IT.

Voting in direer opposition to the recommendation of the com-

Guards are still on dug in the streets of Berlin. No one is permitted to leave or enter the city without passes. The photo shows, a Germ.. woman showing her pass at a control he

The doctors, it is said. took the stand they did because of the be lief that & pofition law in the islands at the resentime would be an unnecessary bit of legisla-

tion.

A feature of the medical society probibition meeting, the fact that, as some of the members are civil service em- ployees. it, could not have been held without the special permis- If the legislature should, pression of Governor General Harri- 'son, whose wife and mother-in- such an act, the members voted, the society will take sters to law are both taking an active the fight to make the use of alcohol for medicinal pur have no restrictions placed on the part in

islands dry,

pointed by King Alexander 11. assisted the Earl of Angus in of Scotland to pursue and ap-breaking the power of James, prehend John de Bisset for burn-Earl of Douglas, in 1455. William THE FAME OF BEMERSYDE.ing the Earl of Athel in his own Haig, tenth Laird of Bemersyde, ed nineteen-Now, after a break of house at Haddington in 1242. fell ai Flodden in 1513. John, his son, joined Sir William His son. Robert Haig, had a Wallace in the struggle for command in the army under the Scottish Independence, and was Recent Arran, which engaged the Pride of ancestry and love of with him at the battle of Stir- English near Ancrum in 1544. the ancient Scottish homeland ting Bridge in 1297.

The great-grandson of this blaze out in the title "Earl Haig Petrus adhered to Robert the Baron, James Haig, fourteenth

ittee they had appointed to of Bemersyde." assumed by the Bruce, and fought with him, at Laird of Bemersyde. had eight

study and report on the question. AFTER TWENTY YEARS. famous soldier who commanded the battle of Bannockburn in 1314, sons, the four eldest of whon

members of the Manila Medical the victorious British Armies in out was killed at the battle of were killed in the service of the New York A ship from Davy Society, met recently and went France and Flanders. An ancient Halidon Hill in 1333. John Haig. Elector Palatinate,

King

of Jones' locker bove into port the on record as being opposed to a prophecy, too. has been helped in fifth Baron of Bemergyde, the son Bohemia, in 1629 and 1630. David other day. Wher to shipping prolibition law in the Philip-chairman of the meeting, held in its fulfilment, for almost 700 years of Petrus, fell at the battle of Haig, the fifth son, carried on file records could be found of pines. ago famous Thomas the Otterbourne in 1388.

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the line of the family, and was the Argentine sailing ship The action of the society mein Rhymer uttered these words.

Gilbert Haig. the eighth Baron succeeded by his son. Anthony Alejandrina, her captain told of bers in throwing out the recom which ever since. have been!

of fought with the Scottish army Haig, who was an officer in the her salvage during the war search mendations for prohibition that quoted in the south-east

fon nage. She had been were made by the committee Scotland :--

which defeated an English force service of Sweden. After this the for under the Earl of Northumber-soldiers from. Bemersyde seem to stranded on a reef in the Straits they had appointed, came as a

great surprise. it is said. land at Sark in 1449. He also have been few and far between of Magelian for twenty years. fi

Tyde what may betyde,

Haig shall be Haig Bemersyde."

A study. warlike race they were, these old Haigs of Bemer-: syde, with red hand in every foray, from the earliest days, of which we have record of them.

The Haigs trace their descent,} by indisputable documents. from earlier Petrus de Haze

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than the one who flourished in the days of Thomas the Rhymer. This Petrus, de Haga was proprietor of the lands and barony of Bemersyde in the reigns of Malcolm IV. and William the Lion Kings of Scotland, which, fast succeeded to the Crown'izi 1165 and died in 1214. In thei same era lived Henry de Haga. who was killed in the expedition of William the Lion against the Earl of Caithness in 1199. Petruš de Hags, the son of the first- tentioned Petrus, in various characters is styled Dominus de Bemersyde."

This Petrus de Hage, with Sir lexander Davenant, was ap

DOINGS

OF THE DUFFS.

OK.TOM, I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THE LANDLORD WAS HERE YESTERDAY AND I "TOLD HIM THAT DI AS MUCH AS HE BUSED OUR RENT THAT HE OUGHT TO MAKE SOME REPAIRS -

HE SAID HE WOULD MAKE

NO REPAIRS -

HE DID? WELL,

WELL MOVE!

OFFICE

You May Move. Tom, But Where To?

I'LL STOP RIGHT IN

HERE THIS MORÚING AND SEE VIRAT".

THEY WINE LISTED 121 340M THAT

LANDLORD A THING

OR THO.

LET ME HAVE.A

LIST OF YOUR

· FOR RENT 4.

COMENON.! QUIT YOUR HOUSES AND FLATS KIDDIN

HA-BA-HA

poses.

Dr. Fernando Calderon, pres- ident of the society, acted as

the library hall of the Philippine General Hospital. -

Dr. Tolentino, executive officer of the hospitat made the motion that resulted in the society's ac

It was seconded by Dr. Gonzales; then passed..

tion.

AND HE WAITS | THE WHOLS

·UST- BAHA

JA:

HOW DO

YOU GET ~THAT YEA

A REAL BEGGAR Plymouth A fine of £10 was cheerfuls paid-by George Ward, a beggar.. to avoid two months'

A imprisonment. testified that Ward has never worked but one day in many rears. He once carried a banner in a labour candidate's parade.

BY ALLMAN.

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