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ESSAD PASHA ASSASSINATED.

Plum

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FRANCE AND JOAN OF

ARC DESIGN,

Was

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SHOT DEAD IN STREETS

OF PARIS.

General Essad Pasha, who in

his day has played so prominent role on the troubled political stage of his native Albania, was shot dead in Paris recently as he was leaving the Hotel Con-

His assassin is also Albanian, and the motive of the crime is attributed to a desire for political vengeance.

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Essad Pasha has been an exile in Paris for nearly two years. ever since, in fact, the Italian Government refused to counten- ance his return to Albania. For some time he has been living at the Hotel Continental.

Immediately. after luncheon by

lady. accompanied he quitted the hotel, intending to go for a drive in a molor-car.

For 18 months past the stamp The recent loss of the Boswell designs of practically all nations off the Dutch island of Terschel have been, and still are in a ling came as a reminder of the state of transition. The designs danger of drifting mines in, the

of the French "postage stamps North Sea. That there have have always been the subject of

few such careful selection by the Ministrytinental. been comparatively

of Fine Arts, upon which depart- faccidents is

testimony #

whichment devolves the Enal choice of .cafe with certain parts of the general mine-subjects for the new issue now field has been swept up, to the under consideration. Same years ago an effective stamp dèsign by precautions of the Admiralty, and to the watchfulness of captains Mr. Grasset, the poster artist, re- and masters. Danger still exists presenting Joan of Arc, was howare, and some of those who accepted by the Ministry of Posts have such risk to ma are strong for the French postage stamp.

but ty of opinion that everything is

eventually utilized for thase of Indo-China. It not being done which coul dons to lessen it.

is highly probable, however, that the Maid of Orleans will be further commemorated in the designs of the historic jsque at present under consideration by the French Government. Two Munich artists are responsible for the designs of the forthcoming new postage stamp of the German Republic, that for the low values being from the brash of Herr Willy Zeiger, while for the bigher denominations has been chosen a motif by Herr Edwin Scharff, de picting a mae guiding a plough, artistically treated with a wealth of light and shade.

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The General and his companion emerged from the botel into the Rue de Castiglione. The motor- car was waiting. the hotel porter had opened the door, and Essad Pasha had handed his lady friend He was about to into the car. follow.

Suddenly a tall, pourly dressed man, who had been hiding behind one of the pillars of the arcade in the Rue de Castiglione, darted forward and, drawing a revolver. fired two shots in quick succession at Essad Pasha.

When the war ceased many portions of the ocean, including the whole of the North Sea, were coloured red in the charts to indicate the presence of known DT suspected minefields. Differ- ent areas were alloted to the various Powers to clear. Great Britain completed her share of the work in little over a year, Complaint is made that the area entrusted to Germany, which com- prises several thousands of square mites east of longitude 4deg, east, remains practically as it was in 1913, with the exception of the through the swept chancels

The new definite postage stamps minefield. The moorings of the of the Spanish air mail service

The first bullet struck Essed on mines become corroded with the promise to be the most striking

the right side of the body. As he lapse of time. The mines then series of serial stamp that has so break adrift under the compulsion far been issped. The designs are spun round from the shock of the assassia's second of the wind, and are carried to symbolize the rise and progress wound, the Jabroad. a deadly

of serial navigation. They will bullet struck him in the region of fabermea and sailors. As the shortly replace the present pro-the heart and he collapsed, a life- curraht is generally is an easter-visional issue overprinted "Correo less mass, on the footpath. ly direction. most of them migh: Aereo," of which only 20,000 sets be exported to find eventual rest

have been prepared. Three par- on the north-eastern coasts off ticular postage stamps are to be Europ

issued the Spanish Post Office The master of a steamship be on the occasion of the seventh longin: to a well-known company convention of the Universal

Pustal Union in Madrid in Octome

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BEATES BY THE CROWD. The hotel porter, still holding open the door of the car unable to intervene in time to prevent the perpetration of the crime, bot, as the murderer fired the second the porter courageously

has given a representative of The Times an account of bis ownbert A max be value riz., sprang at bin and, seizing him by experience. He says that on

centima, is about to be added to Forages from this country to a the current Spanish POSAT German port since last Octoberlainps, and the design of the he has, as a rule, sighted mines express letter stamp in also to be

every passage. face be changed.

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reports

came upon five in three hours. The average number of wireless other received from vessels concerning mines sighted is some five or six a day: but, as all steamers do not possess wire- less, it is difficult to get an adequate notion of the number of mines which are floating about.

Trus

the throat, bore him to the ground. A second porter rushed to his assistance, and between them they disarmed the morderen.

Held close in the grip of the two men, peading the arrival of the police, the murderer Was

It is understood the the new postage stamps of the Kingdom of Hedja prined at the Sultan'staffed and kicked by the crowd own printing ofre at Jeddah are until his face was bleeding and already in use.

to the his body black and blue. prescripts of the Mahomedan The police, when they could faith their designs do not contain take charge of the man, had a any imagers, but are composed. difficult task to save him from the 3 before. of finely wrought forp of the populace. In asome-

taken to the nearest police station. He is an Albanian, aged 25 rats, and gave the name of Avetic Rustem.

This particular master has soak Arabesque ornamentations. An-hat battered condition he was several mines by rifle fire, bat other notable new issue comes in says this is only possible when the form of permanent po-tace the weather is favourable. During stamps for Armenia, printed in the day the danger is relatively Paris, with picturesque vignettes

Ararat. small. as the mines can be then of Moon: seen and avoided, but at night the plooghing. an Armenian woman conditions are different, and spinning. winter has nearly 16 hours darkness.

GERMAN EXCUSES.

native

Rustem is to be examined by mental experts, in order to de- termine his swoity,

ESSAD'S CAREER.

The dead man bad played, and suspense as he endured dur many parts in the course of his Our informant continues: Iting the war. If Germany cannot, the Turkish revolution he allied chequered career. At the time of was hoped by those who cross the or will not, fulfil her obligations, biruself with the Young Turks, North Sea regularly that this should not England fulfil the bat in the Balkan wars be es summer would see the greater for her and make her pay? part of the German minefield British lives and property are at paased the cause of his native swept up. After three months of stake. If Germany were told she Albania, and fought with the

Serbs. Greeks, and Montene good sweeping weather hardly should have no more supplies anything has been done, and until the mines were cleared shearing against his military masters.

the Turks. soon the winter storms will be might get a bustle on."

la tora upon us, when sweeping can be

he supported and The official point of view is that, carried on only with difficulty, while Germany is doing some of plotted against Prince William Io the

of Wied during the latter's brief three months of her bouaden share of this work, and eventful role in Albania. He presumably fine weather still she is by no means enthusiastic. before 728 much could be The prospect of securing actual accomplished if a determined payment from her for outside king of Albania. effort were made. 1 bare cou-

In the great war Essad showed stantly inquired in Germany why bright. Moreover, we are taking genuine friendship for the Allied sweepinz operations are not pro- our own measures for securing perly undertaken, and the answer the safety of the North Sea.

assistance cannot be considered

has been called the uncrowned

cause.

is always the same, that they These measures are not con- have no cosl and that the crews sidered adequate by many pro- and it may be 100 miles or more of the sweepers often refuse to go fessional sesmen. It has been from the neatest coast station to sea for the mosey offered them. stated in Parliament that, though when sighted. Maritime opinion. The authorities seem to be in vessels are not kept at sesis, so, that every British ship different, ab they have to ships for the purpose of destroying should be compelled to carry to lose. No donbt discipline can mines, as soon as a mine is ra- rifles, and the master penalized hardly be said 10 exist❘ported a vessel, is sent out from | unless he makes an effort to in the sweepers.

The other the nearest coast station to destroy every

mine

be day the стен of ana of destroy it; and that any British sights, even if this should involve took their ship into ship may get rifles and ammuni- loss of time and tide. Soms would: a Dutch port and offered ber for tion for the destruction of mines like to see destroyers patrolling sale. So, after two years of on application. Unfortunately, the sen routes, and available at peace, the sailor is compelled to mys the sailor, a mine does not any time to follow up,e wireless undergo the same sort of anxiety, remain" where it, was, sighted ;; report. "

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