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£10,000 IN SEIZED CAR.

-Millionaire's Arrest As

Thieves' Leader.

cumstances.

FATHER OF 250.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; FRIDAY. -JUNE 8: 1923.

HOW BRITAIN FEELS,

Exiled Uganda King Going · Mr. Kipling On France And

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An American, whose name is Kabarega, ex- King of Bunyord- The Daily Mail recently publish-Jare civen a William Warren, alian was fifty years ago a name to ed an interview with Mr. Rudyard

Mr. Radferty, American million conjure with in Uganda. He is Kipling. The interviewer was M. Branches:— aire," who is believed to be the returning home there to end his Coudurier de Chassaigne. the bead of the international gang of days, and, on passing through | French journalist so long corres- thieves caught in Paris recently, Nairobi, was greeted by a aum-pondent in London of the Paris has been arrested with his wife ber of Baganda assembled to pay Figuro. and his ebauffeur in dramatic cir-homage to him after his long ***Can you doubt," said Mr. banishment from his native land. Kipling. 'that the immense A quarter of a century ago majority of the British people love, King Kabarega, of Bunyoro, with admire, and reapec: France? Mwanga, King of Uganda. taught! *** You must not think that the against the British in the Uganda navvier, the artisans, and the Protectorate, with the usual dis-working classes generally have astrous results. They were both anything but the most-violent captured, and in 1901 deported to dislike for the Germans. Have the conveniently adjacent Sey-not all those good folk, just as chelles. There Mwanga died in we ourselves. last a dear one in 1903, but King Kabarega has the North of France, at Ypres, or survived, and, in his advanced in the Near East? Even if we age, has successfully pleaded are not always in agreement

The wore arriving in Paris from the Riviera in Warren's luxurious motor-ear.

It is said he is also wanted by Scotland Yard for the theft of 900,000 francs (about £12,850) in a Londos hotel.

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The arrest took place at the Forte d'Orleans. A magnificent Rolls Royce stopped at the gates for the ordinary formalities, but within a few seconds it was surrounded by

Due opened the door. "Are you Mr. William Warren?" he asked of the clean-shaven and elegantly dressed man of middle age, who was in the car with two women.

Receiving an affirmative an- the society of his somewhat large of our people do not understand, swer, he placed the three travell-family. and among a people who and understand loss as time goes era and the chauffeur under arrest have made remarkable advance-Jon, why Germany, who prepared and proceeded to inspect the car.ments towards civilisation since and launched the war, should not)

In a box under the cushio

he left them,

pay for it. Nor do they believe was found about £1,285 in Frenca notes and a quantity of Spanish currency and jawellery estimated At over 100,000 franes (about £10,000).

with the British authorities to b3 with you French in everything. allowed to die in his own coun- you must remember that millions MADE DAILY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION try. Having been pardoned, the of us English bate the Bozbe ex-King has now arrived in his just as much as you do. * jold kingdom of Bunyoro, there to ***This is the situation as I see

spend the remainder of his life in it The overwhelming majority THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

Germany is to be carefully mureed back to wealth and power, in the hope that when she is strong she may be moved to pay some parti of her obligations.

In bis early days King in the wonderful schemes put for Kabarega displayedgreat hostility ward from time to time, whereby towards Sir Samuel Baker, then Governor-General of the Soudaa. who was then actively engaged In spite of his protests, the in an endeavour to suppress slave American was taken to the police raiding. There is a story that headquarters. His wife was wear this enmity was due to the ac ing & curious gown to which werecidental dropping of cigar-ash" in Attached several bags. The latter Kabaraga's milk in 1864 during contained 229 French notes of the first visit that Baker paid to 1,000 france each, and 63 Spanish Bunyoro, and the native king was notes of 1,000 pesetas each.

FORTUNE TELLER'S FORECAST-

Mrs. Warren was no wearing a beautiful gold locket ornament- ed with diamonds, and containing a small piece of paper, on which fortune-teller of the Riviera, whom she had consulted, pre- dicted that abe would have "great

Kabarega has existed

sor ALTOGETHER IMBECILE.”

We have not had your ex periences of the German, but we are not altogether imbecile. We observe also that these schemes convinced that he bad been be-are, for the most part. advocated witched.

by two types of mind-those от a which were most misguided be. small annuity paid by the British fore, during and after the wET, AS Government. His old country is to the nature and paychology of no one at peace with its neigh-the Germans: and those who baurs, and part of a promising now openly or academically sym- British Colony. Theer-King will pathize with every attack on such probably be best remembered by civilization as the war has left. 307 in May," She had on several fact that he left behind him, From these orgervations we draw diamond rings, one being worth twenty-five years ago, a family of our own conclusione.

native "We do not at all believe that 100,000 frances. In a small hand. over 50 children. The bag, among other jewels, were a dozen diamond and pearl'tie-pins. The arrests of the other suppos. ed members of the gang, of which "Mr. Rafferty "is said to be the chief, took place in Paris, when seven men and one woman were trapped. They were of, English and Australian nationality.

One of the prisoners, whom the police at first auspected to be the bead o: the organisa-| tion,

msn with

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ler of Bunyoro to-day is one of Germany is disarmed, or that she Kabarega's 90cs -- somewhere will ever be disarmed without about his fortieth.

LINCHENG ECHO.

How Miss Aldrich Got Back Her Jewels.

Tsaochuang,

supervision infinitely more drastic than that which has been exercised to the past We hold that it would have been better for the future if England had gone in side by side with France and Belgium to obtain the fullest re- paration and security that was possible.

**You will say: This being sc,| May 30.-The why does not public opinion assert "cauliflower" ear. it was his recovery of the jewels belonging itself? The answer lies. prim- to Miss Aldrich from a rocky arily, in our financial exhaustion. disfigurement which led to the

mountainside. in Shantung, just it appears to us that the bulk of capture of the others.

The thieves operated on a large hidden under a flat rock by their shoulders.

two weeks after they had been post-war indebtedness is upon our scale in the leading hotels in Pariswner during her burried flight, fantastic-Oriental-in ita sever- Uur taxation 19 and the Riviera, chiefly choosing was told for the first time to-day ity. This is a condition which their victime among wealthy by Mr. J.B. Babcock of Tsinanfu, makes American and English visitors.

med. whatever their After Miss Aldrich's rescue by opinions Mr. Saill of the Asia Development committing themselves to any may be, cautious in Co's staff, she gave him rough action that might involve, or be map of where she had hidden her represented as involving, increas

wels and Mr. Naill banded the ed expenditure.

A

Standard Oil Co 's' representative insp over to Mr. Babcock, the

in Tsinanfu, who started out soon after in search of them.

Although Mr. Babcock roamed

They were experts in the con- fidence trick, and, according to the police, in less than a year they had stalen millions of francs.

"The only clue at first possessed was the fact that one of the men had a "cauliflower" ear. detective policed one night an intoxicated man leaving a sélect hotel, walking with difficult the Shangtung hills for nearly The man had a disfigured ear three days he was unable to locate The detective helped him into a Miss Aldrich's property, prin taxicab and followed him, and after three days investigation Cipally because her skateli map came to the conclusion that this was only roughly drawn and left was the man with the cauli-out necessarily many of the most lower ear. On March 4th ed to Tsinanfu and told bis No. 1 important landmarks. He retura- gang was arrested.

But one remained at large. Itor of his difficulty, and offered was the mysterious Mr. Raffer could find the jewels.

him a substantial reward if he

15." whose name was mentioned

many times in papers seized at the prisoners' rooms.

Last Saturday thay both return-i

ed to Lincheng, and early on Sun-

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The

mystic triangle shown

day morning set out again on the above is said by certain scholars BITYS & ROLLS-ROYCE. search. They tried their best to to have been inscribed upon the The police, after inquiring on trace Miss Aldrich's route from the mummy case of ab Egyptian the Riviera learned that "Mr.time she left the train until she pharaoh. It is supposed to be Rafferty," posing as an American was rescued. Late that afternoon the mystic sign of the Egyptian millionaire, bad gone to Nice, when they had almost given up deities, lais, Osiris and Thoth When they arrived there detec the search after wandering over The triangle is equilateral, and tíves learned that their man bad the country side for many miles, contains 16 smaller equilateral bought a Rolls-Royce for 145,000 the boy stumbled against a ebort triangles. The most remarkable: france (about £1,000) and had left flat rock, dislodging it, which thing about it, however, is the for Paris with two women. The revealed Miss Aldrich's handker-fact that the design may be drawn car was triced on its way to Paris, chief, aoiled and crumpled, but in one continuous line, without and was met there by detectives, containing her diamond and lifting the pencil from the paper. as stated.

emerald rings, valued approxim- and without going over any line According to the French police, ately at G.$50,000. -

twice. Can you solve the problem? William Warren was known to The rings were taken to Peking Yesterday's answer: the English police.in 1921 under on Monday by Mrs. Babcock and the name of Bludger Bull, born safely delivered into Miss Ald- on July 25, 1856, at Cape Town, rich's hands yesterday. When she and according to them was twice beard that they had been found by sentenceed to hard labour at Mr. Babcock's boy, she sent him Sydney on charges of theft. His bandsome reward for his faithful wife is said to have been born in ness-NEDY, September 1876, at Sydney.

Palice investigations tend to show that the exploits of the

gang brought them a booty of and asked for an audience with 15,000,000€ (over £200,000). Most the Pops. He was received by Cardios! Gasparri, from whom

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Labour M.P.'s in a Scene." The new Parliament continues to exhibit a good deal of "live. liness." which calls for the con- stant vigilance of the Speaker. A

"Turn him out!" came from the Ministerial benches, but Mr. Jack Jones retorted, "There will be a lot more of you chucked out."

Mr. Kirkwood at length made his complaint heard. Hon. mem- bera opposite, he said, had insult

scene occured during the debate ed Mr. Webb by crying "Sit down. the number seven by writing them on the Housing Bill. It acrose from Nany!" The Speaker, during a as shown above, so they represent an exclamation by a Unionist lull, pointed out that if members aix and six-sixtbe. As six-sixths member, "Sit down, Nanny! when would be quiet he would deal with

is one, the number therefore.. re- Mr. bidney Webb attempted to these exclamations, from what-

presents seven.

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interrupt the Attorney-Cisneral. ever side they came. Another This inturiated Mr. Kirkwood, the Labour member said that Vis- Labour member for Dumbarton, count Carzon had made the After the news of special cigars who rosa shaking his late at the offending remark, but the mem- Spanish backs. · ·

Several of the suspects now in French and Italian Catholic char tale of cigarettes in paper special uproar the withdrawal of the in dissent, sad the trouble goal, when questioned by the table organisations, and pro-ly coloured to match the smoker's epithet. Mr. Webb tried to gradually subsided. police, admitted they had collect mised to supply them with furds. dress. A West End tobacconist calm his excited champion,

The Cardinal invited Mr.in London is said to have now in but the latter Rafferty" to lunch, and gave him stock a great range of these tinted more excited, though his words became Only

were inaudible in the Press GRI- Recently the "American mill. notes of introduction to several cigarettes to go with any colourlery, Cries of "Name him!”" and i

of this booty is supposed to be in he séked information concerning for women smokers compes the other side and demanding amid ber for Batterson shook his head!

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