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HISTORIC RUBY'S ADVENTURE.

FOUND ON RAILWAY LINE BY PLATELAYER.

CHILDREN'S PLAYTHING.

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-THE-HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY~~JULY

SAME OLD STORY OF CONFIDENCE.

BUT ALWAYS A LISTENER AROUND.

ALEXONY AW FIERCE, HATTLE IN

MINE.

CASBDOS TAN BAS

TRANSPORT WAR IN ENGLAND.

MUTINOUS CONVICTS BEATEN ROADS v. RAILWAYS TRUCE

BY LOYALISTS.

SOUGHT.

*London, June 26,-Scotland Yard [~^ Lansing" (Kan.), June 26-A-London, June 27 Thero la is. scouring London for a gang of grim story of the battle under prospect of the intensivo compati 20 expert Australian and Ameri-ground between the mutinous andton, between road and railway |can crooks; headed by a middle-non-mutinous among the 328 con- compables being terminated by a A huge uncut ruby of great son- timental value to India-owing to aged cosmopolitan Irishman nick-victs in the Kansas State peulten- world's motor transport tongress, Its romantic" associations with named "Professor Fat," which retary colliery, is being told by the that will be held in London at the Shah Jehan, the builder of the Tajcently raked in £8,000 while operat men, who were now back in their end of the year.

Experts agree that the public Mahal has been the plaything of in fashionable restaurants cells.

and resorts.

The mutineers put the loyalists will benefit also, because the the children of a Leicester plate-

Last night two of the gang behind a barricade with the desertion of the railways has re- İnyer.

and the intance of an Ameris guards, but the loyalists broke sulted in an increase in freights, can in the street and tricked him with the old story that they wantedose and charged the mutineers which is strangling commerce and him to assist in the distribution with pickhandles, shovels and creating in intolerable situation only co-operation că" of a fortane, but that he first must hand over a few thousand dollars to prove his financial stability.

The ruby weighing G1 carats was lost by Mira. Graham Pole, wife of Major D. Graham Pole, of Palace Chambers, London, when she was travelling to Swadlincote (Derbyshire) on June 8.

It was picked up on the perma- nent way near Leicester "by Mr. J, H. Wade, a 'platelnyer, who, not realising what it was, gave it to his twin children.

A Toy.

"Oh, what a pretty piece of red glass the children explained, and they played with it until it had lost its novelty.......

Then the ruby, which was once- the central piece in the tiara worn by the Mogul heir apparent to the throne of India, was flung into a corner among a heap of discarded

toys.

"It was not until Mr. Wado pick- ed up a newspaper containing an advertisement describing the miss- ing ruby that he recognised it as the "piece of red glass" he had found.

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The battle lasted for days, and relieve. the mutinosa were eventually de- feated.

The

The loyalists them telephoned With considerable difficulty the to the surface for help. ruby was found and returned to mutineers threatened to dynamite

the enge, but were again beaten- the major.

The ruby originally belonged and overpowered, and were sent to the great Mogul Emperor to the surface twelve at a time. Jehangir, whose fondness for rubies

is proverbial in India," Major Pole told a press represen-all the presents given to King Ed- tative.

ward, and I had it hung on a gold chain for Mrs. Pole.

"It then passet into the hands of his wife, the famous Queen, Nurjehun, the Light of the World, later passing into the hands of the Taj Mahal builder,

Seratched on the ruby is a Persian inscription bearing the date A.D. 1612.

£5,000 In Indin.

"It was given to me about ten years ago by Lala Marain Das, the Government jeweller, who valued

"Although it was valued at £5,000 in India on account of its historie connexions, the fact that it has had a hole bored through lit deprives it of much of its value

in this country."

DUKE OF YORK'S ESCAPE.

1927.

MOTH FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

NO QUESTION OF ABANDONMENT.

Mr Denis Rooker who is flying to Australia in A Moth under the ausplees of the Dd "Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., and who is now at Karachi, cabled to Australia on June 29:

"I have certainly not abandoned my flight, as has been rumoured here, and, judging by your cable, in Australia also.

"I am repairing my machine, and will carry on as soon as the repairs ara finished.

I left Cairo on June 16, and Arrived at Amman (Transjor, dania) the game evening. Leaving again the next day, I crossed the Syrian Desert to Bagh- dad and went on to Baarn, which I left on the 18th, arriving at Jank (Persia) the same evening. Next morning I left Jask and arrived at Karachi at 8.20 p.m.

"Unfortunately, I broke the fuselage behind the leading tail plane through catching the tail London, June 28 The Duke of skid in a crevice in the ground York had a narrow escape from that could not be seen in the semi- being knocked down by a cyclist | darkness: after he had visited, the Prime good tripe Minister (Mr. Baldwin) for half an hour to discuss his tour.

NEARLY CRASHES INTO CYCLIST.

Otherwise, I had a

"I estimate that I will be able to leave for Calcutta at the end of next week.".:

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The Duke left No. 10 and cross ed Downing-street, and had enter! ed the arches of the Foreign "My wife discovered the loss at Office quadrangle for the purpose CLAIM TO SARAWAK Leicester, where she found that of visiting the Secretary for the the gold chain was broken. Ap- Dominions, Mr. Amery, when a parently the ruby fell on to the youth turned in. Only a swift platform and relied on to the rail-swerve enabled the led to avoid a collision with the Royal party. way track."

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90 Commercial premises. Mr. E. Brooke Daykin, secretary 82 Gain by labour. to the late Mr. D: A. Dunlap and 54 Wards of pow to Mrs Dunlap, claims that 38 Prophet.

he is the eldest son of the late Sir 18 Part of the eye. Charles Brooke, the second Rajah 39 Wator bird. of Sarawak, says a Toronto mssage. 41 Afterwards,

43 Angry. The present Rajah, "his High-

40 Liberated. ness Charles Vyner Brooke is, ac-48 Mohammedan chiefs. cording to Mr. Daykin's claim, a 50 Doomed.

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61. Element of an electrolyte. Mr. Daykin says that his 62 Sea mammals, mother was the daughter of a na- 68 Unusual tive chief, a member of the former 64 Lot. ruling house, who married his 55 Interrogates. father in 1863, and died four years lator at his (Mr. Daykin's). birth, He says that he has his birth certificate and baptismal certi- ficato. His father married Mar- garet De Windtiin 1869: He, Mr. Daykin, was taken to England in 1873 and eventually placed under the care of Archdeacon "Daykin, 10 whose name he took, although his 12 real name was Isaka. Brooke...

Mr. Daykin has prospered in Carbida and now proposes, he says to press for recognition of his lineage and material compensation for the sake of his children- three daughters and a son:

minė „2061. YSAYE MARRIES.

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HE IS 69, SHE IS 25.

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Now York, July 21. Eugene Ysaye, the celebrated violinist, was married on July 9 in Belgium to Annette Duncan, the daughter of a Brooklyn, New York, physician, it was revented to-day by the bride's father.

Ysaye is 69 and his bride is 25. The two met for the first time in 1920 in Cincinnati, where Yaaye was conductor of the symphony orchestra; Miss: Duncan accom panied the violinist abroad in 1922-Associated Press.

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