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Directed by FILANK CAPRA

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The Royal Air Force lung distance Fairey Napier manplane, shown above, which razantly few non-stop in an England Egypt-flight and is making the return journey in two hops. It completed the first hop yester day when it arrived at Malta, piloted by Squadron-Lender Ġayford, and Flight-Lieutenant Batt. An attempt on the world's distance record will be made later in your,

PIG CAUSES LOSS OF 100 LIVES.

FIERCE FIGHT AMONG NATIVES.

Lisbon, Nov. 15.

A pig with thieving proellvilles has been responsible for the loss of a hundred Ilves and the im- prisonment of 4,000 men, accord- ing to a special despatch appearing in the bewapper sirrato vo-uay,

This horrible denouement to a pig's ravenous appetite in said to

TWO ARMED

ROBBERIES.

POLICE MAKE THREE QUICK ARRESTS.

N. T. INCIDENT.

Two armed robberles last

CROWN PRINCE HAS NARROW ESCAPE.

·BEAM FALLS ON HIM DURING RESCUE OPERATIONS.

Rome Nov. 14.

The heir to the throne of Italy, Prince Umberto, narrowly escaped grave injuries at Naples this morn- ing when directing the operations for the rescue of two, score child-

have occurred at Bissau, in Por-night stirred Criminal Investigaren who had been buried by the tuguese Guinea.

tion Department men to unusual activity.

New

collapse of a school house.

The pig's depredations, it seems, led to a dispute between

The Brat occurred in the some tribesman. This culminated

When the catastrophe occurred, in a fierce encounter in which all Territories, where at the village the Crown Prince was just passlug the tribesmen in the district of Sheung Sha Po, on the Kowloon the house and immediately ordered ranged themselves on one side or Canton Railway, four men armed the other. With their primitive with knives, invaded the Kwong his chauffeur to stop. Before the weapons they fought a fierce battle Yuen Dye Works and surprised arrival of the fire brigade Prince and before the clash was stopped the proprietor as he WAR going Umberto, with the help of some

extricated accounts. bystanders hud by the Portuguese authorities a hundred men had been killed. Brandishing their weapons they children from the debris, when a

Many of the tribesmen managed imposed silence on their victim rafter fell down upon him, knock to make good their escape, but fully four thousand of them were rounded up, disarmed and impri- soned in a fortress.-Reuter.

SHORT SHRIFT WITH COMMUNISTS.

through

his daily

who with a foki was bound and

tea

ing off his hat. Undaunted by

gagged and then tied to a post this, the Crown Prince immedinte- remaining in that position while

the the intruders made an unhurriedly nasumed command when search of the interior.

brigade, appeared upon the scone More than an hour afterwards, and stayed on the spot until the the robbers escaped from the place last bodies had been removed. taking with them 44 rolls of cloth

Of the twoscore children burled valued at $300. Such

bulky five were extricated dead while one (booty involved transport problems, died on its way to the hospital In and in endeavouring to get into the royal car. The remainder sus-

A

town with 15 rolls as his share

or the spolis, one of the criminalstained more or less grave injuries. was arrested. An old man of 68 mm. yours, was also arrested

AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY GIVES WARNING TO QUIT.

Sydney, Nov. 13. The Citizen's Defence League, organisation which is particul- arly severe with Communists, to day gave another indication of its fearer while investigations have the victim was Li Sze, wife of a determination to suppress Red also resulted in the foki of the tenant living on the first floor of activities in New South Wales. establishment robbed being taken No. 1, Tung Wah Lane, in the The Longue has given orders to into custody as a suspected ae-central district. A table knife the Communist headquarters in complice.

I was used to intimidate the woman

Bourke, N. S. W., to quit the town In the second affair which oe- who was dispossessed of a pair by Monday. Otherwise, it is stated,curred within half-an-hour of the of gold-mounted rattan bangles, the Communists will he "kicked first, it is stated that three valued at $20. The robbers in out."-Reuter.

Chinese were concerned, and that this case made a clear get-away.

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WINNIE LIGHTNER Georges Carpentier Sally O'Neil Bert Roach Dorothy Revier Edmund Breese AbeLyman's Band

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