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Regarded in official circles as one of the most important narcotic discoveries in many months in the International Settlement, a raid on a "red pli" factory by detectives from Yalin Road Station, is expected to lead to additional discoveries regarding the operations of a drug ring with ramifications in many other centros. The raid which resulted in the arrest of five Chinese and one' Japannin, and also the seizure of a considerable quantity of raw material and manufactured derivatives, revealed an exten sive plant with valuable modern laboratory equipment. Photo shows one of the rooms in the "inc- tory" with part of the equipment for the manufacture of the "pill." The glass retorts, mixing bowls," electric motor and other paraphernalia may be soon in the foreground and scattered around the room.

ARMED HOLD-UP IN FAMILY'S PERIL IN

LONDON

QUICKSAND

Clerk Bound and Gagged Young Couple and Child

By Masked Men

Sucked Down

THEY WOULDN'T HAVE GAS

Amusing Story At Dental Conference

An amusing story was related to Two maked men, armed with n A young woman's terrible expert-delegates of the British Dental As- revolver, raided a booking office in

sociation at their annual conference the subway of Moorgate Metro-ence of seeing her husband and at Dundee, by Mr. R. C. Scott Dow, politan Railway station shortly child become completely engulfed in of Edinburgh. after midnight recently, and, hay- ja stretch of treacherous quicksands. Ing bound and gagged the clerk, while she herself was sinking Douglas R. Foot, of Milstead deeper and deeper is reported from Street, Brixton, stole about £12.

Burnhamon-Sea, Somerset, on the south shore of the Bristol Channel.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934.

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otherwisu of serial stories which a vlow to ascertaining the efficacy have been a feature of thle of vaccine treatment for catarrhol journal for some yeara past. alfments.

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The Post Office is now examlulog reports from the selected districts which give particulars of the: catarrhai sick leave taken during the experimentul perlod and of the treated and non-trented officers.) It expects to be in a position to re- port on the experiment in the autumn.

NOT TO CONDUCT FOR JEW

MISCHA ELMAN ON-BERLIN WARNING.

Sir Walter Gilbey Marries Mischa Elman, the famous Rusa-

Widow

lan violinist, announced at Buenos Aires, recantly that his participa- tion in an orchestral concert at the It was revealed recently that conducter Herr Fritz Busch, had Colon Theatre, under the German Sir Walter Gilboy, Bart., and been cancelled on the ground that Mrs. Marion Miller Broadhead, of the conductor was unable to find Farnley Tyas, near Huddersfield time for rehearsala...

were married at a Huddersfield rogistor oflice last month.

There were no bridesmaids at the wedding, and, only five local friends of the bride and bride groom were present,

M. Elman states, however, that he had learned through private. sources that Herr Busch had been warned from Berlin he would not be allowed to return to Germany The rogister gave Sir Walter's if he conducted for a Jew. H address રીતુ 22 Downe Streat, added that he was unwilling to Piccadilly, and he was described believe this, but the position was simply as a "Baronot, previously most satisfactory, and he had

wasted much time married, now divorced."

in practising His age was given as 74, and for the concert, '. that of the bride as 39,

M. Elman further declared that The bride is the widow of Mr. though unable to play in Germany Mr. Dow said that realy patients

cortain Wilson Broadhead, as director of on account of his race, he loved the sitting down in an dentist's

their a firm of gas engineers at Elland, Germans, though the name of chair, changed minds, declaring that

they near Huddersfield. She is thy Hitler filled him with averafon. The subway was desorted at the

wouldn't have gas to-day." time except for one passer-by, who

This puzzled the dentist, and one The young couple, Mr. and Mrs. saw the men running away, tried to stop them, and was knocked down. W. G. Cox, of 3 Lyncroft Gardens, day ho sat in the chair himself, and saw across the street the The men escaped'in a motor-car. Hounslow, London and their small following legend, painted In big on a motor tour in letters on the wall of the Salvation Foot was checking his takings child, were when a man asked for change for Somerset and had stopped at Burn-Army citadel "Prepare to meet a 10s. note. As the clerk turned; ham.

your God"

time.

late Mr. James Roberta, a brawer, of Farley Tyne.

* *

Sir Walter, who has strong Iden's on the propriety of dress, was married in a smart grey lounge suit, and he wore a bowler

LYNCHING

FUED

hat with the new-fashioned brim BOY AND TWO MEN and carried yellow gloves,

HANGED

A boy and two men were lynched

Sir Walter Is the second baro- to got it a second man opened the

The dentist subsequently re- Ella Fowlie, daughter of the late They had walked some distance moved his premises:

net. Ho married in 1884 Miss door, and,--pressing-a--revolver against his side, forced him back along the sands just south of the

Mr. J. 0. Fowile, of Coombe in a villago near Kowel, in Eastern with his face to the wall, keeping lighthouse, but as they had been Mr. R. Willcox, of Clifton, related Warren, Kingston Hill. The Poland, as the result of a quarrol the revolver close to, him all the warned that the place was danger-how a celebrated Welsh internation- marriage was dissolved. in 1926. over pasture lands between two

al footballer, under the Influence of There is one son, Mr. Walter Ruthenian families. ous they decided not to bathe, but an anaesthetic, went into violent Ewart Gilbey. The other man entered the book to paddle only. There were other paroxysms. As soon as the dentist ing office and pulled down the people paddling nearby. The tide had simply removed a tooth the shutter in front of the window, was out.

footballer seized him by the thigh. The two placed the money sprend

threw him against the wall, and caused the nurse to jump through the window.

on the table into bags, bound and With the child between them gagged the clerk, and pushed him Mr. and Mrs. Cox, neither of whom under the desk, and then, having [are swimmers, had just reached the cut the telephone wires and smash-water when the sand beneath them ed the electric lamp, ran from the started to slide away. office.

also played the game, tackled the The anaethetist, a Scotsman, who Welsh international, who was final Information was given to the attention of other people and a dentist.

Mrs. Cox's cries attracted the efforts of the anaethetist and the ly mastered only by the combined

City police, who searched the station but found no trace of the crowd soon collected.

men,

Proudly starting her, 'ascont Into the stratosphere, the world's largest balloon carried threw in- trepid flyers from the earth at Meonlight Valley, South Dakota. Elavan miles up the huge bag ripped and the flight ended. Army balloonists escaped death "by parashsten,

As he came round, the patient Mrs. Cox and her husband and said "I feel I have been doing child, however, continued to sink in something. Will you accept double the trencherous sands, and for tees as compensation ?** moment all that could be seen above the water was the woman's upraised hand and arm.

The husband and child were not

to be seen at all.

seen

Mra. Cox was eventually pulled fout in a semi-conscious condition.

Meanwhile the man had struggling hard to extricate him- self from the sands. He managed to retain the child's hand in his. His struggles took him further out to sea, and thera in' a short while he emerged to the surface.

A human chain was formed of the onlookers, and Inspector Hig gina, of the Llanelly pollco, who happened to be near, plunged into the water and pulled Atr. Cox and the child to safety.

Mr. and Mrs. Cox and their child all recovered after treatment at Burnham Hospital, though Mr. Cox was detained for a time suffering from shock,

Mr. Cox, in an interview, said that although he could not swim, he was determined to make a fight of it.

"It all happened in a minute,” ho said. "The water was just over our foot and the next minute I felt myself being aucked under, I went on my back, and the water hand in mine. I kicked out, but came over me, but I kept baby's could not come to the surface. Then I got into a curiont and camo up I don't remember much else, until I found myself on dry land.

"That pailent was a real sport," observed Mr. Willcox.

Sir Walter has long been known A young boy in charge of a herd as the "champion of the horse.

of cattle grazing on the disputed He takes tremendous Interest land was seized by the rival family in horses and riding, and is often and immediately hanged from a to be seen in Rotten Row.

nearby tree. He is a firm upholder of the

The boy's parents and relatives tradition and etiquette of riding.succeeded in catching the two men slipshod rider in Rotton Row and dered the boy, and they dragged He has no sympathy with the they presumed must have mur- has more than once attacked them to the village market place. - in what he described as slovenly riders for turning out in The Row

Fattire.

Sir Walter has been present at every Shire horse show in London from 1877 onwards, and was president of the Society in 1927,

Sir Walter's father was the founder of the large wine business with which he is associated.

Kinsmen of the boy, armed with pitchforks, clubs, and hammers, gathered in the market place and hanged the two meu, with cal- eulated and deliberate alowness.

Polica wero dispatched from a nearby town, and the two families are now in prison.

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