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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER

Great Britain and Italy Manoeuvre Their Mediterranean Fleets:

fighting

British plane hovers over

H. M. S. Furious.

Italian cruisers,

Trieste and Zara.

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British destroyers

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While the Ethiopian army battles with the invaders along the Italian, frontiers Great Britain and Italy took to their naval power. Great Britain, at this stage, is decidedly interested but anxious spectator over Italy's fleet manoeuvres in the Mediterranean and near the Suez cannal. The British have sent their ships of war to various strategic places along the Arabian coast where strong British fortresses aro maintained for protection of the Suez Canal.

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Super-Slayer, or

Boasting Ananias?

SPATE OF "CONFESSIONS"

Twenty-one years old and a murderer twenty-seven times over.

That's the self-accused record of a Californian lad, Earl Cramer. Either the world's most colossal liar or the world's most cold-blooded assassin. Which is he-... Super Assassin or Super Ananias?

When arrested (August 25) he proposed to tell two or three thrillers a day to the police until he had made a clean breast of his mania to kill.

The authorities appear to doubt the story of Baughman's death. They say he was not as certain of the details as he had been in con-

fessing to the murder of Kennett

_and_Mangan_and in telling where

British cruiser,

H. M. S. Duane.

Italian torpedo speed boat

S. S. Vulcanla carries Italian troops to Africa

WOMAN SPENDS 27 Skeleton May Solve

YEARS IN A

HOSPITAL

A Bradford woman who had been in hospital for twenty-sevCH yeare without a break has died.

She was Mrs. Annie Leo and she was admitted to the

St. Luke's Hospital in 1908 aufering front a painful illness. With the except

th short tons of

tehen the hospital was used for wounded soldiers and she was transferred to, the Bowling In- atitution, she remained there nati her death.

печь

Great Controversy

COLLEGE FIND THEORY

THE period during the

Up till ten years ago her hus -band visited her daily. Then he

died in the same hospital.

Two years ago Airs. Les saw e bin for the first time. She was being driven across the city for treatment at the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital.

Husband

For Sale At

The bodies of two men were he had buried the bodies of Rent- £300 Cash

found at once 65-year-old James C. Kennett, of Chicago, whom Cramer said he killed in a quarrel over food, and John Thomas Mangan, aged 17, of Sacramento, whom he knifed and shot because the red-haired youth ho borrowed his rifle.

ing and Johnson.

Cramer's intimation that the listi of his victims will reach 27 was made to a deputy-sheriff. The dis- trlet attorney does not believe it.

In his cell after his confession Cramer read eagerly every word published about his exploits in Then Cramer sent searchers every newspaper that was avail- back to the same spot, where a able. He delighted in the stories giant former sanilor had lived of his confessed cruelties, as a hermit while seeking gold and radium, to hunt for the bodies of Fred Realing, mine watchman, who disappeared last November, and John Johnson, an aged prospector, who drop- ped out of sight in July.

"I didn't like the people around me," Cramer told the find authorities. "You go those bodies, and then I'll tell you some more. If you look in, old prospecting holes you'll find men buried everywhere."

Son Of A Barber

thin Unless

boastful young the searchers Bluebeard gnve right directions their task of finding Realing's and Johnson's bodies appear almost insurmount-Į

able.

The place (a mining district called Faida. Flats) is dotted with scores of abandoned mines."

In one of them Kennett's body lay since last July until Cramer's confession told where it could bo found,

Mangau's body was found acci- dentally by a cattle man in search of rustlors.

A Cattle Rustior This young man presents a puzzling personality. Although he professes to prefer his own company to that of his fellow-men, he often shared his cabins and his food, or their cabins and their food, with other prospectors for Californian gold.

Kennett he met on a freight train, and invited him to scratch for gold with him. The red-haired Mangan he also met while wander- ing about.

His reasons for killing his friends are trivial. He says ho shot Kennett and slashed the body, with a knife in a disputo over the division of food after

they had decided to separate.

Mangan died because he had borrowed Cramer's rifle with- out permission.

THERE have been cases of

women who wanted to buy husbands, and men who have wanted to buy wives aro fairly common.

But, surely, the strangest proposal is diat of Mrs. Mary Ann Cordes, an Irish-woman, who is offering her "husband for sale at 2300 cash down."

And, stranger still, Mr. Cordes. is quite agreeable although he says he is still in love with his wife!

The real trouble is that Mrs. Cordes is homesick. She is now in New York, states Reuter, but she wants to revisit her native Ireland to see her old mother.

Leicester, Sept. 30. discovery of a skeleton in an ancient lead-lined coffin at Leicester may solve one of the great con- troversies of English history.

There is reasonable evidence for the belief that the skeleton is that of Richard III., who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

PHOTOS FOR *"'FANS"

Fredric March, the famous Ameri- can cinema star, who is spending a holiday in England before commenc- Ing his next work, "Anthony Ad. ofverse", "in, as soon above, very occupied at his hotel in London sign.

If the "sale" should be effected, she means to spend the rest her days in the Green Isle.

Up till now, however, all thising autographs for numerous ad.. has been only a dream.

The Cordes have been almost down and out for the last 10

years, and cannot raise the money

for the third-class steamer faro.

Mr. Cordet, who is 40, en- tirely sympathises with his wife's longing for her native land, So far, however, no woman has made a bid for him.

.

"I'll Get Divorco"

"No young woman need apply," he stipulates. "She must be be-

He quarrelled with Realing tween thirty-five and forty-five, over a dog.

He accused Johnson and Realing of snooping around a radium and gold mine which ho said he had located. There are no known deposits of radium, however, in the area.

The police placo little credence in the fantastle "werwolf" angle to the youth's confession as to the killing of calves, and drinking their warm blood.

When telling of killing Roaling

Cramer was arrested originally and Johnson, Gramor, the son of a for theft of cattle. It was while San Francisco barber, boasted of ranchors were seeking missing slaying a man named Jeff. Baugh- calves that Mangan's body was man, at Loomis, California, in found, when the killing was traced 1933, and a youth in a California C.C.C.. camp last year.

to Cramer. Then the astounding confession began to flow from the | broggart youth.

or oven more.

"Young women are not worth their salt these days," he added.

"If I can find a woman, pre- ferably

who one with a form. wants a 'good, steady husband, I'll get a Mexican divorce from Mary and marry again, - Then Mary can go to Ireland and sco her poor old mother."

"There must be plenty of . lonely women who would op-

preciate a man like mine." Mrs.. Cordes chimed in.

"I am doing this only for Mary," Mr. Gordes concluded. · “Sho, de- aorvos a break,

“Wo have been married soven-" teen years, and somehow, after you've been down a very long time, you feel you' can't go on the game old way.any longer.

mirers.

NEW SCHEME ENDS THOSE WIFELY TEARS

TOW many tears, has your HOW

wife shed because you for got the date of your wedding anniversary or her birthday? Now, if you lived in London, you would need have no fur- ther trouble in that direction. A London business man has formed an organisation which, for the sum of 6s; a year, guaran- tees to remind you of all birth- days and wedding anniversarics.

"I formed this organisation,"

he said, "because recently I forgot the date of expiry of my motor. licence, so I tried to devise a means of reminding people of the things that matter in their lives. Already I have 6,000 clients on my book, but I am aiming at a million.

"One of the queerest requests I had was from a woman who wished to be reminded of 16 different appointments she had with her hairdresser."

"Remindare" is the name of the organisation, and Its oflees ara in Bond-stroot.

If it should be proved to be his remains it will decide whether (his appellation "Crookback" was simply a term of reproach or due to his being truly a hunchback.

Historians have crossed 'swords for years over this point.

Excavator Discovery

A huge_mechanical...excavator was at work on the site of the new wing at the Leicester College of Arts and Technology and this [old coflin was suddenly revealed.

The Leicester Archaeology Society intend to investigate the matter closely. Many other skeletons have been found In the past few years in this neighbour- hood during excavations on the college, but in each case the body had been burled without n coffin."

According to local theory, thoso skeletons were most likely monks or members of a collegiate brother- hood who lived there some five or six hundred years ago.

Registrar's Theory

The registrar of the college, Mr. Drury told me to-day:

"I am prepared to laugh at our conjectures in this matter, but there are a good many grounds for

that accepting the view

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skeleton may indeed be that of TO-MORROW ALHAMBRA

Richard III.

"Richard was killed at Bosworth, which is very near to this place. He was a young man-36 years old. He was of repulsive ap pearance, isunderstood to have been hunchbacked and to have a withered arm.

"Now the skull of this skela- ton appears to be that of a man of repulsive appearance. Ho was obviously of low mentality. The forehead is low and the underjaw protrudes beyond tha upper one by about a quarter of an inch.

"About 200 yards from the spot there is n bridge upon which a plate records the fact: Near this spot lle the remaiña of King| Richard III., who was killed at Bosworth Field.

"It is generally understood by historians that the King's body was brought on horseback from Bosworth and flung into the river here.

"Our conjecture is that the news of the fate of the King would cor tainly reach the members of the brotherhood who lived hero. They would very likely recover the body from the river and bury it within the precincts of the church.........

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