She has seen him only once since he was convicted in April last. That was while he was in the hospital ward. He asked her not to meet him while he was serving his sentence, to spare her the ordeal of seeing him in prison clothes.
When ex-Colonel Christie is set at liberty he will accompany his wife to the south of France, Mrs. Christie intends to open a beauty parlour in St. James's, S.W., with the help of a woman friend.
"While her husband has been in Pentonville he has had five visits from Chinese officials. He told a fellow-prisoner who was released a few days ago that he intended to arrange for a consignment of, arms at present held up in Hamburg to reach China.
He hopes then to go to China himself—he was formerly a Chinese general—to take arms with the Government forces. FOR bte stages and 20 by night in sleeping berths. In all, the four aeroplanes represent a capital investment of about £750,000, making an average cost of nearly £54,000.
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