On the fourth day of the 11th moon of last. year, a Cantonese Jamah called at Mr.' Wu's office and raid that her Mater wanted to con sult him and requested him to call Jat 51 Carter road. All unsuspecting: where was his familiar on this oceasion?—Mr, Wa went to doubt anticipating fan interesting consultation and fee. Me found himself inthe wands of kidnappers who kept hin up until midnight when he removed ina moter ear toa, house on Haig road and was told that his ransom would cost him several tens of thousands of tale, But Wa is not a wizard for nothing, The binds of the air whispered 0 thing about his mister astute police were do the scene of hig me m. They revewed hint from his captors, seized the kidnappers and bore them off to prison, Taken before the Provisional Court the prisoners found that the Judge was not prepared to take ent view of thelt er captured a law-abiding citizen while going about hie Invful o¢eu ations and were dangerotis ale, Three of the principals were sentenced to death and the sentence was duly confirmed, On the second of March they were escorted once more to the court to make thelt depositions where the warrant for their execution was issued and they were sent in the prison van to thy Chinese court, outside the Settle. ment, where they were allowed make a final request as to the dis Position of whatever effects they died possessing. native of Wanhsien and Tam being wrongfully. condemned to dic." The presiding Judge rep! am entrusted with the duty of carrying out the sen tence "pronounced upon you and have no power to hear your plendings. You may leave any message for your relations that you care make and it will be transmitted them. Beyond this anything you may say can be of no avail The Three Messages The prisoner sighed deeply and said, "Ba, Ba, (Oh, well) send a letter to my father in Wanhsien ai say that in dying for my crimes 1 iy|feel that Tam giving but a poor the Ponsanbve ta the Besa Work aod W aN these ocr sual pac. ye, and polished, has of the rigidity of soldier. his. top!
acts the Victorian Court life in which he lived his youth. Wit ile you might all hima woks back, T fan with vaults. These are dug ar wells, walled up with brick, and then built above ground for about eight feet. All are hollow and empty but fairly well preserved. Similar structures were made in Egypt and Palestine of Britons, and each year it settles more arguments than any other en= eyclopzdia. The edition of 1929 has just been received, "and. one only. can say that it is! "Ruts" in the form to which one is accustomed, and which is all-suffeient. return for my parents' care of mo while Twas young. T have. two friends one named Kai-tai and one Kien-hsiang, who will help them their old age. As for my wife, aho still young. "I do not wish that she should live as a widow but
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