Chamberlain and Mrs. Chamberlain left London yesterday afternoon for 3 short holiday in Yorkshire, where they will be the guests of Lótd and cly Swinton. Mr. Chamberlain will return to London early in the New Year prior to his departure, on January 10, for Rome.—Wircless Through Reuter.
Jerus lem, Dec. 30.
66[{OR many moments I thought my last moi ent had come,"
Mr. Louis Lebouvier, the British manager of the Ottoman Bank, here, who was kidnapped on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, on Monday, told Reuter yesterday y, on his safe return to Jerusalem.
Mr. Lebouvier revealed that a sum of money had been paid as ransom, previous to his release.
On reaching Jerusalem, the bank manager was sitting beside the driver of a police car, talking "nimatedly He had no hat, but appeared to be well.
The kidnapped man described his experiences as a hostage. for three days and nights, in the barren hills, known in the scriptures as the "wilderness of Chr rist's: temptation." He said that, when his car was rounding a bend on the road on Monday, he was suddenly confronted by ten men with levelled rifles.
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