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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 15 April 1908, Page 2

Nourri Bey, the Secretary-General <ißfug£Lters, whoa few years s»o disfndl^T^ SS Em-opeaxtladSs, and with the help of borrowed passpoits, succeeded in escaping from Constantinople and making their way to TiT ISnfv ±hey are generally 'considered, me limes says, to be the originals of the heroines of Pierre Loti's wellknown novel Les Desenchantees.

An- ingenious police ruse was described at Chatham (Eng.) the other day, when Edward Stafford, formerly a local coal merchant, was remanded on a charge of obtaining credit for £600 while an undischarged bankrupt. Stafford left the country during the bankruptcy proceedings, and on his return a constable, in the guise of a commercial traveller, with sample bag and visiting cards, obtained an interview with him, and he was arrested.