OVERSEAS ITEMS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 21, 20 August 1928, Page 5

OVERSEAS ITEMS

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF. Mrs. Erma Naier Lyon received an annulment in the Superior Court at' San Francisco fb-day of her marriage to Captain Harry Lyon. The latter, who is in Boston, denies he. was the husband of the San Francisco woman, while his mother and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lyon, declared at Paris' Hill, Maine, that Erma Naier had never been Bis wife. The attorney for Erma testified that Captain Lyon admitted here six weeks ago that his first wife was living, and 1 that there had never been a divorce. XXX Fleeing after looting a mail car of £2OOO three train robbers at Parry Soundl, routed a goodnatured farmer out of bed to help them when their stolen automobile ran into a ditch. They then shot him dead for his pains.' When pursuers overtook them one robber was captured with his pockets filled with stolen property. 'The others escaped. XXX The Southern; Cross was unable to leave Perth because it hogged at Manlands where it landed on arrival from Melbourne. It will probably bo three days before it is able to move and the weather outlook is still unpromising. Even the Airway’s mail plane could net rise with passengers aboard. They had to travel by railway to Geraldton. XXX Further startling evidence of the desecration of the tombs of the Mancha royal families outside Peking bas been obtained by the discovery of 36 boxes of jewels and precious stones aboard a foreign steamer at Tientsin ready for‘shipment abroad. The value is 1,000,000 dollars. A Nationalist military official has been arrested Th,c jewels proved to have been looted from the Manchu mausoleum. K message from Port au Haiti, states! that 15 estimated that 200 are dead, 10,000 people are homeless, maty out, and inealculaHe damase caused . prom as the result of a tiopica storm Inst Friday. The storm was the worst experienced for 40 years. Z t<> ": ir ° ications and puMio services ..PP'mate a million dollars. i