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ln The Great Dcsys 0f LiverpoozlSeuaport Ihýe seciport of the Victorias Age. ft is true that London was a à1gger port, but it wvas m ore than > seaport. The ships which set4gt Lon-don puished their %low way up thýe deviouis cou rse Df the Thames unrtil they, reach.. ed the narrow anchorage (, below London Bridge, but the craft which were mnoored there h-ad long left the sea behind. London as a port was in f act miergedl in London as a ca-,pital. Then there was Bristol, which had been Liverpool's great rival in the eighteenith century, but whieh she had vanquisbed by the timre that the Queen camne to the throne. In aýn y case Bristol 1Iay, tes) miles uip a narrow and tortuous stream, and was the chie! town of a ricb vaîlley of the West, itsposition in a fruit- fui giulua district gave it a cistinictlyv inland atmnospherei in spite of its old asid honourrable connection witb the sea. Its iu- terestis, too, wvere niumerous, and by the end of the Victorian Age Ils manufactures were mnore i- portant than its commerce. Fromi the beginning of its bis- tory Liverpool, by reasos of its geographical situation, hiad been singtlarly isolated fromn the rest of Lancaster. It had been content with its maritime highwýay, aud It had sot troubled t0 cone into eloser touich with the iland portions cf the kinl-dom. Just *m the Frenc~h Canadian habitant, dwelling in the white villages 'which nestie under the solitary eÀnd impassable hulis which "bor- 412r the St Lawrence, Ioioks on that river sot as an immense barrier, but cnly as a connect- jig-1nk wt the world beyond 1h. s;eas, 50 lthe Liverpudlian has tor tbe last two centurle-s re- Èarded the Mersey. To lm th@ rea unites rather than cllv-,ides, ndespecially was this the case tn h. early years of the. ine- $eenth century, when hie looked )n the river as bis outiet, rather Bxn the mltry tracks whlch lerd frmLiverpool across the ble-,ak- 4É el countrysides to ther cen- tres of population. A. fow tatisties will prove the jsolallon of 1he city in the per- $od immediately preceding the 'Vctorias Age. In 1753 the onîy means of communication with London was by stage-wagons, of which the quickest took ten days on the journey. il was sot until 1760 Ihat the first stage-coaich to London made its appearance; ;t covered the distance in forty- r-ight hours, and was called, "The London and Liverpool FIying Machine." In that samne year the 3:oad to Warrington was made practîcable for carnages, buit even fifteen years later one post- mnas met the requirements of the whole city. In 1784 mail-coaches wene started, but at first they earied onlý four passengens i addition to the guard anmdlte ,coacbmas, each of wo a anmed with a blunderbuss. Goods weno conveyed by, sea for the inost part to the others ports of! the kngdomi.-Fi-rm "The Vic- tonJais," by Sir Charles Petnie. Mcister Thîef Bears A Charmed Life Sitting in bis modest office -in Singapore, -ho looks like amy otiter modern Oriental business- man. But ose belephono cal fJrosi hlm can *et in motion a crime operation so fantastie il maltes te Mafia sind most big crime syudicates- look like cbildneni who steal apples. We wvill cal himn Mr. Lee. An ol-dilling rig anmd machin- ery valued a.t more titan $300,- 000 vSfished mbibm hr.air whll% waitlug ou a dock lu. Marseille& 10 b h pped tb New Guisea. Mn. Lee knows whene il went. Ose -igt Kln)g Nonodori Si- hanouk o! Camibodia noticed that bîis brig whtite elephaut was miss- ing fro-i te palace yard. Buit a few weeks lator, some 1,200 miles away, a whý-Iite oie- pitant tit4. looked like an idesi- tical týwin o!f'te lbt bull was pnesented by lterno m asr)ti Pnince Titayali of Burma b bhis 5aeventeen-yoar-.-oid rnîstress. Alitouigitteelepitant was well perfumied asd deconated as a bithday gifI for lte affection- ste damsel, Ihene again appeared lte fine baud o!fte super tiie. Fieadquaters of W'Lee, wbich wo saal caîl Mn. Lee's gang, are situiated over a bar sean lte Singapore wal-,,erf rosI. The bar itseîf is owned, of Counse, by Mn. Lee.. If ho looks fat aud slow, don't gamble ou il, for ho cas mnovt ýquickçIy on his foot and la oven faston wilt a knif e or gun. Mn. Lee, now forty-sin.e, began bis career in is native Sari Francisco witene, as a boy, hie specialized in oulwilting otiter Chinese and U.S.A. officiais. But ho tined of thte srnall pick- ings, and decided -Io bave for Hiong Kosg. When hoe got ashoûre iMn, Le. made bis way 10 a bar wbene be met witb Lin :Yusg, leader of a small gang of'tleves viho oper- ated os the India Dock anmd 'lh, Abendeen piers. Mn. Lee was In- vited 10 join the gang wbich then jiumbened osly five mies. He sooni began 10 dtect a lack of skill and imagination'on th, part of Yung, The gang had been steahing anytiting it could find: rope, chains, drums of fuel, andl othler si stores wbich thoy sold Pta low prices. Mr. Lee dec.,ei that more could be close wihh more profit, ,so be waited bl is chance. Il came on a dark iitt witile lte gang wvas loadcing fuel cana mbibt ein sampan at India Dock. "Why do we bother witb Ibis snmail stuf f when theno are mrore valuable goods father down aud onlvr ose drunken wtba? Mr. Lee asked. The others gasped lun Surprise at anlyone chialleniging tbe judg- ment cf Ibeir quick-temrpered leader. "Shut up and get bacuk teý wvork," snapped YungÏ. "But you'ro m-issing -somiething bigge-" 'Mr. Lee tarfted 10 say, then ho saw- the knif e in Yuing's haiji. Theolotibers cowerdil fear ai-d watcited. Mn. Lee drew bimiself down into a croucb and suddien- ly shol cwr like a prize wrestlen. Fils hoad butted Yung's atomavh -wlth such force titat tte sbnocked mnas was upended out of the samupan aud îmb the wTater. Grahbing up a iteavy grease cýas, Mn. Lee waitod for Yung's head ta bob up, ltes heaved lte oas frosi the sampan. it cracked open the flouindering mn-an'1s kull. From then on, Mn. Lee was' leader. Socsoniewas on bis way tb becoming No. 1 thief aud fence o fifong FKong. Amnerican' medical supplies were sold lu Pekinig, Chilsese pongee clotit in New York City, Spanish gunpowder in Tnkyo, Russian furs in Buenos Aires. While most People regardced lmn as a prosper.ous exporter, thenre were three whio n ne Mn. Lee -with cossiderable envyv. Titey'ý were hutzi leatders kniown, as Lou Wang, Foo Siklýo and Chu Tai, and oue dark nigýht titene came lte sbojwdown. Mn. Loe, along witb gang membens Lee Ong, . Mok Wong sud four othens, poled aPama alongside lte darkened P. & RO docks to raid a siipktad of badl- 'bearings aud,1 dental supplies fromi a Swedish vessel. Corning on dock w th a case of, dental drilla, Mn. Lee found himnself surnounded by a dozen) Chines. beaning knives. Leading theuit was Foo Shiko, itead of ose of the othen gangs, who at once ordered bis mes 10 close in on Mn, Lee.. Taking careful aimn, Mn. Lee - hunled bis case of dvi]lis srnack thelb open boas of Foo Shiko, a surprise nmove that balted Fço long esough for Mr. Lee to draw a pistol and shoot him between the eyes. in the eusuisg encounten,' Mok W4longc and three of Mn. Lee' s men were stabbed to deatb, aud Lee Ong's arm was slashed. Mr, Lee was able te, shoot two mnore and Lee Ong got three, writes Victor I. Wagner lu "Tit-Bit.sY A ,wcek later, lu what ap- pearod to be a gesture of pea-e, Mr. Lee invited Lou Wang Esimd Chu Tai as bis dinner guests aboard a luxurious floatimig rest- aurant. But before they arrived be vis- ited a "witch wcman" in~ Cal Ai- ley wTho provided him witk two iny rounid pelleta ktiown as ajaýs. An aija is a siender bit of bamnboo sharpened to needie' point at both ends and colled up in a smrall ball. Wben placed in a bowl of soup il appears t0 be aà mushroomn, but wheni swallow- ied it soon uncoils and pionces the stomacit wall, causing painful deatb. Mn. Lee was the perfect, anm- iable hosl at the dinner. Ie al- ready býad bribed a waiter bo pre- pane the plates for bis guests5. Suddenily Lou Wang clutched at bis stomach and collapsed. A Imoment later Chu Tai did lte samne, and both mes died ýwbile boing nusited to hospital by am- It was assumned the mes died fromi food poîsoning, te result of som-iethiing caten, earlier. But other itutzi leaders knew lte trutit, ïand fnomn then on made noý attenipt 10 usseat Mn. Lee. Witen Wold Wan Il broke out, Mn. Lee transfenred bis op- erations to Switzenlasd. Hee was as active as eVer. A trainload o! butter and cheese istesded for Berlin van- ilshed after leaving Copenbagexn end turnied up in Madrid. Car- goes of Amieican nmenchandise vanisbed frosi London docks and appeared later as fan away as Ta- Eves a sbipment o! perf urns and dresses being kept by Ger- masq Army officens for ,vives and ginîfrienyds back homne disappoar-. ed in occupiod Paris anmd showed Up in Caracas. Soon aften the war thero waxs tlhe Case o f te twenty-f lve pianos. The former police chlief of a part o! Indo-China was oporating a chais of luxunlous brothels. AIl wvere lavishly furnisited, buti twenty-five lacked pianos. Mr. Lee was contactedi at Tangiens , and soon ite located pianos in a U.S. Anmy warehouse at Wies- baden, Germnany. Titoy wene in poor shape, but tbey w.ere Ar-ie rican pianos. Wý'Leeý agents, dressedi in GI. unifori, backed a truck up to the depot and flashedl a forged odrto the g-uard. T),iste loadei i the pijanos, 1"T ieyx ,are tobcberemi-oved for n'e(on di ti o ning,." said the O.."said the guard. "Right n0w theyv sure sound like, old brothel pianos" They' vw-re cduly édelivered to the ex-police chiief's establisit- mlents. As Europe seltled to a more -orderly existence Mn. Lee movo<d bis beadcqul-er.s to Singapore. EVery day- audacious nobberies around the wold bear bis mrark. Fie is treated with gýreat res- pect iii Singapore, for bis veng- eance bas becomne legendatry'v. No on.e will admit 10 knowing him witen lte police mnale inquinies. Urntil somneone bas lte courage to give evidlence, Mn. Lee wilCon,- tinue to lead bis charmed ie Howv Con 1.0 Rv Roberta Le" Q. 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ISSUE 25 - 19621 STRAPS WEIGHTS - Chicog*o Cubs slugger Ernie Bconks, ex- perimenting with th-e idea thot w,,eigh)ts wiII strengîhen hi15 wrists, sIrops îhem on prior to workr ,ut. C;LASSIFIED ABVERTUSINO