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Show FIFTY MURDERED EGYPTIAN DEATHRING Many Girl Tourists Fall Victims Vic-tims of Alexandria Assassins (jr. E. v Stall Special) ALEXANDRIA. Egypt. Jan 8. Twentl-one persons . including six women, are under arrest here In con-wlth con-wlth ihe worst murder orgy Egypt has had in a cenlurv. Thirty bodies and many barrels of human skeletons hava I n exhumed ex-humed by police under buildtnga in in. Lebban district. As the murder Hal jrrows dal.lv. tbe total passing 50. Most of the vietimes were young women. Detectives believe that man were tourists trapp.-d during slumming slum-ming trips: others slain after hasheesh has-heesh smoking parties. MAX! w nl s PARI N I B Police headquarters la crowded with distracted parents who fear thui ih (USCOTery 0 UU ix-nnan mtirrit rs will clear up Ihc dh-apperan. e of the .-cores of Alexandria girls during rei I hi years, e a ,w:thany Police are searching for a woman known us "Fall ma. tho One-Byed Serpent Ser-pent Agent " It Is allotted that she' holds key-information 0 the murder orgies. The original theory was that the. victims were murdered for their Jewelry. This teory has been virtually abandoned since goldsmiths at pre-llmlnarv pre-llmlnarv hearing testified that the acused persons were accustomed to purchase Instead of Sell Jewelry, Cairo police Inspectors have been called In to aslst the Alexandria authorities, au-thorities, who bellve that the murders so far discovered are only the beginning be-ginning or the i.nearthlng of a murdi r (and with headquarters in Ab.x 1 ii.lr:a and a net ul over Egypt. ROMAN BATTLE STANDARD SOLD AT LONDON AUCTION LONDON. Jan. 8. Great Britain's) most ancient military trophies, a Ro-j man battle standard and a Roman; general's folding camp chair, have Just ; been sold for -00 pounds at a London auction room. The antiquities were dug up in Essex a century ago. Experts believe that tho battle standard and the camp chair were I captured or lost In the disaster that overtook the Roman Ninth legion in 1 A D. 61. when Boadlcea. Qufljan Of the Icenl. cut the legion to pieces as It advanced to relieve Colchester. Boa-dlcca's Boa-dlcca's Britons, having burned Roman Colchester, turned upon the Ninth legion, le-gion, surprised and destroyed it. The cavalry alone got away, and it is believed be-lieved that the relics were abandoned ! on the field. The standard and the chair are In I perfect preservation. The former Is a slight and elegant thing In bronze, topped by four laurel wreaths of dl-' minlshlng size Below is .1 medallion,, bearing on one side a portrait of Nero, and on the other an Inlaid design , showing the emperor in a triumphal . car holding a palm branch and a w reath. The chair Is beautifully work-f ed In iron overlaid In silver, folding like a modern camp stool. 00 |