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We are sufficiently familiar in 6c tion with the discovery of a human form, long dead-yet still as the living are, which a: touch or the breath of
CONVICTS NEW AIRSHIP.
COMING EXPERIMENT WITH
25 FEET MODEL.
Count Loudon, alias Max Lynar. Sing Sing's titled inventor, has com pleted the ocean-going airship be invented and has been working upon for a year, and is now planning to launch.lt in prison.
Loudon made the craft in his spare time after doing his prisen work, says the Central News New York correspondent. He has built a model of a dirigible, which He expects wil be able to transport 1,000 passengers overseas, and has patented it.
The model, which he built in the prison metal shop, of which Keeper | John Van Wyck is toreman, is about 25ft. long and about 9ft. in diameter. It is cylindrical in shape.
ROMAN WALL IN SCOTLAND.
"THE NORTH-WEST CORNER.
OF AN EMPIRE.”
THE CHINA MAIL.
The Roman Wall in Scotland was the subject of a lecure by Dr. George Macdonald at Bedford College the ther day. He said that the wall, the building of which was regarded as an operation of the first magnitude,
WORLD LEAGUE.
LONDON CELEBRATION,
southern stand, where the internation 4) STOUP was to hold its meeting. This was the display of Lithuania, the latest country to join the League. From a propaganda point of view it put all the other processions into the shade. The others had carried admirable "Hate breeds hate, therefore let mortues of general application, such "Where there is no vision
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The grass in Hyde Park was burnt brown with the drought, and though a coel wind occasionally stirred the foliage of the trees, the sun beat down with sweltering beat. It was essentialus love,TM ly a day for seeking shade, not for the people perish," "The League of to speeches or marching alone miles nought cost £9,000,000." Bat Lithu. standing out in the full giare listening Nations cost £1,000,000; a Dread- its nationhood. The girl walked in of streets carrying heavy banners ania was there to be explicit about Nations' birthday and because men national costume, the banners went Lithuania pics her faith to the Yet because this was the League of
and from every grade of society
It was a very wished to demonstrate their belief injustice of her cause," "Democratic thousands marched in procession to Britain." and so on. the League's great mission, many Lithuania" appealed to "democratic Hyde Park, and thousands more practical demonstration of the work came to listen sympathetically to the which the Leauge of Nations has to speeches delivered from seven plat do. forms.
was an evidence of civilisation, and and women from ali parts of London straight to the Lithuanian point:[
of the defensive process by which ibat civilisation was possible. For three centuries it kept the Cale- donians, the Picts, and the Sects at bay.
new air crumbles Instantly to dust. French research has now provided us with one more of the comparatively few real examples of this startling phenomeror. In Auvergne, in the neighbourhood of Clermont-Ferrand, w's discovered a place of sepul bodies with the ture Alled
lived when who ot those France was а province of the Roman Empire. Women, an old man. and a child lay there, and we are assured that their flesh was, when their stone coffins were broken by the irreverent modern pickaxe,
asper death." But perfect in remained only a few moments more. Then, under the eyes of the discoverers, it
"I'm expecting to get the gas to crumbled to dust and nothing was left of the dead but robed skeletons. I start it up," said Count Loudor, "in The explanation of the preservation a few days." The prison warden road. is that the coffins had been filled by will not permit the Count himself or
Where it excels other dirigibles, is in the horizontal airshaft through the This enables the centre of the bag. wind to pass through the centre of the resistance of the wind against the dirigible. The model will take aloft about 300 lbs.
The wall was only half the length of Hadrian's wall between the Type and the Solway, and oulike Hadrian's wall it had not been the subject of
Led by Mrs. Fawcett, who walked from the Embankment, the women's
The Chairman at one platform, where the speaker had been silenced
while the Lithuanian band blared
·fect as it had been on the day of their the bag, and therelor greatly lessens quarrels among antiquarians which special procession was first on the Dast, told the story of how represent- ›
scene
On
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JUTLAND BATTLE PICTURES.
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white is a bad photographic color and the background and both sets ships had to be painted in careful TI graduated shades of grey. models used are in three sizes--dis medium shots, and lin. for th "long shots." Each ship has to b moved separately, as no apptratu
the emanations of gas from neigh any other inmate to experiment Inpacking of small stones, but whereas Church Militant were among the spake "Where is Georgia?" A good | MAKE THE FIGHT INTELLIGIBLE for the "close-ups," Zin. for th
boaring mineral springs. The neigh bourhood of Clermont-Ferrand, and, indeed, all Auvergne, abounds in saline and gaseous waters. As there was more than one Roman "etablisse ment de bains" within a few miles
the launching fer fear the pilot might te carried away or forget to return to serve the rest of his sentence.
The National Union of So-atives of Poland and Lithuania had stated their case before the Council their decorative banners presenting Paderewsk) had embraced the Lith- had lasted beyond the grave, The cleries for Equal Citizenship brought of the Leagor, and how at the end famous women. A young Joan of uanian advocate, exclaiming "Now date 142 A.D., could be assigned to
caparisoned 2
we are friends." One heard people in Where is Llibe the crowd saying its erection. The wall consisted of Arc rode by
The National Federation horse. The base of the rampart of Girls' Clube, the Temperance ania?" just as others were asking SYSTEMATIC a rampart, a ditch, and a military
Women, and the League of the later when the Georgian delegate was formed of two curbs with a for the western half of the length organisations joining in, but the wo- deal of geography was probably the upper portion was made of turf men's institutes which are deeply learned in Hyde Park. -the lines of decayed heather interested in the League marched and grass could be seen in sec with the procession of the League o tions to this day-the eastern half Nations Union. For some time after considerable that bands played processions across was composed to extent of wrought clay. Possibly the grass from many different parts
unions. ex-service the ground over which the eastern of London, bringing the banners of half ran was wooded, and turf was trade difficult to get.
a
men's
BY THE CINEMA.
Few of those who read that an could be devised which would mov attempt is to be made, by means of as many as 70 or 80 ships in differen The C.P.O.S., RM.& "Monteago" the screen, to explain to this and directions in and out and at varying
There are 16 pictures to each/ at Shanghai on ox. 28 (8 p.m.).
any conception of the vast undertak arrived at Keelung on Aug. 95 (am future generations the various phases, speeds. A model ship can only be The Y. Yas Sedo Man" leiting to which Sir George Aston and foot of film, and to show the left there on Aug. 33 (non), and is due of the Battle of Jutland, can have moved 1-16 of an inch for each picture.
The lecturer described in detail the societies. and religious and social Kober this port via Wnji and Shang- his belpers have set their hands.
organisations.
THE 48 COUNTRIES. Meantime specially invited guests,
bai on Ang, 1 sad is expected bere on Sept. 1, and will rail for Europe vi Sincapire on Sept. 2.
The F. Fasteriied from sydney on tuz. 10 and is dine e arrive at this port on Sept with the Australian Mail.
British men and wom-n prominent in national and international affairs, and distinguished people from other nations, were assembling in the re
The C.POS. RMS "Empress of ception marquee, which stood near Jap-n left accouver for Hongkong the trees by Park Lane. By three vis Janan ports a dShanghai Anz. Empress of 0 The CFO.S., RMS. One torty-eight countries belonging
League
been Asis" left Vancouver for Hongkong, vis must Lave
Shanghai and Manila on Japan port o'clock representatives of all the 13, td is das here on or about Sept. 4.
formation of the Grand Fleet on Even before work can begin on the its way across the North Sea ook film itself weeks have to be speat in 90ft. of Bim and necessitated 80,000 making tests, says the Times. Minute separate movements. To show the the ships have to manoeuvre. It was fascinating experience to follow out calculations have been necessary to journey of the German Fleet 60,000 decide the size of the board on which movements were necessary. It is a soon proved that any idea of working Sir George Aston's plans. He has with the result that in many cases in distances covered. strictly to proportion and scale was succeeded in working out the course impracticable owing to the great of both Fleets throughout the action, checking the positions of two vessels at a given time and comparing them mander's log they have been found with the ranges in the gunnery cum-
which is now Clermont-Ferrand. On the new foundation, and, indeed, on all the Gauls, Augustus and his successors showered their favours. This policy accounts among many
for the method of tracing the course of the more important things evidences of prosperity and high wall, and told how in his own case civilisation found in the tombs just he had made use of a cracked farm opened. These ladies of the first or building and a line in the crop where of the corn grew ripest, to discover north-west- correr of the second century had clothes admirable workmanship, fine crockery the ware, and many articles of the Roman Empire." At the ends of toilet. One of them, we are told, the completed sections of the wall were carved and inscribed stabs, "wore an artificial plait." It is not
To take in a rectangle 30h. by 20ft surprising. Those who suppose that which were believed to have been
a special scaffolding would have to be "transformations," or devices for imbrilliantly if crudely coloured. proving the figure, or the art of of the finest specimens was discover the
The . . . "Benten Maro | models would appear so small as to to vary only by a few yards. Br making up, are inventions of modern ed at Briggeness in 1868. It depict-gathered in that enclosure. The pro- Aug. 18, and is dus here on or about rected for the camera, and the
are sadly ignoranted at one end the slaughter of tour cessions ranged themselves in column Sept. 8.
hope that the public will be able for decadence
history and archaeology Caledonians by a Roman soldier, opposite the tent facing the flag-
sacrince of draped stand, from which the Arch-(Calettta Time) left Cxientte for this be scarcely discernible on the screen. of the of the eternal feminine. To the and ar the other a
These stones not only bishop of Canterbury delivered the port six Rangoon and Singapore on Tests were made, and it was decided means of the screen the producers
The N. Y. X. Leo Mare" left London der to get as large an area as poss of each individual ship. archaeologist, indeed, these ladies of animals.
mere crea- marked the distances along the Wall, opening address. He was followed Aug 17 and is expected here on Sept. 5. to use a board 8it, aquare, and, in of the first time to fellow the movements
the crowd drifted away to the various bere on Sept. 15. Roman Auvergne are
platforms which were set at intervals expects ful war.
in a long line.
the dead may have used in life the very springs which preserved their corpses. The precise date of their existence we are not told, though as many possessions were buried with them the archeologists will have no dificulty in coming teaconclusion. But they are given an antiquity of 1,800 years, which is certainly a long ex istence for bodies unembalmed. They belong, that is, to the second century of our era, when the Gauls were thoroughly Romanised, when Cæsar's conquest was already ancient history. But the people of Auvergne are believ. ed to preserve to this day, in greater purity than most of the population of France, the physical type of the Gauls, whom Casar found in posses sion. We shall doubtless be informed how closely these witnesses from the tomb resemble the modern Auverg- nats. It was the Arverni, their his hardest fighting Vercingetorix, of fashions more than twice as old the national champion, the William Wallace of the Gauls, was their chief,! and before their capital Gergovia he thoroughly defeated Cæsar. very
regrettable in- To obliterate this cident, Augustus removed the in- habitants to a new town hard by which he called Nemetum, and
ancestors, who gave Cesar some of ❘ tures of yesterday. He will tell you but they were monumenis of success. 1 by Lord Robert Cecil, and after that for this port ris Sues on Aug. 6 and is ble in the field of the lers, the camera
which in their treatment of the form anticipated modern female Paris; he has found that the dentists thousands of years ago were filling teeth with gold, and under his tuition we may learn to doubt whether there ever has been a woman so new that her ways were not old.
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Then came an interruption, more beating of drums, and a procession distinguished by several enormous banners came into view and enjoyed at ernmost platform and back to the serpentine march down to the north
was set above it at an oblique magle. Gearing was attached to the camera ground. The painting of the board so that it could be turned from the was another difficulty. Sir George Aston insisted that the be black, as not look unnatural.
The Dodsll-Castle Live 1.5. "Bows Castle" which sailed from this port on May 19 via Snez Canal for Sew For arrived at that pot on August 13. Local agents, Messrs. Dodwell & Co. Ltd
The P. & 0. s. "Bardinia," left to arrive at Hongkong about Sept. 17. London on Aca. 19 and may be expected must
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Cable communication with Che fon is again interrupted. Chinese ships landlines are also interrupted. Traffic they for North China will be forward- Distinct led to Chefoo by post from Shanghai.
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