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year.
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6,656 officers and 133,027 of other ranks.--British Wireless Service.
was Was
STRANGE RITES
PROFESSOR TELLS OF "BELLA COOLA"
NATIVE SECRET SOCIETY
The above refers to the following ranged for its continuance after his Router telegram, dated Peshawar, death-Reuter. October 22:
EARL HAIG
The return to Afghanistan of King Amanullah with newly ac- quired ideas of culture, and a de- SIR A. CONAN DOYLE'S CLAIM sire to effect the Westernisation of his people with a minimum waste of time, has given rise to serious disaffection.
OF SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPH
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The Amir Abdur Rahman, for- mer Chief of Qazi at Kabul and
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, at a of the International tree other mullahs were recently meeting exocuted for sedition, their crimes Spiritualists' Congress at being
agitation against King Queen's Hall; stated that recently Amanullah's plans for reform.`
the
The executions have been the he had been in conversation with subject of lively discussion on the the late Field-Marshal Earl Haig Strange rites carried out by a frontier and many of the tribes and the late Joseph Conrad. Sir native secret society named Bella are one the verge of revolt. Seri Arthur showed on a screen on the Coola in British Columbia, were de-ous trouble has already broken out platform a number of spirit photo- scribed by Professor T. F. In several places, though it is im- graphs. McIlwraith, of Toronto, the only possible at present to obtain full white man admitted to the society, at the British Association meetings In Glasgow. He said:
"You know that Lord Haig was a details of the outbreaks.
spiritualist," he told the audiences. It is learned to-day that Afghan "Within two days of his death, or cavalry, assisted by artillery, left it might have been three, he sent Gardez on
October 10, to carry me a long message which had every
A supernatuural power le felt by out a punitive expedition against sign of being evidential and truth- a rovolting Ghilzai village in the ful. It was a message that would the members of the society, and vicinity of Altimur Pass on the only appeal to his relatives. I sent this sometimes makes them do exKabul-Gardez Road. The expedi-it to them, but have as yet had no |traordinary things. In my own case tion
the power that entered me Impelled their mission, the villagers being
successfully accomplished reply." me to become mad and rush around reduced to submission.
Sir Arthur then showed a picture which, he said, had been taken by a
the village furlously biting my Although facts are difficult to Press photographer, of the funeral obtain, the action seems to comfirm cortege of Lord Haig, and said that
associates.
..
It is a power that I do not exer-the stories that trouble is brewing above the coffin there was plainly cise very frequently, but my asso- i Afghanistan owing to the to be scen a face that was that of jclates in former days used this King's efforts to enforce Westerni. the Field-Marshal himself.
power with great vigour so that sation too speedily.
most of the older, men can proudly produce scars on their arms and
legs made by the bites.
In others the power makes them throw stones at everything or scratch themselves or other, people Or they muy have the power to be “killed" by having their stomachs cut open remarkably dramatie ritual. This was done by placing!
a copper plate with an imitation
skin against the stomach and a knife
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He also showed the audience a spirit photograph of Conrad. “After this had been taken," he said, "I was at a seance when I received a messago from Conrad asking me to do something for him. It was as though Conrad's spirit had been uneasy, and was wanting to up with life again.”
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Sir Arthur afterwards showed
Washington, Yesterday. what he claimed to be a unique col-
The Department of Justice states lection of psychic pictures. "I am he said,
was plunged into it so that the man that nearly 60,000 persons were breaking new ground," could apparently fall dead, and later prosecuted under the prohibition "and shall stray away a little from be revived, to the amazement of the law in the year which ended on some of the ordinary psychical June 30. Convictions were ob-photography. Eight years have uniniated.
tained in eighty per cent. of the passed since the public were first Weird songs were sung about
cases and fines amounting to over shown fairy photographs, and visions of members. Strange faces 37,000,000 Imposed, the highest total nothing has occurred pince to shake were made to appear in the dim since the law was passed. twilight when uninitiated members As regards smuggling of liquor Proceeding to show some delight- were invited to the house of one of into the United States, the coast-ful pictures of fairies and gnomes, But the faces were really guards soized 22 foreign and nearly some of them taken, he said, by painted wooden masks, and songs 400 domestic craft-Reuter's girls in their teens, he explained that were made to come from above American Seervice. were really whistles blown by in- itlated members.
the scers.
The supernatural power of a man! might sometimes make others fall
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also examined, and the circum- stances in which they are taken are investigated. One picture showed elves dancing, while another was of a fairy having a bath in the sun- shine in a sort of cocoon.
"The children, who see these
A two year-old boy, polsoned through eating bad fish, died at 8 p.m. yesterday after being removed to the Kwang Wah Hospital from fairies," Sir Arthur said, "talk of New York. Mr. William C. No. 119, Keelung-street yesterday their colour, and say they have a Durant, the famous "bull" operator morning. The boy's mother and a lovely iridescence. The fairies are
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MANCHURIA'S STATUS
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ed sharply, one of Mr. Durant's the Water Police Station, was fined brokers estimated that the million $100 or six weeks hard labour, in aire has spent £6,000 on telephone default, by Mr. W. Schofield at the According to the "Kuo "Min" fees during the week. One. Berlin Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, news agency's Peking correspon- call for an hour and a quarter coet The constable was charged with dent, Chiang Kai-shek's representa- £400.
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