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MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
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MAIL.
LIGHT ON MONS MYSTERY
Angels Who Walked Across the Sky
3
The Indian rope trick, witnessed Mr. Giles said that the old Bri-. by thousands of people, is capable tish Bund might be widened in ac of only the aame explanation.cordance with that in the old Chi- Hardly anyone seeing the trick has nese City, where the authorities been able to resist the illusion that have started building a wide and the boy actually climbs the rope beautiful Bund which is to extend and Hisappears.
clear up to Hanyang along the Most famous of all historia Yangtse. visions are those of Joan of Arc.?
Members are notified that they for the purpose of receiving a they are convinced that British soldiers driven back from Mons on of self-hypnotism brought on by her vice, has had little time for purely
and their ladles must wear their badges prominently displayed.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclo-
Aure.
Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1929.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Badges, admitting non-members SATURDAY, 8th March, 1930 to TO LET.-No. 5, Dragon Terrace,
1st, 2nd and 3rd to the Members' Enclosure and WEDNESDAY, 19th March, 1980, Bay, Causeway Anors. Each Ant has three bed rooms, Club Rooms at $5 for Gentlemen both days inclusive.
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Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at: the Race Course.
By Order of the Board of Directors, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1980.
THE VISION EXPLAINED
Family of Scholars For the first time since the story of the Angels of Mons was which led the ignorant peasant girl The new British Consul-Generai first told, a satisfactory theory has now been put forward in explana-to become the trusted leader of a is one of a famous, family of sino- great army. The visions which she logues, his father being H. A. Giles tion of the most amazing happening of the Great War. Two scient said she saw, she did see "in her and his elder brother Lionel Giles. ists who have thoroughly investigated the whole matter stute that mind's eye." What was happening Mr. Lancelot Giles, however, giving in the girl's brain was an instance his attention to the consular ser- August 24, 1914, actually saw angels marching across the sky, but personal sufferings and by her in-literary pursuits, and his knowledge that the visions were hallucinations, examples of how the human tense emotional and religious na-of the Chinese language has been utilized in the service. He was born mind can hypnotise itself into seeing, with every appearance of Similar cases to these mentioned in Amoy fifty-two years ago, and has are put forward in support of the been in China most of his life, scientists' theory. It now remains though of course returning home for reality, things which do not exist.
for the Mons men to "check up" schooling. their experiences in the light of this detachedly scientific view of the matter.
Few incidents of the Great War gave rise to so much controversy. Out of a welter of conflicting evid- ence one or two facts stand out One is that hundreds of clearly. British soldiers belleved implicitly that at the worst moment in the terrible days of Mons they saw a vision of angels marching majestic.
that French troops are convinced that at precisely the same moment St. Michael and Joan of Arc appear- ed to them. BI-
"We All Saw It' relatives and HE
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One night a badly wounded Tommy aent for her. She went to him, and his first words were, Miss, please give me a picture of St. George. I want a picture or a medal because I have geen St. George on a white horse.”
An R.F.A. man lying near by A launch will leave Queen's
corroborated this. "It's true. Bis Statue Pier at 3 pm. for the con-ter," he said, "we all saw it." Miss venience of members and the Gen- Campbell then questioned many eral Public.
other men, and they all told the R. J. VERNALL,
Sume story. At a most critical Hon. Secretary. R.H.K.Y.C. moment of the battle St. George and a host of angels had appeared and Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1930,
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Miss Campbell's story in her own words, is as follows:-
come out of a cloud ing
WAS 蟲
of light. He
tall man with yellow hair, in golden
armour,
and was riding a white horse."
his head.
to
He was holding a sword above Then came the order advance and the German hordes were in full flight. But why they fled none could say, for the British were hopelessly out- numbered."
is happening to them.
a
ture.
"GO TO POLICE"
Advice Tendered by H.B.M. Consul
INCIDENT EXPLAINED
Mr. Giles returned to China in time to get a very striking impres sion of the country, going to. Pc- king in 1890 and being there at the time of the Boxer outbreak and the siege of the city, and taking part in the fighting. After finishing his studies as student Interpreter, the young consular official was trans- ferred to-different places throughout The country: Ho has been in Tien- tsin before, having been located here in 1908 and from 1914 to 1916.
SCHOOL STRIKE
Principal Painted with Black Ink
There are many causes of self- hypnotism. One of the great stimuli is intense mental strain;
Tientsin, Feb. 10. In a moment of another is fear.
A spirit of friendship and equity great stress a person can do incredible things and afterwards in the relations between British and remember nothing of the ex. Chinese in this country was the out- standing element in an interview perience.
given by Mr. Lancelot Giles, new There is casc of 2 man British Consut-General in Tientsin, who heard screams from
PARADE BY STUDENTS to a representative of the Star yes building and dashed
terday afternoon. Mr. Giles arrived burning
rescue of three
Kalfeng, Feb. 25. inside to the
here Saturday by steamer from trapped children. For more
An anti-Principal strike arose in Shanghai, accompanied by his wife than half an hour he worked hard and daughter, and is taking up his War Nan Middle School. Nanyang, and succeeded in extricating the
at the middle of January. Mr. Wang Mr. Gilos has been British Con- Yen, the principal, was bound with children. Then help arrived, and duties at the Consulate to-day. in the bustle the man disappeared.
Hankow until his two hands, coloured with black ink An hour later he was discovered sul-General in wandering in streets a mile away present tranfer here, and gave a on the face and dragged in a parade very interesting picture of present along the streets by the Student from the scene of the fire.
According to the statement of the hands and face were badly burned, conditions there. Discussing the re-Union. and he had not the faintest recollec- cent detention of a British officer by tion of how he received those in Chinese officials there, and his re- students Mr. Wang squeezed the asaurance school funds, neglected his personal juries. His mind must have work-lease upon the Consul's ed incredibly rapidly during the that the man would appear when re-duty, and recruited bandits with a quired, Mr. Giles said that Mayor view to obtaining a military posi- time he was effecting the rescue, Wen-tao of Hankow with whom tion. They shouted their slogans as but no memory was left.
he took up the matter, ahowed in they walked along the
in others this matter as
a most "Down with Wang Yen," and friendly and conciliatory attitude,"Expel Wang Yen." Their posters and there was no difficulty in reach-and handbills appeared everywhere Ing an understanding.
Hio
Unquestionably the emotional! stato induced by the near tragedy and the superlative necessity for instant action and concentration on the task before him produced a state of temporary hypnotism.
broadcast service.
streets,
in the Nanyang city. On January 19 Mr. Wang led a group of un- known rascals with big sticks and
Why Not Go To Police Station? In Paris recently psychologists
In general, Mr. Giles did not see long swords, suddenly entering the discovered a man who regularly any reason why persons should not school, shutting the school gate, and They had seen St. George hypnotised himself into thinking go to the police station in case of beating the students. Many of the
funny-look-that he could smell the smoke of difficulty, regardless of nationality. students were injured.
the candles, in the church service Best of all, of course, was to keep Hearing of this incident, the local whenever he listene in to the out of trouble, and try to avoid un-policemen and the soldiers scram- But accidents bled over the walls to save the pleasant incidents, There is another case of a man might happen at times, in spite of students. According to the investi- and his wife who were listening-precautions and care, and if such gation made later, 18 students were to a wireless programme when their things took place in Chinese terr! seriously wounded, and two teachers So Intense was tory it was natural that the foreign-and 4 rascals were arrested. Mr. house caught fire. their concentration on their occupa
ers involved should be asked to go Wang hid himself in the elty and tion of the moment that they were to the police station. Few police tried to escape, but was arrested by in danger of being trapped by the flames before they realised what merr understand English, and most the students and sent to jail on the foreigners do not speak Chinese same day. At present Mr. Wu Chi was happening.
fluently, so that it is best to visit is appointed by the Honan Provin- the station and avoid misunder clal Educational Ministry as the
neting Principal.-P. & T. Times. Any person who "loses himself" standing.
Most advisable, of course, was to while reading a Wallace thriller, or
Incurable Insanity as a ground Hatening to a moving play, is par-exercise proper care, whether in tially hypnotized in the same way. driving or in one's general conduct, for divorce la proposed in a Bill of to avoid difficulties. But if some which Mr. G. W. Holford Knight, Usually those moderate states self hypnotiam pass off easily: trouble arose in spite of this, there K.C. (Soc., Nottingham, S.) is to sometimes the hypnotic state 18 was no reason why one should not introduce under the 10 minutes rules deeper and lasts longer.
be willing to go to the police station in the House of Commons. There are three
distinct and do one's best to straighten oul record of people who or explain matters.
САВЕЛ
Self-Hypnotism
מס
•
while in a state of extreme de-
Hankow Is Quiet pression have imagined they were
Hankow is a very quiet city, Mr. going blind, and have actually
The wars in Central lost the power to see for a time, Giles said. regaining it by suggestion to China from time to time in the last them by someone of strong will couple of years have never entered that they were not really blind into the city itself, and the only Monotony often leads people to effect there is simply the movement fall into a hypnotic state. Workers of soldiers in and out. The currency
WEDNESDAY, the 26th March, 1930, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Gen- eral Managers, together with
Accounts for the Later Miss Campbell talked with year ended the 81st December, the six other women who had been at the same post. Similar stories 1929.
The SHARE REGISTER and had been told to all of them, and TRANSFER BOOKS will be the accumulated evidence was from CLOSED from the 12th to the the lips of scores of wounded. Some 26th March, 1930, both days in- of the soldiers said that the clusive.
angele were mediaeval bowmen who stood between the outnumbered British troops and the oncoming Germans.
An Explanation The whole matter of the angels of Mons has been probed and thrashed out by societies Interested in occult manifestations and pheno- тепа. Until the present moment, however, no satisfactory explana- tion of the strange story has been forthcoming. But Dr. G. B. Cutten, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN president of Colgate University,
that the NINETEENTH OR-U.S.A., and Dr. F. C. S. Schiller, in mass-production factories who difficulty, so acute two years ago, DINARY ANNUAL GENERAL of Oxford, by their investigations, perform the same uninteresting has been straightened out, and the Plate Bending Roll Mill, Drill- MEETING of Shareholders of the have succeeded in throwing light on
action all day long, day after only abnormal feature affecting the
not infrequently Ing Machines, Lathes, Beveiling Company will be held at the lead the mysterious happening, and their day.
become community is the intermittent tylog Machines, Screwing Machines, Office, No. 6, Des Voeux Road explanation. It seems certain, will partially hypnotised by the machine up of the railways due to fighting Empty Jars, Scrap Brass Bushes, Central, Hong Kong, on WEDNES be the accepted one.
and allow themselves to be injured along the line somewhere, or to
troop movements. Brass Turnings, Old Filter. Praas DAY, the 25th March, 1930, at Dr. Cutten who is a life-long stu- in a factory accident.
Air Line Helps Cloths, Hessian Bale Covers, Plat-2.30 p.m. for the purpose of re- dent of obscure phenomena of the
These examples are all the equi-
The Sick Child. On the other hand, however, form Scales, Scrap Iron, Broken ceiving the Report of the Direc-mind, adopted at the outset of his valent, on a less intense scale, of Empty Bottles, Calcium Chloride; tors together with a Statement of Inquiries the polut of view that the vision like that of the Angels of there is the great advantage of the
From their youngest days little The two scientists assert new air line between Hankow and Special Graphilatum Paste, Fum-Accounts for the year ending 81st soldiers, both French and British, Mona.
actually did see the angels, the bow-that the important conditions which Shanghai, with a regular dally ser- girls love to play with dolls and to fancy themselves mothers. mer Paint, Marine Grease, As- December, 1929. bestos, Agual Paint, Pabco Paint, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the men; and the saints. From his tend to produce hypnotiam were all vice, making this long jump between Sanalene White Enamel, Salaman- Company will be CLOSED from vast experience of cases of a similar present at the time of the Mons morsing and evening. Many passen. Later, when they have real chil-
the auto-manifestation.
One condition is gers are using this line for quick dren of their own, they learn that der Oil, Colza Oll, Hoist Brakes, the 10th March, 1980, to the 26th nature he evolved BB Cent. Machine Brakes. Porce March, 1980 (hoth days inclu-hypnotism theory and then proceed-, intense emotional pressure, another jumps for business or personal rea- the duties of motherhood are any-
and the air mail is very thing but play.
Letters It is to ease the cares of mother- lain Insulators, Rubber Rings, sive), during which period no ed to collect evidence which streng- is great concentration of the at- eons,
the ills of Watthour Meters, Bolts and Nuts, transfer of shares can be regis-thened the case.
To the soldiers, Dr. Catten states tention, and the third is suggestion. efficient and very quick.
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the visions were very real. The of the world had such a bodying reach Hankow in the afternoon childhood, Wood Blocks, Iron Washers, Iron
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just what to give her two scientists, is just what charac-tration was provided by the natural extra postage for air mall is fifteen Ing terises these hypnotic and self-hyp desire to watch for the advancing cents-far cheaper and more reliable notic illusions. There are so many parallel examples that it is now clear that ballucination is the only basis which the famous story
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