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Huckleberry Finn
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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1932.
SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN DUBLIN DAIL
MEMBER'S AMAZING BOAST
TRIED TO KILL LORD FRENCH TO SEVER ENGLISH CONNECTION.
Dublin, Yesterday. Amazing scenes marked the sessions of the Free State Dail yesterday when references were made to incidents that occurred in Ireland during "The Trouble.”
Mr. Dan Breen, a member of the Fianna Fail party jumped to his feet and cried dramatically: “During that trouble I went out to kill, if possible, Lord French in order to break the connection with
CAPTURED BY TRIBESMEN.
Pilots in Iraq.
Rugby, Yesterday.
News was received by the Air Ministry to-day that while engaged on reconnais- sance duties with the Iraq Army in Northern Kurdistan a Royal Air Force machine was forced to land amongst hostile tribesmen." "Flying- Officer Wells, the pilot, and leading aircraftsman Evans, were taken prisoner, but it has been ascertained that they are alive and well, £ British Wireless Service.
England. I would do the same thing to-morrow if FREE STATE AND THE the occasion arose."-Reuter.
[The late Lord French. for-in-Chief of the British forces in mer Governor of Ireland during France during the early part of "The Trouble," was Commander- the war.]
COMMUNISTS IN MANCHURIA.
Bandits Also
Active,
JAPAN'S DIFFICULTIES.
CHALLENGE TO WITCHCRAFT.
Missionaries' £10 Bet.
·BETTER CONTROVERSY.
An acute controversy has arisen among missionary authorities in England over a witch-craft chal-
Harbin, Yesterday. Communists and Russians
are blamed by the Manchukuo author Ities for the recent terrorist plots lenge issued to native sorcerers on and bombings but dispatches from the Gold Coast, West Africa, by Tokyo indicate that the Japanese British missionaries. Government's attitude is that the outrages are due to individuals! In an effort to combat witchcraft, and not instigated by Soviet off which is said to hold the popula- ciale.
tion of the Gold Coast in terror, the Church Council of the colony, Bishop of Accra (Dr. Aglionby), under the chairmanship of the
Communist Organisation. The Manchukuo police charge that the outrages have been com-has offered to pay £10 to any mitted by a Russian organisation "witch" who can: with 2,078 members. The leader
•
bles a melon) or other fruit at a "Eat a pawpaw (which resem- distance of five yards, or
DOMINIONS.
London's Attitude.
Rugby, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons to-day when asked whether the Govern- ment intended to "consult the Dominions on the position which had arisen from the attitude adopt- ed by the Irish Free State, Secre tary of the Dominions, Mr. J. H. Thomas, replied that the present issues between the United King- dom and the Free State arose out of the interpretation of the 1921 Treaty and other Agreements which form a part of the settle- ment then reached between the
two countries. He added that the
difference at the moment was be- tween two parties to an agreement; | one of which had repudiated it. British Wireless Service."
ELEPHANTS PULL FIRE ENGINE.
Come to Rescue in Big Fire.
Calcutta.
of the group
Transform himself into a "beast, is said
to be M. bird or creeping thing." Giadook, the Secretary of the Gen- eral Department of the C.E.R. The members of the organisation, the police claim, have been train-1 ed at Habardyak by military authe-
Eight lumbering elephants pull- rities.
Every member, they say,
led a fire engine to a blaze in Cooch- la forced to take
This "offer," the first of its kind Behar recently. an oath that! he would, if ordered, kill his father is open until the end of July,
ever made by British missionariea,; and 'mother.
Equipment Seized.
Harbin, Yesterday.
Extract an article from a sealed.
box.
Fear of Witchcraft.
The whole of the bunder at
| Mathabhanga was ablaze including the jute and rice godowns and the offices, but when the District Officer
Ten locomotives and 120 trucks In making the challenge, the wired for the fire engine from have been seized by the Japanese Bishop says the subject has been in. Cooch Behar, 20 miles away, it a joint committee was found that the 'road was too at Sungpo, opposite Harbin. It investigated by said that they will be used by of religious bodies in the colony, sandy to permit the engine to reach troops in an effort to suppress the which found that natives even the conflagration, so the firemen re- insurgents of the district Reuter, those who have to become Chris- turned home,
Japanese Seized,
Tokyo, Yesterday. Local Japanese and Consular Authorities are said to have been captured at Tunghua by bandita. Over 200 Japanese Police are be- ing rushed there from Mukden by motor trucks.
tians--still fear witches and their Not to be besten, however, the activities
Revenue Officer at Cooch-Behar Witches, according to the com- ordered a team of State elephants mittee,, are credited with powers to be harnessd to the engine and, which enable them to
Transform those they dislike into birds or animala;
Inflict disease or death without physical contact.
with their shouting mahouts urging: them to hurry, they formed pro- bably the strangest turnout ever seen at a fire. They reached Matha- bpanga in time to join the fight be fore 500 helpers got the fire under. The merits of the foreign foot-control... tive along the C.E.R. Over 9,000 baller are not confined to skili alone.
Bandit Rampant.
Harbin, Yesterday.
Bandits are said to be still ac
are reported to be near Fuyu. At He is obsessed with an almost fana- Let me admit quite frankly that Kirin, troops have started looting tical will to win, which in the case there is a danger in harping on the villages. To date Major Genoral of the average English professional necessity for speed in a footballer. Yoda's infantry has not made con- is reserved for a Cap tie or for the There is the danger of regarding tact with the insurgenta in the international match against Scot pace as the be-all and end-all of the Imienpo district-Reuter.
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