RIVERS APPEAR IN DESERT
Freaks Of Nature In
Kalahari.
AERIAL SURVEY STARTED
Cape Town.
ap- New rivers have suddenly peared in the middle of the Kala- hari desert of South Africa. inland "seg."
An
six miles long and four miles wide, has been formed about 130 miles from the Orange River at a spot where water has hardly ever been seen before.
freaks of nature
These strange have led to hopes that a vast arid country-where there is hardly a growing thing for hundreds miles-may one day become fertile agricultural land.
of
The Union Government has com- missioned Coloned Sir Pierre van, Ryneveld, Chief of the Aviation Department, to make an aerial sur- vey of the affected territory.
Have the newly-formed rivers v they subterranean source or are merely the result of recent heavy rainfall?
On the answer to that question depends the future of the Kalahari desert.
Colonel van Ryneveld's Investi- gation is alз30 expected to throw light on the possibility of making the whole of South Africa esfe from drought by flooding areas of the Kalahari.
estimated
huge
that 3 It has been "reservoir" of 15,000 square miles could be formed by damming up the Kalahari rivers.
One of the features of the new rivers is that fish a feot long have been found in them. Their origin
is
a complete mystery.--Reuter.
Nazi Napoleon?
5,200 MILES IN 31 YEARS
A corporal will succeed a field mar shal as prosident of Germany when Von Hindenberg retires soon, for Chancellor Adolph Hitler is to take the post, Berlin observers declare. Hitler is shown as a corporal in war days.
THE "LITTLE OLD
WOMAN" DIES
Mrs. O. P. H. Grosvenor ANONYMOUS' FRIEND OF U.S. POLICE
Memphis, Tennessee.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 4,*1934.
Mohammadan Saint
Today's Short Story”
THE MAN
Plans Long Trek. WHO DIED
PRAYS EVERY FIVÉ PACES
Cawnpore.
DIED on March 17, 1925.
By Eric Ambrose.
John
the
used
or
I know, what happened to, John I knew that it was March 17, Martin. They gave him all the More than a year ago Shah
Mohammadan and I watched the expression on money, only they took away a little Subhan Ahmed, a saint, left Allahabad for Mecca and John Martin's face as he stood the Government I mean.
I suppose that must have been angry and be prob- he has now reached Cawnpore-aj by the bed.
ability to read people's true ably said to his friends that it was bare 200 miles away.
the a crying shame that they should This rate of progress need not thoughts when one is on cause any surprise for after walk-point of death, has been respon- take away the money for which a ing every five paces-about four sible for those strange, incom-man had slaved all his life, merely yards--he stops and offers Thanks prehensible alterations to wills because he had committed giving Prayers to God for having and testaments which regen heinous crime of deserting the State enabled him to undertake the pious erally considered to be the re by dying. He most certainly
the words "heinous crime" 'sult of coercion or insanity. journey.
1 had willed all my money to John never knew John Martin. His piety has earned for him the
I don't know why I never realised sobriquet of Sultan-ul-Mujahidin Martin, because John, of all my the King of Strivers after Happi- friends, had shown himself to be the in 1928 or 1929 or during the years most reliable, and I hated all my which followed, or even on March Mohammadan Thanksgiving Pray-relatives. On March 17th he stood 18, that I had died. There are some ers are called Navafil and take at by my death bed, and I knew that things which we do not understand. he was glad that I was dying. I suppose really, that it was even least two minutes to perform.
extraordinary, I made an effort to raise myself more Mecca is nearly 2,500 miles from
There Cawnpore as the crow flies but since from the pillow to tell the others February 21st, 1933, I should have the saint cannot follow the same that he was not to have my money realised that I had died.
would have my was of course
reason for that) route as that of the crow's fight-one of them Shah Subhan Ahmed will proceed money-I would give it instead to realisation, but it does not explain on the Grand Trunk Road to Delhi, the nurse, because she was the only
negs.
Lahore and onward to Quetta and one present who did not want to see Duzdab,
Jerusalem
that on
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Water," by James Hillon.
then entering Persis to me die, and with the exception of Kerman
Yezd and Teheran and John Martin, the only one who cared finally in Arabic speaking countries whether I would die or not.
But I was too weak. John Mar- to Bagdad, Damascus,
tin shook his head in sympathy, and and Mecen-5,000 miles in all.
Since
he offers prayers after tears came into his eyes, but his every four yards he would cover heart was black-almost as black as it. It was a bitterly cold day, and only a mile and a half in a day of the feeble rage which burnt within as I walked down Gladdis-street, I! me, despite the thickness of the muffled myself up as best I could 124 hours.
That is why it was all the By the time he reaches Mecca he blanket of death which was slowly to avoid the slect driving into my more strange that I should look up will have spent nearly 10 years in extinguishing that tiny flame of my face.
praying and nearly 10 months in walking.
life.
I was tired, tired of the effort as I passed number 68. But I did But he has to sleep and rest and had made, and like a boxer who has look up, and I stopped at the ugly eat and drink so at his present rate thrice been sent to the boards, my of progress "the King of Strivers brain, barely functioning under the
house, still in need of paint, the under the top window now flaking, rusty iron tie holding the bulge
Mrs. Olivia Polk Hill Gros-after Righteousness" will reach weak pulse, cried aloud for sleep. venor, who as a child danced with Meces after 30 years-in 1964. had become denser, the are damped and the coping holding the railing, HUMAN TARGET FOR the Grand Duke Alexis of Rus-Reuter.
BULLETS
Mishap During Sydney Stage Act.
MAN SHOT IN SHOULDER
Sydney, N.S.W.
excitement
sin, and dined often with Jeffer
Bon Davis, President of the
on
PRESTIGE
Hold-Up Men Steal £20 From Cashier.
I struggled because the blanket a bar missing from the iron gate,
down, and the fatigue so. Intense still broken.
It was then I realised that I had thought it did not matter what United States, has died here at BLOW TO BANDITppened to John Martin if only 1 died, and I stood starting at the could sleep. Then I died and windows on the second floor, and I There is felt that I wanted to see inside, to slept, for that is death. the age of 72.
no difference from quotidian sleep, know who was living in the house, using all the Yes, desirable-just to know who was only it is more before. I do not know what hap-things which had been mine.
been my pened to me afterwards. I suppose it was an ugly house, but it had they wept and prayed for me, been mine, and it had although I hope for their takes that father's before me, and now? Now! I opened the gate, and it squeak- they did not, because that will have it was the house of John Martin: Imade their salvation a little harder'
John ed. Of course it squeaked. to achieve.
Martin hada't paid for it, his father hadn't paid for it, and he hadn't Why then paid for its contents. should he oil a squeak in the gate?
Once again there welled up in me the hatred that I had experienced in I mounted
B
Her friends have revealed Gros- that, for 15 years, Mrs. venor, known as "the little old woman," anonymously presented, at the stroke of midnight New Year's eve, the Memphis!
BUT OVERLOOK $400 A stage act at the New Tivoli police and their prisoners with a
Expert bandits will feel that Theatre. Haymarket, Sydney caus-huge basket of "smokes" and when good things to eat, enclosing a ed unexpected
nasty blow to its reputation for Maurice Rooklyn, the "human tar-card bearing the inscription their profession has suffered
in"From a Little Old Woman." get," who catches rifle bullets
Once, at the age of five, when ruthless efficiency when they shot accidently
the Grand Duke Alexis visited read these messages from "Reu- Robbers ambushed a cashier spectators Memphis, she slipped off from ter." for a week at the theatre. A mark- her parents at a formal recep- ed bulict was placed in a rifle. An- tion, gravely introduced herself in Malaga (Spain) and forced
to the Duke as "Sally Hill." and him into a doorway.
They snatched a bag contain The bul-danced with him.
She dined with Jefferson Davising about £20 from him and bolt- let was immediately seen between Rooklyn's teeth. The aet proceed and his family when the Confeed out of sight.
his teeth was
through the shoulder.
His act had puzzled
other man stood about 10 paces from Rooklyn and fired.
WAS
derate President lived in Mem- ed smoothly until the shot fired. Rooklyn staggered and left phis after the Civil War, during the stage with blood welling from period in which he was prest-in a wound in his right shoulder. Hedent of an insurance company.
was taken to the Sydney Hospital where his wound was dressed.
Officials at the theatre said that) the wound was not serlous.--Reu-
ter.
RIDICULED EX-ARMY OFFICER
Heavy Gaol Sentences For Bulgarians,
TIED TIN TO' MOTOR CAR
Sofa.
Reuter.
WHERE BRITISH FIRM LAG.
Too Much "Safety First" report
In Mexico.
FAMOUS SEA LION PASSES
"Ginger" Dies During those dying moments.
Operation.
the steps, two of which were now broken, and I knocked on the door. For some moments there was silence. TWO-HOUR FIGHT FOR LIFE and then I heard a door slam within,
+
WIS
The cashier went on his way
and the curtain in the bay window San Francisco.
was moved, but I was standing well with £400 in nates still safely Police-Bandits.
"Ginger," 10-year-old "star" sea within the shadow of the porticol his jacket pocket. Country folk on
their way Hon
the
Francisco and I knew that whoever it of
San through a wood to market at
Aquarium, has died on the operat-could not see me. Gorna Grehovitza (Bulgaria)
after a two-hours fight Then at last the door was opened, ing table were held up and robbed by four
about a foot, and an untidy slut jfor life. armed men.
He was operated on by Dr. of a girl asked me what I wanted. A strong force of police was
noted eye "Does Mr. Martin live here?" I sent to the scene immediately the Arnold S. Chalmov,
reached headquarters. specialist, for the removal of a naked, but I knew that he did, be- The wood was surrounded-and tumour which was blinding him. It cause only John Martin would have the four men were easily caught, was the result of an injury received employed a girl who looked as Their captors were dumb- during a diving act which he used slovenly as that girl. I had always founded to find that the bandits to do regularly at the Aquarium realised Martin's faults, but I had condoned them because I thought taku were
fellow-policemen. "We with a girl swimmer. A greater willingness to
Lions, tigers, elephants and other that deep down, he was solid. risks is one of the suggested ren-thought crime paid," the mis-
She said "yes" and ""oo are you?") Then I hesitated because I knew sons why United States firms are creants mumbled as they were inhabitants of the local zoo were
held in readiness for a blood trans-1 for ahead of British in trading with led away to prison.-Reuter.
fusion if necessary. A second doc-I could not send such a message by Mexico.
ter, a trained nurse and two other her, and so I said instead “i xm an
old friend of Mr. Martin." people assisted in the operation.
But still she held the door ajar But "Ginger" never recovered from the anaesthetic, although two and said: "Wot name shall I kay?” was there tanks of oxygen were exhausted in Then the anger which
inside me, and which I was barely Jan effort to bring him round.
London.
The suggestion is minde in a re port on economic conditions in Mexico by Mr. T. Ifor Rees, H. M.; Because of their alleged part in Consul-General in Mexico City. The making a retired Army General look report is fasued by the Department ridiculous, two villagers of Rila of Overseas Trade.
GIRLS IN TRUE COLOURS
Harmful Hair Dyes Banned In Denmark.
GOVERNMENT DECREE
Stockholm. The use of hair dyes in Den-1
It took 20 ounces of ether to able to control, must have shown on
send "Ginger" off to sleep compar ed with the five or six ounces re- quired by the average human being. -Beuter.
my face, for her head disappeared. I waited for several minutes and then heard a man's footsteps, and I knew that they were his footsteps, so that for the moment my anger gave place to a pleasureable excite
"British firms," he says, "incline have been sentenced to. 12 years'
to abandon Imprisonment by a Court-Martial at more to the 'safety first principle,
and are reluctant. Kustendil.
Several other villagers received traditional methods which, while satisfactory enough in days when! shorter terms of imprisonment.
The incident in which the vil.no competition had to be forced, ingers were involved took place lasture of no avall to-day.
"American firms advertise far Hummer.
they contain no harmful ingredient, General Lazaroff went to Rila to more than British firms do, and the ark, unless it can be proved that YALE'S DOG MASCOT ment, because I thought of the
of Pro results appear to bear out the make a speech on behalf
try of Justice. fessor Alexander Teankoff, leader slogan 'It Pays to Advertise." banned by a decree of the Minis-
of the Right Party in Bulgarian política.
The villagers collected round the General's motor-car, tied an empty petrol tin to the back of it and then
Reuter.
Interviewed by Extrabladet, the chief of the Danish Hairdresser's Union states: "It simply means that nobody can have their hair dyed at He points out that many working
Personal Pars
Mrs. W. Lapthorne, wife of the all."
DISAPPEARS. “
"happy" surprise which he would have when he saw me,
Then he came to the door and opened it a further alx inches. Harvard Swimmers
"Who is it?" he asked, and now I Under Suspicion.
was smiling, a little grimly, knowing that he could not see my face be New Haven. neath the brim of my seft hat, for Handsome Dan: 11, thorough bred it was now very dark and the light forced the chauffeur to drive slow-Director of the Guinea Gold and
"Don't you remember me?"! ly round the village. As it passed, Guinea Airways Ltd., left on Sh-women find it an absolute necessity English bulldog, and mascot of Yale in the hall very dim.
for Singapore by the. P. to hide the grey hairs which may University, has vanished. the people pelted the tin with turday
and O. liner Mantua. She is re- come at an early age, otherwise Yale men declined to point an could see him peering at me, trying accusing finger, but it was learned to make me out, but I took care that stones.
The district has been for years turning to her home in Adelaide, they might lose their positions.
The law refers to existing hair that a group of Harvard University he should not soc me.
"Aren't you going to ask me in?” under martial law on account of
Among the passengers on the dyes but, he says, according to the swimmers were questa at the Ray
Sill he hesitated. and the authorities took a graves.. Nankin which arrived on Sa-experts no maana has yet been Tomkins house on the night when I was enjoying his discomiture. "I have a message from Henry The sinister fact is that Hand- view of the affair. But here in turday from "Australia, was Lady found of arriving at natural, shades the dog was stolen. Bofa great indignation is being Braddon, the wife of Sir Henry without the use of ingredients
(Continued on Paga 10.) Tomkins House-Beuter. expressed at the severity of the Braddon, who was first Australian which are classed as harmful sub-some Dan was loopt at the Ray Bell":
Commissioner to the United States. stance-Beuter. sentences.-Beut
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