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IN SAND Man And Wife Claim
To Be Mediums
ĮPOLICEWOMAN WHO “ACTED
LIKE JUDAS"
Hove.
There and. Everywhere.
THROUGH FOUR REIGNS
The report that the bull of the
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INTIMATE STUDY OF M. LEON BLUM
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Many Testimonials Saunders, it was added, showed
girl,
ΠΟΥ
GREAT AMBITIONS
the Editor, and be accompanied by court recently for pretending to eventually be towed out to sea and the_ Writer's Name and Address tell fortunes called witness to say sunk in the Channel has occasioned not necessarily for insertion, but that he was a genuine medium whe many almost tearful appeals from es e guarantes of good faith was known throughout the Spiri- yacht clubs of every type.
(By Henri Bourdin) [tualist movement. His wife, who Had she been broken up, they was fined with him, also claimed maintain, they might have ap- to be a genuine. medium.
EON BLUM,, most hated, manufacturers proached the King for a piece of
The young L The couple, who pleaded not the old ship's planking, or some
most vilified. most Leon Blum studied at the Ecole guilty, were Bertram Henry Sam-small part of her hall, to be pre-criticised man in France, is Normale Superieure to become ders, both of Brunswick-place. served in their club houses to keep France's new ruler.
ja professor-but instead turn- Hong Kong, Saturday, July 4, 1936. Hove. The penalty on the husband her memory greep. For among Leon Blum only comparative-led to the study of law-became was £10 and ari the wife yachtsmen Britannia occupies they recently lay helpless in a judge at the Consell d'Etat £3, while each was ordered to pay same sort of place as the Victory bandages, the victim of a Fasc-and then made another drama- Independence Day
#1 58. costs...
does in the Navy.
list attack. To-day he is the tie change and left his post to Evidence was given by Police- In all yachting history there has Moses who has built up the be dramatic critic of Comoedia The real significance of the woman Read and Mrs. Amy Simp-never been a yacht comparable to Common Front and led the and the Matin, and a barrister American celebration of In-son, whose address was not reveal-Britannia.
Junion of Communists, Socialists at the Paris court of appeal.
Radicals dependence Day probably lies ined. It was stated that Bertram
There is a little brass plate in and
to a crashing| This distinguished young the fact that it is now more Saunders sifted sand in a bowl Britannia's deck-bouse recording victory over the Conservative Jew, with aristocratic and symbolic than anything else and then wrote down what he said the fact that Queen Victoria went and Fascist bloc.
somewhat aloof and cold man- The original July 4 marked the he saw in the sand. This was done aboard her when she visited the The most detested politician ners, had a hobby that fitted in emergence of what was then a.
in a room decorated with Eastern Riviera. This was about 1895, but in France, as he has been call-with nothing else about him governmental ideology, when statues and ornaments.
the Queen, of course, was very alded, is now the leader of the the study of social questions. the democratic aspirations of
largest party in the House--his at the time and never raced..
He made the acquaintance of the new nation were set forth
Four British Sovereigns thus set Socialist followers number 146 Jaures, fought with him in the in the preamble to the proposed the policewoman testimonials from foot upon her deck, and she has and the head of the Left great battle of the Dreyfus constitution and the theory of
a baroness and another titled w-been owned by three Kings-Ed-group. He has fought and case, and became an ardent democratic government was pro-
waited long for success. He is Socialist. Besides devoting nounced for the first time. No man, who, he said, was a friend of ward VII. George V. and
now 64.
himself to Queen Mary..
Edward VII.
stage. questions. one will doubt that this is one
There is nothing of the rude literature and poetry, he found Giving evidence, Bertram Saun- Queen Mary raced in-Britannia
Socialist about him. of the most important Ameri-
He was time to write, in 1901, a re- ders described the two, women as in 1920 in Scotland. can contributions to the course having "acted like Judas." He
No yacht in the world sailed soborn rich. He was well educat-markable study of the Labour of history. Governments, it
derive their just said they had sympathised with his many races or won so many prizes ed. He looks like an aristocrat movement in France, and when of 4 and he is a man of delicate and Jaures started his great Soci- powers from the consent of the wife on account of her little Britannia, over a period
All qualities alist paper L'Humanite in 1904, ac-years, started in 625 races and cultured tastes. governed, and when any system who was paralysed, and had
which should have helped to Leon Blum naturally joined its won,360 prizes. becomes destructive of these cepted sweets from the child.
Many yachtsmen maintain that make him more popular with staff as dramatic critic. He added: "If there has been ends it is the right of the
his opponents, but have on the * Great Ambitions people to abolish it and to any subtle means used, it has been she is still perhaps the finest yacht
But though he continued to institute a new Government, by these women. My work is my in the world, able to give points contrary helped to make him
that most dan-study social questions and poli- establishing it upon such princi- religion. I claim the right to help to her younger but over-mechanical regarded as
gerous form
of Socialist-tics, Blam did not write about Socialist who has nothing ples and under such forms as others by proving the fact of life rivals.
to them in L'Humanite. He had seem most likely to effect their after so-called death."
gain.
great ambitions, but he had Two witnesses, who gave their safety and happiness.
them under control. The virility of those early names as Mrs. Florence Haylock.
When after the assassination and
Thoughtful pioneers is undoubtedly reflect-of Lansdowne-place. Hove.
The train of thought is rather appearance, tall, with an extra of Jaures, Marvel Sembat be
little boy, ordinary long face and droop came the leader of the Socialist
a guest's ing moustache..
He looks like Part and was invited to join amputated foot, to say, "No; and an aesthetic or a connoisseur of the Government as Minister of when I get "to heaven I won't say pictures. He makes no Public Works, in the early days anything to John the Baptist about attempt to look anything else of the war, he asked Blum to his head."
The pince-nez spectacles on his become his chief Secretary. long nose, and his big, blacklithe war made him into an thoroughness has been a typical The police stated that Bertram
"artist" hat combine almost active Socialist of international characteristic; thrust and vita Saunders had twice been convicted
wilfully to give the impression stature. After the war in 1919 lity have marked every deve-of fortune-telling at Bournemouth.
of a casual mind.
Leon Blum revealed himself in lopment, political and material, Mrs. Saunders told the magis
But though there is some-la sensational manner as the which the country and the trate she was perfectly willing that
thing sensitive, delicate, almost future Socialist chief. people have effected; the spirit her powers as a medium should be
Minister: "I do wish I could think feminine, about him, the Soci At the first national congress and joyousness of youth have tested in court. She said she had of some way to make the members list leader is not only a strong of the party held after the war been perhaps the most typical conducted Spiritualist services in of the congregation pay attention to man but a man with amazing-this hitherto unknown mili. adjuncts of the pioneer, years London. Bonmemouth and Brigh-me when I'm preaching."
personal courage. His courage tant, still regarded as a snob of expansion and growth. And ton and had been head of the Son: "Why don't you put the clock has often infuriated those who jand dilettante - delivered the result is the American Christian Spiritual Churches at right behind the pulpit?”
wished they could "dannt him most remarkable speech. It nation as we see it to-day-Brighton and Eton.
with threats.
outlined the post-war Fro- virile, self-assured and above all On Mrs. Saunders's behalt Mrs.
He has shaped out his own gramme of French Socialism, New Typist (following rapid dic- capable, in spite of temporary Harlock said: “1 am so incensed tation): "Now, Mr. Jones what did course through life. He was and has remained a sort of setbacks and passing eclipses about this case that I have writ- you any between-Dear Sir and born in Paris in a wealthy Magna Carta of the party.
England may well take some ten to the Home Secretary.". Sincerely. Yours*?"
Ifamily of cloth and ribbon (Continued on Page 2) sort of reflected pride in this Prof. Evans said the woman had early done wonderful work in proving
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley pioneers of the country all came the survival of life over death. from sturdy English stock, tenacious and thorough in its
Your Daily Smile!
ed in the amazing emergence of Prof. Evans, of North-road, Brigh- America as a nation in the last ton, both said Bertram Saunders charming which led
known
150 years Ever since they was a genuine medium. Prof. when told not to mention declared themselves to be by Evans added that he was right a separate political entity throughout the Spiritualist move they have gone from strength ment as a "wonderful psychist." 1to strength. Energy and
Twice Convicted
achievement, for the
acceptance of challenges and SHOTS FIRED IN
the dare to do or go under. Whatever bitterness there may have originally been in the
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the
aspect of the matter has long Leo Savage (27), who was been forgotter Nowadays the charged with breaking into two nations are each big enough Golden Cross hotel at Broms- to greet each other as equals, without recrimination and car-grove, and attempting to murder ing only for the obvious advan Mr. Taylor, the licensee, by shoot- tages
ing him, pleaded guilty to a les of co-operation and friendship. For there is truly ser charge of wounding with in- nothing that they could not tent to resist lawful apprehension, accomplish together, united in at Worcester Assizes last month.. purpose and bending their He also pleaded guilty to bur- energies to the same ends, glary, and was sentenced to seven The combined influence of the years' penal, servitude. two countries in the cause of Taylor, it was said, leapt out of peace, for instance, would make bed and chased Savage down the overwhelming partnership, stairs, but at the bottom Savage by its potential power a deter-turned and fired point-blank with rent to everybody but the most a small revolver; wounding Taylor foolhardy.
the kn
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