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"Independence" Of The
Philippines
LOCAL ESTATE Here
"TIENTSIN MAN
LEAVES $6,100
The late Mr. William Scott
There and
Sorrows, formerly of Tientsin, who Everywhere
aied at Peiping on March 29 last,
left local estate amounting toATTACKING FOREIGN RULERS
AN ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Romance Of Mountain Rescue
а
tes-had
M. Maurice Thorez, the French
A TRANSFORMATION SCENE
NATURAL BEAUTIES SEEN AT CANGO CAVES
ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AFRICAN WONDERLAND
(By H. D. Wedcliffe)
HERE are few who have notfare of a more intimate interest. been strangely thrilled on And because of his wider know- in a. darkened ledge and deeper impressions of
All communications intended for $5,100. An application by Mr. & publication should be addressed to A. Wadeson, solicitor, the lawful the Editer, and be accompanied by attorney, for sealing exemplifica-Communist leader, recently at-1
German the Writer's Name and Addresstion of probate of the will has tacked Herr Hitler.
Ipublic opinion was suitably in- not necessarily for insertion, but beer granted;
Local estate worth $1,300 was famed, and friction was aroused ez a guarantee of good faith.
left by the late Mrs. Carolina between the two countries. Maria Pereira, widow, formerly of Such friction as the result of No. 25 Bowerington Road, who verbal, written or pictorial at- died at St. Paul's Hospital on May tacks on the head of one State by of another 14. 1934. The deceased lady left prominent nationals no known next-of-kin. and letters has been frequent in the past. beholding. of administration to the estate; During the Boer war the Due theatre, a realistic representa- the country, its history and its have been granted to Mr. E. P. HdOrleans, the Pretender to the tion of the weird abode of primitive peoples, the subter- On a dimly lit stage franean depths of the Cango Lang. Oficial Administrator.
French throne, then resident in gnomes. England, wrote letter congratu-there is revealed to the en-Caves are to him richer in a thralled spectator, rough lassociations, and call to mind lating a French cartoonist on preculiarly unpleasant cartoon of boulders, towering masses of many fascinating comparisons.
When a Johannesburger who Life was made rock, and formations resembl Queen Victoria. 80 mnpleasant for him in the landing huge pendant icicles, which has heard the din of rattling on the drills, and the deafening roar throw deep shadows of his le that he left it.
of stamp batteries; who has the lofty walls of a cavern. ACTOSS "Cocking books.
Under the spell of such an seen giant machinery which Rhine" is a sport which has its dangers. In the most drasticjeerie environment we wait ex-night and day never stops, and action ever taken as a result the pectantly for the magician who has watched the final product, will conjure up the sprites molten gold, being poured; who, Mr. Charles Baxter, of Dundee. countries were reversed.
Incensed by Royalist plotting in which haunt this deeply hidden thousands of feet underground, Against this has walked the levels and slopes Sir Robert Walpole is report-who was injured in a climbing ac-
acident while on holiday in Skye, France and Royalist gibes from ethereal world.
the frontier. Napoleon background of the mysterious and tunnels of the mines and ed to have remarked on
the Due d'Enghien. and the unknown the hero and has become immersed in the famous occasion as long ago as has become engaged to marry Miss across 1739: "They may ring their Margaret Rennick, a school
our sympathies, greatest and most scientifically bells now; before long they will cher, of Fleet, Hampshire, who member of the French Royal the heroine appear and imme-ceaseless activity of one of the be wringing their hands."
One played
prominent part in his family, who was staying at Etten-diately gain
heim, in the Grand Duchy of and when the curtain descends, organised industries of this is perhaps not completely justi-rescue.
While climbing on one of the Baden, kidnapped by a squadron we depart with the gratifica- age; when, in brief, the average brought back to tion of having spent an en-inhabitant of the Rand visits fied in applying this caustic comment to the celebration of Coolin peaks. Mr. Baxter lost his of cavalry,
and France and shot at Vincennes chanting hour or two, and with the Cango Caves, in what a dif- the feeling that it would be an ferent world he will find him- the first anniversary of the footing on the loose stones
Here he will enter mysterious Philippine declaration of inde fell down the incline, injuring his "pour encourager les autres." pendence, but there is certainly leg. For three hours; in growing There, is however, little likelihood adventure indeed, though high- self.. scope for the opinion that the darkness, Miss Rennick helped him of a motorised detachment of the ly improbable, if we were trans-
we have just seen so skilfully turies been sunk in eternal hardly earned independence" down the mountainside. Ultimate SA doing the same to M. Thore ported to the imaginary realm regions which have for cen- gloom and silence The human portrayed.
disturbed may not be worth it when the ly she was compelled to leave him
band has hardly itime
Yet such an adventure can, comes for its final con- a sheltered spot and go on alone NIGHT OF MIRACLE
The Leilat el Mirag-chosen for suramation. For it was engen-to Glen Brittle, where she sum-
the calling off of the strike in in considerable degree, be ex- these crystalline depths, and dered in selfishness and born in moned a rescue party.
Palestine-is described as com-perienced by an South African man comes here but to observe,
overseas visitor. to wonder, and then to depart irresponsibility. The interests
Cherished Secrets memorating the miraculous flight and by any which devised, supported and
of the Prophet from Mecca to the For near the flower decked
The very surroundings, "the town of Oudtshoorn, and in one!
Oudtshoorn ranges secured the passage and forced
Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem. the acceptance of the Tydings-]
Jerusalem, however, was only a of the most picturesque, parts aching McDuffie Act and its precurser,
Kipling has the Hawes-Cutting-Hair Act,
"Going to the lodge, Henry?" ask-stage in this eventful journey of the country, is Nature's own which stand up like the thrones
There Mohamed, according to the marvel, the Cango Caves, which of kings," aimed chiefly at restricting thed the young wife, in surprise.
for several suitable to harbour one of American market to Philippine didnt know you were a member of Islamic tradition, was conducted extend into the heart of a described them, are the most
by the Archangel Gabriel to the mountain range products, at ending Filipino many lodge." migration into the United "Why-yes-Jessie. I belong States, and at obtaining pay- the Elks ment of Philippine Bonds held in the United States within the ten years of transition to com-
of Africa's unravelled secrets, of the centuries, fashioned since the exit and it is clear, grotesque shapes of ethereal plete independence." It has well been stated by an informed
Besidents lost 10 feet of their as will be seen presently, that beauty, merely to amaze and jobserver that if the terras of
invented a device for seeing this
"Going to the movies alone, Mrsgardens in a cliff fall at Pakefield, there is an exit has never yet puzzle man, now that he has brutal law are liter-
Jones?" ally carried out the
every near Lowestoft, last month, caua-been discovered.
To the South African they them at this pleasure. "Yes, my husband worked
Po(Continued on Page 6) are not merely spectacular but try will collapse economically night this week, so for a change fed by high seas eating away the and
politically long before let him stay at home with the baby." eliffs. the ten-year period of slow
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To the tourist from abroad minute drop of slowly-gather
And Beary meekly hung up his hated to Mecca he found his bed still the caves constitute yet anothering liquid, and with the passing again.
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Belaration
Test of a Gentleman A prominent citizen met his tailor remark of Vice-President Gar-!
on the street one day and asked him ner just before leaving for the why he had not sent a statement of Philippines to attend the in-his account
auguration that America had "Well, you see, it is this way,” said kept its word," and that of the the tailor, "I never like to ask a then Secretary for War, that gentleman for money.”
the United States had followed
"But how about it if he doesn't pay
a "consistent policy" in extend you? persisted the citizen.
"Oh, after a certain time I come
ing independence to the Philip- to the conclusion that he isn't pines, may well be looked at gentleman, and then I ask him." somewhat askance The brutal
truth of the matter is that the--
situation is at bottom false and
hypocritical, and that both and if that is successfully ac- American and Filipino officials complished, how long can it be There is have had to put the best face on expected to last? the matter they could while surely little doubt that the carrying out the law as they country cannot possibly pro- are sworn to do - even if it vide for its own defence once! the American: protection is re! Įbe a bad law.
In spite of all this, however moved; and it is an equally self- or perhaps it would be more evident and axiomatic truth that correct to say because of it in that case Japan wil step in President Manuel Quezon, who and assume control, either with took on a man's job when he or without the permission of accepted the office, deserves all the people of the country. the support he can get in an Japan has not shown herself to invidious and delicate task. The be particularly squeamish about recriminations may come after-these little irregularities in re- wards, when there will belcent history - vis-a-vis China. plenty of time for them. Just And then what happens? We now he has his hands full confess we do not know; but supervising the administration we have a very shrewd idea, of the country at a time Three alternatives seem when it is least equipped to sible: (a), that Japan takes stand a transfer of executive over without protest; (b), that functions: The Philippine Is this move is frustrated by lands have felt the full force America's continuing to afford of the depression; there are armed protection to the coun dangerous radical argarian and try (in which case independ labour movements to be tackled;ence vanishes for ever and a only a few months ago the day); and (c), that if America question of the Japanese set-relinquishes this control some-
pos
vas agitating the admin-body else will undertake it. tive dovecots to some-mo-Eolution (b) would be the best During his year of office way out of the impasse in the has shown him- nterests of all concerned the be a man of resource, Filipinos themselves especially. has most successfully It has yet to be seen whether number of pitfalls the realities of the situation will before him. It is make themselves sufficiently
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