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LOST HORIZON
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1937.
The STORY of
by FRANK C. PAPE
THE CROWN JEWELS
THE KOH-I-NUR REMAINED IN THE POS- SESSION OF THE GREAT MOGULS AT DELHI UNTIL, IN 1739, THE KING OF PERSIA INVADED THE PUNJAB, AND THE REIGNING MODUL MAHOMED SHAH; LOST HIS KINGDOM,
WHEN THE BOOTY DUE TO THE CONQUEROR WAS COLLECTED THE KOH-I-NUR WAS MISSING THE EXISTENCE OF THIS PRICELESS GEM WAS WELL KNOWN TO THE KING OF PERSIA AND HIS ARMY, BUT SEARCH WHERE THEY WOULD THEY COULD NOT DISCOVER ITS HIDING PLACE.
THE KOH INUR
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THE STRANGEST AND MOST FASCINATING ROMANCE
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William
POWELL
Kau
ind
FRANCIS
"ONE WAY PASSAGETM
A WARNER BROS. DRAMATIC SENSATION !
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HAILED AS THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE SCREEN'S MASTER ACTOR !
AT LENGTH ONE OF MAHOMED SHAH'S WIVES DIVULGED THE SECRET.-THE FALLEN EMPEROR KEPT THE KOH-I-NUR CONCEALED IN THE FOLDS
OF HIS TURBAN!: -
FAMINE'S HEAVY
IN SZECHWAN
TOLL
STARVED POPULACE FEEDING ON MUD AND BARK
Famine refugees in Szechwan for migrate to neighbouring pro- are Peking out a bare subsistence vinces, especially Hupeh, to seek on "white mud” tree barks and for a bare subsistence in whatever way they can think of. They there- plant roots. ··.
This is revealed in a plea ad-fore constitute a constant menace dressed by the Szechwan Famine to peace and order. Relief Commission to the National If no adequate relief measures Government, the Executive Yuan, are immediately devised by the the Military Affairs Commission, government authorities, there is no the Ministry of Finance and the telling what these desperadoes will National Famine Relief Commis- do next. More punishment will be sion for the immediate appropria- of no avail as this gives no solution tion of $5,000,000 for emergency to their desperate situation.
In conclusion the telegram urges relief.
After taking this queer diet, that $5,000,000 be immediately ap- many refugees, according to the propriated from the national trea- telegram, got sick and died while sury for the emergency relief of others in digging in the hills for the 50,000,000, famine refugees in
to satiate hunger were trapped in land slides or rocks.
ARLISS IN THE WORKING MAN" the kind of mud believed to be able the province.
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With the exception of intermit- STEELWORKER BUYS tent drizzles toward the end of
SAINTHOOD January and the beginning February, which hardly soaked the
of
earth for more than two feet, Szech-"Best Salesman" Behind wan, the telegram said, has been suffering from a
drought.
Due to the lack of rain,
tinuous
all plants
Bars
The world's best salesman
is
have withered and even all water Sylvester Hasselbach, of Detroit, sounces have dried up.
Successive Calamities
who sold sainthood on the instal ment plan to an aged steel-worker,
ar-
The severe 'drought situation [now dead, who wanted to be good. which came in the wake of Com- Hasselbach, who has been munist disturbances and natural rested, had been living since 1925 calamities, including hailstorms, on money paid him by William rate, a relative windstorms, and insect pests, add- Fountaine, at the r
ed greatly to the sufferings of the said, of more than £10 a month.
Hasselbach said: “Fountaine people.
.
Since August, the Commission gave me a book of prayers and told has been receiving, every day, me to see if I could get divine mes- scores of petitions, revealing the sages. I started reading. All of a heart-rending conditions in various sudden the Almighty began talk- hsien and pleading for urgent re-ing to me, I wrote down every- lief. At first the Commission thing He said.” thought that the reports were ex-❘ One of the messages read: “Wil- aggerated, but upon investigation liam, it is my will that thou give
40 per it was found out that they were Sylvester alm CAROLE LOMBARD absolutely true.
your bankbook.”
CAREFUL-
WILLIAM POWELL
ONE DAY ONLY* in "MY MAN GODFREY"
Desperation
“Fountaine paid $2,000 in all on Driven by starvation, many re- account of his sainthood," said Has- fugees have become so desperate selbach. "I was going to make him that they either resort
robbery
Gertrude:"