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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 5, 1988
Girl Of 13 'Floats' In Mid-Air, Makes Pianos Dance
'It Scares Me'
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 18.
GREY-HAIRED JURISTS AND EDUCATORS, SCEPTICAL OF NEW FANGLED IDEAS, BUT VASTLY MORE SCEPTICAL OF OCCULT MAGIC, TO-DAY JOINED IN AFFIRMING THAT A THIRTEEN YEARS-OLD SCHOOL- GIRL, OF JONESVILLE, LOUISIANA, POS- SESSES SUPERNATURAL POWERS.
BRITAIN TO CLAIM £2,000,000
It is reported in Mexico City, on... · good authority, that the British Government Intends to ask for £2,000,000 as indemnity for Bri- tish-owned farmlands seized by the Mexican Government.
The most important British properties taken over are in Laguna, a wheat and cotton pro- ducing region.
LITTLE HELP ON REFUGEE PROBLEM
Alice Belle Kirlby, a farmer's daughter, has repeatedly demon- strated that she can stay suspended in the air.
She
can make a 700lb. piano move at her command. She can make-aspiano play without being touched by visible hands, and make tables dance,
WENT UP SUDDENLY
All this was pooh-poohed until three men, each weighing fifteen stone,, were thrown from a table. One of the three was Education Su- perintendent H. W. Wright.
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He had previously said, “Even if I saw it, I wouldn't believe it." To day Mr. Wright said: “At her com. mand I have been thrown from tablés several times. Two others and myself, each weighing fifteen stone, were thrown from a table at one time.
It was no gradual affair. It went up suddenly and dumped us on the floor."
Five thousand people from the neighbourhood have visited the Kirlby's farm in the last few days.
PIANO PLAYS
The Hague, Yesterday... Dr. Colijn, the Prime Minis- ter, replying to a question by Mynheer Albarda, the Socialist leader, about the Jewish pro- blem, referred. to the nature of the replies of the European countries who were approached by the Netherlands Governmentern accent of her feats. on Nov. 15 in regard to Jewish refugees from Germany.
From her school where she is a normal student, Alice Belle, in a long-distance telephone interview
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The Palestine Broadcasting Service has a broadcasting station in Jérusalem. It is tucked away in a building along with several other departments and broadcasts are being continued during the present- trouble. The small staff flare tri-linguists for listeners are mainly Arabs, Jews and English speaking people. Photo shows the Arab sentry, outside the building in Jerusalem housing the broadcasting station. Mr. Husseini, chief Arabic announcer is seen leaving.:((Copy-: right).
STRENGTHENING TERRETT AMERICAN
to-day, told me calmly in a South- DEFENCE
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"Yes, sir,” she said, "Ah can make tables move without touch-
Washington, To-day.
ing them, and Ah can have piano Further emphasis on the need Dr. Colijn said the British Gov-play themselves and Ah can float in ernment, in its reply on Nov. 26, referred to the speeches of Mr..
a lot." Chamberlain and Sir Samuel, Hoare in the House of Commons on Nov. 21.
The Belgian Government had Intimated that it could not allow large scale immigration.
The Swiss Government had de- clared that only transit could be
allowed.
France had not answered the Netherlands Government's ques- tions.
The Netherlands Foreign Minis ter to-day discussed the question. with the United States Minister.
-Router.
NEW CHINESE MINISTER
Chungking To-day. Mr. Holeh Wei-ng-Has beeй ap- pointed Chinese Minister to “the Scandinavian countries," while Mr. Wang Ching-chi, at present Minis- ter at Stockholm, ią “leaving December 11 for Warsaw to assume the post of Chinese Minister to Foland Reuter,
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ed.
the air, too, and Ah float in the air for strengthening and improving "I asked her when she last float- the American defences appears in "Ah reckon it was last night," the Annual Report of the Assistant she said. “Yes, it was last night. I Secretary, Mr. Johnson, which touched the ceiling and then Ah come down.”
deals specifically with anti-aircraft "Didn't it scare your mother?" defence. I asked.".
"Ah guess 80," said Alice Belle, The Report says that strengthen- she don't like it very much. It ing is necessary to provide even a
scares me a little, too,
"Last January some of mah minimum of safety from attack. friends and Ah were playing domi- noes and we got tired, and Ah told
"Our former technical superiori-
SHOOTING SEQUEL
Wong Shu-lan, aged 24, was this morning formally charged Central Magistracy
at
the
in connexion with the shooting of Lance-Sergeant H. R. Terrett shortly after midnight on Satur- day morning in the Wing. On Bank Building in Des Voeux
Road.
Three charges were * preferred against Wong:
Wounding, or causing grievous
bodily harm, with intent to murder, Herbert Ramsay Terrett,
Shooting, with Intent to do
the piano to play and it jest play ty in aeronautical development is grievous bodily harm, and Fed."
asked.
“Does the piana play, a tune?" I no longer clearly apparent...
“Recent advances in other coun-
have equalled if not exceeded,
forts." -- Reuter,
"Ah've been trying to make it play a tune," she said rather distries appointedly, "Ah got it to play a wedding march once, but the darn cur thing stopped halfway through, and never did finish.”
Among the passengers who disembarked from the Empress of Canada when she docked here on Friday were Mr. F. C Barry, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, and Mrs, Barry,
NORMANDIE REQUISITIONED
Paris, To-day.
It is now revealed that the Normandie" has been requisition ed by the Government. The crew is on strike-Reuter,
Being in posBESS licensed "autontatio munition.
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eter, and:
Arraigned Wong was a 17- year-old Chinese girl, Chan Sin- kwan, on the charge relating to pos- session of the unlicensed pistol and ammunition.
The girl is salil to have been ar¬ tested with Wong, when the police raided a room in Luk Kwok Hotel, in Wanchal.
The two were remanded for week,