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SPEAR-BLOODING MASSACRE
Naibori, Yesterday.
A YOUNG OFFICER IN CHARGE of an area in Kenya equal in size to seven average English counties has flown here with more details of the “spear-blooding” massacre.
He came in a R.A.F. plane to re- port to Air Chief Marshall Sir H.R.M. Governor
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Intensive search by planes and sec- tions of the King's African Rifles and a camel corps has failed to locate the Merillee warriors who wiped out four villages of the Turkana tribe.
DAWN RAID
At least 150 Turkana men, women
People who possess old Bibles often imagine that, apart from the richness of reading, they own marketable treasures, forgetful that only the sur-| vivors of the first Gutenberg Bible, or and children were killed as they lay the Family Bibles of great men of asleep in their huts, it has now been letters, are worth huge sums.
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The Merillee warriors, who came Salesbury, after four years' toil in his from Abyssinia, descended on the fastness at Cae Du Llansannan, in Turkana huts at dawn and butchered Denbighshire, saw his monument of the sleepers with spears and guns. patient labour completed, the trans- lation into Welsh of the New Testa-
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There are about 50 copies of this first edition in existence. The sur- vivor brought by Sir Evan Davies Jones. bring £50 in the eighth Huth sale, 1919. Mr. Michelmore advanced this to £135,
Not until Armada year, 1588, was the entire Bible
translated into Welsh, this time by William Morganı, Again, the Davies Jones' example was a Huth purchase, at £100 now in- creased to £145 (Robinson).
Welsh
Ten Shillings For A Dozen Lest owners of any "old" Bibles consider that they are har- bouring very valuable books, it should be mentioned that a second edition of the Welsh Bible, issued in 1620, was sold for £9 5s, and another for £4 15s. As for the earliest so-called "popular" edition of the Bible, in the Welsh tongue, issued in 1630, two copies went for £2 10s.
This is the first large-scale raid by warriors anxious to "plood" their spears since the Italians invaded Abyssinia.
NOMAD TRIBE
The Merillee are nomads and it is difficult to establish administrative authority, responsibility for which is charged by Abyssinia, Kenya and The Sudan.
The Turkana are mainly located in Kenya. They rere disarmed some years ago, making them easy victims for the raiders.
The raid is regarded officially as a "purely tribal adventure."
FRENCH REPORT "GERMANS
IN ITALY"
The measures agreed on by Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler to suppress Again, a 1647 New Testament, in the German character of the South Welsh, "published by and for Non-Tyrol have given rise to fresh rumours conformists," fetched only £2. All about the presence of German troops the foregoing were printed in Eng-in Italy. land, but in 1770 a. Carmarthen Strictly speaking, there are no re- worthy issued a Welsh Bible, for the gular bodies of German troops either first time, in Wales. It also had a n Italy or in Libya,' but in commentary. A copy of this brought places German officers and technicians many £6 15s.
re to be found.
A batch of 12 Welsh Bibles, 1689- 1769, went for 10s, and there was no bidding at all for two lots-containing 10 "old" Welsh Bibles.
Apparently, the German higher command does not absolutely trust the strategical and tactical ideas evolved by the Italian Generat Staff, or the capacity of Italian troops to handle the most modern weapons of warfare. It conse- quently wishes to have its own mon on the spot..
In the districts around Ventimiglia, on the Franco-Italian frontier, on the other hand, there have lately been sent from Germany so-called work-
men.
No reason whatever can be imagin- ed to justify such an immigration into a country where labour is
super- abundant. The inference is that these men are soldiers in disguise.
All the algos are that the German and Italian Higher Commands. foresee that in war time the French army would endeavour to advance beyond the frontier near Ventimiglia, and that with this Idea in mind they are taking numerous precautions,
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