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STRANGE ADVT. IN SHANGHAI
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The following somewhat remark- able advertisement appears in "North China Daily News":
SALVATION LIES IN HANDS OF CHINESE „SAGE 16 NEW PREDICTION
HOW SPOILS WERE SPLIT
Admitting that they were respon- sible for stealing $200 from a man in front of Po Hing Theatre on Friday, Chan Pak-lam and Chan Tak, both.
by 19, were this morning convicted Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon. They were remanded for 24 hours.
Det.-Sgt. H. J. Baldwin, prosecut- ing, said that Leung Yuen-cho, 51, money was who believed that the lost while he was boarding a forecasts
bus, reported to the police following the discovery.
H. G. Wells, the famous author of "The Shape of Things To Come" and
noted books, many other that another big war is nearing. The first ground mine, which is to mark the real beginning of the war, is to be exploded in the Polish Corridor in 1940. According to Wells, the po- pulation of the world will drop less than 1,000,000,000, as a result of the future War. This statement very alarming as the present world population is 2,000,000,000.
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The police later arrested the first accused, who assisted in catching the second.
received They disclosed that they
from the $70 and $30 respectively theft and the other $100 was divided among five coolies who saw it.
The five coolies have not been traced.
LET OFF WITH A FINE
After 48 hours' remand, two em- ployees of the Kowloon Docks, who were convicted of stealing 2,500 lbs. of pig iron, were this morning fined $40, or six weeks' hard labour each by
Information from a certain source revealed that a Chinese sage has recently forebode the autumn season of this year as the great turning point. At that time, the prediction says, a kind-hearted salvationist will come to the fore and through whose efforts the great calamity might be checked. The war which is destined to come would be the greatest the world has known, thus it could only | Mr. E. Himsworth. be salvaged by one who possesses the real virtues of perfecting the self before attempting to pacify the world universe as well as concrete services which are entirely beneficial to society. Through his unusual abilities, things extraordinary could be ex- and its functions is found. This is ecuted.
The imminent work now is for persons in responsible positions to find this sage and world-salvationist before the coming fall, after which it will be hopeless if the calamity breaks out. The turn of world events is usually to be found based on cause
Accused were Li Yun, 40, and Ng Kam, 53.
and effect, but forecasts also play their parts. Great adversity vented if the secret of the world cycle can be pre-
not comprehensible by the ordinary people and the Chinese sage is the only person known possessing such ability. Hence it is urgent concern for those who do not want to witness deep distress for the whole world to understand this indispensable turning point in the history of humanity.
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THE CHINA' MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1939,
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