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NEW LIGHT ON THE HARD LABOUR FOR
EXODUS.
NOT THROUGH THE RED SEA.
STRIP OF SAND BETWEEN
TWO WATERS.
"Yostorday mnd To-day. Sinai," (Blackwood).
SOLDIERS.
SEQUEL TO STUBBS ROAD INCIDENT
NOTHING LIKE ENJOYING
YOURSELF."
Thren privates of the South Wales Borderers appeared before Mr. | Schofield at Central Magistracy" yesterday?
But children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of The thren man, Privates Joseph, the saa; and the waters were a Williams, William Weeks and wall unto them on their right Harry Grant, were accused of hand, and on their left” Am
stealing a "motor-car-horn 'from- A most interesting modern com public car 355, the property of Tang mentary on this and similar pasRoad, of wilfully and malitiously Ha. Ming, the driver, in Stabbe sages in the story of the Exodus damaging the car, and of assaulting is given by Major C: S. Jarvis, the driver. Governor of Sinai, in a delightful book just published, "Yesterday and Tc-day in Sina" (Blackwood, 15.).
that at about 11.15 p.m. an Monday Bab Inspector Chester Woods sald the complainant was driving his ear along Chater Rond, returning to the stand when he was stopped by the defondante, who engaged the vehicle to take them to The Peak.. When the car had reached a spot option of Stubbs Road and Magasine about half a mile beyond the juno-
Gap Road, the occupants alighted,
Nino years' residerico dna. con stant travel in the Peninsula have afforded the author unique portunities of "spying out the land over which the Israelites The soldiers produced bottles of wandered, and he
beer and asked the driver if he fad, now advances
un opener When the driver pro- the theory that the fight from duced one, he was attacked by the. Egypt, and the engulfing or soldiers, one of them striking him and another throwing a bottle ap Pharoah's punitive Army did not him. He was knocked down on to Happen, as is commonly supposed, the Broken bottle and severely eat at the head of the Gulf of Suez his left hand... or in the Great Bitter Lake, but eloise to the shore of the Mediter ranonn itself,
•
In the Hebrow script Red Ben is translated from the Hebrew words 'Yam Suf, and the correct translation of Yom Sus is not Red Sen, but Ses of Roods. The only place that in any way Rug
DELA Benfroeds in the vast Bardawil Lake on the Moditor ranean coast between Port Said and El Arish";
* Enormous Clay Pan, Bardawil Lake, 45 miles long. and 13 miles wide, is an enormous. ciny pin about six to ten feet be. low the level of the Mediterranean and separated from the by a very narrow strip of sand from one to three hundred yards in width.,,
ALH
If one walks along this strip of Band "one has, the illusion of walking along very narrow. highway with the sen on either side
most impressive and awo inspiring feeling,"
* Headlights" "Smashed. The complainant, who was ac companied by a car cleaner, you away and, on locking back, saw the soldiers damaging the car.
Later the privates left and, on going back to the car, the complainant found the head lights smashed while the horn was missing.
The cleaner was left to follow the soldiers, while the complainuut went to the Gough Hill Police Station and lodged a report. He was Re companied back to the scene by Subk. Inspector Chester Woods, who found the cleaner
"outside "Hoerah Senang into which the cleaner said, the soldiers had gone..
On enquiries "from the occupier of the house, the police were in- formed that the soldiers had asked the way to Wanchai and had been. shown a pathway which would take them there.
The party: went to Wanchai and side a cafe in Queen's Hond East, the three men were, poisted out to the police officer. The total damage amounted to 817.35 while the fare was 60 and the missing horn 830.
Major Jarvis theory is that Mones, who know the geography of Sinai well, led his host along this Jane, and that the Egyptian army: Inspector Chester Woods remarked In reply to his Worship, Sub- isi a frantic attempt to bead then off, tried to cross the clay that in reason had been given for pan, and became hopelessly bogged, the incident,
their predicament being increased
..
"A Little Excitement."
hy, a honvy downpour of 'rain, for When asked if they had anything which the "pillar of cloud" was responsible,
to say, Williams replied." Nothing like enjoying yourself." while "And the waters returned and Weeks said that it was just for covered the chariots, and the little excitement.". Grant said ho horaman, and all the host of had nothing to say. Pharaoh that came into the Ber An officer of the South Wales after them,"
Borderers informed his. Worship.
The strong east wind which Chat Williams had been convicted Causea a very heavy sea on the of areny by a District Court Mar- coast of Sinai," Major Jarvis tinl on September 15, 1930, and suggeste, had caused the waves teentenced to 84 days' imprisonment. break through the causeway of His Worship: Otherwise their res anndan incident that occurs two cordy are good! or three times every year-and the whole Bardawil was very shortly flooded to a depth of Ave or six fect. This is a catastrophe that could happen to-day if an army were foolish enough to try and cross the clay pan with bad weather, in the cffing.”‹"
Officer: No. Sir; they are all three vary bad characters."
On the first charge, Williams WAS sentenced to six weeks hard labour while Weeks and Grant were ench given me month., Compensation of 825 ench was ordered on the second charge, the alternative being "two The Prophet Mosch.
weeks' hard labour and, on the Major Jarvis praecede to show third, compensation of 85 each was how, if this theory of a northern 830 in addition or two weeks' hard awarded, the defendants being fined exodus from Egypt is accented, the labour in default. All the sentences subsequent wanderings of the
Israelites, such as the quail and were made to run consecutively.
manna episodes, and the law
giving fit into each other like parts.
of a jig-saw puzzle:
VEILED MOHAMMEDAN
BEAUTY.
Old Testament "miracle" will be AMAZING DRUG GANG CASE-
Thormoderns ·whe demand
matter-of-fact explanatione of
particularly intörested to bear hor Soudanese Colour-Bergeant no
videntally struck arock of
IN CALCUTTA. -
weathered timestone, releasing a Calcutta, Ooti 8. With chief grons gush of clear water. "It is interest displayed in the activitier regrettable," adds the author, of
that the Camel, Corps, who are nct particularly devout, hatlea their N.C.O with shouts of 'What ho, the Prophet Mosca f'"
The book gives a most readable and amusing account of present- day Arab customs and laws; and rope chapter vividly describes the rout of the locust invasion of 1830.
BRITISH COAL FOR DENMARK.
187,000 TONS ORDER,
a mysterious veiled Mohamu modon beauty working with n sphinx-like Chinese woman, un precedented revelations are being made in 'n ense, in which 52 Euro-: peans, Chinose, Japanese Indians Peshawaris are charged with mem bership of an international gano of drug smugglers.
od schemes auggesting that the The police investigations reveni
smugglera metto has been "Cast thy drugs upon the water." The discovery of scaled drog-filled con taínors floating in the Bengal rivers proved an important clus in tracing the gang, who used a mystic semaphore system with `um- brollas, in addition to erypise telegraphic codes,
Copenhagen-British con mines | Vast
quantities of cocaine, have secured, in the face of opium and firearms introduced in foreign competition, contracts for to India from Japan, Germany, the supply of a large proportion China and the FMB; were stored i of the coal required by the Danish in secret chambers; approached by, State Railways can electrified staircase, the raiding Tenders for 157,000 tons of steam of which caused a sericus, Calcutta coal were called for, from British, riat, with the subsequent murder German and Polish firms. It has of the informants, baan décided to place contracts; for Considerable assistance in blud- the supply of 110,000 tons of this ing the police was rendered by a con with, Durham,
and European sorgeant who resigner Walsh coal mine from the police force and Joined
The remaining 47,000, tons are to the gang, be ordered from Germany.
The case was adjourned
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