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GUARD-ROOM TRAGEDY.
A fully loaded automatic pistol. 20 rounds of ammunition and a Byringe pistol were said at Mary- lebone Police Court recently to Ambalangoda, Ceylon.
Side by side with the intensive have been found by the police in An extraordinary story of ex
industrial construction and the de: the posscasion of, a motor-car thiof cavations being made for treasure trove, or rather for a key to trea-velopment of the natural resources named Anthony Hoffman, aged 22
Hofman and Thomas Parker. of the country now towns are aure Erovo, on the sea beach at Baudoubs in Ambalangoda has springing up with mushroom speed aged 23, chauffeur, of Victoria given the people of the place a new all over the Soviet Union. One of Street, Faddington, W., pleaded the most striking and visible re guilty to stealing a car from Great It appears that some time back,sults of the Five-year Plan, which Cumberland Place, W., where it Police Headman 8. de Z. is to finish of the end of this year, had been left by a Mr. Joseph Wijeratne, of Randombe learnt is the creation of large population Horne, of Wron Avenue, Cricklo- from "Vaduls," an old ela book, centres where there were formerly to three months' imprisonment. In wood, N.W. They were sentouced of the existence of the trensure mere hamlets:
addition, Hoffman was sentenced i trove. From that time onwards he From Khibinogorsk, beyond the to three months for having fre started making investigations and Arotio Cirole, where a city of 40,000 Parker was fined 40s, or 21 days,
arms, without a certificate, and that Hoffraan seemed to have an within a short time he was able has grown up on a site where there for using a car without a third obsession for firearms. Last year definitely to locate the particular were only 160 people in Jan., 1930, party insurance policy.
he was employed as a footraan' in P. C. Dennis said the car, which the house of a titled woman. spot. It is a huge maes of rock to Stalinabad (formerly Dushamboy,
was damaged in a collision, had The syringe pistol he used with
SHOOTS HIMSELF. close to the son and during the near the frontier of Afghanistan, been abandoned he saw the men run- liquid ammona and was a most monsoons it is practically part of which has developed from a village ning across Edgware Road, Hoff-effective weapon for holding up
Madras, July 20.-Private W. of 600 before the Revolution to aad. He pursued him and even man had an automatic pistol in his
people.
Sergeant Rowton said.. Parker Hancock, of the 1st Battalion, the- Toiled by dobra,
town of 60,000, capital of the Re-tually caught him on a low roof went to America the and a half North Staffordshire Regiment, com This spot, it is said, exactly car-public of Tadjikistan, at the pre- in Berkeley Mews. The pistol was years ago and "jumped" his boat mitted suicide by shooting himself responded with all the identifica sont time: from the coal town off on a window-sill on the roof. at New York. He was discovered while on duty outside ho guard.
Hoffman had on him 13 other without a passport recently and room of Fort St. George. Cheremkhava, in Eastern Siberia, rounds of ball ammunition and a was deported. tion marks enumerated in the old-to the chemical town of Bobriki, holster was strapped upon his chest
At the inquest a verdict of sui The magistrate ordered that the cide was returned. The motive is and shoulder. south of Moscow, the Five-year
pistols found in the possession of unknown and a military inquiry The headman had previously plan has called new cities into be-
Detective Sergeant Bowton said Hoffman should be confiscated. will be held to-morrow. heard, too, that long ago a certain individual had wished to possess settlements.
ing or enormously enlarged earlier
the treasure but as soon as he at- tempted to dig for, it,
the sea.
book:
Magnitogorsk,
a monstrous-looking cobra wud-
Perhaps the most impressive of denly made its appearance which these Soviet mushroom cities is drove away the man from the Magnitogorsk, where the largest scene and made him abandon the steel plant in Europe has been un, iden of possessing the treasure,
der construction during the last, What is said to be inside the three years and is already begin- rock is not actually treasure trove
Field its first pig iron. hut a golden pot in which a book Thre years ago Magnitogorsk was
ning to is to be found. In this book. it is an obscure village, unmarked even said, mention is made of treasure
trove it other parts of the district and also mention is made by whom and by what method the same could Be obtained.
Prince's Treasure.
Tradition has it that the tres sure belonged to one Prince Banka pala, who was said to have been a rebel chief and who had made his kingdom in the vicinity of Ran- dombe. This Prince had collected lots of treasures, by means both foul and fair, and when news was brought to him that the Royal Army was coming to seize him, he buried all bis treasure in several parts of the district. The book in which ho kept a record of the treasuros, and where they were buried was hidden in the spot that is now be ing excavated.
Government Agent's Visit, The headman's suspicion as to the sxact spot is said to have been confirmed by a dream be had recently. The headman next com- municated his belief to his sup eriors, and Mr. J. D. Brown, Gov ernment Agent of the Southern
large-scale maps. To-day it is
a veritable city with a population;
NORTH STAFFORDS PRIVATE:
THE CHILDREN'S
CORNER
variously estimated from 160,000 to YOUR COLLECTION. 200,000 with a newspaper and a hospital, schools and cinemas, theatre and a circus.
Prokopierak,
DEAR KIDDIES
Yesterday I wrote to you about the Scrap book; to day it might be worth while reviewing some of the many things you can collect.
Post Cards. Stamps you will soon Of course anybody can collect
learn to arrange if you get an album. Don't stick them in fast with gum, but use stamps mounts. If you collect sen shells, you board with seccotine-their names should stick them-neatly on card. written, underneath.
BY
UNCLE JACK
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
14.
19.
If Magnitogorsk can show the most spectacular growth the Kuz- netak coal, basin, in Central Siberia, can perhaps point to the greatest regional development Hore, quite close to each other, are four rapid ly growing towns-Stalinak (for- merly Kuznetzk),
Stalinsk is the site of a steel plant Kemerovo, and Anzhero-Sudzhensk.
which is a sort of twin brother of Magnitogorsk. It is supposed to work on Magnitogorak ore, while well pressed and dried before being Magnitogorsk, in exchango, receives find out the correct name and write clearly underneath each Kuznetsk Basin coal.. Within three this years the population of Stalinsksperimen. Match-box tops and has grown from inconsiderable size tions.
cigaretta cards make good collec-1. A truth. to 150,000. Prokopievsk, where there:
Cheerio
UNCLE JACK. were 10,000 inhabitants in 1820, au creased to 45,000 in 1831, and now hay more than 100,000, Kemerovo has been growing at a similar paco
from 11,000 in 1923 to 49,000 - 10- 1931; and over 80,000 now. Anthero- Sudzhennk, which was a village be- fore the Revolution; counted 50,000 inhabitants last year.
Flowers and leaves should be
"stuck" into a book. You should
SUBTRACTION.
Across
5. A luminous body in the
heavens.
9. Delivered by mouth,
10. Formerly.
11. A colour.
13. Carat (abbrev.)
| 14. Garrison Artillery (abbrev,)
15. A youth The school teacher was endeavor 17. Eon (certailled). 1ng to drum into her small pupils 18. The ship of the desert, the fundamentals of arithmetic Province, visited the spot.
20. An electric car. The huge Dnieprstroi hydro-elee- After inspecting the spot the
"Now, listen," she said rather 22. Agirdle. Goytrambit Igent told the hoad-tric power plant, with the steel, desperately; in order to subtract, 24. Help (beheaded.) man that if he wished he could aluminium, and other plants which thinge have to be of the same de 25. A beverage. ge the rock blasted and that if he are being constructed to receive its nomination. This is what I mean: 26. The thigh of a hoz. came across the pot in the course power, has been the focus around Now, you couldn't take three ap- 28. A soldier's outât. of the blasting operations he should which a city of 100,000 has develop! ples from four bananas, or six 30. Editor (abbrov.) break it open in the presence ofed during the last few years in a plums from eight peaches. It 31. The tooth of a wheel. the Mudaliyar of the Fattu. region which was formerly empty must be three apples from four ap. 32. Royal Artillery', (abħrov,).
The headman was only too will steppe, broken by an occasional ples, and six plums from eight ing to obey the orders of the Gov- peasant village. The old town of plums, and so on. Do you under- ernment Agent. He requisitioned Zaporozhe (formerly. Alexandrovak) stand how the services or a "Light" foretellers only a few miles away, and the- The majority of children seemed and in the presence of the Mudall- union of the old and the new to grasp the idea. One chubby- yar and several others; the charmer Zaporozhes is likely in the fairly faced youngster very near the bot- displayed by his art particulars near future to create a city with tom of the class, however, raised a which tallied with the idea formed several hundred thousand inhabit timid hand. up by the headman from ola-book ants, and confirmed by his dream. Offerings were made for several
Fort Igarka.
"Please, teacher," he said, rather timidly, you can take three quarte of milk from two COWB
days to devas" who are believed Smaller, but pieturosque and in-
teresting, is Port Igarka, located citi
to be in charge of the treasure a there is a belief among the people that buried treasures cannot be unearthed without some such offer Lingus cyn
at the mouth of the Yensei River,
at kort vitatea, dina pi
DOWN
1. To lose remembrance of
2. An open surface, 3. A beastly fellow
4. Tai Lam (abbrev.).
5. Thus 6. Teymonth
(Abbrøv.),
Naval
E
College
7. One hundred sixty square
roda.
8. To answer quickly...
12. A male sheep..
15. A vessel for light,
16, Money owed.
18. To be peaceful 10. Welsh emblem. 21. Bread (beheaded.)
23. A lion's den,
90. A pronOUD.
27.
A preposition.
29.
A child's "Thanks."
(Solution to-morrow).
in Northern Siberia. Here, where everything, from fruit and veget three years ago one could find only abies to housing, and, Hamition. Law Eshing huts on the Arctic Many of them are located in break, Rock Blasfad,
tundro (steppe), there is now a unprepossessing localities which town of some 13,000, which anti- there fins been no time to beautify After going through all these pracipates a population of 50,000 or To anyong, who is hot Bustained liminaries the work of blasting the 50,000 by 1837 and is an important either by a burning teal for Com- rook was bogan and concentre for Arctic development. In munism or by an intense interest tinued for three days in the the wastes of Central Asin, on the in the engineering problems associ- presence of the Mudaliyar and se. northern shore of Lake Balkosh, en ated with the hig new plants which veral others who kept pouring in American engineer, Mr. John Cald are the contral nucler of these from all directions at all hours. r, has been placed in charge of towns they are apt to seem uncom-
So far nothing at all has been the construction of a large new monly uncomfortable places of je POUR LES PETITS. found although the rock has been copper plant, and the Soviet city sideace. Bri, comfortable, or-on- blented and excavated to a great pleonora already envisage Koun confortälld the new cities fare depth, but hopes revived when the rau, the city, which will grow up there, with sons (and) opnérete workmen came Baross a prou around the copper plant, as a place dwellings gradually replacing the liarly shaped piece of --rock with 69,000 inhabitanta, magland original tante and dugouts. Taken with strange marks on it. This
These pew Boviet industrial towns together they represent bolossal was taken out, on braaking it open, are in various stages of transition shift of population comparable
it was found to contain nothing from construction campsto.com with the early growth of the Eng
plated cities. At the present time lish Indureriai Zowns or with the they are, as 4 generál rule, short of settlement of America west, of the (Continued at foot of next column.). Mississippi.
* The spot is now filled with water and further excavations will be started sin due course.
YESTERDAY'S
OUR CONTINUED STORYF
THE BALLOON BOY.
"Mr. Prescott is the principal of our school," he told Edwin. *****I wonder what Dad has to say to him. I gat good marks last year and excellent in conduct, so I'm not afraid, but I certainly do won- der I"
When Mr. Prescott had read the note he looked up at Edwin,
Come into my, library" he said. pleasantly. "Youll find a new ma.. gazine to read, Faul, while you wait."
It was some time before Edwin came out again. As the boys start. ed home Paul saw that Edwin was carrying another note,
This is for your father, Edwin said. Mr. Prescott wrote it after he had asked me all sorts of ques tions. He wanted to know what grade I was in at school, and then I had to read aloud to him, and he asked me ever so many questions." "I don't see why he wants to know about all cant,” said "when you're jus', 'a Summer | vinitof
When Mr. Artley had read Mr. Prescott's note he seemed entirely catiafed: But he had nothing to say about either his own note or his answer, and all the boys could do was to wonder.
(To be continued).
BIFFY
Eyntrude Billington &mack
ton Gray,
Known as "Old Biffy for short, Went for a trip to the Bay
Biscay
She was the travelling sort.
She was es seasick as seasick could
Green from her head to her toes.
Oh, please keep steady,"
sho
Boreamed at the sea. Look at the Hue of my nose.
Every and laughed, and the captain
and any
„TRANSLATION,
Le pinelled “Ok, she don look sight!"; Mate 66 turning from pes-green My father has bought w doll, and gra40;
idoaming and gi
a cradle for me, the Boll je prošty,
she has a red dress arid a black hat,