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THE HEART OF ASIA.
Afghanistan as Converging Point.
SIR SQUIRE BANCROFT YOUNG AT 81.
Famous Actor's Cure
for Old Age.
Sir Squire Bancroft, the veteran actor, last month celebrated his S1st, birthday..
Afghanistan is a gateway from our Indian Empire into the fas cinating regions beyond This gateway iscarefully guarded,oven in these days whe peace and amity have been re-established All day many men and women between Afghanistan and the of note, and bumbler friends a British Empire. On the border is well, called to wish him many an in cription. It is absolutely happy returns. Congratulatory forbidden to cross this border essages poured in upon him into Afgban territory. A from everywhere, and artist telephone message from Kabul to friends sent him
gome very the frontier made the passage beautiful and original birthday easy, writes the Times specist cards, and dainty little sketches correspondent who lately visited there, and passports and frontiers represented for him no barriers or delays. He was able to travel in a motor-car into the heart and centre of the forbidden land, over 10 excellent road constructed by
"I am most grateful to be in well." Sir Squire said to a Press representative.
It is really de lightful still to be able to enter. tain very dear friends such a those I have with me now.
"Everybody has overwhelmed
GHOSTLY HAPPENINGS IN SZECHUAN.
Gods at Fault] in Foretelling Earthquake.
Mienchow, Sze., May 31. There is rumour afloat around this district purporting to be a message from one of the "gods that a most devastating earth quake, to be attended with serious Toss of life and property, may be expected on the seventh day of orrespondent to the 3. (. Daily the fifth moon (June 2), writes al
New
This message from the een of unseen was sccompanied by prescription for certain berbe or drugs, which, when boiled, had to be poured out in liquid form into the river, and so the in- lividual might obtain immanity from the coming calamity. Is This turo the individual was in
structed to make 10 copies of the sait prescription and distribute
an Englishman, a road down me with kindness. I am greally them to 10 other people and so a
no: alone
that prisa
connects
touched with some of the me seges of life-long remembranc that I have received. Bat the day is oot without its naderton of sorrow, as it is so cear to the anniversary of my wife's death Lady Bancroft died on May 3, 1921.
YOUNG IN HEART.
sort of endless chain of life-saving was established. As I have not followed the instructions I baste to send you a message, as the calamity by this prediction is only two days ahead.
There have been further move- ments of troops recently into the provincial capital, where our re- doubtable Gen. Teng seems to have established himself. To Pay his expenses he has called for a levy of $128,000 from Mien- chub, one and a half day's journey from here, and this is now being
collected.
which heavy postal lorries convey the confused messages of an awakening Afghanistan to the Khyber Pass. There is a reserve about Kabul. A picturesque Orientalem that protects and half reveals the secrets of chang. ing Asia This journey as an adventure into the dimly known Afghanistan was not self.
"In years I am old, but me sufiting. Thesa ill defined constant endeavour "is to keep provinces of motley population on | something of youthfulness in my either ride of the Hincu Kush, mind and in my heart.. I try not consolidated into a kingdom by to let the world leave me too far the Amir Abdurrahman, thrill bebiad, and when things ar
to the enter- beyond my comprehension I have roads, lorries, and telephones to carry on quite cheerfully the things I have already men-
them by enough of the philosopher in m
During my recent tour, besides with the big world of India. The cannot have many more sears to land is awake to the movements life, but I do hope to be cheerful tioned in former letters, two other of Bokhara, Turkestan, and to the end.
things have struck me: first the Angora, and of that strange in- "I was born in Surrey in 1841, remarkable way the Tong Shan fluence in Moscow which is and some other men
Huei has spread. of the
Their rites provoking dais to new and hal-same year were King Edward, seem to be a mixture of bypactism intelligible combinations. How Lord Fisher, Lord Cramer. and spiritualism, very much in the heart of Asia can we justly M. Clemenceau, Mounet-Sully, along the lines of the Red discern the mutual attractions Coquelin the elder, and Sir Ed Lantera Sect (Boxers) of some and repulsions of Angora and ward Clarke. King Edward and years ago though they are not Moscow, of China and Japan? I were personal friends, and it yet as avowedly anti-foreign or Afghanistan is in direct contact pleased him when I remarked anti-Christian. The other thing: with this troubled world of abscure that the year of our birth was that struck me was the frequency possibilities. It is in contact, too, one of good vintage,*"*
one beard "Yang Ren" called after with an India whose ways of
Among Sir Squire's vivid recol-930. This terra died out some evolution have become for us lections, apart from the stage. Years ago, but this year may be a problem of urgent importance. was being taken to the great Ex-heard everywhere. The people in What emerges from Afghanis bibition of 1851, watching the general seem very unsettled in tan southward to Indis and to the funeral procession of the Duke of mind and expect disturbances of sea is subject to Ingical control Wellington, journeying to Green-rome kind in the intercalary and to judicial estimate. It is ich by the Rope Railway, the month (July). The frequency of fortunate that the details of inter-Chartist riots of 1848, and the these alarmist reports and the course with the British Empire Manning murder in 1849.
general feeling of uneasiness have been brought into the forms
make us wonder if something really will happen.
doknowo
FLASHES FROM THE STATES.
There is always a brighter side. -Spring is seldom a slushy as he poetry it inspires.-Chicago Daily Journal.
WATCH THE FRUIT YOUR CHILDREN EAT. Whilst most ripe, sound fruits danger in fruit which is green, are good for children there is over-ripe or damaged, among the least of the evils to be feared from such fruit being acute indigestion, diarrhoea and worms.
of ordered amity. There is, how ever, in Afghanistan & residue of the
and the hardly calculable. There are those turbid influences from the r.giogs beyond, the eddies and currents of that inland sea of changing opicion in Asia. What of the routes that lead from Kabul into Turkestan and
France must remember that the Persia? Who comes and who prayer reads: "Forgive us our goes by them, and to what debts-as we forgive one debtors." purpose? What messages are
When you have reason to -Waterbury Democrat. conveyed to and fro by the The only difference between fruit of a doubtful character the suspect that your child has eaten way between Kabol and Asia stumbling blocks and stepping-best course is to administer s Minor through Herat And
stones is in the way you use dose of Baby's Own Tablets at Tabriz? What are the in-them. - Newspaper · fluences that paaa
Enterprise once, for these Tablets quickly|| through ociation. Orenburg and Tashkend, and
but gently cleanse the stomach, loss that come from the very Far jure up more respect for the law-most delicate infant. - what is the timbre of the vibra-respect for law if we could con- safety even to the youngist or Perhaps there would be more and can be given with absolute Exet through all the confusion of makers. Shoe, and Leather China? Afghanistan.is in the Reporter.
"Baby's Own Tablets, the centre of all these conflicting-
Cadian children's remedy, are currents, and for that reason as a place to settle down'; bus troubles, constipation, colds and Europe may dream of Americs NİKO specific for teething Kabul is one of the most intensely let her not forget that it is all croup. They bring calm, ristura), place to settle up.-Fort Wayne health-giving sleep and promote News.
regular development. Trom
| interesting spots in Asia.
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A proposal by the Labour mem- bers to establish municipal print ing works has been rejected by the Newcastle Corporation. Sp
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