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SIX FOOT SNAKE IN A STREET.
HOW POLICE CAUGHT IT.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25,41 1927.
SUN REDIVIVUS.
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the whole of this army la concen tration. They were not there. Only two divisions remained, the 4th and the 8th. Where had they all gone to? No one knew. Had they, gone south on the railway? At 6 o'clock one recent evening No. Were they, perhaps, encamp this snake was found making itsed in the surrounding country?
A live snake, 6ft long, with brown spots, has provided the London police with their latest problem.
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could only reply that as they had be discharged into Holt's Wharf MOREA arrived they had marched away Kowloon, where it will ls at Com- INOVARA from Talan and had not come signes's risk and subject to terms and KIDDERFORE back. Apparently then they had conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. DEVANHA
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Some days still later the writer August had passed through the whole of the northern attacking forces on the railway, arriving at the very head of the front at Suchow the day after the southerners had withdrawn..
Stockwell-road, Stockwell, S.W., at the junction with Bellefields- road, and for a long time the Brixton police were perturbed as to what should be done with it.
People gathered round in a circle now and again backing away hurriedly when the snake twisted hissed. Many ran its body or away when they learned the cause of the commotion. Overlooking many people windows provided with a view of what was hap pening.
Several policemen with the crowd occasionally took their hel- mets off and wiped their brows while they puzzled their heads as to the next move. Eventually a borough council employee, push- ing a handcart, was requisitioned. With two tron instruments the snake was very gingerly transfer red to the cart.
It was taken to the shop of Mr. Palmer, a Brixton naturalist, who sald it is apparently an Italian grass snake.
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An Army that Vanished. Not a sign all along the way of any man belonging to Sun's forces, Two days later the 4th and 8th Divisions came down by train. They stopped two days and then marched away.
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body knew. But report had it that they were not going along the railway but due cast to join their main forces about Haichow. An-cognised. other day and the Marshal himself turned up en route to the front. Where was the front? Somewhere east, it was said. Still mystery! But little by little and by repeated questioning it became apparent that the whole of Marshal Sun's forces had marched overland from Taian to the east coast near Hai- chow, and that they were not co- operating along the railway but would make a straight drive south- ward into Kiangau.
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Where that drive may hit first and where it may end are also for
Sir Oliver Lodge discussed the the time being in the realm of mystery, though it seems a fairly relations between mind and mat- safe speculation that they willter in a lecture at the Interna- tional Homeopathic Congress in next put in kn appearance at Tsingkiangpu on the Grand Canal, London recently. and it would not be greatly sur prising if they should suddenly turn up 100,000 strong north of
"My view is that the action of the Yangtsze opposite Chinklangmind in indirect and is conducted Some day (and very likely soon) the whole mystery of Sun Chuan- fang's come-back will be made clear, and the writer would not be greatly surprised if on that day his forces are south of Hangchow, In any case those who take a keen interest in these matters might do well to keep an eye on Marshaling medium which acts as the Sun, for there are things which transmitter, and the procese goer suggest that he may turn out toon through the ether of space. be not only a man of mystery but "Gravitation must also take the man of the hour in China to place through a medium, and 25 day.
"The mechanism whereby and KASHMIR matter interact," he said, "has not even begun to be explored.
OBITUARY.
A recent portrait of Zaghiul Pasha, the noted Egyptian politician, whose death is reported.
"CAPTAIN BLOOD."
SPANISH MAIN ROMANCE HERE.
on
through a concealed mechanism, which makes no appeal to the serises. I would even say that the action of matter on matter is in- direct, and that as long as the other is ignored it will never be fundamentally understood,
"There must be some interven-
space is otherwise empty that medium raust again be the ether.
"It is through the ether that we receive information and are able to interpret the chemical-con- stitution of a distant stär and even. to explore the history of the still more distant nebule..
Welds the Universe "Ether it is which welds the whole material universe into a whole and unites what otherwise, would be discontinuous and dis- connected masses of matter.
"What is the link between the mental and the material? I-look for it in the ether, and I urge that our bodies are not composed but that of matter, alone, they are united by a ma- terial mechanism which we might speak of as an etheric body. This etheric body is what is truly animated, and. It is through this that we act upon and arrange the material particles, and have in- corporated the food into the shape. which now we see..
"We need not be surprised there- fore if the mind acts on the body. We need not attempt to keep the body in health by food alone for yet by drugs. I
"Mind, ether and matter, all, in- teract; and, whether in health or in disease, a study of these three and of the methods and details of their interaction must be under- stood bfore any selence of human- ty is complete.
If only we have an era orlan interrupted peace and full co- operation among the hatlons, what the world may be like 1,000 1,000,000 years hence "burpasses ou present powers of imagina tron.
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