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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928,
THE INCIDENT IN
NATAL.
FORGED HARDY MS.
"I KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE."
CLEMENT KADALIE AND THE NATIVES' UNION.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
VIOLET RAYS ARE NOT TO
BE 'PLAYED WITH.
The Journal of the American Medical Association calls atten- tion again to the fact that the broadcast sale of apparatus giving ultra-violet rays is likely to reault
The incident in Natal in which EXPERT'S STATEMENT. the white population of Greytown attempted to lynch a native and "I know who is responsible for raided the offices of the industrial these forgeries, I also know the and Commercial Workers' Union ja name of the agent who is reapon-in harm to the public. regarded by South Adrienne in sible for their distribution." London who have some knowledge
Of course, no harm can result of the situation as purely a local This statement about the origin from the use of ultra-violet colour- outbreak and unlikely to have of the forged MS. of the lato ed incandescent lights, such as serious conacquences,"
Thomas Hardy, which, along with are used in some barber shops to The Industrial and Commercial other forged manuscripts, was stimulate the growth of hair.. In Workers' Union is a trade union recently bought by an American such enses the only difficulty is for native workers In South collector, was made by Mr. Thomas that the light is absolutely with Africa, its object being to secura J. Wise, who, besides being an out any effect on the half and the for the black worker an equal authority on Hardy manuscripts, purchaser gets only the vision "of footing with the white and, with is the greatest living authority purple for his money. coloured workers of other nation- on the life and work of Shelley alities. Its president not him-and Byron. self a native, but a pold agitator from the West Indies, Clement Kadalle.
Rays That Are not Real. Neither does this refer to the It will be recalled that in July, 1926, Mr. Wise was responsible imitation ultra-violet ray apparat- There has been some trouble in for the detection of a. forged us that la sold by some electrical the past with Kadalie, and last Byron MS. which had been pre-concerns for home treatments; year he was at Gene, where, pared by dipping the paper into unless the ultra-violet is produced The forger forgot to by a carbon are or by the circula- without any official atauding, he coffee.
corner surtion of the electrical current was endeavouring to push the immerse the tiny
At the through mercury vapour enclosed claims of his Union to send the face which he held. workers' representative from same period. forged manuscripts in quartz glass there are not any
of Shelley,
France, real ultra-violet rays for the pur- Anatola to South Africa
The Rudyard Kipling, and W. Hchaser, at least not sufficient to employers' representative. claims of his union were based on Hudson were detected, and it have any appreciable effect.
It has long been known that the assumption that, being the was evident to experts that the
documents came from a common practically every apparatus or drug that is powerful for good may union with the largest number of workers,. It was entitled to be
also do harm, allowed to nominate the workers" representative.
meet the
The South African Government, however, were unmoved from their decision that the while workers, not the native, must be represent-
aource.
Mr. Wise declared that the re- cent Hardy forgery came from the same source,
Obviously Forged.
Nevertheless, the promoters of these machines are selling them to bath institutes, swimming pools, massage parlours, beauty parlours and barber shops, where the rays Jure, administered by technicians ed at Geneva. The further polley "Two years ago," he said, “Mr. who have never studied the human of South Africa.. against Which Hardy made me a present of the body and who have no conception Kadalie's union is. strongly con- MS. of his poem, which is headed of the dangers." tending, is that which preventsAt a host in Hampstead, some- Many large clubs for men, par- natives from taking up skilled time the dwelling of John Keats. ticularly athletic clubs, have occupations.
He also wrote another copy and established ultra-violet rooms with At one town the Communists presented it to the Keats Muscum. the idea that the tired business endeavoured to exploit the native Ten days ago Mr. Calkin, head of man will be rejuvenated and made union, but Kadalie, would have the firm of Riviere and Son, Hed-full of pep by a few minutes of
With don-street, showed mo n MS. of nothing, to do with them.
exposure to the ultra-violet rays him it is stern opposition to any this poem which was obviously after his exercise or his lunchoon. kind of white worker. The main a forgery. ground, of course, on which the equalisation of the white and black | workers in South Africa is based is the very great preponderance of the natives, something like seven millions and a half to one million and a half. If black labour were unrestricted the nalivo would soon swamp every industry.
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. YOUNG WOMAN JUMP'S INTO
STREET.
Scientific literature already con-
"He also showed me MSS, which tains the reports of many cases in purported to be by Stevenson, which the skin has been damaged, Oscar Wilde, and Thackeray, to in which the eyes have been in- gether with an autograph of flamed, in which serious results Judge Lynch, one of the fathers have occurred due to careless ex- of American independence. The posure to ultraviolet raya. letter, if genuine, would have been worth £500, and taken together.| these manuscripts would have) It is known that persons with been worth about £1,600.
fever and low blood pressure
Serious Possibilities.
"They had been bought by a sometimes fenct seriously to ex-
posure. In many instances there, young American collector in a London auction room for £60, and have been burns of the skin due he had taken them to Messrs. to the dropping of hot pieces of A somewhat, ususi accident Riviere for rebinding. I showed carbon, and there are some cases developed occurred in Lascar Row on Tues the MS. of the IIardy poeia to Mr. reported of persons especially THE AMERICAN EXPRESS Co., Inc.day morning at about nine o'clock, S. C. Cockerell, Hardy's literary schaltveruptions after
when a young Chinese married executor, and he agreed that it severe eruptions after the use of
ultraviolet raya. woman had a narrow escape from was a forgery. At present the
An energy as potent as this is! death when she jumped from the document is deposited in Messrs.should be used only by those who second floor verandah of No. 8, Riviere's office.
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"A short time ago," Mr. Wisc continued "an alleged Byron manuscript was offered to me valuable. Nearly all were pre- which was obviously the work of sented to public institutions, such the same forger. I tore up thee the British Museum and the document and told its owner that Bodleian Library.
Following a quarrel with her family on the previous night, the young woman, who was married only last year, decided to end her life, but when she jumped from the verandah, she struck the telephone wires, which broke her fall,
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"It is important that the public his books. Recently, in addition wires brake and both fell to the should be warned against the to the one already mentioned, I ground. The woman was taken to existence of what is evidently a have seen two forged Hardy auto- the Government Civil Hospital with gang of forgers, for Hardy manu-graphs, which if genuine would an injured back.
scripts are at the present time very have been worth nearly £30 each."
he was at liberty to sue me if he
"While Mr. Hardy was alive I wanted to. I have heard nothing only remember seeing one forgery, more about the matter.
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