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THE "LIVING DEAD.” UNCANNY EXPERIENCE IN LAMA TEMPLE. By ALEKO E LILIUS, P.F.G.8.]
(Cincinded.)
Some of the Lamus in a Procession.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 22nd, 1929.
It for a moment to be an illusion, MYSTERY OF SOUND and I oven shook my head to get rid of the spell, if it was a spell,
But then the hand moved.
Very slowly and tired like. Then
WAVES.
it fell back. But it had moved. ATMOSPHERE AND VAGARIÉS
I was an uncanny feeling to see;
the corpss perform the bidding of
these mysterlous priests, sorcorers
OF AUDIBILITY.
or what not. During all this Mr. Alexander Wood dealt with Line, the silence was almost sound waves and the vagarles of Shrieking, and only the drum con- atmosphere in the second of the tinued to throb a regular bomm-lectures delivered, recently, before bomm-bómni
the Royal Institution at the In- On the other hand it could have slitulian of Electrical Engineers. been a trick, a cheap trick from;
In some cases, he nahi, powerful which the Lamus would un- doubted gain a lot, materially and sources of sound, such as fog quiorally.
Some kind of inertivens, ceased to be audible at un- chanical device. But at this inexpectedly short distances. The stant the Da-Lama was ready forst important conditions affect- a new song and when he reached the audibility of sounds were the frenzied state, the corpse ne-a lack of homogeneity in the ut Jually stirred and made an atmosphere, the variation of tempera- tempt to sit up in the coflin.
The Drums. Throb On.
ture with height above the ground, and the variation of wind velocity with height above the ground.
When the air near the gratul Only the drum proceeded fo Int its weird bomm-bowm-bomm, was warmest, as in the middle of and when I looked at the raws of a hot day, with a clear sky, the Lamas in front of me,-il seemed na sound may were bent away fron if they were doing a lot of con- the earth, and audibility centrating, each of them staring poor. When the air near
Kround was coolest, in the even- jat a point in front of him.
ing of a hot day and with n eleny Then the dead man sat upl
Was
the
The Emas began to sing. The thused alone some sort of a siag
11in
eyes were open, staring ky, the sound rays were bent to- wards the earth and audibility At that instant i was certain of Da-Lama had entered the Temple song appeal to Buddha or to the
I could not dis- Foul play. I lashed through my room through the middle dour and dead man in the coin. He work-straight ahead. mind that the Lamas probably had lifted the little vase with the ed himself to a frenzy and discover in them the slightest Hght was good. Similarly, the waves
aed with a low-tow.
of understanding of what was goof sound travelling with the wind thought know too mich andered peneark feathers as
was no doubt were bent towards the earth, while those travelling against the should be disposed of, and that the jsignal for the song to begin. He
But nothing happened. Then on, but there
... the corpae was. story of the Living Dead was a was gorgeously attired in a yellow dead man in the cothe seemed to
counting for the effect to wind on wishes of these Lamas. ruse. But at the same moment Irebe, and the rest of the Tamusjatay dead. De-Lama got up and alive; it moved, it obeyed the wind were, bent away, thna ac-
andibility.
noticed several lanterna borne by wore the same Grecian headgear white ela Chinese, all moving in have described before. There the sun direction. Somehow was a crash of cymbals and druMIA. this quieted me and the feeling The song went on for a full 15 that I was not alone was rather re- minutes. I was indeed a beanti-;} assuring; that the Lamus were on fut litany. It ended very abrupt- The level, and that I had been in- ly, and dead ailence' ungued." No- vited to sue perhaps the strangest body dared to stir. The enmile' show on earth, I fallowed my self-lighe Ackered and the incense| appointed bolyguard.
vapors were suffocating."
We proceeded in the large Ten-
le faring The mala' court-yard,
The Colin Again,
with the huge bronze Buddha, A that inoment & heard a shuf- und entered through the right door. The room was full of Lamas, ding of feet and a dozen men ap-| squatting down in long rows on peared in the door, carrying be both sides of the adddle aisletween them the heavy coffin, which leading to the altar with the only they deposited in the aisle about armed bejewelled and blackest 15 feet from the altar and the Buda statue. None of the Buddha I had ever Been...
The room was illuminated with Lamas seemed to have observed hundreds of candies, and the the arrival of the men with their richly carved bronze urn near the hastly burden; they sat motion- Idol poured oal clouds of sweet in-less, staring at the floor.
To the right stond several enight a glimpse of the man in the was apparently the hundred Chinese, all dressed froin. It white.
cense.
On the opposite side stand,game Living Dead I had seen
to my great astonishment, a group shown before.
of women. I did not know that
·
He got up from the coin and
An instance of abnormal sound slood for a moment in the aisle
that of the Jonstendy, as if the knees would areas quoted was
not do their duty. The drums Silvertown explosion in January. vontinues enesuragingly their 1917, when the whole county of
monotonous melody:
Cambridge was a silent area while
Now he walked. He took a few in the more distant counties of Norfolk and Lincoln the sound steps to the altar,
was heard.
He slumped down in a rather unceremonious kow-tow before the altar and the Buddha statue. This The repeated several times...
Imperial mundaria robes. 1 be- leve he was of princely blood, for some reason put into a catalyptic sleep by the cruel Lapins, as a unishment for one thing on an- other. It must have been long
At this moment the silence was disturbed by a hysterical sob from the opposite side of the Temple; womani, had had too much of these uncanny goings-on; it was indeed "g. toa nerve racking even for a man.
I have tried to discuss this mat-
The Living Dead had turned ter with the savants, of, bath around and facing the Da-Lama America and Europe but they din whom he in all probability did not miss the stary as incredible. On see, hekow-towed before him, the other hand I was told that an- turned around and walked back ather white man, presumably an wards, step by step, to his resting-European traveller had witnessed place, the coffin, Nobody helped this weird ritual by command of him. The Lamas were still mo- the late Dowager Empresa of tonless; but the moment he was China who apparently had a know-
ledge of this phenomenon,
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A snapshot at Causeway Bay, among the floating homes,
of the harbour folk.-(Photo:, W. Stone).
TELEVISION TO CATCH CRIMINALS.
'DEMONSTRATION AT SCOT.
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as a weapon against erime. If every police headquarters was equipped with it, it would be possible to broadenst a picture of I wanted man all over the country
at a second's notice,"
Selence is more and more play- ing its part in the defeat of the criminal. Telegraphed pictures Television may be the latest and fast care fitted with radio np- weapon employed by Scotland paratus are now a common-place.
on the criminal fraternity.
Yard in its war
Arrangements have been made (says the Sunday Chronicle) to give a demonstration of its pus-
Head Lama Enters Temple. The pallbearers retired after wonten were ever allowed at any kowtowing before the colla and walked away to the throne erected stretched out for his long, long
Who was the Living Dead and Jamaistic veremonies and it struck ju drum started to throb softly.for him at the end of the aisle.sleep, the litany and mule bearera
how long had he been dead yet liv-sibilities as an aid to detection me that perhaps this was such aThen the Da-lama took up the Be then gave again the signal for tank the casket away.
ing, and what has happened to the to a number of high officials at Who Was He? soleren evasion that an excep-jaong, and in a little while there the Bany to liegin all over,
poor fellow in his casket since Scotland Yard. Again was the same tion had been made.
When the cymbals crashed it. Hitany repeated
Who was the Living Dead? lie the occupation of Peking by the might have len a secret order again. It ceased just as abruptly looked to me as if the eyelids of meeting.
ás before, but the Da-Lama con- the dead man moved. I believed was not a Lama for he wore the Nationalist troops?
They will assemble before u tele- visor screen and will have flashed before them the Image of a man who is supposed to be "want.cit."
It is understood that the test isi the outcome of Lord Byng's in- fention to arm Scotland Yard with every development of modern science,
If it is successful it is poa-k sible that every polico hend- quarters in the country will be equipped with television reiving and sending sels.
re
The demonstration is being ar- ringe by the Baird Television Duvelopment Company, and wall take place at an early date.
At Second's Notice.
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