THIS QUEER Man Who
Cannot
WORLD
STRANGE EVENTS Feel Pain
OF THE DAY
AN AESOP FABLE COMES TRUE
London,
Queer things, some of them very queor, which happen all over the world are recorded by Reutor Correspondenta. Here is a selec
tion:
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A monument to Mr. Thomas Edison, the inventor, is being set up by the vilingers of Yahata, in the Kyoto, prefecture.
This is why.
car-
When Edison was creating the electric lamp, he hit upon the use of Japanese Bamboo, after bonisation, for the filaments.
Hence a demand 'bringing wealth to Yahata,
REMAINS CRUCIFIED FOR AN HOUR
Madrid.
Fritz, Toopfor, the man who claims that he feels no pain, has caused & sensation in Barcelona, 'with He remained "crucified," nails through his hands and feet,
for one hour,
He attributes his condition to a War accident. He was an avintor in the German army, and was brought down by enemy fro.
On the point of death, he was revived, but since then he has been immune to ordinary pain. Doctors in several countries have studed his case.—Reuter,
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for banibon, has led men devise a now method of destroying thom, saya Reuter from Adelälda, South Aus- | antràlia.
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Scientists at the American Musdum of Natural history
The shooter hides in a bush, and working on a "jig-sw puzzle" blows a special whistle. with 20,000 pieces.
The fox thinks it is the squen! When completed, the "puzzle" of a trapped rabbit, comes out into will be a skeleton of one of the the open-and is shot. rarest of dinosaurs, the "dread- noughts" that inhabited parts of North America millions of years
ago.
The "puzzle" years to solve.
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-A miner in Valencia, Spain, has confessed that he cummitted a murder 13 years ago.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1933.
MODEL PRINCE BEING LOVED
RUMANIAN 'HEIR'S SCHOOL SUCCESS
IS IT IMPRUDENCE OR A FATALITY ?
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SECOND. BOY IN COUNSEL'S IDEA
old.
CLASS
Bucharest.
Paris.
TOWNS GROW OUT OF JUNGLE.
ACCESSIBLE ONLY
BY AIR
YET MODERN IN EVERY WAY
Port Moresby, New Guinen.
A
FINAL TRIBUTE TÓ. VISCOUNT GREY
and are using the latest machinery PRAYER FOR PEACE. [to win gold from the earth.
HOSPITALS AND BUNGALOWS.
Surrounded by the Jungle there are hospitals and comfortablo bungalows equipped with wire- lees, gramophones, planos, electric light, and great mining machines weighing hundreds of tons,
Tet
thard
London, Sept. 9. The body of Lord Grey of Fallo don was taken from Falleden - to no road through the Darlington for goldholds. Everything has been toworing mountains to these trople
cremation this morning. Only relatives, with
Is it an imprudence to be loved?
brought in by aeroplane. Nothing members of the indoor and outdoor like. It has been done in the world staffs at Fallodon, were present. Conscientious is the word. to
Or is it merely a fatality?
before.
Meanwhile, services were held in describe Prince Michael, the Heir
This question has arisen in con-
Modern towna, with hospitals, Sweeping to 8,000 feet over Nowcastle Cathedral and in Em- Apparent and ex-King of Ruction/with, an insurance clafra mania, who is now eleven years following two tragie deaths electric light and wireless, have densely wooded ranges and steep bloton Parish Church, near Fallo-
Arisen out of the jungle hinterland within an hour the journey from
rayinca, the monoplanes covered don, A young Provencal fell in love of New Guinea. There is no road Salamoa, which would tako, the the peace of the world-the wish A special prayer was offered for Not long ago, it was said that with a married woman from Porto them; only aircraft can reach fastest native carrier an arduous nearest to the heart of the doad Prince Michael was becoming too when she went to the South them over the mountaine plump for his age. So he under France for the wedding of a re- went an intensivo "alimming" course and carried out violent gymnastic exercises in order to reduce his weight.
Now his school "report" has reached the Palace. It shows a year's unflagging effort to learn.
The Prince is placed second in his class, too.
This is all the more creditable because the clasa consists of eight boys, whom Smith Minor would describe as, absolutely "frightful
swots."
The boys are all picked as the Jealousy caused a 76-year-old man to quarrel with His wife, "best scholars of their age from Their labours aged 70, and to stab her to death various schools,
are directed by dozens of profes in San Sebastian, Spain.
He said that he could not bearsors; and the subjects they tackle to think that she might not love are 'ledon. him any more.
A cat saved fourteen lives when He says that pange of conscience fire broke out in a boarding house prompted him to give himself up. at Johannesburg..
Aesop has been proved right at
It jumped on to the bed of its the John Hopkins Hospital at Bal-mistress and awakened her. Then she gave the alarm, and everyone rushed to safety from the blazing building.
timore, Maryland. -
Following the annual tortoise race in the hospital grounds, the winner was pitted against a bare.
Just as in the Aesop fable, the tortoise plugged along steadily and passed the finishing line well ahead of its speedy but erratic rivol.
Mr. McDavidson fell from a ninth floor window of his hotel in New York.
Ho awoke smiling, in hospital, with only a slight bump on his head.
Eight broken window awnings showed where he had fallen.
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The days of highwaymen are not
past in some parts of Spain.
Twenty masked "men of the road rode up to a farm near Seville in broad daylight.
They stole the aged farmer's corn, and shot him dead when he tried to frustrate them.
A gipsy has been arrested in Almeria, Spain.
It la alleged that he sold his child, aged 5, in exchange for a donkey.
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Tourists on the Eichberg, near Gloggnitz, Lower Austria, came upon a wild-looking man in a cave among the rocks,
At first he fled from them, but
eventually spoke to them and proved to be an educated man born in Vienna.
Long unemployment has caused
him to flee the haunts of man. He
Ilves on berries and mushrooms, and says that he is so happy that
The final placings for the year have been decided on by a Council
lative,
He sent her ardent letters, But the woman was happily married, and replied, and replied gently but firmly, hoping that her lover would forgot.
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statesman.-British Wirdless.
penniless and desperate, after years at the head of Edie Creek. of misfortune, who struck deposits
It lo only six years since Lloutenant Mustard flow the fret aeroplane an old DH37, purchased cheaply from the Commonwealth, from Lae to Wau.
The development of the Bulolo, week to perform. Wau and Edie Creek goldfelds has domitable spirit has been shown by Fearlessness, resource and an in- caused this transformation. the menacing growl of the war ties by the airmen who are conduct Yesterday,, the jungle echoed to the plonker miner, and equal qualf drums and the scream of the heading the services on which depends hunters.
the ability to operate the fields.
MARVEL OF ENGINEERS. To-day there is, Instead, a clat-
No wonder their joint pchlove Instead, he came to Parisk shotter of huge, dredges, and the deep- har dend, and then committed sui-throated roar of giant monoplanes, mente are the marvel of engineers elde.
Yet to-day, two big companies. Yesterday, painted cannibals and aviators the world over, vénring feather headdressca, held Twelve years have passed since the Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd, und dances, feasts and initiation cero-{ "Shark Bye", Park, a man who had the New Guinea. Goldfields, and a monies.
a magic power to travel in safety smaller company, called Daydawn, To-day, Inatend, the sums sav-alone among the florcest natives, and numerous syndicates, are work- ages, grimy, wearing buttered felt arst discovered Hold on Koranga ing these fields, and gold. worth hats, are working under the direc- Creek, a tributary of the Bulolo £80,000 is being flown monthly to tion of a handful of white men, River, and it was Bill Royal, the const.-Renter.
The husband claimed the 100,000 fra. (about £12,000) for which his wife had insured her life in his favour. The insurance company pointed to a clause of the contract atipulating payment in the case of fatality but non-payment in the ease of imprudence on the part of the deceased.
Trips in aeroplanes and sub- marines, mountaineering and rac-: ing are included in "acts of im- prudence."
"But in the present, state of of Professors, including the Mini- civilisation, is it imprudent for a gier of Public Instruction. Over married woman to refuse unwant the task of these pundits presideded advances?" askes counsel for Princo Michael's devoted father, the husband. "Love is essentially
| a fatality,"—Reuter. It was the King's King Carol. idea that founded the school of eight superlative scholars, He directa it personally.
The King is delighted with his ilkely to be carried on now till son's progress. The experiment is
Prince Michael has "awotted" his way through another seven years. and, with his seven companiona, can enter the university---Reuter
INDUSTRY BUILT
ON
FASCISM IN HOLY LAND
CHRISTIÁN ARABS START MOVEMENT
The
Jerusalem.
Naz! policy of a racin "spring-cleaning" has been adopted by a group of young Christian and Beit- Araba of Bethlehe Jallah. Beit-Jallah is a Christian town adjoining the "feld of
MOTHER'S GRIEF Ephrath in which the matriarch
he has no wish to return to ROMANCE. OF FAMOUS
civilisation.
CARPET MAKING
Rachel mourned the scattering of Israel.
This group of young men is now engaged upon plans for forming a Fascist Party in Palestine.
Two kind-hearted Spanish walters are walking from Alicante
Lisbon. Their ultra-nationalistic policy to Puerto Santa Maria, a distance One of Portugal's most pro- does not, however, envisage the ex- jof 480 miles, in order to serve a sperous industrica has been found-clusion of Moslems from a political
hearty meal to prisoners in gnol ed on a mother's grief. It is the alitance. there for political-offences, carpot industry, built up by a
No arrests have yet been made.
And hero is the story of another Krim survival from the past, says Router from Bulawayo, Rhodesia. They will cook the meal them-broken-hearted woman who sought
A native woman suspected of selves.
having caused the death of a
number of children by, witchcraft | Mr. John Miller borrowed
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was burned to death by three book from a friend nearly thirty natives who set fire to her hut. years ago, anys Reuter from
The three men have been aen-Morganton, North Carolina. tenced to death at the Salisbury He has just returned it, with Criminal Sesalons,
the message: "I'm sorry I kept it so long."
Fear that a shortage of rabbits will cause foxes to attack, larabs
The friend has been dead for
some time. Reuter,
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The part of Hitler's govern- mental policy that appeals to them most is that dealing with anti- Jewish measures.
One of the youth leaders, speak- ding Oriental Fascists at ing recently at a rally of the bud- Bethle- hem, declared that they wanted "A lean Palestine, rid of the Jewish population. He said he admired the Nazi anti-Jewish acts because
To divert her mind from her lose she took up carpet making, and so they were "directed at exorcising proficient did she become, and so a real evil. Such acts ought to be popular were the brightly colour enforced in Palestine, he proclaim- ed rugs and carpats she made, that |ed, лk the menace of Jewish before long she had six apdomination in all spheres there was prentices learning to become her greater than in Germany. helpers.
But an Arabic daily has had an To-day that Httle homework-article deploring the Nazi Govern- shop has grown to a great factoryment's attitude to the Jews because employing 300 women workers bo- its main effect has been to revive sides acores of others employed in Jewish interest in the Zionist set- minor joba and in transport. tlement of Palestine, in stimulating The wool comes. from the flocks fund-raising among Jewe, and thus of sheep which graze on the slopes in helping the materialisation of the of the Estrella Mountains, and the Jewish National Home project. Beiriz carpets now find their way "Hitler's activities are not doing all over the world, being sought us Arabs any good at all," this after as much for their delicate paper remarks. colouring and characteristic pat- terns an for their hard-wearing properties.-Reuter.
NAZIS SOLDIER-
LAWYERS
Legal Minds Must Be Military Trained
Berlin.
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The young Arab Fascists, home of whom are Cathoiles, also believe Signor Mussolini'a dictatorship to be a model of statecraft ana say they will follow his principles of party rule-Reuter.
TOWEL 2,000 YEARS OLD'
FOUND IN FUNERAL URN
Rome.
All German Law students have now to undergo a period of train- ing in military excercises and A beautifully woven Roman "sports" in Nazi campa before they towel, in perfect state of preserva- will be allowed to practise at the tion, has been found in a funeral German Bar.
of the Imperial epoch. The first of these camps has. It is about the size of a modern been opened at Juterbog 80 miles hand towel, with fringes, and was from Berlin, and is organised on found wrapped round the ashes of
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denta have to live soldiers in the Christian era: 537 of the early field. And they are not allowed intact. throughout the conturion. The urn had preserved its adal to smoke or drink.
In addition it contained balsam The day is spent in military with a basis of camphor, and this training under the direction of acted as a preservative for the Nazi war veterans, including ex- clotherapie enke sergoaút-majors, who ́ ́ maintain Thỏ towel is almost unique of its fron, discipline, t
Meng, kind. Archnadologist think it may The purpose of these camps Is prove that the Romans habitually officially declared to be to "givo an, usou a towel to wrap up the ashen opportunity of Judging the charac of their dozou before putting them ter and disposition of these young into urge, VEND
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