One of the few photographe in existence of the city of Quetta in Western India, showing a fruit stall in the city's market place. The city, an imporlant British army post, was razed by the invare earthquake that swept the neighbourhood. Half the population of 60,000 persons were reported killed in the catastrophe..
نشاه
Lieutenant His Highness Mir Ahmad Yar Khas, Beglar Begi, Khan of Kalat, where several thousand
persons lost their lives during the sarthquake that shook the region, May 31. The one hundred miles between Quetta, to the North and Kalat, was razed by the quake which took
· total of about 30,000
lives.
BARMAN'S BAD LUCK
FOUND BODY BUT KEPT SILENT
coroner
OVERCOME
BY PANIC
GARDEN ROAD MISHAP
LADY DRIVER HITS AGAINST FENCING
Mrs. J. Pinnie, a learner driver, was involved in a minor motor Ae- mishap yesterday afternoon. companied by a fleensed driver she was driving car No. 2816 westward along Queen's Road, near junction of Garden Road, knocked against the ear fencing used in connection with rond repairs outside Murray Bar- !racks.
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curtain round the body, and some carpet, when I gat in the mineral cellar, and wrapped a piece of rope round
it when I put it back in the recess,"
The coroner: Did you mention finding this body to any single soul since then?-Not soul, sir, until the police came this month.
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THE HONGKONG
SAINT JOAN OF ARC
BODY OF HER JUDGE FOUND
BISHOP'S GRAVE UNMARKED
Paris,
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1935.
On the feastday of Saint Joan of Arc, the story of the Anding of the body of Bishop Piere Cauclion. chief of the judges who condemned her, in the nameless grave where it hnd rested for five centuries, and its reburial, still unmarked, was tokt for the first time to a nation which had remained ignorant of it although the find occurred in May of 1931-the 500th anniversary the death of Joan.
Was
The burning of the heretic who is now a saint, and the throwing of her ashes into the river Seine, still of Cauchon, haunts the memory whom the Lwentieth century, like the Afteenth, doomed to remain as anonymous, in death as his victim.
The finder of the body Etienne Deville, a scholar, whose studies convinced him that Catchon was buried under the chapel in the Cathedral of Lisieux which was erected at his expense and which he dedicated to the Virgin, in order, popular legend had it, to atone for the death of the Mald..
Chuchon died suddenly at Rouen,
Sir William Keith Murray, Bart. of Perthshire, Scotland, recently made a flying visit to Canada, arriving early in the wook and alling back on Fri- day, Sir William, who oWDI about 11,000 acros of land in Scotland, praised what he had enn of Canadian agriculture,
Unable to make a forced landing in a park in Sydney, Australia, for fear of injuring children at play, this pilot headed for some adjoining scrub and landed in this spectacular manner, fojuring himself and his passenger. His machine perched on its nose with tall high in the air but the pilot was ivccouaful in his attempt to avoid the youngsters below.
FEW FILM THRILLS
LONDON PICTURES
REVIEWED
London, June .IG.
There are few outstanding films in London this week. The routine activites of the Royal Air Force form the subject of a new doen. mentary Alm which is shown this week at the Polytechnic Theatre under the title of "The R.A.F." I is a straightforward survey and has been made in co-operation with the Air Ministry and the Admiral- ly,
An American film at the Regal is called "G Men", and is a noisy, exciting new version of the mun hunt theme It is a complete translation of the old gangster ple- ture into terms of federal in- The coroner: You are not bound
tegrity, with James Cagney in a to add anything unless you like, where Joan was burned, while a but would you like to tell the jury barber was cutting his beard, just part after his own heart, and the why you did this?
seven years before Charles VII, ingenuity with which Johnson: I was panic-stricken, king by the grace of Joan, made his ducers have found a way of getting sir, and frightened to tell the triumphal entry into the city where a lot of gunplay back on the screen
There
in-he had allowed her to be burned. without falling foul of the Hays manageresA, quest on the Friday, and customers! There is no record of his burial once niust be a matter for general had been in the bar talking about though, despite his condemnation of it, and that was why I lost my the Maid, at his death he was still congratulation. head and was too frightened to considered a worthy man and a tell any one.
benefactor of Lisieux, of which he had formerly been the bishop.
A barman told the Southwark ip at a recent inquest London how he found a body in the cellar of the public house where he worked, and in a fit of panic hid it In a recess.
WIN An
PARTLY MUMMIFIED
cast. IL F
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lover. Miss Martha
Some weeks ago, Lillian Har. vay, screen star, left Holly.. wood for England, where, sile claimed, things are "most quiat and lolsurely." Her first film for British International Pictures was "Invitation to the Waltz," -for which she is said to have received a record salary in the history of British pictures.
tastic novel about a scientist who On
At the Curzon is "The Divine Spark" being a romantic assess- ment of the life of Bellini, the com- COFFIN WITHOUT NAME Sir Bernard Spilsbury said that Deville in the course of his re-poser, technically British, but made
Internationally could turn statues into men the body was that of a partly searches discovered that Cauchon in Italy by an
bad requested that on his death his assorted
pretty the screen it works out as a futile mummified old man.
to enough story of self sacrifice, with and heavy-handed attempt at gay There were several fractures of body should be transferred
collar-bone! Lisieux and buried beneath the the skull. The left
were chapel which he had given to the ice settings, but the divine spark madness. With better writing it and the left shoulder-blade
Cathedral. He obtained permission is hard to find. Mr. Philip Holmes might have been good satire; with fractured with several ribs.
Sir Bernard, In reply to the to excavate and seek the body well suggests at some points an better playing it might have been coroner, said that the injuries he Deaply buried, it was found in a artist's singleness of purpose, and good slapstick: as it stande, it is The inquest was on William had described were equally complain cofin bearing no name, but in his early scenes is a takingly just a desperate attempt to play Ellis, the eighty-year-old traveller, patible with the dead man having when the coffin was opened a skele renuous of East-hill, Wandsworth, whose accidentally fallen down, the steps ton was disclosed with a bishop's Eggerth endoss the self sacrificing safe and yet be different. Hunter body was hidden for nearly a year or with his having been pushed. ring still thrust on one bony finger heroine with a fine sense of in-lawk is played by Mr. Alan Mow- in the cellar of the Equestrian
Ray Hubbuck, of while Cauchon's crozier lay beside tegrity and sings arias from Nor-bray. public house, Blackfriars-road, S.E. Grosvenor - gardens, Kingston - on it.
na and La Sonambula and from
An entertaining film is "People The jury returned an open ver- Thames, a
The crozier and ring were played the Barber of Seville with ease and daughter, described
Will Talk" at the Plaza which skil dict that death was caused by Ellis as a quiet, reserved man. He in the Lisieux museum, and Cauchon delicacy. fall, but how such a fall occurred was of sober habits. He was 11 was reburied in the same spot; and
fully exploits the amlable preten- there was not sufficient evidence to commercial traveller in glass, and just as the fifteenth century, though
tiousness of that suburban dude, show.
visited public houses.
recognising his good works, had
"The Age of Indiscretion," at the | Mr. Charlie Ruggles, and the ex- Ifer father Cecil Edward
refused to perpetuate the name of Empire, is a routine story ofquisite vagueness of The barman,
Mary Miss Johnson, of Linton-road, Old Town,
the head of the court which cun divores and the resulting struggle and
musical romance dermed Saint Juan, Clapham, was, cautioned before he had gave evidence. He said he
principal been employed at the public house, and on July 5 last year was the only man on duty.
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"At six o'clock," he said, "one of the barmaids sited me to get some cont. I went to the cellar. down the stairs leading from the office, taking a bucket with me. went along the passage to
the cellar where the coni was kept.
"I saw the body of a man there. The man was lying on the steps.
"I was panic-stricken and did not know what to do. 1. hnd never seen him before. I then filled the bucket with coal...
"I WAS TOO FRIGHTENED"
The coroner: Did hot you touch the man or feel him?-No. I did not, sir. 1 was too frightened. After I had taken the conl up 1 took the body and put it in the
recess.
Did you take any steps to see if he was dead or not?-Yes, I felt him afterwards.
When did you wrap the body up In these things?~On the Saturday evening.
Thu coroner: You mean you did not take steps to conceal the body. on the Thursday night?-No, slr.. It was wither the Friday or the Saturday.
"I took it from the recess Into the minoral collar to get the light," added Johnson, "I wrapped” the
Mrs.
was rather
feeble, and could not walk without the aid of a stick or umbrelin.
во the
STORY OF DIVORCE
The coroner suggested that the twentieth confirmed a judgment for eustody of the child with someFlirtation Waltz" is largely set in
jury should return an open verdiet.
"If the police find any Bub sequent facts which have a bearing on the matter," he added, "the verdict will not hamper them in any proceedings they may justified in taking."
technical polish. The
five hundred years old, and lowered players, burdened with the story, West Point, America's military Cauchon's bones into the unmarked grave, where, they will perhaps be Mr. Paul Lukas, Miss Helen training school, where it takes on forgotten again for another half- Vinson, and Miss Madge Evans the maximum of national ento- IN not likely to millenium unti some scholar of story, which originated as a fan-tionalism. It
to # British feel the year 2431 rediscovers the 'old At the Stoll is "The Night Life appeal very much
story-United Press.
of the Gods". This fy an odd audience.
Group takas when Brigadier F. S. and Mrs. Thackeray:antertained'm embers of the Committee “of the British "YMCA, to a supper party, after the opening of the enlarged premises of the "Y" hut at Great Wastern Road Camp, Shanghal
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