One of the few photographs in existence of the city of Quetta In Western India, showing a fruit stall in the city's market place. The city, an important British army post, was razed by the avere earthquake that awept the neighbourhood. Half the population of 60,000 persone were reported killed in the catastrophe.
Lieutenant His Highneur Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, Baglar Begi, Khan of Kalat, where overal lost their thousand persons lives. during the earthquake that shook the region, May 31. The one hundred miles between Quetta, to the North and Kalat, was razed by the quake which took a total of about 30,000
IIVEL.
BARMAN'S BAD LUCK
FOUND BODY BUT
KEPT SILENT
OVERCOME
BY PANIC
A harman told the Southwark
GARDEN ROAD MISHAPİ
LADY DRIVER HITS AGAINST FENCING
Mrs. J. Pinnie, a learner driver, was involved in a minor motor mishap yesterday afternoon. Ac- companied by a licensed driver she was driving ear No. 2916 westward alung Queen's Road, near the Juhetion of Garden Rond,
when
the car knocked against fencing used in connection with -road repairs outside Murray Bar-j
racks.
· The fencing fell on Lin
Fu.)
a PW., foreman, who was work- ing there. He sustained a few! bruises. The City** Wis damuged.
not
Beurtain round the body, and some carpet, when I got in the mineral cellar, and wrapped a piver of rope round it when put it back in the геселя."
The
Did you mention finding this body to any single soul since then?--Not soul, sir, until the police came this month..
coroner:
ever
The cormer: You are not bound to add anything unless you like, but would you like to tell the jury why you did this?
THE BONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY
SAINT JOAN
OF ARC
BODY OF HER JUDGE FOUND
BISHOP'S GRAVE UNMARKED
Paris,
On the feast day of Saint Joan of Are, the story of the finding of the body of Bishop Plere Cauction, chief of the julges wha condemned her, In the nameless grave where ! it had rested for five centuries, and ! fis reburial, still unmarked, was told for the Arst time to a nation which had remained ignorant of it although the find occurred in May 193)the 500th anniversary of the death of Joan.
The burning of the heretic who is now a saint, and the throwing of her ushes into the river Seine, still haunts the memory
of Cauchon. whom the twentieth century, likel the fifteenth, doomed to remain as anonymous in death as his victim.
The finder of the body was Etienne Deville, a scholar, whose studies convinced him at Cauchon 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 Maid.
Cauchon died suddenly at Rouen,
Sir William Keith Murray, Bart., of Perthshire, Scotland, recently made a flying visit to Canada, arriving surly in the wook and sailing back on Fri- day. Sir William, who owns about 11,000 acres of land in Scotland, praised what he had
of Canadian agriculture.
VH-UHV
11, 1935.
Unable to make a forced lending in a park in Sydney, Australis, for fear of injuring children at play, this pllat headed for some adjoining scrub and landed in this spectacular manner, injuring himself and his passenger. His machine perched on its nose with tail high in the air but the pilot was successful in his attempt to avoid the roungsters below.
FEW FILM THRILLS
LONDON PICTURES
REVIEWED
London, June 16.
There are few artstanding films
in London this week. The routine activites of the Royal Air Force form the subject of a new docu- imentary dim which is shown this week at the Polytechnic Theatre! under the title of "The R.A.F." It is a straightforward survey and has been made in co-operation with the Air Ministry and the Admiral- ty.
An American film at the Regal is called "G Mon", and is a noisy,'"] exciting new version of the man hunt theme. [L is A complete | translation of the old gangster pie- Lure into terms of federal in- tegrity, with James Cagney in a where Joan was burned, while a barber was cutting his beard, just part after his own heart, and the seven yours before Charles VII, ingenily with which the pre- Johnson: I was panic-stricken, king by the grace of Joan, made hisducers 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 matageress. There WOR an inho had allowed her to be burned, without falling foul of the Hays quest on the Friday, and customers There is no record of his burial Office must be a matter for general had been in the bar talking about, though, despite his condemnation of i it, and that was why I lost mythe Maid, at his death he was still congratulation. head and was too frightened to considered a worthy man and aj tell any one.
benefactor of Lisieux, of which he had formerly been the bishop. COFFIN WITHOUT NAME
PARTLY MUMMIFIED
the skull. The left
At the Curzon is "The Divine romuntie assess- |Spark" being a
ment of the life of Bellini, the com-j
It is east.
* Some weeks ago, Lillian Har
vey, screen atur, left Holly.. wood for England, where, she claimed, things are "moat quiet and leisurely," Her first film for British International Pictures was "Invitation to the Waltz." for which he is said to havn
received a record salary in the history of British pictures.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury said that !
Deville in the course of his reposer, technically British, but made itastic novel about a scientist who the body was that of a partly searches discovered that Cauchon in Italy by an, internationally could turn statues into men, On mummified old man.
had requested that on his death his assorted
pretty the screen it works out as a futile coroner
There were several fractures of body should be transferred to enough story of self sacrifice, with and heavy-handed attempt at gay. at a recent inquest in London how he found only in
collar-bone. Lisicas and buried beneath the nice settings, but the divine spark madness. With better writing it the collar of the publie house and the left shoulder-blade were rhapel which he had given to the: where he worked, and in a fit of fractured with several ribs, Cathedral. He obtained permission is hard to find. Mr. Philip Holmes might, bave been good satire; with panic hid it in a recess,
Sir Bernard, in reply to the to excavate and seck the body,, well suggests at some points anhelter playing it might have been had described, were equally com- plain caflin bearing no name, but in his early scenes is a takingly in just a desperate attempt to play coroner, said that the injuries he | Deeply buried, it was found in a artist's singleness of purpose, and
good slapstick; as it stands it is patible with the dead man having when the coffin was opened a skele: genuous
lover. Miss Martha
of East-hill, Wandsworth, whose necidentally fallen down the steps, ton was disclosed with a bishop's Eggerth endows the self sacrilleine safe and yet be different. Hunter!
The inquest was on William Ellis, the eighty-year-old traveller, body was hidden for nearly a year in the cellar of the Equestrian public house, Blackfriars-road, S.E.
The jury returned an open ver dict that death was enused by a fall, but how such a fall occurred there was not sufficient evidence to show.
ring still thrust on one bouy finger, heroine with a fine sense of in-Hawk is played by Mr. Alan Mow- of while Cauchon's crozier lay beside tegrity and sings arias from Nor-bray.
ma and L Sonambula and from the Barber of Seville with ease and delfency.
STORY OF DIVORCE
or with his having been pushed.
Mrs. Ray Hubbuck, Grosvenor - gardens, Kingston-on-- it. Thames, a daughter, describolj Ellia as a quiet, reserved man.
The crozier and ring were placed
An entertaining film is "People was of sober habits. He was
He in the Lisieux museum, and Cauchon
Will Talk" at the Plaza which skil commercial traveller in glass, and just as the fifteenth century, though was reburied in the same spot; and
fully exploits the amiable, preten- visited public houses.
recognising his good works, had
tiousness of that suburban dude, The barman. Cecil Edward Her father was rather feeble, refused to perpetuale the name of Empire, is a routine story of
The Age of Indiscretion," at the M. Charlie Ruggles, and the ex- Johnson, of Liston-road, Old Town, and could not walk without the aid the head of the court which con- divorce and the resulting struggle quisite vagueness of Miss Mary Clapham, was cautioned before he of a stick or umbrella. * gave evidence. He said he land been employed at the public house, and on July 5 last year was the only man on duty,
I
"At six o'clock," he said, “one of the barmaids asked me to get Bomo coal. I went to the cellar, down the stairs lending from the -office, taking a bucket with me
went along the
passage to the cellar where the coil was kept.
"I saw the body of a mun there. The man was lying on the steps.
"I was panic-stricken and” did not know what to do. I had never seen him before. I then filled the bucket with coal...
"I WAS TOO FRIGHTENED"
The coroner; Did not you touch the man or feel him-No. I did not, sir.. I was too frightened. After I had taken the coal up I 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.
The coroner: You mean you did not take stops to conceal the body on the Thursday night 7--No, air. It was either the Friday or the Saturday..
"I took it from the recess into the mineral collar to get the light," added Johnson, "I wrapped the
demned Saint Joan. 90 the The coroner suggested that the twentieth confirmed
musical romance for custody of the child with some Boland. A a judgment technical jury should return an open verdict. five hundred years old, and lowered layers, burdened with the story, West Point,
polish. The principal "Flirtation Waltz" is largely net in "If the police find any sub- Cauchon's bones into the unmarked are Mr. Paul Lakas, Miss Helen training school, where it takes on Americn'a military sequent facts which have a bearing grave, where they will perhaps be Vinson, and Miss Madge Evans. the maximum of national on the matter," he added, "the forgotten again for another half- verdict will not hamper them in millenium until some scholar of story, which originated as a fan- tionalism. It is not likely to any proceedings they may feel the year 2431 rediscovers the old Justined in taking."
At the Stoll is "The Night Life appeal very much to a British story.--United Press.
of the Gods". This is an odd audience,
∙Group taken when Brigadlor F. S. and Mrs. Thackeray entertained members of the Committee of the British Y.M.C.A., to à supper party, after the opening of the enlarged premises of the “Y” hut at: Great Western Road Camp, Shanghai
cmo-
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