THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MARCH
1936.
TWINS BORN
ON VOYAGE
Α
FROM H.K.
SLIP of blue paper has just arrived in London. It bears the names of two baby girls. Officials have docketed it among the prosaic files of the Board of Trade. The
Behind it les one of the eca's minor romantic dramas. story begins in the lonely wastes of the Pacific on a blazing hot morning last October.
The British steamer Silver-
booch, 6,311 tons, carrying a hand Patriotism
ful of passengers, is ploughing her
way lazily towards Vancouver.
The Philippino Islands and
Above
Hongkong, whence she is steaming, Profit
le thirteen hundred miles astern.
An agitated man approaches the master-Captain William Irvine, a Shetland Islander-on the bridge, and tells him that a Dutch woman passenger is about to give birth to a child.
The Silverbeech carries neither doctor nor stewardess. Urgent wireless messages are sont out, seeking help from some nearby ship.
But this is one of the loneliest shipping lanes., There nre
ships within reach,
no
Help comes at last in a mesange from far-away Guram. The Silver- beech's messages have been picked up there. The medical officer at the local hospital is standing by the transmitter.
Sentence after sentence is slowly tapped out and flashed across the ocean--full instrue- tions how to deal with the case. { Captajn Irvine, his chief mate, Mr. J. Thompson, and the woman's
Shanghai, Feb. 20 "Patriotism above profit" has apparently become the motto of a Japanese dry- cleaning plant here, which offered to dry-clean all Japanese flags in Shanghai free of charge, in connection with the recent anniversary of the founding of the Em- piro. Officials of the firm announced that they wanted to make sure that only fresh and clean flags would be flown here in honour of the occasion.
Taking the firm at its word, the local Japanese community
-United Press.
FILM
STAR LEAVES
SOLOMON'S ARK IS IN
One of the many pictures for which Miss Anna May Wong, noted Alm star, posed during her stay in Hongkong. She left yesterday for Shanghai.
HUNTER LAUGHED
ETHIOPIA?
A PRINCESS'S
CLAIM
RINCESS
PR
ASEA
YILMA, member of the Royal Solomonic House of Ethiopia, and the wife of a British officer, believes that the Ark of the Covenant, stolen from King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem nearly 3,000 years ago, is now in the possession of the Ethio- pian Church
AT SPIRIT LIONS
PAID WITH LIFE
Johannesburg, Feb. 20.
and
swamped the plant with flag, BIG GAME HUNTER J. R. GODDARD, known
throughout South Africa for his skill courage, was given a task by the Government of
Lightning Kills Northern Rhodesia last week. Witch Doctor
husband, a Canadian named Klas Who
son,
follow those instructions'|
faithfully.
They bring into the world not, one baby, but two-twins. One
"Brought"
la born at 11.31 a.m., the other Rain
at 11.38.
gods
The doctor keeps in touch. All Harrismith (Orange Free State),
well. Several days Inter
Feb. 20. proud parents and healthy babies A witch doctor who is
credited with having "brought" rain to two farms in the Harri-
loave the ship at Vancouver.
解
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The babies were born in a Bri- smith district was struck dead
tish ahlp. Now they are register-by
ed at Somerset House.
Their namos?
the lightning in the storm which followed.
This story told in Harrismith
Silver Bath Kasson and Sylvia is vouched for by two leading
Beech Klasson.
Alleged Betrayer Of Nurse Cavell Freed
Paris, Feb. 20.
GASTON QUIEN, a
Frenchman, who is
farmers on whose properties the "magle" is said to have occurred. Here is the story told by the two farmers, Mr. W. D. Mylren and Mr. J. Bronn
The natives on the farm of these: two men collected money to pay an old witch doctor on Mr. Bronn's farm to "make" ruin.
_Incantations........__
The old man was away, but s son, who had been partially initiat- ed into witch doctor's mysteries, accepted the offer.
The money was handed over and| the young, witch doctor took up his position outalde his hut with wife on either side. Then fol- signs.
lowed incantations
and mystical
Within half an hour rain fell
-alleged to have betrayed from a cloudless sky. It was con-
Nurse Cavell to the Ger-fined to the two farms.
Not enough rain had. fallen to
mans, has been released satisfy the natives. They collect-
cd another £1. This was offered.
after serving 20 years' only on condition that suficient
imprisonment for es- pionage on behalf of Germany.
According to Le Journal he declares that he is innocent, and is preparing documents to prove that he was the victim of mis- taken identity-Exchange.
Gaston Quien was sentenced to death in 1918, having been found! guilty of being the principal author of Nurse Cavell's denunciation,
Some doubt about his guilt arose when the case was reviewed, and the santenes was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment.
British Moslems Elect Woman Leader
THE Moslems of Britain are, for the first time, to be led by a woman-Mrs. Buchanan- Hamilton, a widow, of Southsen.
rain fell next time.
A Deluge
and
Again
the incantations signs, This time there was so much rain that not only were dams filled in the farms, but fences were washed away in the flood.
As the rain was abating a black cloud was seen to form overhead. There was a flash of lightning and the witch doctor was struck dead. The native Women beside him wore Injured.-Reuter.
Man-eating lions were taking heavy toll of the natives near Lusaka. Warriors, considered mighty hunters among their own people, refused to spear the killers.
For these, the witch doctors told them, were no ordinary lions, but reincarnated spirits of the human dend.
Goddard heard the stories, laughed, and prepared his guns and equipment,
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Early yesterday morning a party of natives found all that was left of hunter J. R. Goddard in the bush. A black-maned lion had dragged him from the hat where he was sleeping, and killed him.
Prisoners Sail For The States
Three prisoners were put on board the Dollar liner President McKinley by Shanghal United States authorities last week when the Ilner cleared for Seattle. Two of the men, Bir. Frank Jay Raven and Mr. J. Warner Brown, had been recently convicted in the U. 9. Court here, while the third was Mr. J. Garland Ogden, being ex- tradited to stand trial in Memphis, Tennessee. A large number of. friends came to see Raven and Brown off on their journey to acNeill's Island penitentiary, Upper picture shows Mr. Raven with his young- son and Mea, E. G. Clarke. Lower left is Mr. Brown and lower right. is Mr. Ogden with United States Marshal, Mr. Edward L. Faupel.
Dramas Of Three Women
GIRL WHO | FILM STAR'S | WOMAN IN
LOVED
MOTHER
DILLINGER IN TROUBLE
She had served a twenty-one months' sentence for harbouring her lover, John (Killer) Dillinger,
"I first became Interested in the Public Enemy Ne, 1, when overy
Chicago home.
Chicago, Feb, 20.
A "garnishee order" that would take from her the £3 a week she earns as a cook, to pay her debts,
RUSH FOR DIAMONDS
Mexico City, Feb. 22.
She also believes that so long ns the Ark remains there the Ibalans cannot conquer Abyssinia. Sheba, according to the Ethio- pians, was part of Abyssinia, and not in South Arabia, da It is generally supposed to have been.
The princess tells the story of the Ark, according to the Ethio- plan tradition, in a book published in London this month "Haile Selas- {sie,"
Prince's Quart According to the Ethiopian tradition, the Queen of Sheba, in
after her visit to
on
Jerusalem, became the mother of
in son who was named Elma Hakim. The boy grew up a great hunter,
and when he asked about his
father his mother told him that Solomon lived 'a long way off. The young prince declared that he would go and find him.
He went, with a big caravan. Ha likeness to Solomon was 80 striking that Solomon and every one else in Jerusalem know st Solomon frst sight who he was.
exclaimed: embraced him and "He is handsomer than I, land his form and stature are those of David, my father, in his darly manhood."
Ebna Hakim gave Solomon the ring. Solomon had given to his asked Solomon for mother, and the fringe of the Ark of the Covenant, which the Queen of Sheba desired, so that her people might worship it.
Solomon urged his son to remain with him, but Ebna Hakim grew tired of Jerusalem, and begged leave to return to Ethiopia. Solo- mon at last agreed, and com- minded that his counsellors should send their eldest sons with Ebna Hakim to serve him in his own country..
Gold And Jewels Solomon gave his son gold, silver, precious stones, horaca, Camels, charlots, mules and wagons for the long journey.—-
Ebna Hakim's advisers, the Bong of Solomon's counsellors, were afraid that when they left Jerusalem, the resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant, the Almighty would no longer pro tect them, and Azarios, the son of Zadok the High Priest, hav- ing sworn the others to secrecy, proposed that they should take the Ark with them.
His plan was that they should steal it from the Temple at night, and leave a substitute in its place.
This plan was carried out. But Ebna Hakim was not told until the caravan reached Ethiopia,
When the Queen of Sheba saw the Ark she renounced her throne in favour of her son, and made the nobles swear that never again would they act a woman upon the throne.
From the day when the Ark loft Jerusalem the power of Israel.be gan to decline, while the power of Ethiopia grow greater and greater.
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NOW IT WANTS TO
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BE CALLED A TOWN Milan (Michigan), Feb. 20.
DEXLEY in Kent is to seek a Evelyn Frechette, sloe-eyed half- The mother of Johnny A Young English bride, Mrs:
charter of incorpora- Indian beauty, who was once the ("Tarzan") Welsamutier, film star Arthur Hewed, is the lone woman tion. The urban district envy of every “gunman's moll" in husband of film star Lupe Velez, among a horde of prospectors of wishes to become a borough,. Amurien, walked out of jail here faces eviction from her modest all races who are secking Mexico's In four years the population of to-day.
lost diamond mine. ·
Baxley has more than doubled. In 1936 Spring Styles It is believed that the mine is The 1931 census revealed tho
for Hiking and Golf district somewhere in the tropical jungles population of the of Guerrero State:
38,000. In 1980 it is more than The unclent Spaniards drew 70,000. faith," she said "through the In-police force in America was hunt- is threatened.
fabulous wealth from it. In 1811 Ten thousand houses have been fluence of Lord Hendley. I am ing him down.
To-day she appeared before the it was captured by the Independ- built in Bexley since 1931. now honorary prosident-I do not She sat by his side in the car- courts; “Johnny doesn't know ence forces. They used its dia-". Then the Southern Railway elec- in any sense control the Moslem from which he conducted his about my debis," she said. "Imonds to pay the costs of their re-trifled the railway line running to Society."
raids, and thrilled to the sound, of didn't want to pester him with my volution.
Dartford and Gravesend. Well versed in the Koran, Mrs. his machine gun spitting death at troubles, and I have always re- Then General Vincente Guerro, Buchanan-Hamfiton, who is mid-
the police..
fused to take help from him.” leader, of the revolutionaries, was dle-aged, spends much of her time. sald
"Now I am going straight," she Meanwhile Johnny has made a assassinated, and with him died reading Moslem scriptures.
to-day......"Crime! What statement - In: Hollywood that he the secret of the mino's location. huavo, I got to show for it now?" - has paid his mother £40′ a month... Several Guerrero Indians have Sir Hubert Omdr. Rankin re- She smiled bitterly. "Just twenty contly resigned from the chair dollars enough to buy-n 'dress. manship of the society after a I'm going to seek shelter from re- disagreement on a point of policy. Intives of mine *** Indians."
The result was that Bexley experienced the most astonish- Ing Influx of new ratepayers ever known in the south of Eng. Jand br London could be reached in
“That is news to us," her lawyer been found carrying uncut stones, said. "Mrs. Weissmuller out of her but they hold them stered, and twenty minutes, Rows of Impo- -earnings, na nƒcook, supports an- refuse to reveal where they are to sing neonlighted shops were
other gon who Is out of work." be found. By
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