THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY. MARCH 19, 1936.
FAMILY TUCKED UP IN Welsh Village Alarmed At Strange
INSANE ?
Three alienists Pre ready to testify that Charles Layman, lain Angeles WPA worker, was in sang when he shot and killed six of his fellow workers. Layma suddenly an annick some months agro.
SPEED-UP CAMPAIGN
IN RUSSIA
NIGHTS OF TERROR
FOR FAMILY
WAINLLWDY, SOUTH WALES, MAR. 1. UNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE MAKING A PILGRIMAGE TO COTTAGE WHICH IN THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS BECOME KNOWN AS THE HOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CHOST IN BRITAIN.
Psychic investigators this week-end will make an attempt to lay the phenomenon which, taking the form of a mysterious vague black substance enveloping every member of the family in turn, has driven Mr. David Jones and his family from the house which they have occupied for five years,
The whole of South Wales 1 keenly interested in this remark- able case, especially as Mr. Jones, a foreman in the Wainllwyd Col- leries, is well known na n level- headed and brave man.
"We tried in reason with him, Ile left us but he wouldn't stay. and went to live elsewhere.”
This was the first time that any thing had been said about the Etrange feeling about the house, Mr. Jones has told the story ofland Mr. Jones tried to dismiss the the mysteriona force which has subject from the minds of his wrecked his wife's nerves, com- family by making it a joke.
Unseen Fressure polled one of his sona to leave the district, and finally driven him in "But one night after I had gone! I move to another village.
to work in the colliery my wife
"For five years after coming twoke with the feeling that some- this house we lived in peace and thing was in the bedroom," said; quietness. Then, abont a month Mr. Jones,
ago, we began to feel a slow but Then, in the pitch blackness, unmistakable change in the at she could feel some unseen pres- the bed- mosphere." said Mr. Jones,
sure bearing down on clothes which gradually tightened about her,
Sense Of Despair
"None of us discussed It at the "She couldn't scream, but with! time, but we all fell it. There was an effort she forced herself out nothing tangible--just a sense of of bed when a dark shadowy mase overwhelming despair and impenseemed to bear down on her. ing disaster.
"Then one day my boy hennart: said that he could not live in the house any longer.
"ukked him why. To my almost Amazement he became hysterical. He was white and trembling Ile snid he couldn't rest in the house, that he had had no sleep for nights.
WORKERS' CAVALRY Astrologer FIVE million young men Predicts
the
and women members of
Young Communist English
Bride
on
"She put up her hands to ward i it off. She touched some un- recognisable substance and then she collapsed unconscious the floor." Eventually Mr. Jones and his son David arranged to room.
use
the
"We and scarcely got into bed when we realised that frighten- ing weight of depression.
1
felt something tug at the bed-
BED BY GHOST Happenings in Cottage
ANTIPODEANS FAREWELL THEIR PRESIDENT
Dr. H. D. Matthews, retiring President of Australian and New Zealand Association, responding at presentation át social, held in Association Rooms last week. Dr. Matthews departed for Australia on Saturday.-Staff Photographer.
clothes, lightly at first, and then GERMANY LEAPS
more definitely," said Mr. Jones.
"Then I had the feeling that
the, bedelothes were being drawn AHEAD IN FIGHT
more and more tightly around me
from my ankle upwards,
"I had an awful feeling of being FOR CONTROL OF SKY
trapped."
Silence
Mr. Joues jumped out of ded jand lit a candle.... but there
was just silence.
"We decided to put the light out,
wait," and
said Mr. Joacs.)
Berlin, Mar. 10.
League in Russia are being organised along military lines into "light cavalry" for.
Germany is looking ahead in the air. an immediate and emergetic
FOR KING EDWARD
Soon after this article appears, evidence of this drive, designed to clear the
London, Mar. 1.
"Minutes went by then sudcountry's preparations for comprehensive expansion in road for the speed-up cam- Many English girls' hearts are
denly we both knew that--1--
aviation, both military and civil, will be given in the com- paign by an open onslaught; fluttering following the predic-
was coming.
"My body went icy cold. upon those presuming totion in the Sunday Referee by
wave of blackness seemed to be pletion of three important constructions-the new Air resist pressure for indus-Anna Maritza, well-known news-
paper astrologer, that King: flowing into the room bearing Ministry, the L Z 129, and the Rhine-Main Airport.
down on Edward the Eighth will marry an
us with that strange. trial production.
feeling of oppression. The speed-up campaign is known English gırl of high culture and
"The
be,ran bedclothes the Stakhanovist movement. It intelligence, endowed with great has been named after Alexei Stal sympathy and understanding.
tighten around me again.
shouted Get "Suddenly David discovered
it means of "rationalising" work in mines in such a way us to increase have also indented that the marti up. Pad. Get up. I can see greatly the output of coal. The idea age will take place either in Octo-over your head."
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hanoff, miner,
who
ehe!
According to Anna, the stars)
was ber of this, year, April of next year.)
A
to
No Weddings For Chinese
" leaped from the bed and Students of speeding up
up thus started applied to textile and other industries or the summer of 1938. Through groped for the matches, and us i vigorously this marriage, she was an heikh was doing this the wave of black-
and van Rubsequentlynment.
sponsored
by the
the throne will be born, IN MILITARY LANGUAGE
Throughout Britain it used to he Chieftains of the League mobilisation orders in military lan-whispered that the Epsom gypsies
selves direct
work.
The
nust dominate
issued
this
Us
ness started to Bow towards the window, blocking out the light.
Terrible How! "Just as it disappeared my dog.. "Enemies of the had predicted that Edward, Prince. declaring, KWA Stakhanoff movement certainly will of Wales, would dio on the hunting down in the yard below, set up a tu the Anna resiat vigorously the impending norm field.
Maritza, however, howl which chilled
bones," revisions. Our light cavalry must says he will die peacefully and
Immediately Mr. Jones decided uhmaak auch enemles and we our naturally like his father. The air
norm revisions. A she states, is, quite safe for the that he would stay in the house no a cottage at military 'spiril
King, and no harm will come to longer. He found League's Leningrad head-him through travelling by air-Abertillery, and removed his br
longings with haste.. quartera where the campaign was plane.
"Although it means a walk-off initiated are described by a corres
each Other points from her predict- several more miles for me pondent as resembling army head- quarters with warlike atmosphere as ions are, that the accession of Ed-day" he said to me this evening, wo have found peace the young men and women receive ward will mark a new era of pro-"I think military ranks and orders and pre-jsperity and that there will be again. My wife is regaining her
recnici- rent trade boom in Britain start- nerve and strength, and I hope'!
ing this autumn and lasting until that my son who left home will TECHNICAL EDUCATION
summer in 1912. She hints of come back to live with us." Instructions were issued by the lenders that success of the Stakhanof trouble in Egypt but notes that movement depends upon the completo friendship between Britain and destruction of those "saboteurs and the United States will be stronger conservatives," who venture to resist than ever before. the campaign.
pare an open asenult upon trants.
The Komsomols, AS the Young Communist League is called, WEB also instructed to assume the tech-1 nical education of backward workers, thus enabling them to fulfil Increased norma anel share fully in campaign for increasing industrial production and lowering costs,
Lost! 30 Pound's
of Fat in 4 Weeks
the
If you really want
to line fat, take a
little Boskom, the
Shanghai, Mar. 10. Marriage of Chinese students wh are studying in foreign countries is forhidden by a ruling handed down
are
Day and night. worknien hurrying to finish the Air Miniatry, This enormous building with its 3,000 ruoms occupies one of the finest sites in the centre of Berlin. jund is constant reminder-to-the- population of the German capital of the importance of the air arm to the authorities.
The new Zeppelin L 2 129 is scheduled to make its trial flights later
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.¦in the spring, Including a
skips administered by
govern-
Important Airport
An old ruling to that effect, which trip across the North Atlantic, had almost been forgotten, was re-while work on the "LZ 130" has vived when a Chinese student infalready begün. Belgium, was. denied permission to marry a Belglan girl with whom he reported he had fallen in love.
To those important construc. Inasmuch as Chinese students tions must be added the world's Usually study abroad on scholar- first combined airship-airplane mental agency, an official status at-airport to be opened shortly near Frankfort-on-the-Main. Every- thing about this new airport, ita geographical position, climate con- ditions, ultra-modern equipment and general layout will certainly make it the most up-to-date struc- ture of its kind, for many years to come.
taches to what in other countries
would appear to be a matter of in- dividual choler-United Press;
KING EDWARD STAMPS AT END OF YEAR
Several other astrologers devoted their weekly "star- gazing" to the future of the King and many of their forecasti coincide, R. H. Naylor, who predicted the birth of the Duchess of Kent's baby with commendable accuracy/wrote in the Sunday Express/that Ed- ward's reign would see, peaki It can also be authoritatively King Edward will face to the right perlods of prosperity in spite of stated that no "mourning stamp on the new coins which are ex-
are to be printed.
world alarma..
He laid off the marriage anglo
altogether but said that the Em-
New postage stamps and postal orders bearing the portrait of King Edward VIII, are not likely to be issued until the end of the year, a GP.O. official said last month.
The printing of now postage plre would emerge triumphant stamps and postal orders, on the
pected to appear in the course of a few months.
Stamps and postul orders form
from stern ordoals and that an accession of a now sovereign, in- only one section in the changes alliance with a friendly nation volves muny prolonged and com-that the Post Office must make new reducing treat would be lifebuoy to world plicated preliminary processes. there romain letter boxes, mall
As a first step, artists will be in-vans and franking machines Edward Lyndee star-gazing"vited to submit designs...
-ment, Lefore moal
time for the next
work, This
ing treatment ban
Jabes excess fat d
the safe, and nuts
and way by cleanes
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Of the 70,000 letter boxes in the country, comparatively few will
Mooring Mast
The new navigable mooring mast will make possible the mechanical handling of large air- keeping a big landing crew, at ships without the necessity of hand, whenever a Zeppelin arrives,
Though Germany is the home of the airship it is interesting to note that the mooring mast is an English invention. This is very largely explained by the fact that Count Zeppelin's choice of Fried- richshafen for his carly work gave him a natural basin surrounded by hills in which an airship could be docked or launched at will.
in the Pegle, said that King Ed- These will be considered by bear King Edward's initials for At the now airport, the mooring ward will be remembered as a special committee, and the final some time. New boxes will do so, mast has been constructed in the businesy man and that the palace choice will rest with the King. In his reign might well take the The annual sale of stamps in but as the initials of the Sovereign centre of the two circular tracks designation of "Executive Once Britain totals 7,000,000,000. Posare embossed on the metal of the on which the "cradies" (Heck- box, the present boxes will not be wagen) of the airships can move Interfered with. of the Chairman of the British tal orders number 226,000,000,
freely. The radius of the circular track for the "Graf Zeppelin" will Empire Limited."
THE NEW COINS
Letter boxes bearing the in-be 167 metres, and for the "LZ He predicts that the biggest Whereas the head of the Sover- political sensation of the cen olgn is Invariably turned to the scription "E. R. VII." are still in 129, 205 metres. The mooring tury will occur in Edward's left on English postage stamps, it existence, and there are oven mast, most airship experts appear reign through legislation to is reversed on the coinage at each row remaining marked. "V. R
to expect, will be the real terminal
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