THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936.
FAMILY TUCKED UP IN Welsh Village Alarmed At Strange
INSANE?
Three allonista ero readytó testify that Charles Laymon, Los Angolog WPA worker, was in- sano when he shot and killed nix of his fellow workers. Layman suddenly ran amuck xome months ago.
SPEED-UP CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA
NIGHTS OF TERROR
FOR FAMILY
WAINLLWDY; SOUTH WALES, MAR. 1. BUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE 'MAKING A ́ PILGRIMAGE TO
COTTAGE WHICH IN THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS BECOME KNOWN AS THE HOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE GHOST 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.
"We tried to reason with hini, bat he wouldn't stay. He left us and went to live elsewhere."
The whole of South Wales in keenly interested in this remark-| able case, especially as Mr. Jones, a foreman in the Wainllwyd Col- lieries, is well known as a level-] thing had been said about the hended and brave man.
strange feeling about the house,
This was the first time that any-
Mr. Jones has told the story of) and Mr. Jones tried to dianian thei the mysterious force which has subject from the minds of his wrecked his, wifo's nerven, ~ com- family by 'making it a joke. pelled one of his sons to leave the district, and finally driven him toj move to another village,
"For five years after coming to this hour we lived in peace and quintness. Then, about a month Ingo, we began to feel a slow but unmistakable change in the at mosphere," said Mr. Jones,
Sense Of Despair "None of us discussed it at the time, but we all felt it.
There was nothing tangible--just a sense of overwhelming despair and impen" ing disaster.
"Then one day my boy Leonard said that he could not live in the house any, longer.
"I asked him why, Tó my amazement he became almost hysterical. He was white and trembling. He said he couldn't rest in the house, that he had had no sleep for nights.
WORKERS' CAVALRY Astrologer FIVE million young men
and women members of
Predicts
the Young Communist English
Bride
FOR KING EDWARD
London, Mar, 1.
League in Russia are being organised along military lines into light cavalry" for an immediate and emergetic drive, designed to clear the road for the speed-up eam- Many English girls' hearts are paign by an open onslaught fluttering following the predice upon those presuming to tion in the Sunday Referee by resist pressure for indus-Anna Maritza, well-known news- paper astrologer, that King trial production.
Edward the Eighth will marry an The speed-up campaign is known English girl of high culture and ss the Stakhunovist movement. It intelligence, endowed with great has been named-after- Aloxei-Stak-sympathy and understanding. hanoff, A miner, who discovered means of "rationalising" work in the
Unseen Pressure
"But one night after I had gon:] to work in the colllery my wife; awoke with the feeling that seme- thing was in the bedroom," said Mr. Jones.
"Thon, in the pitch blackness, she could, feel some unseen pres- sure bearing down on the bed-1 clothes which gradually tightened about her.
"She couldn't scream, but with an effort she forced horself aut of bed when a dark shadowy mass seemed to bear down on her.
"She put up her hands to ward It off. She touched some un- recognisable substance and then she collapsed unconscious___on_ the floor."
Eventually Mr. Jones and his son David arranged to идс the room.
I
"We had scarcely got into bed when we realised that frighten- ing weight of depression. felt something tug at the bed-' clothes, lightly at first, and then more definitely," said Mr. Jones. "Then I had the feeling that the bedclollies were being drawn more and more tightly around me from my ankle upwarda.
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 at social, held in Association Rooma last week. Dr. Matthews departed for Australia on Saturday. Staff Photographer.
GERMANY LEAPS
AHEAD IN FIGHT
"I had an awful feeling of being FOR CONTROL OF SKY
trapped."
Silonce,
Mr. Jonea jumped out of bed and it a candle. but there was just silence.
"We decided to put the light outj and ·wait," said Mr. Jones.. "Minutes went by . . then sud-
.
denly we both knew that it
was coming.
Berlin, Mar. 10.
Germany is looking ahead in the air.
Soon after this article appears, evidence of this country's preparations for comprehensive expansion in aviation, both military and eivil, will be given in the com- "My body went icy cold. A wave of blackness seemed to be pletion of three important constructions-the new Air flowing into the room bearing Ministry, the L Z 129, and the Rhine-Main Airport. down on us with that strango feeling of oppression. "The bedclothes tighten" around me again.
bejan to No Weddings
According to Anna, the stars "Suddenly David shouted Get For Chinese
mines in such a way as to increase have also indicated that the marri-UP, Dad. Get up. I can see greatly the output of coal. The idea age will take place either in Octo-over your head."
it
of speeding up thus started was ber of this year, April of next year "I jenped from the bed and Students
applied to textile and ether industries or the summer of 1938. Through groped for the matches, and us 1 and was subsequently vigorously this marriage, she says an heir to was doing this the wave of black
sponsored by the Government,
IN
Issued
neas started to flow towards the
window, blocking out the light.
Terrible How!
the throne will be born. MILITARY LANGUAGE Chieftains of the League
Throughout Britain it used to be mobliention orders in military lan-whispered that the Epsom gypsies gungo declaring, "Enemies of the had predicted that Edward, Prince "Just as it disappeared my dog, Staklinnoff
movement
certainly, will of Wales, would die on the hunting down in the yard below, set up a resist vigorously the impending norm field. Anna Maritza, however, howl which chilled us to the rovisions. Our light cavalry must says he will die peacefully and bones,” | unmark such enemies and we our-naturally like his father. The air aelves direct
Immediately Mr. Junts decided revisions. A norm military spirit must dominate this size states, is quite safe for the that he would stay in the house no King, and no harm will come to longer. He found a cottage at The League's Leningrad head him through travelling by air-Abertillery, and removed his bc- quarters where the campaign was plane.
longings with hasia.. Initiated are described by a corres-
"Although it means a walk of pondent as resembling army head-f Other points from hor predict several more miles for me ench quarters with warlike atmosphere as ions are, that the accession of Ed-day," he said to me this evening, the young men and women receive ward will mark a new era of pro-"I think we have found pence military ranks and orders and prosperity and that there will be ajagain. My wife is regaining her pare an open assault upon recalel-grent trade boom in Britain start- nerve and strength, and I hope irantECHNICAL EDUCATION
ing this autumn and lasting until that my son who left home will Instructions were Issued by the summer, in 1942. She hints of come back to live with us." leaders that success of the Stakhanoff trouble in Egypt but notes that movement depends upon the complete friendship between Britain and destruction of those "saboteurs and the United States will be stronger conservatives," who venture to resist than ever before. the can
campaign.
norms
Day and night, workmen are hurrying to finish the Air Ministry. This enormous building with ftay 18,000 rooms occupies one of the fincat sites in the centre of Berlin and is a constant reminder to the population of the German capital of the importance of the air arm- to the authorities.
·Shanghai, Mar. 10. Marriage of Chinese students who are studying in foreign countries is The now Zeppelin LZ 129 is forbidden by a ruling handed down scheduled to make its trial flights by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.in the spring, including a later
An old ruling to that effect, which trip across the North Atlantic,
had almost been forgotten, was re- while work on the "LZ 180" has vived when a Chinese student in already begun. Belgium, was denied permission to
Important Airport
· marry a Belgian girl with whom he reported he had fallen in love.
To those important. construc. Inasmuch an Chinese students tions must be added the world's Usually study abroad
on scholar Arst combined airship-airplano ships administered_by a govern-
airport to be opened shortly near mental agency, an official status at».
Frankfort-on-the-Main. Every taches to what in other countries would appear to be a matter of in-thing about this new airport, Its geographical position, climate con- dividual choiceUnited Press.
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
KING EDWARD STAMPS AT END OF YEAR
Several The Komisomóla,
other astrologers аз the Young devoted their weekly Communist League
"atar- is called, WAK also instructed to assume the tech-1
gazing" to the future of the King nical education of backward workers,
and many of their forecasts thus enabling them to full increased
coincide. RH. Naylor, who and share fully in tho
predicted the birth of the campaign for increasing. Industrial
Duchess of Kent's baby with production and lowering costs.
commendable accuracy, wrote in the Sunday Express that Ed- ward's reign would see peak It can also be authoritatively King Edward will face to the right periods of prosperity in spite of stated that no "mourning stamps on the new coins which are ex- world alarms.,
are to be printed.
pected to appear in the course of B few months,
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He laid off the marriage angle
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 G.P.O. official said last month.
come.
Mooring Mast
the
The now navigable mooring mast. will make possible mechanical handling of large air- ships without the necessity of keeping a big landing crew, at hand, whenever a Zoppelin arrives,
the airship It is Interesting to Though Germany is the home of
note that the mooring mast is an The printing of new. postage pire would emerge triumphant stamps and postal orders, on the Stamps and postal orders form English Invention. This is very from stern ordeals and that
accession of a now sovereign, in- only one section In the changes Count Zeppelin's choice of Fried- largely explained by the fact that alliance with a friendly nation volves many prolonged and com- that the Post Office must make richshafen for his early work gave would be Ufebuoy to world plicated preliminary processes.thero remain letter boxes, mall him a natural basin, surrounded
As a first stop, artists will be in-vans and franking machines.
aby hills in which an airship could Edward Lyndoe "star-gazingvited to submit designs.
Of the 70,000 letter boxes in the be docked or launched at will. In the People, said that King Ed-
These will be considered by a country, comparatively fow will ward will be remembered as a special committee, and the final bear King Edward's initials for At the new airport, the mooring business man and that the palace choice will rest with the King. but as the initials of the Sovereign centre of the two circular tracks Home Hime. Now boxua will do so, mast has bean constructed in the In his reign, might well take the The annual safe of stamps in designation of "Executive Office Britain totals 7,000,000,000. Pos of the Chairman of the British tal orders number 226,000,000. Empira Limited."-
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arc embossed on the metal of the on which the "cradles (Hock box, the present boxes will not be wagen) of the airships can move interfered with freely. The radius of the circular He predicts that the biggest Whereas the head of the Sover Letter boxes bearing the in track for the "Graf Zeppelin will political sensation of the con- sign is Invariably turned to the scription "E. R. VII" are still in 129, 205 metres. The mooring be 107 metres, and, for the "L Z tury will occur in Edward's left on Engilah postage stamps, It existence, and there are even a mast, most airship experts appear Teltem through legislation to in reversed on the colnago at each few remaining markod VR to expect, will be the real termbicl
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