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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1936.
Protests Over Parads of Bathing
Belles at School
WHERE KING
ALFRED
WAS EDUCATED
Bathing Pool
Floodlit
Sherborne, Sept, 10.
oteats are being made about a contest for bathing belies held in historic Sherborne School.
The school is 1,200 years old, and educated Alfred the Great there.
Was
The contest was held in the school swimming baths, which have been lent to the local council during the summer holiday.
Was
The
open-air bathing pool Bloodlit, dance music was played from loud-speakers and the ancient Abbey clock chimed 12 overhead as girls, who had cycled in from vil-
round lages around, paraded
lived Inta bath before they water.
the
Mr. H. J. Otton, who is running these midnight beauty contests in ald of a let hospital, said to Uny, "In the past four year we have raised a lot of money for charity: that is our best reply to the crities who abject to such maternity man historic old spot.
"The bathing beauty contest prov- od a great success and I shoil stage at least another before the school returns,"
Rats!
Rats May Evict Islanders
They rob the women in their
kourua
And eat all the crops out of
the fields.
At last the people in a body
To another Isle ure turning.
-
That is the Pied Piper story of Tristan da Cunha, Ionely Belilah Isle In the Pacifo 2.003 miles from Capetown. The 157 habitants may soon be driven by the rat-plague to move to Inaccessible Isle.
ATLY.
JEAN HARLOW GOES BLONDE
Jean Harlow reverts to the blonde standard in "Suzy", a scene from which is given above. It comes to the King's Theatre to-morrow.
Father Finds Dead' Son Revived By
Snake Charmers
NINE
Allahabad, Sept. 10.
INE-YEARS-OLD Master Lakhan, of Bijnor village, near. Meerut, United Provinces, India, is facing the problem, "Who is his father?"
FORTUNE FOR "DEAD MAN" Left On Funeral
Pyre
WANDERER FOR
13 YEARS
Caleutia, Sept. 21.
A man was left for dead on a funeral pyre when the mourn ing relatives were driven away by a fierce storm. He became a wanderer in the Himalayas for
There are Σπο candidates. Mr. Lakhun sen, and a sunke charmer who claims to have brought him back to life two years ago, after he had been buried.
On the night of August 10, 1934, young Lakban was bitten by a make. A few hours later the village doctors pronounced him dend. He was buried in the bed of a river near Bijnor.
To-day, two years later,
afr. Lakhan men. found his son aniong They
a group of anake charmers. recognised each other at once.. The charmers claim to have secretly exhumed Master Lakhan's body and charmed him back to life.
As they brought him back to life, they claim him as their son. It is thought that the charmers
13 years with holy men, suffer-revived the boy by injecting snake ing from loss of memory, but venom to counteract the venom of returned to his former home and the snake which had killed" him." recollected that, he was a rich
man.
These are some of the facts of one of the most renerkable cases in Indian legal history which was con- cluded to-day at Darea after a daily hearing since November 27, 1933.
Fifteen hundred witnesses have been examined, including Civil Ser- rants, doctors, barristers landowners, money-lenders, fishermen, and couch- men, and there were 2,000-exhibits- The plaintiff, a Sanyassi (holy man), claimed to be the second son of the late Raja Baltadur Rajendra Narayan Roy, owner of extensive Bhowal estates in Dacca with an In- come of £60,000 amualls.
In 1909 the son went to Darjeeling for a rest cure nad while there was a victim of a murder conspiracy. It is The 62-year-old General Cabanellas, alleged that arsenie was administered is Chief of the provisory government to him; he fell into a coma and was of the rebels in Spain. He is seen presumed to be dead. Its body was photographed on the balcony of the removed to the cremation ground at headquarters of the rebels in Burgos midnight. but a heavy storm drove smoking a cigarette, The general the burial party away before they rolls his own cigarettes and smokes could let the up by some!
thirly a day.
TO SCARE
The
BROODY HENS FRIGHTENED
BY BAGPIPES
Vancouver, B.C. Sept. 15. SCOTTISH music and egg hatch-
ing do not inte lozat Italian-is
demanding damages from his Scot- tish neighbour on the grounds that Cery time the latter started playing his bagpipes, all the Italian's brood- ing hens took fright, few of their nests and the eggs did not hatch.
Pardoned After
8 Years On Devil's Island
Saint Nazaire, Sept. 15. After serving eight years' im- prisonment on Devil's Island for
a murder he never committed, a
EDIT was pleked Naga Sanyassis, wandered with thon far 13 years and returned accidentally to Dacea, to realise who he actually was. He then claimed his birthright.
The defence was that the son tall, dark haired, handsome man HIS WIFE referred to actually died and that the walked down the gangway of present claimant was an impostor. the liner De la Salle here to
the 0350 with Norwich, Sept. 15.
emplary patience Mr. Pana Lal France and freedom, having re- WALTER SIDNEY WEBB, 23-year- Bose, a special magistrate, decided jceived a pardon... Wald fruiterer's
assistant, was in favour of the plaint and took found hanged. At the inquest at, three months to write his ludgment. Norwich to-day his widow, Lilian Martin Webb. told this story.
"I found my husband with a strap round his neck, fixed to the bedpost. "I cut him down and went for u walk. I did not resilse he was dead. his My husband had fastened necktie round his neck slx or seven to times before when he wanted frighten mic,
After hearing
BANISHED. RIFF
SULTAN
ESCAPE REPORT DENIED
Paris, Sept. 15. DENIAL fa issued by the
A Colonial Ministry to the report
He is Charles Lartigue, aged 45. who in November 1928 was condemn- ed to 15 years' penal servitude for the alleged murder of a farmer and his wife, M. and Mine. Domercq, at Belloc, near Pau, Southern France.
Lartigue returns to France to And that his mother and wife ore dead. They died from broken hearts after spending all their money trying, to secure his retrial.
Lartigue's sister rushed forward to embrace him as he stepped oshare, "The first time was before we were
hicycle that Abdel Krim, the Ri Sultan, and he seemed dazed with happiness married-after a tiff on
who has been living la banishment as he looked round the quayside.
"No words in any language cản through," he said.
to
ride.
Onco when I could not stop the since 1026 on the Island of Reunion, describe the horrors I have gone baby crying he tried atrangle has escaped, himself. I let him get on with Io soon undid his necktle.".
Verdict: Death from asphyxia (suffocation) by inadvertently passing a strap tightly round his neck in an effort to scare his wife,"
Smuts Blames
Ile was deported with his family to Reunion after being defeated by the combined French and Spanish armies in the Rif.
The French Colonial Ministry tiates that the report of his escape appears to be an invention, but in- quiries are being made by cable..
League
"I Thought I was doomed to die there. Tint is the feeling of every- one who goes to Devil's Island."
Jack Doyle is "Penitent," So Wife
Breakdown For Civil Wa Drops Divorce
Durban, Sept. 10,
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for both and the League would have
Hollywood, Sept. 10. VENERAL SMUTS stated to-day proved itself and have become a real JUDITH ALLEN, film actress, is not
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Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..
of the Spanish army in Morocco and greasion," he sold. civil wor in Spain not only as a most "I am sure that the
A fortnight age she instructed her before the close of the financial year on dangerous symptom in itself but business is closely connected with the lawyer to file a sult. Now she says 31st October. also as another product of the break-Italian business, and the two together Jack is in o. penitent mood," so she Hon. Treasurers: down of co-operation in the League have created a situation in the has experienced a "change of heart."
must neces-i
Doyle sald n fortnight ogo: It's all during the Italo-Abyssinian crisis. Mediterranean which
marvellous The view was expressed in an in- rarily give the greatest concern to all my fault. Judith is tervin with the Natal Advertiser. Mediterranean Powers.
She said to-day: We are going to "If France and Pritals had stow "Not only has the breakdown of the firm in that criels and Feen the League resulted in the Mediterranean look for a site where Jack can build League through the position in the situation, but in a wild armaments the house I've always wanted
Reuter. Mediterranean would now be safer race," ho declared. Reuter,
woman.
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzle & Co.,
P. & Ö, Building. Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
September 15, 1939.
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