THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1987.
Author Discovers "Eyeless Sight'
Reads Blindfold: Strangest Story of Post-war
Hotel "Pairla" owned by famous Jan Kiepura, the Polish health re- sort of Krynten in the Western Car- pathians, where Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard are incognito,
ROYAL ROMANCE ENDS
ZOG OF ALBANIA
GIVES UP LOVE
Following the breaking-off, of his romance with an auburn- haired Austrian heiress. King Zog, handsome, dark und dapper Albanian Monarch, has decided to abandon all thoughts of marriage, writes a London cor- respondent in Albania.
He intends to devote himself to work, completing the reorganisation of his country into a modern Stule.
For years he has been in search.of
a bride, but now-
His Intest move is to decree that the veils which have hidden the faces of Albanian women for centuries should disappear.
Not since the World began has uny country changed so completely in so short a space of time 19 rocky, malaria-ridden Albania.
SIGHTLESS TAUGHT TO "SEE"
M.
By ANDREW KIDD
JULES ROMAINS, the famous French author, has taught him-
self to "see" without the use of his eyes, and believes that he can develop this gift in people afflicted with blindness.
Recently I sought out M. Romains, who is visiting London..
"He has one of the most brilliant minds 1 have ever encountered," his hostess. Miss Henrict- a Leslie, told me.
Just after the war M. Romains conducted
a series of remarkable experiments which led him to the conclusion that we have a network of microscopic "cyes" in the skin all over our bodies.
These body-eyes, which are so minute that in cer- tain circumstances they can enable us to see through our clothes, have, M. Romains claims, helped sightless and blindfold people to read, discern objects, and
colours,
The First Clue
The uncanny sense of blind men and of sleep-walkers first gave him the clue to his system.
He believed that in such abnormal circumstances, when normal night possessed by the body was called into play.
M.
In his first experiment, Romains picked a subject at random and tightly blindfolded him, subject at random and tightly blind- folded him.
The subject was then told that,
although his eyesight had been sup- pressed, he was going to us faculty of vision that he undoubtedly
possessed.
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A newspaper, was then placed In the subject's hands, and he was told to concentrate on "reading" it.
define
Les Landes district in France, which was formerly swampy land, sillis are still worn. The picture Flows some stills dancers from Les Landes en route to Albert Hall, London, to be present at the Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
PRINCE
Science
COTTON 'FIELD' OF CEMENT
SCIENTIST
RAISES
RECORD CROP
New York, Jan. 30. -
AMERICA'S cotton fields of the South may be transformed into an expanse of concrete pavements with cotton' growing from drilled holes, raised by a minimum of human labour and producing a record- breaking yield.
This is possible as the result of experi- ments by a research scientist named. Le Floyd, at Lagrange (Georgia).
Noticing cotton protruding through a hole in the concrete pavement near a warehouse, he plant- ed a test "field.”
He obtained perfect plants, most of them pro- ducing 100 bolls each in drought conditions or three times the yield of an average farm in a
normal season.
TO
GIVE
UP DREAM GIRL'
CAIRO, Jan. 25.
HANDSOME thirty-four-year-old Prince Said Halim has renounced "the girl of his dreams," a beautiful blonde American, Miss Kyros McCullock, whom he met in Paris.
For six years Prince Said Halim wandered over the Continent, running through a fortune of £200,000. Now Afler same minutes of Intense he has returned to the land of his ancestors to settle
down.
effort, during which he made ges- turts indicating great physical concentration, the subject at last :
to began ferkly and laboriously rend
out the title of the news- paper.
After a pause, he went on to read of the headlines in smaller Lype,
aome
This effort so exhausted the sub- ject that the test was then stopped-i but M. Romains' first experiment' had been a triumph.
Banks-re being bullin brigand Reading Numbers strongholds, and air services have re- placed Oriental caravans,
BLOOD-FEUD TERROR
One thing King Zog has not been able to do is banish the terror of the blood-feud from his land. But there is no doubt that he has brought relief much nearer. Before his rule the annual number of killings averaged 3,000; now it is much less.
Albanian vendettas usually rose out of nothing. A feud that cost 132 lives began with the theft of a few. cartridges. The code says that a boy may be killed in a vendetta as soon as his head. is shaved for the first lime-which usually means two years of age.
M. Romains discovered that blind- folded people could read letters placed before or behind them and could distinguish a wide range of colours.
A man, who had lost his sight ai Saloniks, was able, after some minutes of concentrated effort, to read out correctly a row of num bers.
then went on to distinguish .coloured various letters and their backgrounds.
Finally, when an unusual object was placed at a considerable dis- tance from him, the sightless man recognised and described it.
Women are never shot unless they Test on Soldier
kill of their own accord.
COFFEE INSULT
There is a phrase called "owing - blood." No man who owes any blood dare show his face in a tribal gather- ing until be has cleaned his honour. If he joined the circle without having avenged himself his cup of coffee would be passed to him under the crook of the knee-an insult that he is powerless to resent and cannot
avenge.
In order to try to end the 500 years' old vendetta tradition. Zog has arranged that blood-feuda enn be settled by payment of money, reckon-
his
that believes M. Romains system will soon be perfected and thut blind people throughout the world will be trained to develop the their powers of vision hidden in foodies.
His first experiments' for the sight-! mus were conducted with a blinded soldier.
war-
To-day M. Romains' most trea- sured possessions is the
soldier "anw."
cardboard
Flying As Fast
As Sound
He said to-day that he has definitely given up any idea of marrying Miss McCullock.
Prince Said Halim is a cousin Professor G. T. R. Hill, of of the present King Farouk. London University. lecturing His engagement to an English on "How We Fly" recently.
girl in Cairo some years ago was prophesied that all the child-forbidden by the late King ren in his audience would Fund. Then he went abroad. fly at over 700 m.p.h. during their lifetime. This would. mean they would travel as fast as sound, and it would be im- possible to hear their ap- proach.
Gas-filled balloons, paper gliders and a reproduction of the pterodactyl were among the thrills provided by Pro- fessor Hill for his young audience.
Juliana
Wedding
Film Seized
PRIVATE SHOWING IN BERLIN BANNED
Berlin, Jan, 20. Coples of a film of the Dutch figure 4the first object that the Royal wedding, taken by an Ameri- can company, were con@scated by "political to-day on Police grounds." No further explanation. was given,
Hopes of an end of the friction Holland and Germany resulting from the new Press attack He is forced to take elaborate pre-on Prince Bernhard zur Lippe- cautions against assassination, is Biesterfeld because of alleged Germany during the guarded day and night by men from "insults" to
therefore, been his own loyal tribe.
men, is understandable, for he has ed at so much per head after sub-desperate enemies in Albania. At one
time no fewer than 800 feuds rested between on his own head!
tracting the number of dead from cach rival group.
DAY AND NIGHT GUARD The King's eagerness to curb the bloodthirsty instincts of his country-
EXPLORERS' 90 MILES
IN FIVE MONTHS
Sydney, Jan. 30.
A story of adventure in the Papuan wilds is told in the cold phrases of an official report which has just reached Sydney
It is the report of Mr. Ivan Cham- pion, an assistant magistrate in the Papuan service, whose exploration party recently got back to the fringe of civilisation after being "lost" for seven months.
med up in the observation that
"the crossing sccupied 26 days." Half a mile a day average! By Oct. 17 rations were down to an eight-day supply.
The situation became desperate, but the report only hints at the fact with the words:
"For three months we lived on sweet potatoes. At Lako "Klubu, however, the inhabitants sold us food."
The explorers had to overcome Leaving the lake, the party crossed fearful obstacles, but these ore dla a limestone range at 8,000ft," to Wegu missed with the observation that It Valley, took them
Then up again over Mount "five months to cover the 90 miles Giluwer, where a night was spent at from the Ramu River to the 12,000ft. Leonard Henry Mountains." Water stored in buckets froze soild. Thirteen miles of the upper Kikori Eventually, the expedition reached river-13 miles of perilous rapids the end of its trek-Purerland was running through. Ilmestone
guided from there to Port Romily In gorges had to be crossed,
cunbes The risks that were runna this M. Champion states that from first death-trap was tackled are all sumu to last the natives gayd no trouble,
ban
WANTED ADVENTURE
"I was tired of a humdrum life,” he said, "I wanted adventure. I sought in Paris, Deauville, Monte Cario--wherever pleasure hunters were to be found.
"I spent thousands--and I enjoyed myself, but I became estranged from my family.
"Now that is all over. I am recon- elled to all the members of the royal family. shall probably go into the army, and, by the way, I am going to marry. A match with a royal cousin is now being arranged."
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"What about Miss McCullock?" asked. The prince looked grave.
"All that is finished," he replied. "Love and marriage are two differ- ent things. I am the only son of my father.
"He disapproved of my Hving abroad, and of course,
marrying abroad even more so."*
Two months ago, all the prince desired in life was to marry the girl of my dreams, and settle down in Egypt.
SHE RETURNS TO U.S. "His family forbade the marriage. ond the prince saw her for the last time in London three weeks ago.
He said: "She is returning to the United States. I plan to go thee myself in iwo or three months' time, but the visit is not connected with Miss McCullock. "That is a thing of the past."
Vanishing
River Has
LABOUR-SAVING
The concrete, prevented the
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a farmer can raise four times as much cotton with only ten man-hours per acre.
I generally applied, this that 8,000,000 would mean cotton workers lose three months' employment annual.
ly.
Following the invention of a
cotton-picking machine which- does the work of 60 men, this
experiment has caused wide- sproad appréhension of an im- pending economic revolution in the South.
PREMIER TO GET £3,000 RISE
#
VIE Government's Bill to in-
True the salaries of Cabinet Ministers will be introduced in Parliament this month,
necessary
It will be passed through before the Budget, in whch the provision for the extra expenditure will be made.
Mr. Baldwin is one of the Ministers who is "getting a rise.".
Ho is to get another £3,000, making £8,000 a year.
Others will get a similar increase-- which will bring them up to £5,000 a year.
FIRST LORD'S £5,000,
They are Mr. Ernest Brown, the Minister
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Com-
Mr. Elliot, the Secretary for Scot- land, is to receive £2,500, bringing him up to £5,000 and Sir Samuel Lord of the Hoare,
the First Admiralty, another £500, making
£5,000.
to
Several of the Junior Ministers, who are not in the Cabinet, are receive increases of £300 a year.
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Returned up in gleaming pear-
festivities somewhat dashed.
Although at the last moment re- orts were permitted to appear, " ports
was placed by Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, on broad- casting and news films of the wed ding.
"disap- ➜UCKINGHAMSHIRE'S One of the big American film com- pearing river, the Misbourne, panies, however, Invited members surprised residents at Chalfont St. of the Dutch colony in Berlin to Gilles last month by beginning to private show
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PAINT THAT CHANGES COLOUR
Last March the Misbourne began to flow again after being dry for three
years.
WAB
Then it myilerlously" disap- peared again and the bed dry for two mlies, Old inhabitants believe that the reappearance of the river is a fore- hoding of disaster. - -
Stocks of a special paint which by turning from yellow to red discloses the presence of mustard a pubile meeting at Hornsey.
in time of emergency local au- gas, are to be supplied to local thorities would be able to distribute authorities in England.
boards treated with the "detector" The paint was described by Wing-paint, and these would be placed at Commander Steele Perkins, of the vantage points to warn the publle of Air Raids Precautions. Department, at any gas attack by air.
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