1924-05-09 — Page 9

FRIDAY MAY 9, 1924

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TOMB WHICH WOULDN'T HE

PHOTOGRAPHED,

M. Oymanowski's "Man and My- atory in Asia" (just published, Ar- nold. 14 is the work of a well- known, mineralogist and authority on Cord Ava wholis now a professor on the Polish General Staff and whe ""during the war was sent on-3-special- investigating expedition into Mongo. Ti

He writes in collaboration with Mr. 1. S. Palon, and gives us some of the most astonishing talos we havo ever read, which certainly prove If they are to be accepted as literal. unvarnished fact--that truth is much stranger than fiction. They are en- tirely concerned with his experiences an admotures in the wildest and Toast-known parts of Siberia.

bells of the extraordinary plants and creatures found north of The Altal Range. Tarantulas ore When he units friend Were battilig in a soit ale, his friend called to him:

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"Get out as quick ng von ein !" With one reliance T fallowed him I so made out an immens farantie spiler walking with in long hairy legs on the water. threafiminals advanced its fentes and enrried its had high. ressed fairly onto me with the

› worlike expression of a lot lesbij

with all Its anna nim auj M. Owendawdd dryland that the sheen in the worst for this Lid spider ta

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MR. & MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON'S

TRAILING AFRICAN

WILD ANIMALS

Every beast. of the African jungle shown in all its untamable ferocity 1

POWER OF WHALES.!!

2,000-TON STEAMER TOWED

FOR HOURS:.

DEATH PENALTY...

LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER..

"Abolition of the death penalty for murder proposed in the Offences Against the Person Bill" introduced by Mr. C. G. Ammon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty.

Whaling to-day is not quite auch an adventurous affair as when hunt ars on sighting their prey went out

Nevertheless some,

Murder is to be parishable with in small boats. of the big whales to-day could tow a

& fixed, sentence of penal servitude 2,000 ton strumer, after hog har for life, oxcept in the case of an pooned, for many hours with the en-offender already undergoing peral gines racing hard astern, hegre servitude Ar life, when the penalty indifrom glem exhaustion.

is to be death.

A protest against the present Th includes the provisions increas wasteful slaughter of Fitles in thing the punishment for cruelty to chil- Southern Seas, was made by Sidron contained in the Children's Bill. Sidney Harmer. Director of Neturn History at the British Miseum,

betire to studente, of the Indian National Council.

There is very gryn dangor, he said, if the mie of slaughter contin noe, of exterminating the whale and Afro poim in his killing industry.

tory has the slaughter beer so ap. palling and so meconomical:

Potting its longur righf into the spider's how it was the Salled the days whe confideni teril of battle fasting the the whale was common in the Bay of wagnionene with teeth and haire Biscay, and whale flesh was com free with visible aurecia-monly gold for human food in the tion of the agreeable shusation the streets of Paris. sheer closes it's teves with anjove ment, end swallows the ange tamatul as we swallow a Th Poles in Tennhaven, only without lemon.

He also tells us that inakornera zi

Bother route koen "Harl wine" with which to "dena“ theo] Travelers when they rob, Ti! made from tarantulas maddened Before death, poolted in alcohol. A few drops,added to anỷ" drink can

almost immediate faintness, which passes after some hours, hid leaves. However, in 'the victim a form of madness of long Äuration Toes of memory, and incoherent movemente and words. The rich Em cannot remember what bofell Fim or whate Be last wna.

Another strange tale is of a doimen montment-of sixteen hig Bolumna which refused' to be photo- wrapbed:

I made two photogmphs from different sides of the dolmen: The same evening I developed my negatives. Fow astonished. I was to find nothing on the plates! In the morning I went to the dolmes to try again, having loaded my camera with fresh plates from a new box. On devekring found nothing on the plates.

This dolmen, he learnt later, was the haunted tomb of one Abuk Khan. He made mother attempt on it and took three photographs. but when on his way to develop them he was fang from his wagon.

I lighted on a heap of sinnes and smashed my photographie ap- "paration so completely that the lens and the cases were rednend to frag- merrie.

introduced earlier by Mr. Ammon. I was stated in Parliament that the. Government would not be able dur ating the present sension to give frolli.

tide for this Bil.

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The othe main provisions are Infanticide by a mother is to mount to manslaughter only, if she has not fully recovered from the ivotal effects of tho hirth.

Nothing in the Bill authorises, the infliction of corporal punishment. and the part of the Garrotters Act, 1863. dealiner with attacks on the person is repended.

The age of consent is raised to 18. The law relating to the procura- tion, of women and girls is greatly strengthened. In certain cirenm- sinnces the crime is made punishable with penal servinide for ten years,

Floys under 18 pre protected. Krom women of or over that age. Th maximum penalty on the woman tommitting sexual immorality, with love is imprisonment for two years, or, if she was suffering from disease in a communicable "form, nogal ser- vitude for five years.

The Bill wons pot extend in Sent- land

THE CHINA MAIL,

-Peking, May 8-Wu Pei-fu requests Reuter's Agency to state that there is no truth in the foreign Press statements concerning bjsc. alleged seizure of railway funds at Tsingtan or elsewhere for military purposes. Courtesy Daily Bulletin.

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