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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1928.

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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.j

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fatigue

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acale

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16-A noted American

geologist

19-Engles

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Thessaly

23-A lign of the Zodiac .24-Navigatoa

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resistanca

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29-A number

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for valor

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:38-Melodious utterance.

40-Prefix. Nat -42-Natty

44-Time period 45-Purpose In view 46-An Aslatlo bovine

animal

47-A berring-like fab

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

12-A JupanIDAD

statesman

58-Unsightly 67-An old English

playwright and post

68-To spurt 60-Pertaining to the

coast

81-To dsoxmp 63-Born (French) (84–A felar's title in

Italy

68-Greek poddess of

the dawn 66-A British major

hanged in the United States 67-Upright carved

stone (Archeo!) VERTICAL 1-Worthy to be

imitated -Mention by

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A`Kakdow

8-500 7-A wooden musical

Instrument

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mattor

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Francisco Bay, Callfornia

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(The solution of the above oross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word

puzzle.)

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TRANS-SAHARA.

THE CHINA MAIL,

DREAM THAT MAY COME TRUE.

£15,000,000 PROJECT.”

Paris.

The Trans-Saharan Railway has become a question of the day. This gigantic undertake ing, of which the realisation must have seemed not long since al- most fabulous, has just been sub- mitted by a vote of the Senate to be studied by a Special Commis sion empowered to apend nearly £100,000 on practical investiga- tions.

First proposed as long ago as 1869 by Major Hanoteau, when it was dismissed as a fantastic dream, the idea appealed, in 1879, to de Freycinet, who appointed a Committee of Inquiry, but the disaster that overtook the Flat- ters Expedition, which was annl hilated by Touaregs, discouraged public interest, and the scheme languished for 20 years more.

From 1904, however, to 1923 as many as eight different studies were made by competent men, who had prospected various routes. In 1923 the success of the Haardt-Citroen motor · ex- pedition, that crossed the Sahara, on caterpillar wheels in ifteen days, and the Central African six-wheeled expedition of Renault and Citroen in the following year gava a decided fillip to the sub- ject.

sessions.

National Defence.

In 1914 there were six French black regiments. Now the colour ed troops amount to 60,000. By 1935 there can be half-a-million.

Value to Commerce. Military considerations, how- ever, are not the only ones, ira- portant as they are. It is, for in- stance, pointed out that, had the Trans-Saharan existed at the time, the Riff War would probably have fizzled out very quickly. But commerce enters largely into the question, too. The valley of the Niger is rich in cotton, livestock, and other natural values.

It is calculated that from 100 to 200,000 tons of cotton could be obtained yearly within a short time if transport were available,

Bishop James Canon, Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ons of the prominent leaders of the dry forces. He will probably take a leading part in the coming penst- dential campaign.

besides large supplies of meat

BRITISH FILM.

SCENARIO READ BY THE

KING."

ROYAL AID.

London The King has authoris-! ad the production of a full-length screen play 'dealing with the most romantic tradition or sories of traditions, associated with the Im- perial regalia of Britain, and has promised to use his Influence on behalf of the enterprise.

The Queen is also associating horself with the project, even mora closely than the King.

They have both read and ap- proved the draft scenario of the narrative, in which a modern episode is enclosed within a story reaching back several hundred years, and have given certain in- structions with a view to ensuring||

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advertised with discretion and ex-i hibited with dignity.

All the exterior scenes will be produced in India, and a commit- tee of three distinguished Anglo- Indians, with the assistance of a ' native committes not less. distin-i suished in Imperial service, has been formed to see that the royal wishes are effectively respected.

Great efforts will be made to en- sure' authenticity of fact and set- ting in a atory of which the ac- tual origins are velled in antiquity. The majority of the players will be experienced natives, but there will be a few Europeans, and all the principals will portray his- torical characters.

Wide Experience.

`A director. of wide experience has been engaged, and he will · AB- suredly bring back a film not only great in its historical sweep, but the most comprehensive panorama of official and unofficial India that' Is ever likely to be produced.

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The reason why the Trans- Sobaran Railway has become a problem of the moment, and will end by superseding almost all others is one of national defence. The year 1935 will be the date for France first to feel shortage of manpower caused by the decline. of births from 1915 to 1919, when' her men were at the front and separated from their wives. She can only make up the shortage by drawing on her Colonial pos and wool, all from within French (pany entrusted with the making Possessions, and that France's of this film is British Screen Pro- commercial balance would profit the new-British companies. to the tune of, perhaps, £30,000,- 000 a year from these sources.

It appears to be establisheding director of this company, to that the difficulties of building & whom application for further la railway across: the desert with formation was made, refused the aid of motor transport for rather to confirm or deny that he construction parties are by no was interested in the project. means insuperable, and that the The Alm's provisional title is danger from shifting sand, once "The Hill," and as it will be the the bogey called in to oppose, the first produced directly under royal scheme, is largely non-existent. patronage the result cannot but The Trans-Saharan, it is said, add enormously to the prestige of will be to France what the Suez the British cinema industry.. Canal is to the British Empire; it will link Calais with the Congo and give the French Empire an effective mobile population of 70 millions.

HONG KONG HEIGHTS

With the Trans-Saharan working, the Niger will be at a distance of five days from Paris-an enor mous saving of time and the sea passage for French Colonial troops will be reduced to 30 hours from Oran to Port Vendres, and within the means of the French Navy to defend.

The ideal system for the Trans Saharan, thinks General Aubler, one of the chief authorities on the subject, would be in the form of a Lorraine cross: a vertical line from Oran to Waghdugu, |with two transverse lines, from Casablanca to Bizerta," and from Dakar to Lake Chad. In any case, it is likely that, whatever line is adopted, there will be an extension to Lake Chad, and thence ultimately a branch run ning south through French Equa- torial Africa to a point on the Congo Coast, possibly Loango.

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:- MANA Leland.

Victoria Peak

1828

SME

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1784

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Eyrie

1725

Peak Hotel

1805

Taikoo Sanatorium.

1000

Mt. Davis RE

Bowen Road (filterb

Kowloon Peak....

Mainland

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Mias Sybil Florence Bald, 49, of Fircroft, Camberley, Surrey, who, after serving in the V.A.D. during the war, was at SE. Dunstan's for The total cost of the main line nine years, was found dead in a estimated at pond near her home. She had left roughly $15,000,000.

home in the morning, and a note was found stathig that she had gone for a long walk.

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Miss J. M.“Abbott, B.A., head the mathematics department of Wakefield High School, has been appointed headmistress of Leam ington College for Girls.

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