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Captain F. W. Butt-Thompson in]

The "Flapper Vote". in England There is universal indignation in Ernst Deiter, for twenty-ave his book, "West African Secret occupies so prominent a position in Germany at the reply which has years head chamberlain of the

with the

THE Undersigned have received Societios" (Witherby), champions the accounts that are reaching the been received in Berlin to the off-Duke of Cumberland's large estate instructions to sell by Public that much misunderstood type, the German Press that, true to national¦cial German protests against Mus-in Gmunden, and a jeweller from

Witch Doctor.

tradition, theories upon the result covite misbehaviour on and after the same place, were 'given three He points out that even in their on the British Government have al-May Day.

years' and two years' hard labour. rame are they maligned. The word ready crystallised.

The first of the German protests respectively for having conspired "witch" does not occur in any The word "Flapper," at the out-related to the events in Moscow on to loot the duke's valuable collec- African language of which he is set, is regarded as a grave mis- May 1, when Voroshiloff, Commis-tion of coins, jewels, clocks, etc. aware, and they probably received nomer, since the German equiva- sar for War, in a speech about the Both were simply concerned with this opprobrious name from Euro- lent, the "Backfisch," translated in oppressed masses all over the getting gold, which was melted A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF Lean linguists who did not under most English-German dictionaries warld" took occasion to refer to the down, to the amount of ten and s

stand their functions.

as "girl in her teens, school-girl "so-called democratic Germany," half kilogrammes, and later sold to Training for a "society doctor," (in short dresses) or bread and-where "the Socialist Police Presi Viennese frms. The non-gold

mies," as Captain Butt-Thompson prefers butter

herself always dent, Zorgiebel, like the former parts, as in the case of valu Ornaments; Bronze Incense to call them from their official insists that the true incubation Tsar,, wants to rob the proletariat able clocks, were thrown into the Burners, 5-colour and 3-colour position in the secret societies, is period between young and grown-(of its rights to demonstrate on the lake. Vases, Bowls, Plates, Pots, arduous and long. The applicant up-girl ends with seventeen years, streets for world revolution.” A constant guard was kept night Crystal. Agate, Coral and Jade must be of high order in his seven months, seven weeks, and Moscow's reply states that and day outside the castle and the Ornamenta, Embroideries, Lac-society, and the training lasts for seven days, adding, in lighter mo- Voroshiloff had no intention. park, so that the thief could only quer Cupboards, Chairs, Screens, three years.

ments, seven hours. Such frivolous of interfering

in-be one of the household staff. Blackwood Joss Tables, Tea Poys, In one tribe the initiation cere- calculations are net for the "elder ternal attairs of.

Germany, Deiter was not suspected, and was Opium Stools, Jardinieres, Brass mony is similar to that described youth," as another delightful Ger- and that the "authentic re-eventually discovered, to the sur- Incense Burners, Chinese Hand by Rider Haggard in

"Allan's man term describes the Tore ports of his speech as given in the prise of all, by finger-printa on a Wife." After a period of isolation mature. of both sexes in Paintings, etc.

their Russian and foreign Press contain coin case. Many of the coins melt- in the bush, without cover, seeking teens.

ed no phrase which could be inter- ed down had great historical value, On View from Tuesday, July 9, the roots and herbs of his future

Short dress notwithstanding, the preted in that sense."

apart from their gold weight. practice, he is led to the chief's young German woman of twenty, The Germans have also com-There were 366 gold coins and compound, and the tribe sing and who has enjoyed ber vote since the plained against the offeraive medals from the seventeenth and

"From their midst the father' finitely proves by her actions that Ministers

National Assembly in 1919, de caricatures of individual Cabinet eighteenth centuries; 75 gold coins and of the pocket from the Luneburg Dynasty (1665 springs forward, spear in hand, Britain has nothing to fear battleship flying the and makes a wound in the man's from "Flappers."

Repub-to 1866), English gold medals of In Germany, lican colours which adorned the the eighteenth century, gold coins chest. The man is recumbent. He statistics are now available for the Moscow May Day processions. To from the French occupation of Aus- must not cry when he is wounded. women's vote of four elections, this Moscow simply replies that it tria (1809-13), etc.--altogether received."

reputation for doing exactly as she signia of Germany to be ridiculed most historical of the collection was not expected to do has con-"even" in mass demonstrations. are luckily still left; but the Cross A "Putsch" Organised

of the Russian Order of St. An- With regard to last week's anti-drew, and the Royal Prussian Red German demonstrations outside the Eagle were stolen. German Consulate in Leningrad, It was when preparing material the reply says that these demon- for loan to the Numismatics Con- strations "probably" arose spon-ference in Vianna that the man in taneously, and that an inquiry will charge discovered the losses, and he held. Of anything in the set inquiries on foot. nature of an apology there is not

1929.

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Hypnotic Powers He is then supposed to be dead, and is taken to the hut of the initiates where the body" is wash- ed, and "it" is made to drink its own blood from the wound. When he has recovered he returns to the village, adopts a new name, and is then ready to practise.

Captain Butt-Thompson quotes.

Conflict of Rival Germs

conflict.

PLEASE DON'T WASTE WATER

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CHOW."

OXEN EAT SIDE OF MOUNTAIN

are

The cattle have almost entire

Rare China, Ceylon, Tibet, examples of their power to detect sistently disappointed the Social-a word in the Soviet Note. Federated Malay States, Hong criminals by "smelling out" with ists, who, of all parties in Germany, Kong, Great Eritain, Macau, various implements.

The painful impression created STRANGE One doctor recommended votes for women long here is well summed up in the North Borneo, Malay Borneo, Ex uses a lizard. hibition,

other doctora use before the War. The Conserva- Catholic "Germania," when it says, Trengganu, Mongolia, other animals, and some obtain tives have gained considerably "Moscow must be perfectly well Siam, Straits Settlements, etc.

equally truthful results with twigs, from female franchise from the aware that it is committing an un- in the same manner as a water beginning.

friendly act towards Germany 8. diviner.

The New Toy

Oxen have eaten when it organises a 'putsch' in

sway 10,000 Much of the doctors' healing According to

tons of earth from the side of a Germany's ex-Berlin for May 1, and that the case power rests on hypnotism, the perience, the large percentage of is still worse when this wire-pull-mountain in the Magaliesberg dis- author stated, and their persuasive young female voters in England ing is openly attempted in public. trict, near Pretoria. power is immense.

this time will gradually decrease

Natural salt deposits, which Herr Theodore Wolff, Editor of A Bundu woman doctor who had at each subsequent election. In the "Tageblatt," declares in a lead-cattle are fond of licking, taken a St. John Ambulance cer-1919, at their first election, ing article that the "question of common all over the world, but in tificate at Free-town, used her cer-women's zeal in Germany was such Russo-German relations is becom- this case the animals have appar tificate on the heads of her patients that they outnumbered the men at ing extremely problematical," and ently been making whole and as a cure for headache with com- the poll. This has now changed to warns the Bolsheviks that any co-satisfying meals from the carth plete success.

an average of 8 per cent. less operation with them will be impos- itself. They have eaten a cave women voting than men in all big sible if they refuse to recognise 10 ft. high and 50 ft. scross deep German towns. But since women the elementary foundations on into the mountain side and they But their knowledge of medicine 1s nevertheless profound.

are the longer-lived sex, the reason-which any policy towards their are still cating, They

ing follows that England's prepon country must be based. liak ancient homeopathy to "the derance of female votes will be

The Antecedents newest allopathy known to the given by the elderly women, and

ly given up eating grass, but they If anything were required to ag- have the appearance of being European medical schools," and "flappers." if young men vote in gravate the feeling here created by thoroughly well fed. they long anticipated modern

proportion, consequently will not Vorushiloff's speech and by the pathology by curing

Samples of the earth from the general paralysis by allowing the patient affect the issue materially at all. offensive reply to the protests, it cave have been sent to Johannes- The German figures on the ques-is provided by the information now burg for analysis. It is easily to be bitten by malarial mosquitoes, tion of age are interesting. They published with regard to the ante- crumbled into Ane dust and is thus setting rival germs in deadly show that whereas the men cedents of that speech.

practically tasteless to the human between 50 and 55 are the keenest: To rise in a West African secret on politics, their zeal continuing and Kalinin had spoken strongly

In the Political Bureau Rykoff tongue. society is

Though a detailed analysis has an expensive business.

practically up to 70, when it abates against a May Day campaign of not yet been made, experts state To reach the highest grade in suddenly, women only vote in any abuse against foreign Powers as it appears to be a clay contain- Egbs demands an outlay of 100 large proportion up to 45, and highly inopportune and dangerous, ing potash and mineral salts, through the different stages of after 60 seem to care nothing at in view of Russia's present difficul- which would make it attractive to initiation. Okonko costs about all. This, it is argued, may change ties at home and abroad. Stalin cattle with an abnormal appetite. £500, and various presents to off- cials at all stages.

with the perennial youth which is then rose and violently deprecated now the aim of the woman who these "paniu speeches." Although

He was the original secret

practises physical culture, and it seconded by Voroshilaff, who said societies were exclusively male, there are now many mixed or salely may not be as true of England as that he, as Honorary President of

FAMOUS SOLDIER'S LAST of Germany, where the "Hausfrau" the German Red Froul Fighters, women's societies. In African

is not in any sense as young as the would lose all credit in Berlin if he

HOME CONVERTED. society there is nothing strange

Englishwomen of the same age. abstained from energetic phraseo- the admission of women. "In political life," states Captain Butt-of the woman in her fifties has

But the indifference or the wisdom logy.

Englemere, the last home of the Thompson, they are

August 1 Again?

late Lord Roberts, was opened in not infre-

seriously affected the German quently the power behind the

After Rykoff and Kalinin had mail week as the Eaglemere-Ascot polla.

reiterated their opinions a throne."

com- Country Club. As regards the voting, the promise Captain Butt-Thompson has writ

Was reached whereby This idea of preserving large ten an extremely interesting and average at the last German elec- Voroshiloff should be the only Com country houses by adapting them exhaustive book on every aspect of feminine proportion of 47 per cent. parade owing to its purely "mili- by Mr. William Duncan, who has tions of the total voting was a missar to attend the proposed for club purposes was originated theas secret societies, and, in reply for the Communists, 53 per cent.tary" character. Stalin afterwards already been responsible for or to the statement that all such Socialists, 62 per cent. Clericals, 52 instructed Voroshiloff to make use ganising four English country at Egham, Stoke Court, forgatten, quotes the issue of per cent. Democrats, 54 per cent of the strongest possible words and clubs "West Africa" for December 1tives), 58 per cent.

Peoples Party (mild Conservato permit the exhibition of carica- Stoke Poges, and Tollerton Hall. 1928, in which will be found re (die-hard Conservatives), 50 per

Nationalista tures of German Ministers..

Among those present at the ferences to the present activities of cent. Economic Party, and 44 per here by the "manifesto of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Further indignation is caused opening of Englenere were the societies in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, cent. Fascist. The Economic Party Third International to the Western Viscount and Viscountess Lee of

puts commonsense views on house Countries," published a few days Fareham, and Countess Roberts. property, taxation, and so forth, ago in the Paris Humanite," an- before any political views. In same nouncing a repetition of the May FRASER'S HILL towns it received as large a pro-Day "patsch" attempt in Berlin for portion as 95 per cent of the August 1, when advantage is to be PROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENT female votes. Every time any such taken of the political and "techni-

party springs into being before & cal" lessons of the barricades. WORK

German election, it attracts women Meanwhile the German Govern- The only slogans (ment is taking energetic measures Building activity at Fraser's Hill by the score. (Singapore) continues briskly and that have appealed to them in Gerto eradicate the evil at its sources. At a speech at the luncheon of

Incorporated Society it seems that at last private enter many are those connected with At a conference of the States under the prise, which hung a long way be their pockets-obviously because the Reich Minister of the Interior British Advertisers, Mr. Amery hind Government, is beginning to woman is the spending sex and it has been decided that the dis-suggested that the Conservative's make itself felt. Malayan Col- can only spend what her husband solution of the Red Front Fighters, election programme had been be lleries have, the "Malay Mail gives her lists and Communalready enforced by Prussia and hind the other parties. In the pro- bears, chosen a site close to The Socialists

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