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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1929.

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THE MONS ANGELS

A SCIENTIST'S EXPLANATION OF WAR VISIONS

EMOTIONAL PRESSURE

Dr. C.

THE CHINA MAIL,

£175,000 BATHING

MINISTRY OF HEALTH GIVES

ITS APPROVAL

ELECTRIC MAN

ABLE TO DIVINE METALS AND WATER

CRITICAL OBSERVATION

Much interest has been aroused

The Ministry of Health has sanc- B. Cutton, president of Col-toned Brighton Town Council's gate University, in a paper entitled scheme for building a vast open air "Visions in the War," recently read in bathing-pool at seat of £175,000, in the remarkable clalma, made for America, said that conditions in the The pool, which will be designed to Mr. Frederick Stone, of Brundis World War were ripu for "starting accommodate 500 bathers and 1,000 Corner, Holsworthy, Devon, who, it is physle manifestations" and cited as spectators, will be built near the an example of war-time "visions" the Palace Pier opposite the recon- said, owing to unusual susceptibility to Angels of Mons, which were supposed [structed Aquarium. to have appeared in the sky during the sanguinary retreat of the British troops from Mons in the first year of the conflict.

Dr. Cutten, in discussing the vision Lof the angely, pointed out that at the time the soldiers reported having seen them, the sky was heavy with amoke veined by the flashes of bursting shell,

while the men themselves, tenso in the

terrifle fighting, were in a peculiar

that

make

electricity or to the static of his own

Although it is claimed that the body, is able to divine both water and pool will be one of the nest in the precious metals, Mr. Stone, states an world many Brighton ratepayers exchange, has spent 20 years of his are not favourably disposed to the life he is now 40-in hospitals, where schemo. They aay in view of the his case, was a puzzle to all. Some present bathing facilities It Is diagnosed his case as one of St. superfluous and will result in a fur- Vitua dance, but Mr. Stone himself believes that the trouble was due to ther burden on the rates.

with The future of Volks railway, the his body being overcharged first electric railway In the world, polctricity and that he was cured by is also jeopardised by the scheme. about

being insulated. state of mental concentration,

He is able to walk in comfort only "Three factors

by wearing for at present the railway runs from boats fitted with soles an inch thick, visions," he said, "are emotional press-the Palace Pier to Black Rock and made of old motor tyres. are, intense concentration of attention, is patronised by thousands of and suggestion." The speaker inferred visitors every day. The tense ex-a living by driving motor vehicles. He Since leaving hospital, he has earned that it was one of these conditions, or pires this month and it is doubtful found that when he put his foot on the the combination of them all, that con- whether the Council will renew it brake or changed gears he had a chok jured the vision of angels in the sky, in view of its approval of the hathing sensation, but this he has remedied. murky from the battle clouds.

ing pool, which will interfere with by feing vulcanite insulator in the the running of the railway and the heel of bis boot.

Abnormal Reacion only alternative to scrapping it

In other ways, he reacts abnormally would be a new starting station to electrical contacts which would not half-way along Madeira Drive. affect ordinary people. For long Mr. Work on the pool will begin during Stone has had success as

INVENTOR'S MILLIONS

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The "White Comrade" Another war vision which he dis- eussed was that known as "the white comrade," a white-robed figura, neually described as that of Jesus Christ, which moved among the wounded in the lulls of fighting, binding up their the autumn and will provide em"diviner" but about two months ag hurts and comforting them. Dr.ployment for hundreds of men. ho discovered that he also possessed Gutten pointed out that surgeons at

similar powers in regard to metais, emergency dressing stations and at

In the garden of his employer he suc base hospitals wore white uniforms,

cessfully "divined" a gold watch, gold and so did the nurses. This fact, cou.

An exciting story of the "uncle rings, gold bracelets, and silver sporna pled with the probability that anesthe

which had been buried in various from from America" variety is reported mental depression wounds made wounded soldiers fit sub. from Ruma, a little town in Syr-places, some of them six feet deep. jects, to witness visions, was offered mia, where a search is now pro-at the Plymouth Municipal Museum. as a possible explanation of "the white ceeding for the next-of-kin of one under the critical supervision of the Nicholas Bizoumovitch, a Serbian curator, Mr. A. J. Caddie. Here this from those parts who died in Lan-"electric man" located without difficulty don in 1906. 'Bizoumovitch is nuggets of gold, gold bearing quartz, known to fame as the inventor of a and gold articles of jewellery which barber's clipping machine now in has been barled or hidden in the grounds. Mr. Stone finds gold, silver, Mons angels. He had not been able to world-wide use and as the owner and copper by means of a "wand" con

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comrade.".

In the discussion which fellowed Dr. F. C. S. Schiller, of Oxford University. said that he, as a member of the Bri tish Faychological Society, had been interested in tracing the story of the

get definite proof of the vision. He said that he had talked to an officer who had participated in the retreat from Mons and from him had learned that many of the men had suffered from hallucinations.

The autumn dance season of the Legation Guard Y.M.C.A. in Peking opened on September 26 with the ball given in honour of Admiral Charles B. McVay.

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HORIZONTAL

1-Relating to racen

of Italy

6-A long wooden pin

for fastening meat

11-A Roman emperor 12-A alimbing harb 14-Smooth

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

VERTICAL (Cont.)

43-A superior kind of 13-A sereal gras

black toa

48-By 47-Among 49-Enscare |60–Obtala

51-Appellation

52-A child' pat 53-A character of a

primitive Teutonic alphabet

64-Soak

18-A measure of length 55-Having angles

19-The dayli

21-Btick

22-Grown

23-8pigot

25-Darkness

28-A special searsting

organ' in planta

B1-A church offolai

(abbr)

B2-A metric land

massure 83-8lik fabrio

35-8hora bird

27-To catch suddenly 89-A letter 40-Decay

VERTICAL

1-Place under

restraint

2-A small rivar duck

10-Perched

20-Pony

22-Enthrall

24-A carpenter's tool 28-Feminine name 27-Obtain

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mechanical work

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"Copyright, The International Syndicate

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who, while cutting hay; saw a hare:

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

HARE FROM THE SKY

A story, which reads like one of Baron Munchausen's is published in the Swedish papers of a farmer

drop from the sky. This actually

happened at Bocktaesk, in the parish of Sereale, Looking up to 5 see where the hare came from tăn

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of a fortune of many millions.

A test of his powers has been made

sisting of an

ordinary steel clock

It seems that no claims on this spring. This strip of steel writhes in fortune have been established since his hand when he is over the buried his death. The Yugoslav authori- metal, ties have, however, been approach. He la unable to succeed in divining ed recently with a view to tracing if he is wearing his insulation pads. the relatives of the inventor, and Telephone wires in the vicinity alse since then something like two hun-make his work difficult, as he felt dred claimants have appeared from them "pulling" him all the time. Ruma and some of the neighbour- loud speaker," he stated, "but imme "I enjoy listening to wireless by ing villages.

diately I put on a pair of headphones www.I feel physical helplessness, as if I had received a blow on the head. I cannot even use a telephone without intoler- able discomfort."

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO. LTD,

OF DENMARK

The following unclaimed tole- grams are lying at the office of the Groat Northern Telegraph Com pany (Limited) of Denmark:-

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Leung Wal-ching Christiat As- sociation, Girls' School, Laydun (Nathan) Road, Yaumati, frozu Shanghai.

F. V, JESSEN,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 10th Oct., 1929.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

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ous attacks, liverishness, unplea-Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-- sant breath, pimply skin? Pinkettes, laxative perfection,- obtainable from chemists every- where at 60 cents per vial,-make you well and keep you well.

Newell "Bad Morse (left) California, and Glen Liebhardt

with the Des Joines, Iowa material when they are

3. LACK,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 10th Oct., 1929.

have

It is stated that Mr. Stone is to be taken to Rhodesia in the hope that he will be able to locate gold.

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