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TUESDAY JANUARY 28, 1930.

THE

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A SHY PSYCHICAL MEDIUM

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MAIL.

Walter. Mrs. Crandon's dead CANTON'S FOREIGN

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“Not even that. The thumb.

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RINGING

“WALTER" RECITES POETRY

"Margery," the world-famous pay- chical medium who has just arrived

In London from the United States, is shy.

Crandon la controlled by the spirit of her brother during seahces. All I will say is that a trance-person- ality if you care to call it that- appears and purports to be her brother Walter."

There was shyness in her volee"Walter." and in her habit of fingering her necklace of white beads, яз she T. K. LIN,

talked to me to-day, says a writer General Manager.in the "Evening Standard," Lon- Hong Kong, 28th January, 1930.don, of December 5, about shopping, the friendliness of London, the wen ther, and ordinary, pleasant things like that.

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Only when she looked across at her husband, broad-shouldered Dr. Le Roy Crandon, who la an eminent surgeon of Boston, U.S.A., did the shyness of "Margery" give place to An expression of implicit, almost child-like ustfulness.

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have freshened up the place a bit, Dr. Crandon told me about the moving vans will carry the municipal furniture to the Foreign Unlike "Olga," Rudi Schneider's Office Building. That will then be trance-personality, "Walter" is a come the City Hall. Meanwhile delightfully unconventional person. Mr. Liang Chik-wai and his fow "Olga" imposes strict conditions on assistants are occupying the old the sitters. "Walter" makes jokes premises. But since most of the with them.

functions of the Commissioner of "He is a wonderfully Jolly Foreign Affairs' Department have fellow." said Dr. Crandan. "You been transferred to other hands, should hear him when he begins to Mr. Liang, who will be actively in abuse me in a hamorous way! And charge of the Foreign Affaira Sec- there are times when he reeltes the tien of the Mayor's office üeeds but most wonderful original poetry."

a carner of the building.

"Does the voice of 'Walter come from Mrs. Crandon's mouth?"

"No. The voice is heard in spite of the fact that my wife is very effelently gagged."

Mr. Liang's exact duties have not been very clearly defined thus far, and he is groping along in the dark Nothing was aid, while I talked

awaiting the coming of moro to her, of hovering teleplasmic limbs, of voices from the other

specifle instructions. Nevertheless, Then the sad, gentle voice of Dr. Nanking has finally determined alde of the grave, or of the finger-Crandon began to talk about the bow passports are to be issued. prints of persons long since dead, ignorance which has sometimes Applications had been piling up such as are said to have been ob been displayed concerning the na-since, for a week or longer, it was tained as a result of her medium-ture of his and his wife's investiga- not known whether the passports ship.

tions.

we

Dur-

would be issued at the national capital in Canton, and Chinese going abroad had to postpone the time of their departure.

made in the manner of issuing Evidently little change will be passports, the Foreign Affairs Sec

In at least cnc respect Mrs. "Challenges are mado," he said, Crandon and Rudi Schneider, the "but other world-famous medium who is There la so much to learn.

ignore them entirely now in London, reremble each ing the first year of our Investiga- other. Both, in manner and aptions things happened at seances pearance, are utterly unlike any which we couldn't believe ourselves conventional idea of the psychical next morning.

tion chief has been authoris medium.

"For people to want to judge theed to sign them, the applications validity of psychical manifestations in a more few aittings would be to be acted upon directly by him. like walking into Edison's labora- But a radical departure has been tory and expecting to understand made from the old way of handling everything in a couple of hours,"

Rudi's frank features and athletic bulld auggest a Rugby football for ward from one of the universities, "Margery" reminded me of the kind of woman one would expect to meet at a small and enjoyable dinner. party.

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requests for permits to travel about within the province. A visitor who wants only to stop off in Canton should present himself at the City Hall, for the Mayor's Office will Issue it. Those who want to move about in country districts will make

Of course I have really very lit-Strindberg's Letters to their applications at an office of tle spare time. My work mono- polizes most of it.”

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The Tireless Telephone "The telephone," supplemented! Dr. Crandon, grimly, "did not stop ringing until two o'clock this morn-

ing."

She flashed a bright smile at htm. There is this to be sald for Dr. Le Roy Crandon-he appears to be the ideal husband for a woman who has revealed mediuniistic pow ers. He watches over the comfort of "Margery" with minute care.

"I do want you to make it clear. if you will,” he said, "that my wife und I are not Spiritualists. Things

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"Although the British Museum Library is not the largest in the world-I think the Bibliographe Technique in Paris has that dis- tinction-there is not doubt that we have already the finest and most complete catalogue of any

A Further Confusion Among the points that remain to be decided is How certificates are The appearance of another auto.

to be prepared biographical volume by August copies of governmental documents. authenticating Strindberg in the German version Before such papers may be intro- of Emil Schering is now due, conduced In evidence in a court of a taining letters exchanged during foreign country, the foreign laws the year 1876, when he was twenty- аб 4 rule provide that the seven, with Siri von Essen, who at

inhabited. I cannot accept it, bui❘ that was ever issued that time was still the wife of Baron todian of the documents of the legal certificate

cus am going to help them as a private press of any country. Wrangel. She divorced her be attached, and there

must individual to develop their scheme husband and became Strindberg's also be

must for building a model village there. first wife. Strindberg's married

an accompanying cor- "The scheme is for the establish life with Siri was unhappy and end. tincate of the foreign consul to the ment of a national organisation to ed in a divorce.

effect that the signature and seal of acquire and devolop such pieces of Ten years after those letters had the end of 1929, it was the practice t

the custodian are genuine. Up to land for the benefit of the public. happen, and we investigate them in heen exchanged Strindberg wished to secure the certificate of the Com-appeat to landowners to make gifts ja desired to make an to publish them. His divorced File had died in the meantime, but hissioner of Foreign Affairs guar- of land about twenty miles outside publisher refused to issue the let signature and seal of the head of could be built.

anteeing the genuineness of the London, where a ring of villages ters, although in Strindberg's opin the courts who, in turn provided ion, they contained only

"At Maplescombe the idea is to two his certificate testifying as to the build groups of beautifful houses on "dangerous ones."" He gave the

genuineness of the paper in ques- the hill side and to preserve the title "He and She." changing hiation. As a final step in the chain lower portions of land for parks, own name into "Johannes" and Siri's into "Maria" for the purposes certificate signifying that he knew hall.

of proof, the foreign consul made a recreation grounds and a village of publication. The letters were not bronght out until-long after

of his own knowledge that the his death.

and signature

seal on

what I may cali a laboratory man

That is to say, our minds are

ner.

perfectly open. We rule out noth- ing and we accept nothing without question.

"We do not want to be disoblig. ing. At present we are content to go on slowly with our work. If we ever find that there is certain evidence of a survival after death it will become our duty to make the facts public. But nothing we have even so far confirma that suggestion to my satisfaction."

"Not even," I asked, "the pro- duction of the thumb-prints of

Pope Visits Church Outside Vatican

such

institution In existence.

People come to us, not only from France, but from all over the world, because they have ready they can possibly desire to con access here to almost Any book

Bult."

Mr. Maraden, who is fifty-one, was educated at Wellington and "Mr. Taylor, Mr. Rogers, and Oxford, and went to the Museum the hope that rich people will put as a junior in the departmight he The German version contains all Comlaaiener of Foreign Affairs down sums of money for the deve will now control. He fa a aon of the letters.

certificate were genuine. An important gap in

lopment of the estate, and that the late Lieut.-Colonel William Strindberg's autobiographical work

the closing of tho Com- others will invest their money at a Marsden, who had a long career is now filled up.

missioner's office, naturally, a low rate of interest. A confer in the army, and died in retire- change has to be made, but no ence will be called to discuss the ment at Farnham a few years ago- device has been found for properly scheme.

For almost sixty years' the Sovereign Pontlf' the history of the Vatican, when His Holl of the Catholic Church has been a volun nesa loft St. Peter's (right) and celebrated tary prisoner in the Vatican. Recently he mass in the church of St. Johne Lateran received in hudlence representatives of the (upper right), where he was ordained a House of Savoy, the ruling house of Italy priest on December 2, 1870. A few days ago, he wrote another page in Wheeler AGVERBLANET AN antomobille rolled through the When chilen Ratti entered the not- open to the publle, Early, 4a-gates of St. Peter's Square in priesthood fifty years ago, he was worshipers, who had nasembled to, Rome, searly the other,morning;| ordained at the Church of St. John say, mass were: Courteously! res and history was made. In history Lateran;; with; but, the thought of queated to seek, another place of ne in life, the greatest: occasions consecrating-himself to the serý- worship, – And then the beautiful" are often of the utmost simplicity, fce of humanity. And in when doors of the famous old church. And so when Pope: Pion XI left Achilles Ratti, now Supreme Pons were closed directly, His Holiness Vatican City to enter the domain tiff of the Catholic Church, and hi entourage had entered the, of the Italian Government, it was cmorged from the Vatican for the ediffes. Most of those who, had the first"+lait into sich territory first, Ume-olice, be, was elected fart #the church assembled at the, lines the breach" between: Church Pons, his first visit was to, tale, doors, for they felt that somithing And 9tata la 1870. – But the fins brale man at the church that saw of iniportanos wis to occurs. And Lentured," kindly faced man, was the beginning of his notable a. so those who remained were for unaccompanied by troops, bands or met: 24 fitting celebration of the tunata mough to winssa, an event any kind of public display or twm- fiftieth-anniversary of his priest- of the deepest significance and in- Constration."3 HP Holness, with hood, and fitting act to connum- tezea-

characteristic amplicity, and, hr, mate the complete record aft

lity; was making of such a grant hrough the tignan

With

BRITISH MUSEUM

authenticating copies of govern- "It is our hope that we shall help mental records to be sent abroad. to solve both the slum problem and The Foreign Affairs Department the unemployment problem by our Chief, Mr. Llang Chik-wal has scheme." already been approached about this questionSince he is now a muni- cipal and not a provinciál employee. he feels that he without author- ity to give written asurance to a foreign consul that the signature and seal of a provincial official are. what they purport to be. A for-

The new Keeper of eign consul can only recognize the handwriting and the seal of office Books at the British Museum, Mr. of the highest officials so it la Wilfrid Marsden, MA., who, on succeeded Mr. absolutely necessary that either the January 11,

Work Begun on a Ten Years' Task

Printed

Mayor or the Governor perform the Farquharson Sharp in that posi- function forme y performed by the tion, has begun a colossal task. Foreign Commissioner. So far the Ho is to superintend the entire modus operandi has not been set-e-cataloguing of all the books in tled.

the Museum, roughly estimated at three and a half million volumes. It will, at a modest calculation, occupy ten years, and will cost something like - £200,000.

LABOUR'S DREAM

Utopia for the Londoner

“A few hours ago,” he told an interviewer recently, "I laid the axe to the tree of the old cata- logue, but it will be some time before our work gets thoroughly under way.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

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

The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the E. E Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-

Burton, Kowloon, from South- wick, Sussex. -

Dongsant, from Saigon.

Haricrosti, from London. Nichizulco, from London. Nonahco, from Shangbat Uyehara, 20, Koorong, Sinsespo, Singapore.

S. LACK

Superintendent. Hong Kong, January 23, 1930.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO, LTD. OF DENMARK

Mr. George Lansbury. Firat Com missioner of Works, described In

The following unclaimed tele an interview his vision of a new

grams are lying at the office of the "The reprinting has been un- Great Northern Telegraph Com Utopia for the Jaded Londoner. Itdertaken in response to the de-pany (Limited) of Denmark:--- is the old scheme for a belt of open mand-particularly from America spaces all round London but with-for coples, which are now un Vladivostock.

the difference that Mr. Lansbury obtainable. We shall probably

Peninsular, Kengelbacher, from

Hoyt Hong Kong & Shanghai

sees the possibilty of creating model get a large number of subscrib- Building, from Stamford, Conn. villages, in which, in his own words,

the old traditions of Engilah vilers from that country, lago life would be revived and class will occupy 165 volumes, but I "Wo calculate that the catalogue distinction would be abolished.".

We

Mr. Lansbury had just returned think it may well take more than from Maplescombe Valley, near 170. The price will be 64 per Lear Farningham, Kent, where two volume, so that, the price per cata landowners-Mr Ernest Edward logue will be at least £875. Taylor and Mr. William Rogers had offered him a site for the first of these villages.

"The Idea was theirs, not mine," sáid Lansbury, I am whole heartedly in faveur of it, but I can- not do anything in a public capa-

shall endeavour to complete the task with our existing staff, but. I am afraid It will be necessary although I hope not to make temporary additions.

• "The troubla. Is that nobody quite knows exactly whet is In- volved in the undertaking, but it These gentlemen offered me one it succeeds, I hope it will, we hundred acres of land in a lovely shall have made one of the great-

et present quite un sat contributions to scholarship

"Akéwple, from Shanghai.

Hahak Sian, from Swatow. Namoy, from Osaka. Wingo, from Tlöntsin.”

S. L. Kwok Co., from Goeteborg.

E. V. JESSEN

Superintendant, Hong Kong, January 22, 1930.

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