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DRAMA OF THE SAHARA,
Would-Be Emperor Shot.
MAD OFFICER.
WOMAN SUICIDE'S WILLS.
Judge Suspects Forgery: £17,000 Involved.
THE
GERMAN PICTURE,
JOHN BULL AND HIS LIFE AT HOME,
ILLUSIONS SHATTERED.
London, June 11.
A man's claim to the £17,000 fortune of a woman who committed suicide was abandoned before Lord John Bull zu Hause, by Carl At last the full and thrilling Merrivale in the Probate Court. Silex (Leipzig: Verlag E. A. story of an African desert drama London, .recently. of over 30 years ago can be told,;
The woman
Victoria was Miss
Dr. Carl Silex, who has been the
of correspondent says a Paris message of mail week, MacLarty, of Kenilworth Court, Lontion
the It concerns "an Empire of the Putney, S.W., who died on February Deutsch Algemeine Zeitung for
Seemann, 7m.)
CHINA
MAIL.
SOVIET MENACE IN THE KALAHARI NOT
ARABIA.
Bolshevist Agent's Propaganda.
Sahara" and clears up what was|22 last year. Her brother, Mr.some years, has written a. book 1928 Khassau Anis paid a visit to
Minister.
Now the full narrative has been revealed, for 'the first time, by General JosHand fan eye-witness of the alfair), in a lecture nt Lorient.
may sound
The defendant was a Mr. Horatio dresses; what Austin. with whom Miss MarLarty does, had been associated.
earns,
Sport, Society,"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
A DESERT.
Definite Pronouncement by Scientists.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
LUXURIANT VEGETATION.
taken,
north.
Soviet penetration in Arabia is the subject of an article by Dessedowsky, former Counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Paris, whose
Johannesburg, May 21. disclosure of Bolshevist intrigue is
The great Kalahari Desert is not being published in serial by the
a desert, and it is time for this Matin:
contury-old mistake, endorsed "by Bessedowsky describes how in
modern geographers, to be refuted once and for all. once an official riddle of the sands. Ceell Pate and Mr. H.. A. and Mr. called "John Bull zu Hause." The the Rue, de Grenelle to arrange a
Though not properly, understood A. W. Scott, solicitors, as executors, full title
This definite pronouncement is Ambitious, commercial treaty between Russia the first to reach civilisation from at the time, its beginnings created propounded i will dated January 29, but the author has faithfully and the Government of the Yemen. the a lively sensation, and caused the 1920 by which Miss MacLarty left fulfilled its promise. It runs, The Yemen's chief need was, war fourteen scientists who are now Vernay-Lang expedition of resignation of the French War everything to an legitimate daugh-translated: "John Bull at home; material and aeroplanes to protect engaged
ter, who, however, died before her. how he lives, amuses himself, itself against the
on the most exhaustive neighbouring survey of the Kalahari ever under- he learns, becomes, kingdom of the Hedjaz.
spends Season, The country Was particularly They have made the complete anxious to be supplied with up-to-crossing from Gaberones, on the Mr. Clifford Mortimer. for This is a book written primari-date armaments, and, as Moscow Mafeking-Rhodesia main line, to Messrs. Pate and Scott, said Mr.ly to sweep the minds of Dr. I promised the - most
modern Ghanzi, on the western fringe, and In July, 1899, Captains Voulet Austin first produced a will dated Silex's countrymen
clear of technique, મ treaty was even are now anti Chanoine, of the French December 1928, which left £200 to a store of popular Continental tually
pushing further concluded by which Among other tasks they are en- Colonial army, lost their lives in hospital, and concluded; "Every-illusions and legends about the technical mission was to mysterious circumstances on the thing else to my dear Horry Austin, British and
visit deavouring to complie a complete to substitute some- the Yemen with the asten-collection of every living thing on- Chad Road, North of Nigería. with all my love." When proceed-) thing of the truth, good and bad. [sible purpose of "modernis- countered in the Kalahari for the
They were at the head of anings were begun he took to Mr The author explains how, after ing" it.
Ra real object, according British Museum and other world expedition sent out to reconnoltire Scott, the solicitor, another will, living some time in Britain, he to Bessedowsky, was to work for Institutions. the country eastwards from the dated December 6, 1925, which left discovered that Germans paying the Komintern. Niger bend towards Lake Charl £1,000 to Mr. Scott and the rest to short visits are disappointed in
A Grassy Plain. Intriguing in Palestino Their mission included Lieuten- Mr. Austin.
On the route so far traversed, the nearly everything. They find The chief of the mission, named Kalahari, instead of the commonly ants Pallier and Joalland.
on the 1925 little of what they had been Astakhoff, a former secretary of the accepted idea of a desert, presents document was challenged, and Mr. taught to expect, no take for Soviet Embassy in Tokyo, was chiefly a grassy plain, in which Austin abandoned it. Now the genuine characteristics # few charged
with sowing Communist bushes and trees are often more or signatures of witnesses on the 1928 | misleading surface
impressions propaganda in Arabia in the form tees thickly scattered. The ex- will were questioned, and Mr.guined within narrow limits. These of anti-British agitation. Austin had given up the proceeding innocently
Incessively porous nature of the sandy exasperating visitors Transjordania alone, the writer de-soil allows the entire rainfall, which altogether.
from Germany are unable to see, as clares, Astakhoff spent 20.000 is probably greater than is generally Lord Merrivale said he suspected the observant and impressionable dollars (£1,000) on the revolu assumed, to be so rapidly absorbed forgery, and pronounced for the resident foreigner may gradually tionary movement. 1920 will.
In Palestine that extensive accumulation of water come to see and appreciate, the real he was directed to work against the is only possible in a few isolated valties in Great Britain, the things "English and the Zionist agency pans. The rain absorbed in the which to the British are beautiful organ of British Imperialism."
fine, sandy soil is thus retained for or comfortable, the things that are:
After a profitable stay in Pales-a considerable time. Dr. Silex, tine, according to the article, whose powers of observation are as Astakhoff continued his journey and unavailable to man, results in rela- This practical storage of water, shrewd as his sympathies are keen, eventually arrived at Sana, the tively luxuriant vegetation that ADDS TO ITSELF A TOWN EVERY has produced a book which can be capital of the Yemen, where he was abolishes the appearance of real When Klubb overtook the ex-
YEAR.
read with profit, not only by the successful in concluding a pedition, Voulet threatened him
com-desert conditions. In certain locali- misinformed Continental, but also mercial treaty. A Soviet with death if he advanced..
com-ties it furnishes abundant fodder He
by the often equally-if differentlymercial representative was appoint- for game. took no notice, and Voalet, giving | ·
misinformed or unconscious ed the order to fire, Klobb fell dead, Few Londoners realise how far
nominally to provide the Far from being the cradle of Briton.
economic liaison between Voulet then harangued the off-their city has spread into the aur.
the mankind, as has been sometimes The author's method is some- Soviets and the Yemen, but whose suggested, the Kalahari constitutes cers, saying he had caused Klobb to rounding counties since that time times, perhaps, a trifle ruthless: real job, weedless to say, was, and an enormous basin of about 600,000 be killed because he (Voulet) had in 1004 when the LC.C. stimulated
a tendency to bright cynicism still is, to further the revolutionary square miles, forming the greatest resolved to found an empire of building in Outer London by in- the Sahara,"
on occasions cause in Arabia. stituting cheap fares on the trams and leads him into exaggeration.
runs away with him
accumulation of wind blown sand in "I have the troops," cried the to reduce the congestion of living But that happens rarely, and he for fear
The arrangement was kept accret the world. Flora and fauna now
of reactions in self-appointed Emperor of the in the centro.
Britain, existing in the Kalahari are defin- his own country and the editor of a Moscow paper itely immigrants of comparatively It has been stated officially that
does not spare Desert. I am my own master, are you with me or against?"
The latter is now Gen. Joalland, who has just tired, and who is the lecturer at Lorient who reveals the full story of the desert.]
There were also a Dr. Henri, three noncoms, and 700 native men and women.
To Be Recalled. General Joalland is quoted by the "Intransigeint" as stating that Youle and Chanoine, wero guilty of needless cruelties.
The signature
Hearing of this, the Governor LONDON'S GROWTH. deep-rooted and count,
General sent a Col. Klobb and aj Licut. Meynier to relieve them 'off their commands.
Man also, it is concluded, has in- vaded the Kalahari in relatively re- cent times, having taken to the place as an excellent refuge. WOMEN WRESTLERS.
London adds to itself a town of the when comparisons tell against it. who published the news under recent times and are closely related Lieut. (now General) Jealland size of Brighton and Hove every What Dr. Silex, abserves about the headliness, is now serving five to those living in adjacent terri- asked for a few hours to reflect, year, and another vivid illustration less amiable or more absurd traits years' imprisonment in Solvoetak tories. and next morning persuaded 30 of London's endless growth is of the British character and Bri- Island, the political internment riflemen to desert with him. afforded by the fact that the num-tish customs is very much what the camp in the White Sea.
A Woman in the Case. ber of LC.C. school children is de-returned British exile often thinks When Voulet made his proposals creasing in the centre of London, and sometimes saya, and there ap- BEAUTIFUL SCOTIA, to the native non-coms, they de-and there is even talk of selling the pears to underlie it the same affer- cided to bolt. Chanoine ran in school's sites in some districts. And tion, as well us a deep admiration their direction whether to stop this in spite of the fact that the for ingeniously defined qualities and them or go with them is not known total population of the administra- genuine regret at the passing of DUKE OFFERS LAND INSTEAD OF
under the influence of post-War de- certain national characteristics
velopments.
and was shot.
EXCAVATION MAY HELP TO SOLVE THE SECRET.
were.
in
DEATH DUTIES.
JAPANESE TO TOUR HAWAII.
of
tive county of London is constantly Youlet took to the bush with af increasing. native woman but reappeared after At the beginning of this century the troops had been reformed by the L.C.G. horse tram terminus was along all the highways and byways Montrose to supply Government wrestling troupe
Space forbids following Dr. Silex] The offer of the Duke of Tokyo. A Japanese women's Joalland and Meynier, and was at the Plough, Clapham. This is
composed shot dead by a sentry who said now a central junction for trams, of British life, public and private. with land instead of money as twenty-five stalwart daughters of Voulet fired first.
some of which rur to Wimbledon He warns Continental visitors, with death duties has excited some at the Rising Sun will journey to The War Minister at the time, and Hampton Court.
suitable illustrations and the neces- tention because the land in ques-Hawall and in the United States whose resignation arose from the There are many men who can re-sary introduction to D.O.R.A., not tien comprises some of the most proper. They will stop at Hawali half-told scandal of 1899, was member when the country around to expect "amusements" the beautiful, as well as the best, to show their stuff before General Chanoine, father of the Norwood was farm land, but Lon- Continental sense, and describes agricultural land in Scotland. wrestling enthusiasts of the Is- officer who was shot in the desert. don has claimed all that as her own things that count: Boat Race Day, Lomond and Inversnaid, which are in response to the kindly invitation with insight, and appreciation the The islands of Loch Lomond, Een land. Their visit to this land is and all the land for the best part HITTITE LANGUAGE. of 30 miles south, forming large Derby Day, the Cup Final, cricket among the property to be disposed extended to them by some en- dormitories where Surrey villages at Lord's and on the village green. of, have long been open to the terprising promoters of Hawaii.
His diary of a Senson-it was inost- public, and the Duke, who Even in young memories,
em- From this Island the party will Purley, Mitcham (where the laven-y the 1928. Season, but, as he ex-phasises that he is forced to sell proceed to the United States where der used to grow), Ewell, Epsom, plains, the laws of the Season, merely in order to raise money to a great many wrestling lovers are Hayes Bromley, and Chislehurst, though unwritten, are immutable-provide for death duties, fears waiting for their coming with im- among a host of others, were quite is full of whimsical yet as a rule In- that this historical and beautiful patience.
he part of Scotland will be sacrificed The champion of the wrestlers So many important relics of the mall towns with personalities of controvertible comments, and
way of to the jerrybuilder.
is Kikue Tsuzukawa, 18 years old, pre-Babylonian Hittite civilisation their own; now they form parts of completes the year by
"Scotland calling" in August to a He suggests that if the offer weighing about 200 pounds. The have been discovered lately in the the sleeping accommodation for Turkish interior that Kemal Pasha
London workers.
gallant effort at translating “Auld cannot be accepted, the death prettiest strong woman is Kikuno has asked Professor Van Osten, the;
Lang Syne." The chapter on dress. duties should be cancelled to the Shibuya, aged 17 and former Traffic Facilities.
Briton's especially the
beloved full value of the estate, and It geisha of Akita, American archaeologist, to
and a widely out a fortnight's excavation of the
uniform, grey flannel trousers with should be left in his hands on his known "man hater," First the trams,
Heishiro most ancient existing Hittite ominibuses, and then the tubes and out a crease, is excellent fooling, but undertaking not to sell, or build Ishlyama of Yamagata is manag fortress tower at Ghiavour Kale, electric railways sprawled London nevertheless an accurate enough upon, or develop it in any pre-ing the troupe.-Ex, in Central Anatolia.
all over the south, where there was
with Judicial way, guide for the foreigner preconceived notions.
Sympathy has been expressed by SACK OF SOVEREIGNS Kemal Pasha has promised to more room for building than in
After Dr. Silex's chapter on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, visit the work during the progress other directions, but the northern
but the Duke's offer has not been "Society" no of the excavation.
German newspaper heights have not been far behind.
BEDOUIN OFFERS £700 FOR Ghlavour Kale is built on a The extension of the Bakerloo to should ever again be guilty of accepted.
"Sir Chamberlain."
The Duke has received offers He leaves
TRIP IN AEROPLANE. dominating rock which is carved Watford has pulled London out to little intact of the Continental from America, Canada, and Aus with fine Hittite bas reliefs. there, and now Watford itself in idea of the relatively highly paid tralia. He still hopes that steps Traces of a town about the fortress rapidly pushing out to St. Albans, British official. He faithfully drives will be taken to prevent the land indicate its one time importance itself poined to London by an home, with carefully compiled passing to overseas purchasers.
Till now Professor Osten's mis-
household budgets, the drain made A successful munition factory at by education on sion has confined its researches to, Greenford sent London, via Harrow,
the middleclass SHOULDER BLADES. Alichehir, where many splendid to capture that stronghold, and to thorough analysis of the public SIGN OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO
purse, and this leads him to b animal sculptures and tablets, surround it with Action, Ealing, schools and universities and, Indeed, Inscribed with the still unde Hanwell, and Uxbridge. cipherable Hittite characters, have been brought to light.
as a centre.
carry
MARY WHO HAD A LAMB.
omnibus service..
then the
the whole educational system. In
To the east, the story is the same. spite of unflattering comparisons
DISEASE, SAYS DOCTOR.
A bedouin went to the head- quarters of the Royal Air Force in Bagdad recently carrying a large sack. He had in it. $700 in sovereigns, which he wished to ex- change for a trip to Jerusalem by l'air.
The money, he said, was given to him by a Briton during the| War, and had been kept hidden in
People with straight and con- the earth.
He had no desire to keep the
It is hoped that Ghlavour Kala Epping Forest, remote only a few with the standard of instruction in cave shoulder blades are more? will yield secrets of this language. years ago, is now one of the open German schools, he is a strong ad-susceptible to disease than those money and no wish to live if he
spaces amid London dormitories. vocata of the public school sys- with the convex type.
This preservation of open spaces tem because of the community
were not allowed a trip in one of Dr. William W. Graves, director the "airbirds" which he had seen in all directions is one of the sav-spirit with which it is inspired. of the Department of Neuro- flying overhead. ing graces of the extension of Lon- The most interesting and per- Psychiatry at St. Louis University Original Of Nursery Rhyme Hardon. The countryside" may have haps important are the concluding School of Medicine, has made this
89th Birthday,
been claimed for housing, but hun-chapters, in which the author discovery after an examination of dreds of acres have been left for the elaborates with figures and facts, as the largest collection of human Mrs. Mary Hughes, the original enjoyment of the many thousands well as with interpretations of skeletons in the world. Mary of the nursery rhyme "Mary of people who live there.
events, the theory that the amateur Had a Little Lamb," has just What will be the limits of Lon spirit is dying under the pressure of men and women liable to tuber. Criminals, the feeble-minded and celebrated bar 59th birthday don in another 80 years? Perhaps such developments as the hire culosis, are included in the class shoulder
concave ›
When she was 8 years old Mrs. Chelmsford, Hertford, Berkhamsted, purchase system, which ties the possessing Hughes nursed the orphan lambs Reading, on the north of the young men down and kills the spirit blades. on her father's farm at Tylsea, Thames, Sevenoaks, Three Bridges, of adventure,, and the increasing Llangollen, and one day the pet lamb Guildford, and Ascot on the south. struggle against foreign competi followed her to school, two miles This would be in accordance with tion, which stimulates a demand become real and earnest. "Life, away,
what has happened during the last for "professionallem," for that hitherto the playground of the Miss Sarah Buell, who was, then 80 years although accelerated motor thoroughness of expert knowledge gentleman, is becoming the battle. staying at the farmstead, com traction may place ita southern which has been memorated the incident in verses limit along the coast of the English rather as a German attribute. Life comments the author sadly, in con regarded hitherto field of the professional A pity! which became world-famous. Channel
Co is no longer game; it begins to clusion Times.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look nut for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
9
10
13
314
15
16
18
20
29
34
37
43
148
157
27
HORIZONTÁL 1-Church banoher 5-Ocoldent 9-A hypocrito 11-Main cabin of a
steamship
·
.13-Public speakers
15-Frugal 16-Little girl (slang) 17-Guarded
19-Golf mound
·20–Makos dirty
· 22-Gir?é name 23-Damaup 25-Famalo rabbit 26-Expanded -28-Office holders
2-Exact:
21-Littio devils 83-Desert placem
24-Replete
'85-Insect (pl.) *37-Prefix-three times
35-Frown
41-Bevonth latter of
Greek alphabet'
43-Darnelo
45-An Individumi
5%
58
14-Cente
18
12.
142
(47
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont) 46-Mild expletive (pl.) 48-6trik 49-Prickly plant 82-Buttis--one who |53=8triking out part of
&word B5-Dovilich 67-City in Rook faland
county, It,
68-Discover
69-Year 60-Extreme radioni
- VERTICAL' 1-Pull stop
2-Equivostion
-Humorlet 4-Pucku. B-Political districts Inį
adity &-High priest (Bible) 7-Palliatie D
-Tribal symbols; { '\ 3-Defeat
10-Partód of time. 11-Pronoun
15 Conjunction 18-Things originated 21-8pare time 24-Race horse Informa-
tion plver 26-Venda 27-Partaining to the
tidos 30-Military-title
(abbr.) 32-Male servants 34-Fruitful
-Dy
37-Maker of man's
clothing
39-Invent
40-Anti-prohibitionfabe
42-Qaregis 43-These people 44-Limit 48-Mlador - 47-Religious body 60-Gardien tool 61-Boy. 64-Iniquity
12-Broods of pheasants 66-Devoured
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