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TRUTH 'STRANGER

THAN FICTION.

Real Life Stories No Novelist Would Write.

REALM OF ACCIDENTS.

Truth is stranger. than fiction, and particularly in the realm of accidents does Strange Truth play a chief role.

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

A policeman was called, wh RHINE EVACUATION

took the woman to the hospital.

But here again a strange thing happened. The policeman was a boyhood friend of the woman.

INCIDENTS.

saving the West of Europe to-day. NEXT ECLIPSE OF THE

He concludes by frankly saying

that treaties must be revised in áo

SUN.

She had not seen him for a score M. Briand & the German would hold to the Treaty of Ver. Tin Can Island Finds a

of years.

in the big He had been lost city, When she left the hospital, after this remarkable experience. she was married to her childhood friend.

Blown 40 Feet.

A party of tourists in Norway was travelling at a fair rate of speed along one of the cliff high ways. So intent were they on enjoying the view that they did the sudden drop in not observe

the grade, and before they realis-

Ambassador.

far as the continuous growth of peaceful relations makes their re- vision possible, and that those who sailles, merely because it exista, and even if it becomes absurd, are more intellectually dishonest than It was not to be expected that the worst fanatics. The next step in French polley must be to per- the incidents which accompanied sunde States which have benefited and followed the departure of the by a mistaken sub-division that it last French troops from the Rhine-la to their own interest to consent

to sacrifices and exchanges. land would create a good. Impres- sion in France; and it was official ly announced on July 5 that M. Briand, when he received the Ger-

Place on the Map.

WATCHFUL SCIENTISTS.*

Honolulu, H.I., July 10. One of the most remote spots ini With regard to relations with the inhabitable world will be foreign Powers in general it is sought out by astronomers and still curious to notice how those papers of the Right which would scientista next October in order many are anxious to make friends eclipse of the sun. with Italy white distrust of Italy comes from the papers of the Left, which are quite ready to be friend-

Just why such things occur 30 one is quite able explain, but occur they do, as insurance policy led it their car, was going too fast man Ambassador, discussed thexacorn to hold out a hand to Ger- that they may view the next

To

call freak to make a short turn ahead,

records affirm. events luck is merely to change

the name without in any was satisfying the mind why such ap parently incredible things happen

Take, for instance, a recent case of the men who in an Ameri can city ware helping to hoint the

The machine, with its load of happy, laughing motorists, went over the clift for more than 75 feet to the tracks of the railway that ran along precipice.

the base of the

The falling machine turned over right big half-ton rolls of print paper five times, but it landed

stun

up the several storeys of the news-side up between the tracks. The

not even paper building.

passengers were

was able to Car For some reason the knot was ned-and the

on one of the run. imperfectly tied rolla. travelled upwards, as all

¿

On a firm in Paland not, long the other rolls had done, whenago, a woman was using the tele. suddenly it slipped out from the phone that was on the wall near She was giving her imperfectly tied knot and dropped a window. down, down, the six full storeys order for some groceries and pro- to the pavement, where the holst- visions, Ing crew were standing.

J

Suddenly, she felt 4 sharp She discovered that two The men below the roll did not pain. see it coming at the first, and of her fingers were missing, and

when some of them did, they were before she could cry out she powerless to do anything.

found that her jaw was broken, Yet this half-ton of paper hit and further that there was a in her in the centre of the group, bounc- most excruciating pain ed high, and then rolled harmless-shoulder. ly down the street. Not a man was hurt. Some of them after-stantly. "

·wards fainted with fright

This all happened almost in-

A stray bullet from some hunt- er's highpowered rifle had come Crack Shot Shoots Himself.

in through the open window, Then there is the recent ac-

She recovered eventually from count of the expert rifle shot. an accident that could not have **He was former in Southern been forestalled or

2

that wouldk France who had won fame by his not happen again in 1,000 years. unerring ability to hit anything Perhaps

aceldents that ever occurred was in a mining district of Canada.

that he aimed at.

.

Hunting hud become monoton- ous, for the result were foregone /conclusions.

one of

the freakiest

with

An old mining foreman had worked for years to perfect an This farmer had a steer that he electric battery that would set off wished to butcher. He decided to dynamite blasts

greater

shoot it.

security and make the explosion He was most enthusiastic about

The farmer tied the steer to certain.

the floor and aimed the rifle to

incidents with him and pointed out they ware contrary to undertakings given by the German authorities with regard to preventing reprisals against persons who had been In touch with the French troops. It

ly with Germany.

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South America, and` beginning at sunrise in 'enstern Australia, on October 21 and 22, depending on which aide of the date line it is

is also announced that M. Briand MINISTER CHARGED. observed. Tetality, however, will

asked the French Consular repre- sentatives to give him precise de tails of the events in question.

The Intranalgeant, which, al- though it is a journal of the Right, very fairly represents the opinion of the French "man in the street" in Paris, claims that France, which has evacuated the Rhine- land more than four years before the appointed

date, and has scrupulously avoided any provoca- tive attitude during the оссира- tion, was entitled to be allowed to depart with dignity. It cannot be said that the claim is unreason able (says the Paris correspondent of the Observer), for, whatever opinion may be held elsewhere as to the right of Germany to demand the evacuation, there is no doubt that in France it is considered to be a generous action by all, except to have the few who believe it been a foolish one.

However, although the Intran- algeant is indignant in one column

over the insults which were hurled

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"I had a communication this morning from Brisbane informing me that certain counsel who took The United States 'navy will send part in the Royal Commission, a squadron of mine-sweepers, the Messrs. Fahey and Real, leading U.S.S. Gamble, Ramsay and Tana- counsel of the Queensland Bar, who ger, to the south seas, carrying a combined expedition of The U.S. respectively for acted M'Cormack, Goddard, and Reid in Navy bureau of standards, the the inquiry, together with Mr. Mac. Rockefeller Foundation, the Car- Pherson, the solicitor who instructed negie Institute, and others.

American institutions them, had a conference in Brisbane, and prepared the following state-likely will have observers station- ment: The Commission's finding ed in the path of totality. Mean- absolutely unjustified and Zealand other scientists are pre- waS at General Guillaumat and the last biased. There was no evidence to paring for the event. Niuafoou, a their de connect Mr. Theodore with the lonely spot in the South Seas, is trainload of troops, on

another charges. The Commissioner's lud described as the most suitable parture, it admits in column, that the attacks on cer- ing was based upon inference only place from which to view the taln inhabitants of the Rhineland We regard it as scandalous." That eclipse, because it is more acces towns' have been made almost as act was entirely voluntary, as farxible and more near the centre

of the line of eclipse than Nura-] much because they were Republi- as I know."

The counsel referred to

were kita. cans as because they had been

were on friendly prompt in denying Mr. Theodore's

The island of Niuafobu is purely Separatists, or

a volcanic one, and volcanic ac terms with the French, and that allegation. They replied:-

of the Hitler "We desire to state that Mr.tivity has occurred in major pro- they are excesses partisans, with which places un- Theodore must have been entirely portions several times since 1865, protected by French troops have misinformed. No such conference when records begin. In that year Unusual New Designs was held by us. We have not pre many lives were lost, and a villago already been familiar.

pared, nor did we take any part in was destroyed, by an eruption. In European Federation Scheme. Edouard Guyot, writing in the preparing, the statement attributed 1867 serious activity took place, Volonte

future Franco- to us, or any statement in connec and again in 1886 Still another German relations, says it must be tion with the findings of the Com- eruption took place in 1912, when FOOK WENG & CO. admitted that the favourable remission. No oplaton has ever been Inva threatened the village of plies to the European Federation sought from or given by us in con Futu, which was destroyed in THE ONE PRICE STORE

the findings of the July, 1929, by another eruption. schéme come from the nations who nection with

warlike commission. We deferred comment- The volcano destroyed the best

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Phone 24628. no longer possess any tradition, and that the others have.ing on this matter until we had landing place on the faland, and received it in silence. If France, received the full text of the state the only one which is sheltered he continues, is to maintain her ment attributed to Mr. Theodore." from the prevailing winds which no On hearing of this Mr. Theodore, blow from September to November. old military policy she can longer count on the support declared: "My Information was The other landing place is at

upon a telephone messago Anagaha. British, Russian, or Italian-which based to some extent justified that policy from à Brisbane solicitor, which 1 correct," said Mr. before the War, and that in co- assumed was

France and Theodore. "I and it was incorrect, operation between Germany Iles the only hope of and make a correction."

hit the animal at the vulnerable his latest model, for he was cer- spot between the eyes at a dis-tain that it was superior to any- tance of about ten yards.

thing on the market. He planned No one in the country would

to test it with the job then in have been willing to wager even hand, and for that purpose it was at 1,000 to 1 that the steer would wired and ready. not die instantly.

While he was intently admiring Yet, Strange Truth--Instead of his handiwork and studying the killing the steer, the man killed battery a friend come along.

although he himself,

upon hit the The foreman was anxious to show steer.

off his new contrivance, and be- When the crack shot pulled the gan immediately to explain to his trigger of the gun the steer, friend, though tled down, tossed his head And, because he had so often the barest trifle, and the heavy operated the battery disconnected, bullet, from the gun of the farm-he, without thought of his gang er dashed up," as the hunters of men, who were drilling some say, and broke.

distance away closed the circuit Part of it hit a knot in a beam and set off the giant blast right overhead-strange it should hit in their midst! that knot-returned down and to There was, of course a terrific the rear, and was still going with explosion and Buch force that it tore off the thrown in all directions some of back of the farmer's skull, kill them a distance of 40 feet, but ing him instantly.

no one was seriously hurt.

The Windy Corner.

A man was walking past a windy corner. at San Francisco when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his leg. He thought then that

the pain was nothing nore than

a jab of rheumatiar... Then he noticed that his foot felt wet.

But there was no rain, the pavements / were dry, and besides,

it was only the one foot.

He stopped at the first chemist and looked at his shoe. It was filled with blood.

Making a local examination he BOON found a deep cut on the outside of his leg and under the knee. The chemlat helped him to stop the blood and bind up the wound that was made he knew. not how.

But while the cut apparently healed all right, the man continu- ed to have a sharp pain in his leg that caused him to walk with a limp For months he endured the pain..

Finally he decided, on an X-ray examination.

The X-ray showed a splinter of glass nearly three inches long buried in the flesh of his thigh. Remembering the time of the as- cident, he found from the super- intendent of the sky-scraper at the corner that on the day the accident had occurred a high window glass' was broken by tha

Two pieces of it had hit him

A woman was walking along. the streets of New York recente ly on her way home. She was with a friend. sara

Buddenly she was lung violent

the ground. Her friend! In a, screwdriver!

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