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velop hairless faces." But who ISLAND OF HANDSOME] MALAYAN SINBAD

GIANTS.

Quite Unspoiled by Civilisation.

PARTIALLY – SINKS EVERY DAY.

DEAD.

Terrible Piracy Recalled.

ORDEAL BY WATER..

ON

told Mrs. Adams that men de sired anything of the sort? We can assure her that even those unfortunate gentlemeh who find it necessary to attack their faces not once but often twice daily, are all-shall we say bare-faced ?— champions of man's immemorial right to grow as many whiskers s he plenses. If he occasionally

A senfurer's auventaies in ship. raakes a concession to the Reports of a strangé, unfrequent wreck and against pirates of the standards of public decency pre-ed island which partially sinks from coast of Malaya, which read more

view every 24 hours, and whose like sensational fiction than inci vailing at any particular period physically superb inhabitants live dents in real life are recalled by ths that cannot be taken as a surren almost exclusively on a diet of fish announcement of the death in the der to principle, and only recently and coconuts, were made to Matson Singapore General Hospital it was hinted that the stronger Line oflicils by Captain CN September 22,, 62 Mr. Joseph Wil- Olsen, of the Golden Eagle, whenliam Anchant, a respected member sex might soon be forced in sheer his ship arrived at San Francisco of the Eurasian community. Some self-defence, to prove that there recently from Australia.

of these incidentà are to be found is at least one thing that woman This freakish little speck of lund recorded in Mr. A. W. B. Hamilton's

is located exactly on the equator, in book "Lebeh Korang" cannot do grow shaggy beards.the heart of the Pacifle South Sens, Mr. Anchant was a marine en- It is not his beard man wants to and is ao amal that map-makersgineer by profession and in 1879 dispense with, but his razor. have not even dignified it by se he was second engineer on the There is a fortune awaiting the much as a dot.

steamer Bentang when that ship was For identification purposes, on the sunk in the Straits of Malacca as inventor of a salve or ointment mariner's chart it has been named the result of a collision with an- which would instantly disperse Tarawa, and is one of the group other vessel. The Bentang was the overnight stubble and provide known as the, Gilbert Islands. badly damaged and sank very a new and shining countenance to

Captain Olsen reported the cirrapidly, the majority of those on Qumstances that caused him to board being drowned. One of the greet the morning sun,

steam 100 miles off course and give few aurvivors of the tragedy, Mr. the members of his crew the thrill Anchant, was rescued after being 28 all have of "discovering" a new land.

hours in the water. The ordeal was Jazz As A

opinions

"Our business there," he explain a terrible ono and it was made all Form of Hell. of jazz — evened, "was to unload five white adven the more so by the fact that while

of the variety turers whom' we

took aboard at clinging to odd bits of wreckage he played by perspiring Filipings at Sydney Weaving our way through was forced to see his shipmates and Hong Kong entertainments. But the coral reefs to Tarawa was more others struggling in the water all it is not often that a Judge will of a job than I had bargained for round him, many of thein being

There are many treacherous reefs taken by sharks before his eyes. venture into the realms of the musical

but by a fow feet under water, critic, Usually His

Strangely enough, the sharks did Honour is content to blush under

careful watching from the bridge i not attack him but his lower mbs. his wig and say

couk spot the deep water by the provided living alt for smaller fish. bashfully. "What is

way the light struck it and thus we He was on the point of giving up Il camisole ?" In Iroland, however, anything may

were able to crawl along, feeling all hope when the Will-O'-the-Wisp happen. Thus, during the hear-

our way as we went.. if Dickens to drink gin? We all ing of a case in the Dublin Dis-1

which small coasting steamer is still sailing the seas--found him of us have done likewise at some trict Court in which a complaint half mile off shore and proceed in when he was pulled out of the water "We were forced to drop anchor and rescued him. It was found time, if we have the manly capa- had been made of a jazz band small boats. Then it became too that his legs had been severely in city for any kind of alcohol. But performance carried on a by a shallow even for the boats, and the jured by the attacks of the fish and

tenant occupying an should we like this little tongue room in a

upstairs Last 200 yards we had to wade. But Mr. Anchant was in hospital for six tenement house, the hobby of ours to have its secret District Judge, Mr. Little, said:

the experience WAS well, worth months recovering from the effects while,

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newspaper?

be nothing in it but jazz bands.

"To our amazement we found the

a race of people as handsome as any

of his long immersion.

Held Pirates at Bay.

In 1899 he proceeded to Penang

There are times and motor-horns all going at the to be a mixture of Malaysian and and became Chief Engineer on when it is dignified for a paper of same time, and the people who Polynesian. The men are giants in board the steamer Rajah Kongsi

had them in this world will be

any repute or tradition to "draw listening to them for all eternity."/stature, cleanlimbed and muscular, Atjeh, running from

the line in regard to the insensi-

bilitles of its advertisers.

Penang to

Sumatra. Fortune had taken Mr. Anchant to another ill-fated ship. Those were the days when there was something of a revival of piracy off

The Judge, who concluded, with and the women tail and slender with

a regal bearing. an attractive description of the -We beauty of silence, seems to have

"The natives were awed by our wonder what Sir Henry Dickeris, approached the subject with con- selves that our mission was friend. the Enst Coast of Achin (Sumatra)

approach, but, after assuring them K.C., the London Recorder, thinks siderable experience and fore-ly, they received us warmly. Bronze. and many a small trading vessel was

of this cheapening of the domes tic life of his father.

The following

knowledge.

MORE HOWLERS.

A Strong Inducement. recent issue of people. the wrong medicine.

"the North China

appeared in д False Doctrine means giving

skinned children, like scared attacked and looted. The Rajah rabbits, pecked at us from behind Atjch, as she was called for short, was taken by a large gang of palm trees and bushes.

"Tarawa is a curved coral atoll Achinese pirates who boarded the 22 miles long, and only a mile across vessel at Penang as passengers and at its widest poirt. It is only four by an ingenious method succeeded and other feet above gen level and, at high in smuggling knives

They bided weapons on board. tide, approximately half its surface

their time and launched their attack The wisest man in the Bible is becomes submerged. Paul because he had no wife.

"Its year

round temperature when the ship was 'well out at sea. crew being averages between 93 and 95 degrees, the passengers and

to a man. Mr. massacred almost Solomon was the wisest man for In spite of the small area that although he had nearly a thousand remains above ocean level when the Anchant was in the engine-room at the time. Hearing the commotion Pat is notoriously a "lazy wives the Bible says he slept with tide is in, Tarawa maintains about he ran out and had barely time to

4,000 population.

Daily News:-

"All Irishmen interested in walk- ing are expected to attend the meeting to be held to-day.”

The wedding arranged between the Rev. L. N. Watkins and Miss Hazel Somerville will take place at divil," and the only way to make St. John's Cathedral at 2.15 p.m. on him interested in walking, is to Wednesday, October 22, 1980. No have either a bottle or a battle at Invitations are being issued, but all 'friends will be welcome at the the end of it.

Cathedral and at the reception to be held afterwards in the Cathe- dral Hall.

Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 11, 1930.

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Among the many The Book hundreds of people of Snobs. who nowadays find

their way into the, pages of "Who's Who," few who were educated at an elementary school think the fact of sufficient interest to make public. One of the exceptions is Mr. Edgar Wallace, who announces for all the world to read that he was

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A sincere friend is one who says

Fish and Coconuts.

few.

regain the engine-room entrance "What impressed us most was before a pirate armed with a long

at him. In a nasty things to your face instead of the apparent rugged health of the knife rushed behind yout back.

natives, who probably live on the seconds he had climbed down the ladder and at once set to work to most restricted diet of any people Tories go to Church and Whigs on earth. Because of the absence of remove the ladder. 89 to Chapel.

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EVIL SPIRITS.

soll on the coral formation there

A Warm Reception. are no tropical fruits or vegetables; nothing but coconuts. Fortunately

Having completed that job, be fish are available and these, with rigged up a steam connection to one the coconuts, sustain the populace. of the boilers and every pirate who "The national beverage, we learn showed himself at the engine-room! INCANTATIONS ON A JERSEY led, is coconut milk, which often entrance was met by a jet of steam ADVERSARIA.

FARM.

substitutes for water during periods which kept the entire gang of them of prolonged drought.

nt a safe' distance. Disregarding "Without fear, favour or malice."

"The experience convinced us the promises of mercy that were that there is still romance, and held out to him, Mr. Anchant kept Jersey, August 31. '

adventure in the lives of modern the engines going and the vessel way - You may call

The belief of a local farmer and

seamen,"

eventually run aground' on a sand. his wife in black magic was re Our Tributes Dickens a

bank. The pirates departed. leav ing the shipda dead. Mr. to the Great sentimen educated at a London board ferred to at the police court, here to-day, when Rollo Ahmed (31), a talist, agar- school

At a fancy-drag carnival held at Anchant called the the remain. But then, who is Mr native of Demerara, West Indies, one of our popular summer seaside ing members of thest engine-rami- loutalist,

Edgar Wallace, as the Judge was charged with obtaining 491 resorts, there was some doubt re-staff, Includingate Sd Engineer bedlar of purple patches, lump in this throat and big, fat, that a man who has made a big tempting to obtain a further £70 guests represented. He was attired with his life; and a Dutch one who wrote always with a might say? Usually it happens 10. by false pretences and atgarding the character one of the who, by shammitry defhad escaped

Victorian tears

tears.

in his eyes; all success of his career. is quite was paid to Ahmed to change the in a Roman toys with apropriate cruiser have in highsread took off

the survivora ES re this you may say, but you must ready to admit that his begin- farmer's luck and drive evil spirita Pardon me," ventured an inquixi. acktiowledge that he was great-nings were

Evidence Was given that Mr. and Andronicus, aren't you?".

tive perdon "you're Tituz success the more does Mrs. Philip Dumareaq Rondel, of both as a journalistic reformer biggel rumble; in fact, the from his home.

"What!" bellowed the Roman, In PUNISHING YOUNG. and as a descriptive dramatic-he insist that he has had to do Cómetery Farm, So. John, had

dignantly,. Me?: Why, man, novelist. And for greatness It is everything for himself. On the experienced bad luck on the farm, a peculiar trait of the British other hand, the man with con- and called in Ahmed, who consent, haven't even discovered where the

ed to drive away the evil influences aris

bar is yet!" race to have a grave and sacred siderable educational advantages for £5. yard tour reverence, particularly if that who fails to profit by them is Almed, it was, stated, "went greatness be associated with likely to make more and more fre- round the farm in a black gown sound, heavy, rather dull roly-quent references to the "dear old hat, and with a large kalle tapped was said to have demanded £65 of with red girdle, and wearing a red the farm being recorded Ahmed

The novel proposal that young poly-puddingsort of orality, school' as he gets older. Human at windows and doors, all the time the now terrifed farmer and wife, offenders, instead of being sent to That one is rather filled with dis nature remains very much what attering strange Incantations threatening, unless the money was prison or let off unpunished. guston picking up a recent it always was.

"It was alleged that the money

facing.

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040,01

IDEA. THAT THEY SHOULD BE DEPRIVED OF LEISURE.

As bad luck still dogged the palu, that the Rondela, and all should be deprived of a certain farm, Ahmad, was alleged to have their family would ale violent amount of leisure, was made by | Issue of the "Straits. Times," "to

demanded a further £21 108, as deaths. Vyom Mr. Alexander Patoreon, one of find Charles Dickens' fame ex-]

A woman lecturer, wasta serious case, and he was They paid the £60, but when the commissionera of prisons, at ploited in a somewhat objection- Is It Silly in biology at Cam-working hard against the evil Ahmed demanded a further $10 the Magistrates Conference at able manner. The great writer is to Shave? bridge, Mrs. M. G. spirits, they were unable to pay and they Bournemouth last month. depicted sitting at his desk in the

It was said that he sent little stated that in face of threats of Mr. Paterson suggested that, Adams, has been boxes of brown powder to the what would happen to them they where a young fellow had been a acting of writing with a quill lamenting that civilisation has Rendels with Instructions for use, went to the poles, thorough ruisance In his neigh pana quite dignified attitude. killed natural selection and that but they were afraid to open them: Ahmed dented the charge. He bourhood, he might be compelled to Above th

Messages were also sent, the said he merely fumigated the report three or four evenings a the crude men are largely to blame. "If signature" being, a seat bearing a house as it was dirty. Be received week affer his day's work, or might

fudge men only realised, she said, how skull and the name 'Ahmed. One no money but, the 10 be deprived of his leisure on day low we read "He silly. It is to have to ave every message read: ondel; the time The magistrate remarked it was Saturday afternUONE.

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prider it by the cask, and mornin they wo not be so

lo now at hand. We shall seal thy sad that people shouldbelleve That would do him no harm concebut,ilk would remind him that he book you shall see our work such a tale in the twantle MORE Violent Death (cartain brand), . What natural selectio

this

tury

No Improvement in the luck of

Ahmed was rem

had broken the liw and must bevar tas taughtato