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hoy appears amiling from the back reach Assouan the music is render- GIRL GANGSTER AND|

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ment as a prelude to livelier pro- grammes indoors.

a rope suspended from nothing and variety of musical street entertain- then disappear in mid-aid is wide- ly known, but I have yet to meet anyone who has seen him do it.

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sweetheart, who was a member of on a charge of murdering her.

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The Chinese showmen prefer Deep-sea divers flourish every- crickets to cobras. They are train- where east of Suez. The most ex- nd to fight each other like demons pert are the Malays, who awarm and their buckers bet heavily on around the liners off Singapore the result. Two sporting crickets although they have able competi- will enthrall a street crowd tense tors in the Somalis at Djibouti and until one or the other has been Aden. They can see a silver coin farther than any Scotsman. Toss Walk through a street in one of one into depths and half a dozen ly from the right ear of a Colonial the smaller towns where Western brown bodies wriggle after it, judge, writes Sir Percival Phillipa civilisation has not spoiled the set-fathoms below, in a most exciting improbable if it formed the sub- ting, and you will undoubtedly race. The passengers bet on their meet a troupe of strolling players favourite and a deep-sea Derby is in fantastic masks, or disguised as often a star turn. queer beasts. They dance and sing

European ports have their "side- as well, On the eve Di

chicken into the marble top of a cafe table and recovered it sudden-

· in the Daily Mall.

The judge, who had never been seen to smile during four days of sunshine at sea, chuckled sheepish

ly and looked as pleased as a boy at his first pantomime.

He betrayed the weakness of us all for the simple pleasures of native "aido-showa." Every port on the highways of the world has its C. B. Cochran, Sophisticated

knocked out.

and the children jove them. More shows"

| conventional entertainers cling to this voyage I saw a restaurant in

the samisan (nativo gultar) and Marseilles completely demoralised are sometimes supported by agile by a hawker of mechanical toys. youths on well-manipulated stilts. He was a queer figure, clad entire

African Ballet. Even Darkest Africa realises the

ly in leather,, with three leather bags on his back from which he travellers who abhor music-hall value of impromptu entertainment produced a most enticing lot of entertainments surrender casily to for travellers. If you motor from clackwork objects. There were a

magicians, jugglera,

the

and

a band of robbers over whom she ruled as queen.

The affair would be regarded as

ject of a cinema thriller of the

underworld.

The girl's name is Margaret Miller, and the slain gungster, who was little older than herself, was Stephen Sweeney,

According to affidavits made by Franco Spírneo, a desperado ar- rested on a charge of highway robbery, Margaret Miller organised the robber band a few months ago and held autocratic sway over it. The penalty of questioning her

by authority acknowledged

member was death.

a

strange comedians who know that Uganda to the White Nile by the hoxer that felnted and ducked, blood-curdling oath taken by each

human nature is always young and easily entertained if approached in the right way.

The wail of a pipe which an- nounces an Indian enake "charm- er" will draw seasoned cynics as verdant globe-trotters.

Cobra-Mongoose Act,

now highway called the Great bear that danced, a butterfly that North Road, a surprising form of flew, a dog that begged, rolled over ballet will be seen at the villages and died, and other incredible along the route. The Acholi tribe specimens drawn from his portable perform it unadorned and 112- ashamed.

When a tourist car is sighted, they troop joyously to the roadside with babies and their husbands -youths, maidens, married women and as the car draws up they begin a tribal dance. It is a spectacle sufficiently unnerving to Western

I think the cobra-mongoose act which thrives cast of Suez is the best value of all. Harmless though the cobra may be, he causes ад uneasy thrill every time he lifts Arst-nighters," yet the performers his wicked hooded head and looks would be puzzled and amused instinctively for a victim. It is worth ed. to see his furtive ad- the suggestion that it savours of

vance од the nearest spectator: rendy to strike, only to be yanked back ignominiously by the tail be fore he is able to make even В geature of hate.

It is worth twice that to watch the mongoose at work. A low- caste anake, the star victim of this

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Sweeney was the deputy leader of the band, but the girl, it is - serted, planned and directed the execution of their daring hold-ups and burglaries, exercising her charms to keep away from the scene any policeman who happened to be inconveniently near.

The Rival

One day a youth named Schoen- hart was taken into the organisa- tion, and soon Sweeney found him- self pinying second fiddle. Schoen- hart not only usurped his functions, but also his place in the "queen's" affections.

The remains of a King and impropriety. The local C. B. Queen which experts say are from Cochran is proud of his young 1,800 to 2,000 years old have been ladies. He is still untainted by found on Sheebeg, a mountain rear Sweeney rebelled, and WAB contart with money, and the only Carrick-on-Shannon. Sheebeg, from "taken for a ride" one night by the box-office receipts he desires are in which five counties and 14 lakes girl's orders. He did not suspect the form of cigarettes. One apiece are visible, has been stated by his what to the members of the ballet and torians to contain the remains of a to him handful for himself is ample pro- dynasty whose origin is lost in the which

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WEB going to happen until the motor-car, the girl herself WAN driving and in which three. Roman holiday, is unleashed from But farther north the business The removal of hundreds of tons "executioners" were also seated, its basket and permitted to start side of tourist, entertainment is of rock and rubble disclosed the stopped on a lonely road on Long thankfully for the nearest jungle based on hard cash-in advance. entrance to the royal vault. It had Island. He was told to get out, and Before it has gone thros feet, a

seema to have accepted the inevit flash of lightning, which is the The long-legged Shilluks who lie in been barred by a solid block of mongoose, hits it in the neck and wait for the White Nile steamers dressed masonry, weighing over able calmly.

wear clothes and many tappings. ten tous. When this was removed "I'll take it standing up," Spiraco that le the end of the low-caste They are ready to dance when the the skeletons of a male and female quoted hits as saying, snake.s

There is fascination and much boat stops for two hours, but they were discovered side by alde, His bullet-riddled body sprawling shots hit his companion, Ralph as the possible murderer, and as mystery in the basket trick. A want Sudan currency and as much facing towards the former royal in the road was seen by an air- Constanzo, whose wounds, it is Tardi was left-handed, the police seat of Tara. All indications point mail pilot flying over the spot at thought, will probably prove fatal, had the theory that it was he who small boy is trussed with rope and of it as possible.

In Abyssinia you will meet an to the fact that the skeletons are down

Patey Tardi, attracted the atten- fred the shot that ended Lingle's packad into a wickerwork recep

Lying face downwards in pools Orlando, who was 28, had a re- facle which is then securely faster occasional troubadour who im those of persons of suprafe im The guns of the Chicago under-tion of the police in connection career. ed. A sword is passed through provises songs to order and accom-portance fancient Erin. world blazed one night recently with the murder of Jake Lingle, the

of blood two victims of the latest cord of over 100 arrests. In 1927 and through and the small boy panies his singing on a primitive Treasure, and armour are bellsy and cut down Patsy Tard the crime reporter, who was shot be

St. Louis gang fead were found he was, with two others, charged howls convincingly. But when the stringed instrument. A distant reed to be concealed in another leader of one of the Chicago gangs, cause he knew too much." basket is reopened after much patlative can be found in Omdurman, chamber in the interior of this He was the seventh feader of the A left-hand silk glove was found dead by a milkman on his round with the midnight murder of a ter by the magician, It is amory, playing up and down the lines of royal mountain, which. 28. now gang to pay for his eminent past near the scene of the murder, of They were identified as Ldo Or doctor The three were acquitted

hovels that constitute the low guarded night, and day by Civiction with his lits

Lingle. Consequently, the police lando, of the "Cuckoo" gang, and but Orlando's two accomplices. and before the spectators TAN

The same fusillade of revolver looked for a left-handed gangster Iefdors Katz, a benger-on of the layers, later murdered.. class basaar, By the time you'. Guards. cover from their surprise the sma

same gang. They were discovered several hours after they had been killed, their deaths boing just one. more incident in the continual gang warfare of the west.