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The China -Mail.

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar 9, 1932,

Australia and Orient,

"To capture the markets of

the East is a tremendous under

taking... in the past this fact has been, too, little under- stood in Australia, where people have become used to speaking of the East as though it was a vast garden of golden plums waiting to be picked."

and

It is advertised that Wanchai Hload, between Cross Street Queen's Road East will be tempor arily closed to wheeled traffic from to-morrow.

A Confirmation Service will be held at St. Andrew's Church, Kow- Ibon, on Sunday, at 6 p.m. when the Bishop of Victoria will pay his, fare- well visit to the Church.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932.

THE FAMOUS INDIAN ROPE TRICK

WOMAN CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN IT DONE.

Secret of One Family.

The Indian ropa trick contro- versy is carried a stage further in a statement made to a repre- sentative of the Morning Post Mrs. Pennell Williamson, of Boscombe, widow of a Colonel in the Indian Cavalry.

She declares, that she saw the trick performed, in Northern India 25 years ago, Mrs. Pennell-Williamson,

of

A small landslide occurred in Tai Wan Road, yanterday evening, as result of which Cheung Fat (27) Boscombe Grange, Boscombe, des- stone breaker, received. Injuries to cribed a demonstration of the his legs and was removed to the

The widow of a colonel of the Kowloon Hospital.

Indian Cavalry, Mrs. Penneil

'trick.

fully, and came to the conclusion that it was a joke amounting to a gentle leg pull The snap depicts an Indian balancing a pole, a very favourite: trick, out there, and a boy usually climbs the pole. This type of performance is also to be seen in European circuses."

Reward Unclaimed.

Major L. H. Branson, retired In- dian Army (Member of the Inner Magic Circle)-I maintain that the Indian rope trick has never been performed.

"I hoped that I had killed the myth by offering In my book on Indian Conjuring a reward of £300 to anyone who would perform the trick in my presence. The reward held good for five years and was lar offers for a view of the trick never claimed. I have made simi

during my 25 years' service in the Indian Army without any results."

The President and Committee of Williamson stated that sho had the Sailors and Soldiers'. Home seen the trick performed some 25 gratefully acknowledge the receipt years ago at Mussoorie, in North- of the following donation to the ern India.: funds of the HomeH.M.S. Bruce she continued. "I was sitting in "I remember it quite distinctly," (Ship's Company), $35.

a room on the first floor of the Knocked down by a lorry in Ma hotel, and from the window saw a Tau Kok Road, Kowloon City, yes them asked for a rope and this

What Photography Revenleil. group of natives outside. One of

Mr. E S. Barnett, Chlawick terday evening, a boy, Chan Shek, aged 16 years, of 16 Tai Mo Street, was supplied by a hotel servant, Laue, sends an extract from Lord the man threw the rope into the Frederic Hamilton's book. "Here, fractured his left leg, and was sent

air, and it stayed there. Immedi Thore, and Everywhere," publish to the Kowloon Hospital,

ately, a small native boy climbeded in 1921, relating a story told to the author by Colonel Barnard, at one time Chief of Police la Cal- cutta, who with a British sub- ordinate saw what purported to be the trick. The extract continues:

Resulting from a fall from a up to the top of the rope and dis- ackfolding in Embankment Road, appeared at a height of about 20 Kowloon Tong, a mason, Chan feet or more. About half a minuta later the boy reappeared Heung-keung, ⠀⠀ (30), received in from another part of the hotel juries to his back, and was sent to grounds, and the rope, was handed the Kwong Wah Hospital.

back to the hotel servant.". of presenting them to foreign

Asked what she fought was the Two cases of diphtheria, two of explanation of the trick, Mrs. markets.

smallpox, and one of cerebro-epinal williamson replied that she could "We believe that we have en- fever were notised yesterday, Both only attribute it to hypnotism. tered upon a new industrial era, diphtheria cases are in Kowloon, She added that she was told that that we have definitely become a whilst one smallpox case is in Hong the trick was the secret of one manufacturing nation, and that Kong and the other In Kowloon.. family, and was handed down from

noon.

:

"A Myth."

the world will, in the nöar

father to son. future, know the products of our} The ordinary general meeting of factories as they now know the Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., those of our fields. ·

The Morning Post has received Ltd, is advertised, to take place at a large number of letters on the the offices of the General Managers, subject. From these the following "We can visualise the coming Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. selections have been made day when the spirit of Austra Ltd., on Wednesday, March 30, at lla—which has startled the

Mr. Douglas Dexter (Hon. Vice President of the Magic Circle, and world in war, aviation and sport -will achieve equal triumphs in

member of the Occult Investiga- A concert will be given at the tion Committee) The Indian rope improving, in various branches March 17, at 5.30 p.m. The pro- wards of amounts up to as much industry. Indeed we are already Helens, May Institute on Thursday, trick is a myth: "Several re- of industry upon the best known

gramme consists of solos, duets, and as 2500 have been, and still are methods in other countries.”

quartettes.. Members wishing to offered by Anglo-Indians of over With these words there has The head of a great, Sydney reserve tables for tea, please tele-20. years residence in India not only to anyone who could perform been launched in Sydney a month-firm, with divisions in Sourabaya phone Matron 22160-4dvt.

the trick as It was reputed to be ly publication called The Eastern and Singapore, contributes an en A Chinese female, Li Sam-mui, performed, but even to anyone who Trade Journal- very

lightening article welcome

new was this morning charged at the could arrange for a representation addition to organs within the Em-journal, at the conclusion of which Kowloon Magistracy with having of it. None of these rewards has, possession of 122 and 44 taels of as yet, been claimed or applied pire seeking to foster Empire trade!he rightly asserts!---

raw opfum, also with the possession for. of 62 taels of non-Government pre outside our own borders. It is

"From time to time various, so

frankly admitted that Australians

pared oplum. A fine of $2,000 or, called explanations of the trick in default, two months hard labour have been put forward, ranging are inclined to overlook the fact,

was imposed.

from mass hypnosis to that of a wire stretched between two

two trees

to the

"The juggler produced a long- coll of rope. To 'Colonel Barnard's surprise the rope began payingTM) away, Da

‚'as sailors would say, out of the juggler's hand of its own ac- cord, and went straight up into the air. Colonel Barnard Kodak ed it. It went up and up, till their eyes could no longer follow it Colonel Barnard Kodaked it again. Then a small boy, standing by the juggler, commented climbing up this rope, suspended to nothing, supported by nothing. He was Kodaked. The boy went up and

up, till he disappeared from "view" "The Juggler, professing himself angry with the boy for his dila- toriness, started in pursuit of him, He was Kodaked, too. Finally, the up this rope, hanging to nothing.

man descended the rope and wip- ed a bloodstained knife, explaining that he had killed the boy for dis abéying his orders. He then pull- ed the rope down, and coiled it up, and suddenly the boy reappeared. "The two Europeans returned home absolutely mystified. Col. Barnard went into his dark room and developed, his negatives Neither the juggler, nor the boy, nor the rope had moved at all? The photographs of the Ascending rope, of the boy climbing It, and of the man following him, were alm Mfs. Broadbent was the speaker to hold and support the rope when ply blanks, showing the details of

"Above all considerations, we must give the greatest possible at tention to the exact needs of East ern consumers. We must treat when they use that generic term them with the same courtesy "The East" that they refer to a thoughtfulness; and desire to at yesterday'stimn of the Rotary thrown up, and the performance the courtyard and nothing else. cost of New {large section of the globe, contain-please as any merchant finds it Club, giving an interesting pen-being given at a time of day when Nothing whatever had happened; ing a number of countries populat necessary to treat bifs customers picture of Burma and its people. the wire is in a direct line of but how, in the name of all that ed by hundreds of millions of if he expects to gain and retain position of the Burmese, making spectators and the sun.

She spoke of the happy-go-lucky dis-vision between the eyes of the is wonderful, had the impression But the been conveyed to two hard-headed, widely assorted peoples, speaking their trade.

particular reference to the freedom fact remains that it is a fable, to matter-of-fact. Britons?" Wire Rope... different languages, living under a This brings me to another im- and light-hearted dispositions of be revived from time to time by

A. R. Jennings, Bath-"I have variety of conditions, and observ-portant point that we must edu-the women. Some of the tribes tourists or temporary sojourners in

before me the photo of the trick make their women less attractive to India.” strange customs-polyglot cate ourselves to a much closer riding tribes by tattooing their

and the boy at the top of an une I understood, the

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A Joke.

WEDDING.

masses of the human race whose knowledge of the races of the faces and blackening their teeth. Lieut.-Colonel Shelley Claridge,attached rope. demands on life differ very con- East, and promote a much better Mr. Broadbent's husband is a Cavalry Club, Piccadilly"I have cost then of such a rope to be practising barrister in Burma and seen a snapshot of the Repo about £20, its wire core made it siderably. The "teeming millions" understanding between them and they had spent 20 years in the Trick 1 examined it most care- Inconveniently, heavy. so afrily spoken of must be enor ourselves.

country, as well as three years in mously discounted according to

"For these reasons I emphasise Mandalay." their purchasing power: but at the the necessity of having direct re- same time they possess very de- presentatives in the East who are finite Ideas as to what they want, thoroughly conversant with condi- | and Britons, whether in the Mother tions on both sides." Country or Australia, must be pre- The foregoing views coincide indisposition. pared to cater for their exact most aptly with those expressed in

American Consul-General Douglas needs. The East offers enormous this column on many occasions in Jenkins, who has been on leave of markets to Australls, but it is one the past. Advocating the appoint absence in the United States since of the first principles of human ment of a British Commercial At September last, returned to Hong The wedding took place yesterday endeavour that what is worth win tache and an Australasian Trade President Coolidge and has resumed

Kong with Mrs. Jenkins on the s.a. afternoon, in St. John's Cathedral, ning is worth striving for, and that Commissioner seven months ago, charge of the American Consulate the Dean (Very Rev. A Swann) Elea Christina the effort should be in proportion we stated that "the insistent de General from Consul John R. officiating, of

is continuing his recovery from his);

Ceremony in St. John's Clark

Cathedral.

GRAY —MACKAY SIM.

to the rewards sought to be won mand for such ought to come first Futnam The latter is returning Mackay Sim, daughter of Mr. and

The policy of The Eastern and foremost from Britick and absence this month

to the United States on leave of Mrs. D. J. Mackay Simm, of Bydney, Trace Journal, la succinctly ex: Australasian trade interests ali 4 pressed in e following terms ready in the

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UNMUZZLED CANINES,

Mr.A.0

and Samuel Alexander Gray, of the staff of the Hong Kong and Shang- hal Banking Corporation, and son of of 287, The the late Mr. John Gray and Mrs,

Gray of Murwell Hill, London.

The bride, who was dressed eam satin, was giv

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Mr. D. F. C. Cleland was best were man, whilst the groomsmen Mr. G. W. True and Mr. H. B. A réception was later held at Mr. Grayburn's residence, 1, St. John's the newly Place, after which married couple left for their honey- moon at Baguio, Mrs. Gray's travel- ling dress being of belge morocain?

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chinn Mall of

March 9, 1922.1

To-day's dollar is worth 2/4 13/16.

The football referees are en strike. Just over a week ago, the China Mail had an article sugg Ing that the Hong Kong Football Association was too wen not sufficiently support the deci of thes-ita