1932-06-21 — Page 8

TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1932.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

AT SEA.

Touching Scenes on Felix Roussel.

OBITUARY MASS FOR PHILIPPAR VICTIMS.

STRANGE THINGS THAT · BLACK MAGIC DOES IN AFRICA

AN ENGLISHMAN'S MOCKERY THAT ENDANGERED HIS LIFE.

Ju-Ju Man Who Hated a Woman to Death; Stranger Than Fiction.

Shaw

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THE

CHINA MAIL.

SHANGHAI BOMB EXPLOSION.

“Souvenir” of Chapei Fighting.

woman,

Shanghai, June 12.

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THE CHURCHES AND

NEW TRUTH.

Revolutions in Russia and Spain.

DR. BARNES'S VIEWS.

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Touching scenes were witness-

Three Cantonese, including ed aboard the Messageries Mari-

Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming times liner Felix Roussel, on

Desmond contributes When she gets a juicy earful, Chinese was seriously wounded as sity of Cambridge on the subject were killed and a male ham preaching before the Univer-. June 1 when an obituary mass the following article to the "Sun- she just walks into the

water the result of a bomb explosion in a of Science and Faith, dealt with a was held and flowers and wreaths day Express". dropped into the sea at the spot |

taking two stones with her. Chinese dwelling house at 581-A where the Georges Philippa: dis-you or your friends have seen surface of the water, and, strik yesterday...

"Can any of the black magic' These she holds just above the Range Road at about 7.25 pm. variety of matters, which included aster occurred.

Science, Faith, birth control and All passengers, officers, and yet happened?"

show me things that have noting them together, by a sort of

Morse she telegraphs the afore the afternoon one of the deceased

It was ascertained that during the sterilisation of the unfit. practically the whole crew as- sembled on the promenade deck

That was the question asked said earful to the

next ford, men, who was living at the address "the day on which the workers of "To-day is May Day," he said, me at a well-known

where some other for the service, which was con- sporting club after my return takes up the wondrous tale, and found a bomb which had apparently Europe use the coming of spring

London

black lady in Range Road, visited Chapel and ducted by Rev. Fr. Billing of the from Africa. Mission Etrangeres.

in the same manner lets the good been dropped in the Sino-Japanese to symbolise their andying aspira-|| Solemni requiem mass was said nessed

My reply was that I have wit-news go on!

hostilities, and which had failed to tions. in the lounge, at 7 a.m. follow things among negroes in various follows.

extraordinary But that won't explain what explode because it had fallen on workers in this country stand aloof For the most part such ing by the "laying" of wreaths, places which I cannot explain.

some soft substance. One was laid by Captain Clarice,

I have added to my own col-

from, while abroad they are hostile When Rider Haggard

Out of curiosity, and partly be to, organised Christianity. who was deeply moved by the imitably wrote of the practices ing" that of various prominent as a souvenir of the recent conflict, they to be deemed hostile to Christ

so in-lected evidence about "wireless-cause he wished to retain the bomb tragic ceremony. Other flowers of magic among the Zulus and people living in Africa or who the man took it home with him and or to a faith and works to which were thrown by the officers and other tribes, the great African have lived there. passengers, who showed signs of novelist was regarded as only

left it on a table in a downstairs the Churches have dared to attach great emotion. Seven wreaths drawing on his imagination.

These include a judge and dis-room of the house, were thrown into the sea, besides thought on this as I looked

Itrict commissioner, a, clergyman

His name? other flowers.

"Jess's" house one fine African reputation, and, of strange in-of the bomb and three other tenants twenty years ago, its bishops ap-

at of high reputation, a novelist of After the evening meal, the finder The service and wreath laying afternoon. Near me was a man cursion! one of the leading men of the house, including a woman, lasted for three quarters of an who is an acknowledged autho- in the cinema world, who lived were talking together when the pointed by the foul Rasputin, ita hour, during which time the rity on ship was stopped, and all work natives. His advice

the Zulu and other for many years in Northern man, who found the bomb, accident-dominant cult the worship of ceased.

is 'often Rhodesia.

ally let it drop to the floor. A loud ikons," he continued, "Is it impos- A message was sent out to the difficult situations.

sought by the Government in One of the stories vouched for detonation followed. The arms and offices of the M.M. Co., in France,

by the above is that of a magis-gs of the finder of the bomb were sible that men, because of intense by Captain Clarice: "At 7 o'clock most earnestly advised

This highly cultured white trate, with whom my informant blown off and he was dashed against desire for righteousness and truth, this morning we reached the seek out, on the road to Zuhr-had a call one day from a "wire-almost immediately after the explo- the opportunity came?

to was on a visit at the time, who the wall of the room, and died swept such a Church away when spot where the disaster occurred. land, where I was bound, an old less" native, as some of these had one of his legs partly blown of tyranny, buttressed by a branch of An obituary mass was held, flow-

aion. Another man, who was killed, "A year ago in Spain a political native. érs and wreaths were dropped! "This old man

black magicians, are called, be- into the sea. The stirred dinary powers of foretelling the through the air."

has extraor-cause they "can get

and sustained severe chest injuries, the Christian Church, collapsed. thoughts of the passengers, ofi- future," he said. "He has also,

while the woman had both legs Was it unnatural that at once pas- cerg and crew were with the

This native said to the magis partly blown off. She was rushed son flamed out strongly against the families of the victims,"

to my knowledge, curative pow-trate coolly: "Baas: So-and-so to St. Luke's Hospital where she Jesuits and other religious ordera? The Felix Roussel is the sister on what we should call 'magic. trate) killed a cow elephant

ers of a high order-all based (mentioning another magis- died shortly after admittance.

"In England, moreover, the diffi- ship to the ill-fated Georges Only that his black magic is few minutes ago, at dawn." He wounded, is not expected to live.

The third man, who was seriously culties of the Churches are largely Philippar, which was completely really white,' for. he uses it for then walked out. destroyed by fire, incurring the the benefit of others." loss of many lives, in the Red Sea near Cane Guardaful on the morning of May 16..

me

The Love-Lorn When I spoke to a clergyman The Felix Roussel arrived in who had lived for about 30 years Hong Kong this morning. among the natives, he said: "1 have seen 80 many strange DEAN INGE AND EVOLUTION. things that I can offer no natur-

alistic explanation."

Neither Favourable Nor Hostile To Religion.

ly hold.

Neither can I!

of perfectibility has brought with This female heart, by the way,

news

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The magistrate, was astound-

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ed, as it was against the law to spoken then said 'as coolly slaughter cow elephants. Also, though he were ordering another the place mentioned was a couple cup of tea: of hundred miles away.

" have seen it done!"

"Think. of Russia as we knew it

All

of their own making. Eighteen years ago these same Churches, with a unity of heart over shown since, accepted war. The Quakers, apart from individuals, alone main- tained the Christian ideal. since have had their due reward. A day or two afterwards he The others, knowing how eare. No one to-day defends war. saw. his friend the magistrate ful he was about any statements Churches and Disarmament. coming to his bungalow. Instant- made on the question of the bodies protagonista on behalf of a ly he saw how the land lay, and African native, asked him to ex- that, as in honour bound, his fel-plain.

I

"You Will Die."

error,

"But are organised Christian

It has been calculated that in

degree of disarmament which might London, on any given day, there low magistrate was coming to "I once saw in Nigeria," he be dangerous to the nation adopt exist at least a quarter of a mil- report his accidental killing of said, "a native woman crossing fact that prudential motives, did Dean Inge put forward

Ing it? They usually ignore the the Christian attitude to evolution in

lion love-lorn swains-men and a cow elephant..

bridge. She had in some way his third and final Warburton Lec-women whose love has not been So he thought he would play offended the local witch doctor, not weaken the idealism of Christ. ture in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn. returned. It must be a consola joke on him, and before the who met her on the bridge, and

"Must we not admit, further, that "Evolution," he said, "is only the tion to them that their like and other

could open his mouth, who, fixing his eyes on her be still are, afraid of new truth? The Christian churches have been, and name of the method by which it) kind exist also among my Zulu said:

gan quite steadily to curse her. has been found that God works.)

friends.

"All right, B. You didn't He curses and he cursed, and as churches have struggled against It is neither hostile to religion nor lying down.

Only the Zulu doesn't take it know I was a magician. You shot he did so, I saw the woman, who the admission of doctrinal favourable to it; it merely substi

a cow elephant at dawn on the up to that moment was appar-

and still, when possible, rapudiate tutes bellef in regular action

He just uses a little bit of 14th. for

or minimise the need of change. I knew all about it the ently in perfect health, drop dead the catastrophic theories of the black magic, seeking a lovephil. moment it took place."

at his feet,

"We are the highest of the mam Divine activity which were former-tre, which he has often assured "But," the other stammered,

"That is all."

mals. We have emerged quite re- me can work wonders in the "nobody could have got there be-

cently, as geological time is "On the other hand, the theory female heart.

fore me. How could you have

measured, from some group of heard? I had just come to re-knowledge that he meant her the chimpanzee are literally our If it be believed that it was the anthropoid.apea. The gorilla and it an unprecedented emancipation is much the same in such mat port and to get fined." and hopefulness to the human ters whether in Zululand er Lon- My scientific friends make me death that so acted on this poor cousins. Our sins resuit from the spirit which, confronting no longer don--that is to say, obstreper. laugh-and they also make me a creature's mind that she died of persistence of animal instincts a changeless and fixed order, has ous and cussed to the limit!

little tired at times.

fright through auto-suggestion, which war against the recent moral thrown itself with ardour into the These love-philtres are made When I tell them some of the induced itself by superstition, I and spiritual growth that is still quest of making the world a better in a horribly unpleasant fashion things I have experienced about also have a story to tell from sadly imperfect in humanity. place for men and women to live like so much connected with the native, they just say: "All my own experiences.

"Contraat such new truth with black magic.

coincidence, my dear, fallow!" It is the story of an unimagina-old error. That Adam, tempted by "It has, in fact, transferred the If it be a lady who has fallen But their "explanation" by coin-tive Englishman sent to a gold Eve, ate an apple which caused him aspirations of the individual life in love with a Zulu buck who cidence world itself take a deuce mine, in a certain part of West to 'fall' and that, through this fail, to a larger stage, with a vision of has some one else swimming in of a lot of explaining.

Africa, who had the bad luck to sin and death came into the world. perfect humanity in the far fatute, his luminous black orb, she just There is a man now living in offend the local medicine man. Such teaching is now incredible. In place of the hope of the final makes herself as ill as she pos- London who is regarded as one

That medicine man just look-

"The change since, say, Queen deliverance of the soul from the sibly can, always having her of the very few men who have ed at the Englishman and eald,

Anne's time, is marvellous. trammels of existence in the world headache in the same place each ever penetrated the fastness that pointing at him: "I put ju-ju on

As a result of the trans- of change and chance."

day.

Then she expectorates is the mind of the black African. You. You will die."

formation there is ΠΟΥ and expects.

I had been telling him and The Englishman, new

need for a married woman to Out of the expectoration there others of my experiences among But from that moment he began in the hope that two or three may

Africo, just laughed at him.

Igive birth to a dozen children grows a snake, and this snake magic-practising negroes some becomes her familiar and helps time ago, and how the whites to die, and by inches.

survive. A wholly new danger is her to get the desire of her living among them had reached Neither powdered glass nor upon us. There must, in fact, be

certain conclusions unscienti- chopped hair two pretty little limitation of the birth-rate New York, May 3.

methods I have met for getting trous... fic, but facts.

over-population will become disas A 14-foot cobra In the Bronx women who, having conjured up lieved, quite simply, that some

But like many other love-lorn Rightly or wrongly, they be rid of inconvenient people was Zoo underwent a Buccessful opera- the devil, don't exactly know negroes had the power "to kill

"Already it is clear that thosa userl.

Italy, Southern tion on its right eye to aid it in how to get rid of him, this snake at a distance" by black magic.

Every drop of water he drank countries like shedding its akin. In recent shed- follows her throughout her life

was boiled. He was fed by his Ireland, and Japan which refuse to dings, it was noticed the snake's and dies with her..

It may sound ridiculous to friend, who himself prepared all have population checks are skin would not come off the eye

stay-at-home people, but during food.

|menace to the peace of the world. That magic can be used for the my last 12 months' wander- cap and the cobra had come to ap sending of news to a distance ings in the wilder parts of the

But inch by inch he went on Growth and Population,

"What, now, is the duty of a pear partially blind. Dr. Raymond and instanteously, there is at earth I have also reached a con-

The medicine man had gone cumstances? Surely it should use Christian Church under such cir)

in.

14 FT. COBRA HAS EYE OPERATION.

Proves Successful.

heart, as my informant, Mtshall, told me.

one

dying.

to

no

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L. Ditmars, curator of the zoo, least quite a lot of respectable clusion-the conclusion that the some hundreds of miles up con all its influence to prevent a'dan with the assistance of keepers, evidence which can be adduced white man doesn't know every-try, where messengers were sent

How the battle of Rorke's thing there is to be known!

manoeuvred the serpent onto.

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specially-devised operating table, Drift and other fights in the The method I have seen used him, for the local boys said the to lead to war, and to encourage to him to offer presents to mollify gerous growth of population, likely which included a press that held Zulu war were known in the by the hegro I had in mind was man would die if this were not the increase of the best stocks of the patient motionless. With the streets of Capetown within the the preparation of a doll made done.

every community. snake helpless in the grip of the hour no one has ever satisfac out of clay in the image of the One day, when nearly at the press, Dr. Ditmars cut away its

The mentally deficient are in- right eye cap. Tha snake was texily explained.

man he wished to kill.

end of his tether, he began to re- creasing among us at an alarming then released, and he wriggled have been among natives, on friend Just squats down and be was exactly at the time that the manently segregated should be back into his cage, drew himself the Zambesi who do actually send

Having done this, our black cover. The time of his recovery. Surely such as are not per up to full height, and looked very messages many dozens of miles gins a sort of hymn of hate. He runners reached the medicine sterilised. But, alike against birth- within a few moments, but this hates and he hates and he hates: man, who had simply said: control and against sterilisation, is done by white, not black magic thinks of the man he wishes to Coincidence. Perhaps. But other churches are not taking that the Roman Church sets, its anti- And all the time he hates he take juju off him. the "magic" of two white stones.kill or paralyse:

social influence, and I regret that You know what talkers women

even the long arm of coincidence active part in eugenie reform that are! Nearly as bad as the male

Having done this, he takes doesn't often stretch 200 miles in we expect from men who seek to occupants of a Pall Mall clubs a sharp splinter, and, slowly the African bush.

build on earth the city of God driving it through the "heart" At the time that happened 1 species is no exception. She talks of the doll, he wishes his enemy could have put in the witness-box who are drawn to Christ and HL and especially she talks when dead. byt fekt to swear to the facts: (1) A she is washing her clothes at the ford.

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