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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1933.

"LIBERTY TOWN" IN A FASCIST

PORTUGAL

Lisbon's Thieves Centre To Be Modernised.

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

Liaboń.

"Liberty Town" where there are

no rents, rates; taxes or byelaws,

is to be modernised.

boundaries of Lisbon.

GROUP IN

HOLY LAND

Kada j

Christian Arabs Start Movement.

MUSSOLINI AS MODEL

Jerusalem.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BUILDER SWALLOWS To-Day's Short Story.

£100 1.0.U.

Evidence Washed Down

THE FINAL TOUCH

By Holloway Horn.

With Wine.

POLICE FIND NO TRACE

Belgrade. MANY people in the little eral shadiness, there was little Mon had noticed Reuben definitely known against him. Tho The strange case of a builder who swallowed a £100 promissory note is Brown's peculiarly dark brown police, it was true, had visited him The Nazi polley of a racial giving the local police "something eyes, but no one in Tringstead-several times during the previous

been ad-to enew over.” The "Town" Bes within the city "spring-cleaning" has

not even his landlady - knew autumn in connection, with the dis- opted by a group of young

A lawyer was asked to

secure more about him than he saw fit appearance of some jewellery at The Bethlehem payment on an overdue 1.0.U. for to let them know. He was be Manor, but whatever their aus- hollowed out of the hillside, with and Beit-Jallah. Beit-Jallah is a over £100 which the builder is tween forty and fifty, and, al-picions, they had taken no action

The "beat people" live in caves Christian Arabs of n front door. but most of the in- Christian town, adjoining the alleged to have issued.

though he had no regular occu-against him. He was a big, bluster» But when the builder was called Nabilants are content with home."field of Ephrath" in which the

!pation, never appeared to being man, and it was common talk in He had no the town that he bullied his wife made houses built of packing-cases, matriarch Rachel mourned the to the lawyer's office and confronted short of money.

with the note, he denied all know-friends in the town, and appar-even more than he had bullied her petrol-tins, sacking and all kinds scattering of Israel.

This group of young men Isledge of it. of odds and ends held together by

ently no desire to take any part predecessorà. now engaged upon plans for "That is not my writing," he said, in its social life. string or wire or nails.

After Ahrenstein's marriage, Fascist Party in peering closely at it.

At irregular intervals' he would which took place when Brown had There is no sanitation, no water 'forming

Then, according to the lawyer's disappear for several days at a time, been living in the town nearly three *upply, no lighting. The popula. Palestine.

Their ultra-nationalistic policy story, the builder made a sudden taking up the threads of his quiet years, a certain degree of friendship tion consista of thieves, beggara. hawkers and those who are hiding does not, however, envisage the match at the piece of paper and life on his return as unobtrusively appeared to exist between them.

Dawallowed it. from

walk-or exclusion of Moslems from the police. A

Jan he had laid them down. His But it was short-lived, and ended in Not content with that, he sat tandlady was very curious about a rather violent scene between the rather a "scramble"-through the political alliance

The part of Hitler's govern down in the lawyer's best armchair, shiny leather case which he always two men. The cause of the quarrel streets of Liberty Town by day is an adventure, by night 1 has never mental policy that appeals to drew a pint flash from his hip poc-'kept locked. He invariably took it is not known; it may not have con- honest them most is that dealing with ket and washed down the pulp of with him when he went away, but corned Mrs. Ahrenstein at all, in been attempted by any

the £100 with a goodly draught of carried an ordinary suitcase as well. spite of the scandal-mongers. What citizen. nor indeed. so it is said. by anti-Jewish measures.

One of the youth leade, red wine.

Tringstead speculated on the slen-ever the reason, it marked the; the police themselves.

Linable Le demolish the quarter speaking recently at a rally of The lawyer called the police and der facts available, but Reuben cessation of Brown's visits to the since there is no other housing ne- the budding Oriental Fascists at asked them to recover

note. Brown, in the local phrase, kept shop, and it was noticed that he no

Lo City Bethlehem, declared that they The builder, as a final coup, is said himself himself, preferring, tonger talked to 3ira. Ahrenstein if Counell have now decided to give Wanted "a clean Palestine," rid to have denied that there had been evidently, to remain a mystery.

they met in the town. He any note at all.

One of the few shops ho ever work to the unemployed by of the Jewish population.

said he admired the Nazi anti-

A fortnight after the quarrel Dr. The police were a little puzzled patronised was that Kept by Jonas

Forester, a local practitioner, was a real necessary permits, they took the street. He had once purchased a Such acts ought to be builder to hospital.

piece of carved ivory there, and night just after ten. He found, the he pro- dynamite enforced in Palestine,

The builder's inside was examined every week or so dropped in to see Jeweller, excited and almost incoher- was supported by some councillors claimed, as the menace of Jewish but owing to the lapse of time the Ahrenstein had come upon any ent, awaiting him. The And opposed by others for the same domination in all spheres there doctors could not find any evidence more. But the jeweller professed to gathered that Mrs. Ahrenstein had

of the swallowed 1.0.U. reason--that with the Arsi ex. was greater than in Germany.

know nothing of his customer be fallen downstairs and was badly had There the matter stands. But an Arabic daily has itself plosion Liberty

injured. Town"

But yond this amiable weakness for Nazi certain circumstantial evidence of Chinese carving. would be blown sky-high-Reuter. an article deploring the

Government's attitude to the the note remains and the case may Jews because its main effect has yet have a sequel-Reuter,

commodation available, the

"modernizing" the Town.

the

The work will be an arduous one Jewish acts because they were but after many hours' delay securing Ahrenstein, the jeweller in the High-called to Ahrenstein's shop one ]

for a way for pipes and drainage "directed at exorcising must be hewn through solid rock, evil," The suggestion

to use

VOICE FROM THE

MINARET

Muezzin Disturbs Residents.

EGYPTIAN LAW-SUIT FAILS

Choubra Court.

Alexandria.

been to revive Jewish interest in

the Zionist settlement of Pales- PEASANT'S SECRET tine, in stimulating fund-raising among Jews, and thus in helping

the materialisation of the Jewish

FORTUNE.

Plasmat

There were those who said, after wards, that Brown had known Mrs. Ahrenstein before either of them

came to Tringstead; some, indeed,

asserted that he had been and was still in love with her. But here

doctor

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again the truth is clusive and there is little to go upon beyond surmise. Whenever they met in the town they stopped and chatted for a min- "Where is she? the doctor cut in Jute or so. Trivial as the fact ap-curtly.

National Home project. "Hit-"Impoverished" 'Villager ler's activities are not doing us Leaves $16,000. Arabs any good at all." this paper remarks.

Belgrade. The young Arab Fascists, some

pears to be, it was so unlike Brown's Ahrenstein led him to a dimly-lit Udlitch, the humble peasant, died usual habits that it inevitably gave passage behind the shop, and near The "volee from the minaret" jof whom are Catholler, also be has led to a lawsoft before the lieve Signor Mussolini's dieta-two months after his home-rise to gossip.

the side-door, at least ten yards) torship to be a model of state coming from New Zealand—and Ahrenstein WILL probably of from the foot of the stairs, the doc everyone Imagined he had died Armenian extraction, and had lived tor found Mrs. Ahrenstein: "She poor man.

in Tringstead for many years. He was still breathing when he reached Il many years overseas were had been married twice before, and her, but she died almost at once, and looked upon by the villagers of was 20 years older than his third without recovering consciousness. Makarska, Dalmatia, as a period of wife. His reputation in the town He examined her, as far as the one) fruitless effort, For, on his ro-was not good, but, apart from gen-dickering gas-jet permitted, and turn, he bought a little patch of land and lived very frugally.

A landowner asked the court to craft and say they will follow stop the building of a mosque. his principles of party rule. --

The minaret had already been Reuter. finished, and the landowner main- lained that the muezzin disturbed his tenants in a neuf-by house every time he called the people to

prayer.

The tenants threatened to leave the house because they were being continually awakened by the chant-

ing of the muezzin.

The judge has refused to allow the landlord's plea on the grounds that an invocation in the name of

62-YEAR FIGHT

FOR FARM

Aged Lady Regains £125,000 Property.

the prophet cannot in any way be HELD FOR £2,000 MORTGAGE

considered & disturbance.--Reuter.

NEW AEROPLANE INVENTION.

Mechanic Gleans Idea

From Da Vinci.

SIMPLIFIES LANDING

Madrid.

After 62 years of litigation, the courta have awarded a £125,000 farm to Senora Sabina do Soliveres, who lives in an attic in Madrid.

Her father, a diplomat in South America, died when she was 9, with Ja £2,000 mortgage on the farm, and; her mother died shortly after wards.

Now it ie discovered that he had a fortune of £16,000-invented in various British securities. Ella will enjoins that £1.000 is to be spent on a monument over grave.-Reuter.

ITALIAN CONSUL VISITS FOOCHOW.

Cruiser "Quarto" At Amoy.

in

his |

BRITAIN'S BALD BARDS

"Distressing Picture? By Poet Laureate.

HAIRLESS AT 40 YEARS

ALondon.

found that she was bleeding from a terrible wound at the back of the bead.

He glanced up auddenly to find Ahrenstein looking down at him, zaļ he afterwards stated in the witness box, with a strange gleam in his сусв.

"She's dead!" Dr. Forester said, bluntly, and rose id his feet,

Ahrenstein apparently broke down completely, but whether from fear, remorse, or sorrow the doctor was uncertain. In any case, Dr. Forester did not like the look of things at all.

The sad plight of English poets who go bald when they approached the age of 40 from trying to find "Was she going out?" he asked. rhymes has been depicted by the "She has her coat and hat on. And Comm. A. Blanconi, Consul Poet Laureate, Dr. Masefield.

there is her suitcase. General for Italy

Where was South

It is a distressing picture, Dr.Jshe going to at this hour? China, was among the passengers Masefield considers, since if some In a law suit the creditors were sailing aboard the "Hal-ching" solution cannot be found, Britsh I heard her on the stairs and the "I've no idea. I was in the ́shop. ordered to liquidate the debt from for Foochow yesterday after poets will either take to blank next thing I heard was her cry as Patonta have been accorded in the income of the estate, But by noon.

verse or be seen at their desks with she fell Abrenstein' had made an It is learned that the Italian bottle of ink on one side and sunnaturally quick recovery and Czecho-Slovakia, Great Britain, resorting to various legal pro- United States, Canada and France cedures they retained possession of cruiser the "Quarto" which is bottle of hair oil on the other.

stationed in Shanghai has arriv a the farm.

Two portraits of Swinburne În

Prague.

20

an aeroplane invented by Bohemian mechanic.

Recently Senora do Soliveres ed and anchored outside the the National Gallery support Dr. The seroplane has movable winge engaged a new attorney, and she harbour of Amuy, and will stay Masefield's theory, one by Watts nothing until they get here." which can be raised or depressed at has now gained possession-in her there until September 12. right angles to the body of the 72nd. year-of the property she in- machine. The invention is said to herited when she was 9 years old. make it possible to land the zero--Reuter.

plane on a very small stretch of land.

The inventor has never attended

school and has derived most of his BOY. HAS LANGUAGE

technical education from encycle- paediar.

Special Inspiration was given him by reading accounts of! experiments made by Leonardi da Vinci in 1652-Reuter.

RUMBURG'S PERFECT

GENTLEMAN.

Paid For Car Damage When Run Over.

A

Prague.

pedestrian, Herr 'Alola

OF HIS OWN.

་་

Brazilian Baffles Spiritualists.

Bao Paulo, Brazil. WA, Brazilian boy, aged 12, the son of very poor parents, has suddenly become one of the most talked of

News In Brief.

spoke with all his usual confidence.

"You'd better ring up, the police, Mr. Ahrenstein. We must touch

when the poet was 28, with Why I don't want the police luxuriant red hair and one by here! There's no need, doctor," Ponsonby Staples, done later to Ahrenstein protested, anxiously. life, where the master has a smooth. "Nevertheless, they must be told," dome-like head."

MAN Dr. Forester - insisted. · For a mò-| Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, ment a sudden fear gripped him: Hardy and Landor all provide fur Abrenstein was glaring at him like ther corroboration of this theory. ja trapped rat, but the Jeweller sud-

Dr. Masefield himself is getting denly pulled himself together. Mr. William James Lockhart noticably thin on top-he has just "It is for you to decide,

written another long poem-Reu-course," he said.

Members of the Peak Club are reminded that the Contract Bridge) Tournament to be held this evening will commence at 9.30 p.m.

Smith has been appointed to act ant Registrar of Trade Marks and Letter. ters Patent, in addition to his other duties, with effect from August 25, until further notice.

The police station was a few doors away, and the inspector was on the asene almost at once,” Within

SOVIET SCIENTISTS half an hour of his arrival he ar

STUDY SIGNS.

Babylonian Tablets

Deciphered.

Leningrad,

rested Ahrenstein on the charge of Judgment for the plaintiff WAS

murder. In the kitchen behind the people in the whole country.

given yesterday in "the" Supreme

shop the polles discovered a poker For at lesen, he will speak and Court in the case in which Mr. A.

that bore evidence of having recent- write in a language which no one Wheeler, of Messrs. Thomas Cook

ly been wathed. It had been placed can understand.

[and Bon, Ltd., Queen's Building, wai

on the copper by the alde of the -Apart from this, the boy-Bel-sued by Mrs, Anna Oxberry, trading

sink, and a small pool of water had Novotny, was run over by a molor-gares Ribeiro de Almeida, of as the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, to re- Fascinating light has been formed round the and that rested car at Rumburg (Czecho-Slovakia), Sacramento, near the Bas Pauls cover expenses of Board, lodging thrown on the economic and on the wooden cover. The remain- ...and his head was severely cut.pleasure resort of Arxa-ja nor and refreshments amounting to juridical fit of the Babyloniander of the set to which it belonged

The motor-car was damaged as mal.

$814.68 alleged to have been incur- epoch of Hamurably with the was found in the fender of the Are-

deciphering of soma 4,000-year-old place in the shops, fablets

"It's quite clear to me, tor the The tablets which were made of Inspector said. |Baked clay, are in a

state of preservation.. deld of rys eight feet high deciphered by workers, at been, Tro Fby a farinerini and Letter 5: Institute

It crashed into a lamp-post. It is stated that the boy goes into red by his wife.

"Excuse me," said Herr, Novotny trances, and be has been examined

to the alarmed motorist. "how much by landing Brazilian · spiritualists, Will it cost me to pay for the re- who diciary that the child is an ex- pairs to your car," an

He then wrots out a chaque on

traordinary medium.

The boy ona subsequently """tran- the spot, thoph Jag blate" correctly and consecuti After this Terr Novotny Had to that he says, and writes will go to bed as a result of his injurias, influence,", folo

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