1933-12-16 — Page 9

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1933.

PRINCE'S INTEREST

"IN UNEMPLOYED Yorkshire Tour Now

Completed.

VISITS TO MANY CLUBS AND TRAINING CENTRES

London, To-day

The Prince of Wales concluded his three days' tour of Yorkshire lust evening.

FAIR PLAY FOR CRICKETERS

South African Coaches For Union Schools.

EX-TEST CAPTAIN'S URGE

the Association

As in earlier tours of the indus. trial areas, the Prince displayed his chlef interest in the work of clubs and occupational and training centres established for the unen ployed.

Johannesburgh.

IVORY SITULA ACQUIRED

FOR NATION

Famous Piece. From Tsar's Collection.

BOUGHT FOR £7,900

London.

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-day's Short Story

T

THE HAND

By Guy de Maupassant.

A suggestion by H. W. Taylor, a

HE whole party had gather- "At all events, pray do not former South African captain, that

ed in a circle round Mon- imagine" that I myself have for one cricket unions and xchools should There has just been acquired for eieur Bermutic the magistrate, Instant attributed anything of the employ South African cricketers as the nation as the joint purchase of who was giving his opinion on supernatural to this incident. I be coaches in stead of importing men the Victoria and Albert Museum the mysterious St. Cloud affair, lieve in normal causes only. It from England was discussed at a and the National Art Collections an inexplicable crime, which had would be much better if we used special meeting of the South Fund a beautiful little ivory aftals been distracting Paris for a the word 'inexplicable' instead of African Cricket Association. The for holy water bucket of the 10th month. No one could make any-supernatural' to express things that

resolved that the century that was formerly In the thing of it."

we did not understand. In 'any Unions should be asked to draw the Russian Imperial collection at the Standing with his back to the case, what was striking in the al- attention of schools to the matter Hermitage Museum.

fireplace, Monsieur Bermutfer was fair I am going to tell you about and it was decided that cricketers It measures only, 6 inches high discussing it, marshalling ~ proofs, was not so much the event itself an desiring coaching posts should and 4%1⁄2 inches in diameter, is analyzing theories, but arriving at the circumstances that attended and In Bradford. which suffered apply for the approval of the Board beautifully carved with scenes no conclusion. Some of the Indira led up to it. Now to the facts. of Control. It was felt that this from the Passion of Christ, and had risen from their chairs and had

"At that time I was investigating heavily during the severest phase of step would ensure the Board hav-bears an inscription with the name come nearer him. Clustering round magistrate at Ajaccio, a little town tha depression, he learned with keening some control over the type of of the Emperor Otto, in whose him, they kept their eyes on the of white houses, situated on the antisfaction that the number of locul cricketer seeking coaching appoint- honour the situla was made about clean-shaven lips which uttered such edge of a wonderful bay surround-

ments.

the end of the tenth century. The weighty words. They shuddered ed on all sides by lofty mountains. unemployed had fallen from 36,000

Mr. S. J. P'tis was re-elected price paid to the Dutch dealer, and trembled, thrilled by that My principal task there was the in- in 1931 to fewer than 14,000. President of the Association. for who recently bought it out of the strange twe, that eager and instigation of vendettas. Some of

At the occupational centre in Mor the ensuing year.

Hermitage collection, was $7,700. satiable craving for horrors, which these

vendettas are sublima, The meeting agreed to recom-Half of that sum was contributed haunts the mind of women and tor-savage, heroic, inconceivably drama- ley the Prince worked a hand loo mend that the Board of Control by the National Art Collections, tures them like the pangs of hun-tic. In them one comes across the on which members are making should re-appoint Messrs. J. H. Fund.

ger. One of them, paler than the nest themes of revenge imaginable; scarves, one of which was presented Tandy, T. E. Holmes and J, Perring.

The situls will be placed on ex- others, ventured to break a sudden hatreda that have endured for cen- jas a Selection Committee, and that hibition at the Victoria and Albert silence:

turies, lying for. a time in abeyance, to the Princo.

they should remain in office until Museum. It is regarded by the "How ghastly! It was a touch of stratagems, assassinations that are but never extinguished; detestable Huddersfield the team for the 1935 tour of Eng-Museum authorities as one of their the super-natural. No one will ever mere butchery, others that are a

land is chosen.

rarest possessions.

find out the truth about it.”

most heroic deeds. Monsieur Bermutler turned

Similar centres in and Peristone were visited.

Although the Prince's visit informal. great crowds gathered to welcome

him.-British Wireless

Service.

CAMBRIDGE

CANOEISTS

was

CAPSIZE

Narrow Escape From Death In Danube,

EN ROUTE TO ENGLAND

Bucharest.

Ma

to

It was also decided to hold the Holy water buckets in Ivory are Currie Cup tournament this year on greatly prized, as only four or five her: the usual home and away arrange-of them are known to have sur-j ments., The Unions

"That is Akely enough. But as will agree vived. There is one in Milan for your word, supernatural, it has among themselves regarding the Cathedral, but nothing like that most suitable dates for their now acquired la to be found in any confronted with a crime, which was no place in this affair. We are the Basilewsky Situla, and had been in ably conceived and very ably exe. several private collections befors

cuted. ¡Tear Alexander "III. acquired it in [1885.

matches,-Reuter.

HISTORIC ROOF DISCOVERED

Restoration Reveals 13th. Century Work.

{PORTUGAL'S OLDEST CHURCH

Lisbon,

[museum. It is known

"It is wrapped in such profound mystery that we cannot disengage it

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Fenchurch Street Mystery," by Baroness Orczy.

"For two years I had heard noth-

In 1857 it was exhibited at the [from the impenetrable circumstances ing discussed there but the price of Manchester Art Treasures Exhibi- surrounding it, Still, within my blood; nothing but this terrible Cor- tlon and subsequently was lent for own experience, I had once to fol-sician tradition, which obliges man & time to the South Kensington low up a case that really appeared who has been wronged to wreak his Museum.

to have an element of the super-revenge upon the man

his

who The 11 scenes carved with great natural in it. We had eventually wronged him or upon his descend delicacy all round this ceremonialjio give it up, for lack of means to ants. or his next-of-kin. Old men, relic include "Christ washing the elucidate fe

children, distant cousins, I had 'seen) Dlaciples feet," "The Betrayal,” | Several ladies exclaimed as with them all slaughtered, and my head "Judes accepting the 30 pieces of one voice:

was full of tales of vengeance. silver," and "The Crucifixion."----- "Oh, do tell us about it."

"One day I was informed that an Reuter.

With the grave smile appropriate Englishman' had just taken a lease an Investigating magistrate, for several years of a little villa at Monsieur Bermutter resumed: the far end of the bay. He had brought with him a French man- servant, whom he had picked up? while passing through Marseilles. It

OLD PORTUGUESE RESIDENT DEAD Mrs. V. M. Silva-Ribeiro.

FUNERAL YESTERDAY AT HAPPY VALLEY

to

FREE BEER FOR ALL was not long before universal curio

IN SYDNEY

Įsity person, who lived alone and nover left his house except to go shooting or fishing,

Licensee Celebrates LuckHe spoke to no one, never came

Two Cambridge students, Mr. l'at Beesley and Mr. Cyril Dantury roof of the cathedral of The original thirteenth cen- fels, have narrowly escaped a Santa Clara, at Coimbra, the tragic death in the dangerous oldest church in Portugal, has rapids of the iron gates of the been laid bare during the work Danube as result of the cap of restoration. The roof is of sizing of their canoe.

tiles and is in three "stepped": The two students are now

on alopes. their way to England, via the The sale of ancient documents Black Sen.

When their craft capsized in versity Library here and a liber- recently discovered in the Uni- the broiling waters of the great al grant by the Government will pass they were flung into treach-enable this, magnificent Romano- orous currents which prevented Gothic cathedral, built by the the Portuguese community, Mra.

to the town, and practised for an An old and respected member of them from reaching shore.

hour or two every morning with his The river, in any case, is here be restored to its carly beauty. away on Thursday afternoon at her Queen Saint Isabel in 1286, to Virginia M. Silva-Ribeiro, passed

platol and carbine. All sorts of lined on both sides with perpen-

legends sprang up about him. Ho Saint Isabel was the wife of residence, 11 Ashley Road, How- dicular walls of rock,

was said to be an exalted person- Only by one of the most famous early loop, at the ripe age of 84. strenuous swimming did they kings of Portugal. King Denis

age who had fled his country for manage to keep aflout unt they He was "The Maker of the For-afternoon at the Roman Catholic not just one or two drinks, but cool

political reasons: to this succeeded reached a bank they could scale. tuguese Language" and founded Cemetery, Happy Valley, yesterday, beer without limit and not even rible crime, of which the most in hiding Enveloped in the high waves. the first university in Portugal in in the presence of a large gather the "cadger" barred.

because he had committed a hor- they frequently lost sight of 1920 at Lisbon which was trans-ing of friends and relatives. The

shocking details were given." each other and their overturned ferred to Coimbra in

When Mr. 8. Bullah. licensee of craft, but they kept their heads Reuter.

1308 burial service was read by Father the Balmain Ferry Hotel, Erskine anxious to learn something about In my official capacity. "I was] Rossi, Pastor of Rosary Church, Street, Sydney won the £5,000 prics this man, but my Inquiries were while Father Spada, in whose form in a State Lottery, recently, he pro- fruitless, The name he went by

and through sheer grit reached sufely.

Had they not been both

In Lottery.

"CADGERS" NOT BARRED

Bydney, N.B.W;

theory that he wa The funeral took place yesterday Free beer and a warm day. And

ex "ROYAL SCOT” BACK IN LONDON parish the deceased spent the mixed to "turn it on" when he EPS was Sir John Rowell I had to be

pert swimmers and in perfect condition from several weeks of "roughing it," they could not have survived.

(Continued from Page. 11.

best part of her lifetime, was also present,

the money. He kept his promise satisfied with keeping a close watch

This who heard the original pro-i The deceased lady was the mise told their friends, and they upon him, but I never really dis- Imother of Mr. M. A. da Silva, for were ready"and"waiting, 4.-

covered anything suspicious about The two Cambridge men had given of the heights climbed and Mesara, Jardine, Matheson and Co long before the hotel opened, and widespread that, I determined to Judging from the particulars (over 30 years in the servira "of They were waiting in a queue never ceased, and they became so him. None the less the rumours started from Ohmi on the Rhine the varieties of temperature ex-but now retired. in their small collapsible canoe perienced in a tour of over 11,700

they were still there, when closing make an effort to see this several weeks ago.

In addition to the only son, the time came at least, after a day that with my own eres. I High up in miles this, sald His Majesty,, had deceased is survived by three grand will be remembered when Mr took to shooting regalarly Austria they struck the Danube been a most remarkable perform children, and a brother Mr. J. H. Stevens' laet Budget has been for neighbourhood of his and followed it down to the ance, British Wireless Service, da Silva, of Holts Wharf. famous Iron Gates pass, where the powerful Danube cuts the Carpathan Mountains in two.

The feat of crossing this Pass in a boat has tempted many young men to a tragic death. For years these rapids defied all na-] vigation.

con-

It was over this same Pass that Roman conqueror, Trajan, went with his armies to master the Dacians in the second tury. Trajan, faced by the same perpendicular walls of rock, drill- ed holes in them and suspended "a brides over which his armies

marched.-Reuter,

OPTIMISTIC TONE ON WALL ST.

(Continued from Page 1).

Wheat: Early enginess" was scan, due "b" Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace's statement to fle that the Government wou Hikely to her to supervise the market. Later, walisos

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Cotton

Oper

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Close Call for Auto Speed Champion

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