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HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
Lourdes In Wales Walsingham, to which the first pilgrimage for 400 years will be made this suminer by English Roman Catholics, was a famous medieval shrine.
It never enjoyed as high a re-i
REMOTE REPUBLIC OF REHOBOTH ROMANTIC HISTORY OF
AFRICAN TERRITORY..
GOLD FIELD
POTENTIALITIES
(By Miriam S. Walsh.)
putation for miraculous cures as N a remote part of Africa, in the the grass was
IN
Bet.
luscious and the trees the Holy well in the grounds of the Acarcely known and romantic, "kamel thorn" and mimosa
themselves and Bishop's palace at Wells in Somer-Republic of Rehoboth a gold field gave shelter for
They were deeply or St. Winifride's well in of potentialitics has been discover their animals. Flintshire.
religious and believed in God's guid- ed." These are the true British This territory of Rehoboth is in ing hand.
When the gathered round their Lourdes.
the heart of South-West Africa,
from Kapitein" for the nightly reading St. Winifride's is still visited by that great country, captured
the Germans, in 1913 by General of the Bible and he read to them the pilgrims every year..----
the The spring is belleved to have Botha and his South African troops, of Isaac's well, Rehoboth, in risen on the spot where St. Wini-jand about which the late John X. 26th chapter of Genesis, they, too, fride's head stopped rolling after Merriman, Premier of the Cape, decided to dig a well and call their it had been chopped off by a pagan made a remarkable prophecy as long new abiding place Rehoboth.
"What a wretched Cleverly they tapped the inexhau- Prince whose advances she had ago at 1884.
country and people they must be."stible supply of fresh water that lies rejected.
in this he wrote, "and yet I make no doubt below the parched earth that some day it will be the mineral part of Africa, and there they built country of the world when all these their wattle and daub houses, primi- Hottentot chieftains are forgotten."tive imitations of those old tradi- And certainly South-West Africajtional homes of their torefathers in has, already contributed some most faraway Cape Colony. romantic chapters to the story of the village, Rehoboth, the centre of It all the communal life of the future, mining in the sub-Continent.
Mr. Stephens And The Naziz The British public is impatient to know the full details of the case of Pembroke Stephens.
What is known so far may be summarised thus:
Thus arose
Mr. Stephens, the Dally Express was along its stormy Atlantic the place on whose border has now correspondent in Germany, hears benches that carly prospectors pick-been opened up a gold reef.
While remaining loyal to Britain, reporte of a big new factory ated up diamonds by the handful mix-
Aken for the manufacture of ed with sharks' teeth and strange, they established their own little re chemicals. He visits the spot and, elongated oyster shella. There in public with Its dignified Volksraad. quite openly, makes inquiries. For the waterless desert, where no vege- Their laws were strict and merci- thus he is arrested and thrown tation of any sort.can live, have less. They punished adultery with into prison.·
been developed the famous Pomona death. They taught their children to read and write from the only diamond fields.
From time to time gold has been Book they had, the Bible. unearthed in small deposits in the Bravery Rewarded district of. Rehoboth. right in the As hunters, trappers, cattlemen interior, but prospectors were not they flourished and multiplied and
His captors realise that he has committed no offence, and he is that no danger threatened Bri-
let out. tain in the near future, and he deprecated all suggestion
Why. indeed, should
Hong Kong. Monday, June 25, 1934. panic.
Stark Facts About Security.
A
war."
of
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Strange Coincidence
Your Daily Smile!
.
one
paid had no money, but
bartered the white
They
there be panie? Thunder Then Mr. Stephens sends to his encouraged by the villagers who were happy in their freedom. They clouds often pass away without newspaper
an article about the liked seclusion-and no breaking. If Great Britain is Jews. He writes of anti-Semitiem much heed to the Bowery tales of skins of wild animals with
traders for such necessaries of life strong, Great Britain will be re- in Nuernberg, where cafes display those who returned.
South Africa is full of treasure as they could not produce. spected, and her influence for signs: "No Jews allowed here," in
Their beds and chairs and even peace
may well be decisive. Berlin, in Baden, where 16 Jewshunters!
But one of them, a German named ladders were made of rough hewn In the House of Common Peace, however, would soon be have been arrested for keeping]
Their HE well dressed man soon learns cently Leading Ministers of the precarious if Sir Stafford Cripps's company with Christian girls, and Scholl, went back to Rehoboth a wood and dressed cowhide.
Crown stripped their speeches reckless advice
year ago and re-opened his old vessels were made of river clay. follow the sign which
were adopted elsewhere. bare of all illusions, and dealt when he adjured the Government the
He reports the threat of Dr. diggings and it is he who claims to with the pastoral life of the Boer protection by
frankly with stark facts. If one to create an atmosphere of se- Goebbels to
they mixed the hunting activities of keep Jews in Gor-have made amazing finds.
The gold rush to this new field the native and Hottentot, single sentence stands out abovecurity by binding ourselves
in many
as hostages against the all others. it is Mr. Baldwin's advance to guarantee the securi-anti-German boycott by Jews inthas turned attention to the people were content at "inst..
such thing ay
who live there, whose history is one) When the Germans took over the "There is no sanction that will work whichy of the world." It would be an other lands.
atmosphere only, without a ves-j No sooner is this article read in of the most interesting in all our vast territory all round Rehoboth in does not mean war; if you are tige of reality.
These hybride, or Bas1830, the half-waste Christian bur- Germany than Pembroke Step-Empire.
tarda as they have always been ghers who formed this community going to adopt sanctions you
Britain cannot play the lone hena is seized again.
called, have won for themselves
obtained recognition from the. Ger- must be prepared for
remarkable place in the annals of man Government as British sub- That will be extremely unpalata-role of crusader, which is what is implied by "guaranteeing the ble doctrine to idealists who for security of the world."
When
the Empire for valour, endurance jeeta governed by their own laws- years have been vainly trying to the United States rejected her
and enterprise..
an amazing testimony to their per-- get round an awkward corner on;
"No stay-at-home knows what it
throughsistence and bravery. It cannot be done. President's League of Nations feels like to return to one's tent
It be. In the terrible wars between the a formula.
and the Tripartite Treaty grave late at night and find a savage gan somewhere about the year 1700 Hereros and Germans that followed Moral sanctions, ie, the repro- damage was done to the new ra- lioness waiting for one," states with the trekking of a group of the Rehobothe acted as trained and bation of world opinion, are im-'
& country chinery of Peace and Security potent to hold back
Now, in the Foreign Secretary's the stay-at-home is a forward by some powerful na- tionalist urge. Economic sanc-pungent phrase, "the time is ex- tions involve interference with hausted when we can usefully ex- the trade of neutrals, which it press ourselves in perfectly gen- the trade is valuable will be hot-cral and perfectly sincere plati. tudes." At home they are up ly resented.
It is too often forgotten: by against the facts at last. those who think they see in eco- even if they prove to be as bad nomic sanctions an effective ways the most fearful depict them, of escape from military and they have faced even worse bes naval sanctions how near Pre- sident Wilson came to challeng ing the Allied blockade with a the Note which peremptory Allies could not possibly have ae- cepted. With powerful Ameri-}
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Their story goes back more than two centuries.
which is being driven irresistibly which has still to be repaired, big-game hunter. Unless, of course, Boers, some of whom had married most reliable scouts to the German
fore
TRESPASSING AT POLICE STATION.
iman.
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"By Parachute to Propose"
Falling for you,
married
native women, from old Cape Colony.farmy, and many of them still tren-
No one knows exactly how many sure the short-blade bayonet, sword' there were, but they set out on their on one edge and saw on the other, journey into the unknown simply with which the Germans equipped because they wished to be free of them- truly dreadful weapon.
"Girls Throw Kisses to the Ausira-any Government, any taxation, any and Ilans"
X's for the XI.
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But when the Great War broke restrictions. With their women put the 2000 fighting men of Reho- and children and wagons and few both emphatically refused to help poor possessions they went north the Germans in their fight against WHO ELSE? ·
wards and westwards into the England, and with the fearless In- dependence inherited from their "Now that a certain type of wilderness.
They cante at length to the mighty forefathers, and though hopelessly handbag is s0 popular," "says a writer. "We shall have to take Orange River, and there for many outnumbered and pitifully isolated,.
or years they wandered, gradually they gallantly stood by and with steps to increase the supply lizard skins." I should imagine spreading out along 600 miles of its stood a siege of many month until frontage, until at the beginning of General Botha's troops arrived to the nineteenth century they num- Save them from annihilation. bered over 3,000,
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can interests this counted for Playing With Constable, the lizards will have to do that.
more than the Invasion of Bel-
gium or the savagery of "sink-i Four young Chinese, Chan ing without trace." So long, Tim, Ng Mau, Lo Kin-fuk and
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Answer to Correspondent
Golfer (Kowloon): When rules
The Northern Advance Early in the nineteenth century a
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therefore, as there is no agree. Lau Tal-sing, were charged be-permit you to improve your lie the great number of the Bastards, CARPENTER BRINGS ment on the vital question of the fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the privilege is to move your ball, not alarmed by the oncoming of civili- "Freedom of the Seas" between Central Police Court this morn-to tell a different story about yoursation, determined to move off once the Naval Powers, those who ing, for trespassing on Govern-store. adopt sanctions must be prepar-ment property, within
the
ed for war. Mr. Baldwin did not, grounds of No. 7, Police Station, Indeed, say that in no conceiv-yesterday.
Sir
DOG TO COLONY. more; they crossed the Orange Mr. Westlake's Prompt
or
River and advanced northwards, GRAND SLAM
Undeterred by thirst, drought Doctors have found a man with flood, surviving the ferocity of the
Įbridge partner!
Action.
.........
able case should Britain be pre- Accused stated that they went four hearts. At last, the perfect native Hereros and the poisoned Yeung Wun-kee, a carpenter, was pared to agree to sanctions. A there to play ball.
arrows of the little yellow Bushmen. Sued $25, in default one month's really collective aanetion. for They went there to play with 15,000 for Film Actress Broken making friends with the wily Hot-hard labour, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton example, would be a very differ-an Indian constable, Your Wor- Nose"
tentot, whose young girls many of it the Central Magistracy-- this ent thing from one which left ship," said Inspector Hourihan. "My face is my fortune, sir," them married, they grew in numbers morning, for removing a dog from Important nations outside.
Chan was fined $2, while the she said.
as they advanced.
the New Territory to Hong Kong John Simon stresses the point others were bound over in the
They became skilled hunters and without a permit yesterday. that disarmament could not be sum of $8 each.
trappers, and learnt the lore of the The case was brought to the at-- made effective unless America
A boxer declares that he trains Bushmen, those primitive people,tention of the police by Mr. West- co-operated. Her official offers of
on beer. And not, as might be ex-relics of the Stone Age: Snakebite lake, of the Supreme Court, wille co-operation have stopped for
pected, on punch. short of a promise to join in the collective action which alone would constitute an effective sanction.
The settled, Air polley of the British Government was formal-
CHINESE BODY ON FORESHORE.
Burial At Sea Theory Raised.
ly stated by Mr. Baldwin. It is The badly decomposed body of that if there is no "Imitation" Chinese male was taken to the Kow of air armamenta and he ob loon Mortuary at 4.45 o'clock this The body which was viously sees no chance of "re-morning. duction as an outcome of found on the foreshore at Fak Ke the Conference Britain shall Ping Shad District, was partly build up her air strength to wrapped in a fishing net and weight. parity with that of the strongested with a stone, w Power within striking distance The theory of a burial at sea was of her shores. At the same time advanced by Chlef Detective Inspec lie earnestly assured, the House tor Shannon,
k
MISLEADING
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THE LAST STRAW ·
The American. authorities have discovered that Dillinger has paid
held no terrors for them, the desert accused was coming over on a ferry- itself gave up its secrets in return from Tajpo..
for their mastery of the strange Mr. Hamilton pointed out the clicking tongue of the pigmy people danger of rabies which is now pre- language more like the creak-inlent in the Colony, especially in no income tax for three years. Iing and rustling of dry bones upon Kowloon. always knew that fellow would do a gibbet than the speech of humans. something to put himself outside the law.
Boxer Engaged for 13 Years”
The heavy-walt chi
They crossed the new famous Captain E. W. Matthews, form- salt-pans, vast basins of pure gliser master of the eteamer Kinshan tening white walt that blinded them and central figure in the dispute as they stumbled oni
the Chinese Seamen's', between They gathered sackfuls of the Union at Canton and the Hong precious stuff and exchanged it for Kong, Canton and Macao Steara cattle or Hottentot, wives,"
bost Co., Ltd., was among, the On they went month after passengers who departed on S body-line" month, year after year, until at turday by the N. Y. K .. Harina
Flast they reached a district wherd Maru,
MY TAME TYPIST Thought that the dispute concerned slimming.
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