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THE DRUIDS WERE OVER-RATED

NOT BRILLIANT MEN OF LETTERS

The announcement that for the arst time since the revolution, mili- Itary attaches are to be exchanged

between Rusals and Britain coin-| eldes with the return from Russia ofa former British military st tache. He has just concluded a Long before dawn on 'June 21 a The Celta originally swept over all three-week visit to the scone of his crowd of about 600 people waited Europe from the district which is former activities..

at Stonehenge to see the midsum-now covered by Switzerland

ANCIENT SECT "EXPOSED"

(By John Betjeman.)

and

600

· He is General Hely-Hutchinson mer sunrise. They waited in vain, Hungary. They migrated in Waters, and be was military at- for at the moment the sun rose a B.C., and by about 300 B.C, they tache. In St. Petersburg from 1893 bank of cloud drifted by.

had established themselves in to 1888.

In years when the sun has been England and set up the system of During the War he was for some more obliging and risen from the Druidism. months the Head of the British most northerly paint of its course The temples of the Druids were Military Mission at Russian head-and come into alignment with the oak groves and the mistletoe was quarters,

fat "sacrificial" stone, I have heard particularly revered. They wero During his recent visit he went a wonderful "oh!" from the breath-fierce people with a great Белве Conse- to the Beloselsky Palace, in which less figures shivering in the dawn. of the life after death. the British delegation was housed.

"How clever of the Druids!" they and a doctor would have been con- quently no one was afraid to die, Today, it is a technical school...

think. Yet if they had stopped to aidered a nuisance.

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think really, would they have con- sidered it so very clevert

So strong, indeed, was the sense of the after life that people did

THE NEW REIGN'S DRAINS

The General also visited the After all, the prehistoric peoples not trouble about debts in this Russian headquarters at Mogilleft.lived, so far as we know, in an age life in those days, being confident There during the War the Tsar, as when there was nothing to tell the that they would be paid in Commander-in-Chief of the Russian time by, except the sun and moon. next.

armies; made his home.

the

As a matter of fact, we know from So human sacrifices, to which.

A sanitary inspector now works Pliny that the Druids used the the Romans so much objected after in the room in which the Tsar used moon and not the sun to make their they had conquered Gaul, were not to sign the orders to advance or calculations. They divided the so very terrifying. Certainly the

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to retreat-generally the latter. calendar into ages of thirty years Druids sacrificed in rather an un- In Moscow the General was al-and into months by the course of attractive manner. They would lowed to inspect the original docu- the moon.

stab a man sitting against a stone ment of the famous Sazonoff report The sun did not bother them just above the midriff with a knife. containing the account of his visit very much. Therefore, crash goes Then by his dying convulsions they to England in 1912.

the popular belief that some special would divine the future. The report leaves no doubt that sacrifice was made on that great They also made enormous wic- the armament race. Wars breed the Russian Foreign Minister was flat stone at the rising of the sun. ker figures which they stuffed with DEATH

depressions, and it would seem completely satisfied that Britain If, in just a few paragraphs, I live animals and people.

breed wars, was pledged to support Russia and am to tell you who the Druids would then be burned in the oak GOULD-Died at the Peninsula that depressions

For all his boasted intel-France in the event of war with really were and how old Stone groves. Hotel on Thursday, July 26,

henge is, you are expecting too Thore was nothing unusual 1934, Blanche, beloved wife of ligence and enlightenment mo- Germany.

dern man appears just as incap- Although he saw much suffering, much. Archaeology is like a good about druidic belief in immortality Joseph Gould. Deeply mourn-

Bettling disputes by General Walters thinks that the detective story, it keeps you guess- and sacrifice. The Aborigines of ed. Cortege will pass the able. of Monument at 6 p.m., Friday, peaceful means as his forbears Russians are rather better off than ing right up to the last and then, Australia to this day hold a similar have been. When, as in the they were in the nineties, and that unlike a good detective story, it doctrine. So do several African July 27. No flowers by request. United States and elsewhere, we sanitation, at any rate, has decidedly doesn't supply you with an answer.

tribes,

Shanghal and Los Angeles papers please copy:

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Friday, July 27, 1934:

Your Daily Smile!

Instruments that will throw the

These

find individual nations torn by improved.

The best I can do is to give you Suppressed By Romans internecine strife, by great in-

what are regarded as the most up- dustrial up-heavals or political

Though they may have been to-date opinions on Stonehenge and revolutions, and unable to com-

popular with their own people the Druidism. pose their own internal differen-

Celts, the druids were not popular Of one fact, at any rate, we can with the Romans. They had too ces, it is not remarkable that voice of a apeaker a mile have be certain: The ancient Druids much political influence. So they nation and nation should dis- been invented. Now we only neither by heredity nor in. doct agree, and finding a settlement want one that will throw the rine had anything to do with these were suppressed under Roman rule of their differences by peaceful speaker the same distance. Is War Inevitable?

people who call themselves Druids soothsayers, not, the great tribal and became more witch doctors and means slow and difficult; should

in England to-day. seek the arbitrament of thel

leaders they once had been. War is a word that is constant sword. So we come back to the Learning to fly a plane is like Indeed, when Christianity came

By the time Christianity had ly on our lips, and the text of

original position that is the falling off a log," says an expert. to England, the church blotted outcome to England with St. Augus- our daily news from Europe world's business to-day, to com length of the drop.

The only difference is in the all traditions of the Druids. It tine in 597 A.D. they were in a yesterday make things look pose the political differences be-

was not until about the time of

poor way, and in France they had blacker than ever. Our experi-tween nations and get down to

Queen Elizabeth that they were ceased to exist. ences in the Great War should the essential truth-that we are

ever heard of again. 'Then they

I am sorry that it is impossible be sufficient warning that the living on or very near a volcano that their minister says

Miss G. N., of Piqua, Ohio, writes were rediscovered, when the class-to make out that the Druids were world may easily be once again There must be compromise, and mind members of the congregation

he doesn't cal writers came to be read, in the brilliant astrologers and men in terrible disaster should hos-a resolute seeking of goodwill pulling out their watches on him, but worke of nineteen Greek tilities break out anywhere between all nations, otherwise it gets his goat to have them put the Roman authors... even in the Pacific. Why wait for the drums and tramplings of 1914 will be inevitable.

a repeatition of the upheaval of things up to their ears to see if they

are gaing. war? Why should our political leaders, in the event of the worst

prey of an angry people sudden-

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of

letters, that they were a learned race apart familiar with the Greek philosophers. John Aubrey's Theory

They were only the chiefs of a warlike people who And not until 1895 A.D. did it descended an Bronze Age England Mrs. Nexdore: "My daughter Druids with Stonehenge.

accur to anyone to connect the and possibly adoptd its religious

When beliefs... has arranged a little piece for the John Aubrey, that curious anti- plano."

And if you want to find traces of quarian, put forward a tentative them now, after all these years, do theory about it in that year, he not go to Stonehenge on mideum- was ridiculed for his fantastical mer night and expect to see Drui opinions. But the idea took root die rites re-enacted. Horticultural note saya tomand, in the last century, when it Drudism only survives in odd,

Diplomat

happening, find themselves the A Sign Of Better Trade. ly awakened to the folly and fa-

An addition to the evidences tulty which left Nations at sixes of improving trade is made by Old Grump: "Good! It's about| and sevens when they should the report of the Suez Canal time we had a little peace.” have been ready for any fate to Company. There is no index s0 the very limits of their capacity?sure in regard to the prosperity The plain truth is that the na-of commerce with the whole tions are afraid of one another. Eastern world and with Austra-toes grow reddest when not ex was popular to be romantic, a posi- despised little customs and in Hardly a nation can be said to lia. In the lean years the Suez posed to the hottest sun. Where tive Druid cult grew up in Eng-nooks and carners like all persecut

¡land. trust the others. Of them all, Canal suffered a heavy loss of in most of us differ from tomatoes.

ed and suppressed religions. Wo Britain has shown herself to be revenue which made it necessary

Stonehenge, however, is pro hang up the sacred mistletoe at the most trustful, and as a result to draw upon reserves, but im-.

bably Druidic. That is to say it Christmas there is the horrible she now finds her own security provement began in 1932, and in Wifey: "Mrs. Smart has a few was built in the Bronze age which hobby horse at Padstow, in Corn- threatened. In endeavouring to 1988 there has been an increase bat, darling."

lasted from about 2000 B.C, to 600 wall; there are lonely fairs right save Europe by her example, it of 56,000,000 French francs, for Hubby: "Well, if she were as B.C.

ap on top of the downs; we touch is doubtful whether, if war were the Canal still levies its dues attractive as you are, dear, she

The outer circle of standing wood, if we want to feel safe. wouldn't have to depend so much stones, was put up a suddenly to break out, she would upon a gold basis..

few years And- Is there not, in a town in be able to save herself by her As yet the recovery is not so on millinery.”

after the inner circle, for the stones Devon, a "white doctor" to whom Įvalour. With the other nations marked that the directors feel it

come from, Pembrokeshire. Wales farmers go when someone has cast either lacking in good faith or possible to lower charges, about!

was a peculiarly sacred area. This an evil oye on their cattle? And, victims-of-a-fear-complex and which there has been complaint. "Dad, why are some women call- gave a national character to the more strange still, are there-not- unwilling for one or other reason A beginning is made with the ed Amazons?!

monument.

the three Druidie, towns, of · Eng- One might say that Stonehenge land who hold mysterious rites? was almost international, at least In its architecture, later on. For

The Amazon

to agree to Britain's disarma restoration of the reserves, and "Well, the South American river ment proposals, Britain cannot shipowners may accept that as is noted for its mouth.” afford to neglect her own inter- an indication that lower charges

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eats. And her interests are the may be possible in future years Detroit News: A critic of mo the huge stones put horizontally Empire's interesta. The world if the Improvement of trade dern architecture aska. "What across the standing ones are secur RETURNED TO SICK position has by no means im continues. If dues are not low-good is the skyscraper?” Well, ed by a tenonand-mortice lock, as proved. Instead of a disarma-ered there is some compensation future archaeologists won't have ment movement, there is a great to the British ships which make so far to dig. Jand steadily-increasing arma- so large a contribution to them.

are the stones in Greek and Ro- man temples. This device, pro-

Marseilles and Home. had colonies

Iment movement. It has, inci- in the thought that the increased Facts You Did Not Know world for Greece had a colony at dentally, brought from Dr. Ni-dividend of the year will assist cholas Murray Butler, president the British Government as a of the Carnegie Endowment for large shareholder. International Peace, a strong

protest against the proposal in LORRY DRIVER MAY hundreds of millions of dollars the United States to appropriate

LOSE LICENSE.

for naval construction and arma ment. He describes it as "a co For dangerous", "driving, ⠀ over= loading, and having bad brakes, blic "funda."

CHILD.

bably learnt from the ancient Japanese Barber Has No

Valid Passport, |: An automobile speed indicator to be further west still--has led to one

mounted on a radiator cap has been of the most convincing theories For entering the Colony on Weds invented that is operated by the pres about Stonehenge, sure of air through a funnel.

nesday..., without a valid passport,

lossal and criminal waste of Phyam Fock-hing, licensed driver of A California 'inventor's rubber ant-religion; like those, seen by refuges

It is thought that the Druids Ketaro Hasuda; a 47-year-old Japan- Experiments are under way in built it when rumours of Roman ese barber, was bound over by Mr. France with a stream lined motorbus aggression were rife. They hoped E. W. Hamilton at the Central that is designed to carry 100 passen to impress possible Roman invaders Magistracy this morning in the sum gers at a sneed of 85 miles an hour.

tags by erecting a temple for their own of $50 for a period of six months

Detective-Sergeant Mottram said

At a time when all nations are motor lorry No. 1755 was fined $25, ing stamp carries an ink pad on hing Druids from France (Gaul) erected that accused had been in the Colony struggling to overcome the ef815, and $10, respectively, by Mfr. E. ed arms that can be closed over the by the Greeks and Romans, for 29 years and went to Japan. de sometimes ago for his health. fects of the world, depression, It Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma-type to protect as well as ink it.".

While he was in Japan accused re- is a deplorable thing that the gistracy this morning,

Ballet proof, metal arm shields and The Droids themselves are Cel-ceived a letter from his wife saying already overburdened taxpayers On Inspector Saunders request his cuirasses that extend below the waist die of the race which now lives in that his child was I and returned should be called upon to find fur license was recommended for Bus- have been provided for police in a ther great sums to keep up with pensio

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