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FILMS OF 1935

The following was the voting among a group of British chil- dren on the best pictures of 1935:

"David Copperfield" (24 votes). "Bengal Lancer" (18), "Naughty MariettaTM `(17),

"BLACK MAGIC IN LONDON

ALLEGED CENTRES OF ACTIVITY

EXTENSIVE PRACTICES SAID TO

BE PREVALENT

(By Dennis Wheatley)

EOPLE are apt to associate her neighbourhood.

The Count of Monte Cristo PEOPLE

(16),

"Roberta". (10),

To this the words "Black Magic" day she cannot enter a church. with a mental picture of an old without being physically sick.

Test Of Truth "West Point of the Air (9), crane mumbling over a seething!

cauldron, or a sorcerer in the “Sequoia" (7).

topmost turret of an impregn- The sceptical may consider "Treasure Island" (6).

able tower driving a thorn me unduly credulous in believ- "Gold Diggers of 1935, Tran-

through the heart of his lord'sling such cases, but of their sient Lady" and "Down to Their

dearest enemy.

truth there is one almost cer- Last Yacht tied for the position

Neither of these of best-hated film with

They are wrong! Black tain test Magic is still practised exten-women possessed a high stan- votes each...

An interesting point which sively in London and the pro-dard of education and both re-

lated certain minor circum emerged from the questionnaire vinces to-day.

WEX

A MINISTERIAL SPEECH

seven

that school children like! After my Black Magic serialistances. în connection with their pictures to follow books closely."The Devil Rides Out appear- stories, the significance of which ed in a London paper recently, they obviously did not under- I received many hundreds of stand; yet their meaning would letters dealing with every phasebe clearly understood by any of the occult, and demonstrat-serious student of the occult. Lord Crawford and Balcarres ing, only too clearly, what a real Desolate and secluded parts recently told a story at a dinner menace it is to the sanity and of the country are ideal breed- in London of a Minister who had peace of mind of those who are ing grounds for this poisonous advertised himself to speak in drawn into its toils. his constituency on the compara-| tive merits of Julius Caesar and

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Napoleon

The China Mail

causes

Avoidable Road Accidents

He ordered the speech to be prepared by his department, and a beautiful effort was produced Unfortunately it was lost on the

The Ministry shows that the Minister began pervously on the highest percentage of fatalities difficulty of comparing two men

between five and six who lived in different ages andj

occurs

+

Laconic Epistle

growth. One friend of mine, attached to the Special Branch of Scotland Yard, writes to me from the Eastern Counties that. in the course of his work there.. First came a laconic epistle he has come across several from a gentleman who queried examples of witchcraft. which' my placing of a house used by is still practised in the country Satanists He insisted that it districts with little difference from the methods employed in

Black Mass Numerous accounts of the

was located in a district, the

way to the constituency. The other side of the Finchley-road." mediaeval times.

hour from ten to eleven, when of time, “circumstance and condi

Your Daily Smile!

+

He continued: "I went there to a meeting some little time ägo. but I suppose you thought it

-me-

Hong Kong, Wennesday, Sept. 11, 1935 o'clock in the evening, when fought with different weapons policy not to give away its celebration of the Black Mass. people, are leaving work. and After foundering in this back- actual situation in your book the central ritual of this evil then declines rapidly until there water for ten minutes he finish-I, of course, had no idea until cult. continue to reach is a sharp rise again in the ed: "Allowing for the disparity receiving this communication One comes from a correspondent that a Satanic Temple existed in the Antipodes who tells me the theatres and cinemas are ition. the answer is in the affirma- in any part of that area. that he was present when this

It

sacrilege was perpetrated in a Since the beginning of a re- closing and the public-houses tive."

was pure invention:-

church by an are emptying That there

We are more concerned, how consecrated duction in road accidents is to

ever, with methods and results. ordained priest, in one of the know why they occur. the en-should be most casualties when

Plausibility is one of the sharp-greatest cities of Australia. quiry made by the Ministry of there are most people in the

He named the church and the Transport has high value for streets is in accordance with

That night under the stars he sworejest books on the line, and the cause

eternal love.

bait held out at first is prob- priest... the future. The statistics con-expectation. The same

As to the results of "white" firm generally the results of an explains the heavy increase of

"But how can I be sure you are sin-ably "knowledge of the future." holiday cere?” she said. “I expect you deceïzet

ja very potent lure "Acquisi magic by an African witch doc- earlier investigation in 1933 road deaths when a

or money is tor I can give personal evidence. They concern themselves with ush has begun. The total is all the girls.

lower than it was a year ago claimed. "You're the first, really." Janother, although

Uh, that's an awful libel, he c.tion of power

sometimes When I was staying in Johan- the cause of 1:500 deaths in the

the neophyte is merely a seekernesburg a little over a year ago early part of this year. More when the traffic was less.

my sister-in-law's black cook, That improvement will en-

after knowledge at first than half the total number:

old Maria, went sick. She com- were due to collisions of vehicles Courage the Ministry of Trans-

One Case

plained that she had been in Biggs: Haven't seen you for age, with pedestrians, a quarter to port to continue its campaign

great pain for many weeks and collisions between vehicles, and for greater safety. Nobody is old

I heard from оде, а ́an annual Higgs: Eve been in bed for two

poor displayed an enormous tumoar the small remainder to various prepared to accept.

woman who lost her husband below her breast The outstanding fact is death roll. of 7.000 persons as months.

Biggs: Sorry to hear that. Fin, I through his fatal curiosity. that in 85 per cent of the the necessary price of quick

suppose? movement. but we could not go

She wrote that he joined a Higgs: Yes: and crashed! deaths of pedestrians the sole

group who, under a harmless! or main cause of the accident back even if we would, to the

title, indulged in certain curious After a careful examination is attributed to the pedestrians mad conditions of the past

rites. Among the members the white doctor said that there themselves. That official find-The problem is to achieve rea-

sonable security without aban- The girl driver had been involved was an elderly woman with con- was little hope for her but that ing must be accepted with a

siderable wealth and soon he they would operate that even- certain reservation since, as doning mechanical traction. The in a slight mishap.

"What gear were you in at the came under her influence ing S the Transport Ministry itself investigations so far made me of the accident?" asked the in- dicate that such security de- points out the person killed cannot be a witness to the facts Pends largely upon the alert Yet the evidence available does, the commonsense and the show how serious is the lack of care exercised by the individual iroad-user. No amount of legis- road-sense among those who

lation or regulation can impart walk. Stepping or running into

these qualities, but without the roadway without looking.

them the degree of safety pos giving no attention to oncoming traffic while crossing, or coming sible will not be attained. into the traffic stream from be hind vehicles that mask their

for movements account majority of casualties that, with reasonable care. ought never to have happened

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

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The s.s. Mantua is due Similarly the pedal cyclist is with the outward bound English himself held to have been mail at 4 pm to day! wholly or mainly responsible

The

for 74 per cent of the accidents A dinner dance will be held at in which cyclists were killed. Repulse Bay Hotel to-day. That fact is the more striking last bus will leave Repulse Bay because the majority of cyclists 1 am

surance company's man,

a

Threw The Bones

Shortly afterwards his whole! An hour later the authorities- "My tennis frock and cardigan and nature began to change. From telephoned to say that Maria

Ja loving husband he became a had vanished. beret, was the innocent reply.

brutal wife-beater. These fits Ten days later, she appea of brutality were only periodi- just as we were starting dinner. cal and alternated with scenes She was grinning all over her The RMS. Empress of Canada of passionate remorse, during black, kindly face "I was left Vancouver last Saturday and which he implored his wife's scared. Missis, of all them white is due here on September 27. forgiveness. The "witch" ask-folks in the hospital," she con- ed him to leave his wife and golfessed to her mistress. "They were goin' to cut me up so I Marian Hopkins, the three year-abroad, with her. old daughter of Sergeant Hopkins. He refused, but gradually the slipped out and walked home to RA.O.C. residing at No. 32. Han-fits grew worse, and eventually my kraal The black doctor threw the bones for me an" all kow Road, was yesterday bitten by he disappeared. here a dog belonging to Mrs. Mason" of Another correspondent stated that terrible pain let me as the

the same address. The child was that her father had had deal swellin' went down."

It is easy to scoff but it is treated at the Kowloon Military ings with "the devil," and sold Hospital, and the dog was sent to her to Satan when she was still not so easy to save those mis- a child, "making her sign the guided creatures who have once Mataukok for observation.

pact in her own blood. She is begun to dabble with evil Like For failing to inform the Secre highly psychic, but she is never lepers they pass the scourges tariat for Chinese Affairs of the allowed to forget her slavery, on Unfortunately, there is no intending marriage of a register-Queer manifestations and evil little bell with its mournful note: horrors which stalk-invisible, them familiar with traffic dan Avery successful Whist Drive ed mui trai, Ng Tze-ha, a married forces perpetually operate into warn us of the unimaginable

-in our midst. gers from childhood. A large was held at the Cheer 0 Club last woman, Chán Tung-shi, was fined number of those who go on night At the conclusion the $5 by Mr. W. M. Thomson at the foot have survived from days Prizes were distributed by Mr. Kowloon Police Court this mor- when traffic was almost wholly Medina, as follows: Ladies: 1ing horse-drawn and have failed to Mrs. Cheley 2, Mrs. Medina, La- train themselves to the new eradies' Sealed number: Mrs. Sale of speed and congestion That Men 1 Mr. Williams, 2 Mr for which amounts, exceeding $20 Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 truth is reflected in the statis Atts Men's Sealed number Mir were received, two Chinese, NE hours ending at 10 am to day was tics showing that almost exactly Cox

Man-yung manager of Messrs: half of those killed are 55 years

Fook Shing and Company, of No. 0.02 inch. The total since

1 has been 61:41 inches, agai of age or over: Reduced phy The Dollar Steamship Line ad-72 Temple Street, and Tsoi Chau sical activity must in part, ex-vises that their round-the-world manager of Messrs. Tai Cherng inches plain this high figure, but in liner ss, President Johnson has and Company, of No. 130, Bonham adaptation to the changed char-been delayed, and will arrive in Street East, were each fined $10 by incter of traffic obviously con- Hong Kong next Saturday mornar WM. Thomson at the Ko

stead of next Friday morn toon Police Court this morniz tributes much to the death-rolling

uled. This steamer

are of an age which has made

If that be a correct inference it

gives hope for the future since is now scheduled

the newer generations familiar

with motors from their earlie

days and now gis

For failing-to stamp receipts,

sail for Man-

It is

Three cases of typhoid fever occurred in the Colony during the 24 hours enced Monday.

age an average

hard labour

of 70.92

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