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"I Held Him For Tall, Dark Lady"

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DIVIDED POLO ALLEGIANCE

MALAYAN TIGER SUPERSTITIONS

HARDIER THAN ALL OTHERS

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INTO TIGER SHAPES

know THAT in Malaya tiger super-,and also that few can be pointed out that Mr. Winston T

stitions appear to be when a Sakai ceases to be. I Tuan Davies, aged 35, a stage Guest-whose American artist and sing demonstrator, of ality is now in doubt is of Eng hardier than all others. and have heard of several cases of will probably survive the Sakai being killed by tigers, but Brixton-road. S.W, and Winifred lish extraction. Maude..

Mcintosh. aged 26, a Very sensibly there has never longest, is an observation made there was, until quite recently, by. "Chewe" in an interesting a famous Sakai in Batang waitress, of High-street. Margate, been sny..very rigorous ruling article in the Malayan Forester. Padang, who, one night, had were jointly charged with abandon-about the national qualifications All this has nothing to do taken a spear and dealt single- ing a baby.

of the players Major Kirkwood with hunting, because I have handed with one which was They were found guilty and for instance, has played for Eng-neither the qualifications nor raiding his clearing. The each sentenced to six months' im-land and also for Ireland.

the indination to write any-tiger, too, is an even more" com- the wizard prisonment in the second division. Mr. Louis Lacey is another thing of the sort; nor will Istant familiar of Tension In Palestine Leave to appeal was granted and player of divided polo allegiance undertake to tell nothing. but than of the Malay peng

laccused were allowed ball

He has played both for England the truth. because I have, not] (magician), probably because not the latter has a wide choice For more than two months Passing sentence. Mr. Horace and Argentina, where he acquired the inclination-I will Palestine has been gravely dis- Marshall said: "You had only one his consummate skill at the game admit the lack of qualifications among the demons and djinns of

-to do that either.

Hinduism and Islam. whereas turbed by riots, shooting and cbject in view, and that was to

mere set rid of any responsibility for NO FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN In Malaya tiger superstitions the former must content him-- arson. What began as common crime the shooting this child of which you were the Not every first-class cricketer appear to be hardier than all with more material terrors

playing incognito has the success others and will probably sur- of his acquaintance. of Jewish travellers by Arab parents.

"You left a child only three of Sutcliffe. Disguised under a vive the longest. A sophisti Possibly the most famous of bandits in a roadside "hold-up":

has been fanned into a poli-weeks old where someone might or large moustache, he batted for the cated villager may jeer at the all tigers in Malaya was the one tical exhibition of racial hatred, might not have come and found it. Sherwood Foresters' sergeants in belief that the tiger will appear that haunted Changkat Asa as if you mention its name; yet, told in Maxwell's "In Malay and mob-violence has in its and whether they did or did not Jamaica.

Sutcliffe is said to have hit the at night in the jungle, the same Forests. As a matter of fact turn begotten that individual was apparently a matter of com-

which is the more plete indifference to both of you." first nine balls of the officers'lman will almost invariably talk this area. until a year or two terrorism

about binatang Found In Waiting-Room bowling for nine sixes. After he only

the ago, was frequented by a very dangerous in a semi-civilised

The charge followed the finding had come off in this emphatic animal.

substantial-tiger, which took a country. The Arab Nationalist

Proud Of His Power man every now and again. This leaders have succeeded in pro-jof the baby behind the door of manner, his moustache did Nike

Very few Malay peasants will animal hunted over a wide area, moting a state of "civil dis-waiting-room at Leeds New Stawise.

on Sunday. May 10. The

In one Sussex village they still even question the existence of and it was no easy matter to obedience" and have engineered tion

exceptionally well-laugh over the story of the local tigers, but most of their stories shoot him, as one never knew a general strike which affects baby was

visiting eleven which included an in support of the belief are too where he would turn up next. transport by land and sea and dressed.

It was stated that police en Australian Test player.-A. A well-known to be repeated here. "Only Kills The Wicked" is intended to affect the Gov-

and Mailey, as the tradition is handed I was once discussing the power One day I asked a local Malay Originally mairies showed that Davies ernment services.

of the Korinchi people to as-whether it would not be pos- aimed at suspending Jewish im-Meintosh, both of whom

His incognito was carefully pre-sume tiger shape, and a forest sible to obtain information migration and land-purchase for married, had been living together

served

guard pointed out a Korinchi about the tiger's usual round, an interim period of Govern-in Bank-road, Bootle, Liverpool

In a letter written by Davies tol

The home side, indeed, was so man who was present, telling but got the answer: "It is use ment enquiry, it has now ap-

Heless, tuan. This is no ordinary parently extended its objects to McIntosh he said:

"When you see me on the sta-aware of the great man in their me to ask him about it.

midst that when he went on to was very willing to talk. tiger, and in any case he only put a permanent stop to further!

tion (in Leeds) put the baby in Jewish settlement.

Jewish immigration in the my arms and I will go to the police bowl his dread googlies were hit evidently being rather proud of kills the wicked." past two years has quickened its and say, I held him for a tall, all over the ground. pace largely as a result of the dark lady while she went to the Nazi persecution, but the Bri-cloak-room Remember what this tish administration has kept means to us-a 2ood summer and the quota of immigrants con- perhaps years of happiness.”

On behalf of the accused it was siderably below Jewish demands and well within Palestine's stated that they had both tried to cently put us powers of economic absorption get the child adopted in Liverpool League of Nations. That the immigrants, old and and in Belfast, but had failed.

Tender and Tough wife, it was Davies's new, have made good citizens is

Waiter: "How can you tell an old heard of the now been acquainted with

chicken from a young one?" most strikingly attested by the had

of the

were down.

stated,

circumstances

restraint of the Jewish popula-the whole tion in face of the bloodshed of land was willing to forgive him. the past few weeks. But abun-

EXTINGUISHER

Trousers Form Part

Of Display

dantly as the Zionist immi- DEMONSTRATING AN grants have brought prosperity to Palestine and spread it' among their Arab neighbours, It would be unreasonable to ex- pect their presence to be wel- come among the older inhabit- ants of the country. New so- cial forms, new habits of life, new types of agriculture and buildings, and costumes strange to the eye of tradition spread themselves before a peasantry roated in primitive ways and a community of town Arabs bued with the new nationalism of the Near East. Yet at normal times individual Jews and Arabs exhibit a relation- ship by no means

unfriendly,

When Mr. J. L. Webb, assistant manager of a Cleveland (Obio) furniture company, was asked to buy fire extinguishers the sales- man offered a demonstration

A bonfire was made, a gust | of wind blew the flames to Webb's trousers. and he them off and took cover in the shop.

tore

Travellers report that sales re-

and in another generation the sistance in the fire extinguisher two peoples may well settle market is still strong in Mr. down amicably enough side by Webb's neighbourhood.

side. To yield at the present

time to agitation and violence? would assuredly be an ill turn

to both peoples. It would way

IMPROVING DANGER SPOT

A 26.500 scheme for improv-

stallise a temporary outbreak ing traffic conditions in High- of lawlessness as a permanent street, Lewisham. S.E, "one of substitute for civil government. the four most dangerous spots in London." was passed by the

A Pacifism That Would Borough Comell.

Make War Certain

PERMISSION TO MARRY

Pacifist propaganda has been An 18-year-old girl, who it was allowed its run until, with its alleged had been beaten by her call to youth to take up arms parents after making a court sp in no circumstances whatever, plication for permission' to marry, it has become a national danger.was given the consent and bless- Recently Mr. Duff Cooper ap-ings of Stratford. E, magistrates. pealed to the churches to.com-

bat doctrines that would leave installed in Whitehall, and, it Great Britain at the mercy of may be added, British conscript the armed. Last month the troops would be marching un- Bishop of London made ader the German officers. That is courageous and outspoken res-one aspect of the question. ponse. His speech at the Lon-Another is that if the causes in don Diocesan Conference put which the pacifists profess to into right perspective the need believe are to survive at all for England to be strong. If they will have to be defended the democracies are successful-against those who have no be ly to stand against the dicta- lief in them whatever. A weak tors they must be equipped to Britain would be absolutely in- deter and resist aggression. On capable of playing that part in no other terms can they sur-world affairs which the pacifists vive. The appeal to young men themselves desire her to assert not to join the army or the Now that the Bishop of London Territorials is an exhortation has given a brave and a realis- to a course that would make tic lead to the churches St may war certain.

be hoped that the palpit will be Had these been the teachings outspoken against the abdica of 1914 the German Emperor or tion of all authority the Herr Hitler, as Dr. Winnington affairs of the world which is so Ingram said, would to-day be openly advocated.

Your Daily Smile!

the powers of his compatriots. It is interesting to note, by "It is true,” he said, "that the way, that the sinister spirits my people can transform them of Changkat Asa, having been selves, but first they must drink exorcised by rubber planters, We sympathise with the dear lady water from the Korinchi river. have now taken up their abode who wanted to know if the defeat of Many of them, when they leave on Bukit Guba, near Kalum- Germany by England at football re-home, carry away a supply of pang. A old pawang used to at the top of the this water. I have none, so I visit them occasionally, and am limited to human form." may still do. so for all I know, This is the only time I have but no other Malay likes to go

water-drinking! (Continued on Page 20)

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Patron: "By the teeth." Waiter: "But, sir, chickens don't have teeth."

Patron: No, but I have some."

"Questly

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ritual, and he may have invent- ed it to account for his own limitations.

Sakai And Tiger.

A relationship between the tiger and the Sakai is presumed

A customer entered the shop of a to account for the apparent cockney bookseller and requested copy of “Umar Khayyam."

"Sorry, sir," replied the shop- keeper.

"We 'ave is "Billiad" 2nd 'is" "Hodyssey," but We 'aven't

"Khayyam."

DEATH FALL FROM TRAIN

John Burton, of Penge, London,

immunity with which these was killed when he fell from a people wander alone about the train recently at Crewe. According jungle, but a more reasonable to his wife, he left the compart- explanation is that they are re-ment to go into the corridor but markably agile in tree-climbing opened the wrong door.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

CAN YOU SOLVE IT?

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SAVED

FROM

FREEZING BY ICE

WESS MARTIN

WAS AND WAS

F THE UKIAH, Cald, ICE PLANT. ACCIDENTALLY LOCKED IN THE COMPANY'S ICE BOX

ORCED TO PUSH BLOCKS OFICE AROUND ALL NIGHT TO KEEP FROM

FREEZING TO DEPTH

JOWEGO,NI

MOTHERBYLI Ekzabeth Karby

UNITE

UNTIE

THE ABOVE WORDS CONTAIN THE SAME LETTERS BUT

MEAN THE EXACT OPPOSITE

"MOTHER AMY"

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