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LEADER OF GANG IN

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be-

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the piracy of the scame the Espana, the Principe. Al- Tungchow last year, was last week fonso is now the Libertad, and the reported to have arrived in Shang-present Republica was originally hai with a band of 18 men. includ- the Reina Victoria Eugenia. But whose crew jing his chief lieutenant, Chen Yai-the Jaime Primero,

mutined last month, was not ace kai.

Ships Warned

It

GOLD MINES

MINES VALUE TO AFRICA

ENORMOUS SOURCE OF

REAL WEALTH

NO QUESTION OF RESOURCES YET BEING EXHAUSTED

(By J. B. McQuade).

According to communications re- of them. She is named after KingOLD, diamonds, iron, steel, accent. He might be mistaken ceived from Hong Kong by the James L of Aragon, who fought Four short words these. for a Scotsman though he was Typical of 71 per Shanghai police. Feng Ju and his against the Moors in the thirteenth But they are the key to 50 born and bred at Dordrecht in

years of stirring history, of in-the Cape. Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 22, 1936. gang left Bias Bay on July 18, century,

headed for Shanghai and with the Apparently he was considered too dustrial romance, of high en- cent. of the men who now win intention of staging another piracy remote to offend Republican sus deavour and calm confidence in the golden wealth of the Rand China Prospects sometime in August. was ceptibilities. But the Moors are the progress of South Africa. from the bowels of the earth. Rebel Let's talk of gold. Next he is not merely bilingual, but He speaks the pointed out that the information still a source of trouble.

the year that restless magic" city multilingual. China has to go a long way was obtained through secret police Moorish troops have crossed

sating heart, head and fount of nationalities, and several native yet before it can be said that channels in South China and that Strait, and are fighting on Spanish we call Johannesburg, the pul-tongues of both the dominant Politically she is a stable up to the present time. the pirate soil.

It is said that several of the it all, will celebrate its golden dialects as well.

These men have no doubts. entity; but there is no doubt leader and his gang are unaware

Morocco still jubilee.

the astrono- "How long will these mines They have seen that what political cohesion that news of the planned opera-joldest families in

hold as heirlooms the keys of the

of £1,264,554,805 When will they give mical sum there is in the country has very tions has leaked out

bouses in southern Spain and Por-last?

taken from this great gold field. largely been brought about by

behind out?** the political acumen of her It is understood that the mentugal which they locked

balf centuries! The question is on the lips of and they are convinced that, it It is

all who gaze” on this eighth is an inexhaustible as the soil principal leader to-day.

came to Shanghai by steamer and them four and a true that a large slab of terri-disembarked unnoticed. They are ago.

Most of the Moors believe that wonder of the world for the itself.

They express the

Ground For Faith tory in the north has been now reported to be somewhere in

S. of many ready to go one day they will reconquer Spain first time. filched by an aggressive neigh-the city, armed and

Everywhere is there ground

bour, but that process

of aboard whatever vessel they have and Portugal. When, in 1147, the unspoken fear

to see. Look around! gradual sequestration has at selected as the victim of their next Moors were driven out of Lisbon, African legislators who recently for their faith, if only you have tion of the Chamber of Mines. For fully 60 miles east and least been brought to a tem- big job. All ships along the coast many of them locked their houses inspected them. at the invita-eyes

not 27 It is Hopei-have been warned to take pre-jand took away the keys.

unnatural west of Johannesburg the veld The late Gen. Sanjurjo found Chahar machinations have cautionary measures while police

he thought to those who contem-is, seething with industrial life. fallen through the South-west and detectives are scrutinising and hundreds of such keys when

precious metal now flowing in under the eyes of nearly half a has accepted the principle of carefully searching all passengers finally subdued the Moors during plate this unfailing stream of A new Rand is growing up

South the de Rivera dictatorship. political hegemony with the taking coastal vessels to

If the Moors ever should return full spate over the land, inspir- million white people. Only China.

Headgears are going up and Central Government. Kwangsi continues to hold out;

The Tungchow, a coastal steam-jto Spain, the keys. it is said, ing fresh hope among the

use. The old people, and revitalising their shafts are going down. was might have some. and it is more than likely that!

to believe the the creation of new secondary the attitude of its leaders is not on the North China run. ja reflection of the opinions of Pirated when it was on its way to Coors were tremudously massive, trade and industry. They find smoke of tall chimneys reveals evidence of their eyes, in spite industries in the wake of the Chefoo from Shanghai with school and some are said to be still in it difficult the people. so

any children returning to their studies use. general policy of the people after spending the Christmas holi- In Spain and Portugal are often of all that has been said and mines. The existing townships and sprawling can be said to exist at all. The days in Shanghai Feng Ju, the to be seen front-door keys six to written about this modern El are bursting their municipal across the platteland. At the general apathy of the Chinese leader of the pirates, and his gang. twelve inches long. They are be- Dorado which King Midas him- boundaries

getaway and lieved to be duplicates of those the self might have envied.

For Forty Years

heart a gigantic new city ever populace to politics as such has made a successful been brilliantly analysed by

For more than 40 years faint bigger and ever higher is aris Dr. Lin in his "My Country and eventually found their way back to Moors removed.

hearts have uttered similar ing on the site of what 50 short Bias Bay.

doubts and fears. And every years ago was a tin-town min- time the facts have confounded ing camp.

Will the golden The alternating currents of the croakers. flood flow on for ever? I voiced hopes and fears of slumps and my own misgivings. Here is booms have, it is true, bred in the people of Johannesburg a the answer I got.

porary

halt. The

far 28

My People," and he has rightly insisted throughout his great work that what the country needs more than anything is abandonment of the system of graft and favour in return for some stability of law and order. derived from the fundamental: principle of justice for all mer! alike, untouched by favour and influence. Dr. Lin, it is true, seems to despair of the coun- try's ever accomplishing this

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

The Miraculous Escape ONRAD MERKHE, a soldier

ideal. He has only the most K in the 27th regiment, fighting

drastic and extreme measures

of

Your Daily Smile!

*

*

*

*

The

are

Candoar "That man wants me to lend him some money. Do you know anything about him

"I know him as well as I know you Don't lend him a cent, old man.”

"So long as gold behaves it- sort of fatalism which distin- self in an uncertain world, so guishes them from their fellow children. *No pets, no

and ne radio," were among the terms of anong will the mines last. There citizens in other parts of the It frequently finds no question of these country. agreement a South London tenant can be

A hundred expression in their daily philo- had to sign for the lease of a fat fields giving out. Before affixing his signature be years hence, when the youngest sophy towards life.

If you tell them you admitted quite frankly that he owned of you has passed away, the

very loud pair of mauve pyjamas mines of the Rand will be pro- nervous for their future they

ducing gold."

laugh at you. "If Johannes- The speaker was a tall, burg crashes, South Africa will to suggest as a possible means in the Peninsular War in Portugal and that his shoes squeaked.

advantage The bachelor has one. millenium under the command of the Duke

He crash." That is their attitude bringing the

(Continued on Page 7) nearer. But he nevertheless of Wellington, deserted in the Nobody uses his money to buy him brawny Mine Manager.

talked with a slow deliberate Coimbra, Portugal, gifts he doesn't want. recognises that the first step battle near towards this consummation is October 1810. He was recaptured political stability and cohesion-by a Portuguese regiment com- Colonel This is precisely what manded by the English Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Wilson, in a raid upon the city, is endeavouring to establish, by and was ordered shot by the Com slow, painful steps. They may mander-in-Chief. He was placed not always be uniformly before a firing squad, and six mus efficacious; many implications, kets were discharged upon him. for instance, of the New Life By an incredible miracle, all six Movement strike the outside muskets jammed at the same time observer as being prodigious and Merkhe was shaken but other- strainings after gnats while wise unharmed. The Included swallowing camels. among some of the unimportant against six muskets ineptitudes of the movement at the

made to are the bans on particular kinds thematically incalculable. Upor

being મ report ¡of female attire, mixed bathing.

Wellington, the latter quashed the smoking in the streets, and so on. Time and energy is wasted court martial procedings and or- on these stupid little points dered Merkhe reinstated, after the that might well be directed to latter pledgd that he would hence- honorable and the things that really matter forth act as an the question of political graft, valiant soldier..

the abolition of vice and the

same

time

chances

jamming

are -

drug traffic, the stamping out WEDDING DRESS CRITICISED

of all the varied forms

of

less The Bishop of Carlisle said at a conference at Kendal

diocesan

gambling that have hitherto been accorded more or official protection and support. Generalissimo Chiang has set that if he were Church dictator his new brooms to work in he would forbid the wearing of Kwangtung, and it yet remains formal wedding clothes at

to be seen whether they will riages in church.

sweep as clean as they ought

to.

But in order to have the

mar-

other 1than chance a sine qua non is that intransigence, the authority of the Central those of self-interest. Here is Government is supreme and an opportunity for what re- unquestioned. Hitherto, the mains of China to put up a semi-independent South-west solid, undivided front against has gone its own sweet way, foreign influence and, aggres within easy jand it is an open secret that sion. There is

the administration has not been distance a prospect of imprece- of the best and most dis-dented political cohesion: It is interested kind for the good of unthinkable that the people of the province as a whole. There Kwangsi, as opposed to their is now a real chance that the political and military leaders, Central Government will put should want to stand out from the South-west's house in order the rest of the country at their for it, and the opportunity will own peril. It is to be sincerely assuredly be welcomed by all boped, for the good of China as concerned except the vested a whole, that some sort of a reached interests who have waxed fat settlement will be

the final showdown by exploitation of the people. before

It is difficult to see what comes about and the country is possible grounds the Kwangsi plunged into the ravages of generals can have for their what will amount to civil war.

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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L.

MIRACULOUS

ESCAPE!

Konrad Merkhe of England

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