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This SOUNDS LIKE A BOGEY

STORY BUT IT IS NOT:

HEAD HUNTERS AND

LEOPARD MEN

Senator Takes

His

Maps To The Palace

and

"Unless vigorous measures are who had "gone native" and be about extending nailve einanel- limousine has driven through the the fashion for the Dembions.

Twelve times in the past three Whatever the weeks 27 h.", black Humber Princess Margaret wear will set

Queen taken to stamp out blackmagle, come the fanatical leader of a pation In the probability is that before the leopard society. Omeinlly this should pay

British West Africa rates of Buckingham Palace and will end at the century Africa will be fart has never been revealed.

attention to growth of this menace. The tertius Armstrong has elambered out

the 40-year-of Senator John Igna- Unter" dressmakera.

bring boum to "Down While condemning witch doc repulls of Liberia in dominated by witch doctors","

This grim forecast was made to form of the eve us agree that good reason why any such move-in.

pretty with an arinful maps of Aunship H.M.S. Vanguard prepares Down at Devonport the battle- me by a prominent British Colon- some of them have genuine pow-night would be disastrous, for ial offeint in Nigeria, with whom

there terrorists stalk almost, un- For hours, somatines carly in

the morning, sometimes the evening, the Scantor bag sal nn table with the Queen tracing the route they will King and take on next year's tour of New Zenland and Australin.

1 discussed the question of an outbreak of black magic in

* ionths ..... 11.K.$18.00 worst forms in West Africa.

6 months

One year

By G.D.K. McCORMICK

checked.

The sightest relaxation of oin cial vigilance would result in the Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the

terrorisk extending their aettei H.K.330.00 Gold Coast-lese are the black

tier to South Afrien and ever spots in British

across Kenya and Tanganyika. It H.K.$72.00 stons for the proves posser- provalence of virul-

sounds like a bogey story, but ulers. "I have known which 'doc-responsible officials on the spot ent superstition and criminal tors work Cures when our own will tell you that black magle is witchery, Despite all efforts to methods have failed," ruefully n social plague

black sunny Outt

magle, the men-eclared one dorter.

which could plurige u whole continent into nee, is a heute as ever.

Anyone who has any illusions chaos and ruin.

KOREA REPUBLIC At the beginning of the weck, a Republic claiming legal authority over all Korea

proclaimd in

was

The recent revival of the much red Leopard Men, terrorist Emanating in Northern soclelles, hag disturbed ofletals, Nigeria,

extends as far south as Equa- Seoul.torial Atrien. The membership of The United States was repre- these societies is growing rapidly. sented by General MacArthur because of the break-up of tribal

life.

with of-

!

Marshal Puppet Of Moscow

By lan Colvin

it

A

Inte

approved, and very soon Senator Now the itinerary has been Armstrong-Minister-In-Charge of the Tour-vill Australia with the plans.

By back to

Studying Maori

Citles, towns, villages in New Zealand, and Australia's six States adly await the

By Graham Stanford

cruiso

for

the "shake-down" which will prescue the royal

voyage.

After the South Africon tour the Vaniard win refitted ut Devonport and will now be announcement manned by Devonport mon. Full

of the programine. For nearly all complement is 751 officers, 1.715 have made a bid to receive the men, and there will be keen com- royal party; all wait the signal petillon to make the trip.

to go ahead with their prepara-

trons. Australia i expected to

end more than £250,000 on the i inur.

A Year To Plan

and recognition by the Chin..

The Leopard Men are criminals ese Republic was made by a who dress up in leopard skins and newly-appointed Ambassador. prowl the countryside in search In spite of the policy of of Astons. Natives believe they

In her private apartment at Very little work will be neces- Soviet Russia which still are witches, and are usually too

He Palace Princess Margaret issary this time: the saluting plat- Here is a pertralt of a mon in pance that there was no intenti terrified to co-operate

udying Muori. Her mother and form will be restoret, so will the isolates Koren north of the fetaldom to tracking down them with a pistol to interfere with

the alr cor-

ther are learning it too, and sun lounge and the royal party 38th parallel from the rest of criminals.

at his back. long cuties both ridor,

the Royal Family give themselves will use the same furniture that the country, Britain, the

distasteful and inescapable. Murder Is mixed with, Jack-

On the morrow he issued

fendly testa so that they will be was installed in their quarters for United

Wort States and China mail in the operations of the Lea former Allies from Berlin.

He is unter orders to this statement that the Soviet mili-word perfect by the time they the South African trip, as bestar aten. Tribul vendettas, vows accomplish that task he seems loss of life have now fullled

Totary administration regretted the chos

to make their first public In 13ucklugha Palhice un ad- emserl, but wither

*peeches.

ministration and clerical staff has they can the promise of in- onini officiat.... these are the monenten

of vengeance against some rol

have withdrawn. to his

Army two days the mask was on again, Margaret have not selected their four month rayal tour takes at

So far

the Queen and Princess tren working for the past Ave dependence given to the tives for the sadistic murders. heatonarters at

and and he was impassively asserti wardrobe, but there is an atmo-

for it is estimated that a We will at Nou Baba Korean population. The new

The real, danger is that tribol Marshal Vassili Dullovich Sten to the Russian fighter, adding

that the British liner had dive phere of quiet expectancy in the least a year to plan in all its state was set up as a result will ultimately disappear and Muslin Vassi

be replaced by utter

Ukrainian of that auatchy kolovsky of elections held throughout typifled by maraluling bands

Russian life had been lost. Norman Hartnelt I Mayfair.kes and dislikes of the Royal Even-carpeted, softly lit salon of detalls. of peasant stock. He is. erect and

Montgomery,

Information. on the Southerrt

personal when he dink May killers. Though nobody will com-seeing taller than his five font with him, did not push his remont Korea in

Work will probably begin next under the supervision of a

mit himself to giving an estimate ten. His square Jaw is running proaches too far.

and Grice

the Family in food, drink, and sleep- again The Soviet of the total number of Leopard to fat. Commission appointed by the Men, It is

a pleasant man-Marshal is only a forward pawn Je hus

grerets of the royal wardrobe wing has also been sent to the fairly certain that ner but is quick to violent lan- in the big game and he knows tresent Paris

de closely guarded. Trends at the Dominions. United Nations, The Soviet there are some thousands in Bri-guage to his subordinates.

He It..

shows are being The King prefera tea to coffeo authorities did not allow

lsh West Africa.

is saturnine in council.

enrefully noted.

for elevenscs: likes his own elections to be held in their

brand of tea. He also likes northern zone and did not Ometals have tried hord to Bud

Sokolovaly has risen from the

addresses of welcome fa be cut to allow the Commission to go a solution to the problem of ter- he joined in 1918.

ranks of the Red Army, which

the minimum. In 1944 he there. They have created a rorism and black magle.

possession of evil charms is

became Chlef of Staff Ukrainian People's Republic in which offence under the Nigerian eri

Front, and in May, 1945, he was all power is taken by the minal code. In a local police post

Chief of Staff to Marshal Zhu- Communist Party supported saw a large stock of captive

kov al the Battle of

નવા વા

Beriin. chorms....1pna' tails, monkeys Then he became Deputy MiI-

the Red, White, and { That is the brief political back- Royal Family will be called upon by a conscript army trained paws (supposed to make criminary Governor of Germany, under Blue Danube titil 1887, when ground to what has been hap-to make. and officered by Russians, als immune from arrest), powder Zhukov, and a year Inter a Mar- the first performance of Johana pening in Belgrade. During the elections in the for making people invisible....

Strauss's evergreen waltz turned Britain's case is that, in inter-

Thousands of applications from southern zone, there

these are tho were the wizards.

In September, 1945, Zhukov's Blue to all the world. Now national law, the Statute of 1021 People who wish to shake hands acts of obstruction and vio-

popularity with the Western the vituperative Alles lost him the faith of the manoeuvres to turn It Commun-off-shoot of the Versailles Treaty, tons from scores of organisations Vishinsky still stands. That Statute, an lessly sifted. So are the applica- with the King are being ruth- They Collect Human Kremlin. They removed him and

was signed in Paris in July 1021 Vassil Sokolovsky became the

Were wrangling with and

was name: a "Convention**

knowing Princess Mar- supreme figure in Soviet Ger- Tsarist Russia about the Danube Instituting the Definitive Statute garet's liking for dancing-wish

of the Danube"

her to their dance. The Crimean Wai set the Rus- it laid down that "navigation General, Mr. Fred Hackett, an- In New Zealand the Postmaster- Tool Of The Kremlin stans back in this matter with on the Danube should be unre

the 1858 Treaty of Paris, whichstricted and open to all flags on nounces the Soviet crented a Commission to control a footing of cnplete equality tampa còmmetortting the tour:

over the whole navigable course are also of the river."

isturs.

The

stock-in-trade of

Heads

many.

of the Soviet Union.

of

RED, WHITE AND BLUE DANUBE

It, was

ist Red.

We

back in the 1880's.

the lower reaches of the Danub

In Troubled Waters

In 1921 Germany, Russia, and

In Quiet Waters

It is history that under that

Was

tic institutions in the days 151,237 square miles and a ten- what he once accused the French munin. Hitler got Germany re- proving navigable channels.

tish rule that in a territory of nil that he is nothing more than Britain, France, Italy, and Ru-the Danube and creating and in-

on

35

*

for himself

kor

By Douglas Kay

On The Ration

Back in Australia and New Zenland offelals are rationing the

of number

hand-shakes the

who

to Invite

the

Aus

postage

a set of four

Australian printing presses preparing for special

And

lence by local Communists but polling was heavy and quiet and Communists got less than five per cent of the

Snid a police officer: "After a votes. A coalition of parties while we burn all stocks. It is al- known as the National De-ways a moot point as to what can:

be said to constitute evil charms. mocratic Federation,

He is a Hero led by

1sts change from time to time. Dr. Synghman Rhee, won an

Union, possesses the Order of Northern Nigeria is ruled for Lenin, and Order of Suvorov, overwhelming victory. Dr. the must part by emirs, who are Order of Kutuzov, is a Knight or Rhee has been elected Pre-advised by British Residents and the British Empire, has the US. sident of the Republic. He district offers under a system of Legion of Merit, the White Lion several others were thrown off

indirect administration. It speaks of Czechoslovakia, nud began his fight for democra-much for the impartiality of Bri-manded eight campaigns. But for Lional control was restricted to done. in rezulating the flow of

The Gauge Problem. com- the Commission, and interna- Statute much gend work

enough flags and bunting to put One of the difficulties is to get of the monarchy.

He car-million ried it

population throughout the races and religions, law and or

of various Military Governor of being a

up a show. Supplies of wool and Japanese occupation and as der are maintained

bunting made in Britain with only puppet. head for many years of the some 1,000 native polke and two

Vassili Sokolovsky cunnut take

calico made in Chinn and Japan National Government

decision inregiments of intive soldiers,

will boost Australia's depleted Besides leopard societies

stocks. exile he never ceased to press bandis of windering crimings His movements--and his words appeasement. Scon afterwards nid probably Rurala agrees with struggling

and Answer un invitation to dinner, instated in March 1938-a minor | It is the Western, Allies claim,

Australian railway offelals are. his country's claim to inde-nasquerading as witch

are worked out for him to the he had virtual control of

with the problem of doctors, are pendence. Like all his coun-fficialdom has to

the this too, that what Hitler last detail. contend with

whole river,

did the

continent's different

gauge such people

and gunboats of after he cast his sphere of infu- railways. Communications were trymen, Dr. Rhee wishes to pagan headhunters wiso refuse to

the Muntols, In the Control Council he sits the Royal Navy which had shar

ence over the Danube has no comparatively simple in South see Korea free of all foreign pay

with his brief in front of him. od la policing the river for 3 standing. It is the Western Al-Africa with the come gauge rail- taxes and collect Iruman

And rule but he is making no heads.

although a pensaut proverb years had to quil or two salts his conversation, the

lies' case that the Danube should way. Russia difficulties over the presence

substance

to be an international of his case

etune beck into the NY, as it wrs before 1940, with radio telephones, and Daim- Special trains will be equipped A British doctor told me some down-and beware it he devint Whirlpool four years ago when of United States troops in his

Is Jakl fantastic tales of his life in Bri-

Bessarabia freely open to uit maritime na ler and re-occupied

Humber cars will be country now that the actual tish West Africa.

The course of argument by

which gave her once again alons of the world, with a free- linked by radio. Networks work of political rule and

French or American representa frontier on the Danube and con- dum guaranteed by the major landlines "I should like to convince pep Lives

for broadcasting are economic

vest may have disposed of his development has ple at home that black magic is

his trol

of the vital port of Killa. it is his not only

Russin turn to

but final nations, and not just by one bloc. now being planned, is still there and, in- passed into Korean hands. emancipation, but a real threat speak, but he can neither omit cluding her occupation zone in would give the holder a virtual until the compltie

an obstacle to native case before

Absolute control of the Danube arrangements

will not be made Itinerary is While Northern Korea stays to the future of British adminis-no amplify his master's writ.

Austria and the Danubian terri-stranglehold on

on the

announced economic simultaneously

In in the grip of Soviet Russia-tration," he said.

becomes painfully obvious tories of her Balkan satellites, weu-being of the Danube nations. Australia. New Zealand, and Bri- the Republic looks to Ameri- on the decrease. Only the most some Kremlin accusations against the Danube's 1.730 miles.

"Don't believe that witchery is as he lowers his voice in reading she has control today of 1,350 nf

Freedom

of the Danube could tain. can arms for protection drasile measures will keep it in, his

have a

a major beating, too, on the Aim of

the organisers is to good friends, General Sir

From Enna in Austria to the rehabilitation of against any risk of a Com-check

Western Ger|show the royal party what they and from spreading Brian Robertson. and Lucious Black Sea no munist attack. Most of the throughout the continent.

-vessel sulls Clay

naming them faster parents Danube without

the many. A canal links the west- want them to see and to "give heavy industry established in lysing its hold on the

"I have spent much time una- of Fascism and reaction.

natives. With Sholto

Soviet Rhine-Hitler planned to make liminary plans have had to be Korea by the Japanese and The secret la its hypnotic Influ-friendly,

Douglas he was viewpoint is that at the end of it a super waterway, but other drastically pruned and as it the sources of hydro-electric ence. Leopard men, for instance. Russian books to read. His owners of Danube vessels, steamers, flow of goods would help West- from

him what the recent war mest of the own matters intervened--and a free stands the tour will be for power are in the north but but become so obsessed with the Wells are in Russian translation them high up the river in the

sturt off as deliberate criminals, excursions

a holiday. into Dickens and tugs, barges, tanaged to two-thirds of the people are cult that in the end they belleve and he has only a smattering of

Altogether the royal party will havejern Germen trade.

Vishinsky, well briefed on the cover 10,000 miles by ship, plane, in the south which produces themselves to be animals.

American Occupation zone Berlin position, does not forget train, and car. most of the food and goods "The hypnotic influence is not

English.

where they repain.

that point.

Genial

Secretary (to Senator for consumption. The north ceptible

always confined to natives. Sus-

Armstrong) Seedsman says the King and Queen have shown an could not support itself at all hypnotised by displays of black to the translater, "Do not use red

extraordinary knowledge of Aus trollan geography even to the Wide Open Spaces. There's been nothing formal about their sp- proach to the programme. They take an interest in every detall”

Norman Hartnell's manager cheerfully antys he "hasn't a

without Soviet assistance and

left to themselves, the people would no doubt join the Re- public at once.

Danube Farce

Europeans 'are often

magic so that they come to be-

This

and toki

He said to Sholto Douglas once in council,. "That is a red her. ring." As on afterthought he said

in any derogatory sense." leve and even dabble in it.""

There is evidence for this in the fact that

There was no need to do so, had become short time ago, for "zed herring," when a "leopard man” was "deviation" in the translation, caught and executed, it was dis Marshal Vasalli has several covered that he was a missionary political advisers, of whom no- body rightly knows whether they are political commissars in uni- form, or genuine soldiers ilku

himsel,

The main objective of the Russians and their partners titude of the Western Powers at the Danube Conference to the convention. All three table in Belgrade has been Powers refused to serve on

When Generat Pierre Koenig to establish that the 1921 the General Committee into gave a house party for the Al- Convention was "past his-which the Conference trans-lied commander-in-chief In tory". Another

Baden-Badan, Sokolovsky

was

she

D

Chlef snag approvat.|ern tip of the Danube with the them a good time." Even so, pre-

the

COMMUNIST PUSH INTO SHENSI

were pushing westward

and

drobe will be....yet!

ant

Shanghai, August 21. Nationalist armies are trying to stop a Communist clue about what the royal war

striko into Southern Shensi. They have succood- The Admiralty say that boi- ed in recapturing two towns and were pushing cause of the tour the Vanguard will be a non-stirter in the Home toward two others today, Government reports Flest cruise to the West Indles. said..

There has been ‚ some 'dimculty'.

objective formed itself and it is now the only one not allowed to at-/took Yuwangchen and Chiao-chou

Government troops reportedly under Red General Kung Tau- about berthing the Vanguard at

Melbourne, Brisbane, ISPECIAL NOTEBOOKING AGE however, has been to keep | scarcely conceivable that the end. Yet it, was simply an oc- taochen and are driving for from the Shensl-Honan border/Adelaide. Vanguard apparently draws more water than King the Western Powers at the Americans any more than the caston of courtusy, with hunung Tengcheng and Hoyang. Teng- an end tight towns on the George V., which served "Down conference table until the British or French, will take and balls,.

border--Shanghan musle and peerless cheng is 80 miles north east of

Ching- Under willf the British Pacifo bitter end and so to legalise part in the actual signing of wine.

Slan, capital of Schnst. Hongchien. Both are small places Fleat during the war. if possible the inevitable the convention as it stands into the Control Council on Mar-

The taciturn Marshal atrode vang is 10 miles farther away. But the border is only 29 miles and do not appear on'most maps adoption of the Soviet Draft A point worth noting about ch 20 and declared "as an organ drive on the other two was the

Itecapture of the two towns and from Slan. Convention. If clarity were the whole course of the con-of supreme authority in Germany. first initimation

east of Yenching In-Chobar, 40) needed on this point, it was ference was the Russian in the Control Council has ceased in munists had seized them,

that the Com.

Chahor Claim miles north-northwest of Pelping

Headquarters said supplied by the stress. M. slatence on the virtues of a fact to exist.

a similary Apparently the Reds in their Reports from Pelping 'wald drive was in progress ngalant Vyshinsky laid on the fact majority rule. Doubtless this his Babelsberg residence. It was grabbed four strongholds and

He withdrew from Berlin to first sweep across the Lo River, that militia was later reinforced ficds west of Huaijou in Northern that the addition made to the admirable sentiment will be there that General Robertson had probably several others in that

by regulars west of Changhalan Klangsu province where Nation convention in committee had recalled during some future to seek him out to obtain his as-

tien, routing 2,000 Reds in the alists were trying to clear Reds been made. "on the basis of discussions at Lake Success, wurance that the Gatow air cis-

south western · subucha of away from vital canals. A Shun Fao despatch from Sian Palping.

The Government. Has combined 4. number

of American where the majority rule has aster did not forebode interfer- described the situation, there ar Fu Teo-y's headquarters sald two defence areas. They will amendments". Last-minute been consistently, blocked by ace with our 'r safety corridor. "ease". That's usually the Chi the Reds suffered heavy casual be under the leadership of additions of this kind could the use or misuse of then the shadow of that dienster nose press way of saying the Redstics.

Marshal seemed deeply have the upper hand.

Ceneral Chau-en with head- not change the general at veto by the Soviet Union shaken, and gave a simple assure press despatch said, four brigades National were pushing back Reda Press, kr

Another Headquarters also claimed the quarters at Hwaiyin, Assosiated

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