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THE CHINA MAIL,

Police Not Immune

To Black Magic In West Indies

Siparia, Trinidad, May 26.

Some months ago a workman clearing up in the public cemetery here for All Saints Day cele- brations found two frogs hopping about among the graves with their mouths padlocked.

The news spread quickly in this little township in the Colony's oil belt in the south and men, women and children swarmed to the cemetery to see this unusual spectacle. They saw, too, that the keys were still in the padlocks clamping the frogs' mouths.

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There was much speculation obtaining 5 Ed from a house- as to the significance of this un-wife by pretending that he usual sight and general agree-possessed supernatural powers. ment that some individual with a Ferguson, with four alias and case before the Court had 15 previous convictions to his

discredit, told padlocked the frogs mouths in

the housewife an effort to seal the tongues of that one of her neighbourt while hostile witnesses.

ic Briush Gulana had writion to

No one would touch the frogs Д mason took them home. until He undid the padlocks and in the mouth of one frog he found the five-letter name of a woman printed in the shape of a cres on a small piece of paper.

If not prepaid a booking fes The frogy of 50 cents in charged.

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This gave rise to a new idea, mouths had been padlocked, it was said, to bring about a reunion between two estranged lovers,

The case of the padlocked frogs has never been satisfac- torily explained, nor is it likely

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une thing is What the townspeople nspeople of Siparia saw in the cemetery was an expression of the Doiah (black magic, witchcraft) which is rife among the people of Atrican and East Indian origin in this island and which calculated to do more harm than good among the superstitious.

Obiah in. Trinidad is derived the practice of Obi, or from

Gold Coast witcheraft, in the and the man who practises 14 is, to, among generally other names, as an Obiah-mun, a look-man.or see-man. LOOK-

In the remoter

parts of the istand the Obiah-man with his knowledge of primitive medicine may take the part of the doctor at the bedside of the sick "but very often he falls for charlatan practices.

referred

They know that only too well In Siparia where Obiah is part of daily life. of the pattern Cases coming before, the local

Court, prove it.

case

SUPERNATURAL POWERS There was, for example, the of Emmanuel Rahemut. Gilas Rahamut Ali. All obtained money fro

from one Ramsingh by

that pretending

he possessed. supernatural POWITS..

Ramsingh had two Court summonses pending against him and Ali promised to have them dismissed. He asked Ramsingh to produce a fowl which had stopped laying. It must be crow- ing.

this proposition

Then he asked Ramsingh for five shillings to enable him to go to the graveyard at midnight. There, he said, by reading the Seven Books of Moses und'

e sprinkling dragon's blood on the graves he would get the dead to emerge and speak with him.

When Ali put to Ramsingh he had his bicyle

Pointing with him.

to the machine, he told Ramsingh: have the Seven Books of Moses on the carrier. Then he pro- duced two phials, one of which, he

said.

contained dragon's blood and the other human blood used in carrying out. his duties.

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ALL with a long string of was sentenced to

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幻 From South China Magistrate, Mr Evan Rees said:

Morning Fost, 1.4. Wyndham "Your supernatural powers

Street, Hongkong and Salisbury

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Hongkong, 27th May, 1955. »)

TO ADVERTISERS

will not help you here. It is

time you stopped going about

fooling ignorant people."

When

Napoleon de Silva, known

"healer," 3.5 a

ap- peared before the Court, he got the bereft of the doubt in a case in which he was accused. of lil-treating € brown bull calf.

The flashing of a detective's torch Interrupted Napoleon as he was trying to make the bull calf swallow a ball of molasses inside which were

Court -summons, a piece of paper with Magistrate's name on it. grave dirt, flour and other materials.

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Some

On this occasion, Mr Rees re- marked: “You must be a trickster. You say you can heal SUNDAY POST-HERALD |but I do not believe a word of Врасе for commerclat (that. People who practise advertising should be | Obiah are scamps." booked not Inter than Napoleon had to pay £4 noon on Wednesdays. costs.

Port of Spain, the capital,

For the BOUTH CHINA gets its share of Oblah, and

MORNING POBT and thể

CHINA, MAIL, 48 hours

· before date of publication:

Special

the Courts there get the back- wash.

Only a short time ago, James Announcements Ferguson, an Obiah-man caught

and Classified Advertise in a police trap, was sent to monta a UEUE).

prison for four months

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him asking him to "tie" (kill) her unborn child. He would "untic" the child, he said. but it would cost her "plenty money" As the was ◊ poor woman, he would accept seven dollars (about 35s).

HIDDEN IN HOUSE When he returned next day, police were 'hidden in the house and the housewife had "marked money ready to give the Ohlah- man. He asked her to undress saying that he was going to `give her bath. She took off her« outer garments while Ferguson sprinkled the contents of several phials into a bath pan.

The housewite handed over the marked money and Ferguson had read two psalms and was about to mart the ceremony when the police sprang from their hiding places and arrested him

After sentencing Ferguson to four months' imprisonment, the Magistrate, MN. R. Churchill Johnston, told the police. "You bave saved many housewives from the wiles of this man,”

Apparently, even the police cannot escape from the spells of the Obish-man- In two recent cases, both of a similar nature, in Fort of Spain, police wit- nesses were taken in" (ill) while giving evidence for the prosecution

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1955.

Somalis Petition

United Nations

NO WATER

IN THAT

HUMP

New York, May 26, An American university, pro- fessor has demolistied the

myth of centuries-old

the Since history camel's hump.

told began, story-tellers have

camel how the

could store water there to survive a week in the blazing desert without drinking."

DT

Later scientists claimed the camel drank great quantities of water and laid it aside in one of his multiple stomachs. Kmet Schmidt-Nielsen, of Duke University,

has proved both wrong.

He proved camels conserved every drop in their body tissues, Even in the hottest weather

They said it only in whispers, but they declared their illness was caused by black magic, they never lose moisture by China Mail Special

either sweating or panting,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHERE IS BALD MOUNTAIN WHERE NARDA GO

IN SOUTHERN

EUROPE, LOTHAR. A REMOTE PLACE

FERD'NAND

NANCY

NANCY SAID SHE'D BE HERE AT TWO

ICE CREAM

O'CLOCK

JOHNNY HAZARD

IF WE LEAVE IN A CHARTERED PLANE THIS EVENING, WE SHOULD. ARRIVE SHORTLY AFTER

-MONIGHT!

{

AN ARMY BRINGS A BOOM

the

A deleration fepresenting the 650,000 inhabitants of the

Protectorate Somali

have delivered

British Colonial Secretary + letter and the text of a Petition sent to the Secretary Gerveral of the United Nations Organismą – Hon, requesting UNO to refer to the International Court of Justice for an advisery opinion. their dimule with the British Government over the transfer of 25,000 square miles Somali territory to Ethiopia. The delegation. Sultan Abdarahman, Sultan Abdillahi, Mr Michael Mariano and Mr. Dubch Ali, represent- ing the Protectorate, Picture shows: Two members of the delegation at the Press con- ference held at the Waldorf are Hotel la London, They (left to right), Sultan Abdurahman and Sultan Ab- dffahl-Express Photo,

Dr

consista

of

of

US To Step Up Plane Output

TO AN ISLAND

OF TROUBLE

Nicosia, May 26.

Britain is spending some £75,000,000 in Cyprus. on plans for military, Royal Air Force and other development due to be completed in 1964.

A series of major projects, several of which have already been launched, will contribute to a build-up unparalleled in the island's history.

As the last and" only all-British outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus will feature pro- minently in the defence plans of the West in the event of another major war.

its future as Middle East defence

quarters in June

It will be the first time since of the Anglo-Egyptian the end of World War II that the Suez Canal Britain's Middle East air, land

a pivot of permanent

was 1956. decided long before the signa fure

apnserment ca

Zone. But the stipulated time- and Swa headquarters have table of evacuation of British

single been housed under a

forces frears the Zone roof.

accelerated the emergence

of

Сургия as a key position In the revised strategic pattern of the Middle East.

In addition to the "brains” of British forces in this aren being based at Episcopi, is has recently been decided that the The great Cyprus built-up divisional headquarters. 01 is being achieved in three British Land Forces in the closely co-ordinated stages: Middle East shat also be in

1 Military development, Cyprus, which is being implemented The divisional headquarters, under ten-year programme due which will control troops to be completed by 1964 and based on Malta, Libya, Cyprus, Washington, May 26.

custing between

£40,000,000

Jordan and elsewhere in the Construction Middle East, will be built near The Air Force said today that and £50,000,000.

this programme Nicosia, but its exact locality it will step! up production of projects under

already in hand include

has not yet been determined. some of its latest planes in view large cantonment, which is to

Also part of the military con" of

the recent Russian air power | house

Headquarters

struction

and programme British Middle East air, land goins.

which is well advanced and naval forces.

is the Dhekelia cantonmen eight miles east of Lamaca, where a fine British Army en- The cantonment, based at campment is going up. This is

miles west Episcopi, 10

mastal, in south Cyprus, will 1959. It is intended to base a of scheduled for completion by

become the perve centre of administrative and operational rigade of infantry permanent-

ly at Dhekelia.

Altogether, entire net control

Over the

will house not many Cyprus work of British military camps more than 10,000 troops, once and airfields from Malta to the

construction is completed, Persian Gulf.

The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mr Richard B. Russell, disclosed these plans after high Air Force officials had briefed the group on United States and Russian

air power.

EPISCOPI BASE

part

HAF DEVELOPMENT

According to latest indica-

2. Royal Air Force develop- tions, the rear headquarters of

ment comprising a series of British forces still in the Canal projects which will cost about Zone will move into Episcop! £15,000,000. The biggest of m the cutumn of 1955.

The

main

these projects is the new atom- headquarters, bomber

airfield

Low being Wee transferred

Mr Russell said that the Air Force Secretary, Mr Harold E. Adenauer Returns

there Talbott, "Indicated that would be some acceleration of Bonn, May 26.

our programme." Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor, re- Asked if that meant stepping turned here today from a ten-up production of such planes as day holiday in the Black Forest the jet B-52 inter-continental which and immediately called a special H-bomber, Mr Russell said, "1 Cyprus Inst December and have built at Akrotiri, on the tip of session of his Cabinet for to- don't think there is any question been temporarily based in and the, Akrotiri peninsula, south night.----Router.

THEY'RE OFF.

THAT'S ALL I HAD TO DO. WATCH "EM UNTIL THEY LEFT, NOW. GOTTA GIVE THE SIGNAL.

CAN I HAVE A COUPLE OF STRAWS, PLEASE?

GOOD AND NOW LET ME SPEAK WITH MY

LIEBSCKEN SHARI!

SURE

OH, SLUGGO~~-

AM I LATE ?

HELLO, LITTLE SHARI! WICKED GIRL..... RUNNING LAWAY FROM YOUR HUSBAND LIKE THAT! DIDN'T YOU THINK ID CATCH YOU?

I KNEW THAT YOU WOULD ~** EVENTUALLY!

about it."-United Press.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THAT'S ALL

THERE IS TO

IT. FUNNY

JOB--BUT

EASY MONEY.

3-15

HE REACHES

A MEADOW

WHERE A DARK PLANE

CIRCLES ABOVE--

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

~ERNE BUSHMILLOR

SLURP

By Frank Robbins

BUTAS OFTEN AS YOU BRING HE BACK...THAT OFTEN WILLI ESCAPE I HATE YOU ..... DO YOU

HEART. I HATE. YOU!

to

mear Niccola, will take up their of Lift phase of this all-

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

EMANIKI

GAZ

*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS"

DAIRY BOX

MILK CHOCOLATE

this situation

calls for

San Miguel

The

weather

airfeld which will handle Britain's latest-type bombers and fighters, is due to

this summer. be completed

Other Royal Air Force

projects include top secret radar instal- lations, as well as construction of married quarters and a hospi- tal.

Part of the development plan is also the expansion of the Royal Air Force wireless trans- mitting station at Heracles Camp, four miles east of Nicosia,

FIVE-YEAR PLAN

3. A five-year development plan drawn up by the Colonial Ofice. The first bint of this plan was given by the Governor, Robert Armitage, in his budget address on December 28, 1054.

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Full details of the new pro- gramme

have not yet

been published, but it is already on record that it will provide for the the construction of adequate barbour facilities in at least two ports of Cyprus Harbour development, costing Some £5,000,000 will be of such a nature as to cope with the re-

of the Royal Navy with those of the island's expanding trade.

To meet the greatly increased demand for electric power, fol- Flowing the transfer of head- quarters from the Canal Zone, the all-Cyprus electric grid scheme at Dhekelia will have to be expanded in the Immediate cost of nearly

of about

Zuture;

at a

£2,000,000,

не

overall

igure

£75,000,000 is only capital ex- penditure on programmes of strategic and civil development. It does not include the annually recurrent amount which Britain will spend to maintain her head- quarters, forces and installations on the island.

ESTIMATE According to conservative estimates,

this sum may anything up to £10,000,000 a

year.

of

be

Economists forecast a period

unprecedented prosperity for Cyprus over the next ten years,

as a result of the great build- and subsequently, thanks to up. the presence of large numbers of servicemen on the island. Sir Robert Armitage ported this view to some extent,

1. sup

when he

he said in his Budget

address: "The constructional projects of the Service Depart- ments (wth activity and

•produce). Increasing

which

of money likely to result In island

boom conditions in the

during the next few yeare,

The island's political highlighted

by the campaign for Enosis (Union with Greece),

does not appear to be point

of issue

far as

milltary planning is concerned. It seems certain that, whatever the political future may hold for Cyprus, it will have to

vide for the presence of British miliarised or strategie zones in

various

parts of the Island

There, it is felt, will prove to be of much greater value to the free world in the years to come, than the fulfilment of nation- alist nspirations in any shape or form--China Mail Special,