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"THE" CHINA” MAIE, SATURDAY, MARCH 1956.

INTO THE TWILIGHT WORLD

I quat

us over,

In

scientifically evidence for this belief? has been the first aim present Inquiry.

la

the Research-tha That Edmund Hornby. of this any Is there

case

'of

Sir

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Sir Edmund had been Chief hard reason for supposing that Judge in Britlah consular in those darkened roulnis the court abroad. When he returned

return and talk? The from inles dead

tour of duty he need not concern brought back important evidence question religion. Assume the answer is for the psychle researchers. No. The negative does not deny

What little medium stood and looked

her front of Crucifix plowed luminously.

Near it were other a gilt Buddha, Star of David, ቡ of Gandhi, joured barst A were sitting, waiting but the dead to talk, in the Th room of a Victorian Lampe in Kensington,

Now the lights were wannel. I

corner the

In eternal the Christian belief

te-for that, in the opinion of many orthodox Christians. something quite different from the shadowy life of the neance Yet there are thesands room. of people, not Spiritualists, who cannot confidently answer No.

We all know the friend who went along to a seance just for wi-dressed lady organist the fun of it. He noticed

bushest her chordis.

Lovey thing

Cept for

Judy hlas.

www alent.

12 Ris Br***

Suddenly the medium demned over the glit Bud- da and began delivering ustages from the dead. She posted to A preti-

The scientists

move in to find

what happens...

matted wedunia kom frem of me: There's a man luere, quite well bus u will knotat

nitha, Friend,"

went to

The merman'a hand

huve a choking peeling. I think he TILLER have fikret him athing hard just before fe yo end end in front of me The gave at henkiest wagerly-

Casual manner

THE

coniinued.

riverstige..

The

medium

THIT

AD

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izance.

to rest

halt cockney towringt wits

down the

harrera o une unit the grave, But it was no casual it might

bevadensting

F

mess-

ages for Forres' Favourites.

Ber-haired lady here, Frend. Your mother, is it? Well. shen paying "All the best. Take cute of your self."

Outside.

The

a

In concise legal phrases he told how, he used to allow local editor to call at his house to collect written judgments for that day. Then one evening the editor failed to enll. Before he went to bed Sir Edmund hand- ed the Judgments to his butjer In case the editor came later.

During the night Sir Edmund was woken by a knocks at his

Comments one inverli- gator: "It is more likely that he did have a vision of the dend reporter, but the other striking details were added bit by bit until his memory of the affair had become com- pletely false,"

But a trick of memory cannot explain some far stranger episodes in the

of psychic onnala search.

re-

It cannot account for tho disturbing

case of the Re- verend John Whiteman. One December event ing in 3016 a Miss Thorpe

When

the dead

10:5000

seem

to

talk to us

Itat vagueness

was Berawled.

IT STARTS TODAY-the story of dramatic new advances

Another

persol

in the roum asked: "When did

The hand wrote: you die

A died about--so long ago 1 think about 50 years. I had no grave..

Other

questions

What x 1/2hr Bame?

makes.

in Man's endeavour to solve

:

the riddle of the Unknown

Drawn by ROBB

43 creator

yond, would introduce, departed spirits.

Thus, on an autumn day 20 years ago, while the afternoon sun still shone into the room. the investigators sat waiting.

Leaning back in her armchair, *Mrs Garrett WAS yawning repeatedly. Then lears started to trickle down her face. Next her Ups began to move, and finally a strango sing-song voice broke through them. "I give you

greeting, friends," it

WDS Bald. It

the guide, Uvani, him- self.

The atmosphera grow tnut, Úvani indicated that 2 spirit gucat wyns hovering unseen near the group. seo for the moment he began, and started to spell out

anne. The listen- era sat forward In their chairs. But it WEA not Cuanh Duyên nh which followed. "3>r>v»l>n=g$

said Lvant, or I-r-w-l-n."

Who

this visitor? The tense

was

unexpreted Iisteners were not left in doubt much

"

On this particular evening. however, the handwriting sud- denly altered. And In the altered style

spelled QUE: "Fear led me to do a very evit

longer. Suddenly the Uvani Thing. I cannot forgive myself."

*This lakes

us sing-song died

Mrs Next the name of a college he died in London, why did he Eileen Garrelt.

away in back to 1930, the year of the Garrett's throat and the volce have no grave?

death of Sir Arthur Conan of an Englishman-lhe voice, The Thorpe family made in- Doyle, who had once declared

apparently, of Irwin himself— college which that he would rather be known burst out impatiently At the quiries

Instend. had been mentioned. They dis- us

of Spiritualism The voice was Jerity, a founder

alurred, Sherlock difficult to follow. of that a John Wightman than covered

*Fabric's all had taken Holy Orders

there.

Holmes.

waterlogged," it insisted desper- Australia In out for

"Ship's follower had set

is down. nosc When he died two investi- ately.

to "White January 1800, and had sailed in gators decided to give him the Impossible

roise, cannot John Whiteman," What ship which was wrecked in the chance to turn up at a

con- trim..." did you do?

have Bay of Biscay. Old newspaper trafled would

They showed holly blow for Spiritualism. saved myself at the expense of were consulted.

there were only 19 another. "What was WOLLT Work

survivors out of 270 people that The seance was expected 10 practising the technique here? "I taught the Word"

there had been 12 sordid follow famillar lines. as "automatic willing" A eleroman? "Y" Then scramble for the boats. that at her home. Sitting Inertly, come the final question Tell among the lot of second class First, Mrx Garrett, a medium with eyes light shut, #he t her

pencil scribble aimlessly

doubt, would sink into a trance, bofore, the ginnt British name "John Whiteman." over the paper in front of her.

She would talk in what she ship. R101, floundering through The writing which resulted she

And the name of the ship believed to

of delving be the voice of gusts

rain. believed to be inspired by a puzzle? How could a clergy- itself? It was the as London. "Uvan, her Arab spirit guide. Jerked to earth and exploded friend who had been killed

try to save himself

Finally, turn to the strangest Then Uvani.

d kind. of In

In Northern night France.

Romwone else's expense? And If incident in the casebook of Mes ambassador in the world be France. In raging flomes 46 men died, including the air- ship's captain. The captain's name? Fight-Lieutenant H. C. Irwin

of the medium's door. It was the editor. Sir was messages; he woticed how she Edmund directed λείπε to the known

troped blatantly for cluca. Then, suddenly, amidst a streamer, but the man still entered the bedroom and walked to the of generalities supposedly from

foot of Sir Edmund's bed. his dend father, she blurled out

tiny detail,

the February night was piercingly cokl. Pit up and down the country in draughty hails, in shabby parlours, simi- lar meetings were taking place.

It was trivial, of course At me, pet dogs and cats something, say, about a put- were brought along to be healed terned watch strap which the by spirit power, at others, the old man used to wear, Yet ever sturils themselves appeared, since our friend has kept won- Vague vering fuces In the dering:

"Was it a coincidence? dark; or voice trumpets wera Ör was this really my father?" Jerked and tro by unseen What is the reaction, hunds; or a dead child sped of the scientific out of empty blackness to its', searchers to this kind of

parents.

Such things are as old as the earth,

When shndows man's first fire flickered

from

along

Even

the cave, there was already talk about ghosts and spirits today nearly every household has its private premonitions.

experience

of dreams corne true, of rappings which were heard just after uncle's dealk.

Bu! Spiritualisto. sprending from nineteenth century America, has sweat EXPLODCEs into a huge religion.

experience? What is the reaction of the men who descend on haunted

with infra-red

cameras and tapes?

While other scientists have been penetrating the atom, how far have they penetrated Into this twilight

world the

world where the dend

Hie face was terribly pale. He pleaded to be given the judg- ments by word of mouth. Eventually Sir Edmund agreed, and the pale-faced editor took some notes and left, was then half past one,

by Robert Pitman

noen to talk. where tho daylight laws of physics Are

all these

1ls own

cely ignored?

The time

AI this point Lady Humby woke, believing sho had heard voices, ale! her husband told

I

זיי

seauce And

strike

B

A disaster

an instant the whole thing

me where you died. Faintly passengers missing appeared the whose honesty WRA beyond vlous Sunday, just over two days

the pencil wrote "London,"

What could

TREE

this resolve

t

BELIEVE

her what had happened. Bull, the commodity that

Next mcrning ho the Army legend

learned that the editor

about it.

Rays

MP3 ask questions

hod never left his own baffles brains, is in the air house during the night again. He had been found at his desk, dead of a hear attack, al 1.30 am. The lust

entry in his note book" The heading "Judgments."

dis-

The Research Society's com-

found Sir Edmund' muttees evidence especially impressive. it has 1s own sects,

The research workers always With his life-long legal trains- hymns

If comts the famous preface their answer with ♫ ing be could obviously and shrewd such as Air Chler warning.

They point out that tinguish facts from Jancy. Marshal Load Dowding, such as

most of the evidence Is, in any Hannen Swaffer

Much less impressive was the - among Jt4

case, nothing like so remarkable sequel. Later in the some year bebevers.

as it looks af Orst.

a Mr F. H. Balfour wrote from Calno, where Sir Edmund had been Chief Judge,

And, though like any other

LLS

movement,

hus

Jupe- seekers, I is only rarely power- ed by the money-motive. As a religlon it gives comfort to millions in return for little more than pence on a collection plate.

The question

YET let us forget the rest

factories

art.

which

spirit

0 seance.

her

A widow attends She learns from the medium how her husband thanks

lie supplied some more facts for

the Rowers

she about the editor's death. The which placed b his coin,

he records showed that the editor how wants her to give up all plans

tans had not died in the night, but the for selling their house, how he between eight and nine in has been thinking about one or been worrying about judgments

He could morning. two little incidents from the for the previous day because on past-such as the time on holl-

that day there had been

a

who

no

nut

have

no

Young soldiers write home complaining it. But Is It about altogether a bad thing? One with considerable ex- perience of bull, thinks not: This is why:-

BELIEVED in Bull. Bull is fine

A

thing Bull to me is the won derful discipline imposed on a body of men when vival depends on a comTM mand being instantly.

IN

By ROBERT FINDLAY

THEY WANT TO SCRAP IT

THEY'RE WRONG I TELL YOU

IT MAKES AN ARMY OF MEN

AS

'BULL'

BUT

the

air-

had

While the fitters pleeed these facts together the desperate volée was keeping up its mono- logue a few feet away in the darkening room.

days, weeks, months, and years, how can you teach them to

A torrent of technicalBes react in the way a soldier must spurted out. The slurred voice to a situation which is intoler-spoke incessantly of "starboard able....that 13, bullets or strakes" of "disposable lift," of shells o bombs dropping on "cruising altitude" and "ore you?

"Two hours tried to capacity." rise." it protested, "but eleva- I remember another story-tor jammed. Almost scraped the another reason why I was not roofs at Achy." afraid for my son.

What cap explain this extra- ordinary seance?

I remember our ossoult craft running in to the beaches of Chaukype, in Burma,

craft ready to disembark. It days in an orchard. Civilians needed only one man to pante who did not know that victory Dawn was beginning to show, and trucks, armoured cars, and in war goes to the man who can A naik (Indian corporal) went all the rest would be running hold on one minute longer than pale. In his hand he had a into the narrow jaws of the the other.

Sur- craft,

It needed only one fool to obeyed disobey the landing dell for the beach to be clogged with men and vehicles, a sitting target for Panzers not far away.

I have had Bull. I had it in Catterick Camp when Bull at its height in 1940-1. Was

YOU SCRUB

WAT

you And,

Was it an unintentional fake? Did Mrs Garrett, with news of the disaster jarring in her mind, unconsciously reproduce details which she had seen in the press? It is true that the newspapers had been agog with the 101 tragedy. Yet up to that Tuesday hod boen no afternoon there technical account in any paper of how the tragedy could have been caused.

Well-informed

the

newspapers,

paper bag la case he was sick, I know the moment had come, And this thing called Bull

I pointed

to his boots and makes you do that, It makes

**When you obey the word of command. whispered:

did And, believe me, you can't wage clean those last, naik?" with conferences on in Urdu, "Bad show." whether to advance or retreat,

He did not need that bag. AND, unlike The difference between the The discipline imposed by train the Irwin voice which spoko DUT no one disobeyed. Bull victor and the loser is so slight ing, the obedience to command through Mra Garrett D dici that.

-the difference between prevented

oven sca-sickness, found to be amazingly well- why I wasn't afraid for my discipline as exemplified by Bull and he was ashore to meet the informed. A transcript of the

and carelessness.

Japs with

even message was later passed to the enthusiasm.

Although there was

an

officer at namby-comment,

RAF

oirship station who think a man is Cardington privately revealed

son....

I

Now you know

:

carly .one

HE SCRUBS

how!

hoto and

on, you

Was

chairman of the public melol

110

I did not appreciate it one bit at the time, but it saved my reason, Saved thousands ог And

the corroboration

by lives too. Lady Hornby? At the time there

My son has had experience

remember Lady Hornby of Bull. He did his National morning when I lumbered out to either, Sid Edmund did not get

So Il right, they will tell you married until three months later. Service in Catterick and then

I I was not frightened on sick parade at Cathepirator A What

Sir Edmund's Malayn,

that the Americans had pambles, response to this disclosure? The for him in the second place glasses, but the R.S.M. stopped less Bull than we had in the demeaned because he scrubs that nine-tenths of the informa- poor old man could only admit because he had been in the me. He condemned me to three last war. We did basaults in floor, or peels a potato, or[tion and comment poured that his memory had deceived arst.

nights potato bashing because divisional strength for which makes his surroundings look by the Irwin voice was either: I'll tell you a story.

had not a small kit for our Bull-less Allies needed a clean and decent On the accurate or else "most likely." hospital, and I traced his corps.

minimum of materials, genealogy back Khan.

day when they lost their judgments. beltofs of Spiritualists. Lel

If it is accurate, such in- 118 forget, too, all the enter

formation will

impress prises which their religion puils clattering along behind it. For- bereaved woman more than the had been

Investigator ket

the

studios which experienced specialise in spirit portraits, the knows that it could apply

hair the widows in the country, make trumpets ("luminous, alumin- And it is not only fond relatives lum, 21s.")

who make the investigator wary, Look Instead at the pillar on

The twilight world has Л which the whole structure has warping effect on the evidence him. Was he a conscious fraud? of the most distinguished people. It is not likely that he made up Look at an early case from the a story which could be so easily Bles of the Society for Psychical disproved.

been built. Look at the central question-Do the dead return to talk with the living?

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I SCRUB

to

Ghengle

I

think

the

at

одиве

ne

Another expert declared that some of the technicalities were known to only a handful officials, o! whom Figh Lieutenant Irwin was one.

And

sald.

It was the Bull of Calterick,

WE ALL SCRUB UR tank landing craft was

As I scrubbed barrack-room of Aldershot, of Salisbury that doing the run-in to the furniture, white-washed the steeled men to obey and not to beaches of Salerno in Italy at H backs of the stoves for a briga-

wanting when the TJOWL on, you' base wallahs, be found plus 30 minutes. The first wave dier's

a personal detai? HIS inspection, andi

who don't know that the added people who knew Irwin spent big moment came. way ushort. The enemy was hours boning my boots till they

difference between going into a

was often speech,

they alerted,

Field-Marshal shope like patent leather I

Cyprus wood after a terrorist er, slurred, dificult to follow reviled the world, the war, the is 99 percent waiting and one.

Montgomery once said:

What occurred on that autum hopelessness of it all.

and legging it for home is the afternoon? Did Irwin really

靄 percent action.... something difference between good return from the dead? Or what same like that,

soldier and a poor one,

other solution can be offered when mediums blurt out facts which are far beyond the normal reach of their ΟΥΤ

I looked round at the troops of 50 London Division. Grim, scorea, apprehensive, deter- mined, hoping their manhood would not fall them;

"Ramp down" was the cry, an as it fell the Arst shell struck the craft,

It was then that I blegred Catterick Camp, and al its Bull, for the discipline It Im- posed on the troops in that

JOHNNY HAZARD

SEE! THEY COME /

| SHALL I SHOOT THE

ONES ON FOOT?

Thousands were

ns I

WILS. Civilians steeped

"War

in self-pity. Civilians who So unless you keep men could not have survived seven keyed up during those weary

- THE MAN WHO BELIEVES IN IT MAJOR ROBERT FINDLAY, Royal Signals, served in Com- bined Operations Command throughout the war, took part is assault operations in the Western. Desert, Italy, Burms, and Malaya.

NO...WAIT! THEY MUST NOT DISCOVER

THIS PLACE!

THEY'RE AFTER THE STOLEN CAR THEY KNOW THE PAPERS WERE IN IT! THEN THEY SHALL HAVE THE CARMTHESE PAPERS ARE WORTH A THOUSAND HOT

VEHICLES!

I was not afraid for my son. He had learned to obey without minds? question. He had learned to be a soldier.

And Bull helps you - to` do that, So I believe in Bull, I is a fine thing.

By Frank Robbins

GROOTETMGET THAT CAR OUT

OF HERE/ DECOY THEM AWAY LEAD THEM A MERRY CHASE! BY THE TIME YOU PUMP IT, IT SHALL. HAVE COMPLETED THE TRANSACTION

WITH THE SPY RING

NEXT SATURDAY: Can Telepathy Explain This Phenomenon?

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel