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N. SZECHUEN' ROAD PIRATES ON THE UPPER

SHOOTING.

JAPANESE SOLDIERS SNIPED BY CHINESE.

BRITISH ARMOURED CAR

INVOLVED."..

Just before midnight on Thurs- day night last week, says the North China Daily News, parties lurking in Chinese territory, of whom some are sleged to have been Southern soldiers, opened are on. Japanese marines on guard at the Dah Tuh Lae alleyway, Shanghai, near the, Odeon Theatre and also fired shots at a British armoured car which came up alter the shooting had coma- menced. The fire was returned and the Chinese gunmen retreated..

As a result of this incident 700 additional Japanese, marine were landed the following day from the cruiser Tukuma and are now billet ed in the Japanese school, North

Szechuen Road Extension.

The British official version of the miniature battle is to the effect that two British armoured cars were

YANGTSZE.

TUTANKHAMEN REVEALED.

TWO STEAMERS LOOTED BE MERELY A DECAYED MUMMY.

TWEEN CHUNGEING

AND ICHANG.

CAPTAIN NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH.

JCHAND, March 201 The river between here and

Chungking bids fair soon to become as notorious for pirating as is the West River. During the last three days two ships have been very com "pletely looted, writes a C. Daily

News correspondent.

The frit was the Woo-shing, be- longing to the San Feh Co., and new ship. She went aground dur ing the first day out from Iohang and was bearded that same night, other was the Ping-fuk, a Chinese and everything of value taken. The owned vessel, but sailing under the Italian dag. She left here late in the evening and anchored for the night at Pin Shan Pa, the Customs station in the Ichang.gorge. About 11 o'clock two large sampana ar- rived alongside in which were 6

requested by the Japanese to throw and soon they were busy at their nefarious work. They seized their search lights" dawa Burchet Road, which is a road running at signer on board, and tied his band's Captain Ollansen, the only for

right angles to North Szechuen

behind his hack, and he thought his Road, they did so and were im-

end was near when he saw three mediately fired on. The ire came revolvers staring him in the face.. from four rifes.

His belongings were all stolen, and, when they had finished with the ship, they took the Captain on shore, as he supposed, to kill him However, one of the pirates spoke on his behalf and they afterwards released him, and he brought the ship back to Ichang this morning. There were two Chinese killed, one of whom was a military officer, and one wounded seriously in the head. The local authorities sent way troops this morning to try and get the brigands but it is easy for them to disappear into the hills.

Two Chinese Casualties. The British fired four rounds of machine-gun fire" and two Chinese were 원판습니다 to fall The Japanese manned the post and fired 160 raands. One Japanese marine was wounded but there were no casual

ties to the British and no damage

sustained by the armoured cars,

The Japanese have taken over the Odeon Theatre, and now about 200 of their number are quartered in that place.

some

After that night's activity, Muni- cipal Police, raided a number, of houses on Range Road, thought to have been occupied by Chatoneso and others by Russian Reds. The raids began about 4 P and lasted until nearly dark.

It is understood in official circles that these raida are not devoid of

good effects. They bring inte efect a strong suspicion, on the part of malcontents, that the forces of law and order are on their trail," that they cannot continue with their neturious practices,

Hongkew police station, the busiest station in the Settlement in charge of Inspector Mackenzie, will have action in the near future, is

CHILD WELFARE WORK- IN SINGAPORE.

EXCELLENT PROGRESS

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Under the presidency of Lady Guillemard the annual general meeting of the Singapore Child Welfare Society was held at Gov ernment House, and there was a representative attendance.

TRAGIC TRUTH.

Before I left Egypt in 1923, writes. Mr. H. V. Marton in the Daily Express, I stood in the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen and saw, through s hole cut in the wall of the entrance

chamber, an immense golden shrine ying in the dark of na inner roont and filling it from door to ceiling. In the heart of that shrine, as it was proved later, lay the gold coffin of the king.

has been asked for the last four All over the world the question.

years: "What was the mammy of the king like? What is the full

story of the discovery? What met

lifting the gold id, they gazed at the gaze of the excavators when, the body which had been lying of the Dead ?" secure for 3,300 years in the Valley

..

Problem Solved:

These questions are now answer-

second volume of Dr. Howard Car- ed fully for the first time in the

ter's "The Tomb of Tut-ankh- Amen" (Cassell and Co.). Since distinguished author has added to the frst volume was printed the

his name the title of "doctor" of Yale University.

The truth about Tut-ankh-Amen, as told in this book, is tragic. The body was, in the words of Dr. Car- ter, "in a terrible state." The excavators expected to find the Pharaoh almost as perfect in pre- servation as on the day 3,300 years ago on which he was buried Anu how well founded was this hope. Had they not held the very funera! wreaths in their hands. Had not the frailest objects defied the ravages of thirty-five centuries, lock- ed away, as they were, in the very

bowels of the earth 1.

The tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen was soaled, so completely that no bac- teria existed there. Scientists who took swabs from Hoora.. and' walls; found them sterile.. The dried shells of insects such as spiders and beetles which had been locked up in the tomb 3,500 years ago, were discovered in the dust. No life in any form existed, amd decay had been, to a marvellous extent, ar- rested. How reasonable then to suppose that the body of the ran for whom this hiding place bad been devised, lying in the last of three tightly sealed coffins, sheeted gold, concealed in a nest of three, beavy shrines, would be perfect in its preservation.

Disappointment.

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Details Of The Work, An address was given by Mrs. Ferguson Davie, who said that in 1925 over 5,000 visits were paid the number of visits was doubled.

The attendances at the Telok Ayer centre reached nearly 6,000 against 4,300 in 1925. The attend antes at the new centre in Jalan Desar were 6,587 in 1926 against 1,063 for the last half of 1925,"

He was glad to say that 43 per cent. of the children seen were un- der 1 year of age, for the younger they were the more good they could do them, the more good they did The Rev. Mother Isabel Sequeira, In this connection he mentioned

them the happier they would be the venerable Lady Superior of The that over 90 per cent. of infants St. Anthony's Convent, Middle seen at their clinics had been Road, Singapore," on April 2nd, Chinese. calebrated the golden jubilee of her The Secretary of State for the profession as a Nun of the Cano- Colonies in commenting on the 1825 sian Justitute.

MOTHER SUPERIOR'S GOLDEN JUBILEE.

FORMERLY IN HONG KONG.

Born in Macao 74 years ago of annual report of our Medical De- Portuguese family, she took the veil partment, had expressed his hearty

appreciation of their work. at the Noviciate at Hong Kong when the was 21 years old.

cavators as, in well understood A disappointment awaited the ex-

the third gold coffin, preparing themselves to see, as Dr. Carter Bays, with the eye of reality that which we had hitherto beheld only in imagination."

They discovered that the royal mummy had decayed. The body had been soaked in sacred oils, and these in the course of centuries had not only charred the linen bacdages and destroyed the embalmed body forming a hard, black mass, in beneath, but had also oozed out, which the mummy was firmly em- bedded. Thas the sacred sites per formed thirty-five centuries ago by the priests of ancient Egypt with the object of preserving the body of the king had, in the course of time, proved its destruction.

Lady Guillemard's Work, He could not conclude, he pro-rewarded, ceeded, without referring to the great loss that they would shortly sustain by the departure of Lady Guillemard, the founder of the Society.

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place in the world frcer from risks Despite the initial disappoint than the tomb. When it was open- meat, the investigators were richly ed, scientific research proved it to After five years in Hong Kong,

The king, decayed, be sterile. Whatever foreign garms she was sent to Timer, Dilly, where

brown and charred, lay literally there may be in it to-day have been she put in 30 years of work, even

smothered in charms and orna- introduced from without, yet mis- A gold diadem bound hischievous" people have attributed tually rising to be the Lady

ments. Superior, and in the same position

head, gold sandals were on his feet, many deaths, illnesses and disasters she was transferred in 1919 to Sign

and each toe lay in a little sheath to alleged mysterious and noxious where she has remained ever pore,

of gold on which the shape of the influences. Public Health. zince.

toe nail had been cunningly mould- "Unpardonable and mendacious Dr. Dawson referred briefly to The Rev. Mothers from Macao infant welfare in its relation to

ed. The Egyptologists who looked statements have been made in vari- and Malacca came down specially public health in Singapore. The at the face of the Pharaoh immedi as quarters with a sort el mah- for the celebraticas. On Saturday

ately saw there p remarkable resem- cious satisfaction. It is jadeed dif morning in the Convent Chapel a mortality of all infants in any blance to Akhnaton, the heretic scuit to speak of this form of

munity was always high and it was

ghostly cahimny with calm. If it high mass was performed by the said that this was the most sensi-king whom Tut-ankh-Armen succeed- Vica: General of the Portuguese tive index of social welfare and ed. He was a young man, between be not actually bellous it points Missions, and at the conclusion & Te sanitary improvements that they the ages of seventeen and nineteen. in that spiteful direction, and all Deum service was held, attended

The appendix to the book-a les sane people should dismiss sach in- by all the pupils and parents and The municipal organisation in son in scientific archeology-contri-ventions with contempt." friends of the Convent.-The Singapore was confined in its in- buted by various men associated in

Curious. Incident. Straits Times.

fancy Alteen years ago to a staff the preservation of the tomb trea

In the course of the book Dr, engaged in the supervision of the sures contains a report on the Carter tells how, in an attempt to work of the native mid-wives with funeral wreaths by Professor New-

melt Tut-ankh-Amen from the AMBULANCES FOR FRENZIED

which he the object of lessening the mortality berry, from which he argues, from

ENTHUSIASTS. of infants in the earlier days of the time of year such flowers and solidified unguents into

bad become fixed, the munday was life.

berries blossom, that Tut-ankh- With the better training of mid- Amen was buried, between the carried up to the Valley of tho Kings and placed" for several

A frenzied, scene occurred at wives, this work had now become middle of March and the beginning hours in pan temperature reaching ball at Nandy, where the dancers of less importance, and in recent of April 3,500, years ago i

as high as 140 deg. Fahrenheit (65 would have nothing but the Char years the work had been extended

deg. C.) without any success,... leston to include the periodic visitation of

Dr. Carter has some pointed ze That businesslike statement is to The musicians acquiesced and in- all infants up to the age of one year. There were six European marks to make, on "The Curse of me, and, I think, to any one who created the time, until the parti maternity sisters and eight Asiatic Tut-ankh-Amen and the stories understands the importance of the cipants were carried away like sisters now employed by the Muni which became current when the late sun in Egyptian life and in ancient Dervish dancers. Waiters, attend- Lord Carnarvon died in Egypt Egyptian theology, an unforgettable anta, and those who had come to cipal Commissioners.

The Pharaoh of Egypt watch became affected with the wild Continuing, he dealt with the It has been stated in various picture.

to the floor. conditions under which some chil-quarters, he writes, "that there meeting the sun again after thirty-rhythm, and took

When the excited musicians could are actual physical dangers hidden ve centuries of the Under-world, dren were reared in cubicles, and in this direction, he said, there was in Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb-mysteri- and Re, the sun god, refusing to continue no longer to play for the

ous forces, called into being by some awaken him!

frenzied dancers, four ambulances room for big improvement, w

malefic power, to take vengeance The body of Tut-ankh-Amen has removed fainting, and injured marr on whomsoever should dare to pass heen replaced in this sarcophagus, and women. Four of the dancers were taken to hospital suffering its portals. There was perhaps no and will, says Dr. Carter, remain i

from dislocated knee joints. the tomb, (Continued on next column).

MR. GANDHI HAS A STROKE.

APOPLEXY CAUSED BY OVERWORK.

BELGAUM, March 29th, Mr. Gandhi, who was suddenly taken ill at Nipani, is now better. The doctors who examined him are of opinion that Mr. Gandhi has had a mild stroke of apoplexy, due to high blood pressure, as a result of continuous overwork, and have ad vised him to cancel his South Indian programmes,

The blood pressure continued to be high throughout yesterday, but Mr. Gandhi insisted on spinning, and wrote an article in "Cow Pro tection for Young India."

He expressed his own and Dr. Hunter's appreciation of the work of Lady Guillemard in the advance ment of infant welfare in the town.

Thé' ** durse."