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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21st, 1928.

ABDEL KRIM IN

·

EXILE.

HOW HE LIVES, IN REUNION.

ONLY TWO WIVES WITH

HIM.

By J. RocER-MATINI] who escorted on his way to caile the rebel leader, who for more -thun two years defied the curbined military strength of France and Spain in Morocco and threatened for a while to urinuse a widespread Jorden rising in Northem Africa.

Abdel Krim, one-time master of the Rif and the man whose hardy mountaineer tribesmen reached the

HEALTHIER CHILDREN.

TALLER, HEAVIER AND CLEVERER.

FEW ENDERFED.

England is breeding a stronger, larger, and better future "genera- tion than at any previous stage in its history.

Definite evidence to that effect is net out by Sir George NewmLA, valet medical officer, to the Board of Education, in his annual report Henses his conclusions on a the medical officers of educational long serves of tests carried out by authorities throughout the country Children

atending elementary

the basis for the

very gates.of Fer before they were schools resical results recard

hurled back by the French in one of the fecest series of engagements since the Great War, is supporting his banishment at Saint-Denis, in the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean with true Oriental patience.

The Sultan of the 'Rif?! took with him only two wives out of his drumerous haram. They were his favourites, Facinia and Akha. His other companions in exile ure his rother, Mohammed, his uncle Abdeslem, his mother, and his two sisters, and the families of his brother and his uncle During the long voyage from Casablasen, the chiof port of Mordevi, to Réunion,, n soo wis born to him, so that he now has diren sons,

tests. The

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d by them, however, are substan- tiated by examination of boys and girls secondary school. Thevarage mental alert, and public mess of children, too, is higher than at of a decade ago.

"The English child is growing. in stature and in weight," declares Sir George Newman.

Boys and giris aged eight and twelve nt Chatban have increas ed in weight by an average of three pounds between 1915 and 1926, and the average increase in girls aged twelve has six pounds Eight-year-old children

Torquay-comparing with 19-have increased one and a half inches in height and two pounds in weight.

Jut

1914

Marked Improvement. There has been a stendy improve

BRISK DEMAND FOR THE REJECTED PRAYER BOOK.

PAPER-COVERED VOLUME THAT WILL BECOME RARE.

OVER 100,000 AT PRESENT.

One of the mars old books in years to come will be the deposited edition of the reviset Prayer Book. It has no claim to artistic merit, and only boasts a paper cover.

Is pitce is a. 6c, but it may he that collectors of the future will sign cheques for big sume for speciftens of the book-maybe with is temporary cover tarn

publisher ist February, was al- There are two slightly different versions of the book. The first.

fered and wevised, and the second appeared in March Of this, three editions were published by Mesars. Eyre and Spottiswoode alone, be firms priating the aides the caput from the other two new Prayer Beek-the Oxford University Press and the Comiat dge Deriversdty Press,

Bought By Collectors.

The demand for these books has sentative was told at Messrs. Eyre become very brisa." a Star ropre. and Spottiswoode's. "Collectors and book-abops all over the world are applying for them, and soon the third rition will be sold out. Many thousands have already been soll

bound version of the new Prayer A still rarer volume would be a Book, as prepared in anticipation of its approval.

Abdol Krim's brother discarded his Moorish attire as soon as the ship reached Marseilles, but Abdel Krim himself did not adopt Euro-

A Long Lock-up." pean clothing until he reached Re-it in the height and weight in edition was prepared in sections, None exists, however. The email unien. He is living in a country towns as widely different as Cam-teady to be put together. house rentyd specially to lodge bridge and Liverpool.

When him, and which has been samewhat and girls leaving school in Liver lag type and

The boys the demand for this had abated, hastily dubbed the Chateau de pool have shown the most marked editions would have be printed. more expensive Maurang In reality the house ha thing of a castle about it, weight and height at industrial print will be repulved

improvement, The increase in Now the paper already bearing the but consists of only a ground floor places, such as Tynemouth and Bad a first floor with a vegetable Wallsend, has been particularly garden, an orchard, and a meadow striking. adjoining.

How long it will take for the Aurviving few of something over London shows the same good "reis problematical. It is almost cer- 100,000 copies to become valuable cord as the provinces. An inquiry tain that the purchasers will not was made in respect of 30,000 Lop benefit to any great extent by their don phdren. They showed a de investment. finite rise in the height and weight figurys rompared with the pre-war standaad.

How He Learned Frosch., His rat'enre was to furnish his now home as confortally as pos sille and set his wives and His family at their case, When he left Moroco he know only the radi- ments of the French language, but

There were further collateral ex he has set himself to study it deup- | perimmaros, Medical examinations ly, and to-day he speaks it as +7 made of 31,301 buys and of duently as his brother, who is re-719 girl having school in it nowned as a good French scholars found that only to & per "Abdel Krim's two elder children rent, showed malnutrition, compar attend the local college every day, with 19 per cent, ju 1913; and They speak the Chieuh dialect at 55 per cent had defective teeth, home, but the rest of the time they

as against 4 per cent. in 1913. Converse fluently in French with

COMPARISONS. their French playmates.

Comparisona

Interesting But though, Abdel Krim now dresses in European clothes, he made by Sir George Newman

kacen characteristics, revealed by contians to observe the customs of phutigmphs of children taken in his country, and the fullest free-London to-day and photographs of dom is allowed him in this respect. 180. These give the following He has made the acquaintance of A large number of people on the

differences: island, and he often passes long hours with his friends, the most intimate of whom is the lieetcant

of gendarmerie.

The former if chieftain spends. a great deal of his time enkivating Iris gardien, which he is doing with no le success. His two wives,

his mother, and his two sisters take frequent walks in the country, but always dressed as Arab women, though without their faces being veiled, which is the custom with the Chleuth women, to which tribe they belong.

When Shall I Return? Whenever Abdel Krim chats with his friends in this island wile the subject is always the same

When shall I be allowed to re- turn to Morocco ?" He "strives very day to wipe out the past and prove his loyalty to France and explain what he can do for the peace and prosperity of his coun- try. Though the medium of the Governor of Réunion he has writ ten numerous letters to M Steeg, French Resident-General in Moroc co, and to General Mougin.

In

his letters he strives to impress faith in his luyalty to France and his desire to return to Morocco. - Däily Mail,

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JANUARY 22ND, 1928, Third Sunday

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Preacher Bev. W. B. Cannell,

Evensong at 6pm,i-

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