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UP TRAINS

STATIONS 2180 # Jalosan #1, #| No. 13 No. 14 No, 16 Mo.10 No. 18 F6.25%«M NOM NOM

Kowloos. 16:40 8.05 8.50 1.08 9.1510.00 12.10 1.16 1.35 1.53 2.45 40 5.60736

Yazmali.Dep. 8,49

Rhatin...Dep. 7,01).

Taipop. 7,15

Taipo

Market Dep. 7,21

Fanling Dep. 7.30- Barang-

0.2310.08 12.18 1.93 — 2:41.

7.3810.2019.30 1.35

6310.33 12.43 1,48)

9.810.87 12.47 152

(10,1010,47_12,57 2,02

3.08

3.10- 3.20

I

4,88

11066.68214 5.04 0.18 8.09

5.09 6.17 8.18 6.18 8.97 8.33

shai..Dep. 7,859.079.43 10.15.10.52 1.02 3.07 3.25 3.84 5.236.83 8.27

Burm.

OVER-POPULATION IN EGYPT.

NILE INSUFFICIENT FOR GROWING NEEDS.

BIG RECLAMATION PROJECTS.

Egypt owes its very existence to the Nile, that extraordinary ribbon of water which flows for three thou and miles through the arid deserts of north-east Africa and decorates them with a thin cordon of vegeta tion to which the Delta of Lower Egypt is appended like a triangular

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volume will be ensured, but the remaining 8,000 million cubic metres can only be obtained by carrying out the other two projects mentioned.. The present Govern- ment, deeply concerned by the pressing needs of the country, are extremely anxious to carry out the Sudan chemes, resRest of the political issue, burrationalists reservoir at Gebel Aulis, about. British regarding guarantees question the good faith of the the White Nile, the cutting oftion of the Gebel Awlis for the use thirty miles south of. Khartum on offered for the excluave reserva- canal through the Sudd region of of Egypt. They believe that upon the Upper Nile, where half the flow one pretext or another the British is lost in the marshes and by will take the water for the use of evaporation, and finally the can the Getira cotton plantations in struction of a gigantic barrage at the fertile territory south of Khar- Lake Albert which would be thereby transformed into a vast natura re Nile river

tum between the White and Blue scryol. The Gobel Awlis reservoir million cubic metres of water which are to be reserved exclusively for the use of Egypt.

Sure the problems which the

chun... Arz7,41) 8,45; 9.13| 9,51|10,21 10.58 1.08 2.189.05 8:315,30 1,39) 6,88, 8.33 jewel. The volume of water at vi produce an addition 2,500 Eyptian nation have to consider.

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10.25 11.27 11.49 8.09 4,89 5.47 6.18 6.40 8.50 10.41 |11.35 3,15 44 5.54 | 6.23

#Tipo

10.87 13.11 3.415.00 5.00

11.14 --- 12.50 8,49 (8,17 8.28

6,57

present obtained from the river so longer suffices for the growing needs

of a population which has increased from 6,800,000 in 1882 to 14,000,000 in 1927, and is growing at the rate of more than ten per cent. every decade,

It must be remembered that the area of habitable territory is limit ed to the Delta and the narrow strip on either side of the Nile itself, and this territory is easily the most densely populated of any

...Dep. 7,44 8,31 10.34 11,01) -- 11.18 8.26 5.04 8.32 Bhatin

7.57 8.44- 4.Dep Yannati...Dap. 8.11 866- 11.98 18.43 401 | 5,29 6.38 Ros!oon ...AT: 8.17 9.09-11.00 11,3242.07 12.49 4.07 5.30 6.44 7.00 7.20 7.83 country in the world with about

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The Egyptian. Government have also virtually decided upon a fur- ther heightening of the Aswan Dam by which a similar additional

Further delay may mean within another ten years,

famine

On the other hand how will delay benefit them, for in the end the works must be carried out, and willy-nilly those works will be in the hands of the British in the Bodan.

WITCHCRAFT TRIAL IN AMERICA.

150,000 PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN MAGIC.

MURDER FOR HAIR.

1,600 inhabitants to the square mile. In another ten years it will prob

New York, December 9th: Investigators who have been mak ably be 2,000 to the square mile tounding revelations of the preval- ing inquiries during the past week There are, however, about 4,000,000 ence of so-called witchcraft and found a general belief that a fitch acres of land awaiting reclamation, which would relieve the pressure of among the 150,000 residents of York key hung down the back stops bleed pow-wow" Necromancy rites of bacon drives away warts, that a population, and one-fifth of the County, Pennsylvania, and the ing at the nose, that linen taken existing altivated area

is still neighbourhood have been made in from a body.reduces swellings, and awaiting the introduction of peren consequence of the investigation of that pulling child backwards | nial irrigation works permitting the the recent murder of Nelson Beh- through a fullest exploitation of its resources.

bramble bush CUICA but neither of these developmentaly as a practitioner of black magic.

meyer, aged fifty-nine, famous local whooping cough. can be commenced until more water is obtained, experts estimating re quirements at 14,000 million cubic metres more than the present

supply.

There are scores of other such John H. Blymyer, aged thirty-cures," which must be accom twe, a rival worker in witchcraft, panied by the pronunciation of and his away you have been mystic words or the display of secret arrested and necused of the murder.aigns for efficacy." One of the prisoners it is alleged, confessed that they killed Rehmeyer in an effort to obtain hair from his head for burial behind a chicken house in order to cure an evil spell" which Rehmeyer was accus- ed of casting over Blymyer and the family of M. J. Hess, thus causing household discord.

Lonely Farmhouse. The murder occurred on the night of November 27th, & Rehmeyer's lonely farmhouse in a suburb of the city of York, following a terrible struggle in which Rehmeyer resisted efforts to cut his hair.

witchcraft guides The Sixth and The witch doctors" use 49 Seventh Books of the Magical Spirit Art of Moses" (sometimes called The Black Art Bible"), and the Himmelsbrief," .or Heaven's Letter,"

Special Bank.

Few of these volumes are in circulation, and possession of them therefore gives special rank in Pennsylvania witchcraft circles.

The Claims Of The Sudan. Whence is this water to be ob tained 1 Obviously only from the Nile, but the flow of the Nile in Egypt has been augmented to its utmost limit already and nothing further can be done in this direc tion. Only by the construction of irrigation works in the Sudan can the necessary supply he secured, and this is the problem which has been agitating Egypt for the last ten years, for the Sudan is, controlled by the British

beside whom Egyptian authority in that country ix but a shadow. The Egyptian nationalists are still agitating for. Blywyer, who is waiting trial,

complete independence as an in- herent right of their nation, and they fear that the British might be able to reduce the water supply from the Sudan in order to cooree

Mr. Lu Zech, the coroner who the Egyptian nation into submit: investigated the murder, declares ting to British domination. That is that three-fourths of the population revelations. Efforts are being made America is greatly stirred by the the real reason for the long delay of York County believe in witch- in the construction of the irrigation craft and practise now-wow" by Pennsylvania civic bodies to works in the Sudan planned as long sites. He asserts that Ave infant devise means of stamping "out the

is quoted as saying, "I did not ex- pect to kill Rehmeyer, but now I no longer feel bewitched. I can now eat and sleep."

Blyroyer denies the accusation that black magic secrets have been passed to him through generations of ancestora. He declares that he Emma Knopp, of Mariette, sear was taught," pow-wowing" by Mra.. York, aged seventy, a wrinkled, witch-like dame who looks a hun- dred, and has but one remaining tooth-a long, sharp-painted fang.

age as the beginning of the present deaths during the past two years are sorcerers, but prosecutions

century, when the long-sighted traceable to black magic. British Foreign Office concluded a

York County's early settlers were treaty with Abyssinia in connection Germans, and their present-day das condants still remain under the spell of medieval German necromancy. One of their sacred words is said to be corrupt German for

with the construction of a barrage at Lake Teana, the source of the River Atbara which irrigates the cotton-growing district of Kassala where millions of British capital have been sunk in recent years.

Dams. And Reservoira,

As far as Egypt is concerned, however, there are three principal Projects in the Sudan by which the Nile supply can be increased name- ly, the construction of barrage and

witch.

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are

seldom successful. Almost any jury summoned to hear cases in York County contains believers in witch- craft who make guilty" verdicts more difficult.

The city of York, the capital of York County, is a modern muni- cipality with handsome buildings, "Pow-wow" doctors abound in and is a wealthy centre of a fertile the neighbourhood, having thou-agricultural region, yet witch "pow sands of patients, who have un- wow" doctors ply their trade ia bounded trust in their charms the city equally with the country "Pow-Wow is a North American districta, where almost every farm- Indian word, apparently adapted be house is said to be tainted with be cause of its mysterious sound. lief in witchcraft.

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Boxing Tournament, Theatre Royal.

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