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Consumers are requested to see that every bottle of 'John" Haig Gold Label Whisky as supplied by us bears the foot label "thus: "Gande, Price & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents for Hong Kong."

SOLE AGENTS:

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HONG KONG.

LATEST GRAMOPHONE

RECORDS

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(Music Department).

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GOODNESS TAM INSURED!

This might be your Car aud with you in it.

Insure against Accidents

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930."

DEATH RAYS IN. A

GARDEN.

PESTS DESTROYED BY ELECTRICITY. -

SHOCKS FOR "INSECTS.

SEEING WITH

CLOSED EYES.

SECRETS OF MENTAL TELEPATHY,"

This is the way (according to Upton Sinclaira book on Mental Radio "to learn the Erst lesson The amateur gardener of the in the art of conscious mind read- future, instead of using poisonousing," or mental telepathy? washes and messy insecticides to ward off insect pesta attacking his! roses and cabbages, will destroy his foca with potted forked lightning.

At least, that is the claim made by Mr. J. Neale, an electrical er gineer, of Southborough. Tunbridge

Wella.

When swarms of caterpillars änd

"First learn the trick of un- divided concentration. ...

To concentrate in this way you relax your mind and your body. Let go of every tense muscle, every tease spet, in the body... Drop your body, a dead weight, from your conscious mind.

"Then visualise a

or a vio familiar thing which does not arouse emotional brains Gaze, steadily,

green By invaded Mr. "Neale's garlet-some .pleasant

den, he invented the "Death Wand," and proceeded to carry out wholesale slaughter by electrocu-mory tion. An electric current was sent peacefully," at the chosen object- through the leaves and stems of think only of it-try not to let any plants and trees, destroying in its memories it may arouse enter your passage everything alive, excepting the plant itself.

Green Fly Massacre. A demonstration of the "Death Wand" was held for my benefit in my own garden (writes a Daily Express representative); where thousands of bloated "green flies and fat caterpillars gorge them- selves into a condition of blissful

coma.

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The following results were ob- tained.-

Mining maggots buried in the leaves of parsnips and celery shrivelled up within three hours.

A maggot in the core of an un- opened apple instantaneously elec- trocuted.

Dolphin (black aphis) on broad beats destroyed.

Green fly killed on rose buds after light massaging with the

wand.

While I was examining the leaf of a pear tree, M. Neale exposed the rays of his "Death Wand" to the opposite side of the tree; this caused me to make an involuntary jump three feet in the air.

"That," remarked the inventor; "is proof of the shock it gives to garden pests."

The

Voltage Control,

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mind.

The next step is to ask some, one to draw a half-dozen simple designs for you on cards, or og slips of paper, and to fold them so that you cannot see the contents., Place them on a table beside your couch in easy reach of your hand.

Relax!

. Turn off the light and stretch your body full length on the couch. Close your eyes and relax your body. Make the mind a complete blank, and hold it blank. Thoughts will come. Inhibit them. Refuse to think.

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"The next step is to reach for the top drawing of the pile on the table. Hold it in your hand over your solar plexus. Hold it easily without clutching it.

Then give the mental order to the unconscious mind to tell you what is on the paper you hold in your band.

"Say to the unconscious "mind, I want the picture which is on this paper presented to my con- sciousness.'

Then relax into blankness aguin and hold blankpees for a few moments. Then try gently, without straining. to see whatever forms may appear in the void into which you look with closed eyes. Do not try to conjure up something to see. Just wait expectantly and let some- thing come.

"This process must be repeated two or three times to see if the vision obtained is the same. "As soon as you have

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Baskets, containing most ap- petising Cold Tiffins and Dainty Teas, will be packed and wait- ing for you at any stated time (Sundays and Holidays in- cluded),

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Death Wand," which Mr. Neale bas already protected by patents, is a simple arrangement of batteries, insulated leads, switches, and earthing rod. Except for the arrow-shaped copper wand, the machine resembles an ordinary wireless set enclosed in a small box:

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In operation the current is switched on and the tips of the leaves and atera infested with in- sects are flicked with the copper wand,

ture.

HAT TEST IN COURT.

THE PRINCE STALKED BY HOW WOMEN TRY THEM ON.

MADMAN."

The shop-lifting season coincides TAKING AIM WITH A RIFLE. with the sales season, and no fewer

A story of how the Prince of Wales was stalked by a madman, with a rifle is now revealed.

The episode, which, but for the prompt action of a detective, might have ended in an Empire tragedy, occurred ten years ago, but it is told for the first time by Smith's Weekly, an Australian paper, and ite truth is vouchsafed by Mr. J. A. Fibelly, former Acting Premier of Queensland.

During the Prince's Australian tour in 1920 he went to Coochin Coochin to spend a quiet weekend on the homestead of the late Mr. E. T. Bell, a Queensland squatter.

Accompanying him was an un- obtrusive little bodyguard of the

Michael O'Sullivan.

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"MONTMARTRE FOLLIES"

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Coming to the QUEEN'S Shortly

The Shell-Shocked Soldier.

than five: women appeared on such charges at Marlborough-street police-court recently.

In three cases imprisonment was inflicted one case was adjourned, and one woman was acquitted.

In this case Cissey Arnold, of Church-end, Finchley, pleaded not guilty to stealing a 98. 11d, hat at Bourne and Hollingsworth'a.

It was stated that she put on the hat, and after looking at herself at three mirrors, left the shop with it on.

Outside she stopped, and looked in the window, and when an assistant accostell her, she exclaim- ed. "I didn't know I had it on."

Mr. Claude Hornby, for the de- fence, caused amusement by putting on the bat to illustrate the feminine custom of "trying on”

"Is this a real finished hat,, or a skeleton" asked Mr. Mead.

"It is finished hat as they wear them now," replied Mr. Hornby.

A shell-shocked ex-soldier-a man Mr. Mend said there might be subject to fit of eccentricity and,

a doubt in the case. The strong depression-lived acar. Mt. Boll's point in defendant's favour was homestead. He had never shown that she was looking in a window any sign of violence and little just outside the door. If she had significance was attached to the fact been a thief she would have made that be seemed to resent being kept good her escape. He discharged in the background during the Royal her.

visit..

But Detective: O'Sullivan's eyer

missed nothing, an

One afternoon, while the Prince

Creeping up the detective burled

and Admiral Bir Lionel Halsey himself at the madman, wreatied the were taking a quiet stroll in the gun from his hands, and dragged Unaware of his peril grounds of the homestead,: O'Sulli-him away van saw the ex-soldier shadowing the Prince continued his stroll. the Prince. The madman, was hold- O'Sullivan reported the matter to ang a fille and his eyes were along My Finelly, who considered it sz

suvdableptowalu óholepisod lie on account of the sensation (it would have caused.

the sights,

O'Sullivan only had a second to decide on his line of action. Should, It was not until the Prince was he shout and warn the Prince and two days steam away from Aus risk the madman" firing or should tralia that he was informed of hir he try to get the rifle away? He escape. In gratitude, the Prince sent the detective an autographed

took the second course. (Continued at foot of next column,) | letter and a tia pia set in pearls ---

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