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London, December. 12. daring project for constructing anding ground for seroplanes the centre of London, in the m of a huge bridge or platform bve the River Thames, will be bught before the Court of Com- on Couneft of the City on Thurs-

Sketch plans of this novel air- kirt have already been placed be- Fe the City authorities by the

ginator of the idea, Mr. F. AN orner, who is himself a member the Court of Common Council.

Passengers would approach the landing level by means of lifts. A control tower and offices placed at the side of the aerodrome would be the only part of the scheme to be. built over the land.

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At Thursday's meeting Mr. Horner New Postal Service

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That the City Lands Committee, in conjunction with any other ap- propriate committee of the Cor- poration and other competent aut- horities, should report its findings to the Courts. as early as possible upon the

question of erecting a landing stage or station for civil aircraft running parallel with the River Thames at a convenient ite between the bridges abutting on the City?

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, December, 12. new Post Office service for ex- press letters will come into oper- atlon on January 1, 1834. Express letters handed in at a post afce will, under what is to be known as the "railex" sevice; be taken by a M Horner's proposal is to erect telegraph boy to the railway station a platform supported by girders at instead of going through the sort- asuficient height above the Tham-ing office as at present and waiting es to permit ships to pass beneath. The entire width of the river would and the platform covered, would be a quarter of a mile in Bength.

The Daily Telegraph understands that the area between Southwark tand Blacktrairs bridges is consi-

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for the arst mail. A telegram will at the same time, be sent to the office at the other and post instructing them to collect the let- ter from the station and deliver it specially to the addressee. The sender may also, if more conven- fert, telephone to the nearest post ace for the letter to be collected. In the case of distances of a

The landing stage would be bullt on similar lines to those suggested | hundred miles and more this "ex-

by a famous air poineer, Air Compress" service may mean a saving modore C. W. Samson a few months of four or five hours, while in other before his death in February, 1931. cases the saving in time will be 'By these means, it is claimed, a sufficient to make the difference large landing area can be provided between delivery during or after tot Central London without the business hours. taking up of valuable City space.

The platform would be on a level with the highest of the riverside warehouses.

The fee to be charged by the Post Office is a flat rate of 25 6d. per letter for letters not exceeding two ounces in weight.

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BLACK MAGIC STORIES

"Spell" That Killed Mr. Justice McCardie

MAN WHO FLOATED OVER A A RAVINE

-Special Air-Mail Service

London, December. 12, Dr. Alexander Cannon, paychiatrist and research worker at the London County Council mental hospital at Comey Hatch, has been asked by the LC.C. to resign”.

The reason given is the publication last month of “his book, The Invisible Influence." In that book Dr. Cannon deals with hypnotism, black magic, and other occult selences

He investigated - their, practice in the East.

The omcial view is that any one who could write such a book is not suitable to practise Western psychiatry in a mental hospital.

"

WHAT THE BOOK TELLS

Dir Cannon in his book tells some" extraordinary stories, si

"The Invisible, Influence" is a made record of a journey he through India and Tibet with a Yogi, including a visit to the pat- ace of the Grand Liama.

A Yogi is one practising the Hindu philosphy, Yoga cult--a physical as well as mental, which aims at union with the Supreme Being.

"

Its devotees claim that they can prolong their lives long after the accepted normal span.

Dr.-Cannon asserts in his book that he saw astounding pheno- A fig tree mena reproduced. withered at 'a "man's command: a. corpse was restored seven years* to life.

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He claims that he was told. long before the event, how Mr. Justice McCardie would die and the year of his death.

"Mr. Justice McCardle," Dr. Cannon declares, was a victim of the great evil. Order of Left Hand.”TM

the

Here is his story of that pro- phecy, told to him, (as he explains) by the Grand Llama of Tibet.

AT LOGGERHEADS

A great and famous Judge of the

Occident did nearly seven years ago visit a foreign land un- der an assumed name.

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There he did get at logger heads with a man who was in reality a great black magician. When the famous judge was de- parting this great servant of the underworld threatened:-

In seven years from this day shall thy body by no more: a gun of old order shall fire thee out.of existence at my command; and world shall not know that it was not thy hand which took thy life. out my invisible hand from the great underworld.'

Thou wilt see the meaning of 'this soon.'

"And so it came to pass." „says Dr. Cannon. that exactly seven years from that very day the news- papers of the Occident blazed for th with the lamentable news that a great Judge had committed sui- cide.

the withering of the tree.

*

The raising of the man who had been dead seven years is told. by Dr. Cannion with a wealth of detall

The Grand Liama was on his throne.

Then entered a host of monks carrying huge. daming torches; and they, having seated themsel- ves in a large iirile, for, the room was round, still continued to chant.

The Grand Llama,prayed," and at that moment eight men enter- ed carrying a huge stone coffin:

stone covering-slab they: which did remove; and behold, we saw one who appeared to be dead.

"I was given the privilege of going down from the guide stu dard and examining the body.

"There was no puise, no audi- ble heart beats; the body was stone cold, and the eyes were as one dead for more than one day.

"I tested the absence of breath by means of a mirror, which die not steam, and the body lay ure- less as in the grave. *

"Then the Grand Llama utter- ed words in a language which was strange, and behold the eyes of the corpse opened; the body grad- ually sat up in its tomb....

"Assisted by two monks, it walk- Grand Llama, ed towards the bowed, and returned to its comu, not for one moment taking its eyes off the Greatest of all the anges; and in a few minutes the body once more lay lifeless."

"I wondered (writes" Dr. Can- non);" "whether this man were really dead, or only in a trance

state.

"The Grand Liania, reading my thoughts, told me that in fact the man had been 'dead' for seven years and that he would not he raised for another seven years

I was further informed that this man was some hundreds of years old, and may live for ever. If living it could be called.”

OVER SWIRLING RIVER

Dr. Cannon claims in his book that he has mastered hypnotism to the extent of being able to levitate himself without visible means.

He describes how he levitated

himself across a 'Afty-feet-wide gorge over a river.

It was the hand of the reati

He and his yogi compañlon were black magician.. For four-

on their way "through" the focky teen days prior to his death this fastnesses of the mountains to the

awakened great gentleman

almost inaccessible palace of the by a vision of two eyes aach morn-Grand Llama. ing at two o'clock. "

was wrong:

Was

it

"I was aware of this fact, and consoled that great man that it was of no import. This judgement for those were the eyes of the black magician who had kept his word: he had evoked the Angel of Death...

Grand "I had forgotten the Llama's warning, which was again telepathised after the event:-)

Why didst thou not tell him to be hypnotised so that the evil power could be kept at bay and he could be saved from an undus, termination of his fleeting earth- Ly. Kte?

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They came to a gorge 300 feet. high with a swirling river beneath On the other side, some afty feet away, was the guide whom the Llama had sent to conduct them to his palacé. Pra

They were at a loss to know how. to cross, but the Llama's emissary gave them instructions

Dr. Cannon, taught by these orientals, had mastered this unbe- Kerable art of levitation which he had first seen on the veranda of a friend's house,

The Yog had performed the miracle with 1: servant. He hyp notised the lad and then command-

water, that the water would rise, and that he would rise with it.

Dr Cannon writes of his friend.ed him to think only of floating on

(who "nightly 'Professor" left in the bed his body," claimed to be more than 100 years old, but looked forty). He was a devotes of Yoga

"In a few moments, to my a mazement, states Dr. Cannon, the subject was levitated at least

They walked one day in a vine-four feet. M yard, at the bottom of which was änaged tree

THE TREE

WITHERED

By patient practice and study Dr. Cannon says he has mastered the urt. It was by this means that he and the Yogi were instructed to cross the chasm.

"As he stood yet afar off

within the course of a few thus addressed the tree hours we had made our bodily state

Thou hast done well: thouat to allow of this great pheno hast comforted and protected my menon and in another moment of time, we both landed safely on the other side."

Now hast, thy time come to depart from this world of vanity and nothingness. Die, now, and come to die no more.”

He also quotes the saying of a man, certified as of unsound mind, whom he had, allowed to listen-in on one of the earliest wireless re- celving sets.

"To my amazement the tree did immediately wither, and I was allowed to go up to it and examine Its withered state, as were others

To-day in its place is but a Do you mean to tell me," said piece of barren. ground; to life the mentally alicted man, that whatsoever has taken root on the you cannot hear music in the air spot where it so long stood

Photographs were

token

without toy instrument?

actually have heard this music at will- -the camera recorded for the past Alien FOAR

Dr Cannon

Sunday EX- presso understands, has entered an official appeal against the Lop- don County Council demand for his resignation. H

I am bound by the rules of my profession, he said to a “Bunday Express representative. "I"can- not give interviews to the nawa- papera

Dr. Cannon holds the degrees of

·MA, M.D., and FRGA He is a member of the Royal Medico-Pay** chological Association, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a diplomate in psychological médic“ ine of the Royal College of Phy sicians and Surgeons. We

He is the senior” auttior of the standard medical text book, Prin- ciples of Psychiatry.", og d

Before he came to England Dr. Cannon was medical officer in charge of HM. prisons, Govern- ment pathologist, alienist and me- dical Jurist (High Court of Justice). and lecturer in morbid anatomy at Hong Kong University N

Dr. Cannon's book is published by Messrs. Rider and Ca.

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GETS IT STARTED A THROUGH AND STRUGGLES TO GRASP IT FROM OTHER SIDE, BUT ONLY PUSHES IT OUT AGAIN

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