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SEALED BOX X-RAYED

CONTENTS REVEALED IN PHOTOGRAPHS.

JUNE 11, 1927.

"BAGS" IN SACRED PICTURE.

GIRL'S PAINTING ON CHURCH WALL.

Joanna Southcott's box, which has been sealed and clamped since A modernist painting on tho 1814, was X-rayed before n gather-wall of All Hallows Church, East ing of psychic exports in London india Docks, E, le arousing keen last month.

discussion among the congrega- tion. The painting, which is not yet completed, covers about 50ft. of the side wall and is about 8ft. in height.

The X-ray photograph, which was developed immediately, re- vealed a heterogeneous mass of articles lying in the box which Included a tightly-rolled scroll of manuscript, a bead bag, an old horso-pistol, coins, rings, articles which looked like children's tops, and a dark mass in the corner which resembled nothing so much as a rabbit's akull.

The box was placed underneath the X-ray apparatus. A crackle was heard as the current was started, and in five minutes the negative was held up to the light for everyone present to crowd round and sce.

LAND OF “NO ONE KNOWS"

WHY ALBANIA'S BUDGET

DIES..

Tirana (Albania)-The politl- cal position of Albania is still dangerous because of the want and misery of the North, which presents a greased plane, so to apoak, for insurrection instead of opposing to it the unscalable for tress of popular contentment. But Tho artist is a girl, Miss Evelyn In its own order, and also since in Dodgson, who started the work great part it is now responsible two years ago. The scene will re for the continuance of the politi- present Christ addressing the mul-cal situation, the financial condi- titudes on the shores of the Lake tion of the country is as danger-

dus too. of Galilec...

.

A figure which has provoked To cope with the threat of re- much comment is that of a young volt, the men of the Dibra clan man in wido Oxford trousers, and have been called up, not as sol- what appears to be a brown coat.diers but as a species of recognis- Their task is to A second figuro, also wearing Oxed freebooters." ford "bags," is holding a horse.

The women are dressed in long loose garments, not of the conven- tional Bible picture type, but not easily classified as belonging to any particular period. The cen- tral figure of Jesus has not yet been drawn.

No doubt the artist has reverted to the idea of medieval painters, who often introduced into thefr pictures of Biblical subjects per sons attired in the costumes of their period.

The undoubted presence in the box of a horse-pistol is curious in view of the fact that one or two of the mediums who endeavoured to "sense" the contents spoke of having received "signs of war."

Mr. Harry Price, director of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, who made the photo- graphs, said it was quite possible there were other articles in the

Rev. C. J. Horsley-Smith, the box not shown in the X-ray photo-vicar, said to a press reporter: graph. Papers, he said, might be affected by the passage of time Miss Dodgson gave us a talk on The picture. She told us that the and not come oul in the photo-scenery was taken from a loch she graph.

know in Scotland, and that Jesus A new and piquant situation would be represented in conven- Агове at the third X-ray test. tional dress. The picture was The negativo was very much started before I arrived at this clearer than the previous ones, parish. The artist has done no and a series of wires lead work on it yet this year. ing

the the trigger of pistol, which is lying across the bottom of the box, could be seen distinctly. The question arises: Did Joanna Southcott, when she sealed the box over a hundred years ago, conceive the idea of leaving a trap for the unwary 80 that the pistol would are directly any one removed it from the box? Ofcourse, for the type of pistol which can be seen, the primitive gunnpowder, wad, and ball will have lost the petency with the years, but it is possible that this was Joanna's original intention.

At the last X-ray test, which way taken with the box tilted on end, a small pair of scissors was revealed.

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"Sensing" the Secrets.

Six or seven mediums sat in succession in a seance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical. Research, London, trying to sense what was inside the box.

Joanna said that the box was only to be opened in a time of national atress, and in presence of the full bench of Bishops. The last owner of the box, who left for the Argentine a week ago, sent it to Mr. Harry Price, director of the laboratory.

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The box is to be opened publicly in a few weeks time, probably at the Albert, Hall, London, in the presence of a number of Bishops who are sufficiently curious to attend.

For nearly four hours (saya a Daily Express orrcespondent) I sat in the seance room of the labora➡. tory while mediums tried to solve the mystery.. Either Mr. Price or Miss Lucy Kay, the sceretary, was always a third member of the party.

The Bishop of London granted the faculty for the painting.

Mrs. Florence Kingstone, who practices public clairvoyance, hold the box, and then sald

occupy points or districts consider- of endangered and then repel any enemy advance or rising. To date the cost of these gentry has been round about 240,000 gold francs, or over £9,000, to this poor coun- try. The Albanian budget has died again, in consequence, Des- site the fact that the country has doubled and by now perhaps more than doubled its exportations in six years, the Albanian budget is always dying. It is a sort of anti-

cat, with nine deaths.

In vlew of the expenditure on Dibrant and kindred outgoings, when the British inspecter of gen- darmerie demanded credits for es- tablishing a school where 2,500 mon and an equivalent number of officers might obtain the training they need to make the State secure, the sum offered him was 4,000, gold francs-£180!

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Palatable Posts. Needless to say, most of the Di- brani are not where they are sup posed to be, defending their coun- try on the bleak slopes of Mount Tarabcsh or in other dull but military positions. They are in Scutari, feasting on carp from the "I see a small cross in stone lake, and in other palatable peats. about three inches long. I see a The celebrated zone-commander, roll of parchment with writing Fykri Dino, quite a young fellow, sloping to the left, not English. by the way, has a bodyguard of I am looking at a small pile of them. It is computed by foreign, papers more modern, the oustand-observers that bodyguards for ing one is blue. There is a lot Fykri Dino cost the State nothing of writing inside the box, all to under £3,000 a year, and probably do with wars, a lot of problems well over, ON KERANA

I am about strife and trouble. feeling very much as if the chief contents will be considered of no value by the people most wanted to take notice.'

When the box was sealed, said Mrs. Kingstone, three people stood over it.

1 believe the names are inside. I see the name Gerald, she said. Some of the prophecies have been verified, some are rubbish and no use at all. There is chiefly writ ing in stone-sacred symbols.

Mrs. Lawes, an amateur medium, only received "a feeling of tremendous warmth and dead- fess."

Fykri Dino's special inner, most personal, bodyguard is composed entirely of sergeants, eight, as it were, in the first line.

It is not to be assumed, of course, that the money paid out for the Dibrani goes into their orna- mental, purses. Sen Alezi, their headman, draws, it is assumed, for so many men 3 a head a month But how many of them win prizes in the great pay-competition which follows is another question.

One result of the inner financial position has had an effect upon the European political situation which would be comic were it not i grave in possible result. Reser- vists, stretching over a period of "Makes Me Feel Hot."

three years, have been summoned, Mr. A. vout Peters, another back to the Colours. They are to platform clairvoyant, said. reel hold the frontier posts in the place the thing was sealed up, and the of gendarmes. But why replace things written when Joanna was by unwilling peasants who have ander great agitation. It makes forgotten what military lore they fe leel n 1 um receiving three ever knew the gendarmes who are things in the box, three documents. only too anxious to stay on? Be-

tank one is in the form ok, a

cause there is not money to pay There are three querent the gendarmes, and the Army does Ras of writing-& long piece of not receive pay, Buggeret poetry intermixed with prose.

Doux.

For this reason 1,600 gendarmes, with four months' arrears of sal- A receive curious drawings, ary for the most part, are being· erudely made angels. You will dismissed. The reservists will 511 und some of the papers destroyed, their places when in Heaven's

Among the experimenters was Dr. Arthur Lynch, a former M.P., or torn.

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on the diplomatic expected to arrive in London to tested at times, however, his un-ceiving the word "dehovah," and area. And usual powers of what are known the year 1912. The record inside cinema-screen the calling-up of take part in the interior scenes of is about octavo aize. Some of the the reseryes has igured as a war- the Coronel and Falkland Islands psychical

writing and drawings are either in like move of Albania's!

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"Another Bux Inside." Dr. Lynch sat still, touching the box for a few minutes, and then said I should think it contains vestments, some symbols, One manuscript of doctrine, and some directions to the faithful. Prob- ably there is another box inside it which contains the most secret sacred directions of all."

Aurs. Stahl Wright, who went into a trance, whs not definite. She said that too many people had bangled しまじ Dox, so that its "kuras" were mixed up.

None of the statements made by the media seemed to be contradic Many of the same points tory: wore stressed by more than one. Whether they were right is still a mystery.

The result of a ballot among von Spee will be taken by Herr French gourmets to decide who Stock, well known in German then- should be given the title of Princetrical and film circles. The cap- cf Gourmets was published in mail tain of the Gneisenau will be re- week, the pont and dramatic critic, presented by an ex-officer of the M. German Navy and the potty officer M. Curnonsky, being chosen. Curnonsky has written a great deal in the film was a gunnery instruc about the finer points of French tor during the war. Special" at- cooking and is recognised as one tention is to be given to German of the leading authorities on wines, naval routine and etiquette.

Panoramic View of Spectacular Parade on King's Birthday.

The above picture was taken at Happy Valley on Friday last during the impressive parade in celebration of the birthday of His Majesty the King The picture was taken at the moment the Royal Salute was being fired, and it will be noticed that the front ranks of infantrymen are in the act of firing to feu de joie. The smoke from the naval guna blote out the extreme right of the line.