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SNAKES. WHICH EAT OTHERS.

AIR LINE THROUGH

OFFICALLY ENCOURAGED IN BRAZIL.

If you asked the average per- son with any knowledge or ex- perience of snakes what he or she thought of them, they would no

AFRICA.

SIR ALAN COBHAM'S PROJECT,

...

20,000-MILES OF SURVEY.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;-

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10.

WALKING ON THE WATER.

"FAKED" PICTURE

INVENTION BY AN AUSTRIAN ENGINEER.

Vienna Walking on the water

is an almost everyday affair at

Klagenfurt, according to a report reaching, Vienna from that city,

GANG.

WOMAN WHO USES FAMOUS NAME.

EXPERTS DUPED.

doubt promptly reply: "Horrible: 500n on what he terms a utility struction engineer, A. G. Koll-in London for some time, and so

exterminate them!"

Sir Alan Cobham hopea to start His route is to light of survey. be right round Africa, returning The trip But there is one species which vin, the West Coast.

will be one of 20,000 miles. The will never be exterminated at the craft to be used will be a Short hands of man-in fact, every effort All-Metal lying boat fitted with being made to breed it. In two, Rolls-Royce Condor engines. Brazil, the home of over 400 dif-At present it is the largest all many metal flying boat in the world and ferent species of snakes. lives are lost annually owing to when loaded in the air weighs snake bite, Quile by accident the more than ten tons. Sir Alan be Brazilians discovered a means of loves that the flying boat will reducing this mortality and com- become perhaps the greatest com-

of the mercial alreraft in the very near! activities bating the

"shake į future. He hopes by means of poisonous snakes, At R farma" in Sao Paulo a large non-this flight to help to bring about poisonous snake known as "Mas- the early inauguration of the one day accidentally got British Air Route through Africa into the enclosure of the poisonous He is working in close conjunc snakes. The consternation of the tion with Mr. Blackburn and Capt. officials quickly turned to amaze- Gladstone, who are endeavouring mont as they watched the Mas- to inaugurate the route between Surana attack and devour, head Egypt and Kenya, and hopes to Brat, a deadly polsonous specimen. come to satisfactory arrangements Suffering repented venomous bites with various Governments of the. with immunity, it subsequently at countries he passes through so tacked ant ate another. Others that the line will be continued of the same species were put in through the highlands of Tangan- with the poisonous ones, and they

land, and Southern Rhodesia. ench in turn attacked and devouredika. Northern Rhodesia, Nyasa-

Surana

опе.

That chance discovery has saved many thousands of lives in Brazil.

course,

Д famous

clever has been their work that even experts have been deceiver.

Thgang consists of three people, two men and a woman. The men are artists of no mean ability, and the woman poses as the descendant of British officer. She has always been the medium through, which the faked pictures have been sold, for a certain amount of trust and confidence has been induced in buyers by the name she has used and the setting in which she show-

A particularly astute gang of Thanks to the invention of a-con-picture-fakers has been at work mant, it is now possible for any person to walk across a river or a lake-if-he-wishes-

To demonstrate that he means

Kollmann recently. business, donned a pair of his water shoes and walked across the Woerther

near Klagenfurt, see a lake several miles wide.

The "shoes" are, of rather large; but according to the statements of Kollmann and a number of friends who witnessed his feat, they are not very clumsy or difficult to wear, as long as the water does not get too rough. hopes to have finished a few little improvements which will make the shoes more comfortable. He also hopes to stage an experimental

summer By next

race on the Woerthersee.

Kollmann

REPTILES AS PETS.

LADY FOLKESTONE'S NEW

HOBBY.

ed the picture to be "planted."

Their method was for one of the men to call on antique dealers with ti story that Miss So-and-So had an Old Master-generally a The she wished to dispose. picture could be secured for a Raeburn or a Romney-of which

"mere song" provided that a hand- Home commission was paid to the informant for introducing such a bargain.

Dealers have gone to Miss So- and So's" flat and heard a moving story of hard times and the neces- ly. They have been shown the Viscountess Folkestone, wife ofsity for raising money immediate- the eldest son of the Earl of heirloom hanging on the wall house built in the garden of Al- ward House, her Salisbury home, grandfather died," and have been

authenticity: for some unusual pets she is about given documents purporting to to acquire. They will include establish the picture's age.

She told a press reporter that anakes and other reptiles.

"Through Route", Next Year. Itis company (Alan Cabhum The Government are now busily Aviation, Ltd.) has been working engaged in breeding the Massurana for distribution to all parts of the on this route for nearly twelve Radnor, is having a special glass in the place it has occupied since

months, and they hope that by interior, where its appetite for its means of this flight to stimulate poisonous brethren will have un-interest so that the "through mited scope to the benefit of the recte will be running by the end Inhabitants.

of next year. Kenya will then be but seven days

To India, where the mortality

frem anake bite is something like 1,000,000 lives annually, the Mas- surana, bred on a large scale, would prove a boon.

ALARM IN PAHANG.

from England,

instead of a month as at present. Rhodesia nine days, and South Africa ten daya.

he was greatly interested in rep of keeping various species to study tiles, and had formed the idea

their habits. She added:

I am not having any imported specially-I shall gather my col- ection gradually from shops in London.

is

and

He

DOG RACE SCENE AT BRISTOL.

· DECISION REVERSED AFTER PROTEST BY CROWD."

A curious Incident took place at the greyhound race meeting at Bristol.

In the final of the Bristol Stakes for a silver cup and $100 the judge awarded the race to Pembridge. Boy, whereupon there was a howl of protest from the crowd, who de clared that Misnomer had won.

For some time the number re- mained unaltered and the book-

makers paid out on Pembridge Boy. which was the outsider.

the crowd, how- A number of ever, jumped on the track and de monstrated outside the judge's box, so the stewards called a meet. ing and awarded, the race Misnomer.

1,0

The public now claimed the f winnings on that dog, but the book- makers objected to pay out on two winners in one event. In the end they closed their books and refused to do further business. The meet-

ing was carried on; but a large

MS

1927.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

"Across.

15 Name

of

Scandinavian

1 Caused to ring," 6 Cave,

the betting was finished, left the meeting. section of the crowd, as soon as

Later a deputation from the bookmakers waited on the mun-10-Loft. " agement, and it was decided that 11 Evening meal..

13 Most close. in future, whatever the circum-12 Used for ahunting. stances, the judge's decision, once given would be final.

MALAYA BROAD- CASTING.

ACTION AGAINST COMPANY.

16 Unhesitating dash."

19 Heap.

21 Uncommon.

22 Garden Implement.

24 Heavenly body.

25 Sickens.

26 Sunken space before window.

27 Agitate.

28 Portions of races.

29.Compound proposition.

40 Worn by Scotsman.

45

40 Pertaining to Ionia, 47 Thieves. 48 Holy. 49 Withered.

31 Inhabits the British Isles. 32 Ireland. 34 Choose. Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 9.1 One West End dealer bought the "Five Directors of the Malayan 135 God of love.

Taiping residents, were charged by 30 Bombast. picture, but on taking it to his Broadcasting Service Limited, allas Projecting stump. returned to the flat, and by re-the Official Assignee with failing to 48 State of being behind. solutely refusing to leave the make a proper return under the galleries detected the fraud. doorstep got his cheque returned. Companies Enactment.

Another dealer was not so for-

Mr. Cole, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. tunate and has had to debit £150- 590 for the picture and £60 in com-Low Yok Lin, who resigned the mission-against a picture worth directorate on June 18 were dis- Ghows was postponed for a month. at the most, as a copy, but a few charged, the case against Dr. The other defendant, Mr. Leslie pounds.

"The faking." said this dealer, Cant, did not attend.

Mr. The Official Assignee, Williams said he intended apply- The style of the artist has been

and exactly, reproduced

aning for a warrant for Cant's ar- appearance of age has been given rest. His present whereabouts are

The route for this flight will be Ian entirely new one, for the great lying bout will pass down the

I do not intend to keep poisonous

that IPOH FLOODS SUBSIDE. River Nile to the Victoria Nyanza, and will then follow the chain of Tanganyika and Nyasa lakes to snakes of any reptile the coast at Beira. Thence the dangerous, but I should very much route will be round the coast via like to have a crocodile. The Rep- to the Congo, fascinated me, and I aften visit The Times of Malaya says that Durban and Cape Town to Wal-tile house at the Zoo has always has been very cleverly done.

Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra it. fisch Tay, on

Part of the heated glasshouse will be used as an aviary, for I Leone, roundi. French West Africa,

am ulso fond of birds.. I shall a pack of barriers,

Before her marriage, five years ge, Lady Folkestone was Helena Adcane..

with only a slight rainfall the flood waters in Ipoh have, subsided ap- preciably but the lale-Street end

is still submerged and the water in Morocco, Spain, and back to Lon-in which I shall keep my collection to the canvas.by, I suspect, baking unknown.

the town drains has not yet been able to run off. The water on the

don.

The Air Ministry, realising the Concrete back lanes in the area utility and importance of this bounded by Belfield Street and light for British flying, has loan- "Leech-Street has disappeared, leav ing large quantities of filth anded the Short Rolls-Royce Singa- garbage for the Sanitary Board to pore flying boat to Sir Alan, deal with.

also

Meantime reports have reached our contemporary that Pahang is experiencing very wet weather. Mentakab has already the water is been flooded and steadily rising. Hire cars in the place are doing no business as they cannot go either to Temerloh or the water on

Bentong because of the road is

several sections

The crew

will number five. There are seats for two pilots in the flying boat, and inside the metal hull there are writing desks, dining tabies, and sleeping bunks.

When the pilot has finished his watch at the controls, his placu and he can turn in to his bunk, can be taken by one of the crew or should he wish to stretch his

scenery.

logs take a stroll up and down the The 60ft. bull, or retire to one of the about waistdeep or more. conditions in Mentakab are such rear cockpits in the tail and take that the residents fear a repetition seat to watch the passing of 1926 events. Some of the peo- been more scared ple who have than others are buying extra stocks of foodstuff while several othera have leit the place for localities that are generally unaf- fected by floods.

£34,500 IN DOCTOR'S FEES.

VERTICAL FLIGHT.

HUMMING-BIRDS CUARDED

SECRET.

London, Oct. 24.

breed goldfish, too. I already have

Miss

FORTUNE'S UPS AND DOWNS.

£45,000 MADE AND LOST

When Mr. James Joseph Mellor, than aged 63, a cotton mill manager, whose deficiency is more £14,000, appeared at his public ex- his failure to his inability to meet amination at Oldham, he attributed calls upon cotton mill shares, de- the preciation in the value of shares, and loss on cotton "fatures" speculations.

it in an oven. This has caused

Mr. Williams stated the Com- Gibson, the painting to crack and given pany was registered on May 30,

being the secretaries it a general appearance of age."

Anderson and Butler, Kuala Lum par. They resigned in June.

WIVES'S AUCTION, STRUGGLE.

WOMAN'S BID FOR FORMER HOME.

Dranem, one of the best-known French stage, comedians on the

Armand name is whose real

role in a real-life sketch before the Menard, has just played a lending Correctional Court. He was ac-

A letter atgned by Cant and Ghows to the Chartered Bank stated the directors had authorised Cant to operate on the bank. He had drawn $5,000 to $6,000 from the Bank.

BRITISH PEOPLE IN CEYLON,

NOT THE RIGHT TYPE? London, October 23.-Criticism wife of M. Maurice Yvain, the

was mnde used by his former wife, now the musical comedy composer, of hav- of the type of British people ing illegally sold by auction furni-resident in Ceylon.

the annual

of dinner Incorporated Association ture and valuable paintings which at before the divorce belonged to the

of Architects and Surveyors husband and wife in common. He said he started work in a

The principal item at the sale by its president, Mr. W. Forbes cotton mill the day after he was

was a villa at Antibes, on the Campbell, who has returned from a eight years of age. For nineteen Reviera. When the bidding began visit to Ceylon. yenre he had been employed as it was found that there were two mill manager, having previously keen rivals for it. One way Mme. worked eight years in India. Be-Maurice Yvain and the other was fore 1019 he held 2,640 shares in the actress Suzette O'Nill, who is Dranem's second wife. Finally a cotton mill, for which he obtain-

£45,000. Or that sum he gave the villa was knocked down for £22,000 to his wife and £1,000 to £2,400 to Dranem's first wife.. each of his children,

Six hundred exposures of a film per second have failed to discover the secret of how a hummming-birded hovers in the air while feeding.

of

Air Ministry experts are opinion that if they succeeded in alming the hovering trick they night solve the helicopter blem.

A CASE FOR THE COURTS.

Caballero, Thomas Don Argentine millionaire, has died after a short diness which cost the huge sum of £34,500 in doctors' and specialists' fees. He has left an estate valued at £300,000.

The heirs now complain that the doctors charges are exorbitant.

The case has gone to law, and the law charges are expected to amount to not less than. £50,000.

He stated that he was "sorry to say that I found that for a colony of ours there is not, to my mind, the right type of Britisher in the Island.

He considered that there was a great field in many British colonies Later other of Dranem's belong-for young and enthusiastic people in Ile expended a further £12,000ings, including paintings were the fields of architecture, surveying in various ways and with the sold in Paris, but the sale took and civil engineering provided they

and the pro£8,000 left he speculated in cotton place two days before the date

futures and shares, which cost originally advertised, him £7,300, lie had paid £900 on comedian's first wife, who was not present on this occasion, is now them in calls and owed £13,400.

The money he gave his wife and suing him, alleging that he de- children was all invested in the liberately arranged matters with same concerns as he was interest-four auctioneer friends so that she ed in, and every penny was lost. could not be present at the sale.

The four auctioneers in their He gave £1,400 for a motor-car,

turn are suing Mme. Yvain for The examination was adjourned. £240 damages for libel. which was sold for £85.

The development of a film of the humming-bird's movements taken by means of a slow motion camera at the Zoo showed blurred wing movements. It is stated that if a camera can be found which is capable of giving 1,200 exposures per ascond, a successful film might be taken.

Just Received-

New Consignment of GIBB'S TOILET

PERPARATIONS

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

SAY, LET ME

RIDE ON YOUR

PONY ONCE

TAGS SOING TO RIDE IT NOW,Ossie.

YES-WATCH

ME.

WELL, LET ME RIDE IT AFTER TAG GE76 DOVE RIDIA'!!

TAG'S PROMISED ME THAT I CAN

RIDE IT AFTER,

YES-YOU

·CANʼRIDE 17. SOME OTHER 7JME,OSSIE!

Generally speaking, he added, in were the right type of men. Ceylon Continental people are ahead of us as far as type is concerned.

We had a certain responsibility

men to go abroad. to our colonies and ought to see our way if we could to induce our young wide field in Ceylon, he said, for capable and straightforward con- tractors and engineers.

Sour Grapes

There was a

ALWAYS PUTTIN ME OFF PUTTIN' ME OFF!!

LET'EM RIDE TASIR OLD, DONY, SEE IF ICARE, I CARE!!

1 Annoy..!

Down.

2 Come into view.

3 Uniform.

4 Challenge. 5 Place to lie.

G Assess,

7 Aperture.

8 Deduce.

Black man.

14 High mountains.

DEATH

Books,

17 Gives light..

18 Approaching.

19 The Book of Palms.

20 Small lamp.

22.Used in roofing.

23 Build.

30 Medley.

31

Cliff.

32

Literary compositions.

33 Relating to medicine.

36 Used in fencing.

37 Pelted with stones.

40 Demand.

41 Gond.

42 Decays.

43 Songs

44 Organ of smell.

Yesterday's Puzzle.

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