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REDS ON FRENCH WARSHIPS.

3,000 COMMUNISTS ABOARD

SAYS REPORT.

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A GRIM WARNING.

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Revelations of sensational character concerning the organis ing and development of Communist propaganda in the French navy are made by M. Francois Coty, editor of the Figaro, in the coarse of an important article in his newspaper.

EMPTY PEWS.

(Continued from Page P.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WIDOW MARRIES A

"LONELY MAN.

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LIFE ON ISLAND WITH The Vice of Insipidity.

POST TWICE AYEAR. Our Lord, too, most certainly

8/10/27. Hunter." "Married valued the enthusiasm of the ad- venturous, of whom He welcomed! This cryptic radiogram, sent from several to His little company. His Port Stanley, in the Falkland Is Spirit is directly opposed to the lands, to Mr. L S. Montgomery, vice of odern bookseller and shipping agent, of characteristic Christianity-insipidity. He was High-street, Dumfries, is the key never afraid of shocking. Per-to a delightful romance. hans Jesus Christ wished to shock because He knew that only so could He raise vital issues and make men think.

To reduce Christianity to the level of a religion of mere good form is to secularise it and to take it both its appeal and its

The recent mutiny in the naval prison of Toulon, and the in cidents which took place almost.at from

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It announces that Mr. Robert Hunter, of Sea Lion Island, has married Mrs.. Lizzie Murdoch, a widow, formerly of Dumfries, who was chosen from the host of op

Mr. who responded to plicants Iluster's advertisement for a wife.

the same time on board the cruiser power. At the moment the wit. Mr. Hunter wrote and asked Mr. Ernest Renan, are the first sympness of the Churchea is eminently Montgomery to find hire a wife and toma of the revolutionary activity undistinguished, and

consent £50 for her passage, as of the Communist conspiracy in sequence it is not so much disliked proof, of good faith. the French navy.

as discounted.

No

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one

experts

Photograph Sent.

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"This island is very lonely at first," added Mr. Hunter, but she will get used to it."

SATURDAY,.

NOVEMBER 19,

1927.

PREHISTORIC FLINT MINES.

THREATENED BY TREES OF GREAT NEW FOREST.

NOTABLE DISCOVERIES.

One of the most important and Interesting prehistoric sites in England is in danger of being! virtually destroyed unless a "Pull baker, pull devil" comedy between two Government Departments can be amicably settled.

The trouble concerns. Grimes Graves, near Thetford, Norfolk, which consists of 250 flint mines, over 3,000 years ago, where, Neolithic man quarried material for his hunting, fighting and domestic weapons.

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professing Come four years ago, says M. Coty, "Bolshevik propaganda, in Christians to be different from the navy was almost non-existent, other people. They are no doubt but since Andre Marty, the chief excellent people in their way, but of the Black Sea mutineers, has they are just like everything else,

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Mrs. Murdoch was put in touch schenie for turning Britain's be thought a dangerous person which the former rebel takes

are planting around Thetford a leading part, has been most active" who said in a moment of national with Mr. Hunter, letters and photo-waste lands into woodland they editor of the crisis that he was first a Christian Kraphs were exchanged, and an forest of 30,000 acres, which According to the

will out-rival even the New Authorised Capital Figaro, there are now over 2,000 and only after that an Englishman agreement reached.

The courtship was prolonged by Forest, and part of the land ac- Fald-Up Capital Ceramunist sailors and stokers on The are ready to kill members of

the Government the fact that Mr. Hunter only gets quired for this purpose includes Rowery Fund and rest board the vessels of the French other nations if

this letters about twice a year. Grimos Graves. navy, who are grouped on some 60 of the day bids them do so.

Arrangements were completed 'cellules (a "cellule," or "eel," is is true that they think civil war a the name given to a group of terrible thing, but if all men are in July, and Mrs. Murdoch sailed "Communist propagandista brethren is there in the mind of for the Falkland Islands, about

factory

ar Government depart Christ a distinction between an ago "miles from the southernmost

Englishman killing an Englishman part of South America. .ment).

killing Englishman "The heads of the organisation ami

M. Coty) the Chinaman? are (according to leaders of an association called

And there is no getting away "The Fraternal Union of Sailors and Former Sailors, whose brain from the fact that a vast number

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"Not only do, they show the methods of the prehistoric miners. but further evidence is available from the miner's dwellings in the Immediate neighbourhood.

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Perhaps the thing that worries me most is that I find those leaders of of our speia illa are permitted Christianity who some years ago is the Deputy Andre Marty.

thely base professing Christians I knew to be as fully conscious of

An archaeologist who is in the "The propagandista of

yet placed the the situation as they are more fully cellules specially on board ships have find a splendid field for their action error of them on their conscience. equipped to deal with it than I forefront of the fight to preserve per cent. per annum on Daliy Balance and Paid-up Capital (Hour among young reeraits, for, whom There are certain injustices in our am, tamed out of recognition, not the site said to a press representan Fixed Deposits at Bates that may be me the strict disipline and hard work ocial fabric which could be re-only by high office, but by the cares tive:

of and pettinesses with which their. "At Grimes Graves are actual, Queen's Road Central, are not an agreeable experience."plied, within, a short space

I find them now flying about fint mines worked by prehistoric M. Coty gives the names of 46 me if Christians definitely said eclesiastical life is war vessels on cach of, which a these things shall not be."

Think that one of the reasons from Committee to Committee, so man at a very early period, and, Communist cellule is at work.

Their members smuggle on board why the churches are as empty as intent on little matters of domestic fortunately, they have remained Communist pamphlets specially they are is because the people are concern and the defence of a intact ever since.

that Aware

the parochial area of religion that I perfectly

to wander prepared for the sailors.

Communist cellules also exist,ergy and church officials who am sometimes forced says M. Coly, in the, various navalire responsible for them do not whether in their heart of hearts barracks, notably at Cherbourg. eally care for those committed to they are not attempting to drown their their conscience, which bids them in, the naval aviation centre at heir charge--they love

the far vaster Rochefort, in the arsenal of Sidi-soul;" they do not love them. forget denominational loyalties and Abdallah in Tunis, and even in the there is no human touch. Our concentrate on

which.confront the very naval hospitals of Lorient, Toulon Lord was never so divine or so ap-issues

existence of Christianity. Why ealing as when He was human. and Tunis.

I want a disturbance. want are these able and good people not "If the naval authorities," con- cluded M. Coty, continue to shut most anything rather than an un-more explicitly revolutionary and their eyes when they notice sympt.allenged continuation of these discontented? toms of revolutionary prepaganda mothered institutional versions of he fire which Jesus Christ came in the navy ranks, and if the Government does not at once take very severe measures against the leaders and organisers of the pro paganda, the day will soon come when French war vessels will turn their guns towards the shores they have to defend."

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The question is not whether men and women are going to join this o cast upon the earth. I confess or that Church, nor in what form or that denomination is to hat if England definitely said that his

Supporters of the protest are to have the matter raised in Parlia- ment.

This new forest which is coming into being in East Anglia will eventually stretch 16 miles across Norfolk and Suffolk, and will ultimately establish a flourishing timber business on these derelict lands and waste spaces.

Implements used" by Neolithic

he could not face Christianity, I survive; but whather Christianity hould feel that there was no hope, is to live as a dynamic force for the hough I know Christ's, religion salvation of the world, or merely vould be born again in the hearts o exist as a quiet and moderat-man, discovered in the mines, in-

of men and women elsewhere. ing influence...

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Bottom picture shows how the base of the Cenotaph was smothered with floral tributes on Armistice Day. (Photos: Welcome Studio).

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A polished hatchet.

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"This wonderful and beautiful little carpet is a 16th century Indo- Isphahan art production," said Mr. French Kemp, the managing direc tar of Jekyll's Ltd., Berkeley

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"I saw it exhibited in an art in Paris. I dealer's window noticed that it was wrongly labelled Caucasian, and in consequence I was able to buy it at probably one- tenth the sum that the dealer would otherwise have been willing to take. darkIt is always difficult to put a value

Deer's antlers used as picks. Bone tools used for flaking the flint,

A bone awl, Hollowed blocks of chalk used as lamps to light up the galleries.

On one of the picks were the clearly marked fingerprints of the miner who had wielded it 3,000 years ago.

A few miles from Grimes

on such a treasure,

"We have presented it to the Victoria and Albert Museum where it will soon be on permanent ex- hibition. It is now being suitably framed at the Museum,

"Although I have not been able

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