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A "GREEN SEA" IN COURT.

SHIPOWNER ON TRIAL.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1928.

STRANGE GERMAN

SECT.

SUPERSTITIOUS RITES.

Cardiff, Dec. 1.

Berlin, Nov. 29. More seafarers than ever throng- Scenes reminiscent of the super- ed the Court at Glamorgan Assizes stitious practices of the Middle hero to-day when, before Mr. Jus-Ages were witnessed in a house tice Wright, the trial was resumed at Potsdam, where a provision of Watkin James Williams, a Car- merchant named Rohde had died diff shipowner, on charges con-of cancer. cerned with the loss of the 8.8. Eastway and 23 lives in October The family had declined to make 1926, and with other offences in arrangements for the funeral connexion with the a.. Tideway. They were membera of the so- The prosecution alleges that the called "Weissberg Sect," followers loss of the Eastway was due to of a faith-healer named Woiss- overlanding, and the Attorney-berg, in Berlin, who preaches the General, who in prosecuting, has doctring that there is no such alleged that Williams made a prac- thing as death from ordinary tice of sanding his ships to sea illness, but that death is only

brought about by, burial.. from foreign ports overloaded.

So complicated is the evidence that large-scale models of ships. have been brought into court, while In one corner an exact replica of a section of the side of the Eastway, showing her Plimsoll marks with the "green sea" lapping over them," has been erected.

A Breezy Captain..

Some weeks before the man's death, the wife had, summoned a "Brother," named Holz, to cure the sick man by prayer and the laying on of hands.

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After his death, extraordinary things were done to the corpse. The widow and folz sat day and night by the bedside while the body was wrapped in warm pack ings to recall the dead man to life. Meanwhile, in the adjoining shop, provisions were sold as usual.

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CABLES AND WIRELESS.

BRITISH CONTROVERSY.

London, Nov. 3b. The competition between the and the beam cable services wireless continues to be given wide prominence in the Press.

In a two-column review the Daily Telegraph urges that it is the height of Folly for the Empire to encourage the beam to the deteri ment of the effeient maintenance of the cable services.

"Despite the Impressive results from the beam," the article re- marks, "it is not trustworthy dur- ing war time. It passes to Aus- tralia over tracts of European and Asiatic territory where by very simple means a hostile Govern- mont could establish inexpensive beam stations and jam the signals without interfering with its own siguals, which could be concentra- sed upon another objective."

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The article emphasizes that other countries are not neglecting their cable services and gives as A short, rubicund, grey-haired

examples the-23,000-miles being ex-sea captain' named William

laid during the next five years, in Henry Boxall, said he was a ship's

addition to which another 10,000 miles is contemplated by America; master as far back as 1883. "In his

the 10,000 miles by Italy; and opinion, if the Eastway sailed from

of the Several days passed, and de-Germany's restoration Norfolk, Virginia, Below her proper leading marks-composition set in. The other cable to New York from Emden the Crown alleges that she was inhabitants of the house revolted,via the Azores, 13in.. overdeep--there would be and the police were summoned grave risk to the crew in bad

Frau Borde had meanwhile gone

20 Part of the verb "to be". Paria. It now appears that it 29 Challenges. weather. Mr. Langton, K.C., de- fending, was pressing Capt. Box-with "brother" Holz to Berlin to

the "prophul" Weissberg to per-was only by remarkable luck that 24 Lessened. all with regard to loading rulessuade him to come and arouse the the landslide which blocked the 25 Pomp. for winter and summer voyages dead.. Weissberg," however, pre-main line south of Lyons recently 28 Proportion which one thing has to

another. and the captain said he did notferred not to appear. He merely did not cause an appalling acci-

dent to the express from Paris.One 27 Hostler. agree with them.

advised that they should go on "But they are made by the praying and believing and the express going south had already 28 Liable to be questionable. Board of Trade.", rejoined Mr. dead would "arise."

passed at 6.30 before rock and 31 One who revolts. stones fell on the line. A glow 33 Decree. Langton.

36 Employed, The police found the corpse train going north arrived just as wrapped in a thick feather bed. the mass was falling, plunged into 37 That opposed to a liability.

surgeon. it, and was overturned. For- They Meanwhile great crowds had as-tunately, the rocks as they fell 43 Gear.

struck the wires of the sighal and 44 Undertaking." sembled in. front of the houac.

set it at danger, so that a second 46 Specimens.

the cap-

"Pshaw!" thundered tain. The Board of Trade may make rules but God Almighty makes the weather, and that is

what counts."

Mr. Langton: You any every inch overloaded is a risk to life. "It is increased by an inch," replied Capt. "Bosall, a remark which made Mr. Langton smite.

"You may laugh," stormed the captain, but I have been there and you haven't." •

Mr. Langton hastened to explain that he was not laughing at the gravity of the remark, but at the quaint manner in which, he ex- pressed his meaning.

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A son-in-law of Frau Rohde-express from Paris, following a 46 Dandles. also a member of the Weissberg few minutes Inter at sixty miles sect on being asked why he had an hour and full of Riviera pas- not removed the dead man, re-

sengers, was able to pull up just plied-Dead? My father-in-law is in time owing to the presence of dead. There is no death mind of the driver and stoker, through illness. There is only for whom a collection of £10 was death by violence, and death na mude anong the passengera. turally ensues when anyone is buried and thus suffocated.

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The police insisted on the im- mediate removal of the remains. The Attorney-General, Sir Dou- to the niortuary-a decision that glas Hogg: What is the advan-evoked an outbreak of hysteria on tage to a ship's master to over, the part of Frau Rohde and her load his ship?

son-in-law, who declared that Capt. Boxall: I suppose murder was being committed. ship's master, like everyone else.

The Weissberg sect frequently fears the danger nearest to him, and the nearest danger to a tramp holds meetings in Potsdam, with ship's master is the danger of un-much praying and singing. "Bro employment. That is why he ther" Holz preaches to the

munity, whom he hypnotises into They run the risk of being disbelieving in all kinds of super- missed if they do not overload natural phenomena. At the lat! meeting the spirit of the late, their vessels? You

and de. There is no personal advantage Kaiserin "appeared,"

overloads.

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to him?-None at all, but to-dhyclared herself ready to work for a ship's master would father sisk the restoration of the Monarchy

Germany. The in BNOBRARAQYRÚNCA his life than his job.

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Captain Thomas Harrison, Board of Trade purveyor as Cardiff, said t that the overloading of a vessel by only six inches would add to the danger of the crew.

#brothers"

and "slaters" must, however, first combat the "black mass."

The police are now taking steps dissolve this superstitious

ect.

Mr. Langton (to the court at-loaded. In October of the same [tondant): Just put the "green. year he left Bahia Blanca and sea" up the side of the vessel so sent a telegram stating that he as to show only the top of the had 7,851 tons of corn on board. Plimsoll "dise..

The Attorney-General:

You

The attendant, promptly moved the "sea" up the side of the model did not state the amount of bunk- of the Eastway produced in court. ers you had aboard when you left Mr. Langton: What is the big-Bahia Blancat was agreed at

between Mr.

and Williams rest storm you have ever heard the office of?

and Williams

my- Pardoe self that I should refrain from

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Mr.

Captain Harrison: I have heard of one of 107 miles an hour.

Would you be surprised to hear giving the amount of bunkers, as that the one in which the ship it might give information with re- foundered was 130 miles an hour? gard to the loading of the ship,

How did it come about that you -1 should.

such a conversation 7-Be- had Captain James Alex. Agnew, a ship's master for 20 years, said he cause I told them I had been rear- was appointed to the 8.8. Tideway ly caught with the ship overload- in April 1923. In May 1924 he cd.. left Buenos Aires for Antwerp on

The court adjourned until to

a winter voyage 620 tons over-morrow.

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LETTER GOLF.

FOUR plus seven equals NINE. Proving arithmetic is all wrong. But we mean seven strokes, although you may be able to cut that down.

FOUR1

NINE

The idea of letter golf is. to change one word to another and do it in par, a given number of strokes. Thus to change COW TO HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN.

2-You can change only one, letter at a time.

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3-You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each jump! Slang words and abbreviations don't count.

4--The order of letters can- not be changed.

One solution is printed on another page of this issue.

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3 Member of the cat family,

4 Relating to sounds.

Parts of the body.

& Secured firmly.

7 Deity of Egyptian mythology.

8 Little ball:

9 Moved forward with impetuosity. 14 Young child.

15 Soft metal

17 Leaves empty.

18 Abided continuously.

20 Pieces of ground for rabbit-

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breeding.

Gladden.

23 Real, 24 Hunting-horn. 20 Worthless.

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