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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Hard Cash and

Hard Luck

QUEER STORIES,

THURSDAY. MAY 25, 1933.

300 MILES TREK Money

OF DESERT

for

DRAMATIC POLICE Nothing

COURT STORY

FROM HERE & THERE CONSTABLE'S CHASE

Prague.

JAPANESE BOY'S EXPERIENCE

Luderitz. Here are three stories' about A farmer's journey on foot over unlucky people and their money.

300 miles of desert and a police

It is possible to obtain money for The wife of a farmer near constable's pertinacivas chase over nothing-as these two items from

Reuter Correspondents prove:- Prague hid a £1 note in a cattle. 240 miles of waterless and stall.

A boy of fourleen was riding a Inhabited country, were easnally mentioned in the police court here bicycle through Mita-shikoku-cho, when Pierre Leriche, aged 35, Japan, when he saw a piece of farmer of Warmbad was charged paper flutter through the air to- with trespassing in the diamondward him.

-It' was eaten by her pet goat.

A careful householder at Brno hid £100 in bank-notes behind some water-plpen.

The pipes burst.

The money was reduced to a Bodden and valueless muss.

A woman at Olomouc hid £150

a mincing-machine bank-notes in which she seldom used.

the

on

aron and sentenced to pay a fuel He stretched out his hand idly of £50 or servo a term of six and grabbed the paper.

It was a months' imprisonment.

five-pound note,

A workman began to BAW Constable J. van Zyl described a through the trunk of a large oak inveldschoen" (sandal shoe) spoor Suddenly

patrol he made. He picked up a tree at Vilatal, in Germany.

the HOW and followed it over

grated sand something hard. The workman dunes from the Fish River to the found a hollow in the trunk. In- coast, a distance of over 120 miles side was a leather purse contain At the coast he found a placeing a number of silver coins dating where diamond prospecting had re from 1802. cently taken place. He traced It is thought that the purse was the spoor back again to the Fish hidden 1. the time of he Rivor.

Napoleonic wars, when the tree A native herd boy told the was young, in a hollow where a Court that he met the prisoner at branch had fallen away, and that the Fish River.

thin became covered over as tree went on growing-Reuter.

Two days later her cooked slx risscles.

daughter

The paper money was mixed with the ment.

Those rasoles cost £25 each. Reuter

WHITE PYGMIES

DISCOVERED

IN THE HEART OF AFRICA

Paris.

up

According to a sketch plan pro duced by the police Leriche must have travelled over 300 miles on foot, over half of which distance no water wan, obtainable. -Reuter.

TEN DAYS IN GERMANY

Continued from Page 81

the

AFTER 370 YEARS COUNCIL REGULATIONS

DISSOLVED

Madrid.

A youth and a girl went to the A race of White Pygmies are described by three Frenchmen who Wagner operas in London. Thero-Mayor of the little Andalusian have landed at Marseilles after fore, while anti-semitism has not village of Andujar, and told him an expedition into the heart, of been a strongly manifested in that the priest would not marry public here, there are many hints them because they were cousins.

Africa.

WAS

There three explorers, MM. of under-cover deeda. During my The priest had told them that Martineau, Lesourd and Zaidler, visit the whole town seemed to be the marriage of cousins was for- were sent by a Paris newspaper furtively talking about the report-bidden by the Council of Trent, to investigate the lives of theseed beating of a prominent Jewish (which ended 1563). Shortly

businessman. He was called to afterwards, the town-crier strange people.

They landed at Dakar (Senegal), the door of his home, so the story heard proclaiming:

"Be it known to all that the travelled inland via Bamako and went, on the pretex of delivery of

has been dis- Gao to the Scoundou region, and a telegram. Seized by Nazis, he Council of Treat finally reached the almost unknown was said to have been badly beat-solved by the Mayor and that trict of country where the White en and seriously injured. There henceforth its decisions have no Pygmies live.

were no arrests, nor was there any force in the township of An- The White Pygmies are a very mention of such an incident in the dujar".-Reuter. primitive race, about three feet Leipzig newspapers, high, with enormour

Thanks to Hitler's stringent or-each traveller must have a special heads. Their skin is light in colour, and ders, foreigners, I found, are as police visa as a permit to leave they keep themselves strictly safe in Germany ns anywhere. the country: The police must be apart from other tribes and live At the frontiers the customs and convinced that the applicant is by hunting elephants and passport officers are courteous and not a fugitive,

likely to antelopes-Router.

helpful. The only precaution nec-aprond world excitement in con- essary is to declare the amount of nexion with stories concerning money you have with you, and get alleged atrocitics. Germans must Ja signed paper showing this niso show the money they have amount, so you will not have with them. Even before the Hit- trouble taking out your own ler regime, the government de- money when you leave the coun- fereed that a native traveller could try.

take only 300 marks from the The passports of all native Ger-country except under special cir- imans are closely examined, AB cumstances.

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