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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933.

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JULY.

STRANGER THINGS ARE HAPPENING THAN YOU EVER DREAMED!

Look at the peo- ple near you! They may be living..walking.. breathing under the spell of

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WITH

BELA LUGOSI

Star of DRACULA

A VICTOR and EDWARD

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Directed by Victor Halparin

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Here's a burning glamorous love talo told on the bardor- fandoflife and death!

WATCH OUT FOR

THESE EYES. - THEY

WILL CAST A SPELL OVer you, turniNG". YOU INTO A SLAVE, MAKING YOU DO HIS EVERY BIDDING.

SECRETS OF ANTI-SNAKE

VANISHED CITIES

DISCOVERIES OF NOTE

WHAT A LITTLE GIRL DID

London. Vanished cities of the scriptures are giving up their secrets at last. Sir Charles Marston, who has Just returned from the scenes of the Palestine excavations, declares that some of the dreams which he has cherished for so many years are now within sight of coming true.

SERUM

IMPORTANT NEW DISCOVERY

OBTAINED FROM HORSES

Johannesburg.

A greatly improved anti-snake bite serum has been developed by South African Institute for Medi- the Serum Department of the cal Research prepared for use where required. and is now being The now sorum is obtained from horses immunised by an original method worked out at the Institute with the venom varieties of African snake.

of different

By submitting a serum of al- He tells some fascinating stories ready high potency to methods of of Salome, a Sudanese girl, who concentration and refinement a has been the heroine of one dis-product of exceptional quality is covery; of a cuneiform tablet obtained, one ampoule of this con- which has been found inscribed into at least two ampoules of the centrated serum being equivalent a strange dialect that may prove

This might be gauged from the fact that the anti-toxic and cura- ilve properties arc assessed "Salome, a little native girl, was and experimentally standardised Instrumental in making an im-againat both cobra and viper portant discovery at Tell Duweir," sald Sir Charles.

of the utmost significance; and of product hitherto available. new light thrown

on the war tactics of Nebuchadnezzar.

"Inside the lower fortifications of the city, was found a shaft that had been filled with debris.

"Thanks to Salome, this has been cleared. She excavated the shaft to a depth of 50 feet, clearing the rubbish while the men stood at the top and hauled it up.

"Then a hole appeared in the centre of the soll. A pelible was dropped. There was an interval of several seconds-and sounding splash.

re-

"Salome was hauled up. Men suspended by ropes went down. Some large boulders were removed and a well 250 ft. deep was dis- closed. It contains 18 ft. of ex cellent water and appears to have been made at a very early date in the history of the city, probably in the time of the Hyksos."

• JERICHO DISCOVERY. But perhaps the most important discovery of all comes from Jericho.

"In the course of excavations of the Royal Palace of Jericho," con- tinued Sir Charles, "a small clay tablet has been found.

"It is about two inches square and bears a three in one inscrip- tion in cuneiform characters.

The tablet had been blackened by the great fire with which Joshua burnt the city, and damaged by the falling debris.

The cuneiform script is of the type used in Palestine in the 18th -14th centuries B.C., but does not seem to be in the Canaanite. Innguage,

"STORE CITIES."

venoms: The former group In- cludes venoms from such snakes the mamba, while the latter in- as the Cape cobra, the ringhals and cludes poison from various species of adders, including the puff and | night adder.—Router,

OLDEST MAN IN WORLD

SAID TO BE 150 YEARS OF AGE

Jerusalem.

The oldest man in the world, who claims to be 150 years of age, last visit was made In 1830, has come to Beirut, in Syria. His

He is Badik Agha, from Turkey, who says that he Was born' six years before the French Revolu- tion. He has had 122 wives and 112 children. His descendants number more than 1,000.

Badik Agha still remembers vividly one of his early wives, who bore him fifteen sons. She died soon after the American Civil War.

"She was a worthy mate," he de- clares. "Women nowadays have no stamina.”—Rcuter.

LOVE IS BLUE

COLOUR REACTION

EXPERIMENT

New York.

A colour "reaction" experiment conducted recently at Hunter College for Women, is reported to disclose that in the minds of most the word "Another important discovery of the students there made at Jericho this senson has "school" is brown and gray. Ten been that the city was one of the words were read to the various store cities of the Hyksos Kings, art classes in the course of the I have identified Chedorlaomer, experiment. King of Elam-mentioned in the The word "home" generally in- Book of Genesis-as belonging to voked restful colours, such as rose the Hyksos and it is significant

"Peace" auggested that the great battle which he white and blue; "war" red and fought with the Kings of Sodom dull brown; "wealth," gold and and Gomorrah and the other cities yellow; "loyalty," blue and "tran- on the Dead Sea must have been quillity" blue and violet. "Joy" fought almost under the walls of brought up bright colours, like Jericho."-Reuter.

orange and yellow. Red, pink and blue were the colours for "love." ---Renter,

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