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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17,

TAKING CROSS TO

DEVIL'S ISLAND

Former Prisoner In Role Of Messiah

DREADFUL YEARS IN CONFINEMENT

Paris, Sept. 23. Ulimo, the man who survived 20 blistering years on Devil's Island. la going back. But not alone; he goes with what he believes to be The Word. He thinks he's the Messiah, the second Christ.

The "affaire Ulimo" was the pensation of France in 1907, when the Dreyfus caso, began to settle down to the sort of routine which belongs. to-day to the Staviaky scandal.

was

M. Benjamin Charles Ulimo, 26-year-old naval onsign, scion of a respected Lyons Family, trapped as the writer of a letter offering to sell back French military accrots which had come into his possession. If they were not sought back, according to the letter, they would be sold to a foreign power.

. Ullmo admitted he had succumb- ed to temptation for the sake of Toulon beauty, one Lison Welch- "La Belle Lison". Having spent on her his personal fortune, which was considerable, he had risked dishonour to keep her affection,

and lost.

The young naval offeer was sentenced to life banishment and aalled for Guyana July 17, 1908. Until 1923, or for fifteen years, he Ilved alone on a rock surrounded by shark-infested waters. The only men he saw were the guards who visited him twice a week.

Dreyfus himself was the only other man to have suffered such o fate,

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A person who is suffering from

sore throat, or who is recover- ing from an operation for the re- moval of tonsils, or who has had many teeth extracted, has to have food that is nourishing and very easily swallowed and digested.

RESTRICTION OF

IMPORTS

Plans are nearly completo for 18 Gorman Arms, engaged in the making-up of women's, gowns and conta, to establish branch fac tories in England. Nine, factor- les will be aftunted in the City and West-End areas of London. and nine in the Manchester din- trict. Work in some of the fac tories will begin this month, the precise dates being partly deter mined by seasonal requirements.

One firm has already set up its branch headquarters in Regent Street, W., and certain others! have obtained premises elsewhere in London or Manchester. No gotiations are now proceeding on behalf of the remainder for the acquisition of suitable buildinga. The assistance of the Manchester Development Committee has been Bought in relation to sites in that city. Although the negotiations aro being carried on more or lesa simultaneously and through ono channel, each branch will retain its separate identity.

the

A number of Imited companies have already been formed in this country by the parent firms. They are not being financed here or from Germany. Each concern has

from received permission German Government to sand over from Germany goods to the value of 20,000 marks. That Govern- ment has also laid down various conditions regarding the financing and management of the branches designed to safeguard German interests concerning the amounts of German raw materials used, the effect on German employment, and in other directions,

IMPORT RESTRICTION.

Bread and milk, milky foods, beef ten, egg beaten up in milk, are Ideas that at once occur to the mind. One wants to vary these itema, and soups are good, and minced chicken or meal, vegetable The government relenting in purocs, mest jellies, custards, 1923, Ulimo was allowed to go onjunkets, milk puddings, etc., aro the mainland, where he hired out other suggestions. Potato soup!

The opening of these fetories to a local industrialist. Guyana should have the potatoes thoroughly is stated to have been decided on Prisoners often are authorized to mashed. Onion soup should have partly in consequence of the Im work for planters or minere, earn-the onions passed through a slove; port restrictions now existing In ing thus a pittance which makes it is a good way of serving cheese, relation to the British and other too, and thus providing protein markets. It is intended to make- All the time, though he did not for grated cheese should accompany up certain special classes of goods. know it, several persons were work-onion soup.

with varying styles for each parti- ing in France for his pardon. Out- Mutton broth could be well sim cular market, and of a kind hither- standing among those was Made-mered and then strained. To get to produced only in Germany. moiselle Madeline Poirier, a Paris as much nourishment as possible The eighteen firms, all of which nurse, with whom eventually he into the liquid, always simmer soup have their headquarters in Berlin, had a voluminous correspondence, instead of boiling, and thus draw are in the aggregate responsible The pardon finally came and all possible good out of peas, beans, for a huge export business in Ulimo arrived in Paris on July 4, carrots, barley, sago, macaroni, or made-up clothing. It is not in- 1934. Ulmo gazed with interest ment.

tended to manufacture texiles here, but to confae operations solely to the making-up side of the industry.

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“Across-

A horsey chock.

but without excitement on the Baked custard should be varied, changes which a quarter of a Make it savoury by adding a Hittle century had produced in his home-meat extract, a small quantity of land. He soon left Paris for a pounded fish, a little sieved tomato Each branch will, in addition to beach near Oatend.

pulp, or some minced parsley, and workshops and other accommoda- Fifteen years of solitary con- mint. When it is served sweet tion, have a large showroom for -Anement-and-twenty-six- of- broil-j alter the flavouring-cinnamon, the-use-of-wholesale buyers,AIL ing in the "land of the damned" nutmeg, vanilla, a little extra- the machinery will be purchased had left an indelible mark on the strong coffee, a little pineapple in Great Birtain, and Lancashire spirit of this man who had julee, sotne grated chocolate, and and Yorkshire texiles will be 0 thrown his life away in a moment a little brandy. Blancmange and largely used. Certain kinds of the junket can be served with mashed material not obtainable in this

apples, prunes, or jelly. Pruno jelly is excellent. Get the patient country will be imported from

11 Not a bit of a wardrobe as it Germany or elsewhere.

sounds, but a fitting in any room. to take cream whenever possible,

It is expected that, when the 18 The decapitation of a champion as it is pure nourishment.

Initial stages have been completed, of loyal Ireland is a crime, the factories will provide in- 18. A metal or wooden tooth perhaps.. ereased employment among gar- 20 A port shows the work of a fair

haymaker, ment workers. Official permission

of folly. He brooded in Channel mists.

HEAR "THE CALL”. "The call" came a few weeks after Ullmo's return. A news. paperman who had been among those who worked for his pardon: went to see him and returned to Paris with the extraordinary re- velation.

"I am going back to Guyana, in the fall," Ullmo said. "I am going to bring salvation to those who are there explating their earthly ains."

MYSTERIOUS GAS “ATTACK”.

VILLAGERS SUFFER ILL EFFECTS

10

It is not ripe may be its ana-

gram but la surely not the cause. Not a greeting to spring but a

bit of Ireland.

has been granted for a number of 21 Ono who appreelutes the chief. German "key" workers to enter 222 Just a matter of two linen.

24 "One drum" (anng.). England for a limited period to 25. To be seen in a robin but not in train local employees, as the awren, lafter will be engaged un-20 Here we scen a clentist or familiar operations in which skill

perhaps a house. is required.

on

The inhabitants of Willsbridge, near Bitton, Gloucestershire, dis- patched a petition to the Ministry of irritation of the throat and of Health regarding the chlorino eyes." gas fumes which have invaded many of their houses,

Similar conditions obtain in many other houses in the village. Mr. Ashley attributes the fumes to sprinklinga of chloride of lime in the Willsbridge Brook, but the Sanitary Inspector, Captain W. H. Knee, states that as far as he knows no chloride of lime has been put into the brook.

Questioning brought out Ulimo's conviction that he is the Messiah. "Nineteen centuries have olars ed since the tragedy of Mount Olivet," he said. "That is the first sign. The Pope realised the

Mr. J. G. Ashley told a reporter nell had rung when ho ordered the Holy Year of 1933. The of the effects of the fumes in his Scripture says the Chosen One house. "The paint on my doors shall be son of David and a mem- and windows is changing colour. bor of the tribe of Judas. 2

Green paint is going grey, and "My father's name was David. cream paint is going black," he How can I prove that I come down sald. from Judas? By the double "At night, when the air is still, Dr. T. Aubrey, the local medical trouson, first to my faith, being the fumes are almost overpower oficer, is also puzzled as to the an Israelite professing in the Ing, and I have to get up and origin of the gas. "There is no Roman Church and second to my gargle my throat. Other members doubt," he said, "that this is] country."--United Press.

of my household are complaining chlorine gas."

BALESMAN SAM

Gimlet Sticks-And Sam Is Stuck!

29 Not a delicacy named after a famous artist but future punish- ment (three words).

33 One of the early Quakers, 34 Telling in structure apparently. 36 A person of this is not necon-

sarily famed as a musician.

Down

1 Eastern Beriptures that are saved

in a muddled state.

2 The girl many card-playera

desire.

3 The bird that is of importance

to the would-be M.P.

4 This way is a main road.

5 A Dihy measure.

7 Modert.

8 A reverie suggests part of the colour scheme of a house (two words),

112-If-an-employe-of-old-was › given.

this by his boss he used to drink his health; it's different now.

13 Scottish jiland.

14 Vacantly silly.

16 Famous explorer,

17 Not a cheem left by an earth- quake but more the concem of

a landlord,

18 "Red life" (aring;),

123 The creature that naturally

begina to add....

24 This may be your appearance

and it might be mine,

27 Author who sounds what he was.

28 Antonym of ebb,

30-Confesses that he possÉSIES, 131: Metal....... 32 One of the

felines,

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