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-"MAY SET ALL EUROPE IN - FLAMES"——_COUNSEL

Aix-en-Provence, Dec. 8. "I am pleading in a case that may set Europe on fire."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER

20

1935.

CIVILISATION THAT The Man

EXISTED BEFORE

GREAT FLOOD

Mr. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, famous British explorer, has discovered the cradle of civilisation. It is situated in Central America, where Mr. Mitchell-Hedges has found' proof of the Biblical story of the Flood, and, what is more important, traces of a civilisation which existed before that great cataclysm came upon the earth.

His discoveries have been examined by the British Museum.

By F. A.

Maitre Desbons, a leader of the Paris bar, shouted these words at the top of his

· voice here to-day in a court packed with mobile guards carrying loaded rifles and surrounded with barbed wire | and troops, bayonets at the MITCHELL-HEDGES

I have just returned from an The trial of three Croat 'aren in which there is to be terrorists for complicity in the found conclusive proof that the murder of King Alexander of Flood actually occurred. Yugo-Slavin, and M. Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, had *begun.

ready.

The assassination, 13 months ugo, sent a thrill of fear and horror round the world.

Alexander, on a State visit to France, was driving with Barthou through the streets of Marseilles. Poter Kelemin, member fo a secret Yugo-Slav nociety, leaped on thu running board of the car and fired a stream of bullets into the bodies of the King and Foreign Minister.

The assassin was trampled to death by the angry mob. Three countries were searched for his accomplices,

Behind the doors of bar riended Palace of Justice, over which airplanes soared and around which 1,000 guards wer mobilised, the trini opened.

Though it is 13 months since the assassination in Marseilles of the King of Jugoslavia and the Foreign Minister of France, to day there was tension throughout Aix-en-Provenco.

But it was not the Flood as the Bible describes it; it was something bigger, more cataclys. mic.

sharks and tarpon, both salt-water fish, live and breed.

In that distant day of chaos the

sharks had become inland captives. and presumably had "adjusted themselves" during the ages in which the lake lost its anlt quality.

There came to us one day a dug- out manned by two natives, who told us of a strange place of cliffs and caves upon the little island of

Ietene.

When our 22-ton boat Amigo lad negotiated a perilous coral barrier Three conclusions that I have we found a wonderful bay running reached as a result of my dis-deep into this island. coveries are:-

1. That at some remote time a great land area stretching eastward from Central Amer ica sank and was engulfed by

the sea..

2. During this gigantic "geo- logical readjustment" a portion of what had been sea bed was heaved upward to become land -even uplands-within the arca we now know as Central America.

3. A great and cultured race of people was destroyed by this unparalleled catastrophe.

Ancient lava flows, black and sinister, ended in the sea. Through the translucent water we could scu that they continued beneath the water exactly as on land.

A white-hot lava flow 'can- not strike water and continue beneath it retaining the same formation s when it coola upon land.

The sea could not have been |

Drilling

Eyelashes

Eyelashes are going back to The artificial Inshes nature. which were a craze, last year are now out of fashion

The latent fashion in to brush the eyelashes regularly with a tiny brush and then comb them with a minute comb mado for the purposed

West End beauty specialist, said.

This eyelash drill night and morning has been shown to be the best way of making the eye- lashes grow longer and thicker."

Who Cut Hitler's Curl

EXILED BARBER | MAKES HISTORY Herr Hitler has lost his world- famous unruly forehead curl through the action of a German hairdresser, exiled in Athens.

Herr Otto Muoller, who runs à fashionable lady's hairdressing establishment in Athens, says that he was always pained to 800 Herr Hitler's photographs in the papers with a long lock of unruly hair hanging down over his forehead nearly to his eye.

NOTE TO BARBER

When the cartoonista got to

WIFE SUES FOR work on it his pain got worse and

LOVE SHE

worse. It gave too much oppor LOSTtunity for making the Chief look

ridiculous.

TO DEAD WIDOW

New York, Dec. 10.

A dead woman Is cited in an action for alienation of alections filed to-day in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Mrs. Rose Deutsch, wealthy widow of a Phiindelphia diamond merchant, died two years ago.

estate must now meet

Her

charge of "stealing" · Joseph Vance, house-painter. from hin wife Kathryn, former telephone operator.

Mrs. Vance demands £17,000. She admits that she pled on hier husband and Mrs. Deutsch from shrubbery behind a

near the widow's home.

there at the time of that | LL. GEORGE SAID: cruption.

found the site of what was once a Upon the island of Bonaea we

great religious centre, or city.

The reward of cutting through The vestiges of this luxurious civilisation which flourished in the jungle was the uncovering of pomp and circumstance "before the the oldest specimens of cultured

"And so I wrote a respectful letter," he anyя, " enclosing a sitarper note to be handed to his barbor.

"The letter explained that the lock hung down because all the hair was of the same length, and that it should be thinned out in various lengths with a razor blade.

"I shortly got a lotter back from Herr Hitler himself stating that the matter I Had written about was being taken in hand.* and then there came the photo- graphs showing that the lock had been curbed,

"Now I am happy about the Ger- man head of State."

And so is history made.

"Trotsky Will Never

See Revolution Here".

Flood" are to be found on the Bayman's handicraft yet discovered "THERE is only one real statesman in Russia,

Islands, off the coast of Honduras, upon this earth.

and that is Trotsky," exclaimed Mr. Lloyd

Maitre Georges Desbons, representing all the accused Excavations in twenty-one new In the mighty cliffs of Helene wa men, caused a shock at the out- altes on five istands prove that here came upon a tunnel-like aperture. George, then Prime Minister, standing with his set of the trial. He alleged lived the earliest cultured man of Hot, felid air greeted us.

back to the fire in his war-time home at Walton that the interpreters had work-whom there is any record.

Heath..

ed hand in hand with the police and had hounded one of the accused to suicide.

AS A PROTEST-

LANDLOCKED SHARKS

And inland, 400 miles distant

STONE AGE CULTURE true cradle of civilisation.

I am convinced that here lay the

“I don't know how good a This, we found by digging in the

It was after the Bolsheviks į The geological evidence is Indis-rubbie and earth floor, had been

statesman Trotsky is, but I do putable. Upon the inlands, and long occupied by prehistorie man fore Trotsky made peace with ad seized power, and just be-

know very well that he is an He rend a document bearing the again upon the mainland, appear of the Stone Age,

enemy of, this country.” Imprint of a Surete Generale | cliffa riven and split by the incalcul-j We found many traces of an anthe Germans at Brest-Litevsk,

Mr. Lloyd George's thick eye. which, he alleged, incriminated an inhle 'forces of an epic upheaval.

cient civilisation-not of a crude, Mr. Lloyd George declared interpreter who was not present

ignorant, savage race.

They Inis opinion about Trotsky in a brows puckered in a frown,

"Turning to Harold." says Mrs. in court.

dicated high state of culturo. Italk with Harold Williams, the

Tyrkova-Williams, "Mr. Lloyd There were large fragments of man who knew fifty languages George inquired: 'Where do you what had once been a beautiful vase, and spoke twenty-five langu- get that from, that Trotsky is so exquisitely painted; curious stone ages fluently, when Williams hostile to England?" carvings, unknown to science; per came back from Russia, where Williams replied: fectly modelled pottery figurines in he had been a newspaper corres-It will be the happiest day in my "Trotsky's last words to me 'were: the Investigations conducted by the forms of grotesque animals.

at her Helene proved to be the site of a

The highest rounded hill of bondent for fourteen years.

Ariadna Tyrkova - Williams,fe when I see a revolution in Enga request,

Harold Williams's widow, Russian

"Mr. Lloyd George," it in added, "The date has been fixed when city or town.

Here we found some most curious novelist, descendant of a famous

"prang up as though he had sud- the accused will have to answer specimens of pottery. One was in Russian sokller about the time of donly gained in stature. Ho shook their crime before the justice of the form of an unimal about three Queen Elizabeth, tells the story in his cal-like hend and said firmly,

his eyes sparkling: remarkable blography of her

"No, he will consider as terminated the painful

from the island as the crow flles, The President, the two assis-there is a freshwater lake in which tant Judges and the Public Prosecutor, rose from their seats and left the court as a protest against the accusations. It was some time before they returned.

The three accused were: Zronimir Pospichil otherwise

the

French nuthorities

Novak, a chauffeur, aged 31, and men," she said. "I can therefore inches long with four holes in the a a native of Vukovina, Jugoslavia task which I imposed on myself: body, at the top-another-hole,husband.

I blew experimentally. through

"REAL STATESMAN". Yvan Ritch, otherwise Benos, Having full and complete confld- the top hole and a clear, sweet note

Harold Williama knew more farmer, aged 32, of Kaledino, Jugo-ence in French justice, I place my sunday movings Angers over about Russia than most people, ant slavia, and a former inmato of

the late Sir Robert Donald took sentatives,"

him to have ten with Mr. Lloyd We found 11 of these instru. George at Walton. The Prime Minister thanked Williams for his

the Croatian Political Refugees.cause in the hands of its repre- the other holes a

Camp at Janka Puszta, Hungary. He and Pospichil were arrested at Thonon, on the Franco-Swiss frontier, two days after the crime. Mo Kralj, & mechanie, aged 27, of Koprivintan, Jugoslavia. Ho was arrested in the Forest of Fontainebleau after a week's chase In the woods.

OBJECTION OVERRULED Yvan Raltch, one of the accused, was then interrogated.

At first he declined to answer the President's questions on the ground of the poor interpretation. His objection was over-ruled, but Three others were tried in their the questioning went on very absence. All are prisoners in slowly. The President pointed out. foreign gaots, but their extradi- to Raitch that he joined the "Oustachl," Cront terrorist or- tion to France has been refused.

Queen Maria of Jugoslavia was guniantion, in 1933, and then took originally joined in the case with an oath to obey all orders and not a formal claim for damages, in to divulge any of the organisa

¡tion's secrets. accordance with French procedure, but she has withdrawn the claim. The president also recalled that The actual assassin was Peter while Raitch was in prison in Kelemen, a member of a secret France, after a severe mental de- political terrorist society known pression, he was examined by as the "Oustachi," organised by doctors, who admitted that he was Dr. Pavolltch.

only partially responsible for his actions.

The greatest excitement, pre- valled in the town to-day and particularly near the Palace of Justice. Counsel, witnesses and journalists had to pass through ten separato barricades before they could enter the court.

THOUSAND-CUARDS.

A

Behind the Palace were thousand guards ready for action In case of omergency.

Airplanes flow over Aix as a pre-

caution against any air outrage.

For the past week every

Raitch repudiated the idea. of being insane, declaring: "I have never been crazy, and if I was mentally weakened it was simply because the inter- preter told me that I would be tried in Belgrade and that I would be condemned to death by torture."

THIRD POWER

played.

Iments.

Lune could be

Here was a veritable orchestra: "brilliant messages" from Russia, different sets of tones.. since different sizes were made for describing the revolution, and asked

"abrupt questions."

Ignorance could not evolve instruments with such a range of harmony and tone. The ancient race which left these behind were a musically cultur- ed people.

Then he said:---

"The Bolsheviks will restore the front: We must come to an agreement with Trotsky. There Is only one real statesman in Russia, and that is Trotsky."

not Lenin at that time did figure as prominently in the news, He was the power in the back- ground, aboard the Amigo and experiment

"HE IS AN ENEMY”. with theso musical instruments

Harold Williams did not like which had been unplayed for per-Trotsky. He replied to Mr. Lloyd | haps 25,000 years.

It was an eerie experience to sit

SHY

George:

WOMAN

MISSIONARY

land

never seo that."

(Trotsky,axiled-and-puffering from tuberculosis, in now in Oslo.]

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CHINA BUILDING

IN THE SMILER ORBIT

ES IN THE BABY FIRMAMI

"ONE

OF THE SAINTS"

Halifax, Dec. 15.

"EVERY day I have been hoping to see some news of the smiling Nellie Thomas, who went from Halifax to China to be a missionary, Every day I have prayed for her. Do put in your paper more news of

stars,"

It is known that, in order to do-good, unselfish folk, and less about idle people and publicity-seeking film

foreigner arriving in the town hus fend the accused to. the utmost, been questioned closely.

The three men Hatened without

Power.

M. Desbona may attempt to bring This letter from Mrs. P. Harris, of Rectory- The trial opened at nine u.m. in the responsibility of a third lane, London, S.W.17, appeared in a London news- understanding to the President of It is feared, too, that an attempt paper recently. Shortly afterwards enquiries were the court while he paid a high on M. Desbon's life may be made made about Miss Thomas, who sailed in October 1933 for a self-selected missionary post in China,]

tribute to the memory of the dead. by the numerous Jugoslavs who

Thia tribute was followed by an-are now at Aix

other from Maitre Desbons, who He is guarded night and day by added that completo light had not plain clothes members of the in which her predecessor had been murdered yet been shed on the circumstances Sureto Generale.

of the deed, but that it was to be Three British witnesses who hoped that full light would be shed in the course of the pro- ceedings.

were expected to attend the trial, Mr. Ben Riley, M.P., Mr. Rhys Davies, M.P., and Miss Edith The President then read a letter Durham, were not present to-day. from Quson Marie explaining that Another witness, Dr. Ante Trum- she became a civil party to the bich, lender of the Cront Peasant proceedings because only a civil Party, and Jugoslav Foreign party was in a position to obtain Minister in 1918-20, full light on the ramifications of absent, this international terrorist organi- It is reported that his passport sation."

has been confiscated by the She added that today the poal- Jugoslav authorities to prevent tion has been changed, thanks to him attending the trial.

Wit also

three years earlier.

This is what the London. news-eventually reached the Rev. E. paperman learned:

Parry, of St. Augustino's Church,

1. That such people as Mins Thomas the parish principally responsible

do not make life easy for for Miss Thomas's venture, porters.

2. Sho hates publkity-but would not object to your knowing that aho is Still Alive.

3. That she writes to relatives and friends in Halifax telling them about her work--but she would be horrified if they passed the

nown on.

Mr. Parry would say this' much and no more about her:-

"She is a wonderful woman-in- deed, ale la one of the saints.

"The publicity which attended her departure two years ago caused her [a good deal of pain!-

Directed and redirected from one "If you care to wait until I have relative or friend to another, he written to her in China

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