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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH

1936.

TWINS BORN ON VOYAGE

FROM H.K.

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SLIP of blue paper has just arrived in London. It bears the names of two baby girls. Officials have docketed it among the prosaic files of the Board of Trade,

Behind it lies one of the sea's minor romantic dramas., The story begins in the lonely, wastes of the Pacific on a blazing hot morning last October.

The British steamer Silver-

beech, 5,811 tons, carrying a hand- Patriotism

ful of passengers, is ploughing her

way lazily towards Vancouver.

The Philippine Islands and

Above

Hongkong, whence she is steaming, Profit

lie thirteen hundred miles astern.

An agitated man approaches the master-Captain" William Irvine, a Shetland Islander-on the bridge, and tells him that n Dutch woman passenger about to give birth to a child. The Silverbeech corries neither doctor nor siewardess.

is

Urgent wireless messages are sent out, seeking help from some nearby ship.

But this is one of the loneliest shipping lanes. There

ships within reach.

are

no

Help comes at last in a message from far-away Guam. The Silver- beech's messages have been picked up there. The medical officer at the local hospital is standing by the transmitter.

Sentence after sentence 遺 slowly tapped out and flashed across the ocean-fuli Instruc- tions how to deal with the case. Captain Irvine, his chief mate. Mr. J. Thompson, and the woMAN'A husband, a Canadian named Kins-

son,

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Shanghai, Feb. 20 “Patriotism above profit" has apparently become the motto of à Japanese dry- cleaning plant here, which offered to dry-clean Japanese flags in Shanghai free of charge, in connection with the recent anniversary of the founding of the Em- pire. Officials of the firm announced that they wanted, to make sure that only fresh and clean flags would be flown here in honour of the occasion.

Taking the firm at its word, the local Japanese community

-United Press:

FILM STAR LEAVES

SOLOMON'S ARK IS IN

One of the many pictures for which Mise Anna May Wong, noted film star, posed during her stay in Hongkong, She left yesterday for Shanghai.

HUNTER LAUGHED

ETHIOPIA?

A PRINCESS'S CLAIM PRINCESS ASEA YILMA, member of the Royal Solomonic House of Ethiopia, and the wife of a British officer, believes that the Ark of the Covenant, stolen from King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem nearly 3,000 years ago, now in the possession of the Ethio- pian Church,

AT SPIRIT LIONS

PAID WITH LIFE

Johannesburg, Feb. 20.

swamped the plant with flaga BIG GAME HUNTER J. R. GODDARD, known throughout South Africa for his skill and courage, was given a task, by the Government of Northern Rhodesia last week.

Lightning Kills Witch Doctor' Who

instructions follow those

faithfully.

to the world not "Brought"

They bring into the world not

one baby, but two-twins. One

is born at 11.31 n.m., the other

al 11.38.

Rain

The doctor keeps in touch. All Harrismith (Orange Free State), gos well. Several days

Inter proud parents and healthy babies leave the ship at Vancouver.

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Feb. 20. A witch doctor who is ne credited with having "brought" rain to two farms in the Harri-

The babies were born in a Bri-ith district was struck dead tish ship. Now they are register-by the lightning in the storm ed at Somerset House.

Their names?

which followed.

This story told in Harrismith'

Silver Beth Klasson and Sylviais vouched for by two leading Beech Klasson.

Alleged Betrayer Of Nurse Cavell Freed

Paris, Feb. 20.

GASTON QUIEN, a

farmers o whose properties the "magic" is said to have occurred. flere is the story told by the two farmers. Mr. W., D. Mylrea and Mr. J. Bronn.

The natives on the farm of these two men collected money

to pay

an old witch doctor on Mr. Bronn's farm to "make" rain.

Incantations

The old man was away, but hisi son, who had been partially initiat,] ed into witch doctor's mysteries, accepted the offer.

The money was handed over and the young witch doclor took up Iris position outside his hut with

wife on either side. Then fol lawed incantations and mystical signs.

Within half an hour rain fell

Not enough rain had fallen to

satisfy the natives. They collect- fed another £1. This was offered

Frenchman, who is alleged to have betrayed from a cloudless sky. It was con- Nurse Cavell to the Ger-fined to the two furms. mans, has been released after serving 20. years' imprisonment for es- pionage on behalf of Germany.

According to Le Journal he declares that he is innocent, and is preparing. documents to prove that he was the victim of mis- taken identity.-Exchange.

Gaston Quien was sentenced to death in 1918, having been found) guilty of being the principal auther of Nurse Cavell's denunciation.

Some doubt about his guilt arose when the case was reviewed, and the sentence was commuted to 201 years' imprisonment.

British

Moslems Elect Woman Leader

only on condition that suficient

rain fell next time.

A Deluge Again the incantations and This time. there was so signs. much rain that not only were dams filled in the farms, but fences were washed away in the flood.

As the rain, was abating n black cloud was seen to form overhead. There was a flash of lightning and the witch doctor was struck dead. The native women beside him were un- Injured.-Router.

Man-cating lions were taking heavy toll of the natives near Lusaka. Warriors, considered mighty hunters among their own people, refused to spear the killers.

For these, the witch doctors told them, were no ordinary llons but reincarnated spirits of the human dend.

Goddard heard the stories, laughed, and prepared his guns and equipment.

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Early yesterday morning a party of natives found all that was left of hunter J. R. Goddard in the bush. A black-maned lion had dragged him from the hut where he was sleeping, and killed him.

Prisoners Sail For The States

Three prisoners were put on board the Dollar liner President McKinley by Shanghai United States authorities last week when the liner cleared for Seattle. Two of the men, Mr. Frank Jny

Raven and Mr. J. Warner Brown, had been recently convicted in the U. S. Court here, while the third was Mr. J. Garland Ogden, being ex- tradited to stand trial in Memphis, Tennessee. A large number of friends came to see Raven and Brown off on their journey to McNeill's Island penitentiary. Upper picture shows Mr. Raven with his young on and Mrs. E. G. Clarke, Lower left is Mr. Brown and lower right. ia Mr. Ogden with United States Marshal, Mr. Edward L. Faupel.

Dramas Of

Three Women

GIRL WHO FILM STAR'S

LOVED

MOTHER

DILLINGER IN TROUBLE

Millan (Michigan), Feb. 20. Evelyn Frechette, Bloc-eyed half- Indian beauty, who was once the envy of every "gunman's moll" in THE Moslems of Britain are, America, walked out of fall hero

for the first time, to bo led to-day.

Buchlinan- by a woman-Mrs.

She had served a twenty-one Hamilton, a widow, of Southsea. months sentence for harbouring her lover, John (Killer) Dillinger, "I first became interested in the Public Enemy No. 1, when every 'faith," she and "through the in-police force in America was hunt- fluence of Lord Hendloy, I am ing him down.

now honorary president-I do not She sat by his side in the car in any sense control the Moslem from which he conducted his Society."

raids, and thrilled to the sound of Well versed in the Koran, Mrais machine gen spitting death at

the police. Buchanan-Hamilton, who is mid- "Now I am going straight," she dle-aged, spends much of her time said. to-day. "Crime! What roading Moslem scriptures,"

have I got to show for it now?" Sir Hubert Omar Rankin re- She smiled bitterly. "Just twenty cently resigned from the chair dollars enough to buy a dress. manship of the society after I'm going to seek shelter from re- disagreement on a point of policy, latives of mine"... "Indians,”

Chicago, Feb. 20.

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WOMAN IN

RUSH FOR DIAMONDS

She also believes that so long the s the Ark remains thero Italians cannot conquer Abyssinia. Sheba, according to the Ethio- pians, was part of Abyssinia, and not in South Arabia, as it is generally supposed to have been.

The princess tells the story of the Ark, according to the Ethio- plan tradition, in a book published in London this month "Haile Selas- |sle."

Princo's Quest According to the Ethiopian tradition, the Queen of Sheba, in Jerusalem, became the mother of

after her visit to Solomon

a

son who was named Ebna Hakim. and when asked ab

The boy grew up a great hunter, his father his mother told him that Solomon lived a long way off. The young prince declared that he would go and find him.

He went, with a big caravan. His likeness to Solomon was so

t

striking that Solomon and every

one else in Jerusalem knew frst sight who he was. Solomon embracad him

and exclaimed: "He is handsomer than 1, and his stature are those of form and David, my father, in his darly manhood."

Ebna Hakim gave Solomon' the ring Solomon had given to his mother, and asked Solomon for the fringe of the Ark of the Covenant, which the Queen of Shehn désired, so that her people I might worship it.

Solerson urged his son to remain with him, but Ebna Iakim grew tired of Jerusalem, and begged' leave to return to Ethiopia. Solo- mon at last agreed, and com- manded that his counsellors should send their eldest sons with Ebna Hakim to serve him in his own country.

Gold And Jewels Solomon kave his son gold, · silver, precious stones, horses, camels,. chariols, mules and wagons for the long journey.

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Ebna Inkim's advisers, the sons of Solomon's counsellors,. were afraid that when they left Jerusalem, the resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant, the Almighty would no longer pro- tect them, and Azarlas, the son of Zndok the High Priest, hay- ing sworn the offers to secrecy, proposed that they should take the Ark with them.

His plan was that they should steal it from the Temple at night, and leave a substitute in

Its place.

This plan was carried out. But Ebna Hakim was not told until the caravan roached Ethiopia."

When the Queen of Sheba saw the Ark she renounced her throno in favour of her son, and made the nobles swear that never

again

I would they set a wontan upon the

throne.

From the day when the Ark left Jerusalem the power of Israel be- gan to decline, while the power of Ethiopia grow greater and greater.

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Mexico City, Feb. 22. DEXLEY in Kent is to seck a The mother of Johnny A Young English bride, Mrs.D charter of Incorpora- ("Tarzan"). Weissmuller, film star] Arthur Hewed, fa the lone woman tion. The urban district husband of film star Lupe Velez, among a horde of prospectors of wishes to become a borough.

In four years the population of faces eviction from her modest all races who are seeking Mexico's Chiengo home...............

lost diamond mine...

Bexley has more than doubled. In 1936 Spring Styles A "garnishce order" that would. It is believed that the mine is The 1931 CONBUS Tevealed tha

for liking and Golf take from her the £3 a week she somewhere in the tropical Jungles population of the district as 83,000. In 1938 it is more than carns as a cook, to pay her debts, of Guerrero State.

The ancient Spaniards drew 70,000.

PRICES is threatened.

fabulous wealth from it. In 1811 Ten thousand houses have beca To-day she appeared before the it was captured by the Independ- built in Boxley since 1931. courts. "Johnny doesn't know enco forces. They used fis, dia- Then the Southorn Railway elec

LOW about my debts," she said. "Imonds to pay the costs of their re-trifled the railway line running to didn't want to pester him with my volution,

Dartford and Gravesend, Then General Vincente Guerro, troubles, and I have. always re fused to take help from him." leader of the revolutionaries, was Meanwhile Johnny has made a assassinated, and with him died statement in Hollywood that he the secret of the mine's location. has paid his mother £40 a month.j Several Guerrero Indians have

That is news to us," her lawyer been found carrying uncut stones, London could be reached in sald. "Mrs. Welssmuller out of her but they hold them sacred, and twenty minutes. Rows of impo earnings as a cook, supports an- refuse to reveal where they are to sing noonlighted shops wero other son who is out of work."! be found.

erected. Super cinemas built.

The result was that Bexley experienced the most natonish- log Influx of new · ratepayers over known in the south of Eng- Iand.

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