1936-04-13 — Page 12

KINGS

LAST TWO DAYS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936.

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CHAMPION OF THE KING

Among those taking part in next year's Coronation of King Edward will be the holders of several historic offices almost un- known to the general public be- cause only the crowning of a Monarch brings them into pro- minence.

No function of this coromons will have more dashing associations than that performed by the King'a Champion, who will bear the Star- dard of England in the King's procession at Westminster Abboy. The present hereditary holder of the office, Mr. F. S. Dymoke, who Is 73, WAS at King George's Coronation.

He is a descendant of the Sir John Dymoke who caused a sensat- ion at the coronation of Richard II. by confronting the procession on the "best horse but one" from the Royal stables in order to challenge to combat any who might gainsay the sovereign's 'claims..

Unfortunately, he had chosen the wrong moment and was curtly bid. den to "take his case and rest awhile" and appear in the proper place at the proper time.

Until the coronation of William IV. the King's Champion would ride full-armed into Westminster Hall during the coronation banquet and fling down his challenging gauntlet.

KEEPER OF JEWEL HOUSE Another picturesque and little known official is the Keeper of the Jewel House, now Sir George Younghusband, who must deliver to

SCIENCE COMES TO AID

OF LUXURY LINER

DINING

Every device known to modern zelence has been used to make the liner Queen Mary supreme. Though a few feet shorter than the French Hner Normandie, engineers are confident that the Queen Mary will set a new speed record crossing the Atlantic. The above layout shows, TOP, some idea of the temendous size of the ship. In the dining salon, three famous ships could easily be accommodated, while each funnel is largo enough

for three locomotives to pass side by side,

the Archbishop of Canterbury the MENNONITE MARTYRS

ruby ring which the latter places on the King's right hand and the

after being hallowed on the altar, is

State Sword of Offering which, PACK UP THEIR TENTS beited about the King by the Lord, FOR ANOTHER TREK

Great Chamberlain..

At the recent proclamation of King Edward many Londoners saw for the first time representatives of the College of Heralds in their tabards. The coronation will bring many more to the processions, with such romantic titles as, Ushers of the Red Wand and the Green, Carnarvon and Fitzalan Pursuivants Extraordinary, and Albany, Ross and Rothesay Heralds.

Last in the procession, if pre- cedent is followed, will be four!

VICTIMISATION IN MEXICO

El Paso, Texas, Mar. 26. Seven thousand Mennonites, many of whom passed through Hongkong on their trip from Russia will leave colonies in Chihuahua state because of a Mexican government decree bar- ring Bibles in Mennonite schools, Albram Dyck, Mennonite prea- cher, has just announced.

Baffling Fakir

curiously-styled officers of the Tricks

Yeomen of tho Guard: the Clerk of

the Cheque and the four Exons.

The Clerk of the Cheque (Brig. "SUGGESTION”...AS

Gen. J. C. Wray) is secretary and

adjutant of the Guard-and-must

EXPLANATION

Dyck, G. J. Rompell and Corne- louls Schmitt, another Mennonite priest, were delegated to go to fanitoba And Saskatchewan, Canada, as delegates of tho Chihuahua Mennonites, to look for prospective sites to which AN Mennonites can migrate.

"The government has taken our Bibles-out-of-our-schools, -and-an-

have been a major in the Army. Stories of Indian fakir tricks order forbids us reading the The Exona must each have been were told by Major G, H. Rooke Bible to our children," Dyck said. captains. The present holders of before the East India Association "Several times we were notified the cffice are Bris. Gen. R. C. A. at the Caxton Hall, London, not to use it in teaching." McCalmont, Lt Col E. B. Fre-

"We may go to British Colum- derick, L-Col. William Gibbs, and

recently.

Whereas sleight-of-hand and added. "We will return

bin, or Alberta, Canada," he Brig. Gen. Lord Roundway. Their

after title derives from the French pro- put forward as the explanations our findings are satisfactory, all conjurors' dexterity are normally three months of investigation. If nunciation of "exempt," an "exempt" having been an officer in, "basket" tricks, Major Rooke oman exodus to the place selected.

of the well-known "maugo" and Chihuahua Mennonites will start the old French Garde du Corps.

phasised the part which sugges- "The Mexican socialistic educa- tion might play in such perfor- tional programme is against our.. beliefs and religion. We can not teach it to our children."

Doomed Man Freed 15 Years After

mances.

About the basket trick, he told a story to show that blood might appear to be shed from a sup posed knife wound, might be "collected" by a doctor on his handkerchief for examination, and yet prove not to be at all.

Bandits who constantly bothor the Mennonites were given as an- other reason for the contemplated exodus. Several Mennonites have been killed by Mexican bandits, Dyck said.

"Conditions in the Chihuahua colonies are satisfactory," he said, "All Mennonites have plenty to eat?

The usual explanation of tho busket trick, in which a sword is run through a basket with a boy inside, is that the boy is small Paris, Apr. 1,

enough to curl bimself round the Exodus of the 7,000 Mennonites basket and avoid the swords ke; will leave behind the products of M LEON AUROGNON, -

Paris tailor, lived for and that, if blood appears on the years of labour. Their schools, fifteen years under a false name sword, then it has been arranged farms and churches, all simple in order to escape a death that the sword shall pass through wooden huts, probably will be penalty passed on him in 1921.some blood, although not the occupied by Mexican peasants.. boy's, on its way through the To-day he was acquitted of the

basket crime.

In 1921 there was a fight in a Paris cafe which ended in the death of Jean Alavoline.

י.

Fifteen years passed, during which the police failed to find any trace of him. Aurognon, however, had started life afresh in another quarter of Parla under the name of "M. Tauzot."

.

Since the Mennonitea are Chihuahua's chief producers and farmers, officials consider their exodus a financial blow.

The Doctor's Story Major Rooke related how he had not himself been allowed to More than 300 have left in run his sword through the basket small groups for Canada, their during such a performance-ao former home,-United Press, Aurognon, who had been in the far supporting the traditional ex- cafe, "disappeared" and was sen-planation. Then he told his.story

Bowl Of Earth”- F,' tenced to death in his absence for of the doctor, the crime.

Major Rooke confirmed the A certain Dr. Gordon Dill, he sleight-of-hand explanation whon stated, had on one such ocen he saw the trick on his verandah;' slon witnessed the magiclan but also quoted other personal drive a knife through the arm descriptions in which the trick of one of his confederates. had been performed. In a com Blood spurted out, the doctor pound, with better opportunities put his hand with a handker-for accurate observation, and by chlef under the man's arm, saw men wearing only a dhoti and the bloodstain on the handker- provided with no other apparatus chief, and returned the hand- but a bowl of earth and a cloth. He married, built up a prosperous

kerchief to his pocket. tailoring business, and brought up

"In a particular cose related to "Shortly afterwards," he added, me by, a harrister friend, subso- nine children. Nobody suspected "when the magician had departed, quently a Judge in the Indian his secret until last week, when he on taking out the handkerchief, | Civil Service," was betrayed to the polica.

-Major Rooke The found no trace whatever of the stated, "he said the magiclan ro To-day, aged and white-haired, bloodstains, which had comploto- fused to allow him to touch the Leon Aurognon stood in the dock. ly disappeared."- The case of fifteen years ago was

mango plant when at its fullest Similarly tho mango trick is development. tried again. This tinte, however, usually attributed to sleight-pf "On asking the juggler how it ho was represented by a lawyer hand. In this, a mango seed is was done, he replied, "It is maya' who claimed that the sentence of planted and covered with a cloth, (Sanskrit for filualon); which death was unjustified because his and as the cloth is successively suggests that, in this instance, client had acted in self-defence, lifted various stages of growth, the trick had a

The court agreed, and

psychological Aurognon' left the dock a free man.

up to the point of fruiting, are basis and consequently no genuine displayed.

Jactuality, at all.".

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