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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936.

VILLAGE OF BLACK MAGIC

WHAT THE POLICE FOUND

SECRETS OF ROSE TINTED

"TEMPLE"

A SENSATION has been caused throughout France by the discovery in a grocery in the village of Vaureal-sur-Oise, on the main Paris- Dieppe road, of a temple given over to Black Masses and other forms of what it generally called Black, Magic or Devil Worship.

The police raided the establishment, and in a rose-tinted room shove the shop, which belongs to a couple named Ligler, they seized crosses, pillories, leather-thonged whips, torture' chairs and other strange implements said to have been' used in the rites practised in the rose chapel.

It is alleged that the couple, finding that their ordinary business was on the down-grade, Jaunched out in this direction two years ago under the guid- ance of a man well known as an authority on these

rites.

He is a native of Lyons and the police are look- ing for him with a view to questioning him about letters nelzed in the raid.

It is alleged that among the papers in the hands of the police are the names and addresses #1! devoteen of the Black Art all over the world, who were advised from time to time of special massen bes ing celebrated, and were in the tabit of arriving under cover of

night at the village at the week- end to take part in the orgles, "Bishop From England

The Cerman Ambassador at Largo, Herr von Ribbentrop, was received in, nudience by King Edward VIIJ, when in London recently. The picture shows Herr von Ribbentrop leaving Buckingham Palace after the audience,

NEW BRITISH RAY

DOOMS SUBMARINES

Britain possesses an almost foolproof anti-submarine

The womnu is alleged to have cloak-device, Mr. de Chair (Cons., S.W. Norfolk), declared in the

ed her activities by pretending to run

a massage business,

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The police say. that occasionally "bishop" of the cult arrived from England to celebrate masses.

PUPILS TO FINISH A STATUE

House of Commons recently.

It operates on the system of a reflector ray,

The possession of this device. he said, means that practicnlly. no submarine can come within | torpedo firing range of a ship | without instant destruction.

"The Light

Standard"

A REVISION MAY BE NECESSARY

The Admiralty have also con- Commenting on the new: structed an anti-nireraft kh|7|“eatalogue of universes" recent- capable of bringing "a terrific ly. Dr. H. Spencer Jones, the New Delhi, Apr. 18. volume of fire" into play in the Astronomer Royal, discussed the SCULPTORS from the studio defence of a harbour or

other possibility that a revision in of the late Charles Jagger ships.

the "light standard" by which arrived here to-day to start

great distances are judged may work on completing the

prose to be necessary. finished statue of King George.

Jagger prepared the and head of the statue, and then fell ill and died.

17-

crown

The rest of the statue, which is a tribute from the Princes of Indin. will be carved out of a solid block

'FLU EPIDEMIC IN PUERTO RICO

San Joan, Puerto Rico, Apr, 01. Health Commissioner Garrido

Morales to-day closed nfl hospitals of marble by his former assistants; and asylums in Puerto Rico to visitors and will be unveiled by Lord Lin-after more than 10,000 cases of in- lithgow in the autumn.

fluenza were reported.

Hollywood's Stars

Fear Its Famous Children

Hollywood, Apr. 10. Any "child nctor" to the aver- age Hollywood star and you will learn a lot, for the world may Jove the Shirley Temples and Jane Withers of Hollywood, but the people who have to act with then do not.

"Put the kids in their own pictures and keep them out of ours." That attitude to-day is reaching the point where it is almost a revolt on the part of film artists,

such

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to say it (two words, 2, 4).

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acting like a bear.

He emphasised, however, that such practical observations must be Fegarded as fitting perfectly with the general mathematical theory of an expanding universe.

12 Masking the Interior. "These observations do confirm," 13 I am discovered in a mantling materin! than was before available, he stated. "from a good deal more} : of the blood of a peculiar

colour.

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that the relationship between the 14 Indicates this century. distance and the speed of movement 17 Neglected (hyphen, 3, 4). of these distant universes is a 23 The garden arrangement usual "linear" one, that is, their speed of in theatres. movement away from our own 27 Famed for balm. universe and from each other is| 29 The fresher this tune the better proportional to their distances." for health.

This Is precisely the relationship 30 The limbless zard (hyphen, 4, required by the "expanding uni- 4) verse"-theory-Yet there remaina 31 Help

a slight discrepancy between the 32 This animal may often be seen Itwo scales of movement-the scale 33 The incidents that give one

in a rabbit-warren. (predicted by Sir Arthur Eddington openings.

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on theoretical grounds, and the 34 Simply sweet! Isn't it? |scule deduced from observations of

other

Spencer universes, Dr. Jones believes that the observa- tional scale any have to be ad- justed.

FIXING STAR DISTANCES Measurement of all greal astrono- A vital strategic link in the defence of Egypt has been com-mical distances, he exclaimed, de- the indica- pended ultimately on tion of distance given by a parti- cular type of star, whlch Sir James Jeans has described as “a standard enndle in the sky."

It started with Shirley Temple and pleted. The new railway from Baby Leroy, and is continuing with Alexandria to Mersa Matruh; on

child'

players Virginia Weidler, Freddie Hartholomew, Jane Withers and Sally Martin. The stars know that any good child actor will "steal" the picture from them, A$ Hollywood puts it.

in

The producers did not worry much about the curly-headed little" blonde youngster who had a dance to do in

THE PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS of Egypt; including the new Dac belween Alexandria and Mersa Matruh, which WAN opened recently.

The chief characteristic of these stars is that their brightness waxes and wanes in a regular sequence, the rapidity of this change being an

They point to the time when Fox the const approaching the Libyan decided to make "Stand Up and border, was opened recently. Cheer," and put, not one, but a whole The line is about 180 miles long Index of their brightness. Where constellation of famous screen artists and the journey will be made by the distance of such stars is notį

it.

express train in six hours, Meran otherwise known, it can therefore Matruh, which is about 100 miles be calculated from a comparison of from the Libyan border, is an their real brightness, deduced in important strategic point.

this way, with their apparent But a week after the picture was Battalions of the Essex and brightness, $1.9 photographed released they realised that they had a Suasox Regiments are leaving through a telescope. gold-mino in Shirley Temple, and that Alexand. a on Thursday for the Dr. Spencer Jones believes that, she was the only one in the film who Sudan. Their places will be owing to various technical difcut- really counted.

battalion of taken by the

the ties, there may be a slight error Hollywood has found that if there

the show.

is an attractive baby in a film, then Grenadier Guards which is now on in the accepted scale connecting the the audience remembers the baby and its way to Egypt in the steamer brightness of such stars with their forgets the stars.

Cameronín.—United Presa,

rapidity of change.

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to and nothing Join. (Sounds like a Christmas club 'turkey, but it isn't.)

3 Goes slow with a berry where

the Admiral may be found.

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mostly dark,

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in bed.

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