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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936,

VILLAGE OF BLACK MAGIC

WHAT THE POLICE FOUND

SECRETS OF ROSE TINTED "TEMPLE"

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 is generally called Black Magic or Devil Worship,

Crosses,

The police raided the establishment, and in a rose-tinted room above the shop, which belongs to a couple named Ligler, they seized 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, launched out in this direction two years ago under the guld- ance of a man well known as an authority on these ritea.

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

It is alleged that among the papers in the hands of the polled are the names and addresses of devotees of the Black. Art all over the world, who were advised from time to time of special masses be Ing celebrated, and were in the habit of arriving under

COYCT of

night at the village at the week- end to take part in the orgles,

"Bishop" From England

The German Ambassador at Large, Herr von, Ribbentrop, was received in audienze by King Edward VIII, when in London recently. The picture shows Herr von Ribbentrop leaving Buckingham Palace after the ntlenes.

NEW BRITISH RAY

DOOMS SUBMARINES

Britain possesses an almost foolproof anti-aubmarine

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

ed her activities by pretending to run House of Commons recently.

a massage business.

The police say that occasionally. a

It operates on the system of

"bishop" of the cult arrived from a reflector ray. England to celebrate masses.

PUPILS TO FINISH A STATUE

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

"The Light

Standard"

A REVISION MAY BE NECESSARY

The Admiralty have also con Commenting on the new structed an anti-aircraft ship ["catalogue of universes" recent- capable of bringin terrific ly, Dr. H. Spencer Jones, the 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

New Delhi, Apr. 18.

of the late Charles Jagger ships. arrived here to-day to start work on completing the un-) finished statue of King George.

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

The rest of the statue, which is a tribute from the Princes of India, will be carved out of a solid block of marble by his former assistants, and will be unveiled by Lord Lin-

lithgow in the autumn.

'FLU EPIDEMIC

IN PUERTO RICO

San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 9. Health

Coin:Issioner Garrido

the "light standard" by which great distances are judged may prove to be necessary,

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

"These observations do confirm," Morales to-day closed all hospitals he stated, "Trom a good deal more material than was before available, und asylums in Puerto Rico to visitors that the relationship between the after more than 10,000 cases of in-distance and the speed of movement

of these distant universes

fluenza were reported.

Hollywood's Stars

Fear Its Famous Children

Hollywood, Apr. 10. Say "child actor to the aver age Hollywood star and you will learn a lot, for the world may love the Shirley Temples and Jane Withers of Hollywood, but the people who have to act with them do not.

"Put the kids in their own pictures and keep them out of oure, altitude to-day is reaching the point

That

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3 Not so many, even if one sheep'

is folded.

8 A writing in the form of the

last two-thirds.

Where one puts up with broken rest.

10 Good-bye! It takes a wise man

to say it (two words, 2, 4). 11 Growing about middle age, and

acting like a bear.

12 Masking the Interior.

13 I am discovered in a mantling of the blood of # pecullar colour.

14 Indicates this century.

17 Neglected (hyphen, 3, 41.

10 Wind instrument.

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 20 The fresher thts tune the better proportional to their distances."

for health.

This is precisely the relationship 30. The Imbiess lizard (hyphen, 4, required by the "expanding uni-

4).

verse" theory. Yet there remains 31 Help.

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

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

on theoretical grounds, and the 34 Simply sweet! Isn't it?

senle deduced from observations of other

Spencer universes. Dr. Jones balleves that the observa- tional scale may have to be ad-;

RAILWAY COMPLETED justed.

Alexandria, Apr. 6, ·|

FIXING STAR DISTANCES

A vital strategie link in the; Measurement of all great astrono where it is almost a revolt on the defence of Egypt has been commical distances, he exclaimed, de

part of film artists.

Alexandria to Meran Matruh, on

THE PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS of Egypt, Including the new line between Alexandría and Mersa Matruh, which

opened WOR

recently,

tion of distance given by a parti- cular type of star, which Sir James | Jeana has described as "n standard candle in the sky.”

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

It started with Shirley Temple and pleted. The new railway from pended ultimately on the Indica- Baby Leroy, and in continuing with Auch child players AR Virginia Weldier. Freddie Bartholomew, Jane! Withers and Sally Martin. The stars know that any good child actor will "steal" the picture from them, as Hollywood puts it.

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

express train in six hours. Mersal otherwise known, it can therefore The producers did not worry much Matruh, which is about 100 miles be calculated from a comparison of about the curly-headed little blonde youngster who had a dance to do in from the Libyan border, is an their real brightness ́ deduced In the show.

important strategic point.

this way. with their apparent But a week after the picture was Battalions of the Essex and brightness, 0.9 photographed released they realised that they had a Sussex Regiments are leaving through a telescope., gold-mine in Shirley Temple, and that Alexandria on Thursday for the Dr. Spencer Jones believes that, aho was the only one in the film who Sudan.' Their placca will be owing to various technical difficul- really counted.

the ties, there may be a slight error Hollywood has found that if there taken by the battalion of

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

Cameronia.-United Press.

rapidity of change,

DOWN

Boy

1 Going hence

a muny thinks it nicer to make hoste slowly.

2 Bird you can have for a shil- ing and nothing to 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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4 Much the same as slating. 5 Fame.

6 Bright, on the whole, though

mostly dark.

7 Stand.

13 The major portion, at any rate,

of this airship Is not rigid.

15 Go wrong, and you won't find

it in the ancient city.

10 Famed.

18 The only truly wee lamb.

20 Surface eoryer.

21 Bright.

22 Smiling.

24 What one is one enjoys when

in bed.

25 Sours.

20 What the rooster dova.

28 Like certain games, always of

some value,

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