1936-07-24 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY

WEIRD THINGS A HONGKONG DOCTOR SAYS HE SAW

Dead Man Brought To Life

EARLIER this week the "Tele-

tph" published some of the remarkable history of a former University of Hongkong lecturer, Dr. Alexander Canton

Dr. Camon left Hongkong for London in 1930, after three years in this Colony.

During his stay here, he chinnienced writing a book that created such a Mensation in London that he was asked by the LC. to resign his psychiatrist and research pua! worker at one of the L.C.C, mental hospitnik.

Wanders, believes Dr. Cannon, are simmering in the brain of Man- wonders that almost any day now may fed over and invest the Work! we know it with a new meaning, and a new majesty,

Telepathy.

hypnotism

levitation

black magic.AL All the things we swer al as the Dr. superstitions of the ancien's Cannon believes we ne trembling cur the brink of their re-discovery,

In his book. "Invisible"

He says

Influence", in which he loserities ference to the Grand Lama of Tibet, and dicensors all sorts of unsangy experienes he says he has em the way. Be visited That Just before he came to Hongkom, mid much of The material in the book was written, in this Colony,

Dr. Can was described in a.. recent review of his book (which still Commande sent attention in psychic etrol) the shyent of mortals, why do not puurt publicity.

J

Madam writing in the London Sunday Despoteh id:

"Dr. Cannon has given his views to the world in "invisible Influence." nad he is content to leave it at that. That I have had ten with his firs of friends and from them I heard much of the man and his work.

This is how the well-known London writer continues:

Dr. Canson is nimost, as much ascetic as any one of the Yogis from whom he is fearnt his magic. Te neither smokes nor drinks, le is almost a vegetarino,

His age is a mystery, The L.C.C. put him down as 39. One of his Triends told me he looked a little younger than that. Another nld he looked about fifty, Arcording them, he himself says that he fee07

veare younger than stict tes

agn."

"DIE NOW!"

to

This question of age has a prên.

Har significance, for in his book, Dr.

Cannon refers to a certain Professor

X, who says to him

Fig Tree Withered By Command

Men Floating Across 300-ft. Deep Gorge

"One of our members was lifted by purely mental means"

"Have you realised that neither Sage set out for Lhanin, and, wery you nor I look day older than we suddenly confronted by a wide, will, did twenty years ago? To us age impassable river

which loyal the foot of a 300-ft. deep gorge. Now bet De. Cannon take up the story:

has censed to count; the years matter not- am now one hundred years old; but I dare not tell the multitude That, because they would came miles ( to look on me, with wonder, for I look not a day more than forty years Bf

Dr. Carmon then goes on to de; scribe the Professor's pawers and ward- mm. talls of a remarkable demonstration | of them.

Together they approached an an- cient fig-tree in a vineyard. I must have been hundreds of years ok). The Professor addressed it thus

LANDED SAFELY

"On the other side could be seen our friend the Knight Commander, in glowing scarlet robes, on horse- back, with his one arm, looking to

"He soon gave us instructions us to how we should cross this gulf, by the practising of the levitation and transportation phenomenn, in which we hail become, ere this, adept in its

fret manipulation.

"Within the course of few hours had nude our bodily state fit to great mirivulous trans allow of

Thou hast done well; thou hast weathered the storms of life, thou hast comforted and protected my soul. Now bust thy time come to

portation phenomenon taking place depart from this world of vanity and by pure mental effort, and in another Die now, and eume to moment of time we were both landed sufely on the other side, but our boys and fugiene still remained on yonder side.

nothing!" life 1317

To The Cannon's amazement, the tree withered as they watched, and from that day to this the spot has: We were then requested to com- beent barren of growth.

and the boys, to return with our mand Actually, photographs were taken fuggage to the cave dwellings of the mirnele but the doctor's await our return, friends dvelure to me that even if they did produce them they could hantly be regarded as proof so long

nftar the event,

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"The Knight Commander said: Now you will require no treasure and no more clothes; for now we can materialise all that is needed for the The most astonishing passage in support of the human frail frame." this astonishing book, however, is Two horses appeared out of the air Dr. Cannon's description of his visit and within seven hours they reached to the Great Thama of Tibet. He the Convent.

These are the sort of amazing a long journey to investigate i was on

Cannon [ statements on which Dr. the mysteries of the East.

The doctor and his companion, was dismissed from the L.C.Cand whom he describes as The Sage, were reinstated after he had convinced the camning In n rave near the borders committee that his statements were of Tibet on their way to the event true, Lhama

Friends came to corroborate his Che Convent where

marvellous stories. Lhamna dwelt.

HOW DID HE KNOW?

Great

They were visited by a mysterious personage wearing scarlet robes and a black can. This visitor, who was on horseback and had only one arm declared himself as the Knight Com mander and emissary of the Grent Lhamn, and announced that Dr. Cannon was to be invested with that suprenie honour, Knight Commander of Asia, which is equal to an earl dom.

They questioned the newcomer. How did he, kanw of the coming honour? When ind he heard? And he made it clear that he had received telepathic communication from the Great Lhama himself-thousands of miles away.

Time proved that it was so. Dr. Cannon and The Sage decided to await the coming of the summer before pushing on to the Convent, and the Knight Commander, after n day or two's stay, departed.

He made his body make the

something like 2,000-mile

journey in Three hours!

|

STONE COLD

"I was given the privilege of going down from the golden standard and examining the body. There was no the heart-beats; pulse, no audible body was stone cold, ard the eyes were as one dead for more than one day. I tested the absence of brenth by means of a mirror, which did.not stenm, and the body lay lifeless as in the grave.

According to Mrs. Howat Meken- zie, a close friend of Dr. Cannot with whom I spoke, live coals have heen handled by non-professional pychle students at home circle meel- ines in London!

ANOTHER WORLD

"You must remember,” gald Mrs. Mckenzie, "that all these things are being done by psychic means by our awn people here. The only differ ence is that the hamns have their minds so thoroughly tuned that no preparation

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1936.

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On Page 2

WHO

1. Crawford and McGrath. 2.-r, A. Canton, who was attach ed to the University of Hongkong: from 1927 to 1930.

-The Negus himself.

1.- -G, 0, Allen.

--The Editor of the Boerseni Zeitung.

6.---ex-King Alfonso of Spain.

7. Robert Flaherty.

8.-H.M, King Edward.

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1.-Because the English birch was unsuitable in Hongkong's climate.

To bring General Chan-Chai- tong from Canton,

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WHAT

Ronald Colman. Mr. R. P. Phillips. 3,--Turkish 4.-Austria:

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1. In Hoteln. 2-At Olympin, in Greece.

HOW

Then the Great Lbania uttered words is 11 language which was strange and, behold, the eyes of the corpse opened. The body gradually sat up in its tomb, and then, assisted

1.-By issuing pamphlets to Chinese by two monks, it walked towards residents, warning them of the ter The Great hama; 'bowed, and re-, rible consequences of addiction. Lorned to its, coffin, not for

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DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

"The Great Linma having mean. time read all my thoughts, told me that what I saw was a catalepfle

GRDER IS THE BANITY OF THE MIND. state far greater than any Fakir T: HEALTH OF THE BODY, THE PEACE could produce, and that, in fact, thisF THE CITY, THE SECURITY OF THE

had been dead some seven yours: that he would not be raised for another seven years. «

ALIVE FOR EVER

"I was further informed that this

man" WIN some hundreds of years

old and may live for ever-if 'living' it could be called.

bat, in fact,

"A Lover, of Fair Play."--You should convey your complaint to the manager of the theatre concerned,

STATE. AS THE BEAMS TO A HOUSE, AS THE BONES TO THE MICHOCOSM OF

Ng Lun, 37, unemployed, when MAN, SO IN QUEG TO ALL THINGS charked before Mr. W. Schofield, at Souther

the Central Magistracy this morning,

the theft with

of П milley wheel, property of the Peak Tram way Company, admitted 15 previous convictions, and was sentenced to four months hard labour and two years' pólico supervision. Sergeant fill prosecuted. Defendant stated he had picked the wheel from the tram truck.

Local estate to the value of $24,300 was left by the late Mr. Chu Wai

Rafael Cuy, grocer, yung alias formerly of Sha Kal village, Kau "I asked the Great Lhama what Kong, who died on November 26, happened to this mna's soul or un-1935. Probate of the will has been conscious mind in the meantime, granted to Chu Chan-shi, concubine. was then informed that he visited i Mother Earth in various parts, taking messages from the Great Lħajna, and Tsui Yau, aged 10. unemployed, admitted the possession of three trees, he was the Great Knight Comman-suspected of having been stolen, on der who had taken on another the Taipo Road yesterday, and was body with only one arm: this being sentenced to one month's imprison- symbolic of the Order of the Right ment by Mr. Macfadyen at the Kow-

Joun Magistracy the presence of the Great Llama... Dr. Cannon and The Sage dis-Inspector W. R. Chester Woods said "As we entered in the innermastussed the aura which surrounded the trees were fresh ones, and were room of all the Grand Hall, there at the Great Linn. The Sage sald, valued at $15. the East end at a beautiful golden that the aura of a man always foli standard and-theon stood the Great owed the entour of his body, while

hann himself.

that of a woman, after following the

Dr. Cannon goes on with his story he and The Sage were take Into

"A strange feeling crept over us as our eyes, discerned him, for there was bluish emanation of about three inches lekness covering the sur- face of his body; in fact a visible aura, which meliums always speak uf, when they behold a person during the trance state.

droge

land'."

Loar of the legs.

SEEING AN AURA 4

this

morning.

O, Lebloch, of No. 2 Minden Avenue, was summoned before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with driving motor-cycle No. 36 without a white front light at

Nathan Rond on June 26 about 0.10 P. Constable R. MeVey stated that he Faw defendant driving along the rond, and, on stopping him, tested the lighting system and found the battery was not working. A fine of $5 was imposed.

*

Two accidents were reported to the Tine of the head, fell in an often police yesterday as the result of in-

Two brothers from Canton, »• Kan the knees and then took up the conjuries received by two persons who alighted frean moving tran-ears. In the first casu, a woman, Lee Chan, Chow and Kan Kin, were charged with Kowloon 3:3. was sent to the Government Civil Aegging in Shanghai Street before Hospital after she lind fallen in Den Mr. Macfadyen at the said The Sage, and anyone can do moving trani. Also sent to the Govt the Colony to have his eyeu

"I can make you see an aura," Voeux Rond whilst jumping off a Magistracy this morning. First de tendant, who was blind, said he came

treated standing inferament Civil Hospital was Choy at the Kwong With Hospital, and. likewise by sitting or front with a light shining upon the Ching, 36, who tried to jump off

second defendant had come with hin as his guide. Both defendants were server's face from an angle of tram in Johnston Road, Wanchai.

bound over and ordered to be sent about thirty degrees in front of, to

į back to the country.

The

side, and above the level of in

yes; and looking straight in front

war

Chan Ying, 52-year-oki married woman, was charged with possession of 239 sticks of dynamite and a rimilar number of detonators Kung Reid on July at Sat

"We'could see no one else but the Grens God of Learnlug, and Love; although we could hear music in the ir, and the sweet chanting of mele dious songs,

"As we approached, the Grent

A man with convictions dating hack Lhuma from his throne in of him in at the subject, some three to 1911 was brought before Mr. Mac- or four feet away in an ordinary fadyen at the Kowloon Magistrncy honour of our visit, and bowed most

room-the darker the wall the better this morning, charged with the theft graciously; after which we were to sik

and black being the perfect colour of a cotton quilt cover from No. 116

Street Then entered a

host of monks to throw out the aura."

Not all of these phononsent are To Kaleung, used 26, unemployed. carrying huge aming torches; and

E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- the Detective-Sergeant J. Headruge sald સા they having seated themselves in a unknown although, of course,

tracy this morning. Det-Sgt. D. G. previous convictions in. defendant's large circle, for the room was round, Thanas have brought the Mind to a

receiving, inrceny, house MacPherson said defondant This was done by means of the still continued to chant. The Great higher state than any other living cluded

breaking and loitering, and he was arrested by a Chinese, constable who levitation, and transportation pheno Lhumu prayed, and at that moment people. mann, Merely by the exercise of his eight men entered carrying a huge For instance, Dr.. Cannon tells of still under police supervision. His found the explosives in two baskets aix she was carrying. The police were heavy slong coin, which stone a Fakir (pronounced Fack-co-er, by Warship sentenced defendant, to

tivo unable to trace the will, he raised himself in the air and ring-sink di they remove, and, the way) who walked for ten minutes months! hard labour, and to

source of the sent himself across the vast spaces.

the dynamite. A. Ane of $50, or one When the appainted time came for behold, we saw one who appeared to

month's brind labour, was imposed. their Journey, Dr. Cannon and The be dead.---

on red-hot coals without avon blister years police supervision ing his foot...

lexpiration of his term.

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Vatican City, July 23. Omleials have denied reports that

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