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Of Peer's Sister

THE funeral of the Hon. Mrs. Daisy Carleton Bunbury, 63-year-old sister of Lord Dorchester, at Nately Scures, near Basingstoke, Hants, has brought to light these two facts:-

1. That she was found|- dead in bed at her home, the Red House, Hook, on a re- cent Sunday..

2. That an inquest was held [recently, the coroner recording a verdict that she committed suicido by taking cyanide of potassium while of unsound mind.

The coroner, Major H. M. Foster, stated that the inquest was "not secret in any way."

Mrs. Bunbury was the widow of Brig.-General Vesey Thomas Bun- bury. She had recently worried over

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and vigorously opposed the enclos- Former Sinai Governor's

ing of part of Hook Common as a playing field.

OIL FIND

REPORTED IN KENYA

Nairobi, Dec. 15.

Weather Theory

Major C. S. Jarvis, Governor of Sinal for 14 years and known to every Arab in the Middle East n Jarvis Bey, recently explained his theory of the Bible story of the flight of the Israelites from Egypt. He was addressing the Ethnic Study Group in London.

The way in which the "hen" was dry when the Isarelites crossed and flooded when the Egyptians attempted no miracle, he the crossing, was declared.

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A GREAT ollfeld, described na comparable with that of Iran, is reported to have been discovered in Kenya by a French engineer, M. J. Dejean, who has been prospecting in the colony for two yenra,

M. Dejean is keeping secret the area where he claims to have made his discovery while his application| A narrow strip of annet separates the for 1 exclusive Heence is being Mediterranean from Lake Pardawit, considered by the local

government In vast lagnon, and my theory is that

"The pillar of Are described Exodus would probably be caused by one of the squalls which still occur in Sinal and enuse a column of cloud from which lightning flashes at night,

and Secretary of State.

the Israelites marched along this He states, however, that negolla-strip. tions are proceeding for the forma- tion of a prospecting company to "A qual and rain followed and, carry out a complete survey before jos sill happens to-day, the sea broke the main exploitation company is over the sand into the lagoon. I have floated.

seen it happen in 12 hours. The whole army of Egyptions was caught,

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It is learnt that other groups in- "I have arrived at my theory by terested in oil have also applied for studying the two books of the Bible, concessions in various parts of the Exodus And Numbers, and from

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in Sinal. There is no record in Egyptian history of the night, so one muy believe it was not such an epoch- making event as the Isrnelites would like us to believe,"

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