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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1937.

Author Discovers "Eyeless Sight" Reads Blindfold: Strangest Story of Post-war Science

Hotel "Patria" owned by famous Jan Klepura, the Polish health_re- sort of Kryulen in the Western Car- pathians, where Princess Julians and Prince Bernhard are Incognito.

ROYAL ROMANCE ENDS

ZOG OF ALBANIA

GIVES UP LOVE,

SIGHTLESS

TAUGHT TO

M.

"SEE"

· By ANDREW KIDD

JULES ROMAINS, the famous French author, has taught him- self to "see" without the use of his eyes, and believes that he can develop this gift in people afflicted with blindness.

Recently I sought out M. Romains, who is visiting London.

"He has one of the most brilliant minds. I have ever encountered," his hostess, Miss Henriet- ca Leslie, told me.

Just after the war M. Romains conducted

a series of remarkable ́experiments which led him to the conclusion that we have a network of microscopic "eyes" in the skin all over our bodies.

These body-eyes, which are so minute that in cer- tain circumstances they can enable us to see through our clothes, have, M. Romains claims, helped sightless and blindfold people to read, discern objects, and colours.

The First Clue

The uncanny sense of blind men and of sleep-walkers first gave hlin the clue to his system.

He believed that in such abnormal circumstances, when normali Wight by the body was called

poss

inn

In his Brst experiment, M Romains picked a subject at random and tightly blindfolded him. subject at random and tightly blind- folded him.

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The subject was then told that, Following the breaking-off of although his eyesight had been sup his romance with an auburn-faculty of vision that he undoubtedly

pressed, he was going to use haired Austrian heiress, King possessed, Zog, handsome, dark and dapper, Albanian Monarch, has decided to abandon all thoughts of marriage, writes a London cor- respondent in Albania.

He intends to devote himself to work, completing the reorganisation of his country into a modern State.

For years he has been in search of

a bride, but now--

His latest move is to decree that the vells whleh have hidden the faces of Albanian women for centuries

should disappear.

Not since the World began hus uny country changed so completely in so short a space of time 15 rocky, malarla-ridden Albania.

A newspaper was then placed in the subject's hands, and he was told

to concentrate on "reuding" 1.

define

COTTON 'FIELD' OF CEMENT

SCIENTIST RAISES RECORD CROP

New York, Jan. 30.

AMERICA'S cotton fields of the South may be transformed into an expanse of concrete pavements with cotton growing from drilled holes, raised by a minimum of human labour and producing a record- breaking yield.

This is possible as the result of experi- ments by a research scientist named Le Floyd, at Lagrange (Georgia).

Noticing cotton protruding through a hole in the concrete pavement near a warehouse, he plant-

a test "Geld."

Les Landes district in France, which was formerly swampy landed stilts are sill worn. The picture Fhows some stilts dancers from Les Landes en route to Albert Hall,

London, to be present at the Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

PRINCE

He obtained perfect plants, most of them pro- ducing 100 bolls each in drought conditions or three times the yield of an average farm in a normal season.

TO

GIVE

UP DREAM GIRL'

HA

CAIRO, Jan. 25. [ANDSOME thirty-four-year-old Prince Said Halim has renounced "the girl of his dreams," a beautiful blonde American, Miss Kyros McCullock, whom he met in Paris.

For six years Prince Said Halim wandered over the Continent, running through a fortune of £200,000. Now After some minutes of intense he has returned to the land of his ancestors to settle

effort, during which he made ges- tures Indicating great physical concentration, the subject at last began Jerklly and laboriously read out the ille of the news- paper.

After a pause, he went on to rend some of the headlines in smaller type.

This elfort so exhausted the sub- ject that the test was then stopped-- but M. Romains" first experiment had been a triumph.

Banks are being built in brigand Reading Numbers

strongholds, and air services have re- placed Oriental caravans.

~ ~-BLOOD-FEUD-TERROR One thing King Zog has not been able to do is banish the terror of the blood-feud from his land. But there is no doubt that he has brought relief much nearer. Before his rule the annual number of killings -averaged 3,000; now it is much less.

Albanian vendettas usually rose cul of nothing. A feud that cost 132 lives began with the theft of a few

cartridges. The code suys that a boy may be killed in vendetta as scon as his head is shaved for the first time--which usually means two years of age.

Women are never shot unless they k of their own accord. ·

COFFEE INSULT

There is a phrase called "owing blood." No man who owes any blood dare show his face in a tribal gather- Ing until he has cleaned his honour. If he joined the circle without having avenged himself his cup of coffee would be passed to him under the crook of the knee-an Insult that he is powerless to resent and cannot avenge.

In order to try to end the 500 years' old vendetta tradition, Zog ins arranged that blood-feuds can be settled by payment of money, reckon- ed at so much per head after sub- tracting the number of dead, from cach rival group.

DAY AND NIGHT GUARD The King's engerness to curb the bloodthirsty instincts of his country-

M. Romains discovered that blind- folded people could read letters placed "before "or" behind them and could distinguish a wide range colours,

of

A man, who had lost bin sight at Salonika, was able, after some minutes of concentrated effort, to read out correcily a row of num. bers.

He then went on to distinguishi coloured various letters and their backgrounds.

Finally,

when an unusual object was placed at a considerable dis- tance from him, the sightless man recognised and described it.

Test on Soldier

their

M. Romains belleves that 'his system will soon he perfected and that blind people throughout the world will be trained to develop the powers

of vision hidden in bodies.

His first experiments for the sight-

were conducted with a Joys blinded soldier,

To-day M. Romains' most trea- cardboard gured possessions is the Agure 4-the Arat object that the soldier saw."

war

men is understandable, for he has desperate enemies in Albania. At one time no fewer than 800 feuds rested on his own head!

down.

Flying As Fast

He said to-day that he has definitely given up any idea of marrying Miss McCullock.

As Sound

Prince Said Halim is a cousin Professor G. T. R. Hill, of of the present King Farouk. London University lecturing His engagement to an English on "How We Fly" recently. girl in Cairo some years ago was prophesied that all the child-forbidden by the Inte King

Fuad. Then he went abroad.

ren in his audience would fly at over 700 m.p.h. during their lifetime. This would mean they would travel as fast as sound, and it would be im possible to hear their ap- proach.

Gas-filled balloons, paper gliders and a reproduction of the pterodactyl were among the thrills provided by Pro- fessor Hill for his young audience.

Juliana

Wedding

Film Seized

WANTED ADVENTURE

"I was tired of a humdrum life," he said, "I wanted adventure. I sought-It-in-Paris, Deauville,-Monte - Cario wherever pleasure hunters were to be found.

דיי

"I spent thousands--and I enjoyed myself, but I became estranged from my family.

"Now that is all over, I am recon- ciled to all, the members of the royal sha probably go into the fumlly. army, and, by the way, I am going to marry.

X match with a royal cousin is now being arranged."

"What about Miss McCullock?" asked. The prince looked grave.

"All that is finished," he replied. "Love and marriage are two differ- ent things. I am the only son of my father.

I

"II disapproved of my living abroad, and of course, marrying abroad even more so."

Two months ago ali the prince desired in life was to marry the

In Egypt.

PRIVATE SHOWING IN girl of my dreams, and settle down

BERLIN BANNED

Berlin, Jan. 20. Copies of a film of the Dutch Royal wedding, taken by on Ameri- can company, were confiscated by the police to-day on "political grounds." No further explanation was given.

Hopes of an end of the friction between.

Holland

and Germany resulting from the new Press attack He is forced to take elaborate pre-on Prince Bernhard zur Lippe- cautions against assassination, is Biesterfeld because of alleged guarded day and night by men from insults" to his own loyal tribe.

Germany during the festivities

Therefore, been 'somewhat dashed.

Although at the last moment re- ports were permitted to appeur, a ban was placed by Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, on broad- casting and news films of the wed- ding.

EXPLORERS' 90 MILES

IN FIVE MONTHS

Sydney, Jan. 30.

A story of adventure in the Papuan wilds is told in the cold phrases of an official report which has just reached Sydney.

It is the report of Mr. Ivan Chom- plon, an assistant magistrate in the Papuan service, whose exploration party recently got back to the fringe of civilisation after being “lost” för seven months.

med up in the observation that

"the crossing occupied 28 days." Half a mile a day average

By Oct. 17 rations were down to an eight-day supply.

The situation became desperato, but the report only hints at the fact with the words:

"For three months wo lived on sweet potatoes. At Lake Klubu, however, the inhabitants sold 'ur food.”

The explorers had to

overcome

Leaving the Inke, the party crossed fearful obstacles, but these are disa limestone range at 8,000ft, to Wagu missed with the observallon that it Valley. took them

Then up again

over Mount "five months to cover the 90 miles Giluwer, where a night was spent al from

the Ramu River to the 12,000ft. Leonard Henry Mountains.” Water stored in buckets froze solld. Thirteen miles of the upper Kikori Eventually, the expedition reached river1 miles of perilous rapids the end of Its trek-Purari—and was running through limestone gorges guided from there to Port Romily in had to be crossed,

самосев The risks that were run as this Mr. Champion states that from first death-trap was tackled are all sum-to last the natives gave no trouble."

SHE RETURNS TO U.S.

His family forbade the marriage, and the prince saw her for the last Lime in London three weeks ago.

lle said: "She is returning to the United States. I plan to go. there myself in two or three months' time, but the visit is not connected with Miss McCullock. "That is a thing of the paal."

Vanishing

River Has

Returned

DUCKINGHAMSHIRE'S "disap. One of the big American film com- pearing" river, the Misbourne, ponies, however, invited members

of the Dutch colony in Berlin to a Gilles last month by bezlaring private show of scenes from the flow again. wedding. The confiscation of the

surprised resklents at Chalfont St.

Aim followed this invitation,

to

The river, which bas baffled ex-

It is not clear whether this action perts for many years, has been "dry" was taken in view of the private been plenty of water. at places

for alx months, although there has show or because it was feared that each side of the village. the films might be accepted in public cinemas. It is hoped that a settle to flow again after being dry for three Last March the Misbourno began

ment will soon be reached.

PAINT THAT CHANGES COLOUR

Stocks of a special paint which by turning from yellow to red discloses the presence of mustard gas, are to be supplied to local authorities in England.

years.

Then it mysteriously disap- peared again and the bed was “dry for two miles.

LABOUR-SAVING

The concrete prevented the

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a farmer can raise four times as much cotton with only ten man-hours per aere,

If generally applied, this would mean that 8,000,000 colton workers lose three months' employment annual- ly.

Following the invention of a

cotton-picking machine which does the work of 60 men, this experiment has caused wide- spread apprehension of an im- pending economic revolution in the South.

PREMIER TO GET £3,000 "RISE"

THE

WIE Government's Bill to in-

crease the salaries of Cabine Ministers will be introduced in Parliament this month.

It will be passed through before the Budget, in whch the necessary provision for the extra expenditure will be made,

Mr.

Baldwin is one of the Ministers who is "getting a rise,”

He is to get another £3,000, making £8,000 a year.

Others will get a similar increase— which will bring them up to £5,000 a year.

FIRST LORD'S £5,000

They are Mr. Ernest Brown, the Minister of Labour; Mr. Oliver Stanley, the Minister of Education; Mr. W. S. Morrison, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr. Hore- Belisho, the. Minister of Transport; and Lord Stanhope, First Com- missioner of Works:

Mr. Elliot, the Secretary for Scot- land

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