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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

APRIL

1937.

"INTO THE PORTALS OF DEATH"

Unique Document In Edinburgh

CUP OF TEA-Ex-Premier Hayashi of

Харал relaxes from many duties to lake a cup of tea in his sitting-room In Tokyo. Но has been much criti- claed recently for what his op- ponents term the "poverty poll- cles" of his late Cabinet, The Cabinet recommended vast re- ductions in appropriations for the army and navy and the militarlets are angry.

Sentenced to

Death by

"Lie Detector

FORTUNES IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA

ONE COLONY THAT IS FLOURISHING San Francisco, Mar. 25. At the precise moment that Germany is making a final fight for a return of some of her former colonies, a survey by the Institute of Pacific Relations declares the that adherents of "Colonies-don't-pay School". must make an exception at least for French Indo-China.

The survey, which has just been completed after several years investigation of the colonial situation in Indo-China,

France's declares that

Far Eastern empire must be con- sidered not only as the most

successful overseas efforts but one of the most successful colonial experiments ever car- rled out.

Incidentally, the survey points out that Indo China constitutes France's balcony on the Pacific" from which she may either observe or participate in the Far Eastern alluation which 92 is rapidly becoming the most Important of any in the world after the present European one.

ORDEAL IN CONDEMNED CELL

Questions Followed. By Blood Pressure Rise

New York, Apr. 2. Joseph Rappaport, son of a Jewish rabbi, has paid his debt to society in the electric chair at Cook County gaol for the murder of Max Dent.

SUPPLY OF MEN & MATERIAL

The survey finds that while France has spent vast sums of money in Indo-China, much of which was dissipated in commissions to middle- men, graft and the waste that is usually inseparable from all opera- tions in a new country, nevertheless, France has made out of Indo China a vast reservole for raw materials and an ever growing market for her own exports.

Even during the world war, France was able to call on the colony thousands of trained troops, Five times Rappaport's execution for

wn as the Annamites, although had been stayed, and he finally did known as not die until he detector had the latter, because of thiols emali been taken into the death cell and stature, were used largely for service he had been given A fest which behind the lines. They released for .convinced a scientist that he

lying when he proclaimed his inno-ever,

was

of

service in the first line trenches how-

a corresponding number French troops that would otherwise The decision to use the lie detec-liave been engaged in subsidiary tor" grew out of a dramatic incident activities.

cence,

at the railway station when Rose Rappaport, sister of the doomed man, succeeded in cluding the guards and throwing herself upon Governor Henry Hornor, begging him to save her brother's life.

Governor told the sobbing girl The that he had stayed her brother's death five times and could not see his way clear to do it again becauso he could not be convinced that her brother had told the truth about the SISTER INTERVENES

case.

It was in this connection that the Governor mentioned the "lie detec- tor," "and Rose promptly set in motion machinery to have the test made.

It was first necessary to obtain the co-operation of Professor Leonard

NO HANGING-It's merely that London municipat planners arranged for a new street lamp at Blackfriars. But the statue of in the late Queen Victoria stood the way. So a mobile crane was brought up and rather un- ceremoniously Queen Victoria was lifted a few feet off the ground, as shown here, and was wung to a new spot 20 yards

away.

FACE IN

THE GLASS

WINDOW

STRANGE WILL OF · FRENCHMAN

Back

Man's Anger As He Was Brought To Life

London, Mar. 25.

The experience of a man who passed into the very portals of death and was brought back to life by medical treatment was contained in " unique document" read to the members of the Royal Medical Society in Edinburgh last night by St Auckland Geddes, on the occasion of the bleentenary of the Society,

life was re-establishing itself,

and I saw the psychle condensation attached to A, B, C, D, E, F, and ta quite number of men that I know, especially to G and H.

A TERRIBLE SHOCK

“Just as I began to grasp all these

I saw 'A' enter my bedrooms; realised she got a terrible shock, and

"In addition, I saw. quite a number of people that I know had very little psychle condensation at all attached to them. In addition to those just mentioned, I saw "I' very clearly, and of she also gave a visual impression blueness; A gave purple and dark red; 'B' pink;

D' rather Indefinite The record was taken down in grey brown; E pearly; and F apricot shorthand by a skilled secretary as colour; was deinitely brown. Its Each of these condensations varied existence, said Sir Auckland Geddes, from all the others in bullt, sharpness had been known to some of their of outline, and apparent solidity. leathers, perhaps to some of the members of the Society, for some time. He had to request that those who knew to whom this strange experience befell would respect the anonymity and professional

saw her hurry to the telephone; 1 1 secrecy in which this

saw my doctor leave his paitlents and communication was veiled,

As he read an extract from the come very quickly; and heard him say record, Sic Auckland said they woulder saw him think 'He is nearly gone. see how strong a visualiser the re beard him quite clearly speaking to theme on the bed, but I was not in touch corder was, and how

of the

undable with the body and could not answer descriptions were as they took shape in words,

The record, after describing the "I was really cross when he took man's serious laess, went ona syringe and rapidly injected my that my conscious body with something which I after- another wards learned was camphor. As the consciousness, which was also me. heart began to beat more strongly, 1 These, for purposes of description, we was drawn back, and I was intensely could call the A and B consciousness, annoyed, because I was so interested and

through what follows the co and just beginning to understand attached itself to the A consciousness. where I was and what I was seeing."

recognised as B personality

came back into the body really to the body, and as my angry at being pulled back, and once physical condition grew worse and the I was back all the clarity of vision

was brilling rather than of anything and everything disappear heart beating, I realised that the B con-ed, and I was lust possessed of a sciousness belonging to the body was slimmer of consciousness which was beginning to show signs of being suffused with pain.

"It is

io surprising note that this composite--that is, built up of 'con- sciousness from the head, the heart, dream, vision, or experience has shown no tendency to fade like a "SEEING THINGS EVERYWHERE" dream would fade, nor has it shown

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These components became more any tendency that I am aware of to Price Individual and the consciousness grow or to rationalise itself as a dream began to disintegrate, seemed to be would do. I think that the whole altogether outside my body, which it thing simply means that but for medical treatment of a peculiarly could see,

kind, I was dead Gradually I realised that I could pro

Was to the three amm

see not only my body and the bed Prompt and vigorousonal universe.

in which I was, but everything in the whole house and garden, and then

ime;

"If this is so, and if, in

1850, and if, in fact, the nesa in the

In the fourth

lised that I was seeing not only fignee di mal universe

things at home, but in London and is not imagination, It is a most im- in Scotland, in fact wherever my portant matter to place on record. was directed it seemed to Srce my return with the injections tens he explation, which I re- there had been no repetition of any ceived from what source I do not sort or kind of the experience or of know, but which I found myself the clear understanding that I seemed calling to myself my mentor, was that to have while I was free from the

of The Marquis d'Urre d'Aubais I was free a Ume dimension

in

body." capital that has been invested in was a curious man when alive, space, wherein now was in some Indo-China, about half of which, but when his will was read after was equivalent to here in however, was subscribed in the co-his death, the court was as-ordinary three dimensional space of

The survey of the Institute places

at 8,000,000,000 francs the amount of

iony,

Paris, Mar. 15.

the

•

"NOT FAKE" Thus ended the record, said Sir Auckland. What are we to make everyday life. tounded. RUBBER YIELD

It was surprising "I next realised that my vision in-of ? (he asked.) Of one thing only enough for a marquis to leave cluded not only things' in the ordinary can we be quite sure. It is not fake. but also Without certainty of this I should not "Under French management,"

was it a dream or does is record the survey finds, "the Indo-Chinese twelve million francs to the three dimensional world,

sional places that 7′′ was-ing

symbolic vision of one aspect of reality tubber na successfully demonstrated French post office, but the condithings' in these four or more, dimen- have brought it to your nolice. But, Its potential parity with that of the tions accompanying this gift were

translated into inadequate words? 1 WHAT MENTOR EXPLAINED Dutch East Indies and Malaya. Rub- a little too much for the court. ber plantations, expanded at the rate

"From now on the description is do not know. Whichever or whatever it was It provides us with a scheme First the marquis demanded and must be entirely metaphorical,

of 15,000 hectors annually represent

Bsaure herself

pri-

nn investment of more than 1,000,- that his body be embalmed, because there are no words which that helps to make picturable to our | 000,000 francs."

That was simple enough and really describe what I saw or rather minds things otherwise dificult to In this manner France had been the undertakers had done so I had what appeared to be perfect First it has helped me to define the

appreciated. Although I had no body grasp. able to

source before the will was even un-two-eyed vision, and what I saw can idea of a psychic continuum spread out Keeler, of the North-Western Uni of rubber which is one of the sealed. Then the marquis de-only be described in this way, that I in time like the plasmic net. It does

mary moteriais at the present time

of a psychic stream more; - It provides a comprehensible versity Crime Laboratory, the

in the event of war, because of the manded that a small house be was conselous

flowing with life through time, and background for the soul palaeontology fecter of the le-testing machine, development of motorized transport constructed on the shore of the this gave me the impression of being of Jung, and it seems to throw a flood Then the gaoler would not permit it was the shortage of rubber that the teat without a court order, and became one of Germany's most crip- Mediterranean, placed on a high visible, and it seemed to me to have of light on the meaning of soul abysses discovered by the method of Freud, the time available had almost expired

It brings telepathy, clairvoyarice, pling conditions towards the end of point, with walls of glass facing a particularly intense Iridescence.

understaocd from my mentor that before this was obtained,

towards the sca. The body

all our brains are just end organs spirtualism, and, indeed, all the para- Finally the machine was taken into the world war.

The survey also finds that the co- should be placed in this room, projecting as it were from the three psychic manifestations into the domain the death house, where Joseph said he was confident of the outcome of lony has been developed into the with a radio set and family dimensional universe into the psychic of the picturable. It also provides a stream and flowing with it into the rational seeming background for such the test. For a full hour Professor; veritable rice granary of the Far portraits to keep it company. fourth and fifth dimensions. Around ideas as the group or national soul Keeler talked to the condemned man, East. This constitutes not only Q Authoritica decided that the each brain, as I saw it, there seemed and such a conception as the psychic

י

asking questions while the wavering food supply on which France can

ит

"SYMBOLIC IMPRESSION"

*

needle recorded Rappaport's blood draw in case of war, but is also one marquis must have loved the sea. to be what I can only describe in atmosphere. But, most important, it pressure, as he replied.

of the colony's chief exports especial-They constructed the little house at ordinary words as a condensation of makes the idea of the lifelong unity Time and again Professor. Keeler ly in supplying the perennial needs the little port of Carro and equipped the psychle stream, which formed in of body and soul much simpler 10

simple of China. switched suddenly from

it with a special radlo set which each case as though it were a cloud; grasp.

to only it was not a cloud. questions, such as the denominations

gave signals to passing ships of playing cards, the weather, and COAL, WOOD AND MINERALS avoid the dangerous rocks thut en-1 COLOURED CONDENSATIONS

Of course (added Sir Auckland at this point. Incidents of everyday life, to those

The two other great sources of raw The lifeboat at the dangered the coast dealing with the killing of Dent,

rescue station "While I was just appreciating this, Geddes), I do not imagine there is a whom Rappaport blamed for causing materials which France has develop-

mation to me explained that the fourth presents in words one aspect of Man's his arrest for selling narcotics and ed in the colony are those of coal and off the reef of Rogues de Carro also the mentor who was conveying infor- visible psychic stream, but I have read

was named after the marquis. whom the jury found he had killed wood. While all of the existing

dimension mines have been in revenge.

spasmodically But the final request was too much son was in, everything existing complicated being and relationships. everything in the of mon at the point of death. The EMPHATIC "NO"

is still rich and the French have de- that his body be placed seated in the three dimensional space existed in clouds of personality, that were not With seeming confidence Rappa-veloped it to a point where it is now room from where it could look out the fourth dimension and also in the clouds as the record says, show how Inapt to describe this adventure in port gave an emphatle "No" to a readily accessible commodity for on the angry sea. Perhaps the man fifth dimension, and I at the time quite dream of a world unknown to our

who execuled tho will were

sus- clearly understood what was meant ve senses, ordinary words are. questions whether he had killed Dent, them.

picious and feared

baleful and quite

understood how now In

been present when he was shot, or knew who was guilty. These "Nots," however, were accompanied by sudden sharp jump in

in blood

chart.

worked or centuries, the coal supply for officials, for the marquis asked at the same clonal space, and by these were symbollard in the mind

the

of

of

In addition, the survey finds that effects of the dead man's eye. Any the fourth dimensional universe was Personally, I regard the record as the French have pushed the produc-

reclines ay, the marquis

on his just the same to all intents and pura valuable symbolic impression pressure

tion of tin and zine to a degree where dorsal decubitus, with only a glass poses as here, in a three dimensional man's body-soul as it disintegrates as recorded on the

has become one of their strong window in the coffin above his face universe hai is to say a four dimen in death, and of the existence When it was alt

psycho-plasmic net extended assets in minerals. Professor over

Seamen in the ny port are thank-slonal being was everywhere in the Kecler advised the Governor that on The survey finds that although ful for the marquis gift to them, now, just as one is 'everywhere in in time. There is one important point the basis of his findings Rappaport Indo-China produces only 2 per cent. but they feel better knowing he is the here in a three dimensional view that we must notice before I pass on. There is absolutely nothing in the was qulity. Two hours later he of the coal mined in the Far East, asleep and not sitting watching them of things. walked the "last mile" to his death. che has become the largest coal ex-—United Press.

24 CONVICTS

IN ESCAPE

DRAMA

La Rochelle, Mar. 15.

porter in that part of the world.

As regards wood, the survey finds

a racial

"I then realised that I myself was record which is metaphysical. The a condensation, as it were, in the whole adventure, of such it were, psychic stream, a sort of cloud that took place on the plone of nature. was not a cloud, and the visual im-It Is thus to be sharply. adventures Gradually I began to recognise people, plane of spirit, which is supernatural.

that the colony is one of the most market for the latter. At the pre-pression had of myself was blue. of the mystles. These belong to the richly wooded regions for its size is sent time, the survey ands, France the world. Two Bfths of its entire sells more to the colony than sha surface, of about 31,000,000 hectares, are covered with a great variety of buys from it, Afty-eight per cent. of woods and especially of teak. The Indo-China's Imports, chiefly food- exportation. of.

this wood to other stuffs, beverages, perfumes, textiler. medicines, machinery and petrol

Far Eastern countries constitutes one coming from France. News of the escape of twenty-of the colony's principal sources of four convicts from Dovil's Island revenue, and gives France also laat July has just reached the prison reservoir of wood for use in either town of St. Martin on the Ile-de-Be peace time or war

br

by letter.

The mags escape, in which Ove life-prisoners succeeding in fleeing

5 OTHER PRODUCTS

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TIME-BOMBS INJURE

27 IN CINEMAS

New York, Mar. 28.

As a consequence of this success- colonization experiment, the survey finds that France is practising colonization in a better and more profitable way than ever before. The most important element involved,

T exactly 9,7 last" night "in two cinemas, and at 9.15 in four, all en Other promising products of the

the survey Ands, whether the Broadway, all under the same management, bombs exploded under anotorious, prison, is one of the colony are coffee, ten, silk, cotton tempo of this new colonization is seats, releasing, a gas that stampeded thousands into the street. largest escapes in the history of the and tobacco,

fast enough to keep pace with "de-

Twenty-seven were injured by lying glass from the bombs and in dreaded tale, is also the last as But in addition to being a source velopments elsewhere in the For the crush Polles, found each bomb filed with a watch and an electrie

Tow months after, the escape France

colony of raw materials for France, the co- East and within the colony itself cell. One cintime was showing at the time a newsreel of mid-West strikers

and police fighting with tear-aLE. lony had also become an important United Press.

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