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"INTO THE

OUP OF TEA-Ex-Premier Senjuro Hayashi ot Japan relaxes from many duties to Lake a cup of tea in his sitting-room in Tokyo. He has been

much criti

FORTUNES IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1987.

PORTALS OF DEATH"

Unique Document In Edinburgh Man's Anger As He Was Brought Back To Life

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 that adherents of the "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

cised recently for what his ponents term the poverty poll-colonial situation in Indo-China, cier' of his Inte Cabinet. The Cabinet recommended vast re- ductions in appropriations for the army and navy and the militarists

are angry.

.

Sentenced to Death by

declares that France's 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- ried out.

Incidentally, the survey points out that Indo China constitutes France's "balcony on the Paclie" from which she may either observe or participate in the Far Eastern situation which becoming

tho most important of any in the world after the present European one.

"Lie Detector" pidly

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.

Five times Rappaport's execution had been stayed, and he finally did not die until a "lle detector" had been taken into the death cell and he had heen given fest which convinced a scientist that he was lying when he proclaimed his Inno-

cence.

The decision to use the "lie detec- tor" grew out of a dramatic incident at the railway station when Rose Rappaport, sister of the doomed mon, succeeded in eluding the guards and throwing herself

Governor upon Henry Hornor, begging him to save her brother's c.

The Governor told the sobbing girl that he hind stayed her brother's death five times and could not see! his way clear to do it again because

Brother had told the truth about the

SUPPLY OF MEN & MATERIAL

The survey Anda that while France has spent vast sums of money inj Indo-China, much of which dissipated in commissions to middle- men, graft and the waste that

was

usually inseparable from all opera- tions in a new country, nevertheless, France has made out of Indo Chino

yast reservoir 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 for

trained troops, thousands of known as the Annamites, although the latter, because of their small stature, were used largely for service behind the lacs. They released for service In the first ne trenches how- ever, a corresponding number French troops that would otherwise have been engaged in culpidary nellvities.

RUBBER YIELD

of

"Under

rubber has successfully demonstrated

NO HANGING-It's merely. that London municipal plannera arranged for a new street lamp at Blackfriars. But the statue of the late Queen Victoria stood in 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 swung to a new spot 20 yards Away.

FACE IN

THE GLASS WINDOW

STRANGE WILL OF FRENCHMAN

Paris, Mar. 15.

London, Mar. 25.

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

and I saw the psychic condensation attached to A, B, C, D, E, F, and to quite a number of men that I know, especially to G and II.

In addition I saw quite a number of people that I know had very little prychle condensation at all attached to them. In addition to those just mentioned, I saw I very clearly, and she also gave a visual Impression of blueness; A gave purple and dark red; pink; 'D' rather indefinite The record was taken down in grey brown; E' pearly; and 'F' apricot shorthand' by a skilled secretary as colour; G was definitely brown. life was re-establishing itself. Its Each of these condensations varied existence, said Sir Auckland Geddes, from all the others in bulk, sharpness. had been known to some of their of outline, and apparent solidity.

some of the teachers, perhaps to members of the Society, for some time. He had to request that those who knew to whom this strange experience I saw A enter any bedrooins; 1 bafell would respect the anonymity realised she got a terrible shock, and and professional secrecy in which this I saw her hurry to the telephone: I communication was veiled.

saw my, doctor leave his patients and come very quickly; and heard him say or saw him think 'He is nearly gone.'

A TERRIBLE SHOCK "Just as I began to grasp all these

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As he read an extenet from the record, Sir Auckland said they would ace how strong a visualiser the re heard him quite clearly speaking to corder was, and how symbolic theme on the bed, but i was not in louch descriptions of the undescribable with the body and could not answer were as they took shape in words. him

alm. The record, after describing the My wine

was really cross when he took man's serious illness, went on:-'I a syringe and rapidly injected my suddenly realised that my conscious-body with something which I after- ness was separating from another wards learned was camphor. As the. consciousness, which was also me. heart began to beat more strongly, 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 cgo and just beginning to understand attached itself to the A consciousness. where I was and what I was seeing. The B personally recognised as "I came back into the body really belonging to the body, and as my angry at being pulled back,

once and physical condition grew worse and the I was back all the clarity of vision heart was Abriliating rather than of anything and everything disappear- beating, I realised that the B con-ed, and I was just possessed of a sciousness belonging to the body was glimmer of consciousness which was beginning to show signs of being suffused with pain. composite-that is, built-up of 'can-

is surprising to note that this sciousness from the head, the heart, dream, vision, or experience has "SEEING THINGS EVERYWHERE" dream would fade, nor has it shown shown no tendency to fade like a These components became more any tendency that I am aware of to Price individual and the B conselousness grow or to rationalise itself as a dream to disintegrate, seemed to be would do. I think that the whole. began altogether outside my body, which thing simply means that but for could sec..

medical treatment of a peculiarly prompt and vigorous kind, I was dead to the three dimensional universe.

the viscera, &ɛe.

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"If this is so, and I. In fact, the experience of

of liberation at conscious-

p

Gradually I realised that I could see not only my body and the bed in which it was, but everything in the whole house and garden, and then 4) realised that I was seeing not only

nesa in the fourth dimensional universe things at home, but in London and is not imagination, it is a most Im- in Scotland, in fact wherever my portant maiter to place on attention was directed it seemed to Since my return with the injections record. me; and, the explanation 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 The survey of the Institute places at 8,000,000,000 francs the amount of The Marquis d'Urre d'Aubaising myself my mentor, was that to have while I was free from the capital that has been

free in a time dimension of bady.** invested in was a Indo-China, about half

curious man when alive, space, wherein 'now' was in some

"NOT FAKE" of which, but when his will was read after way

equivalent

here in the however, was subscribed in the co- his death, the court was tony.

Thus ended the record, sald Sir ordinary three dimensional space of 4.5-

Auckland. What are we to make everyday life. tounded. It Was surprising next realised that my vision in-of it? (he asked.) Of one thing only It is not fake: French management," enough for a marquis to leave cluded not only things in the ordinary can we be quite sure.

twelve million francs to the three

dimensional world, but also Without certainty of this I should not he could not be convinced that her the survey finds, "the Indo-Chines French post office, but the condi. 'things' in these four or more dimen-have brought it to your notice. But,

was sional places that I was in.

1. a dream or does it rec

record symbole vision of one aspect of reality ---WHAT MENTOR EXPLAINED~~translated into inadequate words? 1 It was in this connection that the

From now on the description is do not know. Whichever or whatever Governor mentioned the "lie delec- an investment of more than 1,000,- that his body be embalmed. because there

First the marquis demanded and must be entirely metaphorical, it was it provides us with a scheme " and Rose promptly set in motion 000,000 francs." 1or,"

words which that helps to maite picturable to our machinery to have the test made.

That was simple enough and really describe what I saw or rather minds things otherwise dificult to It was first necessary to obtain the In this manner France had been the undertakers had done so appreciated. Although I had no body Erasp.

able to assure herself

had what appeared to be perfect First it has helped me to define the co-operation of Professor

Leonard of rubber which is one of the pri- before the will was even Keeler, of the North-Western Uni-

un-wo-eyed vision, and what I saw can idea of a psychle continuum spread out It does Crime Laboratory, the per- materials at the present time sealed. Then the marquis de-anly be described in this way, that I in time like the plasmic net versity

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 in the event of war, because of the manded that a small house be was conscious of a psychic stream more; it provides a comprehensible dowing with tile through time, and background for the saut palaeontology It was the shortage of rubber that Mediterranean, placed on a high visible, and it seemed to me to have light on the meaning of soul abysses become one of Germany's most crip- pling conditions towards the end of point, with walls of glass facing a particularly intense iridescence. discovered by the method of Freud.

I understood from my mentor that. towards the

It brings telepathy, clairvoyance, the world war.

The body sco.

all our brains are just end organs spirtualism, and, indeed, all the para- The survey also finds that the co-should be placed in this room, projecting as it were from the three paychic manifestations into the domain Iony has been developed into the with a radio act and family dimensional universe into the paychic of the picturable. It also provides a veritable rice granary of the Far portraits to keep it company. East. This constitutes not only

case.

SISTER INTERVENES

the

Lecter ol Re-testing machine Then the gaoler would not

the test without a court order, and the time avaliable had almost expired before this was obtained.

Finally the machine was taken into the death house, where Joseph sald he was confident of the outcome of the test. For a full hour Professor Keeler talked to the condemned man, asking questions while the wavering needle recorded Rappaport's blood pressure no he replied.

Its potential parity with that of the tions accompanying this gift were. Dutch East Indies and Malaya. Rub-a little too much for the court. ber plantations, expanded at the rate

of 15,000 hectors annually represent

source

food supply on which France can Authorities decided that draw, in case of war, but is also one marquis must have loved the

are no

stream and flowing with it into the rational seeming background for such fourth and fifth dimensions. Around Ideas as the group or national soul the each brain, as

rain, as I saw it, there seemed and such a conception as the psychic

I saw sea. to be what I cart

of the colony's chief exports especial-They constructed the little house at inrdinary words only describe in atmosphere. But, most Important, R

Time and again Professor Keeler switched suddently from simple of China. questions, such as the denominations of playing cards, the weather, and incidents of everyday life, to those of Dent, dealing with the killing whom Rappaport blamed for cousing his arrest for selling narcotics and whom the jury found he had killed in revenge.

EMPHATIC "NO" -

a condensation of makes the idea of the lifelong unity

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The

not

which formed in of body and soul much simpler to with a special radio set which each case as though it were a cloud; grasp. COAL, WOOD AND MINERALS

gave signals to passing ships to only it was not a cloud.

"SYMBOLIC IMPRESSION" avold the dangerous rocks that en-

COLOURED CONDENSATIONS The two other great sources of raw The lifeboat at the

Of course dangered the canst at this point.

Auckland (addled Sir materials which France has develop off the reef of Rogues de Carro also the mentor who was conveying infor- visible psychic stream, but I have read rescue station "While I was just appreciating this, Geddes), I do not imagine there la a ed in the colony are those of coal and was named after the marquis. wood. While all of

mation to me explained that the fourth presents in wards one aspect of Man's the existing mines have been

dimension was in everything existing complicated being and relationships, spasmodically But the final request was too much in the three dimensional space, and

these were symbolised in the mind worked for centuries, the coal supply for officials, for the marquis asked at the same time everything in the of a man at the point of death. is still rich and the French have de-that his body be placed seated in the three dimensional pace existed in clouds of personality, that were 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 port gave an amphatic "No" lo a readily accessible commodity for on the angry sea. Perhaps the man afth dimension, and I at the time quite Inapt to describe this adventure in questions whether he had killed Dent, them. been present when he was shot, or

executed the will were sus clearly understood what was meant, or dream of a world unknown to our In addition, the survey finds that plclous Brick feared the baleful and quite understood how now in Ave senses, ordinary words are, knew who was gulity. These "Nocs," the French have pushed the products of the dead man's eye. Any- the fourth dimensional universe was however, were accompanied by tion of tin and zinc to a degree where dorm decubitus, with only a glass poses as here in a three dimensional man's body-soul as it disintegrates Personally, I regard the record as the marquis reclines on his Just

the same to all intents and pura valuable symbolic sudden sharp, jump in blood pressure it has become one of their strong row in the coffus above his face. universe at ls to say a four dimen- in death, and of the existence as recorded on the chart. When it was all over

Professor asseis in minerals, Keeler advised the Governor that on

Seamen in the tiny port are thanksional being was everywhere in the a racial psycho-plasmic net extended

was guilty. Two hours later he of the coal mined in the Far East, asleep and not sitting watching them. of this ticed that I myself was record which is elaphysical, the boals of his findings Rappaport Indo-Chinb 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. finds that although ful for the marquis gift to them, now just as one is everywhere in in time. There is one important point There is absolutely nothing in the "I then.

The a condensation, as It. were, in the whole adventure, of such

il.. wore, psychic stream, a sort of cloud that took place, on the plane of nature. was not a cloud, and the visual im-It is, thus to be sharply adventures

The survey

who

walked the "last mile to his death. she has become the largest coal ex-United Press..

24 CONVICTS

IN ESCAPE

DRAMA

porter in that part of the world.

Impression of

of

As regards wood, the survey finds that the colony is one of the most richly wooded regions for its size in market for the latter. At the pre-pression I had of myself was blue of the mystics. These belong to, the the world. Two fifths of its entire sent time, the survey flails, France Gradually I began to recognise people, plane of spirit, which is supernatural,

sells more to the colony than she

surface, of about 31,000,000 hectares, buys from it, afty-eight per cent, of are covered with a great variety of Indo-China's Imports, chiefly food- Woods and

and especially of teak: The stuffs, beverages, perfumes, textiles. exportation of Far Eastern countries constitutes one medicines, machinery News of this escape of twenty of the colony's principal sources coming from France,

of

La Rochello, Mar. 15.

wood to

four conviots from Devil's Island revenue, and gives France also a

and petrol

As a consequence of this success-

Jast, July has just reached the prison reservoir of wood for use in either ful colonization experiment, the town of St. Martin on the lle-de-te peace-time or war,

OTHER PRODUCTS

a better and more

survey finds that France is practising colonization in profitable way

than

ever before.

TIME-BOMBS INJURE

27 IN CINEMAS

New York, Mar. 252:

leiter 1The mas escape, in which five lite-prisoners succeeding In fleeing Other promising products of the The most important element involved. AT exactly 9.7 last night;In two cinemas, and at 0.15 in four, all on the notorious, prison, is one of the colony are coffee, tea, silk, cotton tempo of this new colonization is neats, releasing a gas that stampeded thousands into the street.

the survey unds, is whether the A Broadway, all under the same management, bombe exploded ander largest cacapes in the history of the and tobacco. dreaded tale. It is also the last, B

'des

Twenty-seven were injured by flying glass from the bombs and lei But In addition to being a source velopments elsewhere in the Far the crush. Pollen found each bonbatted with a watch and an electric decided to abolish the perial, colony of raw materials for France, the co- East and within the colony tacit cell. One cinema was showing at the time a newsreel of mid-West stalker's For Over-United Press.

lony has also become an Important United Press,

and polico fighting with tear-gos.-

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