1938-10-13 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG ·TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938.

'A Woman's Curse Has Cost Me £10,000* Once Rich Farmer Tells How Ill-luck Dogged Him 19 Years

THE SPELL IS

STILL UNBROKEN

A once-prosperous West of Ireland farmer, fifty- nine-year-old Mr. Richard Smyth, of Pembroke-road, Bullsbridge, Dublin, says he now faces destitution because of a woman's curse.

Nineteen years ago a woman cursed him in a fit of anger. Ever since he has felt himself dogged by ill-luck. Nothing he has tried has succeeded.

The curse, he says, has cost him £10,000, forced him to sell his form and go to Dublin to live with friends. The woman died seven years ago.

Between puffs at a cigarette, Mr. Smyth told of the curse and what followed.

Mr. Smyth and the woman lived. on neighbouring farms. Only a narrow lane separated their lands."

"She was fifty years old," he said. "She never liked me, always wanted to get my farm. One day I to have annoyed her.

seemed

"She cursed me, prayed that I would have nothing but bad luck as long as I lived.

HIS CATTLE DIED

"I had not meant any harm and did not mind her, but that evening

I found two of my cattle dead.

"Next day I found two others dead. They kept on dying till they had all gone. Since that day I have had nothing but mis- fortune."

Mr. Smyth is sure his cattle did not die of a discose, "No, it was not natural sickness," he asserted. "I called in veterinary surgeons. They examined the cattle but could not say what was wrong with them.

"I rented

other farms later. Everything used to go well for D time, then my cattle uned to start! dying.

"My crops were unlucky, too. If I had a good crop of corn, bad har- vest weather was sure to spoil it."

After the woman died Mr. Smyth was sure his luck would change, but it did not.

"Things were the same as before,"

he said. "Everything I tried failed

Bridegroom Gives

Away Daughter

Dr. Albert Cocker, of Green- Janes. Palmers Green, was married recently in St. John's Church, Fal- mers Green, to Milas Ivy Kentfield.

After the wedding bla bride walled in. the church while Dr. Cocker's daughter, Elalo, WAS married to Mr. Ronald White, a Northampton cricketer.

The bridegroom at the first wedding gave his daughter away at the second.

AIRLINER |FAULT

REMEDIED..

A fortnight after Albatross, the airliner that was designed to regain for Britain a lead la world civil aviation, broke lis back on the ground after an overload test fight, a Do Havl)- land's official announced that the

original programme would.go forward. There would be delivery delay.

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There is a story behind that an-

me. Now, instead of having a farmnouncement, a story of the endeavour

of my own where my wife and of every man who built the machine could live I am forced to live with friends.

GAMBLING given up "Once my farm used to bring me £500 a year. Now I am glad to take an occasional day's wages helping other farmers buy and sell their cattle at the Dublin cattle markets.

both

to set right the fault in record time.

From designer to mechanie, every 'man worked day and night. Within seven days from the evening when the first machine broke in half the wreckage had been examined and e exact fault found.

In a few more huura a modification tested, re-tested

In another day the modification had been incorporated in the sister ship, and was ready to go in the other airliners of the type on the production Itne.

For years Mr. Smyth has not was designed and backed a horse or pluyed cards. "I used to win money at

and passed. cards and horses," he continued. "That was before the curse. Now I always lose. I once refused a pre- sent of an Irish sweepstake tléket.

did not want to see it wasted." When

naked him If he were superstitious and if he were not Imagining things, his blue суса twinkled. "Unfortunately," he said with a laugh, "there is no need to Imagine things.

NEVER THE SAME "All this has happened to me. have never been the same since the

day she cursed me. I can feel the spell of that curse over me yet.

"I want to break that spell. have asked hundreds how to do it, but none of them could tell me."

If he thought his luck would change Mr. Smyth would go back to the country again.

"I have always wanted to be a farmer," he told me before I left him, "but that curse has chased me from the countryside, If only I could break its speli I would go back again."

The sister ship, modified, was in the air on its test flights-even more severe teats than that in which the original machine falled,

PASSED ALL TESTS And I passed them all, with a full Ipassenger load and an overload.

"The actual foult was small," a De Havilland official said. "An increase of tensile strength was needed in a single joint in the machine. A modl Beation was designed so that a streng- thening Atting could be suade,

"This was produced in record time and fitted to the sister ship. The Albatross has now passed all tesis.

"And there is no loss in either load carrying or speed. The modification itsell odds only twelve and а halt pounds to the weight of the machine.

Swiss Ready For

For Any Emergency

UFSİ

Italians are building an electrical air ferry to Theodul Pass on the Swiss frontier, osten- sibly to develop ski resorts. But the Swiss, people of the purest democracy in Europe, watch grimly, for an army on skis could swoop down from Theodul, cut of the Simplon forts and swarm through the Rhone Valley. There is no doubt the Swiss would fight against invasion of their cherished democracy, for their army is in excellent condition. Top panel shows the scenic Lotschberg railway forming a direct link between the Bernese Oberland and the Simplon, route. Middie panci contrasts the warlike pose of mountain machine gunners with a peaceful scene in a Valois village. Bottom, motorized units of the Swiss army on the march.

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From Bomber

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A Chelmsford jury complimented Flight Lieut. D. W. H. Gardner on the coolness he displayed when the bomber he was piloting crashed at Ingatestone, Essex.

The inquest was on Corporal W. H. Wheeler, of 88 (Bomber) Squadron, Boscombe Down, who was killed after jumping from the plane.

The pilot was only slightly injured, and the third member of the crew, Alterafuman W. Cable, landed safely with his parachute.

After describing how the flight he was leading ran into fog, Fight- Lieut. Gardner said:

"When I got to 1,200 to 1,500 ft. I found myself losing height and speed, and, to a small extent, control. Lgave' orders to the other occupants to abandon the machine.

"I continued to lose height, and I made ready myself to leave, the machine, but I did not get out, hop-. ing I should have a chance of saving it.

"I came down over trées, and, looking round, saw that my two.com- panions had left.

"The plane crashed on the road, and I was rescued before it hurst- into flames.".

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Richmond, Me. Mrs. George W. Campbell recently killed a Gilla monster on her farm hero. Fish and game department Comclats at August ballege that the

animals

must have escaped from some carnival travelling in the state, because no nich "eredture exists in Maine," alla monsters, are Imembers of/4tie lizard family.add

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