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EVIL SPIRIT

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

J

THURSDAY,

VICAR EXORCISED

But It's Still As

/

Bad As Ever

The Rev. Lionel Calway, Secretary of the Christian Psychic Society, dipped his hand in water, pointed towards a door, and said, "I command you to stop these evil prac- tices."

At the Grotrian Hall, Wigmore-street, W., recently he was performing a rite of exorcism among a little band of spiritual- ists who sought to lay an evil spirit which they blamed for interference with an ex- hibition of religious films there.

Some malicious influence, it ap- peared, was antagonistle

to the showing of the Alin, "From Manger te Cross."

ALWAYS A HITCH

Before the first performance, a heavy flm projector mysteriously, overturned and a display of religious books was as unaccountably seatler- ed. Since then seareely a perform- ance of the Alm has passed without a hitch.

CINEMA'S

Fantastle schemes, including a plan to use forged White House stallonery to oblain mill- tary secrets, were disclosed at the recen! New York spy trial. Three defendants, mem- bers of the alleged German spy ring, are shown above. Europa hairdresser; Ertch Glaser, army deserier, and

Experts Thought He Was Mad

Paris.

A doctor arrested in Paris recently because he had escaped from a lunatic asylum is neither mad nor a doctor.

They are: Johanna Hofmann, Otto Voss, airplane mechanic.

NOVEMBER 24, 1938.

4. TIMES WED, NOW SHE GOES TO SAHARA

Lady Idina Haldeman, forty-six- year-old, four times married sister of Lord de la Warr, Lord Privy Seal, left London recently to motor across the Babara to her home in Kenya.

Blonde, attractive, ant vivacious, she uld:

"It in a trip I have ways wanted to make. 1 am going with three ar four friends, and we may take two cari. None of us has done the cross- ing before, and 1, admit it may be

meult, even dangerous.

TRAVEL

"Africa is really more my home now than England. For over a year I have been travelling around the West Indies and in Europe, and now 1 yearn to go back there and stay." Lady Idina, one of Europe's best- dressed women, is going first to Por- tugal, where she will stay for a few weeks before meeting the rest of the party in Algiers,

"We have taken most meticulmis are about our food supplies and petrol," she added. "Everything has been weighed out and calculated to the last pound."

SPENT £80,000 ON PARTIES

AND "FRIENDS"

-Now Penniless

Once Francis John Merritt earned £100 a week- owned a big house, a farm, ears, and forty suits. Recent-

"Eight separate projectors have been put out of action, and the (lm has continually broken," said the Rev. Brlan Hesston, Vlear of Walton, near Aylesbury, Bucking hamshire. "Yet the Bim has been shown in numerous other places

But he was clever enough to per-ly-penniless and shabby-he was jailed for eighteen without the slightest trouble." Undoubtedly, decided the spiri-ade real doctors that he was mad tualists, a poltergeist was to blame and read patients that he was months for theft. And since the type of spirit so teemed! is held to repaire

doctor,

A few years ago Merritt was "on the halls" as The Electric

a mortal ngent "Dr." Benneteau could not afford to Eel. lis salary was more than the Prime Minister's. He spent from which to conduct its muschiey-take medical training, so in devoted it all-and a fortune of £30,000 left him just after the war-on ous practices, the business of the all his spare time to reading books on champagne parties and betting, or gave it away to charities and meeting was to "purify" the person thedicine. housing it.

sat

Crosby Fisher

in

broad

cirele about

Mrs.

the

said

surit

to 12:

¡friends.

In 1936 he became involved in aļ

He was a foundation subscriber to the Variety Artists' thefl they and simulated nindues to escaper i in daylight

arrest. He did so well that Benevolent Fund home for distressed artists at Twickenham. meditim, specialists the chief

Villejuif His name was put on a plaque of honour there. Then his riches Gradon Thomas, Parefully naytum.

10 not injunction

Nine months ago he managed to, went-and so did his friends.

In the dock at the London Sessions he said: cross our legs. We were invited to escape and set up as a doctor in a pray and concentrate on the depar- Paris suur, witere he treated terrible record, but I am not a criminal by instinct. Drink is

my downfall. ture of the evil influener.

obeying

Suddenly patients free of charge. "I see Mrs. Thomas exclaimed. man standing over there

starting for the It

was rather

present, but turned out to "jaymen" be a spiritualistic or trance conjura- tion, visible only to the medium. She described the "inna" as a Moslem, in turb and robes.

How he hm asked to be dealt with by an ordinary court and to be examined by mental experts.

was

said. she working,

parents and his uncle and aunt had told him that they had na-

lves as spirit "guides." This was nerepted.

I have gone through £80,000, LIVING IN ONE ROOM IN A BACK STREET

When he was arrested Meritt was living in one room in a back street near the Elephant and Castle, S.E. His only money was what he RO from the Public Assistance authori- In private sesties. His clothes were so ragged that

he went cut only at night.

through someone handling the apsion with the medium the young paratus in the cinema operating box, nun was "cleansed of his nur." She had a vision of a young man of middle height, fairish hair, and with artistic hands.

NATIVE "GUIDES"

On this slender description the manager of the half, Mr. A. V. Hoper, suggested the person might be 1 years-old Ronald Wills, one of the three operators employed by the cinoma. Young Wills moned.

ניי

PERSISTENT

said:

In 1925 he was sentenced to live years' penal servitude for blackmail.

Wills Afterwards, Ronald

When he was sentenced again in stealing was not greatly surprised or 1936-to three years for ularment when I heard that the pol-furs from a West End store--he told tergeist Was probably working the chairman that he had even of- through me. I have certainly not fered his services to n elreits for "his felt myself since I have been work-bare keep" to get work. ing here, and it may be that the

Free again last July, he told re spirit is using some of my energy.porters that he was "going straight." sum-Most of the manifestations have he said then: ---

taken place when I have been

pre-

"Crime gets you nowhere; I don't sent.

mean to serve another sentence,

He proved to be small of stature and his hair was certainly not dark, though his fingers were rather of the "podgy" type, but immediately Mrs.

Thomas recognised him as the agent sheltering the phenomenon.

He was questioned and re- vealed an laterest in spiritualism. Ile had, in fact, attended a seance What the previous night. only

more, he said, both his WAN

|

I have got a

overhanging a drop of more than 100rt.

Said het

"I used to practise in my cell."

and fellow Now prison warders prisoners will again be "The Elec tric Eel's only audience.

Skating the Lambeth Walk

is

Skating rinks throughout the country may soon resound to the "OP" of the Lambeth Walk. The National Skating Association peeking new dance steps for the ice, and an open ice dance com- petition is being held at West- 22, in an natnster on November effort to find the new dance.

Me. E. G. Coggins, the secretary of the association, is not quite so sure

about the Lambeth Walk. "nor the Big Apple," he said. laughingly.

"You see," he said, "the dance nust not contain any steps which would prevent its being skated in the usual dancing interval; it must he always progressive round the rink, and must maintain an case I've you, guidance. Mind never seen anyone try the Lam- beth Walk on the lec, bul" and he shrugged his shoulders.

Even if the Lambeth Walk can- not be translated into the rhyth

a skating dance. mle swing of

young "perhaps some

composer will win a season's fame with a Westminster Gilde or an Ice Pond

Paddic.

SURGEON STABBED

IN BOND-St.

Scotland Yard officers are seeking a man, believed to

Even while the spiritualists were "I have given up drink and bolting their service one of the other gambling. I am finished with that operators hurried in to say that the fire, I will work for any keep if he a foreigner, who stabbed Mr. Sydney G. MacDonald,

only they will give me a chance." a Welbeck-street consulting surgeon, in Bond-street, W.

The Was

ihn had broken down again. previous night the manager asked if conditions had improved since the exorcism.

"No, they are just as bad as ever,” he replled-poltergeists, It appears, ace must persistent phenomenti,

And to prove that his nerve and skift were as good as ever he stood on his hands on the roof parapet of the Daily Express build- ing in Fleet-street. E.C., his heels

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the shoulder. His a wound in Mr. MacDonald received assailant escaped before the alarm could be raised.

A theory was advanced that the attacker mistook Mr. MacDonald for the King of Greece, who was visit- in London

Scotland Yard, however, described this suggestion as "fantastic."

Frum his country home at Tice- hurst, Sussex, where he is recuperat- Ing. Mr. MacDonald revealed that the attack necurred about 10 p.m.

"I saw. subsconsciously, a crossing the road towards me," he snid. did not pay any particular attention to him, but he came along side me and auittered something.

Tom Walls' No

to B.B.C.

Tom Walls has turned down D.B.C. Invitation to broadcast because he refuses to be what he describes as The B.B.C. "one of a procession." man

invited him to take part in the "Show- nen of Eagiand" broadcasts featuring Albert de Courville, director of the latest Tom Walls film, "Crackerjack."

"I did not even look round. As I passed by him. I fell a sharp blow in the back, which staggered me for

the moment.

"The blow-It might have been in- Mleted with Btiletto-caused

L wound which, fortunately, was not very serious.

"Much as I admire Albert de Cour- ville," he said "I refuse to play an in- meant part in his radio pro-

gramme.

"For ten years I was after-manager aat the Aldwych Theatre, and a dis- erverer of many stage and Alm star.. So you will understand why I cannot "My shoulder blade was struck, accept the B.B.C. invitation to creep and the wound was only half an inch in for a minute at the end of a pro- away from a lung. I halted a taxi-gramme that beasts my friend, Albert

de Courville."

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cab and was driven home, where surgleat colleague

attended

me.

Scotland Yard was then informed.

"The whole affair to me is R mystery. I had never seen my

only assailant before, and I can assume that he mistook me for an- other man. I am sull unable to use any right arm.'

5 LAW LORDS HEAR LABOURER'S CASE

London.

A labourer, David John Harris, of Eynsford Road, Geenhithe, Kent, through legal aid provided by the Poor Persons Department, was able to have his case heard by five Law Lords in the House of Lords. He is claiming compensation for an accl- dent which occurred whilst he was at work but his claim was dismissed at two previous hearings.

HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Annual Ceneral Meeting of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children will take place in the Helena May Institute, on Tuesday, December 13, at 5.15 p.m.

Anne Crozier,

-Hon. General Secretary.

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