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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Lowered 100ft. To Save Dog

LOWERED by rêpe down the frost-crumbled face of a 100 feet deep travel pit at Plumstead, Mr. Jóc For is seen in the me- ture on the right, approaching a dog which, had fallen on to a ledne. Top picture allows Mr. Foz; (left) with the resened dog, Prince, and Mr. R. A. Davies, who helped him.

Girl in

trance

sings-in Egyptain

LIVING a quiet, cultured life in Blackpool is a hand- some young woman who is said to be the reincarnation JARDINE, MATHESON & of an Egyptian princess who

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Not only does she speak under trance in ancient Egyp- tian, but she also sings the lost melodies of a bygone era.

These melodies have been julled down, and listeners have heard them Lover the radh in the organ recitals.

of Dr. Frederle H. Wood.

'Writing Medium'

The story is told by Dr. Wood in This Egyptian Miracle, Just published by Rider (89. Od.).

Dr. Wood writes: "Late in 1927) Rosemary's hand began to write un- expectedly by itself. I realised at once that bere was what is called

writing medium!*"*

Dr. Wood claims that Rosemary's mediumship has given Egyptian scholars a gukle to the pronunciation of a language known only in writ- ten form.

Under test conditions, Rosemary, While

in trance, has recorded thej speech of ancient Egypt on gramo- phone discx.

From The Past

Records of Rosemary's speech were

ZULU

CHIEF CHARGED

"Witch Trial-

In London

May 20, 1940.

The End of a Father of this Girl Shocked All the World

THE youngest daughter of the late ex- rector of Stiffkey, Pamela Davidson, is working in a West End of London - night | club, to earn money to keep her mother.

Everybody will wish her luck..

"Every night, at 11 o'clock, she arrives at the. [club, off the Charing Cross-road, und-takes up her

tray of cigarettes and choco- lates.

-

...

Till dawn she moves round the crowded club, sellhig, elgarettes to the gay throng of oficers on leave and their girl friends.

Panela Davidson now in her early twenties, is slim and attractive, and many of the club, patrons wonder who she is. Few know.

The youngest of the Rev. Harokt Davidson's five ehlidren, she has always stood by her parentis.

When her father died, three years ngo, her mother, Mrs. Moira David- son, said:

She

"Pam is my unly consolation. is the only one of my children living) at home, and she is all I have."

In the days after his sensational trial and unfrocking, when Harold Davidson was a "star" in fairground} sideshows, Pamela then aged sixteen, went with him.

Five years ago the ex-rector staged. his most notorious publicity stunt by "fasting" publicly in a barrel on ex- hibition in a Blackpool sideshow.

Pamela occupied a barrel along- side him..

She had always cherished on am- bition for મા slage career. Three years ago she landed a job and donred in the chorus of a West Endi show.

Fur time she was the sole sup- port of herself and her widowed inother.

11c case of the "Rector off Stiffkey" staggered the world eight years ago,

Double Life

The Rev. Harold Francis Davidson. was the unknown vicar of the thy parish of Stinkey, in Norfolk, when

He Chose

To Be A Stretcher Case

Whole familles worked in co- operation with A.EP. workers during CX CT- cises at Erith, This incident Wos staged in

n house, and RAVC rescue party. training lowering'a' stretcher саяс from the top floor.

Baby

fire

Tragic Story

elephant joins brigade

́ELLERMAN'S Y OWN

SUNNINGDALE (Berks).

RAPHAEL, a baby elephant, has been pui, on the strength of a private fire brigade formed by Sir John Eller- man, thirty-year-old millionaire, to protect his Airth estate, near Sunningdale,

in 1932 he was brought before the A special soddle has been ́ mnde { ♦♦ Consistory Court necused on several for the elephant, to carry a water tank Raphael fills his trunk from counts of immoral conduct.

The trial lasted three months and the tank, and squirts the caused a first-cings sensation. Crowds wherever it is needed.. stormed the court to listen to the

water

He puts out practice fires every amazing evidence, and watch the day, trebind the nine-foot walls that "showmanship" of the little man of surrounded the estate. sixty, whose double life, was being revealed.

Raphael, who is valued at £500,

On Sundays the rector preached of was a birthday prezent to Sir John his little church. The rest of the last December from his brother-In- week he spent in London.

law, Mr. Raphael-de-Sokat. "His main occupation seemed to

When have been associathug with quite)

at

the elephant arrived young women. from the age of six-Alrth two months ago it was in- teen upwards." sald counsel at the tended that he should give free rides trial.

to evacuated children

YOU won't remember this murder because probably you never read about it.Death Sensation, Too

A girl named Barbara Harris' was one of the principal witnesses.

This week in London the made at the International Institute story will be told, although for Psychical Researeh, London, and have been translated by an Egyptian the. murder a triple,, mur

-was committed two der and a half years ago.

scholar.

on ive counts, and in due course wes

Horoid Davidson was found guilty

unfrocked.

Then he embarked on his astonish- ing career as a showman.

"In her normal state Rosemary does not know a word of Ease-

After his "fasting" feat at Black- lian, and she steadfastly refuses

paol he was arrested and chargedt to discuss li, even with me." Dr.

A piece of rope woven and with attempted suicide by starving. Wood writes.

"treated" by a witch-doctor, the He took action in rourt for malig- Through Rusemary's mediumship, contents of a witch-doctor's bag. heavy damages.

ous prosecution und was awarded Dr. Wood claims, the forgotten and a broken piece of a clay pot music of ancient Egypt has been re-come into the story. captured.

Words and music of a "Nile Boat-

"A Hymn

He has been made a fireman since la-Bre-brake-out-in-an-estate-garago ast month, and the private brigude helped the Ascot brigade to put it fout.

Scout V.C. For

Boy Who Dying, Said "I'm O.K.

ifls death was as sensational an bis life. In July, 1937, he was appearing in) er And I will be told to the Judicial a show where he entered a lion's den; Song"

to Osiris," "An Committee of the Privy Council-the and addressed the public. Invocation to Bagi," "Trumpet-Call highest tribunul of the Empire. to Amon," and fragments of dance Itunes have been brought back from

the past, he says.

Denmark Asset

To Germany

More Yards For Shipbuilding

Germany's complete

situation that

One night a lion mauled him, and The committee will hear the up-Davidson died from his injuries. peal against sentence of death of Chiet Faklsundhin Naumbule, a sub-

ordinate chief of Swaziland, in far- HARBOUR DEPT. CRAFT

away East Africa,

calling

t1

Is The Government This ducky, many times married, tenders for the supply of Zulu chlef was sentenced for proeur-launch and a motor bont for

ng the murder of one of his wives, Harbour Department, his brother, and the wife brother.

Gave Them Poison

of his

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SOUTHWOLD. NEARLY eight months ago 17-year-old Scout Patrol Lender George Alfred Stannard, of Vic- for toria Street, Southwold, camtaken to hospital here with

heart disease after pneumonia.

the

the

Tenders are also invited for purchase of the old steam launch H.D. 4, which is lying at the Govers While at No. 10, Downing-street, ment slipway at Ynumati. the Cabinet may be meeting to makei war plans, a few steps further down

control of the street this picture will be recon- Vol. X No. 1. Denmark has an effect on the naval structed

11, THE

is

not

generally On the night of September realised. There is a large and well-1937, a secre of Zulus sat in a semi- equipped shipbuilding industry in circle round a camp fire at Buseleni, Denmark which can be switched in the district of Mankalana. over to help the German yards.

The principal shipbuilding yards in Then, it is alleged, Nhloko Haish-

Denmark are:

Aalborg Værft

Frederikshavns Verti

Slipa.

Elinore Shobdy, and Eng. Co. a. Burmeister and Wain

Nakakoy. Ekibsverft

wakso, a native doctor, handed round Craving sorne harmless medicine until he came docks. to the three people who were to be killed. He gave them poison under the_gulso of medicine.

Chief Eaklandhla Nkambule was There are other smaller yards of not present at the ceremony, but il Odense, Karikus". and Fredriciunt. Is alleged that üfterwards he got in Apart from the private yards, there touch with the wich-doctor to re- fa, of course, the Royal dockyard at ward him with money und "cuttle for, Copenhagen, which is fully equipped what he had done.

for building ships up to 4,000 tons and his skilled workers in submarine construction, alace all Denmark's un- derwater

craft havo

there.

Cure For Dreams

The trial, in October 1938, lusted been built three days, and the Zulu chiet was

sentenced to death,

Another asset to Germany will be

| the_control_of the great Diesel motor! It was alleged at the chief's trai works of Burmeister and Wain. that he instigated a medicine man" Thin fem'a yearly production of to administer poison to the three marine motor engines it at least people, because he suspected them of 230,000 hp.

|kifling his daughter, who had died The much more rapid rate of des-porno time previously.. truction of U-boats in this: war

ײז

eight a monu, tas žagainst three to

January, 1940

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¡Chief Fakisandhla Nkambule how- four a month has added to German ever maintained that he had "nothing

imentar maltaining pressure to do with precaring the orders Numbers from Vol. IV. Ágainst our sta routes, and the nđêl-: The “medicine" for which he had tion of the Danish resources must be asked, ho declared, was the perform very welcome to the Nazi authori-juncevol, the 'ceremony "ot. „Luzego," ties.

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Soon he became known to the staff

and pollents as the "OK. boy."

When he was desperately ill he answered questions with; "I'm OK., thank you."

Governess Leaves £1,000 To Princess

W23:

FOR years Miss Jane Polts.`of' Meads-street, Eastbourne, governess to Princess Allen Coun- ices of Atlone. So greatly was aho, esteemed by the Royal Family that when Princess Alice's mether, the Duchess of Albany, died, the left Miss Potts a legacy of.£1,000.

Last September Miss Fous. died, and in her will, which was published recently she left £1,-- 000 to her old pupil. Her total estalo was £10,244, nel personal- ty 214,052 Ds. 10d.

"Miss Potts was extremely attached to Princess Alice, and' her mother," Mr. William Dodd, her nephew, salt, I expect she fell dhe would like the money, to zo back to the family,"

The announcement that the

babeen Duke of Athlone has painted) Governor-General Canada and that she will soon have to leave this country ham naturally made her a llltlo saď to feel she must leave_no_many friends," a member of the house» hold said,

Apm

of

RACED SON ON CLIFF

WHILE racing with his seventeen- When in pain he always sold: "I'm year-old son os Great Orme Head, Llandudno, a research chemist feli {O.K., thank you."

over the cliff into the pleasure gar- Happy Valley and

When he knew he was dying hedens known as still anid: "I'm O.K., thank you." was killed.

The victim was Mr. Harry Whit- He has been posthumously award-

ed the Scout Victoria Cross for pluck ham of Church-road, Upton Birken- and determination, while in hos-bead.. pital.

#

The matron at the hospital said: "I never knew boy ilke him. He suffered terribly but always had, a smile until the last. He impressed. every patient in the hospital. Even when in intense pain he never grumbled."

WENT BACK TO MINESWEEPER

"Racing with his son, Hilly, Was typical of him,” a friend mid, “They. both loved sport, and” the father, was foling enough in spirit: to be a real par 'to his bey":

Recently, Mr.

Whitem had a nor

vous breakdown. He had been oft work tivo months, and with his wife decided to visit Torquay, to recupe rate. Billy, was to go with them for the last week of tie school holiday.

Changed Plan

They left home on a Thursday, but nt the last moment changed their SURVIVORS of the 718-ton mine. minds and went to Llanduling. With- sweeper Dunoon, sunk by a mine in forty-eight hours the father was

dead. told of the bravery of one of the Jomcers Lieut. Donald Swift.

"They both watched sports to- gether and both father and son played in tennis tournaments," said the friend. "For twenty years. Mr. Whitham, had been chairman of. Upton Tennis Club and the night before his death he was re-elected. le was anomalal of Upton Foot Forty men, including. Llout, Swift ball Club "and chairman of Upton, and an engineer officer, were landed, Victory Hall, the villoge, war seven memorial.. No one in the village was

Three ofeers, including the cap- tain, Llout.-Com. H. A. Barclay, and) 24 ratings were killed by the explo- alon, Lieut. Swift returned to the sinking ship, to make sure that no Hinjured-men-were-left-on-board.

by another warship with

Iwounded, four seriously,

belter liked."