FORETELLER OF WAR
MUMMIFIED EGYPTIAN HAWK
BLOOD ALLEGEDLY DBIPPED. "T
CHIEF SCOUT'S CORROBORATION,
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 9.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 27.
The story of a mummified hawk from Egypt which drips blood when war is imminent is vouched for by Lord Robert Baden-PoweU, who states that he has seen tne blood. He told the “News-Chronicle” that the hawk dripped a liquid appearing to be blood a month before the Boer war. The hawk began to drip again in July, 1914, and continued till a month before the Armistice.
The hawk is supposedly 4000 years old and belonged to friend of Lord Baden-Powell, who consulted it during the Chanak trouble. As blood was not seen he rightly concluded that war was not coming.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 October 1930, Page 4
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127FORETELLER OF WAR Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 October 1930, Page 4
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