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45(34) On Sunday, April 30, 1905, at ten p.m., my relative and I were having an interestingconversation with a friend who had lately passed over to the other side, when the direction of thetilting was suddenly changed. Instead of tipping towards the psychic, as it had been doing before,it moved across the line between us, showing that a new influence was present. I said: “Please giveyour name”; and the taps indicated “T…”. This was the name of a distinguished admiral underwhom I had served twenty years before.Q.: “Have you any messages to give?”A.: “Yes; I expect that Rojdestvensky will meet with a typhoon tomorrow.”Now ten p.m. April 30, in England would be six a.m., May 1 in China. If Admiral T. werephrasing his message in China time, he would be referring to Tuesday, May 2, as “tomorrow.”Admiral T. who passed over many years before, had manifested himself to me on at lasttwenty occasions, on both sides of the Atlantic, and through five or six mediums. Though atyphoon in May, in the China Sea, is of a very rare occurrence, I thought this message had somesignificance, and I took care the next day to give a copy of it to a friend in London.It subsequently transpired that Admiral Rojdestvensky, with the larger part of his fleet, wasat Van-Phong Bay, on the south coast of Hainan, on May 1. It is a very exposed anchorage.On Thursday, May 4, the following notice was in the London daily papers: “A typhoon visited theSouth China coast this week, and it is reported that the Russian Baltic squadron was caught in it,the smaller craft being scattered.”I now wrote for information to my friend Dr. Doberck, the Director of the Observatory atHong Kong, and received his reply in August, together with a copy of his monthly report, fromwhich I extract the following items:-On April 30, 1905, 12.10p.m. The barometer has fallen on the China coast, particularly inthe North, and risen quickly of Luzon, probably moving towards W.N.W.On May 1, at 12.14p.m. The typhoon in the China Sea may be situated to the S.S.E. ofHong Kong and between the Paracels and the W. coast of Luzon. Probably it is moving towardsW.N.W. Red S. Cone and Drum hoisted. {These are the warning signals for the approach of atyphoon.}On May 2, at 6.25a.m. Red S. Cone and Drum lowered. The depression in the China Sea nolonger traced.So it appears that the London daily papers were wrong, and the typhoon dissipated in themiddle of the China Sea. That is of small consequence. Admiral T. did not say that Rojdestvenskywould meet with a typhoon, but “I expect….”. The point is this: there was a typhoon I the ChinaSea on May 1, and it was in such a position that, if it had travelled as was expected by the Directorof the Observatory, it would have passed over Hainan the next day. Considering the exposedposition of the Russian fleet, it cannot have failed to do much damage – as much probably, as theguns of the Japanese did a fortnight later. In short, Admiral T. made the same forecast as theDirector, who gave instructions for the storm-signals to be shown at Hong Kong.This is a good example of accurate information furnished by a denizen of the next state ofexistence. It was, no doubt, given to me as a test. Admiral T. ’s communication to me was sixhours before the time of the storm-signals being shown. He may have judged for himself, or hemay have seen into the mind of Dr. Doberck. Either way it does not matter; for the fact remainsthat he gave me in a house in Southsea an unexpected item of information of a disastrous event thatwas officially forecasted six hours later in China.(35) To continue my experiences in table-tilting. On September 20, 1905 I paid a visit toa fisherman, Mr. Endicott and his wife at Brixham in Devonshire. They have an old three-footedtable made out of some wreckage, at which they had often sat and obtained manifestations. Theyare both psychics, but Mrs. Endicott has the greater power. We sat with our hands flat upon thetable. In a few minutes the latter gave signs of animation, and indicated that a spirit was presentfor me. I called out the letters of the alphabet, and the following dialogue took place:-Q.: “Will you give me your name”?