TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1926..
FORTY YEARS AGO. SALE OF Dwarf children.
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HONGKONG IN THE EIGHTEEN.
EIGHTIES.
COLONY'S EARLIER. DAYS.
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Interesting Impressions of An
ex-Governor.
"Having dealt in earlier articles with Governor Des Vaux's first impressions of the Colony Wo come now to his comments on official work and routine. William devotes considerable space to this subject, being evid ently a worker, hrst, last and all
FOR STAGE AND·
CAFES.
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DETECTIVES MURDERED.
BODIES FOUND IN MINE SHAFT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
had also been: sawn, in halvis Itjors, and several other portions of appeared as though the murderers | an illicit gold treatment plant.” In had placed the various portions of fact the firebricks were covered the bodies. In's furnace, in än ut. | with splashes of gold and must have. tompt to destroy evidence of their some considerable value crime. The remains were badly
Signs of a Strugglo. ` Apparently there was a desperate pieces of bag. When these grugstruggle in which the detectives soma parcels were removed to, the were truck on the head with 'ter-1 The mystery surrounding the surface those present will never rible force, or were shot and killed.
deaths.
COUNCIL MEMBER.
MR. BERNARD ELECTED BY CHAMBER.
FOR THE FULL 4 YEARS.
4 NIGHTS ONLY
MURA SHIPOFF
The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard ART BALLET CO.
has been selected as the successor to the late Mr. P. H Holyoak, to represent commercial interests on the Hongkong Legislative Council. (5 Star Performers) of course, be submitted to H.E the His nomination will, as a matter Governor.
Though the very high percentage MUTILATED REMAINS BURNT. charred, and were wrapped In of dwarfs the Hungarian counties of Boraid Abau ANC Zemplen is due to natural causes. the dwarf dealers of the middle disappearance of Detective Inspec-forget the awful sight the dismem There is to be no, direct Ages are curiously recalled by the tor Walsh and Detective Sergeant bered bodios presented. The flesh steady export of dwarfs of both Pithan was solved by the discovery on the bones was in an advanced evidence of the manner of their of their bodies in an abandoned state of decomposition. After the taken by the desperadoes to des The cold-blooded pains sexes from that area.
Three clover dwarfs, two boys shaft a faw miles from Kalgoorlie, parcels containing the human re-troy tad render unrecognisable the Western Australia. The news was mains had been brought to the surheads of the unfortunata men, leads and girl, were engaged by a "Sir theatrical agent at Szlmai for three accompanied by gruesome details face a number of buckets of earth to the assumption that death was
which show that the deccasod. | were hauled up.
Mr. Bernard's present position: Amongst this years. their parents receiving.n
the cranium. large sum for signing the contract. officers were the victims of awers discovered a number of pieces used by injuries, of some sort to on the Council e "during the AR of burnt bones, which Doctor had been sawn from the trunks and He was elected to take Mr. The victims' heade absence on leave of Mr. Holyoak." Their arrival in Germany created peculiarly revolting crime.
Officer, identified as being portion
loft of the two skulls were a few went on leave about two months of the skulls,
calcined bone fragments to which ago. There was no other nomina Lonely Burial Flace,
were hanging a small quantity of tion. The scene of the ghastly dis-alag. The arms and legs of the
the time. His story is of special such a demand that, other agents attempt had been made to burn, the Matthews, the District Medical burnt in a furnace. All that was Holyoak's place, when the latter
interest as relating the beginnings and inception
earlyure
of
familiar institutions now so much e part of the accepted. order
or
now touring that part
of similar Hungary in search "talent." More than 20 children have already been found and sent
of
bodies which had been saws into many pieces. That the crime was committed by lelt traffickers in gold is indicated by the fact that
Imagine the Colony without them.
Routine of Government.
the
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As a result of Mr. Holyoak's is
necessary.
"The routine and absolutely stagu. Many are used in cafes as to the West Australian (Perth) Seven Mile Hills, which lie to the are must have become frightened General. Chamber of Commerce |
stated:-
eral meeting of the, Hongkong
Accordingly, a gen
was held at the City Hall yester-
The incomparable
"Baby Pavlova
KORA (her Brother
and Partner).
M. GEO, SURMI (Cello Boloist)
The East Surreys orchestra day afternoon for that purpose. will be in attendance.
Mr. Bernard presided (as chair- man of the Chamber) and was supported by the Hon. Mr. A. O, Lang, Messrs. Faul Lauder, A. H. Barlow, A. S. D. Cousland, J. A.
lummer, C. G. Knight (members. of the general committee) and Mr. H. R. Cleland (acting secretary).
things that, it is difficult to to Cologne and...Mannheira, the portions of a gold-recovery plant covery is a desolato ane; on the two men had also been saw rom death, the election, for a fuit, new"]
chief centres in Germany of the were plled on top of the dismem crest of a saltbush ridge studded the trunk and an unsuccessful at term, of another member was
with occasional clumps of gums, tempt. had been made to destroy about a mile from the foot of the them in the furnace. The murder: oast of Kalgoorlie, and about a mile at this stage, and hurriedly pack and a half south of the Coolgardieing the mutilated remains in bags, Road. A bush track leads off to loaded them on a cart, together the south at the six miles fork on with their plant, and left the scene the main road, and after crossing of the murder for a more secluded the Kurrawang-Kambellie wood- locality.
Arriving at the shaft line, climbs the ridge and goes they seem to have methodically within a few yards of the shaft, lowered the bags and plant to the From the top of a dump alongside bottom of the 60 ft. hole, packed the shaft, away to the bast can be everything down tight, and then seen the white crest of the Golden decamped. Horseshoe dump, and the black smoke from the Golden Mile mining plants. The towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder are hidden by the high rise at Somerville, It is a longly spot, but the silence of the bush was broken all day by the opera tions of the grim-faced detectives and assistants who were engaged in recovering the horribly mutilated bodies,
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bered bodies. dwarf business.
A Kalgoorlia message of May 12 They do not all go upon Sir William writes:-
mirth-provokers. and there is necessary work of Hongkong increasing demand by private em-
The search "was continued early ministration seemed to me from ployers, mostly women, for attrac
this morning by the police who were the first to be much lighter than tive-looking little dwarfs as pages. Inquiring into the mysterious dis- that of any Crown Colony which
A section of the public opinion appearance of Dotective-Inspector I had previously governed, and Hungary is opposed to this export J. J. Walsh and Detective-Sergeant this impression was confirmed by af dwarfs, but the poverty in the A. Pitman, of the Gold Stealing subsequent experience. The
districts whore dwarfs abound is Detection Star, who had been miss basketful of papers which came too acute that it is clearly in the ina since the evening of Tuesday, me every morning seemed much
About 10 o'clock one of the the same as in Fiji, but the work interests of the dwarfs to be wall April 27.
maintained abroad, and that of required to be done upon them their parents, who receive welcome parties, acting on information sup was infinitely less.
funds for letting them go on their plied by two men who had been travels.
The Miniator of the In-driving through the bush in terion, therefore, declines to inter-sdiky, arrived at a shaft at what though the polles watch care le known as Miller's Find, about six ́or seven miles along the Coolgardie Tally overy "deal"
Road, and about a mile and a half south of the main road. At the bottom of the shaft--a distance of about sixty feet the dismembered and charred bodies of the two missing men were found.
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and
an
Theory of the Crime.. For some weeks prior to April 27 and Sergeant Inspector Walsa Pitraan had been keeping a sus
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The notice convening the meet- ing having been read, Mr. Bernard said:
It le probably the most brutal and revolting murder that has over occurred in this State. It a all the more pathetic because of "It is only some two months. the fact that Inspector Walsh was since we last met. here to nomio- 65 years of age, and was due toate a representative for the retire at the end of the year. Ser Legislative Council during the geant Pitman, although not so well absence on leave of the late Mr. up in years, had been over 20 P. H. Holyoak. Little did we years on the goldfields. Both wore think at that time that we should have to meet again so soon to nominate a representative for the full period of four years. This, however, became necessary
occurred soon after his arrival in England.
married men with families,
FUND:
Tribute To Mr. Holyoak. "Mr. Holyoak served the Cham
Peking, June 1. The half million dollar peace maintenance fund is now reported to have been ber on the Legislative Council for actually paid out due to &T a period of eleven years during arrangement having been finally which time he never spared him made with Tupan Chang Tsung-self in working for our interesta chang by telegram.
"Mr. Stewart, the Colonial. Secretary, though so modest that he was with great difficulty per- suaded to accept that office, and so shy that any form of society' was a positive pain to him, was a most excellent man for his place. Able himself, and having excap-without the permission of the tional knowledge of China and the Chinese Government and Chinese, he was fortunate also in looking into the matter I found
On Tuesday evening Inspector having competent assistants, that for many years previously a and his office was remarkably desultory correspondence had been Condor, chief of the Criminal wel organised. As a conse- carried on with reference to the vestigation Department, who has
buen directing operations, waspected plant under surveillance. $500,000 PEACE MAINTENANCE through his sudden death which quence, every paper sent to me for subject without effective result." a decision had attached to it for The paralel between this case informed by Messrs. Edwards and They went out at night and return- reference all previcus papers and that of the Pratas. Shoal Brown that they were out drivinged to Kalgoorlie early in the morn- upon the sume subject. with a wireless
Meteorological in a sulky that afternoon, and when ing; sleeping until midday. precis of them, followed by a re- Station will strike the present day passing a shaft at Miller's Find, the night of April 27, it is stated, commendation of what was to be leader. Sir William continues: about 6 miles. from Kalgoorlie, they were somewhat apprehensive was they smelt an awful stench coming that the persons being watched done, which, if sometimes savour-
"Feeling that the object ing of over-prudence, was almost one which deserved an energetic from it. There were also a large knew or suspected that the officers always indicative of excellent effort. I, after obtaining the number of files emerging from the "had a line on them:" Further more, the detectives were afraid judgment, Though his sugges views of various experts and shaft, which made it appear as tions not unfrequently struck againing a sufficient mastery of the though something was lying dead that the plant might be removed at any time. The fact that they differently constituted mind as previous history of the question, requiring supplement, it was in formulated. and on January 16,
Ggests that they had obtained in only rare instances that I failed 1881. forwarded to the British made arrangements for Mr. to adopt them in substance, so Minister at Peking to bid be. Walker, of the Great Boulder Mine formation that some move was that the incessant labour of con- fore the Chinese Government. drive Detective-Sergeant Purdue afoot either that the plant was to sidering what was to be done in three alternative proposals, in the armor truck with in the shaft. be shifted or that a big parcel every case, however trivial, which hope that one or other of them A motor truck with all the neces-, was to be put through. They as had so long oppressed me in St. could hardly fail to be accepted. sary gear for making a descent accordingly went out immediately, in Lucia, Trinidad, and except for a Bach these involved full companied the car. Two experienc tending to seize the plant before it very short time in Fiji, was com-recognition of Chinese sovereigned minera--Messrs. W. Batten and was removed or to get the gold. It paratively absent.
ty over the rock, and undertook. Norris were also engaged, to would appear that the sudden ap
pearance of the police caused those "In the matter of despatches the provision. by Hongkong of the descend the chart. also there was allar relief; ex-cost of erecting and maintaining nine o'clock the party set off from uperating the plant, or some of Having per cept about specially important the lighthouse, by whichever of the Detective Office, and about half them to run amok.
an hour's run brought them to matters, a draft came to me for the two Governments the work
their destination. After £12 approval, which usually required Buld be done. little or no addition or amend-
of
at the bottom.
Inspector Condon immediately rushed out suddenly that night sug-
Shortly after
"In the hope of achieving a set-examination of the tracks leading ement of the question in time to and from the mouth of the shaft nabi commencement of the preparations were made for a
ment. In fact, I am inclined to think that not more often than once a week on the average didk in the following April I require to write a despatch my wach is the beginning of the self. the contrast between this ir season when landing on the and my former experience ink is comparatively easy), I re- Crown Colonies being greater ac..ed the previous sanction of even than in the case of minutes. e secretary of State for any one It was, indeed, easy to see that a of the proposals which might be Governor might pass through his accepted. This sanction was whole tenure of office, without given, and, in accordance with my falling into official disfavour, by request, was telegraphed to doing little more than sign his Peking by, the Foreign Office. name to the productions of others, and that the place would be a paradise to a man inclined to be idle. I quickly found, however, that there was abundance of other than routine work to be done, and set about doing it.
The matter, however, was not to be settled so quickly, and only after much further correspond ence as to the terms on which the erection was to be permitted, and as to the nature of the light, was 13 I in a position at the end of the following August to announce the conclusion of an arrangement by message to the Legislative Coun- cil.
Gap Rock lagliluted. "One of the first subjects which engaged my attention was the loss suffered by the shipping trade from the want of a light-
"This arrangement was de- house to guide vessels approach- teribed by the British Minister ing the port from the south. et Péking as a combination of the Owing to the many islands on first and-third-of-my-proposale, either side of the route. the dan-und, though not in all respects ger of approach at night, or in such as might have been desired, fog, was such as to cause delays, was evidently the best
.ob. sometimes of many hours; and tainable; and it achieved the the aggregate "annual loss thus main object aimed at. In the occasioned was estimated at an course of the following year the enormous sum. This, it was lighthouse was erected, the great easy to see, might for the most difficulties encountered in doing part be saved by the erection of a to having been successfully over- lighthouse, provided with the come by the energy
and ex means of fog-signalling, at the ceptional engineering capacity of entrance of the dangerous paa. Mr. Cooper, the engineer of the ange, or at a distance of some work, who, I have been glad to twenty eight miles from Hong- observe, has since obtained the kong.
promotion in the Service which "All the experts were agreed he has fully deserved. that the best; position for such u "In connection with this subject | lighthouse was upon a small I may mention that I entered at island called Gap Rock; but the the same time into negotiations Chinese Maritime Customs, which with the Chinese. Government (under the able administration of with reference to the erection of Sir Robert Hart) had done auch another lighthouse upon the Islet magnificent work in lighting the of Wagian, also then belonging to rest of the China coast, objected China, but situated at a point. to undertake, the erection in this much nearer, Hongkong. This: spot on account of the difficulty of being much more easy of cons landing upon it, the great cost, struction, the Chinese Customs. which owing to this cause, would undertook and completed the work be incurred for building being not themselves after had left Hong unnaturally regarded as dispro- kong, so that now the approaches portionate to the benefit likely to to the harbour have been render. accrue from the light to Chinese ed satisfactorily safe, and an trade other than that of Hong, incalculable boon has thus been secured for the vast tonnage kong
which enters the port of
"On the other hand, as the rock belonged to China, Hongkong Victoria could not undertake the work
[To be continued.]
hapa seriously injured or killed oaé of the detectives they had to go
From all appearancus the '
on.
It is understood that $150,000 went to the police, $100,000 to the Garrison force, $50,000 to the Gendarmes, $50,000 to the Chihli Shantung alliance, $50,000 to Marshal Wu's troops, $40,000 in repayment to banks, $40,000 for refugee relief and $20,000 to buy food for those held in local prisons,
BABY'S INDIGESTION.
Corrected by Sweetening The Stomach With Baby's Own...
Tablets.
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and proved a most capable repre- sentative. He set an example which it will be hard indeed for his successor to emulate, and his death is a very great loss to the Chamber.
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"There is only one candidate
to-day, and that is myself, pr Posed by the Hon. Mr. Lang and seconded by Mr. Barlow. Voting will therefore be by a show of hands.
"While I do not and cannot claim to be able to serve the Chamber with anything approach- ing the success achieved by Mr. Holyoak, nevertheless if you do me the honour of electing me I. shall do my utmost to protect and further the interests of the com-
indigestion causes babies to have-mercial community In this the disturbed sleep and night torrors, knowledge derived from the vari
cream look to the condition
child awakens your
ed interests both in Hongkong. and China of the firm I represent, together with the experience of local companies as a director will prove valuable assets."
ghastly crime was committed at some place far removed from where the bodies of Inspector Walsh and Revolting Discovery.
Sergeant Pitman were found. The
with a When Mr. W. Batten was first lowered shaft and nearby surface workings
of its down the shaft, which was about have not been touched for years, stomach, Baby's Own Tablets are a 60 feet deep, found portions of an old and batter- this inhuman outrage drove up in young children. Thuy
At the bottom he and apparently, the porpatrators of harmless medicing for infants and sweeton the ad gold treatment plant, à blood- n cart and selected it as a good Irritation without the use of harmless stomach and remove the cause of encrusted saw, charred bags and a spot to hide the frightful evidence drugs, heap of rubbish. The work of re-. of their foul deed. Cart tracks led Mrs. Henry Nichols, of No, 27 moving the rubbish took some time, up to and away from, the Shaft, as the workers could not remain coming and going in the direction underground for more than half an of Kalgoorlie and Boulder. There on a disordered stomach and con
Tablets with entirely satisfactory hour at a time. All the rubbish wore also signs that the cart wheel stipation. I am glad to recommend having been removed, the miners had been chained, and that the them to other mothers, especially te discovered the diemembered and horse had dragged the locked wheel these whose children are run down in charred remains of Detective-Ina- about for a longthy period whilst the stomach and bowels and I keep health. Baby's Own Tablets regulato pector Walsh and Sergeant Pitman. browsing on the herbage. At the them on hand all the time." The heads of both had been sawn bottom of the shaft, covering the Buby's Own Tablets are
Bold by off the legs had been Bawn off just dismembered bodies, were found chemists everywhers, alun post free, 50 below the bodies and again just firebricks, gold scales, trebars, cents the vial, from the Dr. Willand. Modicine Co., 60 Kiangne Road. above, the knees; and the trunks, tongs, a-furnace used for smelting: Shanghai.
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