COLONEL J. P. KOCH.
GALLANT EXPLORER IN GREENLAND.
the leader of the inland ice ex-
to wrest.
crossed from east
The
WOMAN DIVER,
SURPASSES MEN IN FEATS UNDER WATER,
PERILOUS WORK.
ean go deeper than fifty feet at
DIES IN COPENHAGEN.
Diving for treasure on the floor The death ia announced, in a Reuter message from Copenhagen, of the ocean is a profession, and of Colonel J. P. Koch, chief of the it le not overcrowded. When civi- Colonel lised people undertake exploration Danish Army Air Force. Koch in earlier years was a well- of the depths, cumbersome appara- tus is used, helpers and machinista known Aretle explorer, and took part in several Greenland expedi- are necessary, expenses are high tions, including that led by Lieu and life insurance men look with tenant G. Amdrup, which explored | disfavour upon the diver.
With Increasing depth the pron the coast northwards from Ang-
He was also sure of water on the human body magssulik in 1900. a member of the Danish expedition causes fearsome pain and the 19 Greenland in 1905-8, and was strongest people, untrained, seldom pedition four years later which their first attempt and then for The only a few seconds. And they are last journey was fraught with equipped with diving suits and air.
Woman Champion. many perils and privations.
Ndition, which, in addition to Its leader, consisted of Dr. Wegener, an sallor named Larsen, and
Vifus Sigurdson, Teclander named was landed from: the Godthaab on July 21, 1912, on the east coast Greenland. Thirteen of the sixteen ponies of the expedition Immediately stampeded, but ten of them were afterwards recaptured; and the expedition. niso lost its the to motor-boat, which went bottom. Three weeks passed be- fore the ice was sufficiently strong to bear sledges and horses. Just at and this time Dr. Wegener, fell broke a rib. In spite of strenuous efforts, the expedition Falled to reach Queen Louise Land, and Captain Koch decided to winter All the horses on the Inland ice.
slaughtered, except five were Those which remained were kept with the expedition all the winter and were fed from time to time
on the flesh of the others. At the end of October, during a sleighing expedition to Queen Louise Land, Captain Koch fell into a 40ft deep
crevasse, breaking his right leg. He was laid up in the winter hut for three months, and it was not until March that sleighing could On April 20 the be resumed. expedition left the winter quarters with five sleighs and five horses, to begin the 750-mile march over the inland ice to the west const of During the first forty Greenland. days violent blizzards raged, and the horses became snow-blind, and.
so exhausted that three of them
Yet natives all over the world, where pearl shell is found, work under water from thirty to 150 feet without diving beil, suit or head- gear, gathering shell and, unless they find pearls, they are fortunate it expenses have been met after a five-month seaton.
Training from childhood on is necessary to strengthen heart and lungs, so that they can withstand the terrific strain on the body.
Among all such races the Pau- motu islandera in the Pacific easily thou- take first rack. There are sands of them dependent on this developed ability for subsistence, and in their songe and tales told in the strongest of their tribes, the battle with sea monsters and set spirits, and wealth and honour gained, are repeated for the benefit of the young.
very likely will remain undisputed, for never before have her achieve ments been equalled.
under Twenty-seven fathoms water, walking along the floor of the ocean gathering pearl shell for three minutes and seven seconds is her record. There is no man the Paumotus that can do better.
Danger of Sharks.
12
L
in
A TRUE NAME.
THE ORIGINAL OR THE ASSUMED?
THE CHINA MAIL,
MONEYLENDERS' RIDDLE.
AIR ADVISER.
EXPERIENCES IN CHANG'S
ARMY...
DEATH MESSENGERS.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928.
PASSPORT SEARCH. PRODUCER LIBELLED MR. REX INGRAM REPUDIATES VIEWS.
PLAN IN FORCE TO STOP
LEAKAGE.
IMAGINARY INTERVIEW..
Assent was given by Mr. Justice the settlement of an
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1,000,000 FILES EXAMINED. Legal puzzles with regard to Capinin Talbot-Lehman, former Investigations begun by the the name under which a money-aeronautical adviser to Marshal police last May at the instigation Avory to
returned to Passport Office have not yet re. Ingram, the film producer, against lender must register himself in Chang Hsueh-liang, son of Marshal of the officials in charge of the action for libel brought by Mr. Rex accordance with the Moneylenders Chang Tso-lin, has
England after a year's service in vealed how the application form the Editor of "Tit Bits," Newnes Act, 1927, are already arising.
A conflict of opinion exists as Chinn tolling a remarkable story of with which Wilfred McCartney, and Pearson Printing Co., Ltd., Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., for in the name of Hudson, vanished to the meaning of the "author-hie experiences in Chang's army the spy, obtained a false passport and George Newnes, Ltd. The "authorised" name may be: ised" name, and the "true" name, which nearly cost him his life.
The officer declares that although from the official files. McCartney. Mr. Ingram, stated that the libel DODWELL & CO. LTD. (a) the moneylender's true name; he was engaged merely as an ad- with George Hansen, was sen complained of was eorious. (b) the name of a firm; or (c) aviser on the stipulation not to be tenced at the Old Bailey in mail was contained in an alleged inter- Involved in actual warfare, he was week to ten years' penal servitude view with Mr. Ingram that ap peared in "Tit Bits" of January The "Law Times" states that ordered to take out an aeroplane for spying for Moscow. business name.
The application form, contain- 14 Inst." there will be no difficulty where and drop bomba
on General Yen
"Dishonest Imagination." It dealt with his life and work. the name is that registered under Shi-shan's forces. He refused on ing as it would a false declara.
The defendants, when the the Births, and Deaths Registra- the ground that he was a neutral,tion, constitutes the sole documen
them, tion Act, or where it has been and as a result he was threatened tary evidence upon which an The whole interview was imagina- changed by deed-poll. But, it with death and the execution squad applicant for a false passport tion.
benefit. could be prosecuted for this matter was placed before his
took all the steps they could 10 asks, supposing an assumed name was paraded for
offence.
This was why McCartney was remedy any damage done to Mr. has been use for many years, Fortunately, the order was coun which is the true name the termanded.
It
Captain Talbot-Lehman describes at such pains to recover the in- Ingram.
The article began by saying: director to maka his experiences in the "Dally criminating document which he original or the assumed?
signed on April 27. It was dis-"Famous film "It would be interesting to see Mail" He writes:
film," and (in large adds:
how the courts will solve this
After a year in troubled China, closed at the trial that McCartney no more problem, especially in enses it is a relief to walk, eat, and sleep boasted that for £50 he could ob-letters), "I am sick of Hollywood. where the assumed name has without being haunted by the fear tain a false passport for anyonely reason for turning Moham- become, with the passage of of a firing squad and a rapid end and ensure the return of the medan."
original application to the appli- Such stuff, said counsel, cant.
dishonest imagination.
Mr. Ingram was happily married. He had no intention of turning So far from being Mohammedan.
time, so associated with the person in question as to be, for all practical purposes, his pro-
per name,
Tropical Sunlight.. And came the day when she felt
to
800
18
the train rode.
formed.
WILB
sick of Hollywood, he hoped to
make many more films there.
The Homes of Hollywood.
They walk
Yet, with its many disadvant- to a brief life.
The disappearance of the torm axes, the interest attaching to my from the official file was discover work as aeronautical adviser ed at the Passport Office on May Marshal Chang Hauch-liang. of the famous ex-bandit Marshal 12, and the police were at once in Chang Tso-lin, has brought me
Irregularities Checked. Immediate steps were taken by The article made Mr. Ingram wider outlook.
the head of the Department to speak of Hollywood thus: "Neither clualon that she also could do such back to England with a wiser and
ensure that thereafter no similar Ged, nor Allah, in accepted in the work.
When the diver she worked for? Welcomed By Six Bands.
Early in 1927 i landed in Tien- thefts could occur. The officials homes of, Hollywood.
no room for took a rest she went out alone in the boat, and practised diving. tain. Following a fortnight's stay are now satisfied that the in-there, and there, ia
If these really were Mr. Ingram's! Deeper and deeper she went, longer at Mukden, investigating conditions proved system of checking all files either, and the devil is paramount." and longer she stayed under water, at the headquarters of the North-in use daily and keeping thein out in under lock and key has, so far as No women are thus praised ex-walking along the lagoon floor, obern Air Force, I started
The articles also made Mr. cept "one," Tenahe, a Naave. She serving oyster shells on blocks of April on a month's tour of Inspec-is humanly possible, removed en views, counsel continued, he would
Hauch-tirely the risk of any repetition of not be welcome at Hollywood. tlon with Marshal Chang
these disquieting irregularities. is to-day the undisputed woman coral and below rocks,
liang in his special train. champion diver of the world and
We had a fine send off from During the ensuing nine months Ingram ask: "Why have I changed The answer was that he had her record is such that her title
not in spite of the alluring al- at to tackle the job. She went to Peking, the station being guarded none has been detected, though my religion
three regiments with fixed the most rigorous inspection has
legation that when a man became the trader asking him to give her by credit for ropes, lead and food and bayonets, automatic rifles, machine been maintained.
Throughout this period, also, a to loan her a diving boat. The guns, and the formidable array of
that are part of every complete examination has been Mohammedan he had 8:000 servants he died. trader laughed at her. Dlving was pistols
equipment. An awe-made of all the files relating to and 72 wives, in addition to those a man's job, he said, and there were soldier's
inspiring acone WAS, however, passport applications during the he already had when
Sir Patrick explained that the enough poor divers already.
She went to another and brought rendered humorous by the fact that two preceding years. The search (Laughter.)
Interview was received by "Tit staff. witnesses that she could stay down six bands insisted on playing six is being continued by a special with the best of them, showed him different tunes at the same time.
The Passport Office has in its Bits" from a Press agency in Paris. Henceforth that her husband would be a cheap
•The defendants had agreed, said One hundred and sixty-two feet helper, begged and cajoled, until through the night our sleep was archives some 6,000,000 files, and It had been found that really its Sir Patrick, to pay the costs and of water on top of a human body the trader laughed, but finally con- disturbed as we stopped or passed the inquiry so far has involved address was merely a postal one.
through wayside stations by the the examination of just over groping among fantastic
a substantial sum to charity, for Other Forms Missing.
desired to make Tenahe started in a place she had blaring buglers and bandamen 1,000,000.
honour the young
Some On the expedition pushing fun- rocks, which might reveal a lurk
half a dozen other Mr. Ingram ther forward into the Interior the ing shark at any time, secking shell located in fifteen fathoms of water. assembled to
have been nothing from the litigation.
was to show weather improved, but the rays of that is attached to the coral growth. That meant working ninety feet be-marshal.
On arrival at Chengchow Mar- application forms the keeping in mind the whereabouts low the surface for a space of two
untrue found to be missing, of which whole object
Was the
Bu began Lo torment
on which travellers, and burned the skin of the basket line
Sir Walter Schwabe, K.C., for were soon ascent must be made before the air to three minutes climbing the rope shal Chang and his staff
to the surface to replenish the air whisked off in closely guarded cars three only are thought to be sus the interview covered with raw wounds. Un- supply of the lungs. is exhausted, in the lungs and diving again. to their headquarters. From there, picious, the others being account- fictitious.
a was these take a brave heart and
All relate to applications made the defendants, agreed to the set- From 7 in the morning to 3 in the every three days or so, we visiteded to wrong filing. fortunately the last horse
afternoon, every day except Sun- the front, where I realised to what slaughtered on the day that Captain strong will.
diately following the release of Born in Raroia, one of the atolls days, Tenahe worked., Often dur-misery and chaos China had been during the three months imme-tlement. Koch sighted land from the inland jce. The gallant creature had in the Paumotu zroup, 175 miles ing the first week she felt discour-reduced by civil war.
The railways were blocked by McCartney from prison, and sug mlles, from Tahiti, Tenahe naturally was aged and on the first Saturday she tramped upwards of. 700
ization.. right across Greenland, and the a good swimmer and diver
The Department deals with any weigh in. The next week was bet-generals to fulfil their immediate loss of the faithful animal greatly as a little girl, because fish and had only 480 pounds of shell to the special trains commandeered by Fest the work of the same organ- As coconuts are all the food available ter and within two months of needs, regardless of the necessity thing between 250 and 2,000 ap- distressed its human friends.
on the island. Wood must be im steady work Tenahe brought in, as of transporting food for the troops plications a day, according to the it turned out. splendid pasture was
For ported at great cost from Tahit much shell on week ends as any and the half-starving population. time of year, and a staff of over only a few miles away.
Prisoners all came in looking de 250 is employed, from which may Reservoirs on March 1, 1028: man diver. were and canoes, or pirogues as the na- thirty-five hours the.
And henceforth she exceeded jected, and no doubt they had cause be judged the difficulties with under a tive outrigger boats are called are without food, sheltering projecting rock, and when they only for wealthy people. So the
early forced ing the source of the leakage. the march ordinary people seek fish food with them, as she worked every day, to be, for they would soon be faced which the police are faced in trac- CATY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER wished to continue
It is understood that they are or two or three.. Dally she collect-enlistment into their captor's army. they were so exhausted from hung- spear and fishing lines, swimming while the men often took a holiday, with hanger er, cold, and wet that they were not and diving often for hours before able to get on. They then killed enough are caught. their dog, which had accompanied them the whole way, cooked the Rosh, and were just about to eat it when a sailing boat hove
the worn-out sight and took
where they explorers to Proeven,
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ed an average of 300 pounds of The wounded, in a filthy condition, antisfied that the thefts must shell, toiling. during the hot hours received but scant attention and have been carried out after the Tytam
"War" In North China:
WORKS LEVEL.
3027 1028
.14' 9"B 11' 10"B
run to
.
Tytam Tytam Byewash ....... Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk. Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum
72.87
865,00
,650.02
10.65
28.80
9.62 23.25
At 12 years of age Tenahe was of tropical sunlight, when the rays were often left on their stretchers files had been returned to the Tytam Byewash...28" 2" 26" 8"
the open archives, and not during their Tytam Intermediate 20 4B 27 11'B capable provider, acquainted with could penetrate to the bottom of to spend the night in
Wong Nei Chung ..19' 1"B 20' 4"B Pokfulam To crown her success Life was held dirt cheap, the dead routine passage through the De. tam Tuk 25' 10" 38" 6" the dangers of the deep and un- the lagoon.
...20' 4"B-20' 7"B afraid.
Nothing has been discovered up
¡Note; B, denotes "Below Overflow": Girls mature early in the tropics ahe found at the end of the fourth and dying being left on the battle-partment.
to the present suggesting the A denotes Above Overflow." Comely and strong she made a good month a ten-carat pearl in one of field to their fate.
the shells that brought her 15,000
Storage in millions an" Jedmale match. She married the island's francs from the pearl merchant.
Later we proceeded down the necessity for.making any changes
of gallons.
1927 1928 only blacksmith and was in a good
To-day Tenahe is 46 years old, Lung-Haf railway through Kai- in the personnel of the Depart
271.21 291.70 way to become wealthy, according has found seven more pearls of feng, the historical capital, of ment, but the authorities have not to the island standards. As i considerable value, owns a planta: Hogan, to visit Chang Tsung-yet given up hope that the enemy
99,52 blacksmith's wife she could buy her tion and is still diving. The trad-chang, the Tupan of Shantung. in their midst will be
ers, especially the one who refused when our day's work fish from poor folks and afford
Was com- ground. three new gingham dresses a year her, laugh with her, not at her. pleted we were entertained by him But one morning when the black- Her name is famous throughout the and his 50 concubines, not to smith sharpened a spearhead on islands since she became champion mention many
sing-aong girls of his anvil, a spark flew into his eyes diver three years ago and proved alluring beauty. 4 His armoured and all but blinded him.
that not even among the best men trains are entirely manned by a misfortune ended his career as is there one diver that equals her. White Russians, who are also to be 48 acting Home Secretary, which and Hill District in millions and do Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong blacksmith, and when the savings
A party of Americans were visit found in his army and personal Sir Austen Chamberlain dischargecimals of gallons during the month of
ed while Sir Sanual was in Switzer. February. the were spent Tenahe, like the rest of ing the islands and they refused to
guard.
land during March, according to
After several days spent mostly standard time of the 120th meridian poor men's wives, had to go fish-belleve that anyone could dive east of Greenwich, is as follows:- ing again, while in her spare time twenty-five. fathoms. Among the in feasting, gambling, and mah- return we continued our Paumotuans twenty-two fathoms in jong: Sunrise. Sunset.she searched for pipi shells that
are found in shallow watera.
considered the working limit, journey to Peking, Great Ambition.
though many claim to have gone
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG
Date.
March
a.30.
p.m.
14
6.34
6.82
15
6.39
6.33
16
6.32 6.33
17
6.31 6.39
18
6.30 6.33
10
6.29 6.34
20
6.27 6.34
21
6.27
6.35
22
6.26 6.36
29.
6.25
6.36
24
6.24 6.36
25
6.23 6.35
26
6.22
6.37
27
0.21
6.97
6.20 6.37
20
6.19
6.87
30
6.18
6.88
31
6.17
6.88
"The time wik, come," shouted
the speaker, "when women will get men's wages."':
said a little man in the corner. "Next Friday night."
held:
Four, manked and armed men mall van travelling from at Galway, to Kilconty,
This
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister, has resumed his duties
an
Total 1,270.08 .1,047.75 Consumption of water in the City
16.8
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVELA
A
1928 1027 158 8 10"B
10' 2" 2 "B
1927 1028 101.86 204.54 Consumption Estimated population 409,340 419.600 Consumption per head
per day. 16.7 Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis A period of rest and reorganisa-following day I received a written tricts during February with the excep an intermittent supply Was These sometimes contain those deeper. Diver's paralysis and aud- tion in Peking followed, as both order signed by Marshal Chang tion of the district west of Garden-road interview in given from 8rd to 28th February, 1027. Intermittent supply in all Rider pretty, though not very valuable, den death lurk below the twenty-sides did not seem anxious to con- Hsueh-liang himself, I was un-where
Tenahe heard tinue fighting through the hot able to obtain yellow, black and rose pipi pearls, two fathom limit. for which traders and pearle buyers about it and with the storekeeper weather. Discomfort and danger which to explain my views and Maia Districts during February, 1928.
ment I was told that I was a pay enough for luxuries, like beef, as an Interpreter she invited the were, however, to be my ultimate without further chance of argu- fruit and vegetables in cane and party to the diving grounds, where fate,
Hostilities were renewed at the prisoner. For several hours I was biscuits. A change from fish food she was working, for the next day.
They came and measured the depth end of October, when Yen Shi- confronted with death; the colone) is always welcome.
Kowloon Reservoir The true pearl oyster secks of the lagoon, where she had an-shan, the governor, of Shanst; fofn-ses to guard me warned me to deeper places, and those within chored her beat, with their own ad forces with Feng Yu-helang, carry out the order, leat I should be easy reach were long ago taken. lines. The measure read: twenty-the Christian general, and attacked shot which was far from renesu Shek Lai Pul Reser
Tenahe the Northern Army, which had in ing after the many brutalities and your Those who could dive deep mado seven fathoms-182 feet.
retreated to executions, without previous trial Reception Reservoir. 34B 08B
of gallons. that I had witnessed. A aquad Btorage In millions and docimals much money bringing up whole took the twenty-pound lead line the meantime
1927
1928 baskets of mother of pearl shell, between her toes, grabbed the line Paotingfu.....
Our air squadrons, consisting of armed with automatic rifles was
Kowloon Reservoir... 210.5 286.78 while the lucky ones, who found, aand slid feet first from the canoe
French and British machines paraded for my benefit.
After 23 days of detention and Shek Lai Pai Resorvoir. 68.14 106.68 pearl of good size, sheen and colour to the depths.
Exactly three minutes and seven which were anything up to nine eould buy enough land with coco-
Total 297.74 404.85 nut trees in hearing to make tons seconds later she reached the surrears old, were ordered to proceed negotiations and the prospect of an Reception Reservoir... 24.55 31.39 Consumption of water in Kewloon of copra avery year. Copra is lilee face again and when her husband south, and I was requested to early departure from this world. I China from other white people, millions and decimals of gallone dur legal tender and a few tons a year hauled up the shell basket, that continue my advisory duties in the cut off as I was in the centre of
was allowed to return to Peking- ing the month of February
1927 1928 mean independence, because the had been lowered empty, it con war zone. owner can have all the work done tained fourteen pairs of shell. The
I had hardly been at Poatingfu But oven then I know. Secret In-M party was convinced and Terahe
for more than a day or so, when formation was given me, by several Consumption. 04.94 84.59
Consumption per head by hired labour.
Such thoughts gave birth to the received a good day's pay. great ambition of Tenahe. She Forty-six years old today, Tenabe I was asked to make a reconnais Chinese friends to the affect that Betiranted population 158,080 164,020 was then B6 years old, strong and has no intention of qulting the sauce and drop bombs over the I was to be quietly and discreetly per day. 24.6 16,0
of my tempt to "save the face of the son February 1927 and 1928, unafraid. By watching the divers, diving game, because she likes to enemy lines. As this was quite disposed of, as I had made no at Full Supply in all districts durios views of the Dictator of Northern China. The Goverment Analyst's reports acting as a helper to one, for which spend the winter season in the city contrary to the terms
satisfactory, perceived an amout of preto, Thalt, where living engagement, and
Time why I saldmeit is not show that the quality of the, Water
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