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TUESDAY, OCTOBER

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15, 1929.

NOTICES.

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS

DRAW for SUBSCRIP- TTION GRIFFINS Will take

place at the Jockey Club Stables, Causeway Bay, On TUESDAY, 15th instant, at 5 p.m.

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.. Hong Kong. 12th October, 1929.

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE "BOTNIA” PIRACY

Vivid Account of Five-Days' Captivity

LITTLE CLOTHES

Mr. Westerheim En Route To Shanghai

Telegraphic advices were received in Shanghai on Sept. 28, by Messrs. Wallem & Co., agents for the Norwegian str. "Botnia,” which was looted and pirated near Halchow several weeks ago after she had gone aground and the officers of which were kidnapped, to the effect that Mr. H. Westerheim, chief officer of the "Botnia, was leaving Chenkiakong by the Ewo str. "Yusang" and that he was badly wounded. The company was asked to send a motor car Lo Woosung and to arrange for Mr. Westerheim's admittance to

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Propped up in bed, his head and feet swathed in bandages, his every movement giving, vivid evidence of suffering from his pain wracked body, Capt. Aksel. Haarland, the kidnapped master, haltingly related to a "North China Daily News" re- porter the graphic story of hla closest brush with death in 45 years aboard ship.

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not killed outright. le thought I was and he left me for dead.”

Thus does Capt. Haarland go over the events and his blue eyes shine out from the mass of bandages with a fervour that leaves him exhausted after the telling.

He has been told that he can leave the hospital after a week or two but for some time he will be

The story of the capture and in-unable to do any continuous work. dignities suffered on this 64-year Such heavy injuries as he received old skipper and his more youthful take their greater toll on a man past chief officer reads like a tale from a 60 than one of fewer years.

urid piece of fiction and makes it difficult to believe that it could have happened in a country which has world recognition and claims to be able to protect foreigners within its conlines.

After close confinement with lit- tle or no food for five days, minus his clothing which had been taken to prevent escape, and after having had a heavy rock crashed down upon his head and being left for dead under the cross fire of his cap- tors and his would-be rescuers in a drenching rain in the mist of early morning, Capt. Haarland believes it a miracle that he is alive to-day.

A Fortunate Escape He thinks back over the night of his escape with difficulty and during the telling of the events he pauses in wonderment trying to account for his lucky escape.

"All I could see were the flashes of the rifles around me" he said, "I could not tell whether they wero from my friends or

enemies. Westerheim was up ahead some- where with the larger party, of pirates. I shouted to him and the crowd around me struck me and told

me to keep quiet. I thought I would be killed sure. I didn't know from

Chief Officer Westerheim is 34 and Capt. Haàrland describes him as "young and well built. he could give them a fight but we were two against 21 and we hadn't had any decent for food five days.".

Capt. Haarland supplice the details of the piracy as follows:

Probably Deserted Soldiers "We had left the Kwan Ho Ko salt) works and were standing, up the] Yangtsze with a full cargo. I was

the bridge with my chief officer and the pilot when about mid-day I felt her slide on a mud bar. We | reversed the engines but could not pall ourselves off and the pilot warned

me that we might have trouble as the district was full of brigands.

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"So I advised him to go back to bring up soldiers and just after he left we saw a big pirate junk dead! ahead coming for us. They were ring rifles and making a terrible noise. We could see 21 of them all heavily armed and the rifles and ring started in the vicinity and belts all looked like army equip they quickly made us get up and ment. Some of them had portions start out again.

"There was more hurrying and I of uniforms on and I thought they were deserted soldiers. I am sure was getting so weary I could have they were from their equipment. dropped any minutes. They had "They boarded us and came up bayonets on their rifles and they on the bridge. Westerheim and I kept prodding us with these. Then

instructions to sell by Public which side the bullets were coming couldn't do much. we were two we came to another hill and we ran

ON WEDNESDAY, the 16th., October 1929

at 11 o'clock.a.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

(for account of the concerned) Two Cases Coloured Stripe Poplin

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but everyone was firing and I seem-

to be in the middle of it.

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against 21 and we thought it better up this and found a house at the to humour them for to have shown top.

"Again the firing broke out be opposition would have meant cer!

hind us and the gang was broken tain death.

Westerheim was up ahead "They spent the whole afternoon UP.. going through the ship looting and with most of the pirates and wrecking everything they saw. behind because I could not hurry Then the firing They held pistols up against us and like the others.

around us and I shouted they made us help them carry much came of the stuff to their junk.

several times and most of them near "They wrecked the chart house, me grew afraid and run on ahead They took our charts and simply with the others.

"Then this one tried to choke me tore them to bits and threw them

"I shouted again to Westerheim and one of the men near me tried to choke me. I was in my underwear with no shoes and it was raining: heavily. I was tired after five days of little sleep but I tried to fight him back.

I shouted again and most of them grew afraid we should be detected and they left me to run up ahead with the others. But one stayed and he tried to throttle me. I tried to fight him back, but I was no match and I fell to the ground. on the floor. They took our personal and I fell down and he hit me.

"Then he picked up a big rock belongings and when my watch was told you what happened after that. and crashed it down on my head. I shown around the ship to the others magistrate at Panpa and received I was rescued by soldiers of the don't know much about what hap- they came up and demanded one. THE Undersigned have received pened after that. I came to some like it, I explained I only had one sume treatment for my head. Then instructions to sell by Public time later and found I was in a pool but it did no good and they became I got down to Haichow and now

I am here. abusive. They cleaned everything

But I would like to of blood from two holes

my head.

I hope How I had escaped the full force of out and acted like children. What know about Westerheim. the blow I don't know, but I found they didn't want they smashed up they haven't taken their revenge on

and threw overboard.

"Then they paraded na aboard!

Capt. Haarland has been for 34

Hong Kong, October 14, 1929.

Auction

ON THURSDAY, the 17th., October 1929,

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room,

Daddell Street.

A Quantity of

a bad gash on my left, thumb and

him."

I think I must have my hands up { their junk and we sailed down river. (years in the employ of the William

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CENTENARIANS

MEN MORE ANXIOUS THAN WOMEN TO LIVE LONG

In response to the advertisement which he inserted in the "Times," ask- ing for authentic information as to living centenarians in the British Isles, Dr. Maurice Ernest, Secretary of tha Centenarian Club, 93, Cromwell- road, South Kensington, has received communications

about concerning

twenty persons who have lived to be a hundred fifteen being women and five men. They are mostly in coun- try districts, and are widely spread over the Kingdom.

Dr. Ernest estimates that the hum- ber of centenarians now surviving in the British Isles, including N. and S. Ireland, totals approximately 200, He has received a large number of letters from people who are anxious to join the club, the object of whose members is to live to be a hundred. Many have written from Germany and Swit

rerland and other parts of the Con- tinent.

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"You would be surprised," said Dr. Ernest to a representativo of "The Observer" recently, "at the number of people who are anxious to be long- lived. Even young people of twenty- live write to me and speak as if they were on the verge of becoming can. when I fell down.

"It was morning then. I was all They had the second mate, the Hansen Co., of Bergen, Norway, tenarians, and express a wish to per petuate their existence on this globe. alone. I found a path leading down steward, the compradore and one or wife and three children in Norway. the men and not women who are most

owners of the "Botnia," He has a

It is curious to note that it is chlofly ¦ two others. They soon took them

interested in Hving long, although Tel. No. C. 5134. Tel. No. C. 5134. #B best I could away somewhere else and we didn't He came to China in 1924 for his employers after serving them in all seo them again.

women, as a rulé, live longer than men. Teak Glass Gun Stand, Chester- distance. Then I saw a woman. We stopped a few times and quarters of the globe.

Even young men between twenty and field Couch and Chairs, Gramo- I shouted to her but I was eo weak, took on food and water and at dif- hal on the atr. "Vay." He was

Capt. Haarland reached Shang thirty years of age write to me, wish- Ing to know the secret of how to phones and Records, Carpets, Pic-she didn't hear me. I had to alt forent places they unloaded stuff. In such

condition that be become centenarians." tures, Pianos, Cameras, Carlos, down every few feet and I knew Typewriters, Rugs and Ornaments, was badly hurt. I kept shouting to her and Anally attracted her atten.

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At one place they took on a freshly was taken to the hospital immediate- killed pig and they all bowed to and will be confined there for its head in some sort of a religious some time. His feet are badly awol

"We were on the coast throughout

eeremony.

len

and infected from the

relved, there are many abraisons on

Dr. Ernest recalled that this is not

the first unofficial census of the kind that has been undertaken. In 1880 the late Sir George Humphry, the presiden! of the British Medical Association, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and numerous cuts and bruises he re- made a similar suggestion when ad- all the time they had us below in a his body and his head is thickly sent out to thousands of doctors & dressing the annual meeting, and he narrow compartment lyfug on a bunk. The place was closed and only bandaged. It is difficult to believe questionnaire, the result of which was about three feet in height so that treat this gray haired man in the then alive in the British Isles.

that anyone but a half-savage could to show there were 62 centenarians The we could not sit upright. Two arm-

data collected showed that there were ed men were with us all the time way he has been treated.

Asked if he had any inclination more women of hundred who had been and if we attempted to talk they to go up river agaia, be smiled married and had had families than threatened us with pistols. in the Presbyterian Hospital and "On Monday

wistfully, shrugged his shoulders, otherwise. was treated.

The Kindly Country-folk "She led me to a house in a small 'village and went to call some men. When they came they lati me down and gave me.food and attention They were Ane to me. They did everything they could and I am very grateful to them,

"Then I got down to Halchow and

someone came

CAR HITS TIGER ·

But I would like to aboard and they had a conference and said, "Don't you think I've had know where Westerheim la, I hear We could hear that. Then sudden- enough?" he is in a temple on a hill and the ly they holated anchor and we sail- gang is surrounded. I hope he gets ed away Tanday noon we an- cut all right."

chored again and that night wei were roughly hauled up on deck and ended on a sampan. Meanwhile they had taken our clothes and shoes and when we came pri deck

The rock he hit me with was just a little smaller than a football and I think it is a miracle that I was

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MOTORIST'S ADVENTURE, ON

'INDIAN ROAD

While motoring at Glen Morgan,

it was raining. I had found an old fourteen miles from Ootacamund,

in

The average expectation of life bad, said Dr. Ernest, undoubtedly gone up the past fifty years, owing to hygienic and other improvements; but while more people, Eved to an advanced . age now than formerly, the latest' figures showed that there were' actual- ly fewer centenarians, than thirty or forty years ago. This might be due to the fact that the Census authorities were now more strict than they were

soit of coat without buttons and all in Southern India, Mr.. A. H. Jack-century, although they survived to a

then, or to fewer people reaching their ripe old age.

I had under this was my underwear. | man met three fully grown tigers ***We reached shore and waded in the centre of the road. through a half mile of marsh and It was a pitch-dark night and

Orders for at least twenty alime before we struck a dry place, very misty, and Mr. Jackman fret

twin-screw This was a field and we started thought the animals to be jackals. vessels, including

steamer,

drifters, aud steam overland: avoiding all roade and When he realized they were pathe. It was pitch dark, my feet tigers he, pressed the accelerator, trawlers, have brought great acti- were cut in a dozen places, the rain hoping the tigers would scatter as vity to Aberdeen shipyards. Con- Why I did not catch pneumoala 1 one of the animals full force on was terrible and a wind carne up. he advanced. The, car caught tracts secured by one firm will mean an expenditure of £60,000 in wages and labour alone. can't understand, at the hindquarters, knocking It down

"We were wading streams and and running over it.. ditches for some time and finally we Thore were load roars and Doctors were divided on came to a small hill with a bouss yelps from the injured tiger, but question of sterilising the unfit, at the base. The gang entered this Mr. Jackman, although his car which was discussed at the Con- house and started a'fre and 1 was damaged, did not stop to give gross of the World League for thought we could get a rest when first aid.

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