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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3,- 1954.

FILES

"Mr. Billy Graham has told America that one in four first-born Britons ure born out of wedlock, an Grandma insists that we find her birth certificate."

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FIVE NATIONS HAVE

SOUGHT THIS

ISLAND'S TREASURE

N

By Jack

Senn

TORTH of Australia's continent which cradled News broke that promised: to

coral reefed Torres civilisation; others that it turn Papuan ports like Strait, 150 miles held hidden, deserted cities Moresby into boom towns, wide, lies New Guinea. like Indo-China's Angkor Shaped like some strange Wat.

bird, ita plumage is exotic A few, following the talo dripping jungles and of an ancient Indian tablet, towering mountains, palm thought that a people lost trees, orchids and tropical there had invented the aero- liamas.

plane centuries ago.

seen

off

Port

Two hundred miles west of Port Moresby, where aimless rivers waltder

anonymous

through the Jungle, prospettors had noted surface seepages and gas bubbles.

They spotted thedark, opalescent scum which thicken Water around lily pads and weeds,

The island's snakes, in-

Ilere the smell of rolling seets, leeches and head- Again, others believing a

vegetation gave way to the sixteenth century Spanish cloying reek of crude petroleum hunters might have been

captain, Alvaro which

from enough to warn

seeped upwards tres- дец

Saavedra, wh. called it the ofl-soaked mudstone. pissera.

Low Golden Isle, bluntly spoke

flying planes photo- Yet the last fifty years

graphed the tracts. of gold. have

four

was nations

not Jong before modern equipment-from struggle to gain possession The Australians,

after connaissance planes to steel of it.

capturing the island from hammers-was flown from A fifth enters the listes. the Germans in 1914, were

Australin to hastily laid run- Indonesin wants to Lake given

ways ita

nearby. And with their trusteeship in At UNO 1920.

mosaic pictures, scientista Holland's place.

out on foot for the oil sites. she is claiming the island lt wus then that the as part of the legacy first effective contact with independenca,

the inhabitants was made.

The tribesmen who came Tfirst, their camps wore so 10 meet the Australians inaccessible that planes were friendly, but

parachuted supplies to them, were to learn later that Later, waterways were clear- et of sunken trees and mesh- cherished others

more like reals to allow the passage ideas in the of boats.

of

At the turn of the cen- tury, New Guinea fell into the hands of an expanding Germany. Few then guess- ed what really lay hidden under New Guinea's jungle ominous blanket.

jungle. Some believed that the Not Backward

island

was part

CASE OF THE

ODD-BABY-OUT

Madame Joye's dilemma come when she discovered that one of her twin sor- had been switched at birth with another baby boy. Should she let things go on as before? Today she tells how she came to a decision and what

happened.

by VICTOR PALMER

T

HE switchbu of babies at birth is a stork

situation

ર

xome-

melodrama. times of farce. When in bappens in real life it has the trappings of tragedy. Mothers in hospital who ask if it can happen soon reassured. Each BABY is marked at birth. A mis take

out of the ques- ties.

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J

1917.

Train

a month before then xth birthday.

I was at the Corpus Christ! procesiem Madame Joye had a suddett, unaccountable whim. Her But most take * photographi

Bentl of

and Philippe together They were same kindergarten, and Fri wa Putippe's double.

To Philippe she said. Jokingly, "bers your hand to your real Ja de brother"

Har the doubt already exist

1.4 1.5, us was the

Arst Hut in a hospital in the me

It was Il into

words. little Swiss town. of Fri- Madame X was standing near. bourg in 1911 the babies She ent short attempts at marked only conversation and hurried Ernsili the cuts. And in that hos- pital on June 4 three boys were born. ...

were

not

away.

of a lost

they

UICKLY, the Australians found that they were #14 backward ZS imagined.

not

Their first shock came when the islanders refused salt as money; they were extracting their own from salt springs.

In other ways, they were progressive too.

their villages were claborate systems of sunken These served for rouds. transport, for carrying off rainwater or as moats for protecting their sweet potato crops from ravaging Digita

And the people were careful about their appear- ance. Wig-making was an important part of everyday life.

Such a people, the Aus- tralians believed, would at least know where

gold existed. And they did.

They asserted gold glit tered on the sands at the headwaters of the Markham But and Bulolo rivers. that Wats as far as their services went.

Australians who attempted Then there were fresh the venture

through singly tears and grief, gch thumb- the jungle were never heard of submit her son to blood tests.

The Joyes went to law, and sucking, a slow and sad grafting again. Only armed groups were pained an order calling

safe from bandits and head- on of a new life to this family from hunters. Madame X to submit her son which he had been torn away at for examination.

birth.

PAUL and PHILIPPE Fire and a half years old--together before it was suspected that they were not brothers.

But Madame X refused

10

Truth.

The tests

took

place in Geneva in December, Labora- tories In New York, London, Paris, Gottingen were consulted It was a whole year after the

203 Fribourg

Madeleine Joye was told PERHAPS the Joyes would Corpus Christl processions that by a nurse that

IT-

Old Hands

There were other difficulties, ilons shown to his new twin 100. Because of the extra at DUT in 1921 three old hands,

BU brother, Philippe, already griev-and "Sharkeye" Park, who had Mat Crowe, Arthur Darling for the lest Paul, inade hidden in the Marobe

.

Ranges frequent scenes. The twins be during the German occupation, have been wiser to follow the court the mid- her example

came jealous of each other. assembled.

It and, ignore the

pretending to shoot birds of took many months of care and paradise, found the islanders' wife had made an error in incident. But the doubt nagged.

the family patience for Blood

to treasure. Tests, eye Lests, recording the weight of one Madame Joye remembered the

seltle down.

They tried to keep it, secret of her twin sons. He was midwife's mistake about Paul's measurements, skla grafting-all

conclusive. There

but whispers walee

went round that re- Ernsili was 20 Guners heavier than the weight, aml went to see her.

mained no inglo loophole,

FOW speaking "Sharkeye" was on "good gold." other, not the sume weight.

June 11, 1948, the judge issued French and In September they it was only a matter of time be

changed his name an order for Paul

to Charles, fore the world knew of it' The card was altered.

and Ernstil He began to call Madame Joyo Soon fortune bunters Arrived to be exchanged.

"Mummy." Just before Christ- in hundreds. Nineteen days as he said that, although he

Madame Joye took Paul and Philippe home to the modest house where she husband. lived with her The babies grew up. amall, self-

Philippe was

sufficient, a little sad. Paul,. the bigger of the two, de- veloped into a vigorous, gay, passionate boy.

HE

*

E had had a difficult baby- hood and perhaps for that reason, he became the favourite, But. It was a devoted family.

Meanwhile, in a largo dat al the other end of the town, in a German-speaking, rather richer household, little Ernst lived with 1 reserved, aloof, but equally loving mother-the Madame X in Madeleine Joye's account of, the ordent which lay before them."

After the death of Monsieur X, the little boy became the

The woman did not think it possible that she had mude such un error. But she did remem

CHARLES, formaly ERNSTLI This picture was takes shortly after he come to his now home. He was rer unhappy.

On

were to clapse would like to go back tu the steaming, jungle and the before the pro- Madame X, there was cess of the law daddy in his new home, he was carried out. would stay,

AL 2.0 p.m. on July 1 a

What of Paul? Madamo Joye car asked the principal of the school with ↑ nurse for news. She learned that drove up to the. "Ernst" was well and happy. house of

the

Joyes. Another

was at Madame

'X's nat Paul

Was

sent

off

with his clothes THAT night, Madame X tele- and toys to and phoned to complain about the mother ho the inquiry.

Only

"Bring up your

But the rush could not beat

bitter cold mountains. Sup- piles were limited. Big-scale mining

was.impossible.

one stage dysentery halved the population.

Many despaired and turned

back.

Then former District Officer J. Levier, tough and.

RX- perienced, come on the scene and put the island amongst the world's gold-producing coun- tries.

Through his efforts, mines Ike Edile Creck were developer the had never met. children as you think flt and to show, in places, £200 to

introduced modern. the leave me to bring up mine. We techolques, so that today gold

yard, Ho crumpled pyja- owe each other nothing."

mined by seventeen companies of New Guinea's worn on that There was one meeting-in à forms one last night were swimming pool. Paul, or rather main exports. jeft behind.

Emat, had to be coaxed to come But Levien himself, had died and speak to her. And now he in Melbourne called her Madame Joye.

ture showed profits.

mas

he

had

arrived, ho was

That night there were' mero lite. He thought complaints from Madame X.

When Ernst

reserved and po-

ho rad come" to spend the sum- mer holidays.

They went to the mountains,

before his ven-

Green Hell'

But perhaps she was right. TN 1942 the Japanese occupa- Perhaps 勿 clean break was better for all their makes,

Madame Joye's writing is

tion turned this logand Island into a green hell for Allied troops.

ApartTM from widow's absorbing, only interest. ber the birth. The twins were and for the whole of the time it overgentimental and gushing, at value, why did Japan

its strategio want meant they rained. They explained to him mes -embarrassing,go, But Now. Guinea? Was It Its gold, The paths of the two familles unlovular, which had crossed only once, and then should be identical. As Philippo the circumstances of his birth through it can be discerned her its timber, cópra or rubber? Or But he sill called his new confusion and her anguish and like Walter Italogh' EI unknowingly, in the local and Ernst were.

mother, lila true mother, the hospital, on the night the three

she lost, the son who still lives, tion? Mirdame joye, and made it clear grief to fools for the son Dorado, was it a blind specula- boya were born. Thoy crossed

that he expected return but of whom nothing, remains The answer came five years

home, "ALAN JANUA

for, her but memories, and a later aftey V-J Day, when the Only when the holiday was pair of arumpled, pyjamas in a territoral was divided between dvár did' be understand the secret corner of a cupboard, Holland, and Australia, ・

bun War Madeleine Jaya

Philippe had a malformation.

the of tooth. His frantic mother made an opportunity to inspect Ernstil's mouth. His teeth"hki My Son,"

GIAN, 206, #mji ibu same abnormality."

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the shock waves

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