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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1955.

WITCH DOCTOR CULT SPREADING

IN NEW ZEALAND

Wellington, June 28.

The cult of the witch doctor is spreading with renewed vigour among New Zealand's civilised, city-dwelling Maori people.

The once mighty Tohungas whose power was believed to have waned with the European invasion of the late nineteenth century are- prac- tising today in the heart of Auckland as well as in the remotest Maori settlements.

Even Maoris who are cevout, chiatrist, who removed heri Christians still rely on the rites from the district, her confidence of the Tohungas as an addition- gradually returned. al spiritual safeguard.

Women

is

in maternity homes in Auckland are known to have the "Tapu", which applies to woman and child after childbirth, femoved This before they return home. rite is performed in addition to Christian

Baptism, which Births, Deaths, Marriages.carried out later, Personal $5.00 per insertion.

Social workers

explain the the not exceeding 25 words, 25 removal of the power of

Tobungas as arising from the cents each additional word. [defensive attitude taken by the Maoris in their clash with the

Uncer European way of life.

cer if not prepaid a booking fee in of their destiny and jealous their heritage, they find security and, consolation in these reflections of Moori thought 'and feeling.

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DOCTORS DISTRUSTED

Sometimes Maoris consult the Thunga before undergoing re- Jepted medical treatment. Their attitude is governed by distrust เ doctors, an inherent faith in their own remedies, and super- regard for the powers stitious of the Tohunga.

This is thought likely

several to persist fr generations.

The activities of most of these

are

Tohungas resemble closely those of European quacks.

Trickery and "Collection

deception Builder" series. New Block now the stock-in-trade of some, but available. $3; From South China "miracles". such as those that

Wyndham were credited Ltd:

to the old-time Salisbury and

Tohunga, are not always easily accepted. Where they have been

exposed, too, tried, and

more; than

.of one claimant

divine powers has been run out of his village.

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NOTICE

BANK HOLIDAY

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This occurred recently on the cast coast where a ohunga's heavenly lights proved to be which those of a service car.

peared regularly at a certain

Some

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Hongkong, 29th June, 1955.

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that

felt mess

sick

Maoris belleve that is caused by Moori

Maogi, methods. From this comes the "belief in "makutu", witcheraft. Although difficult to detect, evidence suggests that black art is also fairly wide- spread.

ATTENTION DRAWN

district

Doctors, clergymen, nurses and welfare officers Nave

PATRICIA CAMMIADE of drawn attention to its existence. But they are people with whom

9. Prat Avenue, 3rd Floor, the Maori is least likely to dis-

Kowloon, Hongkong, is apply cuss it.

ing to the Governor

for

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"Phychiatrists have encounter- naturalisation, and tl at any ed a number of cases in which the only explanation of the person who knows any reason mental disorder

the was that why naturalisation should not patient was the victim of

ve." "Makulu" has even evil eye he grunted should send 1

as the clinical been given

written and signed statement diagnosis of the malady, for the of the facts to the Colonial suggestion by a wizard that the

Colonial -Secre- victim is afflicted by an Secretary,

tariat. Hongkong.

To ADVERTISERS

evil influence is sufficient to affect

the mind of the susceptible

Macri

A recent case involved a 16- year-old girl who said

at

school that she was a victim of

SUNDAY POST HERALD makut. She alleged that her

Space for commercial father was told in dream that

advertising should

booked. not later

a certain person, prompted by

be

noon on Wednesdays.

than jealousy

■

daughter.

For

had bewitched his

When the game, was

the SOUTH CHINA Suggested to the girl, she be

came

agitated może

for

she

Was

MORNING POST and the believed that the curse CHINA MAIL 48 hours taking full effect. before date of publication:

FEAR SPREAD

Special Announcements Her tear spreadi to other and Classified Advertise. Maoris in the school. After, she mento as usual,

had been examined by a psy

PENINSULAR

SAILS:

& QUIS NOS

In the North Island,

New Zealand's far northerní peri sula, where Maoris believe the spirits of the dead

leap into the sea to return to their

lost island home of Hawaiild. six-year-old child was recently believed to be harbouring 3 devil. Cold water is the age- old

Maori treatment for this condition. So the child was re- gularly dipped in sacred water at dawn and sunset, and

Summer winter. on the recom....

mendation of: Tohunga. Fur

ther treatment was to shut the child in a room; and beat it to drive out the devil.

The Garage AUSTRIAN LAKE MAY HOLD

On Stilts

RECORD

EGYPTIAN

.i

BUDGET

The mother, who was sup- posed to have inherited the mang of the Tohunga, carried out some of the treatment. The

Cairo, June 28. father, on the other hand, dis-

The Egyptian approved, and in despair drew

Government. public attention to the Tchunga today allocated E£55 million

303 Bring six by

£56,375,000) to the through the Tohunga's house armed forces out of a recorded at a range of 150 yards.

national budget of ££315,259,- 572 (about £323/141,061) for the year 1955-56.

bullets (about

Although he was charged, the Court appreciated his motives! and put him on probation. The Tomunga was successfully ex- posed China Mail Special.

JET COMPLAINT

London; June 28, Supersonic bangs from low-

A spokesman of the Egyptian Council of Ministers announced the figures meeting

after a seven-hour

The total Sutt was divided into the following three sections: E£238,300,000

(about £244,-

In order to overcome park- ing problems in one of the biggest, shopping centres of Salt Lake City, United States. has been built the "Garage on stilta" in which 542 cars can be parked at one time. In design it looks like a MAN- moth book-case, and it in a department store's: answer to the problem of the congestedt

"downtown" area. The stilt like effect of the gimge can be seen in this picture. The five parking floors have sig zag edges to reduce load anal act as parking spaces. Ramps take the cars from one level to the next. —Express Photo.

Rockefeller

Germany

PLANE-LOAD

OF TREASURE

Vienna, June 28.

The last secrets of Hitler's German Reich and considerable treasure in gold and platinum may lie hidden under the cool, blue surface of Lake Atter, set like a giant sapphire among the rugged Austrian mountains.

How it got there has not been entirely explained. Nor does anyone living know exactly what is buried beneath the waters of the lake in which thousands of holiday-makers splash happily every summer.

But the indications are that Since then, however, the two whoever succeeds in recovering men have vanished. Intelligence the wreckage of a Nazi dircraft officers of the American avaries which sank in the lake in April which soon after this incident 1943 will be a rich man, for life, occupied Western Austria failed The story goes back to the to find any trace of them in the closing stages of the war, when multitude of prisoner-of-war British

and American tanks cages which sprang up all over were advancing into the heart Germany and Austria

A rumour went round pad were poised along the River persisted, that the alreradi bad Oder, ready to deal the death been carrying Hitler's personal blow at Berlin where Hitler treasures and secret åles. was trisconced in his bombproof bunker.

In of Germany and Soviet armies

rumours

and

messages,

"ATTEMPT ABANDONEDA The first attempts to salvage the wreck were made in 1947. Success seemed near when the anchors caught in some solid

Bonn, June 28.

NO-MAN'S LAND Austria at that time was a Mr Nelson Rockefeller, adviser 10 President Eisen-no-man's land, where deserters

on the bottom of the hower, and. Assistant Secretary and refugees peopled the roads object

Lake.. Then the drag-lines of Defence Struve Hersel ar- and

attempt was rived here by special Plane passed from mouth to mouth, snapped and the

abandoned. had long replaced. newspapers from Washington today.

The villagers, however, com Their visit, expected to last and radio as sources of infor- tinued to talk

of the sunken tile Thursday, was believed to

plane, its disappearing crew and be connected with regotiations Ore of the rumours which its mysterious cargo.

An

mation,

for an agreement under which was cropping Ap more often In the summer of 1953, an- the United States will supply than most was that Hitler was other recovery crew, including the new West Germany armed preparing to yield Berlin and divers with modera equipment, forces with military equipment. most of Germany, and would set to work. They discovered American-German arms make his last desparate stand that the aircraft lay about 70 aid agreement is expected to be in the "Alpine Fortress of the metres (230 feet) down and signed shortly. --Reuter,

that

the waters of the lake be- One day during this confusedcame very murky below a depth period, on April 18, a Junkers of about 30 metres (100 feet). The new German civil airline, DRAFT EXTENSION ar Force) appeared over laborious searching a diver made

58 aircraft of the German Luft-

several weeks' of slow,

LUFTHANSA IN IATA

London, June 28,

257,500) for the ordinary State budget, which included the War Deutsche Lufthansa, has been Ministry's E£55 million: E£54,-admitted an active member of 248,972 (about £55,505,196) for

Air Tran- the International

flying et war planes swooping|n710,000 (about £23,278,- (sport Association, it was

E.

projects: production low over Barnstaple, north Devon holiday and fishing 365) for public services. centre, are giving heart attacks

The spokesman said there was

21-

nounced today in London.

1ATA to elderly people, Mayor A. W. £12 million (about £19,300,– †

has now 73 member Clarke has told the Royal Air 000) left over from last year's companies throughout the world Force.-China Mail Special.

-Reuter. budget-Reuter.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOU'VE NEVER MARRIED, ALEENA?

ALMOST ONCE. A MAN NAMED GURN HAS BEEN ATTENTIVE TO ME

FOR YEARS

11

FERDINAND

NANCY

BUT I'VE WAITED THESE || OH--guip THIRTEEN YEARS, --WHERE

IS GUAN

| MANDRAKE—TO SEE

YOU AGAIN

THAT IS BALO MOUNTAIN. NARDA.

mountains round Salzburg.

After

works" of

Lake Atter. It circled and lost a remarkable and it was the Washington, June 28.

height and Analy skimmed into statuette of an ape sitting on a The House today passed a two-year

extension of the the lake and sanke rapidly. Two collection of the Doctor Draft and a four-year members of Its crew were saved. Darwin and contemplating extension of the Regular Draft. They told villagers that there human skull in its paw,

It thus ended a fight which had been another man aboard

Experts believed that although had threatened to star the the aeroplane and that the air-this object might have come

cargo Was whole military draft system-cart's

"sealed from the plane. this was un- United Pros

chests."

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis ··

I HOPE MANDRAKE IS STILL THERE WHEN I ARRIVE. I DON'T WANT TO FACE HER ALONE!

NEITHER DOI!

COM--A SPOOKY: LOOKING PLACE. THAT'S WHERE ALEENA LIVES?

CONTINUED

By Mik

& ORIENTAL

Oww--

--- A

BEE STUNG

ME,

I'LL PUT ON SOME OF THIS GOOEY MEDICINE

NOW THE FLIES ARE AFTER THE

GOO

TEA

STRAINER

By Ernie Bushmiller

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

R.M.S. "CANTON”

NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

BAGGAGE:

Friday, 1st July at 12.00 noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said. Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to "the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Thursday, 30th June..

SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading. on board by ship's slings only."..

EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.30 and 11.00 a.m. on Friday, 1st. July, 1955.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

JOHNNY HAZARD

BA FINAL EFFORT TO DEFEAT HISKI CAPTORS, JOHNNY BRINGS THE PLANE EN FOR A LANDING & WHEELS UP!

WHILE ON THE LANDING STRIP

-ERNIE

By Frank Robbins

GET THOSE WHEELS DOWN QUICKBEFORE

YOU CRASH..!

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

"THE JAM THAT MIEJ

TASMANIA FAMOUS

DAIRY BOX

MILK CHOCOLATE

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

lively. Other explanations put forward were that Alfred Rosen- berg, the Nazi Minister for Occupied Territories, bad owned La villa near the lake and that the ape-statue, symbolising the Darwinian theory of man's descent from the ape, may have been one of his possessions.

Other objects recovered from the lake-bed included Germa type small atms and a complete Leleprinter. The recovery' (IEW, stopped work soon after that, giving shortage of funds as the reason. But it leaked out that" They had also found platinum pencils.

Whether these came from the Junkers 28 or "from Rosenberg's property or from some other source has not been established: Two years have passed since this episode,

more

and

salvage attempts have been made. But the rumours persist.

Recently, a discovery made by

a newspaper reporter, from Grad

them a fresh lease of life. gave

a new foundation of fact. The reporter, who insists on re maining anonymous, found a former Luftwaffe. officer, a certain Major K who com manded: a fight of three Junkers 88's from Berlin' to Salzburg on April 18, 1945.

RECEIVED ORDER

In April 1945, Major K; was in Berlin when he received an order signed by Hitter to pre- pare a flight of three machines for an unnamed destination, In those days, it was not easy to lay hands an three airworthy aeroplanes in Berlin for non- combat tasks, even on Hitler's order, but the Major did it and reported to the Fuehrer on April 17.

The Fuehrer then personally ordered Major K. to fly 48 sealed cheats and one unnamed passenger to Salzburg "at all costs."

The cargo was loaded the same night The lone. passenger was a man of about 40 who all the time wore a cost with upturned collar and s- Masses, and never spoke a

word. His identity has never

been established.

to

The aircraft were take off in the small hours of April 18 when a lorry carrying six more sealed metal boxe drove up. These, too, were loaded, and the aircraft dew off towards Salzburg

They passed safely over Leipzig and Munich, but fight of American fighters struck at them on the last stage of the Journey,

Salzburg was

almost in

sight.

"One machine, was severely damaged, and I saw it make a forced landing on a lake," the Major is reported to have said. "But I and the other machine made it to Salzbing

The cargo of the two remain indrcraft

·was unloaded by SS-men and i clvilians wil who seemed to be expecting them. Major K. said he only-dia- covered after arrival that the cheats held secret documents tram Hiller's Chancellery, art treasures/from://kaustams and gold and platinum Chiang Mail. Special.