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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 1925.

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REAL-LIFE MOWGLI STORY.

TWO BENGALI CHILDREN

BROUGHT UP BY A WOLF.

INDIAN CLERGYMAN'S STRANGE STORY,

The Westminster Gazette of October 2nd presents its readers with the follow ing remarkable story (very wisely the per takes no responsibility as to its truth) which it has received from India. It tells of two native children being rear- ed in a wolves' lair, after the manner of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, the woll boy of the Jungle Book The "real life story

is, however, less pleasant than the romance;

When consulted on the subject, anthro- pological experts in the laboratories of Prof. . Elliott Smith, at University College, London, were disinclined to give the story credence, beyond admitting that humans can subsist any form of animal milk.

Dr. G. M. Vevers, Superintendent of the London Zoo, was also sceptical, and gave it as his opinion that the wolves would probably have eaten the children.

The story, however, is vouched for by the Rev. J. A. L Singh, of Midnapur, Bengal, and in part by Bishop H. Paken ham Walsh, of Bishop's College, Calcutta, and is, accordingly, reproduced for its in- trinsic interest.

Bishop Walsh's narrative is as follows: At the end of August, 1926, I visited the Orphanage run by the Rev. J. A. L. Singh and his wife at Midnapur, West Bengal. Mr. Singh used to be a student of, Bishop's College, Calcutta..

Haunted by Demons "When visiting a distant part of his district the villagers told him there was a certain path which they never used because it was haunted by Bhuts (Demons). They had seen these Bhuts, they declared, enter a hole at the foot of u big art-heap.

Mr. Singh naked them to show him the place, and they pointed out the hole. They saw nothing, and at his suggestion sixteen of them started digging.

After some time two wolves darted out of the hole. Then a she wolf came to the entrance and marled, growled, and refused to move, and they were obliged to shoot it.

"

Two Girls with Wolf Cubs. "Digging on, they came to the den, and found there two wolf cubs and two girls, one aged 2, the other about 8.

clothes. Six years after the she-wol! must have found another baby, and having found pleasure in having a cub that remained stall and did not leave the den, adopted it, too.

Put in Enclosure."

Both girls were Bengalis, and it is not likely they were sisters. Mr. Singh said that he would return and take away the children, and the villagers made an not meat, because they would not touch it. enclosure for them, and threw them food,

were almost dead, very weak, and cover- By the time Mr. Singh returned they ed with sores, and offered no resistance. He took them to his Orphanage in Mid- naput, where his wife did her best to nurse them to life. The younger, how ever, developed dysentery and died. The elder shed a few tears, the only sign of, emction she ever made,

normal size and there is nothing peculiar The elder child grew up. She is of about her except that she sits animal-like and does nothing for hours together. Her face has a vacsot appearance, but when she says one of the thirty words she has learnt, especially when she gives the Bengal greeting and says Namaskar,' sho" smiles sweetly and has a pleasing face.

clothes on. They stitched some strong "For a long time she could not keep

cloth tightly round her body which she could not tear off, and in tourse of time she submitted to clothes.

Ate Like an Animal, "Another thing the resented was being washed. For a long time she ate with her mouth down to the dish, but eventual- ly they taught her to use her, hands,

"Sho takes no interest in cther chil dren or in toys or games. When they gave her a doll she bit it. At first the other children were inclined to tease her. but they soon gave it up because she could bite and scratch.

"She has no fears usual, with children and prefers the dark to the light. She was not afraid of fire till she felt it burn her, and since then she has given it a wide berth.

Weak - Mind.

"Her bearing and sight are extra acute, but her touch does not seem to be developed, and her memory is very went.

"The girls were very fierce. They darted away on all-fours, going faster "She was baptised some time ago, and than anyone there could run, and utter is called Kalama, which she says very ing guttural barkings. They took refuge prettily. Mr. Singh says she has develop in a bush, and were eventually caught.ed much more rapidly since. Their finger-nails were worn into a con- cave shape through constantly scratching the ground.

It is not an uncommon thing in that locality for children to be exposed when infants, especially if they are girls and not wanted. It is probable that the mother wolf had found one such baby and taken it home, carrying it by its

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A machine-gun battle in Chicago on October 12th in which two liquor traffic leaders were killed and three wounded was the subject to-day of national dis cussion, says the Daily Mail. The most significant comment on it and on the con- ditions generally in Chicago is that made by Scarface Capone, whose adopted name is Browne.

Capone, a resolute man of 27, is the acknowledged "King" of the beer trade. He received reporters in his hotel and iasted an amazing interview appealing for the immediate conclusion of peace between himself and his rivals.

Capone, whom the police say it is use less to arrest because he is richly pro vided with alibis, began with a solemn expression of his abhorrence of but chery." While speaking he held' con spicuously in his hand photographs of his dearly-beloved seven-years-old son. He professed extreme regret at the death of Hymie Weiss, one of the victims, and said that he would certainly send flowers to his funeral.

"When the two children were alive they slept huddled one on top of the other, like puppies. She never barks now, or utters noisca, except the words the has learnt. She does not laugh or cry,

will follow them about. When a pariah She is very gentle with animals, and dog came in and all the other children' ran away, she made friends with it."

PLOUGHMAN'S FIND.

NEOLITHIC OBJECTS LEAD TO Á CONTROVERSY.

of the Magdalenian period coincided with I have aways claimed that the end the beginning of the Neolithic; moreover, I have repeatedly emphasised the fact distinguished by an arbitrary collection that the Neolithic phase of culture is of arts and customs such as are found in no other part of_the_world."

Smith, in the course of his Presidential In these words, Professor G. Elliot address to the University College and Hospital Anthropological Society as University College, London, explain- ed why it was quite probable that the Neolithic finds made recently at Glozel, near Vichy, are really genuine and not trands, as has been suggested.

The discovery was made by a plough. man about eighteen months ago and con- sisted of Neolithic objects revealing cultural affinities with the Aegean, in the same stratum as clay tables inscribed with script closely resembling that found in 1991, also numerous engravings of animals on pebbles, the style of which was degenerate Magdalenian. Into the midst of the controversy that has develop- ed in connection with these discoveries, said Professor Elliot Smith, it would be impertinent for one who had not visited the scene of the excavation to enter. He explained that the gang murders of that one of the essential difficulties-and But it was free to any onlooker to note which Chicago has seen 110 in three years, perhaps the really crucial problem-in had their origin, in the disloyalty of eliminating the element of conflict from members of his own organisatica who both the association of such strange col- began to think that they were bigger Lection of archeological material and the than we weze." By e" Capone existence of a script in Neolithic times, abviously meant himself and his murder was the question of chronology. ed partner.

Capone, however, said he had been willing to forgive and forget." He talked to Hymie Weiss and others, say ing, "Do you want to die before you are thirty"

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