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MAN DROWNED IN ROBBER GANGS AT HARBIN

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CURIOUS CALCUTTA CASE.

QUESTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

RUSSIAN AND CHINESE.

ONE LOT. BROKEN UP,

HARDIN, Dec 10th. There is no question that the detective force of Harbin are a Whether a mass of mola clover lot of men and during the approximately 12,000 tone into which a man had fallen and was drowned would be fit for humsa consumption was a point raised at an inquest held at Calcutta on the body of Arab Ali (20).

It was stated that the man was repairing a steel tark belonging to the Pure Cane Molasses Company at Kantapooker. The structure was 120 feet by 35 feet high, and was filled with molasses to a depth of 27 feet. Arab 'Ali accidentally fell in and was drowned. The accident happened at 7 o'clock in the morn- ing of October 22nd and the body was taken out at 5.30 in the after-

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DESERT ARREST DRAMA.

SHEIKH WHO KILLED COL LEACHMAN,

THE MAN WHO COUNTERED GERMAN INTRIGUE,

officer for the desert, when the lat- 'ter was visiting the tribal tents in the sunimer of 1920, has Been. arrested after seven years.

The Sheikh Dari, leader of the Zawbaa tribe in the Mosul. region, past month they have been very who is alleged to have murdered busy clearing up the gang which Colonel Leachman, British political has committed so many robberies in the town. They ran to earth two of the men who committed the daring robbery of $40,000 on a main street in the daytime, both A motor driver, recognising him, of them being killed in the attack drove him to the office of the loon: on their house, and now they have governor, where the Sheikh is 'res run others to earth in Tientsin. ported to have cqnfessed his guilt.

yesterday three trunks of vistu

-Gol G. E. Leachman, D.6.0+ ables were received from that Royal Sussex Regiment, was town, all being articles stolen in famose Amb traveller and be of Harbin, and a of nearly the most distinguished and widely 810,000 was also found thus prov-known Folitical Offers. He was Dr. Bejoy Bhusan Bose stateding that the town men killed here shot at Khan Nukta, midway be? | that he held

the post-mortem did not burn all the proceeds of the tween Baghdad and Feluga, da examination on the body on Octo- ber 23rd, in the afternoon. It was

robbery. With the final clean up August 19th, 1920, while accepting in a highly decomposed state. of all this gang. there should not from the Sheikh Dari, the hospital- Mr. Steel-Perkins (for the Pure be so many daring hold ups as ity of a text for the night. Some Cane Molasses Company): body was taken out at 5.30 on the there have been. The gang which striking incidents of the colonel's previous day; so you held the post- has been broken up is Russian but life of adventure were related in mortem 19 hours after t-Yes there are also Chinese gangs which 1990 by the Rev. W. A. Wigram, pork for smaller amounts. One of D.D., who had many years of ex these made an attempt to rob a perience in Mesopotamia: house a couple of days ago, but the son of the house got out by a back. door and warned the police. In this manner one of the bandits was caught and the others dropped all the goods they had stolen in their haste to get away.-P. & T. Times,

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During these 19 hours there would be sufficient time to bring in de composition 7-If the body was kept outside, then nineteen hours would effect high decomposition; but the body was kept in the freezing room at the morgue, where the tempera ture fa maintained at 45 degres.

Coroner: Will the fact of the body having been in the molasses for over ten hours tend to make it more decomposed 1-I cannot say,

Mr. Goodyear, a director of the Pure Cane Molasses Company, stated that the value of the molasses was about Rs. 6 lakhs.

Coroner: What do you propose to do with the molasses-It has been decided to deliver it among the molasses trade for the purpose of distillation and for preparing country tobacco alcohol.

He became aware of the net of

German intrigue being spread over the whole Ottoman Empire, and he used the prestige that he had won' for himself among the men of thế desert to combat it. How well he did it was shown by the German

KILLING AND LOOTING IN agents, who wrote: "We have

HUPEH DISTRICTS.

COMMUNIST REIGN OF

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spent money like water but we can. not counter the personal prestige of that man.”

After the war, as virtual Gover- nor of the Mosul Province, he used. A reign of terror has been creat- to visit unruly tribes. He would and industrialed by Communists many of the talk out of an aeroplane and say:

Hupeh districts including Hwangan, To Be Sold..

Mienyuan and Hanchuen and, as s "Greeting to you, chiefs all. I Coroner: What is the decision result, a large number of Chinese have come to say that I know what

landlords and wealthy people in the interior have been murdered you are up to. And, take my word

of the Health Officer -He first con-

demned it but after investigation he decided to withdraw the con- demnation.

Witness said the body had

not

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Major De, Police Surgeon, said that the fact of the body having bear in "the molasses would ne celerate decomposition but as rule decomposition did not start be- fore twelve hours,

IN SIAM.

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Ac-för, it, it won't do.". and their properties seized. hand, the Bolshevik agents have organised a

Ё peasants' army

them. In Hwangan district, there Government troops sent to suppress are over two thousand armed Com- sants Governnlent has been estab munist troops and a so-called Pea- REFUGE AT BANGKOK IN AN lished. According to refugees ar riving here, killing and looting has become common where the control is entirely in the hands of a few notorious Communist leaders.

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"The "care" of "lepers in this big kingdom is receiving renewed atten- tion, writes the Singapore Free Press correspondent in Sian. För years the pioneer station in the north of Siam has been carried on by the American Presbyterian Mis- aion, the Government first of all granting an island site in the river for the purposes of an seylum, and later on making itself responsible for an annual contribution in cash.

lepers have been gathered as far as In the eastern provinces the possible in a settlement near Korat, which can later on be developed into an asylum if the numbers war-

Asked to give his opinion whether in the circumstances the molasses could be recommended for human consumption, Major De said he thought that the Health Officer's ~Magistrate's Yamen Burned. ̈ ̈ ̈ opinion on the point would be more Micayuan, situated west of Han- appropriate. Pressed, however, he yang, is also at the complete said that if dirty clothes, etc., were mercy of the Communists. On the excluded it would be difficult to say 7th inst. an armed gang raided the why the mere fact of the body yames of the Magistrate and set having fallen into the molasses fire to the building, two of the would endanger health. On the members of the Magistrate's family other hand, the body having re-being burned to death. The Magis mained there for such a length of trate was kidnapped for ransom. time rendered the chances of in- During the Commu ̈ist coup, over fection by disease-producing germs twenty civilians were shot and kill- ao great that he would not recom-ad. Mr. Liu, head of the Education mend it for human consumption. Bureau, was shot twice, while the Coroner: What is your opinion Chief of Police was stabbed with about distillation?~My opinion is knives several times. Both the that distiliation would render the Police Headquarters and Post Office molasses fit for human consumption were looted and destroyed by fire.

In Bangkok where there have been because no germs dan live in the Mary Murdered In Hanchen.

for many years an undesirable num according to

Communists in Hanchuen district, ber of persoas suffering from this reporta received, terrible disease, a place of refuge bave organised a: Dare-to-die" has been established below the city Corps for the sole purpose of mur on the river, utilising the site of dering innocent inbabitants. Women an old fort, and there the Red Cross and children have been killed in the Society of Siam have set up a streets and lawlessness prevails. settlement on modern lines for The family of the leading landlord lepers. The Government has again of the district are all reported to assisted with a grant and the re- have been shot by the terrorists. sult of the work is that there is

It is understood locally that the an appreciable decline in the n military authorities in Wuhan are ber of lepers to be seen about the sending an expedition to the various streets of Bangkok. It has recently districts to clean out the Commu-been discovered that there are good aists and to suppress the revolt of many lepers in the peninsula, and the peasants under Red influence station has been opened for them Hankow Herald.

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marks of the claws of a large cro- eedile on the bank. The eggs wese Crimes of a serious nature in the

eylindrical, not ovoid, with round- Union of South Africa show a startling increase, states Sir Theo

ed ends, about as large as those in the centre of this district at

of a goose, rough and very thick. dore Truter (Commissioner of

Nakon Sri Tamarat. This is under

in the shell, and of a dull white Police) in a report which has

the care of an American doctor,

colour, each showed distinctly, in Browsed .considerable misgiving.

and like similar effort in other During the five years terminated

the exact centre, a paler band of parts of the country is receiving the in December last, murder, rapo,

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assistance of the authorities.).

"In connection with crocodiles fertilising duid about half an ink Tacross. Most of them were appro house-breaking, stock theft, and

There are thus now at work four eggs, in 1898 I was stationed in an similar crimes have increased by

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stations in Siam all trying to care official capacity at Bukit Merta priated by my peon and retailed by him to the local Chinese at 50 20,652 cases, or 4 per cent,

ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. for the leper community, and ifjam, Province Wellesley, writes crats apiece; the crocodile's egg is No fewer than 732

or

those suffering from the disease will a correspondent of, the Morning.

strong medicine.ATARV SINGAPORE, Dec. 22nd. only submit themselves for treat lost." Below the house, across a

*Crocodile Egg Pudding! population of the Union, lost their The case concerning Mr. N. O.ment, it is felt that the situation, a stretch of padiland, marrow lives through crimes of violence last Begg's attempted suicide was again as far as this particular disease is strip of secondary jungle and Another correspondent quotes sa year. A similar ratio in England mentioned before Mr. H. R., Bull, concerned, is well in hand. mangrove swamp bordered a small incident which occurred to him would mean the murder or man- second magistrate, yesterday

creek leading to the Juru River, when a young officer on one of the slaughter of about 4,200 people a Begg gave an undertaking that he

Thither I went one evening, after old tes clippers. The ship was ly uld not repeat the offence and

office hours, on the chance of geting in Bangkok ronds taking Er There has been a particularly was bound over in personal security

ting a shot at green pigeon as they a cargo. The skipper one day marked increase in native crime, in the sun of 8100' to come up for

came home to roost. I found a brought on board a number of cros and the task of the police has been judgment if called upon to do so.

small clearing in the secondary codile eggs, and gave orders to the rendered more difficult by the up- Begg told the magistrate that he

jungle, and nearly in the middle of steward to blow them, as time shells HARDIN, Dec 10th to-date methods" employed by was hoping to get the money for

it a heap of leaves some two or were to be retained accurios. On criminals, the cheap transport his passage home from the St The last two or three weeks more three feet high on which I proceed the following day a mee pudding facilities at the disposal of almost Andrew's Societyn British subjects are again traveled to sit to wait for the birds to was part of the menu at dinner. every law-breaker, and the better Inspector King said that the St. Eng by the Siberian express and come over. A minute or two after I had first serving, and thought there was something peculiar in methode of communication.

Andrew's Bociety was willing to pay the Soviet Consulate in Harbin wards, on looking down, I saw a While crime is on the upgrade. Begg's passage, but not his wife's. makes not the slightest difficulty hole on one side of the beap, and flavour; it tasted as one could im South Africa has fewer police than In reply to Mr. Bull, Begg said in the issue of visas. Amongst the jumped up in a hurry, thinking agine would be the taste of river employed in 1920. The total that he was legally married to his passengers who are leaving this that I might be sitting on a snake's mud. I waited until the other

some Tiensis resinést.

sampled the sweet, then the skip strength of the Union's police force wife, who had stuck by him for evening are is only 10,441, and as the total seven years and he was not going dents. An accident has occurred to Further search revealed a cor- per observed there was something population is 7,507,024 there is but to desert her now. In his success the express from Vladivostock to responding hole on the other side wrong I blurted out, it must be one policeman to 7.570 people. The days he had been a member of Moscow but full particulars have of the heap, and investigations made with the crocodila egg total cost of the Union police S. Andrew's Society and had sub not yet been received in Harbin, with a stick produced crocodile's The steward, being questioned. A. B. MOULDER & CO. department last year worked out at scribed liberally to its funds. He It is ramoured that four passen eggs, about 40 or 50 in all, arrang said he thought he was being ecos

6aald. per head of the popula had always assisted "broken Boots-gers were killed and about twenty ed in dest concentric circles; an mital, and so used then Verbal

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