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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LIFE FOR A LIFE.

Poignant Tragedy of

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1924.

WONDER CAVES.

Blasting Tunnel to Under- ground Lake.

Wan had gold buttons on his coat, a diamond ring and a diamond studded wristlot watch. Thero were what Shan Huw wanted. But Da Wan, foolish ind, novor roallsing the extremity of his once prosperous friend's neod, was not inclined

Gorgeous cavos hung with to part with his treasures. And natural draperies of purest white Ho the foll dood was dono, with orystal, and bolioved to be the no human oye to soo. Shan Haw finest.examples of cavern beauty took out a knife and stabbed Bain England, will probably ba

chost.

oponed in the slopes of In-

tho un

Thoro

of rock.

Oversea Chinese. Rangoon, 11th, April.-Yestur day morning, C. Shan Haw, the Chinese lad who killed his friend Ba Wan, one of the most

apparently inoffensive Chinose clerks in the District Wan Magistrate's office, In the gardon was hover any..quosion of globorough, Yorkshire, this aum surrounding Government, House, a fight. Shan paid the final penalty for his much the bigger and the stronger

Haw was mer, by blasting thousand tons rash and cowardly dead. The man and Ba Wan struggled in. At present one can only entor curtain has thus, boon rung down vain in his grasp.

Shan Hawy orawling through a long tunnel on one of the most brutal murders took his buttons and his ring and for a quarter of a mile but when that has been committal in Ban-his wristlet, but he had to take the blasting is finished it will be geon in recent years. The tragedy off his blood-stained clothes. And possible to walk along the tunnel. was all the mito sad because the clother almost in his birthday Its prosent opening is a slit in murdered lad and his murderer suit, Shin Haw managed to find the rock 18 inches wide, and came of families well known and his way to Kemmending, where thero ur places through which highly respected in the local ho was able to provide himself you can hardly squeeze. Chinese community. Both wore with a longyi, Ho pawned the sons of riel parents.

treumures which he had obtained at the cost of a man's life and he went straightway where his soul had craved for several days, the home of some dis-1 reputable girls in 36th-street.

Here the Police found him when they wanted him, as they

When you have crawled 50 yards the light of the candle glints on the surface of water, which fills the gallery almost to the roof.

Progress becomes slower and more painful..

HEAD ABOVE WATER. Clutching the rocky sides of

Shan Haw passed into eternity without flinching. The only sign he over showed of any romorse was the gift of ton gold images to propitiute his ancestors, as is the custom among the Chinese. 20th of May 1924..

While he was waiting his Will leave homewardbound end Shan Haw did, not indulge did when an inquisitive terrier the gallery, with frozen fingers,

isany confessions of which there barkod and brought his mastor, was no nood for this was

one flounders along, son.otimee one gardener at Government Flouse, slipping into a deep pool and i of the plainest cases of recent to witness a most gruesome scene. somotimus wriggling along over years-or recriminations against This is the story of Ba Wan and flat ledge. In some places those who brought him to Haw, and of a tragedy to two one's head only is above water, justice. And the fow who witness-families. Shan Haw's grand-with the body dragging along the ed the last seone could not but mother died of the shock a few rugged racks underneath. help feeling that hore was a days ago and his father is even man who did not fear to face now lying at death's door, and donth just as ho had not foared does not know that his son has paid a life for a life. Rangoon

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BIRD SANCTURIES..

Pheasants "Settle" in. Greenwich Park.

candle is plunged into the water. At occasional slip, and the

thousand feet from the on- trance-this-winding-gallery--runs into a large chamber, the roof which goes up to 30 or 40 foot:

CANYON AND LAKE.

There is a lesson to be learnt from the tragedy which closed yesterday. Both Ba Wan and Shan Haw started life with

A river covers the whole floori and disappears as a cascade over the saine advantages and the waine handicaps. Both had ́rich

a drop of a dozan foot. The roof and indulgont parents. Ba ̧ Wani

of this chamber is covered with the purest white stalactites. went the right way. Stoady at school, he made good use of his

The sparkling walls are time, and in duo course

The bird sanctuaries in Hydo boautifully sculptured with passed Yout with sufficient Park, Konsington Gardens. Re-crystalline forms which have credit to get himself a position Kont's Park, Richmond Park, grown in solitudo,for centuries. under the Government. A lad of Greenwich Park, and St. James's In places the fairy wands group good principles, temporato, with Park Lake, are the subject of a together like the pipes of an out an inordinate love of gam-report issued recently, in London, organ. It is a scene of magnific- bling, blessed with a good toniper, by the Bird Sanctuaries Coment beauty. Ba Wan was the joy of his parents mittee. und popular with all his friends.

Tho sam of £50, it is stuted,' On the sloping sides of the And what of Shan llaw? He was presented by a gentleman who cavern aro growths of stalagmite, lazy, and would not learn and desired to romain anonymous, dazzlingly white, and studded in when he left school he knew very had been spont in providing 157 rich profusion like natural littlo more than when he had nesting boxes in the various jewellery. They are reflected in gone there. Untidy in his personal sanctuaries, in the purchase of the pools of clear water which fill habits, reckless with his money, six coed hoppers, and in the the miniature basins, with a cruze for gambling, and an purchase of shrubs. Various im- Along to the right in the unusual love for wine, woman provements had boon carried out wonderful spectacle of a tributary and song, ho was the vary anti-at the Richmond and Greenwich running into the river from the thesis of his friend Ba Wan. The sanctuaries in connection with roof, the clear water flashing girl in the case was more than pass the works in the Royal Parks for down in one column 35 foot long. ing fair. Smiling Ma May (which the relief of unemployment.

The gallery becomes canyon in is not her real name) preferred

Mr. Rudge Harding, in a ro-shape, the river at the bottom the attentions of Ba Wan. The port regarding Hyde Park and circling found boulders of two young men played the game Kensington Gardens, records the imposing size. The canyon is at of love fairly, and Ba Wan was visits of willow warblere, a lesser length entirely filled by the river, the happier of the two. Though whitethroat, and .common which takos one out of his depth Shan Haw's love was spurned, it whitethroat He also gives de two yards from the side. was not this that forced him to gadwall with a wild duck. They ches away for a distanco it is ut tails of the mating of a wild This underground lako stcet- commit the murder.

Inter appeared on the Longprosent impossible to moasuro. Water with a tiny duckling. The real motivo for the murdor From the fact

Its seems to widan, but no one that theknows what lies in the darkness was sheer poverty, Shan Huw gadwall attacked any mallard beyond. sowed the seeds of a prodigal's which approached the wild duck blasted and a boat taken in the Until the gallory is life with such recklessness that and the young bird it seemed quest is hold up. his father kickud him out of the fairly safe to conclude, adds Mr. house. In the eyes of the father Harding, that this single ducking requests he has received that the It is bocaumo of the many the step was justified, for Shun was bis offspring. Two wigeon discoveror, Mr. Long, has decided Haw lii? put hi mwolf indrakes and one duck were soon to open the caves to the public. delt and the father had to on the Serpentino. pay up, and the father's namo

Electric light will be installed. With reference to Richmond was being dragged in the mud Park, Mr. Harding mentions that by the son's riotous living, Shan on January 27, 1923, a pair of Haw went from a life of com- stone chats were seen near Span of thirtytwo varieties of birds parative opulence to a life of the kor's Hill Plantation, while there observed_in

the sanctuaries grimmest poverty, and he did not were probably forty coots on the there. Троне include tho appreciate the change. Money ho smaller pen pond at the same missel thrush, redwing, great wanted, somehow, same way, date, the largest number he had titmouse, coul titmouse, and money he had to get.

seen together. Three or four wagtail, spotted flycatcher, lessor' Thus it dawned on Shan Haw pairs of great orestad grobes redpoll, jay, hooded crow, that he would have to rob to get nested on the larger pond, and spotted woodpecker, tawny owl, money, and so one morning, the one pair on the small pond. A little owl, kestrol, mallard, and dood was done. He met Ba Wan wigeon drake, a sandpiper, a pheasant. on the road soon after the latter wood warbler, and two red-backed The Superintendent also roports had started for work, and, shrikes, and a long-tailed tit's that during the spring of 1923 a tolling him samo cook

and nest, in which the young birds pair of pheasants found their way bull story, he managed to decoy wore safely hatched, are all monto Sanetary No. 1, but whore they his friond to the garden of tlonod.

came from is not known. Thoy Government House. What hap- The Superintendent of Groon-hatched and roarod a brood of pened thero le still.unknown, Bawich Park gives the names five young,

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