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KIDNAPPERS EXTENSIVE "OPERATIONS: REVEALED.

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The subtlety of a band of kid- nappers who, by their clever ruscs, enticed both men and women away from their home and their oc- cupations, was recounted in Major C. Willson's court yesterday after noon, when sub-Inspector Carey prosecuted two men charged with kidnapping Dr. Chan Lai-cheun, a Chinese medical man practising in Aplichau, and in Shing, a young apprentice bookbinder employed at Sham Shui-pol

SATURDAY,

EASTERN PORTS.

HEALTH STATEMENT FQR LAST WEEK.

The health bulletin of Eastern ports for last week, issued by the Principal Civil Medical Officer, gives the following cases, the numbers in parenthesis denoting deaths:

Plague: Colombo 9, Bassein (5) Bombay (3),

125 Cholera: Basra. (108), Madras (72), Assam Province 27 (22), Mohammerah (Persia) 16 (12), Calcutta (13), Bombay (11), Manila 8 (7); Canton 7 (4), Amoy The two defendants were Leung, Shanghai (2), Macao (2), Tin and Sin Sing, and it is alleged Tourane 2 (2), Haiphong 1 (1), that they are two members of a Bangkok 1, Colombo (1), Negapa- very large gang who concentrate tam (2). their attention on the outlying dis-

Small-pox: Bandjermasin 26, triets in this Colony.

Basra (1), "Nagasaki 1 (1), Dr. Chau Lai-chuen is a man Hongkong 1 (1), Menado (Celebes) of 51 years of age and beside being 1, Sourabaya 1, Singapore 1 (1), a medical man, is also a school- Colombo 6 (2), Madras 4, Calcutta master in Apllchau. He was lurod 6 (5), Bombay 5 (8). away from his house on Novem-1

ber 19 last and was in captivity for 105 days, at the end of which time he was released on hls re- latives paying a ransom of $1,700 to the kidnappers, together with two dozen singlets and two taels of opium. The hookbinders' ap- prentice was kidnapped some time Inter and was released, when his father consented to pay $300 to the gang.

Trapped.

FAMOUS VIOLINIST.

SEPTUAGENARIAN WEDS GIRL PUPIL.

AUGUST 20, 1927.

PACIFIC FLIGHT.

INTENSE ANXIETY. IN THE UNITED STATES.

ORDER IGNORED.

JARDINE'S GODOWNS NEW MILITARY CAMP.

SOMETHING

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Flint, Michigan, Aug. 19.

Hankow, Aug. 12. Malloska, the backer of "Miss Yesterday two prominent mem- Doran," has offered $10,000 re-bers of the staff of Messrs. Jardine ward for the discovery of the Matheson & Co., with a foreign occupants of "Miss Doran" dead friend had occasion to pay a visit or alive. Just before Miss Doran; to the company's godowns at who was most popular, left to fly Tachimen. Reports had been re- to Honolulu, she expressed the ceived to the effect that a tem- hope that she would win the ocean porary occupation of the premises. race, but added, pensively, "If we by troops had the appearance of game being prolonged indefinitely. A don't, well, life's just a chance anyway."-Reuter's Ameri- visit of inspection therefore be

came imperative. can Service.

Missing Plane Found.

Honolulu, Aug. 19. Mr. Dole has offered a reward of $10,000 to the discoverer of the

Trans-Pacific aeroplanes, and occupants of either of the missing

occupants. of both. Reuter's $20,000 for the discovery of the American Servico.

San Francisco, Aug. 19. The Examiner which entered Golden Eagle for the Dole Paclilc fight is offering G$10,000 each for the reactie of the crews of the Golden Eagle and the Miss Doran. --Reuter's American Service,

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Unconfirmed Report.

A few days ago a mandate was issued which definitely ordered the evacuation of all toreign property then being occupied, by soldiery, and in pursuance of this mandate that the godowns would be eva- it was thought by those concerned

ing on arrival all three were stop- cuated. Instead of this happen- ped by sentries at the gates and considerable difficulty was experi- enced in gaining entry to the pro- perty.

Rude Soldiery.

After submitting to a consider- able amount of rudeness aud-ver- bal insult, entry was at last gained to the premises. They found that the godowns plus several tents were occupied by soldiers nuin- bering approximately six hundred under the command of major.

Brussels, Aug. 19,

San Francisco, Aug. 19. Eugene. Ysaye, the septuagen-

at The report that the "Miss arian violinist, was married Knocke-sur-mer to Jeannette, aged Doran" has been found is not con.

During the course of their in- 20, his brilliant pupil, the daughter firmed by Reuter's correspondent .. Outlining the case for the proof Dr. Dincin of Brooklyn, United at Wailuku, Maul, who has visited, spection the major sent for them, the spot where the machine is re- but not being soldiers they did secution. Sub-Inspector Carey said

States. Reuter. that on November 19 last, the doc-

second and more urgent message who went to see him at his house, on July 15, 1858, of Walloon des-discovered. There is no trace of was sent. Ultimately it was dis- tor received a call from a woman! Eugene Yanye was born at Liege ported to have been sighted and not obey the order, even when a at. 114 Main Street, Aplichau. Cent, and was married in 1886 to the machine or of the occupants. covered that the major finding it

The woman asked him to go on a daughter of General Bourdan de board a Junk to treat a sick man.; Courtray. His wife died in 1924. her He was educated at the Conserva- wham, she explained. was father-in-law. The doctor did nottoirs, Liege, at Brussels under quite like to go, but the thought Wieniawski and at Paris under that he might be doing a service Vieuxtemps. He was the conduc- to some poor seaman decided him tor of the Cincinatti Symphony and be followed the woman. Orchestra 1918-22. They went to the water front; where a sampan was waiting.

Reuter's American Service.

Intense Anxiety in U. S.

New York, Aug."19. The New York Tribune'a car ton of Uncle Sam in night attire, in the small hours of the morning, listening on the wireless anxiously muttering we ought to hear some- thing of them by now," is an apt illustration of the public anxiety.in the United States regarding the fate of five missing fliers now 10

Never has the country realised

The man who was on the bow Sui Ho. where there was a large of the sampan was the first defenmatshed in which several other dant and the doctor could say that males and females were kept inbours overduc. The man who rowed him out to captivity. After the doctor had the junk was the second defendant. been in the matshed for eleven When they reached the junk the days, the second complainant, the doctor was told that the sick man bookbinders apprentice was taken wns in the hold and he was asked there." to go inside.

On entering the hold the doctor noticed a man covered with a quilt, breathing heavily. He approach- ed the man and intended to feel the poor fellow's palse, but as he stretched his hand to reach the man's wrist a revolver was pointed at him by the "aick" person.

rather hot on the verandah wanted a house to live in. He will in all probability find oucl

Water was found to be ranning to waste by the thousands of gal- lons, but as no doubt Jardines have protected themselves in this res- pact with the Waterworks, Com pany, it will not form with them à matter for discussion.

LONDON-NEW YORK.

so emphatically the need of small cruisers, for practically every kind MAYOR WALKER TRIES THE of small vessel available is on the central Pacific intensely sweeping the ocean.

The doctor wrote several letters

The papers give prominence to to his relatives at the captora' command and as a result of nego- tiations entered into between his accounts of Mildred Doran's deter relations and the kidnappers hemination and courage. She was was released after 105 days. The ransom paid for his release was $1,700 in cash, two dozen singlets and two taels of opium.

Enticed Away.

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New York, Aug. 10. Mayor Walker, although on holiday, rang up the Secretary for only 16 when her mother died. the City Hall here from London, Mildred thereafter mothered two and discussed housing and other small brothers and a baby sister. important municipal matters. The Meanwhile she qualified at a Secretary said he heard Mr. teacher's training school and then walker as if he had been in New turned to aviation. She interest-

Américan York-Reuter's The boat was then got under

ed the wealthy Mr. William Mal way and the doctor was tied up and left in the hold. After three As regards the second complain-loska, whe organised a passenger hours sailing, the doctor asked to ant, he was enticed away by some air service on the strength of her. American be released, which the kidnappers members of the gang who promis- enthusiasm.-Reuter's consented to "do. They brought ed him a very lucrative job. The Service. him up to the deck of the junk and man was employed at the Man Hin the man who played the part of bookbinders' shop in Sham Shui-po the invalid covered him with a re- and it was the second defendant volver and acted as a sort of who first approached him regard- just received advice that Pilot, guard over him. After sailing aing a better position. few hours the junk encountered lured to the kidnappers' strong- strong winds and had to put in hold and not until $300 was hand- to a place named Kon Yak, near ed over by his father, was he re- Lantao for shelter. They remain-leased. ed there for two days.

He was

The Macao authorities ap parently were also being troubled Village Prison.

by this gang, for one of their de- When they were able to sail tectives traced the first defendant When the man again. they made for the Heung- to Hongkong,

The walked off a boat in Wing Lok shan district, near Macao. journey took five days and during Wharf the detective from Macao that time, the doctor could say quickly communicated with the that the man who supplied him local police and the man was ar At ar identification with food was the second defen-rested. dant. From Heungshar. they sail- parade held by the police, the doc- ed again after a stay of one day tor picked the first defendant out to a place called Ko Lo Wan. without any difficulty. Three days sailing from Ko Lo Wan brought them to a place call- ed Shui Hà Chung.

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unremitting search by forty war- The Vacuum Oil Company have ships and seaplanes for the miss- ing Honolulu fliers, the papers are Arthur C. Goebel, who won the splashing copious accounts

Walker's activities in Hawaii in the Mayor Dole prize for his flight from San their London correspondents Francisco to Travelair Monoplane christened England. An immense impression "Woolaroo," powered with Wright has been create! by the cordiality Whirlwind engines, used Gargoyle of London's welcome and the an Mobiloit "3" on this flight, and nouncement that Mayor Walker coach is the sentión of the hour. the oil gave every satisfaction; the intends to ride in the Lord Mayor's engines functioning perfectly.

An instance is the beading across the front page of ne

journal "Jimmy to Get Bree Bile in Log-i don."Renter's Americda Service:

SOVIET PLOTS.

DISORGANISATION OF FRENCH COLONIAL EMPIRE.

Paris, Aug. 19.

ESTIMATES REDUCED.

AUSTRALIAN ARMY AND NAVY ECONOMY.

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Le Matin publishes several let- Chester Woods, who is attached to

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were arrested and a the Soviet ambassador in Berlia with Mauser pistole and took the quantity of ammunition and arms and Comrade Gallaher in London decided to reduce the navy esti- doctor ashore and marched him to were seized. The second defen- showing the co-operation between mates by $125,000 and the army MASSAGE HALL Sui le village, which is four miles dant was also identified by the the Soviet Government and the estimates by £18,000 for the anke in a house where he spent à night apprentice, inland. The doctor was locked up doctor as well as the bookbinders leaders of the Third International of economy. A further $27,000 in order to disorganise the French will be saved on the estimates for Colonial Epipire and create revolt the air force, civil aviation, muni- the Moroccan tribes. tions and the supply branch.-- Reuter. Hovas.

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