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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

DECEMBER-6, -198

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London Man Returns From

AIRMAN

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AFTER FIVE DAYS' SILENCE

LOST IN WILDS

Port Moresby (New Guinea),

Dec. 1.

U.S.

'Devil's Island':. Free After 13 Years

Plymouth, Dec. 1..

A shy, tired-looking little man stood by the rails of the liner President Roosevelt as it approached Land's End from the Atlantic and smiled with relief.

"Gee. It's good to be back in England a free man after all these years," he said.

He was Harry Johnson, once a famous ice-hockey player, a Londoner from the East End, now a deportee from America. AFTER disappearing in the In his pocket was a pardon wilds of New Guinea for from President Roosevelt for the second time in less than the alleged murder of two wo four months, Flight-Lieuten-men in Alaska, for which he ant Stuart Campbell, an Aus-received a life sentence. tralian airman, arrived safely

at Fly River Camp to-day.

He has served thirteen years He had been delayed by a forced in all, first in Leavenworth lading to make adjustments to his prison, Kansas, and later in the machine, a Shert Sein double-rockbound escape-proof fortress

of Alcatraz of San Francisco, engined 180 h.p. seaplane.

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Meanwhile, Papuan Goverument vessels were searching the const and swamps in the region whers he disappeared last Tuesday.

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"When I left I was. asked not to tell what I knew about the prison, and I promised I wouldn't until I got over this side.

"What my future is I don't know, but I have paid my debt to society. tripped up when I went to Alaska with five other fellows trying to start an Ice rink.

"While there I went on a hunt- ing trip with a guy. We got mixed up with a couple of dope women. "But now I can forget it all; P'm

Twenty-two years ago he left a free man." the East End of London a boy

There was a touching scene when of sixteen, and emigrated to Canada. Two years later heJohnson was reunited with his two sisters on the deek of the liner. was in the trenches with the They had not met for eighteen Canadians, and at eighteen he years. was a machine-gun instructor.

"I had four years over there,"

But he did not reach Kikori, and he said. "and got five medals, in- some fear was felt for his safety cluding the Mons Star. owing to the number of water-) ways over which he would have! to HyRenter.

"WITHOUT À DIME"

"I went buck' to Canada with two thousand dollars and a wound!

I am landing in England

SECOND DISAPPEARANCE Jungle and awamps of the wild pension, Fly River district were searched to-night without a dime. Not even intensively for Flight-lieutenant my street-car fare, and I won't take Campbell at the end of last July, a penny, when he was missing for four days! between Daru and a depot 600 miles further up the river.

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the

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"I'm going to start work. turned me out of Alcatraz with n suit, a shirt, a handkerchief, and a pair of boots, but no underclothes and no overcoat. An emigration officer in New York gave me a pair of socks.

"That prison is the world's worst. They drive men mad there. Fortu- nately they didn't get mo.

"After a tura in the cells, in solitary isolation they put me in the kitchen.

"That's where I lost my finger."

"Drake Millions Mystery": U.S.A. Trial

DET-INSPECTOR BISHOP,

of Scotland Yard, is on his way to America to give evid- ence in a case which has be- come_known on two continents as the "Drake Millions My- 'stery,"

The investigation of this case involves the millions left or re- puted to have been left by Sir Francis Drake.

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The investigation began when a He showed his right hand, the man named Baron" Oscar M. "trigger" finger of which is miss-Hartzell, who claimed a fortune of £70,000,000, was deported from ing.

England in February 1933.

Hartzell is alleged to have

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1 All resign when this soldier

changes. Be this is thrash.

10 Hardly the home of reason.

11 If this animal had swallowed nothing before a ent, the situn- would have been evident.

12 Norwegian tow.

of brace inside. 13 Mournful and there isn't a

15 If a tenor's scale la on the down-

Couple ward run,

run, how many notes does this include?

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Pastically numerous...

"One of my jobs was to wait on collected large sums of money with a note between

Iunds to enable him to claim the 22 Aperture. of catate.

I used to smuggle pieces chicken for him from the kitchen.

Al Capone. We were good friends. from people in America, England 21 The Gloucester hung dog-He's one of the finest fellows I ever and France who subscribed to gedly on to the tail of the met. Goeben and' Breslau in the Mediterranean in 1914 before they escaped into the Dar- danelles. Her captain on that occasion is now Admiral Sir Howard Kelly.

"For that I got put in the hole,' which is an underground dungeon whore they used to torture Spanish prisoners long ago.

and Edward.

26 In his Book appears "Grent Is truth, and mighty, above all

please.

When Hartzell was deported he was arrested. in New York, and 20 later sentenced to ten years' Im-31 prisonment for using U.S.A. mails 32 Give secret information about a in order to defraud thousands of

3) The scene of the first gate- Middle West farmers.

crashing on record?

He appealed, and was allowed

truped for a game (hyphen

Then they put the third degree The Liverpool will be built by

Fairfield Shipbuilding and over me because they know I had Engineering Co., Ltd., the Man-found out some secrets of the prison. chester by R. and W. Hawthorn I knew how stuff was smuggled in bail of $25,000. While he was 35 A Norwegian means of progress Lexile and Co., Ltd., and the and out, how spirits were actually on ball 21 men, who were alleged Gloucester at Devonport. Yard.

Chatham

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Of the smaller versely to built four will have bird names- the Bittern, Sheldrake and Kilti- wake (sloops) and the. Plover

(minelayer).

SALESMAN SAM

made and drunk in the prison.

in a run for a great art-expert.

to be his agents, were arrested on 36 Tup.

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connection with the

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3 A feminine name.

4 Bounda.

As a clue it is right, but is left when changed.

I thought I would have been charges of continuing to accept 37 A fixed Ition. released from Leavenworth.oney in My sister came over from Lon-claim. Hartzell was also charged

with complicity.. don in order to do it, but al- though she spent a lot of trial at Ohio, and Detective- Now they are all to appear on money she was unsuccessful. Inspector Bishop will give evidence I got the President's pardon there of Hartzell's activities In three weeks ago.

London.

Reverse Action.

5 Buck up.

There's a glass top to this com-

plimentary speech.

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7 Jungle book character. Re-reading (ariag.). Toss slowly.

14 Plane prefix.

17 Striking in a sense.

18 Start game in different style to

ket. trick.

ID Attached to a general. 20 Plaything.

20 În a doctor, it would be made to

wrong.

26 In more than one sense, the point

is in the root here.

27 Clear out!

28 Object of care in custody,

Sisern (anag).

| 30. An inhabitant of the Far North makes a Scottish' river confuse it is nothing at all.

33 Imposition?

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