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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936.

Hongkong Woman's Story To London Newspaper

TWICE

KIDNAPPED

BY PIRATES

AND EACH TIME SHE ESCAPED

A thrilling story of having been twice captured by Chinese bandits, but managing to escape on both occasions, being rescued once by airmen, was told to The People, London Sunday journal, recently, by Mrs. Beatrice Thomp- son, well-known resident of Hongkong.

The interview, which appeared in The People of De- cember 8, and was illustrated with a portrait of Mrs. Thompson, is us follows:

BORN in a ship, left in China a penniless widow with two children,

twice kidnapped by bandits, living in sampans, riding in native carts far into a hostile interior, fighting to earn a living, and at last establishing a great business in the Far East.

Such is the record of the most amazing woman of China, who has just come to London,

on

She is beautiful Mrs. Beatrice, forced me to march with them all Thompson, an Fglishwoman, who through that day and night. They has come to Britain to help apur behaved brutally towards me, strik-

• British manufacturers to ing me with their gunbutts when further trade development in I stumbled and dragging me when China. She is helping to organise I fell down. the British Empire and China Trade Fair, to open at British In- dustries House on December 11.

Mra. Thompson's father was a Lancashire engineer, of the pioneers who went out the early Chinese railwaya. She, herself. days for the construction of the was born in the skip which carried

"About dawn I saw three figures coming towards us. They were Chinese and seemed to be dressed in the Chinese air force uniform.

"As they came up I spoke to them in English.

comers.

"Immediately

we were out of

"There was a long argument." but the airman won. It ended with her mother to join him at Hong-me being turned over to the new- kong.

In 1923 she suddenly found her- self a widow with two children hearing, the leader of the airmen depending on her.

"I was practically penniless aid in English. Haw the devil she told me yesterday, as we sat did you get into this mess. in the lounge of her hotel in Lon-acroplane near by. He flew me to don. "As a matter of fact. I had Foochow just about £10 in the world when I arrived with my children in Hongkong to start my business.

"I had worked as a journalist but decided to go in for adver- tising and sales promotion.* " rented an office, engaged two

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"Now, however, 1 have 28 08- sistants in. Hongkong and 17 in Singapore.

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bandits are my worst enemies.

"Twice I have been actually seized, but each time-managed to escape, on both occasions being saved by my knowledge of the Chinese character.

"The first time was when I was travelling far into the interior on a one-eyed Chinese railway.

"Suddenly the train hit 21 animal,-

"Immediately the entire horde of Chinese passengers became a acething

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"The mob seized the cattle- herder, and for no apparent reason began to torture him cruelly. In the meantime some villagers came out with knives and began to carve up the dead animal.

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"From that day I have not gone into the interior alone."

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MRS. THOMPSON

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RED ARMY HAS GAS MASK DRILL.

Moscow, Jan: 3. An interesting experiment of Red Army men remaining ing tas masks for a long period wan carried out a few days ago, About 60 commandera and Red Army men who took part in the experiment; after an intensive training, wore their gas masks for 20 hours without interruption. During this time they took part in a military drill and shooting exercises, and had a nap-United Press.

SENT CRIPPEN TO THE GALLOWS AT HOME SENSATIONAL crimes and trials of thirty and forty

years ago are recalled by the death in London last month of Professor Augustus Joseph Fepper, predecessor of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, pathologist, and the first medico-legal expert of Great Britain to become famous.

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Professor Pepper was 86. He retired from active work as a-London surgeon.in 1910, and had since lived with his wife at Sidcup, Kent,

Mrs. Pepper was reported to be "very ill indeed" following her husband's death.

Professor Pepper's unerring skill as a pathologist caused one of the murderers he sent to the scaffold to pay him a grim compliment.

"The doctor is a wonder; he might have been watching me while I did it," said Dougal, the murderer of Camile Cecile Holland at the Moat Farm, Clavering; Essex, a few hours before he was hanged.

Dictator's

Eighty

"Watching my chance, Children

seized my suitcase and ran along the river bank. I had

Port of Spain, Dec. 29.

not gone far, however, before A remarkable story of an attempt three men, armed with knives to perform a death-bed marriage and pistols, suddenly jumped ceremony between the late President from some bushes and seized Gomez, of Venezuela, and the

me.

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The murder was not discovered until four years after Dougal had buried his victim's body, but Pro- fessor Pupper, working with in- finite patience, reconstructed the crime in every detall,

He helped to convict Crippen by proving to the court that the body found in a cellar at Hilldrop- crescent, Holloway, N., was that of Crippen's wife.

"Look out for a doctor, probably an American, a man of middle age", he said. A few days later, the man, Neil Cream, was under lock and key and was afterwards executed. Professor Pepper's work in the murder case of Blaud Marsh, at the Borough, S.E., brought him world- wide fame. He proved that the girl had died from doses of a certain poison, and his investigations. led the police to detect. two more un- committed by suspected murders, Chapman, the slayer of Maud Marsh.

Poison Cases At a time when several young women in South London were mother of the last of his 80 mysteriously poisoned with strych- children, culminating in an attemptnino ho gave an accurate descrip- Held For Ransom

to assassinate one of the President's tion of the man responsible less than 24 hours after being called in. "For half an hour I argued with sons, was told by a passenger them that I had no money, but arriving here by neroplane to-day. they acoffed at that. Suddenly I General Gomez, who died shortly remembered the train wreck. before midnight on Tuesday at tlie "There are lots of money there, Inge of 76, had been Dictator of I said. The train in laden with-Venezuela for 27 years, your own people returning rich. Shortly before he died, according Why don't you go there before it to the passenger's statement, six of is too late. :

General Gomez's children, who "The temptation was too much lived at the Palace, succeeded in for them.

obtaining a promise from the "On another occasion I had been President that he would marry negotiating for a concession for their mother.

A priest was summoned to the hoarding advertising in the Fukien province, where, the Red clement Palace, but just as he arrived Gon- Is rife. The concession was on an zalo Gomez, another son of the island and I was on my way alone Dictator by another mother, entered the Palace. Going to the room to Inspect it.

"Just as I neared the spot I was where the dying President lay, he accosted by some soldiers who told porsuaded him to cancel the marri-

temoon an attempt i me they and been sent to escort me age ceremony.

Later in the afternoon an to the water's edge, where I could was made to shoot Gonzalo at his get a Bampan over to the island.

own home at Maracay. A man In "I went with them, but after the street fired at Gonzalo, wound- walking an hour or so, I realised that we were not going, towards ng him in the leg. A friend of

Gonzalo immediately the river, and I challenged, the

would-be assassin dead. soldiers. They just laughed.

Gonzalo, believing that the at- "Oh, we're not going to the tempt to kill him had been Inspired island, they replied. "You're going with ve. You're a good one for by the six children at the, Palace, load.

then ordered the body to be sent to ransom.".

the Palace as a "gift" to his rivals. The passenger reported that all was quiet in Venezuela, and thero "In vain did I protest that I was was no sign of a revolutionary

poor working woman.. They movement.-Router.

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shot the

The Druce case, in which there was a claim put forward to the vast estates in London belonging to the Portland family and its connec tions, engaged the services of Pro-

fessor Pepper:

It was alleged that Mr. T C ruce proprietor abusiness.

Kłóws, the Baker street Bazaar.. who died in 1864, was really the fifth Daks of Portland, who wan stated to have taken on that character .because he was tired of his own

Identity-

It was stated that the coffin of Mr. T. C. Druce hold nothing but

When the grave.. in Highgate Comotery was opened Professor Pepper found the body In a good state of preservation and it was". proved that the fifth duke and Mr. Druce ware different persons.

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