WILL EXPLORE
ISLAND HOME
OF CANNIBALS
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mustard gas ana ma
chine guns are to be used by Captain
H arry de Windt, an English explorer, |
against the poisoned arrows of a tribe
described as “white cannibals,” on
Tiburon island, on the Pacific coast,
it is announced here. Captain de
Windt said he would leave New York
in a few days to lead an expedition
of six civilians and three score Mexi
can soldiers to the island. Tiburon is
said to have rich deposits of pitch
blende, from which radium is made.
The island is about forty miles from
Guaymas, Mexico, which, in turn, is
only about forty-eight hours by rail
from Coronado Beach, Cal. The in
habitants are said to be descendants
of Dutch, German and Swedish pris
oners who escaped from Mexican pris
ons several centuries ago. Of sixteen
persons known to have visited the
, island in the past few years, in par
ties of two and three, only nine are
said to have returned alive, the oth
ers falling victims to the flaxen
haired, blue-eyed "white Indians," as
the Mexican peons call them.
“Four miles from the Mexican
coast,” said Mr. de Windt, “Tiburon
is easily accessible. Yaqui Indians
who live on the mainland call Tiburon
the ‘Island of Death,' for the reason
that any person who lands on it is
8hot by poisoned darts and then eaten
by the natives. The cannibals, in ad
dition to bows and arrows, use an
ancient blunderbuss. They are sup
posed to number from five hundred to
two thousand persons.
“Besides myself, the expedition I
will lead will consist of Mackenzie
Grieve, the companion of Harry Haw
ker when he fell during his attempted
transatlantic flight; an expert ra
dium mining engineer, an expert cop- ”
per mining engineer; Anton Gibbon,
nephew of President Carranza of Mex
ico, in whose name the concession per
mitting the exploration of the island
was issued; a man-servant and sixty
Mexican soldiers, assigned to the party
by the Mexican government. I imag
ine the searchings on the island will
consume about three or four months.”
BANK ROBBERS
ARE OPERATING
IN GERMANY
COLOGNE, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Bank robbers have been oper
ating in parts of Germany recently
under the pretext that they were col
lecting money for the allies for dam
age caused by the German army dur
ing the war.
In one instance, according to stories
published in the German newspapers,
a man in the uniform of a Belgian cap
tain and accompanied by five guards
and six Belgian soldiers, entered the
bank of Probst & Co. in Aachen a
few days ago, saying he was seeking
stolen money. The man showed papers
purporting to have been stamped by
the Belgian minister of justice, and
insisted upon making a search of the
bank’s vaults “to determine whether
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the institution held any coin stolen in
1915.”
The man dismissed the entire force
of clerks and then directed the owner,
Probst, to open the vaults. Afterward
the man locked Probst in his private
office and helped himself to about
370,000 marks and 75,000 Belgian
francs.
Probst reported the affair to the
authorities. The robber was arrested
and the money recovered.
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