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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1928, Page 4

RAND MURDER GANG. A series of brutal murders of natives and Europeans in the Transveal within the last few months has been attributed to a criminal gang believed to bo under the influence of witchdoctors Six natives afrested in conliactioij with tho crimes have been senteheed to death One European was recently found murdered in his tent, another was found dead in suspicious circumstances, and a European and an native farmer are missing. It was thought that some of the victims’ bodies had been thrown to the crocodiles.

£IOO PENSION' FOR MYSTERY V.C. The award of a Greenwich Hospital pension of £IOO a year to Rear-Admir-al.Gordon Campbell V.C., was recently announced. This pension is made on the recommendation of the Admiralty, in recognition of Admiral Campbell's “distinguished and exceptional services during the Great War.” Admiral Campbell, who was promoted from the rank of captain only three weeks ago. commanded the famous Q bofits during tho war. When his ship was torpedoed in the Irish Sea in 1917 he staged a fake desertion, and when the German submarine rose to the surface it was riddled with shot nnd sunk. Then, to save his own ship, he benched her. For this exploit lie received the V.C. , j

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