GHASTLY STORIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 5

GHASTLY STORIES.

SUICIDAL RUSH FOR GOLD. AWFUL EXPERIENCES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) 1 LONDON, Feb. 28. Although the Soviet authorities attempted to block all the roads to Tommot, on the Alden river (Siberia) in order to check a suicidal rush to the gold field opened there, a stream of intending diggers has been maintained for over a year. The parties are travelling through pathless, virgin forests infested by Siberian tigers. A remnant of one party reached Tommot after the most ghastly adventures. They got lost in a jungle and had exhausted all their food. They were even eating the tops of their boots, and the party was apparently doomed to death from famine. They deliberated and decided to consume the bodies of members dying en route. Thus they cut off, boiled and ate legs of their dead comrades, and legs of dead Chinese, and pushed on. When all the human flesh thus available bad been consumed, it was decided to draw lots to decide who should be killed and eaten. The lot fell on a father accompanied by two sons, who pleaded for a day’s delay before the father was sacrified. The victim was thus saved, as a dead horse was encountered at nightfall, which kept tha party alive till they reached Tom mot.