Stranger Than Fiction!

Honolulu, July 25.

YOU doubt that two needles can be found side by side in a haystack?

Then listen to this true story from the haystack of life.

Two young blood brothers, who had not seen each other since childhood, nearly 20 years ago and who had lived thousands of miles apart, slept in adjoining beds in Honolulu one night this week without either knowing who the other was.

Theodore Galang, a Honolulu sailor, lately got into “jumping ship” difficulties in the South Pacific. He was shipped back here, and lodged in the U.S. immigration station for investigation.

The other youth, Ed. Young, arrived by liner from Hong Kong with his foster mother, a Chinese. The U.S. immigration office held Young for check-up.

The two youths met at the station, sat on their beds that night, swapped idle gossip, and turned in none the wiser.

Next day, amazed immigration officers put the files side by side, arched eyebrows, whistled in astonishment. Finally they worked out the explanation: Ed. Young was bom as Edward Galang in Honolulu, was taken into the Chinese Young family as a babe, and eventually went to China for schooling with his fos ter mother.

Brother Theodore remained with his mother, who lost track of her other son and Mrs. Young, the foster mother.

The foster mother and Ed. have gone to an outlying island of Hawaii, where the foster father has a store. Theodore re mains here.

Mr. George Davies, who for some years had charge of the butchery department of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., Rabaul, New Guinea,, died at Katoomba, N.S.W., in July.