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AERIAL DRAMA.
·FOURTEEN BALLOONS CAUGHT IN STORM.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
THE CHINA MAIL,
New York,—The most tragic:
“VERY DICKENS.”
MARCO POLO.
WHAT. LORD HEWART CALLED FOLLOWING IN HIS FOOTSTEPS
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UNKNOWN AREAS,
In the King's Bench Divisional
Professor George B. Cressey, of consequences attended the start of Court, before the Lord Chlef Shanghai College, will soon start on the national elimination balloon Justice (Lord Howart) and Justices a three months' tour to the un- race from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Salter and Branson, the justices of known regions of the Ordos and last month when lightning Hendon (Middlesex) appeared to Alashan deserts beyond the Great struck and killed one of the oppose a rule calling on them to wall from Kansu in Western Inner contestants in mid-air, shocked and show cause why they should not be Mongolia. The journey to his base, burned another, while the accem prohibited from dealing with an the city of Ningala, Kansu, will oc- panying storm forced two others to application by the police that the cupy three weeks, and will be by leap for life, with fatal results to Dickens Club, of Cricklewood-lane, boat to Hankow, thence by rail via one and severe injuries to the other. Hendon, should be struck off the Chengchow to Shanchow, Honan; All the fourteen balloons in the register on the ground that it was from there by motor car to Sianfu race except one were forced down not conducted in good faith. by a terrific storm shortly after the start. The exception was United States Army balloon No. 1,| which, after batting with the ele ments for over twelve hours, came down at Weems, Virginia, and was therefore adjudged winner of the "race."
For the Justices Mr. Ceefl and to Pingliang, Kansu; and then Whiteley, K.C., said that list by pack mules to Ninghaia,
The area which it is proposed to. January the police alleged that cor tain liquor offences had been com-study lies in western Inner Mongo- mitted at the club. Immediately lia, north of the Great Wall afterwards the old club was pur-from. Kansu. Except for irrigated ported to be wound up and a new strips along the Yellow River all club
the of this region is a desort. In the was formed, called The last of the balloons bad Dickens (1928) Social Club, with centre of the area les great Alashan barely taken the air when a severe the same premises, the same pro- Range of mountains, which rise to storm broke, and the great gas-prietor and steward, and the same over 10,000 ft. and divide the desert bage were bombarded by hail, sleet; secretary.
into two distinct regiona;, the Alashan desert on the west and the The Ordos in- Ordes on the east. cludes the district within the great northward bend of the Yellow River outside the Great Wall.
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and rain, while lightning played Lord Howart: The club judicious- about them in a terrifying manner. ly committed suicide in the hope of
Several of the pilots quickly a speedy resurrection. descended in safety, while others Mr. E. Terrell (for the club)
was the were forced into treetops or became remarked that the club entangled in telephone and electric rendezvous of perfectly respect- Lieutenant Evert, of Virable residents in Cricklewood and wires. ginia, piloting an army balloon, the district,
Although an ancient Mongolian trade route crosses this district, it has seldom been followed by West- was struck down by lightning and Glving judgment, Lord Howart erners. Except for a few tralla observed that from the ashes of most of the Ordos and Alashan is the "very quite unknown, both georgraphical- what might be called Dickens Club" had arisen another ly and geologically. Marco Polo club having the same premises, the crossed this area on his journey to same members, and same officials China, and over much of the sum indeed, the same everything. The mer Dr. Cressey's expedition will only thing that was altered was the be following in his footsteps. name of the club, which had two words inserted in it. The matter was essentially one for the const- deration of the magistrates, and in these circumstances the rule would be discharged with costs.
killed outright.
His assistant, Lieutenant Ent, was knocked off his feet, but retained consciousness. His first thought, he said, was to jump, but observing that the en- velope was afire he feared that his companion's body would be burnt, and decided to try to bring the ballooon down into the water. He was fortunate in landing on the river bank, and was rescued by apectatore, who also recovered Lieutenant Evert's body from the basket, which was unscathed.
Goodyear V., another balloon, was struck, and the pilot, Ward Orman, sustained a fractured leg in a parachute leap. His assistant, Walter Morton, who also jumped, was found dead near Youngwood, Pennsylvania. One Navy balloon was caught in the structure of a mine shaft, but the occupants escaped without Injury.
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Berlin. - Carefully guarded secrets are being dragged one after another Into the light of day during the trial of eight young men at Stettin for the murder of a man in the Black Army (the so-called Labour battalions) for alleged trea- chery,
There was the spectacle of a high official, Dr. Spieker, giving a cynical account of the way in which he arranged with the military authorities to provide the excited German population of Upper Silesia with arms during the time, of the Allied occupation.
The Prussian Minister of the 3n- terior had been opposed to the scheme because he considered it dangerous, but his wishes were dis- regarded.
"We knew perfectly well that if we gave these people arms they would use them," said Dr. Spieker, coolly. He denied the statement; made by another witness that 200 people had been murdered. "Pos- sibly," he said,. "Polish rebels were killed, but that cannot be called murder."
A young man employed to do rough work in Silesia said:
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I was told to get certain docu- ments. To do so a man had to be killed. As far as 1-can remem-, ber, he was shot.
The documents, he said, were handed to the State mission, of which Dr. Spieker was the head.
The cynical defence of Dr. Spieker when faced by this fact "THE CHINA MAIL," General was: "The man was not given an
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Object of the Expedition. The chief geological problem deals with changes in the climate of central Asia during the last few. geological periods, During the glacial period in Europe and North America Asia' was free from ice..-
Mongolia at that time apparently
had a much more moist climate. This problem is of more than theore tical interest, for climate con- |trola vegetation and thus influ- Brussels-Alexander Veenstra, ences animal life. Since Asia seems the well-known balloonist, hae been to have been the centre of human badly injured in making a para- evolution, climate throws light on chute descent.
the habitability of this area. The M. Veenstra, in the balloon record of climate is written in sedi "Prince Léopold" with Philippe ments and erosion cycles, and the Quersin, won the Gordon Bennett preliminary studies made by Pro- Cup in 1925, when he made an ex-fessor Cressey in 1924 Indicate that citing landing on the coast of Spain, this area containa critical informa- They had just brought their baltion. While no direct, search is to loon to earth, and were making it be made for.ancient man, it is im- fast, when a gust of wind took it cut portant to note that the best evid to .Ben. Veenstra,received an in-ence of early man so far found in Jury to his foot on that occasion.
M. Veenstra invented a special kind of parachute, which he sub- mitted to the Belgian air authorities in 1926, and it was in making a des- cent with this apparatus that he was injured. It is not stated how the accident happened.
central Asia is on the borders of the Ordoa near Ninghsia.
Interesting Problems, The Alashan Range presents some Interesting problems in structural geology, for they are formed as the result of a great thrust from the west. Similar mountains are known
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in other countries, but no detailed studies of this type have been made! in China. It is planned to examine the general geology of the range and map its structure.
The desert is the geologists's paradise. All the agents of erosion and transportation are actively at work, for despite the limited rain- fall with which they carry on their work there is no protecting vegeta- tion. Géologie processes are de- monstrated on every hand, often In textbook perfection. .
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of empty land as the place to which ten inches and wells are few and people may emigrate from the over- far between. It will often be neces.... crowded plains of China proper. It sary to carry water for drinking and. is hoped to study the agricultural other purposes of the expedition. possibilities of this
Area.
Camels are commonly used, but they travel only at night and only ten Dr. Cressey's Other Trips,
| miles a day; for the most part pack. Dr. Cressey visited both the mules will be Ordos and the Alashan in 1924 on
the return from an expedition to and large areas are geographically.
Geologically the map is white, Kokonor in Thibet. There was no unknown as well. Prejevalsky and opportunity for detailed studies at Obruchev, two Russian explorers, that time, but hasty examination in-visited the region sixty years ago, dicated several promising areas. and most of our knowledge dates Since that time the few available
back to them3/ reports of earlier explorers have
Dr. Cressey has previous to this been examined and definite pro- already travelled more than 26,000 jects mapped out
An attempt to continue this work miles in China on various explora- in 1926 resulted in an attack by his last before his furlough la due, tions. This trip will presumably be brigands, before the area was reach and thus will mark a culmination to ed. Mongolia itself is characteris his valuable service along this line.
tically peaceful, but the Chinese borderlands are often in an unact tled condition. Reports now indie Lord Addington, returning home ate that conditions along the route after five years at Shanghal as which it is proposed to follow are Administrator of Enemy Property, quite
was interviewed at Vancouv This is the land of wandering when he said he doubte nomads who pasture their flocks of solution of the chaos in abeep and camels on the sparse de- there being too many faction acrt grass. The rainfall is less than hopelessly divided.
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