TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1923.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetis #pellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho
12
13
#
15
16
123 124
ង
10
132
33
36
37 138
142
43
214
445
46
48
149
52
158
HORIZONTAL
1-To seem -To coll
11-A depression be.
tween two moun. talns
12-To batter
13-King (Fr.) 14-Interjection
15-A canyon
17-Language of old
Roma
19-Form 21-Scarcely enough 23-A hair dressing
25-Grown together
(Bot.)
27-Chemical symbol forį
tellurium
$28-An ancient divlalon
An an
of Sprin 30-8hort for Edward 31-Cloth made of flax -36-To exist
37-Proprietorship 40-Musical nota 42-Pertaining to a race
Sb
59
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 4-inflammation of the
irls
46-Assistants 47-Old spelling of
"optar"
|42-To tie or lash
50-Courage
52-Posssssed
53-Barn
65-A Brazilian coin
07-Pouch
|68-Not denSE
53-Emphasis
VERTICAL
1-To take when
offered 2-Interjection-con-
tempt
S-Bamme as plaema 4-A fleet of war
Vessels 6-Egyptian aungad
-Thus
7-My lady (Italian)
4
VERTICAL (Cont.) -An ancient musical
Instrument
-Chicago (abbr) {D-Sweat
I-A hut
12-Coln of India (pl.) 30-111 humar
22-The offica of a camOn
24-Over (post.)
24-Half a score
23-A chip of any line
32-Joined
33-Bracing 34-Steeple
35-A Mohammedan
proper name
|36-Bunks in a verse!
|38-Broadona
30-Peaceable 141-View
43-N. American Indian 45-Brief
49-To knock sharply 51-A large moving
wagon 04-Eye (Scot) 55-Each (abbr.)
†The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow a issue along with a new crass-word puzzle.)
TOTEM POLES
Renewed for Future
Generations
Hundreds of totem poles aro scattered over British Columbia. Many of them are found within a radius of fifteen miles of the north- ern line of the Canadian National Railways. More than forty totem poles can be seen from the now ob- servation coaches on the trains.
A few months ago the Canadian Government began to take steps
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
"Wake Up! Chill'un Wake Up"
(Trent and Robinson),
Layton and Johnstone. "The Two Impa" (K. J. Alford), "Dancer of Seville (C. Grunow),
Sir Dan Godfrey. 7-7.30 p.m.-Third Lesson in Cantonese by Rev. H., R. Wells.
7.30-8 p.m.-Experimental Pro- gramme.
8 p.m. Chinese Programme re- layed from Ko Shing Theatre The following programme will be until end of play. broadcast to-day from. the Hong
Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W.WIRELESS IN INDIA
on 855 metres:~~-
5-5,30 p.m.-European
Pro-
gramme of Columbia Records by Broadcasting Company
courtesy of Messrs. Anderson
Music Company:-
"Gossamer Wings" (Gerard). "Land of Dreams" (Gerard),
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. "I Kisa Your Hand, Madame," Fex
Trot (Ross and Erwin). "The Five Step" (De Sylva, Brown
and Henderson),
Van Phillips and his Band. "Good Night," said the Cuckoo"
(P. B. Harding), "Bird Songs at Eventide" (R. Barrie
and Eric Coates),
Master Trevor Schofield. "Spirit of America (A Patriotic
Patrol)" (Zaneenik), "Bells Across the Meadows"
(A. W. Ketelbey),
Grand Church Organ Sola by Gatty Sullars. "The Fourth Form at St. Michaels"
(Will Hay), Comedy Sketch,
By Will Hay and flis Scholars. 5.30-6 p.m.-Aunty Latty, Aunty Madge and Uncle Jack will enter tain the children.
6-7 p.m.-European Programme of Columbia Records by courtesy of Messrs. Anderson Music Com- pany
the
The New Moon-The Girl on
Prow" (Hommerstein & Romberg), "The New Moon-Wanting You"
(Hammerstein & Ramberg),
Evelyn Laye & Howett
Forster with Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra. "The Michaelmas Blystery" (Melville
and Butcher),
"Archie of the Royal Air Force"
(Longstaffe)...Raymond Newell, "The Flowing Ribbon (Le Bavolet
Flottant)" (Couperin), "Galliwog's Cake Walk" (Debussy),
Planoforte Solo by Gil
Marchex.
"Round About a Wood"
(Thos. Morley), "Sleep, Gentle Lady"
(Piancho and Bishop),
The Salisbury Singers. "When the Real Thing Comes Your
Way" (Spier), "Revolutionary Rhythm"
(Davia, Coots and Spier),
Theme Song from motion picture "Illusion" by Fred Rich and his Orchestra. The Sun is at My Window"
(Young and Myer), "The Spell of the Blues"
(Johnston, Dreyer and Ruby),
George Dowey Washington. "Third Prelude and Fugue in C Sharp
Minor (Bach),
"Allegro from Toccata G Major"
(Back)
Myra Hess. "When the World is at Reet"
(Davis and Fain),
"Passes Out"
CONTROL OF RADIO APPARATUS
TO PREVENT LEAKAGE OF MILITARY INFORMATION
EXPORTERS WARNED
Canton, Yesterday.
In order to prevent the leakage of military information to the re bels, the following regulations con-
cerning the import of radio appara
tuses have been promulgated by the 8th Route General Headquarters:- The news of the impending liqui
Temporary regulations govern- dation of the Indian Broadcasting Company, and of the implied forthing the import of radio apparatuses coming cessation of the wireless during war period: programme, however poor their quality, to which thousands of people have
become accustomed, has caused widespread disappoint ment in the country, says the The people Allahabad Pioneer.
who are worst hit are the dealers in wireless sets and accessories; they find themselves left with vast amounts of stock, whose value has been estimated at twenty lakhs of For this rupees, on their hands. tragic state of affairs, they have largely themselves to blame, for they refused to co-operate with the Company in the polley aug- gested by the latter, that of only selling wireless equipment to cus- tomers who could produce receiv Of course, it may ba ing licences. argued that it was no part of a dealer's job to set that the publi took out licences, but had they bean willing to support the Com- pany on whose operation they de pended for their sales, it is unlikely that they would be where they are to-day. It is certain that one of the chief contributing factors to the failure of the Company to ear an adequate revenue was the large number of "pirates" who declined to take out licences. In a country of big distances like India, there can be no satisfactory system of supervision of wireless sets such as there is in Britain, where the "pirate" is a rare exception. How ever, the matter cannot be allow- In every ed to rest where it is. other country, broadcasting is ad- vancing by leaps and bounds. India cannot afford to be an exception, for It is here that the educative in- fluence of the ether should be of the greatest value. The present Company started out with severe handicaps, including that of in- sufficient capital. Cannot the State do something to help? If it has its terms for financial co-operation, let them be made public and per haps they will find an acceptor.
SEARCH FOR COLONEL ginning of 1928 à rexcus party
FAWCETT
A FAMOUS EXPLORER'S
NARRATIVE
"10 MONTHS HARD"
.....
composed of Commander Dyott, and four companions left New York. From Rio de Janeiro they travelled by rail 1,200 miles across Brazil to the river Paraguay, which they ascended by boat as far as Cuyaba. From this place they went north, travelling mostly by Bullock carts, across great mountain ranges, Commander Dyott, the Briton rivers and plateaux. From the In- who went 4,000 miles Into the un-dian tribes they picked up clues to known Interlor of Brazil in search the route Colonel Fawcett had fol of the lost explorer, Colonel Faw-lowed. It proved to be widely different from the direction the cett, passed through Calcutta' re-
the Royal cently on his way to Assam and explorer informed Cooch Bebar.
Geographical Society he should
He has gone to India to seek re- laxation after those strenuous 10 months in Brazil and to preparo himself for another expedition. "Relaxation" is a relative term, de pondent on the individual, and in the case of Commander Dyott, who has spent a lifetime in exploration all over the world, it signifies pho- tographing big game, which moat ordinary people would consider a highly hazardous pursuit. He has taken some excellent photographs and films in Rajputana and Hydera bad and is now trying Bengal and
Assam.
Warned by Friendly Indian "There is not the alightest doubt
take.
•
1. That all matters relative, to the import, the establishment, and the use of radio apparatuses be placed under the National Goy- ernment Radio Regulations.
2. That according to the 13th clause of the Government Radio Regulations, the present regula-i tions be enforted during the war period.
3. That, unless for Government' use, the import of radio appara- tuses by private owners be sub- jected to the following condi- tions:-
A. That on the arrival of auch apparatuses, Government passes should be produced, and an officer sent by the Headquarters, co- ,operating with customs officers, would Inspect the goods before removal.
B. That the aforesaid appara- tuges, If intended for amuse- ment, should be limited to a wave. length of 600 metres and not be permitted to transmit messages nor to take delivery except on the production of a permit by the Headquarters.
C. That during the war period, in case of necessity, radio appara. tuses may be ordered to stop operating or bought up by the authorities.
D. That private radio Instru ments, if found obstructive to military communications, may be confiscated or the owners or dered by the Government to make changes in the instrumenta.
E. That the Installation of such radio instruments by the indivi- duals without Government per- mit be severely punished.
F. That any person supplying radio apparatuses to the reaction- artos shall be tried under the military law.
G. That other regulations re- quired from time to time, shall be enforced providing they are not in opposition to the present Na- tional Government Radio Regula tions,
H.. That any part of these re- gulations may be amended when
песеввагу.
I. That the present regulations shall take effect from the date of their promulgation.
should soon meet the same death as the other white stranger. Naturally that plece of information together with the general attitude of the tribe, did not encourage me to trust myself inland and accord- ingly I sent word to the chief de- clining his offer.
Research From The Air. Commander Dyatt believes that
The first information about
"This to inconsed him that he Colonel Fawcett's fate, said Corn- mander Dyott, reached them as led his tribesmen down to the river they were passing through the to attack us and it was only by watershed of the Xingu. There agreeing to keep my promise that they were continually assured by averted a disaster, 1aid 1 the Indians that the party had been would take my boats up river and murdered by a tribe whose terri meet him at a spot that was nearer tory bordered on the second affluent the scene of Fawcett's death; but on the south bank of the Kinga. when we actually left it was down They even mat Indians with arriver we went towards the mouth ileles, that had belonged to the of the Amazon, and safety. We Colonelaahirt, a snake serum traversed the whole length of the syringe and a tin box-but, ob- Xingu without further mishap and served Commander Dyott, the renched Para three months after Colonel might have given them escaping from that tribe." away as presents and it was cer in my mind that Colonel Fawcett tainly not to be inferred that they the only way to map the vast un
Eventually the rescue party charted hinterland of Brazil is to preserve the poles for future gen- selected by the dead man's rela-and his two companions were kill. had been taken by force.
ed," said Commander Doytt in con-. erations. An archaeological party tives. These carvinga varied in
Fawcett had called "Dead Horse is taking next year into the upper was sent into the Skeena river val- moaning. In some cases they de-versation with a Statesman repre- reached the village that Colonel from the air and the expedition he
sentative. ley, where many totem poles are picted the person in whose honour
"I actually spoke to the Indian Camp" and there they found an reaches of the Kings will operate still in existence.
tho pole was being erected.
Chief who had him murdered. He Indian of the Bakari tribe who had in two bydroplanes. Apart from The Indian totem poles were first others, they represented
offered to take me to the exact spot belonged to the party. Through the fact that the party will not classified as heathen idols. It was or more characters in the but I was warned in time that he him they managed to procure have to cut its way through proved later that they were wooden history of the family. Many intended that my companions and canoes in which they travelled trackless Jungle, the hydroplanes monumenta erected by the North carvinga portray mythological 1 should suffer the same fate." down-river into the territories of will enable the whole of the short American Indians to their illus
Colonel Fawcett, who was one of the tribe responsible for Colonel dry season to be used for explora- tion. Just before the dry months trious dead..
only in the minds of the Indians. the most famous explorers of Fawcett's death
"Before parleying with the chief begin it will be possible to send Many of these totem poles have Some of them are most weird. South America, set out on the beet removed from their original The Canadian Government, be-expedition in 1926, About a year of the tribe, sald Commander the hydroplanes by rail to one or settings and placed in museums and fore undertaking the work of re- later he sent his last despatch, Dyott, "we took the precaution of other of the great rivers that rise parke. In the Stanley Park at storation, had to obtain permission which was dated from "Dead Horse pitching our camp on a sand bar in the heart on the country. The Vancouver there are many fine from the Indians in residence. At Camp on the left bank of the We could thus escape by boat at a party will then descend the river specimens of ancient Indian crafts first the tribes resented the white River Xingu tu longitude 55 W thoment's notice and the position bed in the planes, surveying the manship. A model Indian village man's proposal to interfere with and Latitude 11 8. He was then was also better defensible than country on either side and using
Jand camp.
Vas bases such inland lakes as may has been erected there, containing the totem poles. Later the Indians in the midst of a wild country,
Exist a number of totem poles.
agreed to the scheme. The older partly jungle, partly savannah, Indian Chief's Treachery Modern investigations prove that members of the present-day tribes which stretches for 60,000 square the older poles are carved from bet gave the Government officers the miles between two huge rivers fer wood than the more recent ones. correct colourings of the various. On maps the area is a blank space
When the log had been carefully |imager
After marked "anexplored."kur stripped of its branchen and It The totem pole either stands applente
Claes Found surface thoroughly canoothed off, directly in front of a house or For over a year nothing was thecarver fashioned symbols, forms part of the doorway. heard of the Colonel and at the he
In
events and beings which existed
"The Chief informed me that Fawcett had been killed by some "The latest list of pronunciationa Indians in fit territory and he issued for the use of wireless an offered to conduct me to the spot. nouncers by the B.B.C. Advisory I agreed, but that night one of the Committee on Spoken English is de- Indians in my party told me that scribed as
he had overheard the chief say that gentility."
grave blow to
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