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Stuffed Horses.
The French cavalry school at Saumur, which ex-King Alfonao: visited is situated in one of the most picturesque regions of France, į
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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1932.
Mountaineers Push Towards Everest
Great Attack Against Himalayan Peak
LED BY GENERAL BRUCE
By Brig. Gen. The Hon. C. G. Bruce,
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Don Alfonso was not allowed to leave' Saumur without having visit- ed the famous cavalry museum,
On my return, from the Conway Mumm, Dr. Longstaff, and myself, which containts the largest collec Expedition to the Karakoram Hima- and there and then we formulated a tion of stuffed horses ever seen, nyas, in 1892, I found that I was scheme to approach the different and is admirably housed in the detailed na Special Service Officer Governments. Castle of Saumur, a fortress In in the Gilgit district.
What was our surprise when wo medieval times and a celebrated On my arrival there, after a most found that the stumbling-block was
Secretary stronghold of the French Protest-aporting and rather adventurous the
of State for ants early in the seventh century. Incident down the Chilus Valley-India, Mr. John Morley. It appear
hardly far removed from buccaneer-ed that the hitch occurred owing to ing, which resulted in the pacifica certain provisos of the standing. Įtion of the Indus Valley as far down treaty between the Russian authori-i as. Chilas itself was transferred ties, and the Indian authorities with ¡to Gilgit and attached to Sir George | regard to Tibetan relations, - and, Robertson's Mission to Chitral, Mr. Morley was terrified that la
Your Daily Smile.
TO-DAY'S LIBEL And then there was the Scots man who ordered asparagus. He left the walter a tip.
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JUST SO. Experience may be defined something you get when you looking for something else.
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The month was January, 1893 small party, creeping along the nor- New Year's Day. A few days thern slopes of the Himalayas, later the Mission found itself at the would upset Russian susceptibili small fort of Gupis, two marches to ties,
as the west. This garrison was com- Sporting Offer From Nepal. aremanded by Capt. Townshend, (the At the moment the nearest Rus
late Sir Charles Townshend), who, sian outpost was 'Margilhan, on the two years later, was to go through borders of the Pamirs. I will guess the siege of Chitral,
the distance in a straight line as
THE BIG REASON. "Why, Herold, your hair is ever so much thinner than it was when I first knew you.",
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"I know that, my dear. honestly, now, I'm sure there other reasons."
1
NO CONCERN OF HIS.
The night of my arrival, there is 1,200 miles, And so that explora- a landmark in the history of my tion came to grief. It would have life. I was summoned after dinner been financed entirely through the But,
to the camp fire, where I found Sir generosity of Dr. Longstaff and the are George Robertson, and for the first late Arnold Manner.
his
is
put a proposition to me.
time in my life met Francis Young-Two years later á very strange in- husband, who was second in com-jeident occurred, ・ I received letters mand of the Mission. They then from the Foreign Secretary in and retreat, with the result that A landlord wrote to one of
India, in which it was indicated that he won the hatred of the pea- tenants who was a lawyer: It was whether I would take part à suggestion had been received, that sants without reducing them to gret to inform you that my rent in a project they had formed, which it might be possible to form air subjection. He has been strong much overdue. Will you kindly wan no less than to descend through English-Nepali expedition to explore enough to drive the peasants in-forward me a check?” to the collective farms, but not Back went the following reply: strong enough to prevent the col" see no reason on earth why I lectives from being turned into should pay your rent. I can't even centres of effective peasant resis-pay my own." tance. There is force in such ac- cusations against Stalin. Yet he can turn the argument against his enemies by pointing out that he has always had against him The city of Madrid has construct. the extremists at both ends, anded 702 apartments and cottages that he has always remained the capable of housing 3,500 persons to prudent statesman who steers a take the place of houses demolish middle course, faithful to the ex-ed for hygienic reasons. ample set by the great master of
Facts You Did Not * Know.
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Tibet from the north,, and had for the south face of Evereat, and, I was its objective the exploration, or, at asked for my views. The expedi any rate let us say, the observation tion started ht, owing to circum- of the Everest group I reails do be- stances of unusual nature, was lieve that for a moment a vision of abandoned. the possibility of climbing Eve of the Fourth Trial the mountain came
over After the war, everything came to them, Ba" that great hill-life again. For the moment I am man and dare-devil, the late Col.not certain: who first suggested that It Jack Manners-Smith, was also to be the project might be restarted. included in the party.
might have been Lord Curzon, or it It was a weird, achumo, I will might have been Sir Francis Young- allow, but that, however, is beside hubband, the president of the Royal the point.
Geographical Society." But in 1920 'the active part of the prell- Dream of Conquest.
minary negotiations for such an ex- The Idea of the exploration of pedition was entirely the work of Evercat took form in the brain of Sir Francia Younghusband. one of the most determined of all No man from that time to the pre- explorers the present Sir sent has taken a greater interest or Francis Younghusband.
worked harder, to forward” our temporary alliances concluded group which thinks the peasants' A German bureau that is stan very wonderful to think that I still the highest point in the world.
That was 40 years ago, and it is ambition for the final conquest of between Left and Right for a welfare basic to the welfare of dadiring automobile parts and ac receive summonses to meet him at Now we are on the eve of a special emergency and subject to Russia, In foreign policy the cezaories has approved only nine the Geographical Society, to fur-fourth, and, it is believed, with any all their inherent weakness. It new Opposition accuses Stalin of formulas for nickel and chrome ther the great project which we luck at all, a final attempt on the is true that history knows many having abandoned the Commnun nickel alloys after testing 180. have both bad. in mind for such a mountain. The history of the first instances where such a union of at International and the world
great number of years-the assault three expeditions is well known, opposites has been successful revolution. This is not a charge Resembling a road scraper, and Anal defeat of the highest sum-and there is no mountain group that against a common enemy; so it which is likely to hurt him with tractor drawn machine has been in mit of the world. DY cannot be argued that Stalin will the majority of Russians even vented to cut terraces in hillsides
has been more photographed and In the winter of the year. 1906, more beautifully mapped than the continue to emerge victor. The in the Communist party,“ to check the flow of water and pre- almost a chance meeting occurred in great north face and neighbouring seething mass of popular discon-
vent soll loss-by-erosion. tent in Soviet Russia may attain
the Alpine Club rooms. There a country of the Everest massif; but little committee of three was form- the south face still remains practi- dimensions against which all, of his subtlety and futhlessness
ed, consisting of the late Mr. Arnold cally unknown country, cannot prevail. But apparent. ly this point has not yet been
A clean bill of health was reached. Dissidents from the mitted by microbes visible un-turned in the Colony on Wednes Left who hold with Trotsky that der a microscope." Inoculate any day. the peasant must be made to normal man with the proper mi-
One reason, among several, force and flexibility, Lenin. It Flexible posts made of rubber why Stalin succeeds in beating must be fairly simple for so old covered coll springs have been In down Opposition movements is a hand as Stalin to capitalize the venbed for lawn or curbstone that he has not been compelled differences between a Trotskyist fences to prevent injury to persons to face a single, coherent, united group which would sweep the stumbling against the fences. Opposition. He has to deal with peasant aside and a Rykovite
On The Threshold Of
Discovery
Scores of diseases are trans-
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News in Brief.
MA'S REPORT OF
BOMB ATTACK.
CHEFOO EVACUATED - BY THIRD ARMY.
Siege Of Laichow To Be Raised.
serve the Revolution or be crush-crobe and he contracts the cor- At the local Y's Men's Club ed, and dissidents from the Right responding disease. Yet there Tiffin, yesterday Rey, E. L. Allen Japanese Raid. On who hold with Rykoff that the are diseases, such as measles, spoke on "Idols of the Cave."
City Of Noho,“ peasant must not be sacrificed to smallpox, yellow fever, colds, and There were nearly 40 members and the Revolution, cannot develop a the foot-and-mouth disease, guests present.
Pelping, Nov. 12. fully effective and united action which can also be inoculated but
An aerial raid during which against the eminent political are hot apparently caused by a A claim by Lam Shin Cho, /gas bombs were allegedly drop Ying-chin, Minister of War, strategist in the Kremlin. The microbe. The blood of mansu- Prince's Cafe, Queen's Road, against ped on the city of Noho by General. Han Fu-chu, Chairman of present Russian situation the ffering from yellow fever differs Mr. E. D. Shank, of 89, Humphrey's
Nanking, Nov. 12.
In a telegram to General Ho
from ment, reports the complete evacua-
general public must appraise on in no perceptible quality from Building, Kowloon, for $1,000 de- Japanese airplanes, is reported the Shantung Provincial Govern- the basis of information supplied normal blood. Yet it contains posited with him in respect of his in a delayed" message by the Soviet Government itself, something deadly. Even after employment by defendant as shroff, General Ma Chan-shan, Chair- tion of Chefou by the 3rd Route It is Stalin who is authority for it has been altered through which employment, had since ceased, man of the Hellungkang Pro Army forces. the statement that Gregory Zino porcelain with porsa so fine that was upheld by the Fuise Judge vincial Government.
Messages from Tsinan indicate vier and Leo Kamenev, the two the smallest microscopically vi- (Mr. Justice Wood) at the Supreme The despatch states that after that the siege of Lalchow, where men who shared power with him alble particle has been excluded Court yesterday afternoon.
a reconnaissance over Noho city, the main body of General Llu Chen- after the death of Lenin, are it retains its deadliness. For -
by three Japanese planes, an air nfen's forces has been invested, guilty, together with a score of want of a better name biologists Whence does it come? It is the following day using gas Army forces to-morrow, when the squadron bombarded the city on will be raised by the ard," Route minor Bolshevist leaders, of a speak of these invisible agente as evident that biology stands upon bombs,
last batch of General Jan's forces defeatist attitude toward the en-"filtrable viruses In them the treshold of a discovery As such acts of the Japanese will be withdrawn. Complete tire scheme of "building socin biology faces an enigma Are great as any made by Pasteur or military constitute not only a withdrawal is expected to be effect lism in Soviet Russin The ex they alive? Heat and poisons Koch. The filtrable viruses may violation of international law ad at once-Kuo Min - pelled Communists are accused destroy them. But analogy is prove to have an importance but show absolute lack of human of advocating the abandonment no safe guide. Ferments, which greater than we suppose. The
of the collective and State films are dead" in the ordinary sense work of Rous ausgests that we feeling their barbarous conduct They are further supposed to be of the word, are "killed" in much are in the presence of phenom:hould 'ce broadcast over al the lieve in the old system of private the game
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