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- Just before Gen. Balbo and his Italian air armada dropped grace- fully from the sky an to the waters of Lough Foyle a daughter was born to Signor Fiorrentiani, head of the Fascists in Londonderry.
The happy father was so delight- ed that in honour of the event and of Gen. Balbo's journey he named the child “Atlantica.”
has
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3L-
COLONEL FAWCETT
MYSTERY
SOME OF PARTY MAY
STILL BE ALIVE
BRAZILIAN JUNGLE DISCOVERY
(By John Ludgate.)
Eight years ago Colonel H. Pequipment for the journey out; (e) could devise no other method Fawcett, D.S.0, his son John, and
of communication.
Mrs. Fawcett herself has never
In Italy it might not have been 28-year-old Raleigh Rummel vanish- allowed. Seven years ago the ed into the miasmal jungle of un-doubted that her husband is alive.
Council of Ministers in Rome known Brazil.
She bases her faith, however, upon
decided that such fancy names as For a time despatches filtered evidence that many would reject. "Repúblic," "Revolution."
“Anti-Christ,”
shevism," "Anti-Pope" should not be mitted. The reform WAS overdue.
•
“Bol- and
through. They were high-spirited, Mrs. Fawcett believes that she has had telepathic messages from her busband. per-full of that "strange excitement"
long catural in a man who sought a lost Another Search. Party
Mr. Woodfull As Cricket
Emissary
civilisation in an unknown
perilous place.
And then silence. Weeks
passed into
and
There is reason to believe that this mystery may be solved, one way or th other, within the next few
months, months.
Following Mr. S. M. Bruce's months into years. Stories multi-
but appeal for peace by negotiation in plied,
the "log-theory" controversy, there indirect news is a movement in favour of send-
from Australia. -
This month four young Swedish · explorers are sailing for South or America under Arne Arbin to find out of the Colonel Fawcett. Arbin believes
word no definite came
bian boundary.
ing Mr. Woodfull as an emissar jungle. Like a vast drop-curtain that he will be found somewhere the green forest shrouded the fate between the Brazilian and Colom While not saying that Mr. Wood-of the three Englishmen. full would be unacceptable in that Two years passed, and then De somewhat slender. First, it is known capacity, there is an opinion that
That belief is based on grounds
a that Colonel Fawcett had a way of a better choice could be made. He Courtville, an engineer, told
pacifying hostile natives and the strange tale, is himself too deeply involved and
He had come, he said, upon a valuable trick of persuading them it is impossible to forget that it bearded white man 100 miles from that he possessed magic powers. was his remarks to Mr. Warner in Diamantina, in the Province of One one occasion, for instance, ne the dressing-room during the third Minas Geraes, while crossing Brazil saved his skin by impressive work Test that made the situation acute. by way of the Matto Grosso plateau with a pocket flash-lamp.
Secondly, there is the last mess- Nor can we forget that we, too He had, he said, talked with him have a grievance, which must be but without extracting from himage sent out which runs: Do not discussed, concerning barracking any coherent story.
count on any more dispatches.
It
DEATH.
Jed to construct a railway on aif such barracking as occurred in But it was enough to revive hope, may be possible, but the recent land grant system linking Bourke Australia during the last tour were and Dr. Montgomery McGovern, an trouble with the Indians makes it OBOOHOFF.-On August 23, 1933. with Birdum (the Darwin rail to occur on an English ground, the American, headed an expedition. precarious.
at the General Hospital, Shang way terminus), to standardise English captain would intervene to He came back empty-handed,
Mr. Wood- protect the visitors. hal. Captain V. D. Oboohoff the existing (late of Russian Imperial gauge line, and to reconstruct full did nothing Cavalry and late Instructor of the Darwin whart and loading Ascot Riding School, Ltd.)..
Darwin
narrow-
gear, which hitherto have made mockery. of shipping and industry dependent upon it. Nothing more
Your Daily Smile
Another expedition led by
This is interpreted to mean that Mrways and means might be lacking, a caveat of possible P. R. Young: followed. It encoun- rather than tored warlike Indians. It also came disaster. back without news of the Fawcett party.
In 1928
Commander
Colonel Fawcett believed that just as Chitchinitza was buried beneath Dyolt, the green canopy of the vast forests led yet another search of Yucatan, so the jungle of Brazil. The China Mail was heard of this proposal save Poor Pusay.
We hear there are no old maids U.S.N.. that the Federal Goverment
He came back with a report concealed the remains of a city once agreed in principle to the conces-in Persin. Who looks after the party.
that suggested inevitably the death great and splendid. Persian cata? A
Discoveries made over a long jof all three men. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1935. Isions involved. Three months ago
chief of the period support both ancient records Mr. Parkhill, on behalf of the'
From Alique,
Two hun- Ministry, declared that the desir-
man bad dred years ago prospectors in the The evening produced a Scottish Anaqua tribe, he learned by pan- and traditional tales. led industrial and agrarian de-
tomime
a ruined velopment of the Territory must story which is new to all.
been attacked from the rear and forets of Parana found
fortress 14 leagues from killed. be s'concern not of Government! A famous Englishman had to
Australia's Empty
North.
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Too Much Scottish Blood.
how a strange
Guara-
Thera
the
enterprise, but of commercial undergo an operation for blood Colour was lent to this story by puara in Rio de Cobre. -
They found, too, a tribe in Santa The announcement that the activity under responsible super-transfusion. A fine strapping Scot two pieces of supporting evidence, Australian Federal Cabinet is vision. There is only one deduc-called McTavish offered his blood. In the chief's hut Dyott found one Paulo that revealed traces of the considering proposals for the tion to be drawn from these So successful was the transfusion of Colonel Fawcett's suit cases. And ancient Incas civilisation. development of the Northern statements-namely, that what that in seitling the surgeon's fee the about the neck of the chief's child were women chiefs reminiscent of Territory is of more than pass-is being considered is the tradi-Englishman enclosed a cheque for he saw, hung as an ornament, a the fabled Amazons, traces of the ing interest. The Australian tional course of encouraging the fifty guineas for McTavish.
metal plate such as scientific instru-cult of the old sun-worshippers, and Six months later he had another ment makers fix to their wares. ja atandard of knowledge that In- Budget will contain provision for formation of an influential com-
and again McTavish In 1992, Professor Koch-Gruen-cluded sound notions about expenditure upon fort defence pany to engage in such work transfusion, for Darwin and the establishment under charter. The Director of offered himself. This time he re-berg led another expedition over movements of the heavenly bodies.
Col. Fawcett's Belief of a garrison there. The in-the
the same terrain. He returned with Queensland Government ceived a five pound note.
A year passed, and again the a story of a thatched grave support- Colonel Fawcett believed that be auguration of the Anglo-Aus-Bureau of Industry recently ad- tralian air-mail service through vocated the same line of action. Englishman had to have recourse to ed upon poles where lay the remains he would find, hidden in the heart jof a white man killed by Indiana. of the jungle, a race isolated from Darwin and Singapore will make There is, indeed, no other method the surgeon and McTavish. This
Compass Found. the outside world and yet in posses- Darwin a strategic point in of tackling such a problem known time the Scot received nothing.
If you want to know the reason,
The evidence; it will be seen, is sion of an advanced culture. Imperial communications-a port to the white race. In India,
(Continued on Page 11). inconclusive. Nobody has direct knowledge of the death of Colonel Fawcett, er of either inember of his party.
TENDER-HEARTED.
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*
is alive to-day.
A few days ago, Mrs. Fawcett
ARMY IN JUGOSLAVIA
of entry on the air route from Canada, and Africa it was the read the heading to this paragraph. England and India, as Freman-method by which Governmenta tle is on the ocean route. These opened the way for the extension
"I don't see why you haggle AD developments will clearly open ajof white settlement and the es-
On the other hand there has just UNARMED new chapter in Australia's hand-tablishment of trading industries with the tailor about the price-
come to light a discovery from ing of the problem of her empty in lands previously beyond the you'll never pay him.”
"But, you see, I am conscientious, which one inference can be made: northern regions. The Western pale of these. The efforts to Australian and Queensland State develop the Territory in the past I don't want the poor fellow to lose it is that one, at least, of the party Governments are equally inter-by Government enterprise, whe-more than is necessary." ested with the Commonwealth ther State or Federal, have fail- Government in such plans, forfed, at considerable financial loss, Take Care. the new air services and any leaving an air of heavy discour- pastoral and mining undertakings agement. To-day, after over twen- will in their full range involve ty years of "developments" at the regions outside the bounds of the cost of large annual commitments Federal Territory. An improved for past and present expenditure, beef-exporting industry, for in- the population of the Territory stance, must concern Wyndham is stagnant, its labours are in- equally with Darwin, whether as effectual or of official routine, and Light o' Love.
Who confesses To caresses, Should avoid the pen and ink. It's exciting Put in writing,
But what would a jury-think?
a rival or an alternate port. From the cost of all necessities is al- Many a good match is burnt out the aspect of defence, as from most twice that in the south: by an old flame, b that of settlement and commer-It is high time to try new
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cial development, the problem is courses. The maintenance of Incredible?-No. Indelible.
Sokols" Mobilised For
Display.
theodolite held in her hand a compass. She took it to the makers. They identified it as of
GYMNASTIC PROGRAMME the same pattern as that supplied by then to Colonel Fawcett.....
Belgrade. The story of the finding of that compass is the last but not the last An army of 25,000 young men, romantic chapter of this forest each a model of physical perfec- tion and muscular development,
drama.
A Brazilian inspector of Indians, is mobilised in Jugoslavia not going his rounds through the jungle far from the Italian frontier, for trails, noticed in his path, in a great "Sokol" meeting, conspicuous position, a bright ob- The "Sokols," or Eagles, are a purely gymnastical society, and swal-ject.
He put it in his pocket and at the the main object of the meeting end of his tour handed it to a Bri-is to carry through a programme tish missionary, a friend of Colonel of gymnastic exercises for which Fawcett. The missionary noted the the most coveted prize is a sword fact that only someone acquainted offered by King Alexander to the with the instrument could have best team.
Facts You Did Not Know.
of the whole north. The Federal defence and air bases at Darwin baby is reported to have and Western Australian Govern-must be gravely handicapped, if lowed a bottle of ink last week. ments are agreed upon the neces- indeed worth while, without some! sity of regarding the problem of of those resources which a larger the northern areas as one de-white population would supply. manding the attention of both Adequate white settlement. is, Administrations. The Premier, indeed, essential to such under Mr. Lyons, speaking from discus- takings. Otherwise the policy
A group of German physicians detached the compass. He noted, While the Sokols carry no arms sions of pre-sessional Cabinet which Australians should be pro-and psychologists has established a too, that it was in perfect condition and spend their time in perform- Gling astonishing exercises on the meetings, said that the Federal claiming to the world is that they school for determining persons' fit and cleaning of this detached various apparatus of their vast Government is considering the mean to defend an empty region, ness for various callings by measur granting of concessions to com- not a white man's country. The ing their beads and portions of their compans may seem a very slender open air gymnasiums, the silent foundation upon which to build new discipline of their mass drill, the mercial interests which would success of the Australian admin-bodies,
jhope. me
magnificent show of muscle and invest adequate capital in these istration in Papua and the grow-
Nevertheless It invites considera. control, says clearly "Hands off regions. A year ago Mr. Park-ing mining and other activities To aid in supplying distilled hill, then Minister for the In-in the Mandated Territory of water to automobile batteries a new tion of several tentative hypotheses: Jugoslavia."
1-That quite recently the Four thousand Sokols have terior, visited the Territory, and New Guinea have drawn new at aller nozzle is equipped with an
compass had been in the posses-come also from Czechoslovakia, movement thereafter in a report to Cabinet tention upon the tropical problem electric light that is automatically recommended that steps should within Australian borders; and switched on when lifted from a jar sion of somebody familiar with where the Sokol be taken to induce private enter-the recent application from a of water. prise, under sufficient safeguards, Dutch air service to inaugurate
to engage in local Industry and a regular air route to Darwin is Direct, rall connection between settlement. Cabinet approved a warning that foreign eyes are the northern and southern portions the recommendation. Towards turning towards a region in of Argenting has been made pos the end of last year a Sydney which Australians have betray-sible by the opening of a bridge be syndicate announced that Anglo-ed hitherto but perfunctory in-tween the provinces of Rio Negro
and Buenos Aires. Australian interests were prepar- terest.
The finding
the construction of a theodolite Joriginated, to join their Slovene, 2.-That the only persons who Croation and Serbian fellows in would have that knowledge in the oint exercises, and to compete. remote Brazilian jungle would be for the prizes, an one of the Fawcett party Another large, detachment-ro
8-That this means was sdopt- presents all the Sokol groups of ed because (a) the party is held the White Russians scattered captive; (b) is without essential throughout Europe
suter.