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-15,000 FT. LAKE YIELDS SECRET AFTER 450 YEARS
2 Britons Track Source of Amazon
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From JOHN BROWN
who, with Sebastian Snow, has been seeking the source. of the River Amazon-a secret since the whitó man found the world's mightiest river 451 years ago.
E have. the A source,
LIMA..
azon areas
made possible for
photographs confirm.
accidents.
Mountaineering conditions in ted all of the Ucayli, which joins
the Maranon near Nauta, the Andes are for more difficult and has a much lesser velo- the recent failure of the French than in Europe. This explant? city, merely broadening the Alpinist to climb the uncaran the first tinic in one season non phamel,, as aerial (28.811.) here, and the frequen through air transport and we have located its true duree. This, confirming, the forecast of the Florney ex- pedition, is Lake Ninococha. The lake is in the moi- tain ridge called Huny- huush, in the Central Peru- vian Andes, at a height of just under 15,000 ft.; Intitude 10 deg. 26 min. 30 south longitude 76 deg. 45 min. #5 sec. west, 51. Nathan Road, and ten miles south-west of
Kowloon, Lake Laurieocha.
Our findings confrm the The Nile is 3,473 miles long: "riginal fellet of the curly ca
Mississippi-lasauri. 4, Amazon ore the same.
plorers that, the Moranon and alles, but the Amazon, biggest
We
shall never forget cur.ps- in veitum, has always bern In
spute an to length because of perlances on the sombre Andran the difficity in tracing its source. root el America, where the The river was discovered at its Amazon rises from u cradle of
1000ft, inelers mouth is the year
1500 by a vast
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Snow spent the hating neelimard, 1 several attacks of altitude record period of nine weeka lekness in the Vilennola range aloue en the Maranan glacier and the Salfman Mountales of plateau: taking sounding and Sewhern Peru – 80 mile; of anturing intes and glaciers. He neat, uncharted and practically emerged fill and well,
unvisited.
The Puree of the glacier is Even the mule were affected advancing chat ut the rain af, with "the staggere" During these
Pratime my faculties were en dimmed, But all my streng h www needed just, to breathe.
Atlantic Ocean,
Mouths af the Amazon
PERU
HAUTA
TRUE SOURCE
JOF THE AMAZON;
BRAZIL
recent
DOLIVIA
19 Miles 50p
the
area
In time. Sur- round init glaciers are also moving.
This explains why the French
The Quechua Indiena in these parts were mucli kavratred by Sebastian Snew. who fair.
They came to see him in the mountalay nd walled on him) hand and foot.
We will make reports with statisties on our findings to the International bodies echecened. There will be in by Oziober.
The expedition has been an example of reni interne jonai co-operation. Started by Britis with encourageman: from the United States, Py organization hay had the support and advice of Peru, Brazil and France, and material help from the Amate
Inciliute, a by nine South
Pin-pointing the the Amazca is
fuurce cl
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interna
hydra.
اشد.
tional
electric
flood
- contr! scheines can be
planned.
Ninococha itself is the 5t a year. This will chance American countries. result of a
gincier the appearance of recession. We proved that Ninocotha has an outlet to Lake Santa Ana, and from Santa Ana to Lauricocha. Sebastian Show did this by using
powerful dye, aranin, which progressively changed the colour of the water in the adjacent lakes. He used the same method to rove the existence of ùn- derground channels,
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plorers Ber- wand Fiorney ney and Fre
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And the delegate affirms his determination to fight the Capitalo-Fascist-
Western hyenas with redaubled vigour!!!
--(London Express Service)
Should doctors
2130JTATERAPEINTEIL DESESPARRUKESTUTTERESTIN
• The doctors' journal, The Practitioner, said fast week that there was a growing tendency for some doctors to use patients as guinea-pigi in their attempts to advance medical knowledge A leading article suggested that now, scientific methods of investigation raise a moral question which will have faces: How far are doctors. ¡ustilled in submitting patients to exponmental procedures "which at the least are unpleasant or painful and at the most may not be without risk to life," THE
DOCTOR gives an answer,
to
EXPERIMENT?
Tis
1170 secret that ever -been-with matter. Walle physiolans may get medical research from a "cowpox" spot" on few grey halts worrying about workers
the cifrets of their grow drugs, a Show is now have to
ever
occasionally the fingert of a dairymaid. experiment on Jenner maintained, that planning the patients in order to gain cowpox, a very mild disease first
* knowledge, which may later eften caught by country: journey
source be used to save lives. the the moulli the
ان
accompani-
ed only by n
cows,
Furgeon who decides to attimpt
a novel and dangerous operation
is a for a really anxious
eons were scared of operating
Until the 1914-18 war
infected mcn from
on the heart; but the successful
stell The sulpha 'drugs and give those that developed removal
fragmenis Amazon, penicillin could not
have it immunity against small-ged in and around the heart
encouraged them to be ma "been quickly brought into pox. He proved his point daring and five years or 53 25 young Peru- use without experimental when he later inoculated me bed and brilliant opera- Mr J. Brown Vi
vian who Is trials. Ninety-nine times Master James with matter tars in the U.S.A. were reporting
expert out of a hundred the ex-- from a human case of small. horseman. Once they reach Chachapoyas they can reperiment may do good to pox. bulsa raft to chest the rapide. the patient and can do 110,
I would not advise anyone 2 harm. try this journey, which includes the Ecuador barder trouble-zone. du I, 13 can
only one lake here
C: the ka pedon In 1044. There are now Jour Mr. S. Snow
smail ones. Thus the true length of
Snow climbed several mock- the Amazon-hitherto given 'tatus in the Raura range, south variously, with a maximum of Mount Yeripuja (21,000.), of 4,000 miles, is 3,505
We decided against an attempt miles. This confirms it as
the highest peaks, as the second largest river. It three-man rene team and porters is also now known that the were neccesary. Also rivers Apurimae and Uru-litude and solar radiatica male But if anyone
great efforts-hazardous; mental- bamba are only tributaries and physical powers are reduced.
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140-TON FLYING-BOAT GETS HER WINGS SOON
BY JAMES STUART
Cowes, Isle of Wight, The Princers is surrounded by IN about two months the immense scaffolding, but through biggest flying-boat built the network of stec1 "uprights in this country, the 140-ton and planking, the great double Saunders-Roc Princess will docker hull thows up clearly. be moved out of her hangar down to the water's edge.
There the outer sections of the wings will be fitted (there
13
not enough
room in the
Hangar), and by early next year she will be ready for launching
After that, test pilot Geoffrey: Tyson will take the great 10 engined "ship" out Into the Solent for her first trials,
Recently, I took a look at the nearly completed Princess and her two "sister ships," which are following close behind,
Doctors are now arguing among themselves whether
This risky
experiment
the hundredth experiment succecded, for the boy fuil ed to develop smallpox, and the
one that conceivably
from it might do some
grew one of the harm-is ethically justifiable, how
ventive medicine. ever rewarding, the in formation.
her first guccesses with the now
famous “blue baby" operation- an operation' not on the heart it. elf but on the large biced vastels, near #.
But Guy's Hospital in London was not far behind and In 1943 a surgeon there improved on the American results -by-operating. doily on the heart to cure. congenital heart disease.
Probably the best-known hu man guinea-pig of the present New York's
Tom, where gastric Astula has pro- Another human guinea-pig tided more valuable information played a leading part the dis- abeut the influence of the
the anti- emotions on internal organs than)
all ether patients put together.
reatest triumphs of pre-
covery of carlsone,
heumatic drug.
day
Thi me 'was an American Much of what is now called pay-
But whatever, the out- housewife 29 who was so chosomatie" medicine has been come of the argument there severely crippled with theu- lanreed with Tem's willing ald." is not the slightest doubt hardly move. -
matoid arthritis that she could that some human guinea. In September 1948. a Mayo pigs have provided doctors as physalon, following with information which has a be a winner, gave her the declors want a human guinea- hunch which has since proved - It is not a fact that when saved hundreds of thou first
the for a rutable patient, Obviously
I climbed up to the scaffolding sands of lives and relieved cushion ever administered pig they inevitably lock round pain and misery on a vast hormone of the adrenal gland come patient has to be the first scale.
around the fall, and the vast aeroplane was spread out below me, stretching 148ft, to the nete.
Smallpox used to be one One pair of engines (eight are coupled in pairs, the outer of the main killing diseases, motors being singles) is installed, and those that did not die The flying-boat's engines are of an attack often bore dis- propeller-driving Bristol Proteus figuring scars on their faces! Jets, which will give her a speed of more than 300 m.p.h, for the rest of their lives. She is designed to fly more than 5,000 miles without stop.
purposes
now known as cortisone.
1 apcept a new method of Dally Injections were con- treatment and he or she usually. murd, and on the second day does so gladly knowing that the the patient was able to rall ever deelers would not suggast it un in bed withou: pain-something less it offered the best chance of she had beca, unable to do for care or relief. yours.
But when really dangerous research has to be carried cut on numan beings, particularly “in- ̧ time of war, the research work- Quickly the joints became less ers confine their experiments to The conquest of this sit and painful scen she was each other or to volunteers who London-born Geoffrey Tyson,
dleenso began on May 14, cut of bed, and on the eighth are aware of the picks,
stunt" pilot, has been putting Edward Jenner, 14-year-old RAF aná circus 1796, the day that Dr day she went out shopping for
three keurs.
It will not be forgotten that of Glou-Alm had not been taken the cost of fe-saving X-zzy in practice in a very much cestershire, inoculated a boy of this remarkable experiment. Icchalance was a heavy mor- Already she is resting on the smaller Sunderland flying-out, named James Phipps-per- dcctors, outside the Maya Clinic fallly among the nest radiologista great clight-wheeled trolley on, specially equipped with the
would never haka believed, that Brom Ungering disease. which she whit go down the came kind of power-operated haps the most important such a rapid cure was possible •PSYCHOSOMATIC: 'ritating"" to
controls as thie Princess,
human guinea-pig there has exerp: by a miracle.
slipway Into the sea,
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