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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1928.
FATE OF THE FAWCETT EXPEDITION.
END OF ATTEMPT TO FIND ANCIENT CIVILISATION,
AUTUMN TROOPING
SEASON.
2ND WILTSHIRES FOR HONG KONG
STORIES OF DEGENERATE DESCENDANTS MANY CHANGES IN SHANG-
AND THEIR RITES.
A copy of the Daily Express to hand gives a message received by wireless from Commander George M. Dyott definitely confirm ing the deaths of Colonel Fawcett his son and Mr. R. V. Rimmell in the wilds of the Amazon basin in Brazil.
Colonel Fawcett left England more than three years ago to find a lost city in the heart of Brazil, which he believed would prove that South America, and not the Valley of the Euphrates, was the cradle of civilisation.
This hazardous and spectacular expedition had the support of conservative scientific bodies in England and America.
The last authentic news of Colonel Fawcett was dated May 30th, 1995, when he warned his friends that they must not be sur prised if they did not bear from him for two years........
Contradictory reports subsequently reached London to the effect that Colonel Fawcett had abandoned the expedition and had " become fatmer in Brazil. Another report stated that he had been killed.
Colonel Fawcett's wife then requested Commander G. M. Dyoit, an Englishman who was born in America, to organise a relief expedition to solve the mystery of her missing husband and
FOD.
Commander. Dyott, who was married in 'New York on the eve of his departure, set out for Brazil in February, and with the aid of a secret map, which was left behind by Mr. Himmell, traced Colonel Fawcett's expedition to the South American jungle, where he has now discovered that the entire expedition perished at the hands of hostile Indians five days after erossing the threshold of the saknown area which they had intended to explore. The following is Commander encompassed by Dyott's message by wireless from penetrable jungles, the interior of Brazil, where the re lief expedition is now itself in great danger :-
NASA, (east of Kuluene
River), August 18th.
I am sorry to report that the Fawcett expedition perished at the hands of hostile Indians during, July 1925, five days after it crossed the Kuluene River, an affluent of the Kingu. A
We successfully followed. Colonel Fawcett's trail, although we were hampered by losing much food in the rapids.
Indians who went with Colonel Fawcett agreed to show us their remains in the jungle, but corn- plications with another tribe pre- vented our going to the spot.
Our position is critical.. We have suffered much, many of the men are ill with fever,
and
and our resources have dwindled We cannot even afford time to send full details by wireless. We must descend the Xingu without ourselves will be delay or we caught.
We have had serious trouble with the Indians, and only avoided & clash by strategy.
This message has cost us a great effort to send, but tell our friends that we are on our way out before it is too late.
We hope to reach Para at the beginning of October.
all but
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According to a Home paper to hand the 1st South Wales Borderers were due to sail from Southamp- ten in the Dorsetshire on September 18th. They will proceed to Egypt, and she will take the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots, with families, 20 Tientsin, the 1st East Yorkshire. Regiment from Tientsin to India. the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment from India to Sudan, and the 1st King's Regiment from Sudan to Egypt. She is listed to complete her voyage which includes calls at Port Said. Suez, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chin- wangtao, Bombay, etc., on Deceta. ber 20th..
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In The Wilderness. .Colonel Fawcett spent the greater part of the last eighteen years in this wilderness. He had seen men impaled by the arrows of the In dians, and had seen a mule crush- ed by a fifty-foot anaconda great were the hazards that he took only two men with him-his son,
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THE "SHANGHAI TYPHOON.
THREE SHIPS IN THICK
OF IT.
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D'ARTAGNAN," "EMPRESS OF ASIA" AND TIRPITZ.”
FLOODS IN THE CITY.
After the conventions! greeting, the topic of conversation in Shang The City of Marseilles, leaying on October 9th, will take the 10th hai during the last few days has So Hussars to Egypt and the 15th naturally been the typhoon," 10th Hussars from Egypt to India, mys, last Tuesday's -C. Daily while the 5th Inniskillings will emer. But what of these at sea? John Fawcett, twenty-one years bark at Bombay on November 5th old, and Raleigh Rimmell, twenty-for home. three, a young Englishman whom he had known from birth.
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"Any larger party would stand small chance of surviving," said Colonel Fawcets to me before leav- ing for Brazil. "Krupp, the Ger- man iron founder, spent £80,000 on
a great expedition into this region a few years ago. It was aanihilat ed by pestilence and Indians. With only three men we have a splendid chance of entering and I speak the language returning. of the Indian tribes, and I know what to do when they attack me with their bows and arrows they have done many times before. If I took a large expedition it would surely be wiped out."
The site of the ancient city which Colonel Fawcett intended to ex plone lies on the south watershed of the Amazon, between the Xingu and the Tapojoz rivers.
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While bouseholdere in the reai-
The Nevara's second voyage, be- dential districte were busy remor ginning at Southampton on October ing effects to upper doors in anti- 20th, will be concerned mainly with R.A.F. drafts and details to and cipation of higher foods; a far from Iraq, Egypt, Malta, and eterne: battle was proceeding at sea between vessels, bound for this India.
The 2nd South Staffordshires are
MR. LESLIE HAYNES IN-
TROUBLE.
SENT TO SINGAPORE HOUSE OF DETENTION.
SINGAPORE, Sept. 13th. Mr. Leste E Haynes, who re- cently arrived in Singapore from China, was charged in the Fourth Police Court on September 6th with. vagrancy in South Bridge Road or September 5th.
The
he was trying to get into touch He pleaded guilty, and said that with some of his friends. magistrate ordered him to be sent
Budget.. to the house of detention.-Straits
though not yet friendly, he would come down and take food when
The three vessels acquainted the room was unoccupied.
each other by wireless at mid-day on Friday that they proposed to turn round and make for Bhanghai and they arrived at Woosung at out the same time on Saturday
ence.
to sail for Shanghai in the Neuralia port, and the elements. on November 13th, and the 2nd Interviews secured resterday by Suffolks will be taken from Shang.representative of the N.-C. Daily hai to India; while the City of News with officers of ships whering me wome for the experi Marseilles, leaving on December were in the typhoop area show that 6th, with drafts, etc., will transport an exceedingly, anxious...time was the 1st Somerset Light Infantry experienced. from Egypt to Hong Kong and bring the 2nd Scots Guards from Shanghai to England.
fnd Wiltshires For Hong Kong. The Nerasa will make a trip to Mediterranean stations and Kara- chi on December 27th, chiefly with drafts and details, and the Somer- setshire, leaving on January 5th, will take the 2nd Wiltshire Regi
The M.M. D'Artagnan lett Hong Kong bound for Shanghai at 6 p.m. on Tuesday last, the C.P.O... Empress of Asia left the same port on the morning of Wednesday, and the Hamburg-Amerika 2.6. Tirpit:
same day left Keelung on the morning of the
Dodging The Centre. The D'Artagnan arrived in the Colonel Fawcett was sixty-one years old. He entered the British ment from India, to Hong Kong Formosa Channel on the 13th and Army in 1986, serving in Ceylon. and the 1st Queen's Regiment from received wireless advice as to the Hong Kong to India. Hame- whereabouts of a typhoon which The wireless-operator in Rio debater he served in Morocco, Malta, or she will transport the 1st--was travelling north-westward. The Janeiro, to whom the above me the Straits. Settlements and Hong, Lancashire Fusiliers from Egypt to position of the intter was such that sage was sent, managed to send a Rong. In 1914 Colonel Fawcett re- Sudan and bring home the 1st the captain, deemed it Essary to personal message to Mr. William entered the British Army, and was de Mello, Commander Dyott's wire less operator, asking if there would be any further messages.
Mr. de Mello replied -
This will be the last message by wireless, as we are compelled to drop the apparatus because of its unbearable load."
Sudan,
given command of a brigade of South Staffordshire Regiment from feld artillery. He was later counter-battery staff officer.
He was mentioned four times in despatches. He was a distinguish ed artist and an exhibitor in the Royal Academy.
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On a previous expedition into the plateau of Matto Grosso,
IN SHANGHAI.
Floods to a large extent subsided
in Shanghai yesterday, save in a few areas the drainage of which, it was learned, depends upon creeks to the west of the International Settlement and, in the case of the Creek. In addition to a rainfall, French Concession, upon Siccawei of nearly eight inches, the tide on Sunday reached a level which has seldom previously been recorded.. This allowed water in some cases tu come up the drains instead of dowing away down them, and, especially in the French Concession, minde the depth in the streets worse than it might otherwise have bees.
It was pointed out to a repre- proceed dead slow with a view to allowing the typhoon to pass, 13 4 The 2nd Black Watch will sail continuance of the regular speed of sentative of the N.-C. Daily News At the Settlement are not under Settle- from Southampton "in the Dorset the vessel would have brought him that the tidal ereeks to the rear of thire on January 8th for Egypt somewhere near the centre. temporarily), and will afterwards about this time the Empress of daiement supervision. Obstructions in move to Gibraltar. By the same passed the D'Artagnan at great these creeks are allowed and ocea-. In the case of Sunday ease the 1st South Wales Bor speed evidently with the intention sionally they interfere with the
of passing the spot where the drainage. derers wil from Egypt to
go Shanghai and the 1st Northamp typhoon was expected to be at awever, the level in these creeks COLONEL FAWCETT'S AIMS. Colonel Fawcett's life was saved by tonshires will travel from Shanghai given time before the latter's ar- was so high that-the water could Tival. It was known that the not flow away, and the slow dis- an electric torch, which led the In sians to endow him with certain
typhoon was moving very slowly appearance of the floods from parts and the D'Artagnan was in con- of the Western district is attributed godlike propensities after they had bombarded bim with arrowa
stant touch with Siecawei Observa- to the slow rate at which the level Colonel P. H. Fawcett, F.R.G.S., Facing the certaauty of repetition The 1st Welsh Guards are to sail tory and Nagasaki by wireless and in these creeks sunk, in comparison D.5.0., a British explorer with of this experience, Colonel Fawcett from Southampton cn February by means of her radio compass was with the Whangpoo, which receives distinguished record, sailed in 1925 had some specially made lever 18th in the Neuralia for Egypt able to ascertain her correct bear the drainage from the parts of for Rio de Janeiro, to break lights which could be adjusted on from whence the vessel will take the ings, the visibility and the condi- Shanghai near the river. through 1,500 miles of jungle and his head so that they would appear 1st Gloucestershire Regiment to tions being such, that this was the Tientsin. She will also transfer only way in which she could deter- awamp to a hidden ancient city in as great, bulbous, flashing eyes. the heart of Brazil, which he be- My Grm belief," said Colonel the 1st Bedfords & Herts from mine her position. The seas were lieved would give proof that South Fawcett, before he left, that we China to India, the 2nd West Yorks mountainous and yellow, and all America, and Dot the Valley of the shell find an ancient city, hitherto from India to Aden, and the 2nd ships were shipping quantitiee of Euphrates, was the cradle of unknown to modern man, is based South Wales Borderers from Aden water and pitching and rolling con ly to fill up with mud, is one of the
siderably.
chief causes of the French Conce- civilisation.
on many pieces of evidence which te England. The expedition was the culmina I have fitted together during the By the Nevasa, leaving on The Empress of Asia failed to sion being constantly flooded, Thir tion of Colonel Fawcett's years of last eighteen years.
February 28th, the 25th Field beat the typhoon and had to return: creek das been allowed to fill to exploration in the South American There are old records and docu- Brigade, R.A., will proceed to In- and as she passed the D'Artagnan such an extent that boats may be jungles, which revealed discoveries ments; there is testimony, astonish-dis, and the 28th Brigade will be who had already turned back, she seen resting on the mud at its of such astounding interest that he ingly in agreement, from widely brought home, while the City of could be seen, shipping heavy seas. bottom, just where the flow ought guarded them zealously, end await separated regions; there is the de-Marseilles sailing in March, will The Tirpitz was also in the vicinity to be strongest to carry of the ed the opportunity to bring back finite and convincing story of the take drafts to Egypt and India and and in constant wireless communi drainage. final and convincing proof. Indians who occupy the approach bring home various details from cation. The three ships were, at
to this country. have obtained India. Mysterious Light,
DISCOVERY OF LOST CIVILIZATION.
to Egypt also she will bring home. the 2nd East Surrey Regiment from Gibraltar.
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A
Biccawel Creek In A Bad Way, The appalling condition of Sicca. wei Creek, which is being allowed
by the Chinese authorities gradua
A Bath For The Alleyways.
this time, about 100 miles from the
An interesting sidelight on the centre of the typhoon and were at effect of the flooding was thrown He had slready gone far towards from them ancient art, which they
a spot somewhere near. Tungyung by an official of the B.M.C. Public proving his contention that there said came from the old city.
Health Department. A flood acts existed in this region a majestic have found them in deadly fear civilisation perhaps 10,000 years of the degenerate descendants of who know and name the planets, Island on which is a lighthouse.
It was at 7am. on the morning on a city like Shanghai as a good the old white race, whom they say tribes who sing to the sun and have old, antedating Egypt that it
There of the 14th when the D'Artagnan bath on a person who needs it, he held the secret of a mysterious now occupy the ancient, ruined the most beautiful voices.
city.
are the Maxubia, still unknown was forced to turn back and she explained. Though the streets are light, possibly based on knowledge
Scholars in Brazil, and any outside, who worship Vira Vira, remained riding the heavy seas washed and rubbish removed from of basic atomic force; that this an- traveller who has been observant the Sun, known to the Incas as until mid-day, when wireless ad alleyways by the P.W.D., there is vices were received that the typhoon always a certain amount of dirt cient people were familiar with as- tronomy, and that they had per- and versed in ethnology, has noted Vira Cocha.
"The Amazons, or Aikeam was approaching land at a spot which can only be removed by a women who live called Huang-yen in Chekiang, food. In addition Chinese En haps the oldest highly developed that the indigenous tribes, with
One about 40 miles south of Ningpo, alleyways learn a lesson which no indigenous culture in the history scarcely an exception, show de benanas the of the world. He had so far generacy from a high state of alone-were not mythical. analysed and articulated, the find- civilisation.
The three main faces of the region which they inhabited is still The vessel then proceeded to Woo amount of instruction would other unexplored. The Mariquitas were sung and arrived one day late, wise teach them, and that is to use ings of his previous expeditions that he was ready to announce his Brazilian natives, as found in the robust people with women chiefs, Commander Malaussens, the mas the receptacles placed there for sixteenth and seventeenth cen- whose women fought like theter of the ship being on the bridge rubbish. Chinese often dump their rubbish just outside their doors, conclusions and risk his scientific
tarica, were Tupis, who were in- Amazons. The Cambenanas, were for 14 hours. ARNAS
and a flood like Bunday's washer reputation on them,
Much Wreckage Passed. The expedition was sanctioned vaders from the south-west, with a fair Indians, working in cotton
In conversation with the first it back inside again and they get. and aided by the Royal Geographi- tradition of Pacific origin, and and using rubber. cal Society and by the American Caribe from the north, and The Ibirojavas, according to
Tapuyas,, whose origin is still the Tapuya tribes, ornamented officer, the latter said that much at hand experience of how un Geographical Society.
themselves with plates of gold.
Numbers of rats went the way of wreckage and many capsized junks pleasant such rubbish can be. obscure. It was perhaps the most bazar Caribs were a fair, copper. In the unexplored area are at were seen during the passage and dous, and certainly the most spec
white least two large ruined cities, but hundreds of birds sought refuge in those, who did not join Noah in the tacular adventure of the kind ever people, who claimed undertaken by a reputable scientist, descent the word 'Cariboca' mean the whole region is rich in at the ship during the bad weather. Ark, to a watery grave.
white cheological remaing so far quite In this connection the writer saw. Barracks Collapse At Woosung,
Reports from Woong indicato with the backing of conservative ing descendants of
unknown. They are the most in-one little bird in the smoking room scientific bodies The ancient city (people.'
Women Chiefs.
teresting and most important is and was told that this ons was the thas houses in that district suffer -add this is not a chapter from
There are tribes with women the world in all probability, be only one which had remained on ed from the wind and downpour, "King Solomon's Mines," but B statement by the holder of the chiefs, tribes of sun worshippers cause they are virtually intact, board and, although all the wih Particularly is mentioned the sol- founders, medal of the Royal Geo with religious forms almost identi- even it ruined. There can have dows were left open the visitor diers' barracks, the walle of which graphical Society-is guarded by cal with the Incan names, tribes been no sacking by war or removal refused to leave his haren. Alsubaided during the rain and
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