HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,"
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 25, 1934.
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‘BLACK-COATED DR. RASMUSSEN'S
DEATH UNEMPLOYED
Good Work in Britain Probed Ancient Mys- by New Society tery of N.W. Passage
from food-poisoning contracted in Greenland during a recent expedition. Dr. Rasmussen arrived in Copen- bagen last month so ill that he was unable to speak to anyone, and was taken from the ship to a nursing home.
Dr. Knud Rasmussen, the famous An appeal on behalf of the "black-coated"" unemployed has Danish Arctic explorer, died in Co- been issued by Sir Noel Curtis-penhagen this morning, states Reuter, Bennett. Lord Melchett, Sir W. R. Peat, and Sir William Crawford.
They write as officers of the Employment Executive British Society, which his done good work on behalf of men who have held administrative posts in industry, or clerical positions higher than the normal Insurable maximum.
They calculate that the number of unemployed men of this type is somewhere about 300,000.
This class has no Government insurance scheme to fall back upon.
and their condition is described as appalling. Apart altogether from material conditions," states the appeal, "the mental strain of their situation is driving many of these unfortunate people into a very serious for state which is themselves and their families."
2,000 Members Early this year asking educated unemployed to
x Cambridge
Born 54 years ago in Northern Greenland, Rasmussen travelled the Arctic farther than any other Euro- pean, but his most dramatic discovery was when he found the bodies of two of the members of the ill-fated expedi tion led by Sir John Franklin which had been seeking the North-West Passage 80 years before.
This discovery be, revealed in an adiresa in 1928 to the Royal Geogra phical Society.
BY
An aged Eskimo at Pelly Bay told Rasmussen the story of the Franklin it had been told him by expedition his father..
From his description Rasmussen'ı party--the Danish Ethnological and Geographical Expedition fro. Green- land to the Pacific-located two of the places where bodies of Franklin's mnen
"We were glad to feel, as they per hape might have been glad to feel," and Rasmussen, "that the work for which they gave their lives was still going on.'
Eskimo's Story.
This was the story which the Eskimo's father had handed down to
his son':
"We were out seal hunting. Sud- denly we heard the shouting of strange men from the land (this was King William's Island).
graduate inserted an advertisement lay, we found the bodies," Ras- communicate with him. As a re-massen said in his lecture, a cairn sult of the enormous number of was built above the bodies as they lay, replies he received this mar (Mr. and two bags-British and Danish- Ronald Ogden) gathered round him were hoisted at half-wast a number of people who had all been in responsible positions, and together they formed the British Society, Employment Executive The aims of the Society are: (1) To conduct an employment agency for its members; (2) To create and AS Will organise such activities give employment to its members.
now nearly This Society has 2,000 registrations, classified under 172 trades and professions-men who have received salaries vary- It has ing from £3,000 a year.
placing a successful in been number of men in jobs, but there are hot enough jobs to go round. So the Society has started various Secretarial as i activities." such Bureau which earns a small re- by undertaking typing Mar duplicating and 'printing; a ket Research section which has in a few weeks fixed up thirteen men in remunerative temporary Technical investigation work; a
engineering Bureau providing concerns" and employers generally with the facility of more direct and selective means of anding trained men, and an Information Bureau to supply information on all general subjects to
venue
members
free, and to outside inquirers for a special fee.
Other plans for revenue-pro- ducing activities have been fram- ed, and will be put into operation as soon as the necessary finance is forthcoming.
Scope For Development "The Society has now reached the point," state the signatories to the appeal, where It must either be recognised as an organi- sation worthy of national support, or else cease to exist altogether. In the latter case, most of the work which has been done will be wasted, and there will be no or
"We ran up to them and saw that they were white men. They were thin, with sunken cheeks, like starving men.
"We took them to our tent and gave them Real meat and blubber.
"They pointed toward the south, toward the Great Fish Hiver, and made signs by which we understood that they had formerly been many comrades together, but few were left.
Afterwards, at another time, we found their ship. It was out in the ice between King William's Island and Victoria Land.
"Many dead men were in the ship," and we could see that they had died of a sickness. Also there was found
boat with six dead men. There was food enough, and it seemed that these also had died of sickness."
The tragedy of the Franklin Expedi tion, which baffled the world for years, and was never satisfactorily explained is one of the most mysterious "and dramatic episodes in Arctic history.
Sir John Franklin was appointed to the "command of the expedition in 1846. It consisted of the Frebus and Terror with 134 officers and men. The vessels sailed from Greenhithe on May 19, 1848 and were last seen on July 28 by a whaler in Baffin Bay.
Fifteen Search Parties, Fifteen expeditions were sent in search of Franklin's ships..
A record found in a cairm at Point Victory told the history of the expedi- tion down to April 25, 1848. It related that the Erebus and Terror wera de- serted three days before, having been. Kanisation to deal with the beset by the ice for two years.
The latter employed executive. alternative 19 unthinkable, in Franklin, it was recorded, died on
June 11, 1847. work the view of the splendid Society has already accomplished and the great opportunities that lie before it'
the work of So far all the
on by been carried Society has the voluntary unpaid labours of. a small group of members. It is hoped, however, that it will soon be in a position to pay adequate salaries to a number of employees, though this must depend on the patronage it receives from indus- tty as a whole.
Valuable help, it is suggested can be given both by industrial companies and Individuals making the funds of the donations to Society and contributions to office and club-room equipment, and by notifying the Society of every va-
which occurs
on their cancy executive staffS.
JOSEPHINE'S JEWELS
An Eskimo woman told a leader of one of the search parties of having seen 40 survivors of the expedition late in 1848.
"They fell down, and died as they walked," she said.
TO REPLACE R. A. BRIGADE
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, January 2. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for India, stated in the House of Com- mons that the field brigade of Indian Artillery, it was expected, would be ready to replace a brigade of the Royal Artillery early in 1935, It would be afficered at Arst by British officers voluntarily from the Royal Artillery, with such Indian mountain artillery units,
The British officers would there- after be replaced by Indian officers from the Indian Military Academy or from mountain artillery as these became available.
given by Josephine to her daughter £500 Challenge.
Sold at Christie's to Hortense.
Aid Charities
The Mountatephen tiara was soon disposed of. The bidding started at £300 and then there was a challenge of £500. The Christie's, London, had one of bidding rose by tens and twenties, and in less than 45 seconds it had their big jewel sales.
Jewels bad come to be sold to brought £800, going to Messrs Institutions Jerwood and Ward, of Holborn, help charitable through the Kindness of their late London. owners.gong kangg
Foremost was the diamond and pearl tiara of the last Lady Mountstephen, bequeathed to King Edward's Hospital Fund, R.
When the lot referred to as foreign imperial family Jewels' was reached the auctioneer sald There is no documentary evidence In existence," and he asked the There was a casket of jewels de- company to bid for the jewels as scribed as the property of a for- they were before them.
In the
The gold snüff-box, given by the eign imperial family. casket wasa gold snuff-box given Prince Regent to the wife of the by the Prince Regent (George IV.) Russian Ambassader in 1820 was over a century ago to the wife of sold for £205. Josephine's, gold the Russian Ambassador, an Em- bracelet realised £580, and the dia- pire gold bracelet which belonged mond riviere brought £1500.
The sale resulted in a total of to the Empress Josephine, arfa a diamond riviere of 41 brilliants £28,000.
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