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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1932,
OBITUARY
LEADER OF GREENLAND AIR SURVEY
SAN JURJO FACES CIVIL CHARGE.
TRIAL MARKS CLOSE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
Madrid, Aug. 24. Hundreds of people, including
bo
Copenhagen, Aug. 24. The Greenland Administration to-day announced the death of the famous explorer, Mr. H. G. Wnt- kins, who was leader of the Green-many women, waited for hours to land air survey.
nocuro admission to the Palace of He perished on August 20 as a Justice in order to hear the trial result of a canoe accident.-Reuter of General San Jurjo, alleged to Mr. Watkins who was educated be the leader of the recent at Cambridge University, organis-monarchist revolt in Spain. He is ed, with other undergraduates in the first Spanish general to 1927, an expedition to Edge Island tried by the Civil Court for ro- in the Spitsbergen group. He went bellion. The Public Prosecutor feat never performed before. With insignificant figure as ho entered right across the island, a perilous has asked for the death penalty.
General San Jurjo presented an four companions he had only gone the Palace escorted by police. Ho few miles inland when they wore marooned for five days by a fox.was dressed in a dark suit and ap- At last he and one of the others
peared depressed. - He Wan not set out to try to determine their Court, having been permitted to present at the opening of the position, but a blizzard cut them. off from the rest of the party for 36 hours.
wag
during the preliminaries. He en- remain in A neighbouring room tored the courtroom surrounded by his friends.
Young Socialists are plastering the Madrid is agog with excitement. walls of the city with flaming red sing the end of a century's posters depicting a figure, symbo- triumph of military over justice.
One of his discoveries was that the island was subject to a gradual uplift, resulting in the formation of canyons 250 feet deep. For his work on this expedition he awarded the Cuthbery Peek grant of the Royal Geographical Society In 1928 with two companions Wat
civil kins went exploring in Labrador. They spent a year there, experienc-been inundated with telegrams de The Chamber of Deputies has ing hunger and other hardships.manding the death of San Jurjo, For months they were engaged in although the President, fighting their way back to the
Senor const and after killing some of their Socialists's objection to capital Zamora, is understood to share the dogs to feed the rest had to drag punishment on principle. one of the sledges for a long die.
The verdict is not expected be tance. Their hunger became Rofore late to-night-Router. acute that they nearly decided
kill and ent one of the dogs.
to
In July, 1930, Watkins headed an AWAY TO THE DESERT. expedition to Greenland to
carry
LADY MOUNTBATTEN TIRES
OF PEOPLE AND TOWNS
London, Aug. 24.
Wishing to get away from people,
out a survey for the planning of an Arctic air route from England to Canada. His 14 companions were all young men, mostly from Cam- bridge University. After setting up a base near the const they apont several weeks in exploring the ice towns and hotels, Lady Louia covered inland area rising to 7,000 Mountbatten, Marchioness of Mil- feet above sea-level. On the sum-ford Haven, is leaving England to mit they built a small hut as a seck adventure in the Persian de- weather observation post.
It wassert.
desired to obtain records of winter "We are going to rough it and conditions there and Augustine trust to luck. That's the only way Courtauld volunteered for the task. to see the world" said the Marquis
Watkins raised objections, but, of Milford Haven. as Courtauld insisted, let him have
They are more afraid of his way and, leaving him there in mosquitoes than of bandits, but December promised to relieve him said "if you don't hear from us In February. The news that Wat-after three months you'll know that kina had been prevented by the bandits got us."-Reuler's blizzarda from doing this aroused Special Service. great anxiety and in May an aero- plenic was sent from Sweden to make a search. Watkins i his colleagues had already set out again with sledges, however, and after a fortnight's arducus journey they. rescued Courtauld by digging him out of the snow-buried hut. At, the end of May, Watkins was plan- ning to resume his exploration work.
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