INTO LAND OF DEAD
Explorers
To Brave New Perils
BRITISH-U.S. PARTY TO PENETRATE UPPER ANDES
New York, Sept. 3. Members of a British- American expedition who will seek to explore territory in the Upper Andes and along the Amazon, from which no white man has ever returned alive, were schedul- ed to sail from here to-day.
Capt. Erie Erskine Loch. D.S.O, retired British officer. heads the expedition, which is sponsored by the Museum of the American Indlan (Heye Founda- tion). Four others make up the party. Their first destination is Guayaquil, Ecuador, where they will be joined by two Ecua- dorian scientists. The group then will proceed by mountain railway to Riobamba, whence they will travel by motor truck to Hacienda Leita, Patate, in the Upper Andes.
This is the last point of civil ization the party will contact be- fore trekking through isolated regions. The trip through hitherto, unexplored, unmapped territory) will be made by mule, un foot, by canoe and raft.
Indian Friendship Sought Locit said before sailing that the main purpose of the expedition is Lo establish friendly relation with the Ssabela Indians, an almost
"unknown" tribe, and to bring: hack ethnological specimens for the Museum of the American In dlan. Geographical data and maps obtained by the party, he said, will be added to the common in- ternational fund of such knowledge,
"No museum in the world." he! declared, "has any ethnological į specimens of the Ssabelas. They are a fierce and shy tribe, known) as the phantom people by the few whites who have been near! their territory, and called the anka' or 'wild-men' by neighbour-] ing tribes."
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Other Explorers Murdered "No white man has ever pene- trated the Sabol country and come out alive. Ours is the first exploration party on record to set: In 1927 a small; out for this area. group of Peruvian labourers, in search of supplies, stumbled upon a number of the Indians. All the Peravinns were murdered."
Loch added, however, that he is confident he and the other ment bers of the expedition will be able to win the confidence and friend ship of the Sonbelas.
"I will be a long job," he said. "We may remain in the interior for ten months of a year. After we have convinced the Indians that our mission is peaceful, we! will begin our studies.
For an in-
terpretor we will use one of the members of a nearby tribe."
Takes Gift Machetes The explorer showed visitors the "calling cards" which he intends to use as a means of introduction to the Saabelas. These were hun- dreds of machetes, made in Con- necticut.
"I hope the Indians will accept them ns tokens of friendship," he said. "It would be pretty bad if they turned out to be boomerangs." Other members of the expedi- tion are:
Carl de Muralt of Zurich, Swit zerland, who is a well-known ar cheologist. He organized and part-
the 1932 salvage" ly financed expedition to the wreck of the steamer Merida, sunk 45 miles off the Virginia coast. This expedij tion recovered the vessel's safe,
H. M. Hardwicke of New York, geologist and topographer.
Wilfred Klamroth of New York, assistant geologist.
Peter Prime of Wisconsin, bot- anist.
Alasdair Loch of London," avi- ator and navigator. He is a cousin of the expedition's lender.
Explored With Dyott
This will be Loch's second trip! to Ecuador and the valley of the! Upper Amazon. In 1932 he ne
Commander George companied Dyott on his Ecuadorian expedition, A romantic note was injected by Loch when he pointed out that the expedition will go to the shores of the Inko near the per petual snowilne of the Llangan- ates Mountains where tradition says that the "lost treasure" of the Incas was hidden 400. years ngo, at the time of the conquest by Spain..
"Our expedition is a purely sel- entifle purpose," he said, "but of course wo will not pass by the lake which tradition has made ong
of the treasure storehouses of the world without attempting to prove or disprove this legend."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935.
Government House Party
DID NOT SPARE ROD
Group taken in the grounds of Government House on Tuesday, on the occasion of the tea party given in honour of the visiting members of the Young Australia League. Seen in the picture are His Excellency Sir Thomas and Lady Southurn,, Mrs. Lodewyckr. Minu Leslie Railep, and Mrs. D. W. Tratutan. (Photo: Ming Yuen),
Princess 'Carmo' Prisoner
In German Castle
RAN AWAY WITH MAN SHE LOVED
Berlin, Sept. 1. Beautiful, betrothed, twenty-five-year-old "Princess Carmo," stepdaughter of the ex-Kaiser, is being kept away from her lover in Castle Sabor, in Silesia, while her mother the Princess Hermine, decides whether or not she can marry the man she loves.
The Princess-her real name is Princess Hermine Caroline--- fell in love last year with young Herr George Martin Wunderlich, ber 'mother's secretary.
Her mother approved of the match, and the engaged comple spent happy days at Doorn, the ex-Kaiser's Dutch line.
Suddenly, however, Princess Hermine, the ex-Kaiser's wife, changed her mind and ordered her daughter to break off the engagement.
"Princess Carmo," forbidden to see any more of the man she loved, retaliated by escaping from Doorn and taking a room in a small boarding house in Berlin.
Her mother followed her, and from her headquarters in the old Imperial Palace in the United den Linden ordered her daughter to return to her. The Princess obeyed. For a time she lived with her mother in the palace and spent her days in long solitary walks through the Berlin parks; accompanied by her black Scotch terrier.
Then her mother took her away to Castle Sabor. She has tot, however, lost all hope. Herr Wunderlich, JK longer secretary to the Empress, is try- ing to and another position to enable him to support a wife,
This month there is to be a Castle Sabor, conference at where the parted lovers will try win back permission to marry,
to
PRINCESS HERMINE forbade bèr daughter to marry,
"Flying Flea" Crosses Channel
The cheap neroplane is now a reality. A Frenchman,”At, Midget, has constructed a small machine which costs only £76. The faventor recently flew across the English Channel—in 82 minuten." The "Flying Flea", us the 'plane in calied, has great sensation in England.
FLIGHT PLAN
Non-Stop To
England
A non-stop flight, from Austra- li to England, refuelling in the air, is planned by Mr. Juhn L. Dampney, 24-year-old English- than, who has arrived lia by steamer.
Brutality Of Victorian Mothers
GIRLS OF TO-DAY LUCKIER THAN "GRANNIES"
"Our grandmothers were sadists," Girls of to-they who think that parents deal hardly with them in their home life should read this story of grandmother's day. Here is a picture of the girl of the '60s-
Frustrated in her love-making by
her ish, severe elders, the girl.
'60s was a wretched, sex- starved person, who was taught that marriage was her only goal, but who was nevertheless baulked a overy turn in nequiring a man's affections.
If it were not cruel to dissect these paipitating young hearts, it would be easy to demonstrate the crude sexual urge hampered by un- wholesome restraint unti, in many CLAUS it bennie converted into de finitely pathological forms,
This
an excerpt from "Feminine Attitudes in the Nine- teenth Century" the author of which, C. Willett Cannington, also quotes from a lengthy correspond. ence in the columns of the "Englishwoman's Domestic Maga- zine" for 1868 on the vexed ques- tion, "Ought wo to whip our daughters?"
The volume of letters on this subject became so great that at last the magazine had to pub. lish a special monthly supple- ment to contain them.
Birch Preferred
They supply on with evidence of a mass of sadism existing not merely in girls' schools, but in the home. Letters happy English from parents and schoolmistresses aupply precise details:- Austri-
The number of strukes-twenty to fifty-required to convert a wicked and stubborn nature into a sweet and loving disposition."
Mr. Dampney intends to use a twin-engined Puss Moth mone plane, lilted with wireless and fonts, in ease of a forced descent into the sea. His wife, who is
will accompanying relief pilot on the flight,
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"I am making arrangements to refuel by Rexible ripe from
or Six other machine at stations on the route," he is re- ported to have said. "By saving the precious Line, um confident that I can make the flight from Australia to England in two days and a half-two days better than the present record of four days and a half."
Lured By Call of The West
MOSLEM FATHER LEFT TO HIS LAMENTS
San Diego Sept. 3..
PRINCESS RUBIE SALIE, daughter of Prince Salic, Cingalese dealer in precious
The method-by strap. slipper or. birch but the hirch is preferable as causing the more exquisite pain"),
The tying down or the hanging up (for each has its advocates) of the victim, whose age runs from four to eighteen,
The preparation for the ceremony the stripping and the struggles nud the screams, while the executioner (so often a female who has missed the more normal forms of sexual gratification) assures us that she Den it "an evidence of the tenderrat
love.
A widower, inconsolable for the loss of his dear wife, explains that : "he is now forced to flog his daughter himself, and the elder ones make such difficulties."
Artificial Busts
Ile
But the author does not harp continually on this subject. has placed our grandmothers and great-grandmothers under the microscope, revealed the nature of their thoughts, their beauty secrets, their underclothes, their corsets, their musings on love, skin junguents and artificial busts,
11is Yet he is never unkind. findings are tempered always with
kindly sense of humour.
About nineteenth-century corsets the author has much to say. stones, leaves America soon to quotes from a letter from a trades. join her white mother's family in England.
The princess is answering the call of the West-with all the Her freedom of the West. : Moslem father remains in
America, heartbroken at what he regards as his daughter's idefection from the traditions of:
her fathers.
the
man in 1828.
"They are unable to stand, sit or walk as women used to do; to expect one of them to stoop would be absurd.
"My daughter Margaret made the experiment the other day. Her stays gave way with a tremendous explosion and down she fell upon the ground, and I thought she had snapped in two."
"GOLF MAD"
The story begins with Princess Rubie's disappearance MEN WHO ARE from her father's hotel apart- ments in San Diego yesterday.
Prince Salie, fearing she had: been kidnapped, told the police.: They found her in Los Angeles! to-day.
She had not been kidnapped. She had run away from home, determined to throw off the shackles of her father's faith. Her father received her back;) consented to her leaving for: London. To-day he presides
EX-ARMY OFFICERS BECOME CADDIES
London, Aug 30. Former Army officers, ex- bank clerks and men from a host of other callings are work. ing on golf courses as caddies. Many of them were attracted by the hope that they will be- come champions.
Several have means. There is a over his £10,000 gem exhibition caddie at one club near London who here a lonely and disappointed owns half a dozen villa residences and dabbles with fair success on
man.
He gave his daughter every-the Stock Exchange. thing-money, home, clothes. All but freedom.
"These men may be described us being 'golf mad,'" said the secret-
She was allowed to talk only of a famous club. "I know of instances where men in quite com- to her father. She was for-fortable positions have thrown up hidden to read books or maga- their employment to become zines which were not Moham- medan.
She rebelled.
caddies.
"They have all been golfing on- thusiasts, but unable to devote their
Her mother, who died in time to the game owing to their
For the ambition of the caddie to become a champion there is precedent.
Ceylon four months ago, was a work." Christianshe was formerly Elsie Goldborough, of Mel- bourne, Australia-and the girl had lived most of her life with! her mother.
J. II. Taylor who, was five times winner of the open championship,
When her mother died, the was a caddie at Westward Hol
Harry Vardon as a boy was princess came to America to her caddio for six months; while others, father.
who started their golfing career as With only £10 in her posses- caddies, include Janics Braid. sion, she is determined to make George Duncan, Alee Herd. Ted her way to London.
Ray and Walter Hngen.
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