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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1938.
Nightmare Voyage Of Jungle Party in S. America
FLOODS ADD TO
AT
PERIL OF
HIDDEN ROCKS
Georgetown.
T the peril of their own lives a relief party yesterday started from here to try to reach the four Ameri- cans who are marooned on a rocky islet in the Upper Cuyuni River, 150 miles away.
FOOD SECRET DISCOVERY
MAKING THE ENERGY ELEMENTS
ACTION OF LIGHT ON WATER
FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
The marooned party, who are known to be in des- perate straits, were strand- led while trying to penetrate f the trackless jungle of British Guiana in search of Paul Redfern, the U.S. air- man who disappeared ten years ago.
Travelling up the Cuyuni; River is extremely dangerous at any time owing to submerged razor-edged rocks, vicious falls and dangerous suck-tides,
How carbon dioxide and water, two of the commonest substance in nature, can be made, by the nction of coloured light, to produce the energy-
Tremendous loss of life is caused supplying element in food, was yearly, and it is always difficult to described at the Calcutta Science Bet boatmen to make the trip. Congress by Prof. E. C. C. Baly.
Since the party started yesterday heavy rains have caused every river the Cuyunt and adjacent areas to be flooded.
Prof. Baly retired last June from the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Liverpool University. The process he has discovered reproduces, in the Even if the relief bent succeeds in laboratory the natural process by making the journey it is doubtful if which plants convert carbon dioxide it can reach the party before and water into sugars and starches. Wednesday.
The scientific name for the process
is "photosynthesis of carbohydrates." The four people marooned are Carbohydrates, said Prof. Baly, Mrs. Waldeck, Wm. Astor Chandler Theodore Waldeck (the explorer), were the baste of all life. Their and Dr. Frederick Fox. mystery had been explained after protracted lovestigations in Liver- pool.
IN TWO STAGES
·
STARVATION DREAD
One of the native porters who has returned to civilisation declares that when Waldeck tried to lessen the
Motifs for new fashions recent-
Jy shown at the Pan-Amerleon fashion show at the Waldorf- Astoria in New York were gathered from native costumes. Here is a striped slik ensemble of play suit and wrap-around based on a
Colombian theme,
These proved that the photosyn-rations this was resented and he told |MOTHS' ORGIES REDUCE thesis of carbohydrates is achieved all who were in dread of starvation in two stages, each of which is pro- that they must return to Bartien for moted by light.
The first singe la promoted by blue light
The product of this process; when acted on by red light, gives carbohydrates.
The laboratory process, Prof. Baly sald, appeared to be similar in every way to that in the living plant.
provisions.
[Bartica is a town at the junc- tion of the Mazaruni and Cuyuni rivers.]
FRUITGROWERS' ·
LOSSES.
Experiments with
cheap wine, locally known as "pinkle" and which bave
Of 17 beatmen, two, he says, re-approximates "red biddy", mained with the marooned party.
proved it a means of destroying cod- He doubts the possibility of the gather from inquiries in London relief expedition succeeding as the in moth, the most serious of pests, and Liverpool that the process is still trail boat with provisions would, in among fruit trees in the orchard In the academic stage. The syrup his view, make the front boat un-country around Bendigo, Australia, carbohydrate has been obtained by controllable.
The wing is broken down with
Prof. Haly only in very small
quantities. Its "food" value has not [The search for the lost airman water and placed in receptacles been tested. The process is also Redfern is due to a story by an under the trees. The moths are comparatively expensive.
Indian that some years ago on Indian fattracted by its aroma, and after one from glorious orgy, die. Serious losses bird enused_by_the_moth are being-con- came siderably reduced, Вауд Austral
Apart from its scientifle value, the tribe saw a big bird come discovery may have an enormous Im»| heaven and that when the portance commercially and Indus-broke its wings a white man trially.
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