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FRIDAY, FEURUARY 18, 1938,
ITALIAN FINGERS IN ARAB PIE
The Arab and Egyptian do not see eye to eye about Mus- solini.
course, the
Actually, of Egyptian is by race an Arab but his political outlook is es- sentially different. This essen- tial difference is due to the fact that the Egyptian has got what wants-independence--and
he
If You Want to be an Explorer, there is still
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ADVENTURE
in Plenty
E have come to think of a world shrunk by rapid transport and communi- cations, of inaccessible places traversed by aero- planes, of the North Pole as a base for an air service, the Antarctic as the place from which Admiral Byrd chatted casually to his United States radio audience.
A generation of young Alexandera is sighing for new worlds to conquer,
But Shiva's Temple, the ascent of which has attracted world-wide attention, may re- - mind us that we have not done the job of exploring as thor- oughly as we imagined.
H
UNDREDS of thou- sands of holiday- 'makers have gazed at Shiva's Temple. The regular nir-services, night and day. cross the Grand Canyon on their way from New York to San Francisco-a "Lost World" in the heart of civilisation.
I was speaking, the other day, to Dr. H. R. Mill, the famous geographer, a living encyclo- padla of world-exploration, especially of the Antarctic. But, within sight of his own birth- place-Thurso, in the far north of Scotland-there is an island which has never been explored. It is a “Shiva's.Temple " on our own doorstep.
"I don't believe that the foot, of man has ever trodden on Clett," he said, "although it is within a stone's throw of Hol- burn Head. Its precipitous aides dely climbers, and the only way
to land would be to drop from an aeroplane or a balloon.
There is not likely to be any- the Arab in Palestine, for in-thing spectacular there, but stance, has not.
So the Egyptian's desire in foreign affairs is to hold what he has got. Mussolini's wire- less propaganda falls on deaf and indeed suspicious ears. The
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ing of troops on the Libyan frontier and events in Abyssinia are too recent to be forgotten. Consequently Great Britain, as a' powerful ally who is as in- terested as Egypt herself in maintaining the status quo, is increasing in popularity while Italian stock is at a discount.
"The situation is quite other in Palestine," says Hebe Spaull, noted League of Nations poli- struggle tical expert. "The
there is life-In the form of vegetation, at least,
"Then there is the Old Man of Hoy, off the Orkneys...
UT in the Atlantic, be- yond St. Kilda, and about a hundred miles from the coast of Scotland, is Rockall," "the" "Island-that-TM Hates-to-be-Visited." Many ex- péditions have tried to land
Child's Death A Mystery
The mystery of the death of a small girl, Lam Yuet, who was brought dead to a hospital with in-
juries which indicated that she had been punched occupied the attention
of Mr. Barnett and a jury at Kowloon yesterday.
Mr. Barnett remarked, that the between Jew and Arab in Pales- Jury would probably and it i tine-due to no racial anta-possible to come to a verdict as there
was a lack of sufficient evidence.
and you
even on
may find it your doorstep
In the Antarctic, but it might be almost anywhere!
there-Dr. Mill once borrowed a gun-boat to attempt it--but have been driven off by the breakers.
If those are too near home for our modern adventurers, the Unknown World has plenty of other places to offer them.
There is the Matto Grosso, the Central. Plateau of Brazil, about which less is known than about any area of equal size in - the world. Vast tracts of jungle keep the secrets of its strange and dangerous tribes and of its animal life.
OLONEL. FAWCETT, his son, and Raleigh Rimmel, both in their early twenties, perished there in the summer of 1925. Or did they? That is one of the great question marks in the history of exploration,
Colonel Fawcett was in search of a "Lost World." It is an area about which imagination could, and can still, run riot, unchal lenged-White Indians, prehis- toric "monsters, incalculable treasure, ruined cities and for- gotten civilisations.
Fawcett believed in the cities. In a territory of hidden, hos- tile Indian tribes, his guides deserted him. He and his young on, and, companions went almost certainly, perished in an. ambush,
THE "VERY IDEA"
But legends are begotten of such mysteries, and a trapper named Rattin brought back news of a tall white man with a long beard dressed in skins... Fawcett?
Twelve years have passed. The quest of "The White God " of the Indians will tempt futurs expeditions into the treacherous Matto Grosso in the wake of Colonel Fawcett,
In the jungles of Control and South America are the relics of the Aztec and Inca civilisations -maybe even Eldorado, which dangled its golden lure before the Spanish Conquistadors and before adventurers ever since.
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British Gulazia, although it is part of the Empire, has not yet been fully explored.. Aeroplane survoys aro
the revealing secrets of its hinterland, but only desperate" foot-slogging will over wrest from it the secrets of its birds and animal life, hints of which were brought back, by a recent expedition, in the form of golden frogs.
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N the Bolivia and Peru les Lako Tititaca, the highest lake in the world, 12,500
sea-level. feet above Here legend (as usual) has it that the Inens dumped £50,000,000 (the odd half- pennies don't matter) into it to
This Is How We Whipped
WE
Those Corinthians
By Eddie Kelly, Fulf Back
E have always dodged the lime-light as much as
possible.
We ourself are as modest as a Mexican parrot and avoid publicity like Madame Chiang Kai-shek and/or the smallpox epidemic.
gonism but solely to a conflict of
The girl, he said, was brought dead political alma-is precisely the to the Kwong Wah Hospital on kind of troubled water in which January 9, by a woman who said she was her mother. Giving a false Fascist Italy knows well how to name and address she said the child
But we feel that we must tell you of the splendid game we and our grandfather played against the Corinthians prior to fish.
political had died of fever but It was found The intense
their first game in Hongkong next Saturday. passions of the moment prevent that she had a fractured skull.
P. B. Clark, the Corinthians! Dr. J. M. Gray, who performed a the Arab from taking an objec- |
post mortem declared that the girl captain, knowing our capabili- tive view of the profferred had a very marked binckening of ties on the field, didn't want us friendship of Italy, and attacks the left eye, the bruise extended to to play, but at last grudgingly on Great Britain as the Power the left temple. She appeared to consented.
who is responsible for the pre- sent regime find a ready echo from the Arab. That Italy has no interest in liberating subject peoples from an Imperial yoke may be obvious to almost every body; but the Arab is an easy victim at the moment."
have been punched.
Our grandfather insisted on a third man in the team There Was much Intra-cranial
"Otherwise," he said, "who is go- haemorrhage around the left frontal region above the eye and a distinct in to bring on the drinks?".
"They are 11 to our two," we re
bring tracture. Thero was slight evidence | plied. "Let them
on the of enteritis and pulmonary tuber- drinks."
"Nol on your life," said the old coulosis and in his opinion, she had
So we made Bill Pryde third been a weakly child.
The cause of death wae fracture of the skull, haemorrhage and shock, The hearing was adjourned to
Great Britain did a wiso thing| March 3. in giving Egypt her indepen
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man. man.
We stunned C. Longman, their Roslic,
with our first ball, which wo ation Info the goal No swiftly that the wind blew ike matting off the grand stand,
play we made in the second half. Suffice it to my that the Committee of the Football Association came to usin's body and asked
us nol to knock the visitors about too much, as they had to play three games against Hongkong later in the week, "Listen," they said, "It's bad enough poor lads. But you belling theso don't go knocking the balls about so much. You've already punctured- eight of them. Go easy,"
After that we contented ourself with lobbing them Into the net three or four times every minute. Our grandfather just sat down on the side-lines, nibbling the oranges. He wasn't necessary,
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Corinthians Kelly Team No wonder the chaps are not fool-
Clark come at us pretty niftily at times, but we had a few dud ten cent pleces which we were able to scatter around the field fairly indiscriminate ing forward to playing against Hong- kong to-morrow. They're thorough- yes, he comes from Scotland. headed beautifully
from Ly cowed. Wright, who sent us up an easy one
We were a bit cowed ourself when at silly, mid-on, just near the three- || wa went home, quarter line
It goes like this
We
After that they seemed to lose their "Can't you learn to wipe your feet mornic, and in na Ume we had them what you come Inude. Why must stWe will not go into vinations and an owo "Well, I think I'IL
out for. 40-love. A
you wear these filthy foolball things
delalie about the magnificent dia, AAnd wo say:
save it from the Spanish in- vaders.
But that is not what the British scientific expedition- sponsored by Professor J. 8. Gardiner, of Cambridge, the Percy Bladen Trustees. the Royal Society and the British Museum is seeking there. They': went to and how certain sea- water fish and sea-lovel animals found their way to Tilitaca, and to see whether, by any means, the mineral resources-copper, silver and lead-might be developed.
N the Gobi Desert, vast, desolate, danger- ous, with extremes of cold more savers than the Polcs, mysteries still remain to tempt men and women to des- perate adventures. It holds in its fossils and bone remains the secrets of primeval Ufe and of prehistoric animals, b
Tibet, still a Forbidden Land, although the priestly lamas, to- day, may Isten-in on radio 8013, beckons persistently-to- explorers, tempting them to furtive expeditions in search of flowers that may one day grace 3 suburban rockery, and in search of strange lore and strange customs..
Western China is a land ot mystery, and the Chinese would like to keep it so until their own. explorers can chart It and reveal its secrets, But the "Shangri- In the happy valley of "Lost Horizon," may not be merely the fancy of James Hilton or of the Hollywood Alm-makers, but
Great valleys; locked by moun- tains that daunt the most adven- turous, lle on the frontiers of China and Tibot-valleys that our elvilization cannot touch, but whose own, for all we know, may be superior, in sanity, to OUTE,
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HERE Burma
with India there are mountains and valleys which have defied the white man. Jim
Matthews, who, with his comrade Hook, attempted a flight to Australia and crashed in the Burmese jungle, described to mo vast mountain-locked valleys over which they passed, inaccessible to the outer world, even to almen. who could never find a landing ground.
death-lure of Shackleton, the
dream
Arelle Canada and the glaciers. of the Rockles offer endless pos- elbilities; and Antarctica, grave of Bcott and his companions, the
of all desperate
great explorers, may be part of the Lost Continent of Gondwanaland, which ofte filled the Indian Ocean and linked Africa, Asia, and Australla.
Boneath its ice-cap almost certainly lie vast mineral resources.
One day. I predict, Man will Inhabit that Continent, ercato cities and there vast subterranean tap its wonith. :
Before then The White Unknown must be fully explored.
There is work in plenty for generations of explorers.
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"You can't have a bali,"
"Why can't I?” Deve "The amah's in there":
Pi "Oh, well, I think I'll stroll down to the Peninsula.
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