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∙1927 EXPEDITIONS.

IN SEARCH OF LOST

CONTINENT.

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Turkestan. He will be accompanied | by two other Europeans, one of whom will serve as geologist and Dr. the other as photographer. Sven Hedia, the veteran explorer, is undertaking an expedition to Chinese Urumtal, the capital of Turkestan, by way of Mongolia and the Gobi desert. And, of course, Ur of the Chaldees is continually surrendering portions of its great wealth of knowledge to the pick of the archacologist, as is, for that matter, the land of the Pharaohs.

Daring Women.

nomadic

A special correspondent writes to the "Times of Ceylon":-

In view of the enthusiasm shown by the public on the successes of Colonel Lindbergh and Mr. Clar ence Chamberlin no one can even suspect that the public interest in the ploneer spirit is dead. And for this reason 1927 will hold much to interest them, for it is to be so

The wonderful Mayan civilization! crowded with dangerous expedi of Central America is gradually be- tions than an equal, during times ing revealed by the efforts of such of peace, will be difficult to find in people as Mr. Mitchell-Hedges, Lady history. It is to be a true red- Richmond Brown and Dr. Gann. letter year in which some score or Mrs. Diana Strickland contemplates more expeditions have been, or will a journey into the African jungle, be, arranged for the exploration of with two other ladies, in search of various parts of the globe.

rare, pigmy elephants, which they At the end of last month Com-hope to capture alive. mander Donald MacMillan, the fam- Miss Ada Boyland is spending ous Arctic explorer, set out, with this year among the five companions, in search of a lost tribes of Persia: she announced her continent, known to Greenland intention of living with these primi- mythology as Akilivek, and believ- tive peoples in their own way in ed to be situated "beyond the sea." order to study them to better ad- Akilivek is the supposed site of an vantage. ancient civilisation unknown to Other expeditions of 1927 include modern man, except for the fantas- one of Danish scientists to Central tie tales of Eskimo folk-lore, and Africa, and an English party, led by MacMillan hopes to find remains Professor Gardiner of Cambridge of this lost race.

University, for zoological research But the explorers do not intend work in the Great Barrier Reef of to spend the fifteen months, for Australia. which the expedition is planned, on Central Africa also holds thrilla a wild goose chase. They also anti-and dangers, as was explained by cipate the finding and study of a Captain Rostaing, a French explor tribe of people known as the Naser who returned last year with the kapi Indians; the making of a most blood-curdling and revolting geologient survey of parts of Baffin tales of the wild tribes of cannibals Land; and the discovery of fossilled that inhabit the dense jungles of remains of creatures that roamed that continent. the earth in the long ago, not to According to Captain Rostaing, s mention the collection of specimena regular traffic in human flesh and, of modern animal and plant life. worse still, human beings fattened

The lure of the world's icy re for the purpose of food is maintain glons has attracted other fearless ed in parts of Central Africa. The adventurers the cause of know- reason given is that other food is ledge, Commander Richard Byrd scarce and it is the moral duty of in arranging an aeroplane expedi-Europeans to put a stop to this vile tion to the South Pole; while Dr. trade by striking at the root of the that Nansen, the Norwegian veteran ex-evil-in other words, to see plorer, contemplates an aerial voy- these primitive peoples obtain ade aquate food without being compel- age over the North Pole with German expedition. Dr. Nansen led to devour their fellow beings. hopes to throw more light upon the Soon after his return to Europe "lost continent" of the northern re-last year Captain Rostaing left glona, as well as the charting of again for this terrible region, and possible air route in that part of brought back evidence in the shape Captuin G. H. Wilkins also anti-Surely this intrepid Frenchman's cipated extensive exploration in the estorts are worthy of world-wide little-known lands north of Alaska, support. but it was recently reported that he would abandon his work, at least,

the globe..

ven-

of a film featuring these savages,

August 19, 1927.

so far as this season was concern- HONG-KONG-HOTEL-VISITORS. ed. There will be two other tures this year in these regions, and one is being supported by the Cana- dlan Government for the surveying of the Canadian archipelago.

Mr. A. E. Atkins.

FASCISM..

HOW IT TREATS MALCONTENTS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MR. W. S. CAMPBELL.

DEATH OF WELL KNOWN

SHANGHAILANDER..

It is with regret we record the The Press has been totally! dragooned (says a writer in "The death of one of the oldest rosi- Round Table" in an article ondents of Shanghai, Mr. W. S. "Fascism After Five Years"). Campbell, who was well known The result is that all Indian news- in all circles of Shanghai society papers now say the same thing. (says the "Shanghai Mercury" of! Deadly monotony has taken the Monday last), place of lively discussion.

Mr. Campbell, who was born All political parties except the at Leith, 'in September, 1867, Fascist have been abolished and came to Shanghat as early as any attempt to revive them is March, 1889, when he entered the Punished with imprisonment from services of the China Navigation three to five years. Literary, Co. as engineer in one of their scientific and artistic clubs, are ships. He continued in the em under Fascist control. Malcon- ploy of the company till 1907, tents are subject to three stages when he went to Messrs. Dodwell of treatment. The first is a and Co., in charge of the asbestos "warning" not to do, say or write and engineering department. In A 1911 he left Messrs. Dodwell and anything against Fascism. person who receives it has to sign became associated with Messrs. Walter Dunn and Co., in which it.

firm he was a partner at the time of his death.

The second is an "admonition." An admonished person is forbid- den to leave his town or village. has to present himself to the police at regular intervals and to be indoors every evening at 8 o'clock. The keys of his house must be left with the police.

He was one of the founders of the Engineers' Club.

DISAPPOINTED!

CANTONESE WHO WENT

TO SIAM.

The third is called "confino," that is to say, enforced residence in some prescribed locality-a colony, a barren ialand, or a hill "Go to Slam, my son. It is the village where the "confined" per- America of the East." Thus spoke son is put in the same building the father of Jeng Jua as they toll- with common criminals, is let out ed on their tiny farm outside of Canton. For Jeng Jua was tired every day at 7 a.m: and has to be

of the humdrum life in the rice back by 5 p.m.

A secret police has been organ-fields and sought lands to conquer ised under the control of the in order to make his fortune.

"Go to Siam, my son," his father Fasciat militia. It keeps up con- stant espionage upon all persons urged, "for there you will find the

streets paved with gold.” suspected of disaffection. Every And it came to pass that Jeng citizen has to have an identity Jua, wide eyed with anticipation, card bearing his photograph. If came to Siam, in fact to Bangkok. he is suspect, his finger prints He came with thousands everyone must also be shown. Without this of whom were looking forward to card no Italian can engage a room staking off a claim in the gold- in an hotel when he is travelling. strewn streets of Bangkok.

The system is not new.

But now Jeng Jun ia a 'wiser The enthusiasm of his youth is gone and if you talk to him as

"exclusiveness" is Signor De the writer did through the bars of

The latest victim of Fascist man. Jaspere, formerly Secretary- the Samyak police station, concern- General of the Italian Popular ing his opinion of Bangkok and its (Catholic) Party, and is leader in possibilities for easy money he will the Southern Tyrol, who was er-say "applesauce," a good American rested some months ago on a slang expression which means "the charge of attempting to escape report was grossly exaggerated." ---- from the country. The arrest was Jeng Jua is a ricsha puller and made at Florence-in the centre became a guest of the city for of Italy, not near a frontier-and neglecting to obey police regula- Mr. and Mrs. L. Bergheim, Messrs. no evidence was produced at the tions regarding unoccupied ric- W. Bray, R. H. Beavan, G. B. Brew-trial to show that Signor De aha. Waxing thoughtful in the his dungeon Jeng Jun Jaspere was planning an escape. gloom of Nevertheless he has now been said:

"When the boat which brought condemned by a Fascist Tribunal me here tied up to the dock in the at Rome to four years' imprison-Menam I felt my fortune was made. ment, a heavy fine and the costs The only thing to do was to go of the “trial.”

right out into the street and collect The number of persons "warn- the gold. I had a big sallor's kit Mr. J. E. Joseph, Mr. and Mrs. A. ed,” “admonished," and "confin- bag in which to store the money.** Jeltes. Kes, P. Kahn, J. Kirkland.

Messrs. H. A. Keller, Carl Deired" are now 1,541, 969 and 698 respectively. The great majority of these are men of high character and public standing.

ster.

Mr. F. Courtial, Mr. and Mrs. Clios.

Mr. R. E. Frances.

Mr. H..de Garcia, Mr. and Mrs. E. Geash.

Messrs. A. F. Henry, H. H. Hinchliffe.

Search For Fawcett. The announcement of yet an- other expedition of discovery may be expected, shortly. Its objects will not be so much the accumula- tion of knowledge as the relief of three explorers who were swallow) ed up by the dense jungle of the Brazilian state of Matto Grosso, over two years ago. This tiny ex- pedition was under the leadership of Colonel P. H. Fawcett, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. and consisted of the Colonel, Jack Fawcett his son,and Mr. Ralph Rimell-as well as two South Ameri- can peons who may, or may not, have deserted soon after the party Phillips, A. E. Phillips, A. Pike, THEIR SECOND SUMMER THE entered the jungle. The Fawcett expedition set out to discover serted cities, and other traces of a wonderful white civilisation that Colonel Fawcett believed to have flourished long before the rise of Stevens. the earliest known form of Asian

do-

Mr. W. A. Laffin, Miss H. Lille. Mrs. Maurin, Mr. D. A. Mac- Donald, Mr. Manzohn, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Masters.

Messrs. S. G. Parrett,

Mr. and Mrs. B. Pasco.

H. W.

"But it seemed that I arrived too late." Jeng Jus continued with a smile, "for all the gold had been taken and in order to buy rice I took a job as a boatman. This brought me at best Tes. 5 per month.

After two years ferrying boats riesha puller. The first two weeks aeross the Menam, I became a

Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Quinn.

were terrific. 'I would come home Teething and hot weather make at night too tired to eat. But I Mr. and Mre. W. L. Robtin, Mr. the second summer a trying time got used to it and averaged about P. de Rodes.

Mra. G. for little once. Summer disorder of Tes. 1.50 per day. Sometimes I stomach and bowels and infantile would make as much as Tea. 2.50 cholern may be quickly controlled and suffering relieved by Chamberlain's a day and when that happened I Colle and Diarrhoea Remedy. Easy would take a two-day's vacation. to take in a little sweetened water. When my money was gone 1 would Always relieves. For sale everywhere, got another ricsha."

Mr. T. R. Scanlon,

culture. Thus, if the expedition kover.

Mrs. Turpin, Mr. A. M. Tarta-

had been successful, the Colonel

Mesara. F. G. S. Wilson, T. B. would have placed the origin of the Wilson, G. Wragge. human race many thousands of miles from Mesopotamia, the neigh- bourhood in which science now be- Heves it to have been.

Unlike that of MacMillan, Colonel Fawcett's theory was based, not on| legend, but on an old Portuguese document and the story of an Indian who professed to have visited the ruins of a city belonging to this ancient race of people. The man's story was so similar to that written in the document that, with the other evidence he had collected, Fawcett was certain that he was not going on a fool's errand.

Way of Peril.

It is little wonder that the Faw- cett expedition is lost, if indeed it is lost, for its path held many perils. Strange tribes of Indians proposed objects of study on the explorers many of them canni- balistic in habita, and, others sup posed to have weird and fearful characteristics; ferocious animals; man-eating denizens of the river; and the even more obnoxious insect pests, all tend to bar the way of the expedition. The vegetation alone is a formidable factor to con- tend with.

Neither is Fawcett' the only ex- plorer who desires to wrest from Mesopotamia its long cherished die. tinction of being man's" firat home, One party has only recently re- turned from the Sahara desert, bringing with them the bones, of "a child that is believed, by the “üls- coverer, to be about sixty thousand years old, and other evidence that tends to substantiate the theory that man originated in that part of the world.my

Another, an American expedi- tion, has been carrying out investi gations in the Gobf desert, to the same purpose. It has as its loader Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, the dis- coverer of the ten-million-year-old "eggs of the dinosaur which were found in the course of a previous expedition to the Gobi desert In deed, Mr. Andrews has spent to much time, in this, xezion that we can. assure ourselves that his con- Jecture is something more than supë position.

But this party will not be alone Among this year's Aslan explorers, for a young German, Dr. Emil Trin- kler, la undertaking a two year ex to the lesser known, parts tinent, including Chinese the

*Captala B. `G. Latta,

HARDEST.

Commands New World-Cruise Ship Tof year hur commanded the Canadian Facile Empress of Ecotland, har announcement that Captala R. G. Latts, who for the past number been transferred to take command of the Empress of Australia, is one that will be heard with interest not only by the shipping world but by persons in all parts of America and England who have travelled on the various world. cruises of that ship.99pgepaZERKATHAMINE THE TOAS

With the Empress of Australia's zew Commander comes the further die- „tinction of being the chosen world-prisise ship of the Canadian Pacific flest „This vessel;has been transferred from the trans Pacific service this season,

and Feduled to enter the trans-Atlantic service June-25; During the win

thashe will take the pleos of the Empresa of Scotland on the Company

crubbe to the four porners of the earthlyje

Captain TANK will be sacobsded on the Empress of Scotland by Captain Wat commander of the Montistrar whist Orbisin... H: wy of tha: Hellta har bien appointed, commander of the Montzairn.

If Jeng Jun tells his story of disillusionment to the judge he may get off, says the "Bangkok Daily Mall,"

"SWAT THE FLY.”

CAMPAIGN TO BE STARTED IN MANILA.

A city-wide "swat the fly" campaign will be started shortly In Manila in order to check the spread of dysentery and similar diseases, Acting Governor-Gen- eral Gilmore announced after a confererice with health officials.

Fly swatters will be ordered by the thousands and sold at cost to the residents of the city. "I always keep a fly swatter in my office and at, home and flies find me a dangerous person to pick at," Governor Gilmore told news- paper men."The fly thinks he is emart, but he isn't if you know how to treat him,"

"The dysentery situation in the city is not bad,” he continued. "A careful survey shows that the number of cases this year is just about half of what they were last year. But the system of dumping In the city makes it possible for files to increase, and the disease is thus transferred from person to person."

Acting Governor-General Gil- more said that the city water is examined at least four times a day, and so are the artesian wells. The Government is doing all in its power to rid the city of dis enses spread by impure water he said.

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