1931-05-27 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931.

THE LOG

Of The "TRADER HORN" Expedition.

by W. S. Van Dyke

Murchison Palis, Uganda.

of clothing or a call knapsack Jime 10, thers at trunk, suitcases, beds, If "dvar" man, kad rightste vaunt] parts of their tenta, Even as we to Le superstitious, I am that man, made the rounds, the water WAN } see, much to my per mal die rushing through the camp at a level comfiture, that I am in the art of of more than a foot in most places, inditing the thirteenth chapter of cuceying with it

hoxes, bits of my diary fo

rash and saplings. an unappreciativ· im modality; and 1 fad tifat fate his After an hour of exploration and

dained that the same entry conscurch we turned in again for the tain the sound of events devolving set of the night, most of us sleep: about a cloudburst which gearred me in the mess tent which by some the night ay and which miracle was not levelled. The storm threatened to remove from the face abated with the same Buidenness of the globe the physical aspects of M-G-M is Alrica. And I read in my entry of a few homes before the tort, "lemorrow morning...when the ticking it a vie camera will break in upon the stillness of other hit ut aboriginal jurica.”* Will

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RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,

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The following programme ve broadcaat 10-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Statio 2.8.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

PEAK CHURCH.

of

light and found that by the use of tecensional gold and silver leaf re flectors we could get along quite as well as though our entire electrical apparatus had been brought along, Renghero, exhibited almost unasual ability as an actor throughout, a vast improvement over his Arst

ANNUAL MEETING, [days offorta. I learned later from one of the white hunters that he had

THE ANNUAL MEETING come to this man yesterday morning;

5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

Electors of the Peak Church and said, "Bwanna, I am perfectly 6-6.30p.m.-Chinese Children's will be held in St. John's Cathe willing to do all this rot that you Programme,

dra! Hall at 6.30 p.m. on' THURS- task, but why must wanna Carey be continually pointing his finger at gramme of Vietor and H.M.V. Re-

7-10.30 p.m.-Europeun. Pro-DAY, May 28, 1931. imaginary objects and asking mecords kindly supplied by Messrs. questions in English which I cannot S. Moutrie & Co. there must be some reason for these hope to answer?" I know that metres.

strange things, and I wish work explain it to me."

you

ALFRED SWANN.

Hon. Secretary. N.B. Any person who is quali- fied to vote at the Annual General 7-7.28 p.m.-Waltzes.

Meeting of any Protestant Church Luxemburg (Lehar),

International Conzert Orch. the Colony of Hong Kong shall

(36007),

be an Elector of the Peak Church. Blue Danube (Strauss),

Reg. 3. Tales from the Viennn Woods

(Strauss),

Philadelphia Symphony Orch. (0684).

Gales of Laughter. Rencher aside

The inter said he then took

het he could, an idea of what was and gave him, as

going on and what the requirements} with which it had apparently riser laded Renchor went into gales of

of his part were. When he con-fla Palonın (Yradier),

On with the Dance, nnd we were able to get a fow hours' rest before dawn.

Stahl's Band (35880).

International Concert Orch. {[JKB4) .

faughter- very umeval mode of My Treasure (Berucci), In the morning the scene which conduct for him. "Why," he said to rected rs as we staggered out of

the hunter. "I wish you had told? the mes tent, damp and ill-temper before that's easy. I'm a Ird, added nothing to our peare of moving picture actor now. Watch

mini. The storm has broken!

me perform."

tas presumably in the ganyon behind the To-day we were up early and onl

to the Falls

to

Everyone retired early on night ret June 6 15 get a good recamp. The water had gathered our before the activity of the first day between the two walls of rock and, take

the fow shot novos.! Bring on the new cation.

Filmy to show the liternily forming a river, had swept

discovery remember noticing an cainous still daca upon our campsite which stood of the missionary tony's body by me during the home after dinner: immediately between

Horn and Peru and their departure the canyon the breeze had died down complete-and its outlet to the river.

up river fullowing her burial. The Just ly and there was that tenschoss in before tambling pat our tonis, it

British Government made a survey the atmosphea which heralds antrul broken

last year of the country between five up into

or six Altivan st 11 was aboart

maer streams,

our camp and the falls with the following depres Chek when i eruwied under

a permanent thesions in the ground and it was me respect of building mosquito net and blew out my lang of those that had swept through myate for the job

tourist trail up there. The estim The clump was dready quieted for tent. In the case

WE 400 pounds- the night by that time and could standing between these subsidiary trail we traversed this morning was | $2,000 -American Toney-but the hear occasional enerts and sleepy rivulets, only miser damage had built in two days by Maj. Dickin- un blings veri that nearby. been wrought.

The grind upon which the camps, one of our hunters, with the

Someline

A Dream.

ainring the night

of the tents

8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Report.

7.28-8.13 pm.-Yariety.

Clarinet Solo

Hong Kong, May 27, 1931.

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This is Heaven, Moscow... Organ Solo

Thistletown,

Edward 0llenry (B1571) Huaories Song--

Oh, How I Weary, Dearle, for You, That's the Reason Noo I Wear a

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Sir Harry Lauder, Baritons (D1493).

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Banjo Quartet--

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All claims against the vessel must Enite Grimshaw's Banjo be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th prox. or they will not

recognised.

A Swanee Sing Song, Whistling Rufus,

There's Nothing

The Store,

Quartet (3377).

I stood was matted down with madaid of four natives. It wasn't the Humoroits Song Our Sixpence in dreamed o; Alming "Thriller" on and brush and parts of it were still sort of a walk for an old lady to the river Leude which we are draining water. Dead lizard, take and there were occasional steep) camped. There was a thy canoe monitors, rats and birds, had been "ades and difficult angles, but we in the picture. Inded with some ofught and held fout by tree trunks succeded well enough in getting

del movie friends-Jack and underirash which had

camera, our re- with through with our

fl

Dempsey. Tim McCoy and Buck stood the foree of the flood. The flectors, our props and all our ac-La Campanella (Paganini-Liszt),

was getting this eme tre rapida

tory.

The Roast Beef of Old England,

Ernest Hastings (B2481). 8.13-8.30 p.m.-Pianoforte Solos, Sticeato Elude (Rubinstein),

Jones among them-and the water tents which had not been completely

Mischa Levitzki (D1489), 1 imagine overland the Pastorale e Capriccioso (Scarlatti), in the river was a rushing, boiling dattened and carried from their tance is about 2 miles. We made

Benno Moiseivitch (E628). maelstrom.

8.30-8.51 p.m.-Organ Solos. some moorings were badly bent and hat- the trip in an hour. Arriving at treat

shots at

being tered by the rain and the weight of the foot of the fails we burst forth Prelude in E Flat (Saint-Saens), piloted through

when water.

onto a The Swan (Saint-Saens), It was scene of desola suddenly from the woods

Marcel Dupre (E518); tion and waste worthy of the or

rocky promontory, fifty feet above;

Storm (Menle), iginal Biblical flood.

the rapids, directly facing the rush-

Arthur Meale (B2347), ing cascade of water.

Marche Militaire (Schubert arr. Best), Andantino (Lemaze),

Arthur Menle (B2353). 8.51-9.35 p.m.-A Concert, Violin Solo-

Rondo (Schubert-Friedberg).

Jascha Heifetz (0891).

Le, Here the Gentle Lark (Bishop),

Mavis Bennett, Soprano (C1229). Flute Solo-

The Carnival of Venice

(arr. Briccinki), Hungarian Pastoral Fantasie

(Doppier),

Harry Carey's Laws.

A check-up of a few hours re- vealed that about twenty boxes of stores

carried away, had been

Chiselled Through Rock. At this point the river is not more than UNC hundred yards wide, the motor generator un the radio chiselled through solid rock. The had been permanently damaged be-falls rise above it 400 feet, the flood yond repair, water had teaked into of thrashing, churning spray being The camera tent and rained almost precipitaled through a crevice in the 25,000 feet of unexposed film and rocky walla not more than fifteen It is apparent that temporarily put out of commission yards in width. two of the three cameras set up. once the water fell from the lofty Harry Carey had lost his wardrobe table of rock direct to the river

below in a broad sheet, but 'gen-f for the picture and one trunk of personal effects. Last year his erations of time have worn a crack $350,000 ranch was wiped out in in the surface of the stone through the San Fernando dam break, so which the entire volume of water this looked like a lot of nonsense to from the river above has come to. him.

Row, pounding itself ever deeper, From our closest estimates at seeking the level beneath. To-day this time I judge that we will be it is probably one of the most vio delayed at least a week in our pro-lent and tumultuous of all water- gramme of filming. Work on the falls. crocodile pool was not disturbed, of flung from side to side, thrown into suddenly I was awakened by the course, bat it will be impossible to the air in spray and forced through sound of rushing water.

narrow crannies in a turbulent race repair the cameras in less than Outside the air was continually week's time.

Fortunately, we will for the rapids below. It is Impos.. of lightning be able to survive well enough on sible to imagine that even a fish Water was coming down in our present food supply until more could weather the journey and the almost a solid mass-there seemed can be brought in from Butlabs. presence of innumerable crocodiles to be no drops of rain at all. Even The damage to the radio seems be in the rapids under the falls gives during the streaks of lightning it yond repair, but DeVinna thinks credence to the belief that one of was impossible to see beyond the there is a posalbility of using stor their chief means of sustenance is limits of my tent stakes. And all age batteries in place of the genera- from the fish who are killed or the while a constant roll of thunder for motor. beat its steady tattoo over the nolec

Lift Passenger peevishly) "What are we waiting for?" Attendant: "This is one

of the hazards in our midget golf course, sir."-Passing Shaw, London.

it with the lashes bolts.

hear the voices of any of

Tracks of Crocs

#

Vast torrents of water are

stunned in the descent.

Enraptured by Sight. 'As we stood there, enraptured by

of the plunging cascades of water. One danger that we failed to ap- It would have been impossible to praise in our haste during the night the sight, one of the hunters my was that of crocodiles who might familiar with this part of the coun- campmats, had they been awake to have come into camp in search of try told me that it was probably 20 foodstuffs. Their tracks were years since a white man had reach- which we were plainly visible around the atore roomed the spot on

talk.

Deluge of Water.

embarrassment.

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Social Functions.

To-day-Tea Dance at Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at John Amadio (9095). Hong Kong and Repulse Bay Hotels.

Entertainments. Sambre Woods (Lully).

To-day King's Theatre; Manual Hemingway, Bass "Feet First."

(82689).

Sung-

Instrumental Trip-

I Zingari (Leoncavallo), Mirage (Coates),

De Groot (Violin), David Bor (Fiona H. M. Calve ('Cello) (B3028). Vocal Deet-

The Thought That Never Entered

My Head (Novelja), Moon Enchanted (Eesley),

Winnie Meville and Derek Oldham (B3276). (This Record is by Special Request.) Carillon Sole

Country Dance in G Minor

(Newton), Spring Song (Mendelssohn),

W. E. Jordan (B2087). 9.35-10.24 p.m. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

(Brahms),

The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leopold Stokowaki (D1877-82).

10.30 p.m.-Close Down,

FRONTIER AIR CRASH.

Victims' Bodies Returned By Afridit

Bombay, April 30, It transpires that the aeroplane which crashed on Khajuri plain last Friday, causing the death of both British officers who were occupants, came down in a storm.

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DB290 Moment Musicule

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Today Queen's "Min and Bill."

Today Centra! "Marriage Playground."

To-day Majestic Theatre; "All Quiet on the Western Front."

To-day-World Theatre; "The

Desert Song."

Home Malls, To-day-Inward from

Europe

via Siberia (Empress of Asia); from Europe Via Negapatam (Gange); Outward for Europe via Siberia (Gange), 4.30 p.m.

Lammert's Auctions. Friday-At "Pamela's" premises, Queen's Road Central, stock-in- trade shop furniture and ttings, 10.30 am.

Meetings,

To-morrow-Peak Church Annual meeting. St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.

Friday-Union Insurance Society,

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British Traders' In- surance Co., 11.20 a.m., at Union Building, China Sugars, Jardine's Board Room, noon.

Sports.

Sce Sports Diary on Page 9.

WINGED ART.

LOCAL SUCCESSES IN SHORTHAND.

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Theory Certificates.--K. Mo- amad, M. C. Pendrey, and Ip Kam-wing.

Speed Certificates:---- 50 words

I was on the paint of reaching in the morning and it was evident standing. I can only hope that the under my bed for my slippers when that they had profited considerably trail which we blazed through the the back of my tent gave way with from some of the washed out chuck woods will help others to enjoy the a crash and a deluge of water swept boxes,

The fact that they might beauty of this great natural water- ever me and everything i could sce. not have limited their plundering fall of Uganda Before I could imagine what had to the inanimate objects about camp Our actual filming was delayed happened, my bed was lifted by the never occurred to me during the through most of the day by the fact enrush of water and with me in it, confusion immediately following the that we encountered considerable started for the river about twenty etorin.

difficulty in bringing two native feet away, I had begun to jump To-night the camp is restored in dugout canoes up to the base of the for anfety when very suddenly I felt

part at least.. Our scattered re-falls. We had purchased the canoes.

There was considerable difficulty myself thrown against a tree stump mains have been dried, sorted and in Panyamur and towed them all the regarding the return of the bodies which stood a few feet from the returned to the owners; the tents way to our present camp for the ex-by the Afridia. water's edge, and which, fortunate have

been repitched

Armoured care and patrols were on higher press purpose of using them in this ly, gave me an opportunity to get ground and, except for

a rotten very sequence. The fact that the sent out to find them, but failed. my feet on the ground in time to odour originating in the decompos- rapida become increasingly impas- The pilot of an aeroplane which suve myself and the bed further ed vegetable matter along the river sable as they neared the falls made subsequently went out, was shown

and the presence of hordes of new it more of a job that I anticipated the bodies by the Affidis. Turning around to plan my next mosquitoes and teetse flies, life la to bring them to the appointed] The Afridis refused to part with move I was greeted by one of the progressing much as though nothing spot. I was told that no boat had the badles for less than Rs. 10,000 cosses as below were obtained:-

ever come within one hundred yards each. of where I intended to go, but I have Finally, after negotiations, which heard many pessimistic stories it was pointed out to them that in light, coming toward me through

ince my arrival in Africa which the last war the bodies of their own the storm, As it drew closer 1 To-day a new camp stands on the prayed, to be founded on super men had been returned them, and

of Clyde De-site of the old, the debris of the stition rather than experiment. Vinna shouting to me from behind storm is awept away, the wireless find it sensible to try everything.

la operating on

a storage battery Another Obstacle dermounted. "Thought we'd lost you, old and repairs to the damaged cameras

Accordingly, I had two of my men timer," he yelled. "I couldn't find

pole the canoes as far as the most afternoon and another Impossibility are nearing completion. anything but a trunk in your tent Yesterday afternoon we succeeded severe rapide at least one hundred had been achieved. Everything else has followed minė

fect beyond the point where all In shooting, with one camera,

The sun remained with us again Into the river."

other boats quit. From there it to-day and it was a matter of only, W. Bascombo, B.A. twenty-six shots which portrays. Trader Horn, seemed impossible to continue by an hour or two to complete the shots Together we made our way about Renchero and Little Feru on safari water, so I had the boats taken out to be taken there. Our equipment camp during the hour or two follow through the jungle. A mile or so andred foot rock to the whirlpool been left at the falls and to-morrow

of the water and hauled over a one)

cameras and reflectors have ing. Almost every ten in the encampment had been forelled, and found an excellent

up the canyon behind camp we

the falls. The we go to the top-400 feet higher- location for directly beneath there was not once an instance these scenes a verdant glade beboats each weigh about 1,800 pounds to take the last scenes, depicting the where the storm had failed to exact tween the granite walls of the and it was necessary to employ block departure of Horn and Peru up the some loss of personal property. The divide, set off by a giant tree which and tackle to effect a safe manipula-river, bound for the fortunate ones were deprived only forme a background for the picture. tion, but they were there by & this country. of a few pairs of shoes, some items we were blessed with very unusua!!

nost gracious sights my eyes have had happened. ever beheld. Jt was the single blue-white eye of an electric flash-

could hear the voice

It

Every Tent Lavelled..

A New Camp.

Marchison Falls, Uganda,

June 15.

of a sequenes

(Continued in next Column.)

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