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Lord Jellicoe enlisted in the Special Constabulary during the General Strike of 1926. Unaware of the identity of this recruit the commandant of his division sont him with another special, an ex-. bluejacket, to guard some gasworks through the night.

The bluejacket was friendly. "I suppose you was in the war, mate?" he asked. "I was," admit- ted the admiral. "Ah!" said his companion, "I was in the Royal Navy, I expect you was in the Army."

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1933.

THE HEART OF BRAZIL

BRITISH EXPEDITION INTO MATTO GROSSO

IN SEARCH OF COL. FAWCETT

This and a preceding article yesterday describe

three- mantha journey through Cen- tral

Northern and

Brazil during the preator part of which the writer was acting as the Special Correspondent of "The London Times" with a British expedition into Matto Grosso, which was to combine a survey of the rivers with some research into the mystery of Colonel Fawcett,

By Peter Fleming.

naissance.

Iside in the tearing current to sup

ply restraint and guidance. But the rapids-like almost everything else in the Brazilian interior-have a much worse reputation than they dusdrve. We dreaded far more the banzeira, Д stimsh wind which blows, with invariable perversity, upstream.

Travelling whenever it was pos sible by night, we reached Maraba in the record time of 12 days. If the crow had not got drunk at ear only port of call we should have

The expedition's plans originally done it-in less and caught a launch "No," replied his lordship. "I included survey work among the which left a few hours before our was in the Navy, too." "You don't tributaries of the River Araguaya, arrival. We had to wait a week for sye!" exclaimed the ex-bluejacket: as well as search for traces of Co. the next, though its departure was lonel P. H. Fawcett, who with his guaranteed dally. This was annoy- son and another young Englishmaning, for the rains had started, two disappeared in the interior of Mat of us were 1, and we looked like to Grosso in 1925. Unfortunately, missing the monthly boat. from wife the Sao Paulo revolution combined Para. We stified our annoyance in with the imminence of the rains to orgies of auch luxuries as milk and Bri. curtail our programme and to trans-bread, and with some difficulty (for form a full-dress expedition into a depression in the rubber and Brazil more or less happy-go-lucky recon-nut trades has hit Maraba hard) realised on our reniming posses- to get us to Early in September Pittiward, alons enough money Priestley, Churchyard, and myself Para.

Towards Para. started home from the mouth of. the Tapirape. The journey of 1,000 odd miles down to Purs. at the though the least spectacular, tested that mouth of the Amazon, promised to us severely, both as linguleta. and hus-be an amusing one. We had one philosophers. We travelled in there batatoa and the equivalent of ten series of antiquated launches whose pounds in enah. Further down-masters were, with one exception, stream the revolution was, auid dilatory and disobliging. Our pro- too-long open-air drama produc-In These "Baby Famine" Days. (falsely) to be raging. Only one of gress was always dependent on the ing the most wonderful surprises, The hand that rocks the cradle us could speza Portuguese, and he ability of a small number of ex

doesn't.

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· LAUGH FOR WIVES A woman writer declares there should be schools for hands. Oh, there are, lady,

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The last stage

of our journey,

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Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 19, 1933, and an abiding passion. Cricket disciplines young players and re-j juvenates: the old, compelling A scientist is endeavouring to We set off with a crew of three: tomed to take. We were therefore from each unspeakable grati-produce ink from a plant. Several one Indian, une negro, and the seldom in a state of mind to appre

We ourselves ciate the very considerable beauties tude and devotion in return. thousand people will shortly be faithful Queiroz.

their paddled, two at a time, in shifts of of the equatorial jungle.

However, we reached Para with The reports from Australia of There is no new praise to be offer trying to produce it from

Christmas present fountain-pens, an hour, and for the next three the dangerous fast bowling in the ed to it, and yet it enthrals each

weeks the exercise and routine were the equivalent of 1s. 6d. in hand on cricket. Tests are most disquiet-new generation of cricket-lovers,

a great blessing. After six days the morning when our boat was due Facts You Did Not

we reached a littlà village, called to sail. And though our difficulties ing and it is sincerely hoped that and with something over and

Know.

Conceicao. Here wa were befriend were not quite over (for the revolu- the recommendation of Austra- above its more obvious appeal..

fed by two Dominican friars engaged tion had prevented our mail, our lia Board of Control made yester-For cricket has a secret of its

spots in the dangerous but already partly money, and our luggage being for- day will be acted upon by the own, still undiscovered." That from clothing a miniature vacuum successful task of civilising the warded to Para), it was not long English authorities. Fast bowl-secret is the unplumbed reason cleaner has been invented that ferocious Cayapo Indians. Here before we were watching yellow ing has been developed to the why none but Englishmen can draws cleaping Quid from a small also we were able to gell an auto-give place to blue as the waters at stage where actual danger is play it. The men who have made created for the batsman and the it the supreme field sport in Aus- Agricultural reconstraction of "shock" attack of the present tralia also, and Australia Eng-China will be studied by two experts English team has been bitterly land's equal in international con-white a third expert will investi- supplied by the League of Nations resented by the spectators. The tests, are by this unerring test gate the silk industry.

in our crew, for we got them cheap survival: Throughout our journey Australian fast bowler, Wall, has Englishmen by descent, not Scots

and they worked well, especially the we were regaled with apocryphal. An inventor has combined a leader, who had been in gaol 55 legends about his fate, which, as a also offended, and, friction has or Irishmen or Welshmen. South

Africa is beginning. to tell the trouble lamp, cigar lighter and times and obtained his fifty-sixth topic for controversy and conjec been manifested between the op-

windshield heater in a new auto- conviction Immediately after being ture, enjoys in Brazil a popularity

reservoir and returns it after use.

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matic pistol, two pairs of dark the Amazon spent themselves in the glasses, some fever tablets, and aAtlantic. snake-bite syringe, and with the We brought back no conclusive proceeds to hire a crew of four to proof that Fawcett is dead; but no take us down through the rapids to one who has seen anything of the nearer the Amazon. We were lucky entertain the possibility of his Maraba, B fortnight's journey region in which he disappeared can

posing players. It is argued same story. Success in trans-mobile accessory that can be attach-paid off. But after all we had heard accorded elsewhere only to the sea- the Australians that their form Plantation of the game among ed to a dashboard or steering post about the dangers of the rapids wejserpent. We did, however, obtain

er speed merchants," Gregory

native races in India, the West Indies, and Fiji will, upon ex-

the tradition.

Personal Pars."

...

News In Brief.

were at first Inclined to doubt whe- certain information with regard to ther our pilot was quite the man his last journey which is certainly Its and MacDonald, intiraidated bats-

amination. be found to support The Venerable Archdeacon and blind drunk and fell overboard twice value can

for bis job. He came on board new and probably reliable.

best be judged from men, but little extenuation can be argued on these grounds development that has directed at land yesterday aboard the Blue village.

Another modern Mrs. Graham White left for Eng before we were out of sight of the (Continued on Page 4) Apart from the question of mere

The Rapide.

MRS. FORSYTH LAID tention to the importance of Funnel liner Patroclus. speed, a new factor has entered

TO REST. preserving the "discipline and

The rapids were fun. You hear, in the "leg theory" used by Lar-

Capt. and Mrs. J. H. Hodgkiss, long way ahead of you, the low sportsmanship of the game is the Capt. Y. N. Campbell and Capt. J. continuous mutter, of broken and Wood and Voce. No defence can

"player-writer" question. It is R. Nisbet were among the passen- leaping waters. Presently you see,

Many Friends Pay be entered for this type of bowl-!

perhaps natural that, with the the liner Patroclus, which left rier of rock. As you approach it gers who sailed for England aboard stretching across the river, a bar-

Last Respects. ing as many of the bails must,

intense public interest in big Hong Kong yesterday. even if unintentionally, strike the

gaps appear; the barrier resolves It The funeral of Mrs. Forsyth took cricket, Press comments upon

self into an Interlocking echelon of place last evening at the Protestant body of the batsman. The ques the game published over the Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Taylor de reefs and islands. There are per- Cemetery Happy Valley. In addition tion advanced to an acute stage

of renowned namnes

plever parted for Home yesterday leaving haps a dozen channels, only one of to the bereaved Mr. W. Forsyth, in the present Test when Oldfield should be eagerly read, and that

players aboard the Haer Patroclus.

them practicable when the river is Sur. and Mr. W. Forsyth, Jur." was struck, and seriously injured the temptation to active players

low. You land on a rock, strip, and widower and son, who with Messrs. by a bail from Larwood. The to respond. to such an invitation

atow the Laggage and supplies D. J. Purves and L. Purves, were where they will come to least, harm the chief mourners, there was a whole affair is most regrettable is hard to resist. But the bodies, Dr. Y. §. Chung will distribute from shipped water. Then you re farge, atendance of members of the and restrictions will have to be established; to govern the game the certificates of the Hung Yuen embark and head for the mouth of Kowloon Docks Staff and other per- placed on certain types of bowl both in Australia and in England English Shorthand and Typewrit- the channel. As the current takes sonal friends, and ladies from the ing. Any point which causes un are entirely right in banning any Kowloon, on Sunday at 9 a.m.

Ing School, in the Prince's Theatre, the boat you gather speed. Plenty Kowloon Union Church Women's

of steerage way is essential, 80 Guild, pleasantness and prejudices the cricketer, engaged in a match

every one paddies like a demon and The last services were performed game of cricket must be removed from commenting currently upon The third annual general meeting the pilot yells. You are no longer by the Rev. Dr. E. Allen, Pastor There is probably no tie between that match in the Fress. In the ons will be held in the Hong hulk along a tawny, Illimitable mill by the Rev. Frank Short

of St. Patrick's Society of Hong- laboriously urging forward a stolid of Kowloon Union Church, assisted any two countries in the world interests of the sport, players keng Hotel on Friday, 20th instant pond. The rocks are racing past; Among those present wero whether akin or not, like that ought no more to question such at 6.15 pan. Colonel C. D. Myles, your river and your boat have both Messrs. E. Cock (Chiet Manager which cricket has madebe discipline than to dispute the Q. B. E., A. D. M. S., China Com-come to life. The boat seems a list of the Hong Kong and Whampoa tween England and Australia; nor authority of their captain on the mand, President of the Society, will thing, plunging wilfully at perdi Dock Co.), E., Hosie, D. Gow, H.

be in the chair. O, potion, and you stab with your paddle H. Scott, S. Gray, B. Wylie, has any other activly of daily field. The arguments supporting m

at the churned waters, full (because Henderson, G., Duncan, J. Brown, life been able to produce such sus the Australian Board of Control Mr. W. C. Felshow will speak on you have travelled so slowly for 80 W. Hattey, D. Henderson, R tained and intense interest in are Invincible. So important is The Troubador of God" at the us long) of the purest, exhilaration Ramsay, JD Proven, H G millions of people (on both sides it that the board's rule? shall al weekly public lecture of the that can be found a speed Too Cooper, J. Revie, J. Sweeney, A. M. Hong Kong Lodge, the Theosophical soon It is all over. You take an Simpson, A. M. Calman, J. Tempton, of the world) as that of a whole stand, that, lamentable as Brad- Society, 17 Queen & Road Central, "easy" and ball the boat out. The D. Keith, C. Atkinson, J. B. Chân summer season in this recurring mana omission (for instance) to-day at 6 p.m. Members of the rice is wet, and your blankets; one man, J. Chalmers, R. Taylor, D. Competition between the cricket from an Australian team would public are welcome. of the precious cups has been wash Harvey A. Ogilvie G Mitchell elite of the two countries. There be, it were better for the game ed overboard, and the parrot is in JS. McKintosh, D. Mackenzie,

that he should not play than Some floor wax in the Police clined to hysteries. In a quarter of Hyde, and W. Hyde, VAR is no need to suggest the variety that he should defy the board and Training School at Prince Edward an hour you have doubled your Mesdames Atkinson Allen, Gate of tests by which crket may be insist upon commenting in the Road, caught are yesterday morning mileage for the mo fugees Gray] Scott, - Nelson and Ingram Bad place, where (member ofhowe Union shown to be more than a geme. Fress upon the game he takes and's tall was put through to the There was on A game, of course, Ils, and the part in. Certain Englishmen Kowloon Fire Brigade The flames we had

e have had in the past, on their were extinguished Within a few land; and the grandest game ever invented. It side to learn the lesson. Any minutes and no material damage the boat had to

also an art, a science, A Dever other attitude is "not cricket... was caused;

while we foun

Church Women's Guild) were also present

the A profusion of wrentus" covered; along the STAVE, U