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A NIGHT ON MOUNT EVEREST

SPECIAL SLEEPING KIT FOR EXPEDITION

INGENIOUS IDEAS CARRIED OUT BY YOUNG DESIGNER

(By Michael Lorant)

M

ROBERT BURNS, that no other tents could with

Among other things ther

rearmament is likely to be He was not nervous, as be among the questions to be dis-has already successfully overcome cussed, in addition to the Span- the worst situation that could con- ish question, with a view to the front any producer — arriving at young Manchester designer stand. drafting of a statement of pora theatre with his company three of novel camping equipment. had have to bear the strain of 100 licy and a resolution for the an-hours late for a performance. the responsible. task of keeping mph hurricanes. That is why Hong Kong. Friday, Sept. 15, 1936. nual conference at Edinburgh This was at Seattle, where his warm the members of the world's such careful tests were carried out :

jon October 5.

wife, Miss Katharine Cornell, was greatest climbing enterprise, the in England before they were se- It is envisaged in some quar-due to appear in "The Barretts of Mount Everest Expedition for llected for the Mount Everest Ex- The Moscow

Iters that there may be a re-Wimpole Trial

Street" Widespread 1936.

pedition. versal of policy as regards the floods delayed the train in which He met Mr. Frank S. Smythe, These tents were pitched in Government's rearmament pro- the company was travelling. Seattle famous member of the expedition, pairs, but the fury of blizzards Zinovieff and Kameneff, igramme, but this is still a mat-was not reached until eleven years ago and explained to him and other elements always made both veteran revolutionaries. iter for discussion and decision. o'clock at night.

an ides he had for solving one of communication between two sents and the former a member of as some differences of opinion New York stars are, seldom seen the most difficult problems of thela hazardous affair. The ingenious Lenin's "old guard," pleaded

among the Labourites is be in that part of America. To his whole expedition, namely, how sleeve contrivance of Mr. Burns guilty to a charge of treason, lieved to exist. - Reuter

amazement, Mr. McClintic found best to combat the excessive cold eliminated this risk. It is ex when he reached the theatre that at the top of the Himalayas. tremely interesting to see how the audience was still patiently He designed all the special cleverly a so-called "communica- waiting.

equipment, top tents and sleeping-tion tunne?” To keep them interested, he had bags for the Mount Everest Ex-tween two tents.

is constructed be

His passengers are the scenery set up in full view of pedition of 1953.

devices the s.s.the spectators. This gave the se-proved so successful that the were

Circular Sleeve 10 years since Stalin broke with homeward bound by the two men who had been his Chitral, sailing tomorrow:-Lttors time to dress, and the per-again adopted in an even more im- dosest colleagues after Lenin's. H. Bowen. Capt. and Mrs. R. J.formance began at midnight, ead-proved form for the recent dare circular sleeve. By fastening the death and deprived them of R. Campbell, Lt. J. Y. H. Christie,ing at three the next morning. devil adventure of the British ex-sleeves together, one inside the

Last year their Dr. O. Fischer, Mr. F. W. Gardes,

the penalty for which is death,

at the recent Moscow trial. Revolution

proverbially

troy its own authors, but

des: in

HOMEWARD BOUND BY S. S. CHITRAL

this case the process has been unusually prolonged. It is now

The following

their offices.

проп

were

on a

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

+

Only Mr. E. E Ross, who is

of

plorers.

There are

The entrance to the tent is a

dis-

other the "communicating tannel" is formed, and not being exposed final disappearance from the Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hosking and APPEAL COURT_RECORD

Specially Constructed political scene seemed to be child, Mr. H. G. Lidyard. Mr. J. R.

elements it is completely tents. sleep-bags to the signalled, by the sentences of Massen. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. soon to retire from his post

eider hurricane proof. imprisonment passed

Perdue. Ar. G. M. Rio, Mr. E chief clerk to the Court of Crimin- and specially constructed

ventilation. Seeing that the ex- thera for complicity in the Rudloff, Mr. T. P. Seabourn, Mr. Appeal, can claim to have attend-down garments made of fine soft! Then there is the question of assassination of Kiroff. Last J. Unkel, Lt. L. A. Wilson, ed all that tribunal's sittings since cambric

its first on May 15, 1908.

The sleeping-bags were evolved plorer is so much cut off from the month. however, they

(RAS.C., and Mr. H. Woelken.

It caused surprise at the time from an entirely new idea on the outside world how does be get an brought from prison to a court

One adequate supply of fresh air in that so important a Bew body, so-called cubi-cell principle. which. contrary to the usual

final the tent? Mr. Burns has over which controversy had raged must know that during the practice in political trials in

on account covered a special ventilating sys- Soviet Russia, was sitting in!

for many months, was opened with-stages of the ascent, out the least ceremony.

of the extreme cold, the clothing stem which is really unique public. to be indicted

Each tent, is equipped with, a Of the three judges who sat none carried has to be capable of pro- further charge.

A stiffened They were

survive to-day. They were Lord viding much more warmth, and yet duralumin chimney.

con-leather cow! accused of conspiracy. not only!

is affixed to the Alverstone, Mr. Justice Channell, at the same time must be with the exiled Trotsky, whom

chimney and this revolves in the and Mr. Justice A. T. Lawrence. [siderably reduced in weight. the authorities in Moscow still

Ventilation is effected by who as Lord Trevethin died The tents were of the simplest wind. attack with special animus, but

construction and even a novice means of the cow! spinning above jcently. with agents of the German

All one has to the chimney and the climbers in jsecret police. Evidence in

into the tent are protected from snow, a for leave to appeal by a prisoner do is to push four poles support of this allegation was

The ice, wind, hurricanes, etc.

3 given by one of the 14 men in painting so strange that it is con-under sentence for doing grievous sleeves and tie them down.

the sheet is attached to

Apart from this there is all bodily harm to another.

tent, the dock with them. Its publisidered the most valuable of

This failed, but before the court root and there is no need for spac-triangular window in the cation far and wide throughout exhibits in the Museum. It is al

two layers of mos- another prisoner left the ing, as they automatically space consisting of Russia will not improve the re picture painted by nature, which rose

quito netting with a blind in be- ilations, already

somewhat no human band has ever touched. precincts a free man, his convic themselves.

tween. strained, between Moscow and The landscape includes valleys. tion for uttering counterfeit coin

The castles, bridge and trees which have being held unjustified. This deci- ¡Berlin.

The Picture That Painted Itself

3

N the Ambrose Museum

Milan, Italy, there is

at The first application made was could erect them.

gro:

Gay Affairs climbers took

fourteen

In the last resort the offence/been etched by nature in the course sion' went far to abate criticism of tents, and the top tents, made of!

"Grenfell" cloth, were gay affairs

CREW'S NARROW ESCAPE- of many centuries on the flat sur-the new tribunal as necessary.

in four colours, blue, green, red A piece of wood moulding' on faces of a rock

RAIDERS BLOW OPEN SAFE and cream. Originally there was the roof of the wheel-house saved a panel in yellow, but this was the lives of six men in the steam Explosives were used by rob-changed to cream as yellow is a trawler Riby last month, whet bers to blow open the safe in the sacred colour in Tibet.

the mast snapped off and crashed railway station at Newton, Lan- One must realise that these on the ship 30 miles off Scarbor- arkshire, recently.

tents are exposed

to conditions ough

of which the accused men are guilty is that of remaining the uncompromising revolutionaries that they were in 1917. The Your Daily Smile! doctrine of what is called "con-

Supply tinuous revolution” emanatesį

Lady": "I bought two shams here from Trotsky: and rests on the some time ago and they were so good argument that a Socialist State Have you any more?" cannot survive if it stands alone . Farmer: "Yes, m'm, I've several in a hostile world. It must more hanging up in the kitchen" therefore never cease to foment Lady: "Well, if you're quite stre

LTD. revolution in all capitalist coun- they're off the same pig. I'm take

tries. Stalin's position is that!

the Government now in power

three of them."

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Bored

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in Russia is established beyond The club bore was relating one of fear of challenge and can his long-winded stories that every- therefore co-operate with other body knew by heart. Governments, whatever their He was describing what happened colour, so far as its interests to him when he went on a trip to demand. This is the reasoning world tour.

the Grand Canyon in America during

which has brought Russia into The soft curtain of night was just j the League of Nations. To a falling." he orated. "There I stood, revolutionary of the old school drinking in the scene, with the giant it must needs appear a be abyss yawning before me."

trayal. But the old school is.

One of his listeners interrupted at this point:

ino longer in authority in "I say, old chap," he asked, "was Russia. The leaders who lived that abyss yawning before you get

so long in exile that they felt there?"

"Se. you want to marry

"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

themselves to be political

Ishmaels, with their hands

Unafraid

against every man, have had noughter," said Mr. Brown to successors. Stalin himself is anxious youth. typical figure of the new order mother?"

my

thel

“Have you seen her

PICTURE

"PAINTED"

BY NATURE

THE MOST VALUABLE PICTURE IN THE AMBROSIAN MUSEUM, Milano, Italy..

IS A SCENE DEPICTING CASTLES, BRIDGES. ›

VALLEYS AND TREES THAT WAS EXECUTED BY NATURE ON THE

FLAT SURFACE OF A ROCK

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WITH NATURAL NUMBERS 1-2-3

WERE LAID ON THE

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guard the fruits of the revolu should the prosperous

tion where it has succeeded,"

Comme

and

not to stir up its dying embers respectable sons disown their unsuccessful and misguided but

where it has failed In pursu-well-meaning fathers?

Mediaeval thought differed

ing this policy he claims, not without reason, to be Lenin's heir.. As such he cannot brook from our own in that it was challenge, much less contradic always seeking for some mas

that tion, from one who for 25 years would unlock

ter formula-the key

every door. was Lenin's intimate.

whereas we start with the formula, now called a hypothe Chemists & Alchemists sis or theory, set ourselves to

test its validity and discard it What would the 19th cen- as soon as the facts disprove tury scientist have thought of it. But there is a link between a proposal to found a society the two methods. The for the study of alchemy? mediaeval men held that the Carried away by the success of formula could not operate un- his own method of observation less the conditions were entire- and experiment, he would ly favourable to its efficacy, almost certainly have condemn~ and ju their study of conditions! led: enquiry into mediaeval they ascertained truths which superstition as a demoralising still hold The modern waste of time. To-day our physicist, for example, recog- training in evolutionary princi-nises an affinity between mer- ples has made us interested in eury and gold. His work is origins, Alchemy: was - the even leading him to accept the parent" of chemistry, as astro transmutation of metals of Hogy of astronomy. Why radium, for instance, into lead.

PHILLIPS

—of Höndlula-

AGE 68

CAN TOUCH THE GROUND WITH HIS FOREHEAD

WHILE SITTING DOWN -