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WATCH YOU WEAR-

On your wrist inday is a extit la, vificient, and highly accurate timekeeper. But it would not be what it

cave for two great cvcontres, T'un rest ichika thest annivazenty Twenty for pran ego, ilu fales

"Üritus" valarprout rese manualented; twente prate ag the Rutes relleundin, Pozentual increment.

The XVIth Century pranent, of beavingy, dreaming al near-poslection in watches, undoubtedly knew thai

ibait vltimate goal was unattainable until the dølleste movement cœuld be protected by a really waterproof past, and safeguarded from the vagaries of hand-

METAL METAL

Materials of all sorts-here been used in countless attempts to make switch perman- antly waterproof. It was felt to Rolas, in 1926, to discavar shu simpte principle of the self-sealing action of one metal in another, and produce the first truly, permanently waterproof watch.

winding by,a reliable self-winder. In the Rolex "Oyster" canu, patented in 1978, we have the first truly waterproof cero, in the Rolan "Perpetual" Rotor mechanism, patented in 1931, we have the first truly

tpeshwathy sull-wlading movemesi,

Proof of their efficiency, if proof were needed, let

in the fact that the self-winding waterproof watch je accepted today - an'integrat past eð our modern lửa.

A radical and brilllem departure from alt ether attempts at a self-winding watch was the secret of the svccess of the Bola.

"Perpetual" Thequpercocity of the Rotor Invented by Rola, in 1931, is proved beyond

·śny doubt by the tact that most salf-wading weiches built today have adopted the isme

principle.

Genuine advances in, watch-making science come at all-too-race intervale; here are two of which we thought Titting to mark the anniversary,

*

The cream of the Rotex production in ★ marked by the famous Rotes "Red Sush"

★ It is a sign that EACH AND EVERY Rote A chronometer has been submitted to the

⭑ Agarent bits of a Swiss Government Task- Ing Station, has passed them successfully, ★ and has been awarded the coretal Official

भे Timing Certificate,

THE ROLEX ROLL OF HONOUR: Autumn 1903. Leunching of the first Rolex wrist-watch. March 27, 1910. First Rolex wiisi-chronometer to obtain an Official Timing Certificate, at Swiss Government Testing Station,

July 19, 1914, Rolex obtains the first class "A" Certificate

Awarded to a wrist-chronometer, at Kaw Observatory, October 7, 1917. Marcedes Gleitte, London stanographer, swims the Channel wearing a Rolex Oyster, the world's first waterproof watch.

1931. Creation of the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, the first water-

drool watch to wind itself.

1945. Launching of the Rolex Detøjust, first waterproof, self-

winding with chronometer in which the date is shown. through a small window on the face.

1948. Rolex achieves the highest-øver accuracy for

30 mm,

tiap wrist watch at the world-famous National Physical Lav

boratory, Teddington, England,

with 93.8 points,

December 31, 1949. Rolex achieves the highest accuracy record for wrist-chanometers at Geneva Observatory for a 28.5 mm. aito movement 1039 points). 1951. Rolex obtulas its 19ALE "Clays A” Observatory Certin ficate from the Kew (N.PL.) Observatory for its regular *105" round movement of ass

mm diameter.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST : 23, 1952.

An explorer's wife

Mrs. Frank Kingdon- Ward, with har

husband here

is off to a place where it costs £4 10s. to build

a home. Address-

THE

LITTLE HUT

A

POLICEMAN would

suy of the Kingdon by George Campey punctuated by

Wards that they are

of "no fixed abode"

and he would be right.

on foot to the

Assam and China.

their distant life consists of "long periods of

boredom moments of ecstatic exeltement" with the difference that the excitement Kuchin comes from finding a flower or plant which probably no white

Their most settled ad- country, which lies between dresses are usually difficult to find. If they are not living in the third bamboo hut on the left as

you climb Eastern mountain, they are likely to be in a tent under a jungle sky.

Nome

The Kingdon-Wards are explorers; not, however, in search of unknown tracks (though Mr Kingdon-Ward has done plenty of that) but of flowers.

The sight of a blue poppy

came as excitingly to Frank Kingilon-Ward 20 years ago as the footprint of the Abominable Snowman to other peripatetics last year, Jean Kingdon-Ward can lose her heart to a mendow of four-foot high primulas as completely as an Arctic adventurer to his first sight of penguins.

Since their marriage five years ago, the Kingdon- Wards have been on three

to botanical explorations gether. And now in Lon don they are preparing a fourth to Northern Burma.

Shirt. slacks.

THE Kingdon-Wards shat-

ter all preconceived notions of the globe-trotter.

man has seen before.

MYSTERY CLUB

Sonia misses the loot again

CF anyone tries to fool you

among. thieves," Sonia said to mo ono evening, don't you believo it."

"I there's honour

on

I was talking with London's notorious Crimo queen in hoc Intest hide-out, a disused signal-box the Eusten to Wisbech line.

Expresses thundered past us through the night, but Soula explain ed they were only ghost-troine. She was wearing a daring

greaser's cleth in fireman's blush.

"It was when I was

hand-in-

of

glove with Shorty Pantz," Sopin got a

Continenta y Wolls.

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING GR

job as a parlour-

I soon and every-

raid, plunging into another of maid at the house, posing us her sordid underworld

"Shorty was a house-breaker with an you could cut with Sawn-nir type, he come as high as my but faneled him- Belfas

big mater mind.

"Always loft signature in chalk -

thing set. Then I heard over underworld Trape-vino accent the chisel, Shorty aimed to double-cross was, didny me."

shoulder,

Be

a

his

red

wro

wrolo loft-hand-

ed, incidentally www.to tell

the

It is appropriate that the met through They will spend most of Kingdon-Wards their time at a height of a common interest in botany and

travel.

They corresponded on 6,000 ft, and make excur the subjects as a prelude to their aions up to 12,000 ft., which marriage, is under mow for eight or

Kingdon-Ward, born in Man-|- nine months of the year. chester, could tell of treks through secret Tibet ("now There they will seek out closed to the explorer, unfor alpine plants, shrubs and tunately), of head hunters, of flowers to introduce into curing a chieftain by giving him a liquerite powder, of arriving in Britain.

a Tibetan village to find a "wife" allocated to him, of rare and strange plants.

'53, '54, '55 ?

Jean Macklin, barn in India, could talk about various jobs in

stuff,"

KINGDON-WARD ha 8 Bembay and a journey to Kash-

given around 300 new mir"tourist

her later specimens to the horticul- husband was

to call it. tural life of his country, in- Now buth share the same adven

tures, poris and thrills of dis- cluding more

than 50

covery. varieties of rhododendrons

to Kow. The famous blue Cost higher Poppy was followed years later by the Manipur lily, e coming Burma expedition

THE little will which is pink and a smaller than the ordinary which is higher than it would lily.

Cost around £2,500

have been a few years ago because in the East, too, prices.|- have risen.

The

How long will their ex-

Royal Horticulturai pedition take? Time scems Society pay them a basle amount; unaccountable, the urgency the cest is raised by private

say:

of London life strikes hol- subscriptions from societies and low, the crashing of sound Though they are £1,000 short barriers unreal as you hear of the target their passages are the Kingdon-Wards

booked. They will embark in a "Well, we shall not be back ship at Liverpool, a quiet, un- assuming couple whose mission in in 1953 and probably not in life is to collect packets of seeds. 1954. We might not be back from the top of the world and until 1956."

bring 'em back to live in an English garden.

No forms

THESE years will give

The husband has been walking about, riding about,

them their nearest ap- flying over, getting lost in,

proach to a permanent contracting fever in, tread- home. In London they live in ing new territory in and a private hotel (“We are generally making the East not domesticated and it his oyster since 1909. Ie simplifies matters"). ia now 66. But he might be 40 and he might have any job in the narrow canyons of the City.

In Burma, as Mrs Kingdon- Werd prints cut to fratrate: | TF

build a home friends, they can tor £4 10s. without making out a single torn. It will be

unben hul, lit by hurtlane nps, neither

Barnfortable.

comfortable zor

cops he'd pulled the job.

by Ernost Dudley

The Armchair Detective

tc-

Sonia's eycas glittered

Sho chowed miniscently. chunk out of her coros cup ir- ritably, then went on: "Get all for himself was the swag Shorty's idea. Leave me to take the top while ho gave hla girl- friend, Alma Dillo-thick- skinned little moil-a wild week at Warrington.

*** pretended to play along "We planned to rob Rear with Shorty. Wo fixed tho Admiral Sir Midie Stans, R.N. nighs of the robbery. I'd let him (R'd.)," Sonia continued, "His in through a back window and house wes called the Old meet him later at the local, Seltings, in the village of Muddy- and Bottleneck, up-the-Creek, near Portsmouth Harbour.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Poppy Pimlico says that If they're gentlemen, they'll declare from now to the Coronation n'close season for divorcing beeresses,"

the

new he'd be with Alma

at the other pub, the Stost and Flagpole, ready to skip. But I had my own ideas. When Shorty things showed up I told him had gone wrong and he beat 'IL

my-

оп

"Then I lifted the loot self and hid it in my room, I chalked Shorty's signature the wall, opened the back win- dow to look as if it had been forced, and screamed like Covent Garden coloratura.

A

"Sr Eddle sppeared, yelled burglars and blue murder, and phoned the cops. I knew every- had one would think Shorty pulled the job, and I could drop a hint where he could be pick- ed up. When they found he hadn't Fot the stuff the cops would believe he'd cached it.

"Yes, Shorty was for

for it all right....Only, you see," and Sonia started to sob again. "I'd made another of my slips..." But YOU, of course, hauc spotted Sonia's mistake. If you haven't, a look at the picture - should help you spot the clue. (Solution: Page 10)

Kon-Tiki man tracks

Red Indians

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THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN

a Hollywood film director decides that scalp-hunting attack by Red Indians would pep up a Pacific island romance he may not be wildly wrong if he puts one in.

The wife can talk of her experiences in Manipur, the Michmi and Naga Hifls, Assam and Tibet; she can recall the terrors of the

But surely the femininity of Assam earthquake of 1950 Mrs Kingdon Ward Усагия when the mountains open- towards a house of brick in what ed and the fates laughed at tun? Be assured; she would not

has come to be called civilisa-scorea her flimsy tent. But at 31, leave her little wooden hut for Jean Kingdon-Ward has the you or any other householder. femininity of !! fashion

This brown haired model; the lass, you would with the ingenuous face, the say, with a delicate air.

slow, warm smile and the apple

woman

checks is dedicated to the quest for flowers and plant life to enrich the urban life of others. She is an outdoor largs manner.

girl in the

When these two travel lers go to Burma in Novem- ber, Mrs Kingdon-Ward will. wear the masculine uniform of slacks and bush shirt. Boredom, plus At the moment, as she walks about London, she

APART from botanical know- revels in a summer dress A tedge there would seem to (floral design, naturally), be few qualifications to be a Mrs stylish shoes, and a whim- Kingdon-Ward. You do not, as she herself demonstrates, have to sically feminine hat.

juok

But it is an to be able to read by advantage. "I hope," she says fer- light of a hurricane vently, "I don't look like lamp, play double-dummy bridge with your husband, negotiate a an explorer's wife."

In Burma the Kingdon precipice along a foot-wide track Wards will make a three and to suffer boredom with good For the Kingdon-Wards ́ weeks' journey by mule and will tell you that, like the war,

JOHNNY HAZARD

Kraec.

islands

the are

direct

VANCOSVETI LE

NORTH

AMERI

KAWAN

TONGAREVA

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SOUTH

"AMERICA:

ZEALAND

FOLYKESIA

MILES 1000

The grass-skirted natives of Hawail, Tahiti, and

of other Pacific RAVA ;) descendants of North American Indians, accord- ing to Norwegian scientist THOR HEYERDAHL, who led the excling Kon-Tiki expedition five years ago.

Heyerdahl

703 publishes pages of carefully documented arguments in support of this revolutionary theory today."

HEAD-HUNTERS

The fact that

1 white

there were men оп almost -every--island long before apy

Europeans arrived there.

The huge stone statues on Easter Island, which ara different from any Indion totem polo.

Heyerdahl has a ready

swer.

He believes that about

an-

600 years before the North Ameri- can Indians set out the Pacific Islands had been colonised by fair-skinned, bearded people who came from Peru.

They alro drifted with currents and eventually ed on Easter Island.

a

the

land-

There is strong evidence that fair-haired, white-skinned race, who knew how to build huge statues almost identicel with those. on Easter Island; orce inhabited Peru.

THE ANSWER?

Led by a bearded king cell-

on a

Journey

He belloves that by drifting ed Kon-Tiki, they are believed rafta with the ocean currents they to have put to see on

balsa landed on Hawab, and

made of light-weight even- tually spread to other islands. Jou

that Most scientists believe

Heyerdahl and Avo com Pacific theso

islanders Poly- paniona proved such He shows that in physique, neslans come from Malaya or is possible by their Kon-Tild customs, dress, folk-lore.

a balsa raft to and Java. But nobody has explain expedition blood groups the Eastern Paci ed how they travelled in canoes the Tuamotu Islands. fe islanders including the Mao- eastwards against winds and Heyerdahl's Ingenious theory ris of New Zealand—are close- currents.

might account for another un ly related to certain Indian

explained fact of history: why To prove his theory. tribes living on the north-west

that the Inca troops of Peru gave in салооз could coast of Canada.

safely travel to a few Spaniards without He argues that hundreds of westwards, Heyerdahl describes fight in the 10th century. these Indians were forced to a journey made by a sea cap-

folk-lore escape to sca

prophesied tain who left Vancouver Island that the fair-skinned, bearded In big canoes

in a canoe in 1920 and drified Peruvians would one day come when attacked by n fiercer

back. Maybe when. tribe about. 000 past Hawali to Tongareva. head-hunting

The theory seems, to clear raw the Spaniards they believed years ago.

up all the mysteries of the that the descendants of King Eastern Paciße falanders *American Indians' in the Pacific

ex- Kon-Tiki had returned. (Allen and Unwin, 701.).

rept two:

By Frank Robbins

WHILE LATER...

YOU STILL DON'T TRUST ME, DO YOU, HERK WALAUT?",

155 NOT FOR ME TO TRUST, HERR HAZARD!

SO LET'S SEE IF I CAN REMEMBER THE ROUTE? WE'VE GONE LEFT, THEN ABOUT TEN SECONDS LATER ANOTHER

LEFT、、

NO USE, THEY'VE MADE MORE TURNS THAN A PIN- WHEEL! FACE IT, HAZARD... YOU'RE LOST!

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the Incas

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