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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955,

CHINA THE RIDDLE OF THE 200 BODIES Youth Needs New

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Indian Expedition To Investigate Mountain Mystery

New Delhi, Sept. 14.

A party of Indians will set out this month to investigate the riddle of 200 bodies lying on the shores of Rupkund Lake, high up in the $22200100024 Ilimalayas, north of Nainital.

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WANTED KNOWN

Local villagers in June told a high Govern- ment official about the bodies, which are reported to be lying in pathetic disarray on the lakeside, some half buried, others with only limbs and hair showing on the sandy, snow-covered bank.

caught in a blizzard avalanche while retreating.

must have

bren

There is no mention of this, who were Lake of Denth" in any of the Government survey maps, But If this theory, is proved right,

lagers in the region have the bodies known of the luke for yours. Flying on the lake bank for 114 although they have given it a years, wide lærth because they belleve that it is haunted.

First Found

/

bodles were The

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SOMETHING

STAMPS

Another suggestion is that they belonged to a hunting party of Chand Raja who ruled the Kumaon 700 years ago, This story is widely believed by the local villagers, who say that the

Raja

perished tld his in ar aunlauchz.

But for outriders give credence to this theory because the bodies unlikely to have remained

men

in such state of preservation for 700 years.

Utensils

theory is put

The most apparently plausible forward by Mi Madhwal himself. Ile belleves that the bodies may be those of is party of Indian traders on their way to or from Tibet, who were

caught in

☐ snow-storm

the snowy and perished in wilderness.

Mr Madhwal also says that he found some

wooden utensils, commonly used by Indian traders for churning tra and butter, near the bodies.

While many believe that the Government investigation solve the riddle, there are others who say that the identity of the party will forever remain the secret of the mountain.-China

"Our party had been elimbing sage morning," Mr Madhwal said. "As no approached, we climbed an overhanging cleft the week and came upon an un- believable sight. EXCLUSIVE. Collec-

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"There was no smell, but the Sesh of the hodica was bloated like inflated rubber, obviously because they have been lying SUNDAY POST-HERALD there for years," Mr Madhiwal Space for commoralal said.

Pradesh, Mr

advertising should わき In June this year, the deputy booked not fpter than Minister of Forests of Uttar noon on Wednesdays.

Agmohan Singh Neg, while on a tour of the grasslands near Trisul mountain, card stories of the existence ci the bodies high up 611 the

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Mr Madhwal, who was accom- ying the Minister, verified the villagers' accounts. The Minister has since. ordered an enquiry in an endeavour to die- royer how the bodies came

there.

Nothing can be done unti! September, however, as heavy MONSOON rains make the lake Liaccessible until then, so an ex- in pedition will leave early September to visit the lake and make a thorough, though belated, probe.

Meanwhite, the possible

a moot welcome identity of the bodies and the handbook for omithole-cause of the tragedy have become gists resident or station- the most-talked of toples In ed in Hong Kong. All India.

the therto recorded According to one theory, the species are included; bodies may be those of soldiers plumages are clearly and in the army of General Zoravar concisely described, and Singh, who invaded Tibet in 1841 a short account is given from Kashmir. Gentrul Zoravor of feld characters, Singh and his army were routed

habits, voice,

status, near

in Taklakot

Western etc. The Illustrations, Tibet, after the General had in- except for three plates dicted repeated defeats

on the

of photographs, are all numerically larger Tibetan army. Some of the bodies how lying of the Rupkund

by Cdr, A, M. on the banks

and include four

tive plates of the heads Lake, people say, may be those of 42 species and many of soms of Singh's fleeing army

useful drawings in the

text, The

The writer of thia

review would havo

benefited greatly from

this book when stailon-

WHALE BOATS

Oslo, Sept. 14.

ed in Hong Kong some -The agreement whereby years ago. Even now, whaling companies last season on referring to it, some limited the number of catcher 40 unfamiliar species bonts attached to each Antarctic on which notes were whaling expedition has not been made at the time havo ronowed for the forthcoming almost all proved easily season.

lucnullable, D. W. S. the Norwegian Whaling Associa

Einar Vangstein, Director of (Extract from "The Ibis" offiolation, says that great efforts were organ of the British Ornithologista" made to get the agreement re Urdion, Dritish Museum).

S. C. M. POST

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newed, but without succCSS,

By restricting the number of catcher boats, operating costa were kept down.-China Mail

KOWLOON' Special.

MESSAGERIES

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The Ceremonial Parade Of The Gondolas Guide To Vienna

Sydney Yacht

For Dollars

Sydney, Sept. 24.

The Sydney yacht Solveig, winner

Sydney- of the last Hobart race, has been sold for an undisclosed number of dollars to a Honolulu yachts-

man.

Solveig, á 36ft outter, be- longed to Halvorsen Brothers, of Sydney, who, bullt her.

She was 18th in a field of 50 In the recent Trans-Pacifle Los Angeles-Honolulu yacht race.

Mr Halvorsen said several American yachtsmen were

in- terested In competing in the Sydney-Hobart race, but had reached no

definite decision yet-China Mali Special.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOUAREMUSH AND, YOULDOK TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER!

BUT HOW--

I TOLD YA, BOSS. THIS GUY'S PILL DID IT-

FERDINAND

NANCY

FANIZ

VSHMILLDE

HERE'S A PIECE OF

CAKE, NANCY

JOHNNY HAZARD

Released FROM THE HOSPITAL, SNAP ARRIVES AT THE HOTELVAA JUST WANT TO BAY GOODBYES TO JOHNNY AND SHARI...TDIGH THING TO DO......BUT IT'S FOR

THE BEST

Hundreds of gondolas take part in the· historical tradi- ilonal procession along the

canal ол famous

the Brat Sunday in September. Wear- ing their colours "gondolieri" compete exciting

races with

Largo money prices for the first and socand, the prize for the third being a baby pig. The whole or the city's population turn out for this colourful parade. —Express Photo,

Arabian Aid For Egypt

to

Embarrassing Boycott

Calcutta, Sept. 14. Port workers today refused to handic the 6,960-ton British Vessel

Tyson because they suspected its cargo was Portu- guese,

Vienna, Sept. 14. The withdrawal of the Allied Troops from Austria and the rapid return of buildings in Vienna to their former owners makes it necessary for a new. Guide Book to be written about.Vienna, especially for the younger generation,

Young people in Austria' who are under 20 have no recollection of Austria as an independent state. They remember only the Nazi dictatorship of 1938 to 1945, and the Four Power Allied Occupation from 1945 to 1955.

Thus, they never knew thely, making it a place for a Hotel Metropole, on the Ring- aussian mintary garage. strosto, ng a good class bourgeois hotel.

They only know it first - as Hitler's Headquarters in Vienon and later as the Head- quarters of the Russian NKVD)— the Political police- in Austria,

ali

First Time

When it has been cleaned up and re-filted, the elitizens of Vienna will, for the first time in seventeen years, be free to walk on the pavement (sidewalk) round this hotel and to enter it without fear or tre- pidation. Until about the middle of August, the pavement was barricaded and watched by two Russian sentries,

Viennese youth will have to be taught, too, that the Bellaria bulling, which has been Soviet Military Headquarters in Vienna for the last ten years, is Longshoremen started unload-really the headquarters of the Austrian Schools Authority, that ing the ship yesterday, but one Aus worker noticed some crates the Allied Council Building is were marked "Lisbon" and all really the House of Industry, work on the vessel stopped Im-that Austrians

can once again enter the famous ring hotels, medintely.

the "Bristol" and the "Grand", had stopped in

for which have been reserved

Russians throughout the Occupation.

The Tyson

and Americans

too,

Lisbon on its way here, but only 25 tons of Its 1,500-ton load came Cairo, Sept. 14. King Saud of Saudi Arabia from Portugal, mostly shipments Loday sent 欺 message of cork. The local agent for the There are streets here, Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel vessel, a Swedish Arm, said there where no Austrian has trodden Nutser offering

was no government ban on Por- for ten years. For example, to Saudi Arabian aid in meeting Israeli "aggres-tuguese cargo entering India and the left of the Baugarten

termed the dockers' boycott em- Cinema, sion."

the street was sealed He called on the off by a great wooden barrassing. The message was delivered government of India to make gate watched by Soviet suntries. through the Egyptian

At the other end of the street, bassador in Saudi

was a permanent high hoarding France-Presse.

STILL DON'T BELIEVE ME?

HERE'S A WHOCE BOTTLE

NOT

SWALLOW ONE,JAKE!

OF THE PILLS I TOOK FROM

ME!

THE GUY'S POCKET. TAY ONE.

JAKE-

COULD

I HAVE THREE PIECES,

MRS. ADAMS ?

ANG), IN THE LOBBY...

HATE TO WALK OUT ON THE HAPPY COUPLE WITHOUT: A WORD GABUT, I'M NOT THAT STRONG A

CHARACTER,I GUESS...A

Am- arrangements for unloading the

Arabia-ship and others that are similar

ly boycotted.-United Press.

By Lee Filk and Phil Davis

AW,GEE, BOSS, DO E GOTTA- gulp..

1-14

THREE

PIECES ?

YES, MAM

AND AFTER A SHORT

WUT--

JAKE!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

MY AUNT FRITZI SAID .NEVER TO

ASK FOR TWO

PIECES

BIZZ THOUGHT YOU WEEZE OUT GETTING

| HARRIED! WHERE'S

YOUR BRIDKI, JOHNNY?

By Frank Robbins ·

ARY BRIŽI CHANOL DON'T TELL WE YOU PULLED THE

SAME GRANDSTAND

- GIVE"AMY STUNT" THAT

·1007/

|

Not Casino

In the Vienna IV district, part of the Soviet sector of the city. there are whole blocks

which

have been cut off by barbed wire from the population, their gateways guarded by armed Soviet sentries, and the houses within used inly by Russians and their proteges, such 419 foreign officials of the World Federation of Trade Unions,

The young people here must also now get used to seeing the Hofburg as one of the old Im- perial Palaces Instead of as a The Russian officers coalno. Helden Platz, in front of 1 they MUEL learn to regard not as the place where, on the first of each month, Allied troops parade to hand over the guard to another, but as memorial which it is to great heroes of the Hungarian Empire.

ono

the

the

Austro

The return to pro-Hitler days is taking place with astonishing rapidly. The Russians are de- termined to be out by Octo ber 1 instead of October 25, es in the State Treaty provided signed here on May 15 and rati- Bod

The other on July 27. Allles do not want to be behind the Russians, and

raco la dom veloping in which all four are the last 10 trying not to be leave the Austrian capital.

Bwing and Russians

which cut off the street entire-

EVEN

MAGICIANS

Can't Carlsberg

IXI

"THE JAM THAT MADE,

TARMANIA FAMOUS".

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

this" situation

calls for a

San Miguel

Last. Traces

'British, Americans, French back buildings, garages, schools, are all handing hospitals, hotels and other pro- parties Russian

every

any:

+imost

language Cyrilic lettering are being taken down, notices of zonal! frontiers are being cleared away, foreign uniforms in the streets are becoming increasing-. Iv

within

Ou

a very few weeks from now, the fast tracta, the Four Power Occupation will have been swept away, leaving astle trace on the historic walls and streets of Vienna, na did the Nazi occupation which preceded it. China Mall Special

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Palapines, 6 p.m.

Kores, pan

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U.B:A., Canada, 0p.m.

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Canada, 1 p.m.

Macao. 2. p.m.

Burma,p.m.

Kincao é p.m. mu

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 By Air Indo-Ching, 11 ..

Thaland. Malaya, Sodonexia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand & Ceylon, Noor

Philippines, 2 p.m...

Philippines. N. Borneo,

p.m.

Japan, Hawali,, U.S.A., Canada, ⇓phs.

Malaya, Indónesia, Austraits, New Zesland, Thailand, India, Pakistan. Middle East, Africa, Great Britaks de Europa, dp.marketN

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Philppines, 4 p.m.

Japan, Hawaii, U.8.A., C. & S. Amerion. 5 m

China, People's Republic,

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

By Burtsos

Macao, 12 m

MONDAYTHEFTRMENIA – 19

-"By', Burface.

.m.

China People's Republic, 930 1 Moto, p.m.

Philippines, M., Borneo, a p.m. Macro. 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 By surface China, People'a Stapsibile, 1.30 Th

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER TI China, Papír, Republic, 2.30, gas.

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