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17TH, 1924
BEWARE SUDDEN CHILLS! PEPS REMOVE DANGER THREATEN- ING. YOUR LUNGS. TO CROSS PACIFIC ALONE.
Cokle and shills strike with an alarming Alain Gerbault, the young Frenchman - swiftnem at any weak spot between threat or who last year, crossed the Atlantic alone lungs. But only too often the danger is in his little smiling boat, Pigeerest, left thought so little about that the seeds are sown France, recently, en route for New York, for thosa deadly long ailments, pleurisy and whence he is to sail in October on pneumonia. lonely voyage across the Pacifc. On this
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in the comfort of the ocean liner, Paris, his little vessel having remained laid up in New York since he completed his daring Atlantie trip in her. The next Vuyage of the Firecrat is to be a good den! longer than the last, and Gerbault
The soothing infection.killing Paps fames anticipates being-away for about three
are instantly breathed down the throat into all Years. From New York he intends to the vital inner parts of the bronchial tubes
STRAMS & CALOUTTA cruise in the Caribbean Sen, then pass and
STRAFTS & CALCUTTA ...... Ing. They soothe and repair sore in-
SANDAKAN tamed membrane, end the tickling irritation, ing through the Panama Canal to cross the Pacific to Australia, calling en route) and instantly dislodge'and externisste danger- at the Galapagos Islands. Marquesas, on disca gorms lodging in throat or breath- and Tahiti. O reaching the northerning taben, const of Australis he will carry out a Every Pepa-lader breath strengthens your series of explorations there. As on his defence against throat and lung dangers, and Inst" adventurous voyage, Gerbault is to
wubject to bronchitis, asthma, or You pork, pastes, such as macaroni and rice.ing cam by loosening the alborn plugs of with water and tea as his only beverages, phlegm, freeing your breathing and puiting an In addition to the equipment he carried end to the exhausting congh.. when he sailed alene, across the Atlantic, Gerbault is taking on this next trip machine-gun. He will also have aboard fishing tackle and a case of books, in- cluding the works of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Coleridge, and Tenny- sou. A collection of old newspapers, con, taining chess problems will also be on board. for Gerbault found the solution of these problems an absorbing occupa tion during the last lonely trip. became quite an expert in chess."
The said.
approximately every three days between Canton and
live with elementary simplicity on saltother.chronic chest weakanan, Peru give surpris. SHANGHAI LINE nghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through tickets
He is full of enthusiasm about his plans and has not the least fear of the long days and nights of absolute solitude on the face of the world's greatest ocean. He talks the sex like a poet and a lover was born nt Disard and wens through the whole training of a sailor. To me the sea is a faithful companion whom i do not fear. Even when I sleep I am dreaming of the sea and hear the sound of its wares. I never feel alone. when I am with the sea." Human com- panionship on these voyages of adventura wonid, he thinks, entirely spoil their finest features. Unly a man who is alone with the sea learns her secrets, he says, Did Gerbault desire company, he would no difficulty in choosing com- panion for his trip. Over 700 women, for instance, reading of his plans, have! written to him asking to be allowed to accompany him in search of adventure and the detachment from the world which he serks on the face of its great waters. But none of these adventurous, ladies is to have her wish gratified, for Gier- bault wants to be alone again with his little boat, his thoughts, and such voices of the past as those of Tennyson and Coleridge, whose music, be says, has cap. tured the rhythm of the waves.
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20,000 MILES UNDER THE SEA.
When on January 2nd last the crew of Submarine A20 set sail-if the term be permitted for the Mediterranean, they little thought that eight months would pass before they would return to their home port, and that in that time they Yet would journey some 20,000 miles.
When at sea her cum- such are the facts. mander received orders to proceed East, and so through the Red Sea and the tropics she came at last to Singapore
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a submarine will know, the accommoda-liners that will be equally at home above. tion for a grew who must live and work or below water. There would certainly and sleep, to say nothing of play, within be manifest advantages in a ship that in her for eight months is at the very stormy weather could continue her least, restricted. That every man came journey in the placid depths of the ocean. back fit and sound is in itself remark--Daily Telegraph. able, and is evidence of the great strides made during and since the war in sub- marine navigation and construction. When Jules Verne wrote his Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea," it was. like must of hia romantic tales, an essay in sensational fantasy-one of those imaginary voyages that thrilled and delighted by their extravagance, and carried enough conviction to make them plausible by reason of the circumstantial, scientific, and geographic details that lent an air of verisimilitude to pure in vention. But Jules Verne did not ex- cogitate his underwater ship "unaided. Like most o! our ultra-modern mechanical inventions, the subinarine has
lineage of respectables antiquity. Napoleon I was a patron of experiments in submarine navigation, which had begun in America at the end of the eighteenth ceptury, and it is possible that the build- ing in France, in 1883, by Charles Brun, of the first uechanically-propelled sub marine, inspired Verne with the idea of the story which appeared six years later. However that may be, it is not surpriz ing that writers of the romance of the future bave now abandoned the unequal contest with the commonplaces of to- morrow: The imagmation of the nove list has its work cut out to keep paco with the achievement of reality. If it attempt to cope with the future its poor wit may well be outclassed before the ink is dry. The men who perform such feats as that of the voyage of 26 are, moreover, so extremely matter of fact about them. We who read or look on ara thrilled, but the protagonists take all as part of the day's work. No nove. list could have invented a tenser situa-. tion than that of the crew of a sub- marine during the war feeling the keel of a great ship scraping the top of their craft and expecting instant destruction. But the ship passed over without tearing the frail thing open. Maria, give the gentleman a bag of nuts," was the skip pers laconie jest that broke the tension. At present it seems as though the sub- marine will remain an instrument of war solely. But he would be a bold man who ruled out the possibility of passenger (Continued on nezi collima.)
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