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ÁRCTIC TRAGEDY UNVEILED.

BONES FOUND OF TWO OF FRANKLIN'S COMRADES. AFTER EIGHTY YEARS.

DOCTORS AND THE PUBLIC. THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY TREATMENT.

A suggestion that the public should be Nearly 50 years after the mysterious instructed by bronsichst lectures upon the disappearance of the ill-fated Franklin importance of early treatment of disease. expedition to discover the North-West has been made by Mr. E. R. Flint, a Passage, the bones of two of its members leading surgeon of Leeds. In an article have been found. The dramatic revola in the British Medical Journal he de tion was made in stirringly simple lang-clares that all physicians and surgeons. uage to the Royal Geographical Society must feel dissatisfaction with the present last month by the Danish explorer, Dr. state of things Statistics show that a dis- Knud Rasmussen, who incidentally threw treasingly large proportion of operations! aro on patients who have not neted in fresh light on that obscure, grim tragedy of the frozen north. A cairn was built time. This fear of the surgeon in the over the bodies as they lay, and the two general mind should be combated, as flags the British and the Danish-hoist.usually the mischief is done before the **The great We were glad to feel, patient gets to the doctor. ed at half-mast. as they perhaps might have been glad field for education," writes Mr. Flint, lies in this direction, and hitherto no to feel," said Dr. Rasmussen, "that t work for which they gave their lives was attempt has been made to tackle it with and determination. I believe energy still going on."

that the broadcasting, of indisputable im- elementary facts would produce" an mediate and extensive permeation which would have immense benefit. A person appointed by a responsible body, such as the Ministry of Health, would be listened to very carefully, for discus- sions on health are the most enthralling of all topics to a large section of the community. It is a tradition of medicine to condemn advertisement by its practi

A calamity tioners, but it seems to me that elementary knowledge of an official kind should be withheld from the public. while pernicious statements on behalf of quack femedies are allowed to be publish

While himself making the Pasange in the course of a 3 years' expedition, prin cipally to study the Eskimo, which he completed last year, Dr. Rasmussen en- countered. Pelly Bay, an old man ramed Igginzarsuk. Iggiazarsak's father had netually met some of Franklin's party, and had given the following

We were out bunting count to his son: seal. Suddenly we heard the shouting of strange men from the land (this was King William's Island): We ran up to them. and saw that they were white men, They were thin, with sunken cheeks, like starving men. We took them to our tent and gave them scal ment and blubber.ed wholesafë." They pointed toward the south, towards the Great Fish River, and made signs by which wo understood that they had-for- merly been many comrades together, but only few were left.

Afterwards, at another time, we found their ship. It was out in the ice betwee King William's Island and Victoria Lanu. Many dead men were on the ship, and we could see that they had died of a sickness. Also there was found a boat, with six dead men; there was food enough, and it seemed inat these also had died of a sickness.

Iggiararsuk then gave me the posi. tion of four different spots." continued Dr. Rasmussen. where lay the bones of I succeeded in locating Franklin's faen. two of these places, one in King William's Island, the other on the shore of Starvation Cove, in the Adelan Peninsula.

12 YEARS' MORE LIFE. PROSPECTS OF CHILDREN

OF TO-DAY.

Figures published recently showed that persons born in Britain live longer than the people of other countries. the differ ence generally being between two and three years for both men and women,

Speaking on the subject to a reporter, Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, the medical specialist, said:--People "still die in un due numbers at from 15 to 55 years, and still lose their efficiency at middle age. This they will continue to do until it is more generally understood that the foun- dations for the diseases which cripple and kill about middle age aro laid during If we are to the nation "We found the bodies. With them the early days of life. were still some, fragments of clothing, benefit the general health enough to show that they were actually we must teach the mothers in all ranks of society how to care for their children A cairn was then built over the From birth till the age of 5, when they bodies as they lay, and the two flags come under the notice of the school.

their own and our's-hoisted at baffmedical officers," mast. We were glad to feel, as they perhaps might have been glad to feel." added the explorer," that the work for which they gave their lives was still going on.

white men,

Dr. Rasmussen further discovered that all the iron, then in use among the tribe at Pelly Bay, in the form of knives, bar, poon heads, arrow heads, and the like, came from the ship of a white man that bad wintered in Felix Harbour and Vic- toria Harbour 100 years before.

This,

of course, was Ross," he commented.

Altogether the expedition covered 20,000 miles without mishap, conducting its in- vestigation from Greenland along the north coast of Canada, round the north of Alaska and across the Berling Sea to Siberia, We met with kindliness and

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helpfulness all through," he said, "ex

cept in Soviet Russia."

Learning of the existence of a strange tribe in the Barren Grounds, Dr. Ras mussen made a toilsome sledge journey occupying two months-inland from Ches terfield Inlet, Hudson Bay,

Mr. Philip Iaman, superintendent of Charing Cross Hospital, W.C., said that every child born to-day could expect to live at least 19 years longer than his grandfather did.

The English climate induces long There is just he declared. life," enough vigour in it to make us 50 ahead, and go-ahead life is always happy. Lazy people never live very long."

We find, for instance, a mother who her herself killed seven of a children at birth. Yet, when her grown-up so lies, she feels the less so deeply that she is quite literally unable to survive it. It happened in the winter, and she went out on to a frozen lake, calmly cut a hole in the ice, and clambered down under it to

drawn.

In another case young man, who had himself assisted at the hanging of his father," was so distressed at the loss of his mother that he stripped himself naked, went out into the snow and froze to death in a temperature 50deg. below

On the great lake of Yathkied he found a tribe no record of which had ever ap-zero. peared, and many of whom had never A father, whose son was to be hanged seen a white man.

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The CHRONICLE covers the notable events ment shortly publish details of the oficial skeleton organisation set up to together with the Texts of all the most import Commons last month that the Govern

rices during a national emergency. ensure the maintenance of essential serat Treaties cozainded with the countries of Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce, This answer was given in reply to Mr. Scales of Commissions, Conralar and Court Taylor (Soc., Lincoln), who asked Sir Foes, Hongkong Stamps Duties, Signal William if he was aware that town clerks Codes, Chinese Festival, Tables of honey and Measures and other. "Com. Weights were receiving letters, marked "Secret," atating that it had been decided that merial Information.

It is published at the Osee of the "Hore such an organisation should be set up by the Government, and that town clerks KONG DAILY PRESE.”

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Sir William said that for years, past existence, under successive Governments, organisations there had been in for maintaining essential services dur- ing national emergencies. Recently steps had been taken to overhaul and complete No doubt communications had been those organisations.

He had penetrated only a few hundred made to local authorities on the matter rards on Soviet soil when he was sur by the Government Department respon- rounded by Chekist troops-not Bed sible. The step had been autherised by soldiers, who could not be trusted for the Government, such work. K19 RAN OUT OFF.

They had evidently received orders from headquarters to take him alive Otherwise he would hardly have been able to shoot six of them before himself being shot dowa. Naturally he resisted; death is preferable to torture..

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Moji make provisions of this kind, surely they

Yokohama Nagueaki Kabe Sir William said that he was in agree- should be made public,

Hatodate Bhimuncseki Kroto with this view. When bé came

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An inland tribe, they were so ignorant. of coast life that they asked "what the

He was wounded badly, sad, no time horns of seal were like! And when we

was lost in transferring him to Petro happened to arrive with some walrus meat on our sledges they forbade us to

grad, where the remnants of the once cut it up as they did not know what it

famous Russian murgical and medical of their disappearance, which baffled the talent were hurriedly mobilised to save into office he found that this organis "Their mode of life is the most primi-world for years and is not yet entirely him, or at least bring him back to con- tion had always been treated by previous Governments secre, but he thought of one

the most sciousness. tive that is known to exist and every explained, forms

His luck was in. In spite of all their it right, that the nation should know I fow thing seems to indicate that they are dramatic episodes in Arctic history. In themselves a remainder of the aboriginal 1845 Sir John Franklin was appointed to efforts he never regained consciousness what was being done, and in Eskimos."

the command of the expedition, which And the Chief of the Cheka raged and days they would know. Some of the offi-i In his eight months' journey by sledge consisted of the Erebus and Terror, with fumed at being cheated of his prey. In- core engaged would be whole time homeward-bound, Dr. Rasmussen follow 134 chosen officers and mon. The vessels spiration came he would make use of cficials, and some part time. ed the North-West Passage, and came sailed from Grecahithe, on May 19th, bim, dead or alive. One of those idiots into contact with many tribes which are 1848, and were last seen on July 26th by who are used to doing the dirty work almost, if not entirely, unknown. He had whaler in Balin Bay.

was ordered to cut his head off. continual difficulties with the natives, who

A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. live in such a state of isolation that any stranger is regarded as an enemy,

In many places, we found them still using bows and arrows," he said.

"It is hard to imagine a corner of the world in which people had never heard of the late war. But this was the case with the natives here.

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Mr. Lansbury (Boc, Bow and Brom- ley) naked whether there was an instruc tion to local authorities that they should go to private individuals and compel them to sorvo in the special constabulary. Sir William said that there was not the slightest truth in this suggestion.

Questioned by Commander Kenworthy Government towards the unofficial or (Lib., Hull) as to the attitude of the ganization recently created, described as The Organisation for the Maintenance of be said that this Government, like "all others, recognised that it was its duty

No tidings of the expedition having reached England, as many as 15 expediThat night, the black moters of the tions were dispatched between 1818 and Cheza were busy making a round-up of 1834, with the object of rescuing the miss those poor devils who were on the records ing explorers. An exploring party in the

leaflets yacht For, purchased and fitted out by as being possible intermediaries in the Lady Franklin, and under Captain distribution of propaganda (afterwards Sir) L. McClintock, found The records of those lingering in prison were scanned, and about sixty were many relics of the Franklin Expedition

ordeal. "As a general rule, they turned out among the Eskimos, while skeletons wound finally selected to go through the horrible Fully armed to meet us, and we had to along the coast told a terrible tale of

The head had been placed on a pedestal halt the sledge a good way outside, their disaster. villages..

A record found in a cairn at Poins in a room into which the suspects were Supplies, or more shortly the "0.M.B.,”

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Those who showed any signs of weak. "In some cases, too, on arriving at Victory, told the history of the expedi settlement only the women came out tion down to April 25th, 1848. An ad-

to ensure the maintenance of essential to receive us, the men being hidden bedition in the handwriting of Captains were marked down for further tor hind the huts ready to fall upon as at Fitzjames, dated April 25th, 1848, nar-turing cross-examinations and peraccu- the first sign of danger. But we always rated that the Erebus and Terror were tion. Those whose nerves betrayed them supplies to the population, and had pre- anaged to establish good understand deserted on April 22nd, having been beset into hysterias or into behaviour that pared plans for carrying out that duty. ing with them after a while."

in the fee since September 19th, 1846; might ha interpreted as proving they re- If, however, any unofficial, organisation It is a custom among these tribes to and that Franklin died on June 11th, cognised the face were relieved of the was in a position to prepare classified worries of this life by a bullet lodged in, lists of persons willing to help in an kill nearly all girl children as soon as 1847.

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required, the Government would welcome asked in marriage beforehand. The girls

we a story of having seen 40 survivors of generally administered while the victim is, at the disposal of public authorities when

descending stairs are sacrificed in favour of boys. We the fated expedition late in 1848. might well suppose that a custom so

To Commander Kenworthy's sugges "They fell down and died as they Visiting Labour deputations are not such assistanca brutal in itach could only make for walked. she added dramatically. In furnished with particulars of experi brutality generally but, as a matter of 1878-80 an American expedition found ments like this Instead they are shown tion that the O.M.6, claimed to do the fact, we find in the everyday life of these skeletons and other relics of Franklin's, the summer rest houses of the sweated Government's work, he said that mem people frequent instal of the greatest men, and the body of one of the ex-workmen, where, canaries over sing by bera might leave it to him to deal with heroism and self-sacrince,

plarer's lieutenants.(Irving), was brought decree of the Central Committee-Daily any organisation which attempted to usurp the functions of the Government. Mail. to Edinburgh and buried..

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