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The hospital orderly to whom George during the present-century, ceteoros xplorer-has-a-world-wide-reputation, logists are not yet in a position to give and his book "My Life as an Explorer" | Ingram spoke these bitter words his complete and satisfactory answer to tells the story of his many wanderings. given to The Sunday News some details what may at first sight seem a simple 1 is a fascinating record of dangers, of the amazing hunger strike which the and even fundamental question-"Why privations and final victory, for in what young picture thief has been carrying on does it rain

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lish he almost invariably succeeded. The 194 account of his journey to Tibet in parti- Ingram is reported to be seriously ill cala will be read with intense interest as a result of his unparalleled period of for the author made this exploration in deliberate starvation.

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MRS. PANKHURST'S DOCTOR, "He at once put his decision into tary in India, imparted Morley's verdict action, and within a month he had reach to me: the Government in London reed such a stage of weakness that Dr. fused me permission to enter Tibet by Forwood, the forcible feeding expert, who Exploration by means of aircraft and way of the Indian border Surveyors, was responsible for administering food by unmanned balloons has taught us some assistants, armed escort, all that had been force to Mrs. Pankhurst and other, lend thing of what goes on up to a height of promised was withdrawn. I had surviv twenty miles or so, but it is certain theted revolutions, deserts and plague; bug Suffragettes, was called in.

"Ingram (or Tredegar, as he was once the earth's atmospheric cloak is at least at the very threshold of the unknown

pital, and food was forced into his country I met an obstruction more diff-known) was removed to the prison hos- unknown | cult to surmount than the Himalayas.

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more is practically an region. Observations of meteorites" end their trails have lately led British scien tints to the astonishing conclusion that beyond the permanent zone of intense cold that has long been known to ex within the first few miles above the ground there is an equally permanent area of tropical heat. This is a discovery which-may-prove of far-reaching import ance, and it is, in any event, a very not able contribution to our knowledge the upper atmosphere.

"I cable, the Premier, and was met with refusal. Lord Minto sent several telegraras to forley and was refused, Lord Percy. interpellated Morley in Parliament, only to be answered: "The Imperial Government has resolved to Keep Tibet isolated from India.?

"I shall not easily forget the horrible. experiences of those feeding two or three times a day. The younger prisoner, with his dreadfully emaciated face and glittering eyes, persistently rebuffed the + pleading of the doctors that he should take food in the natural way. Every time he refused.

Dr. Sven Hedin, as his book shows, managed to get to Tibet-in-spite-of-all opposition, "by a road over which Morley had no authority, ie, from Chinese ter- If it is not yet possible to trace the Titor in the north. There was obvious ultimate causes of rain, the immediately some political reason for Lord Morley's causes at least are now fairly well under refusal, or the author would not pay this stood, and they may be summarised characteristic tribute to him later in the a very few words. Practically all rain, book. Dr. Hedin writes: hait and snow are produced by the rising and consequent chilling of air currents, and there are three distinct ways in which this may happen.

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"nen a heavy belt, riveted with wrist anacles, was strapped round his waist, securing bus us, and the eggs beaten

mils, which formed his sole diet, were given to him by the method which. Dr. Forwood has discovered after lorg ex- periment to be the most humane and Batisfactory.

TEMPTING DAINTIES.

"The Royal Geographical Society in London assembled in Queen's Hall Oranges, apples, beef tea, custard, among those present was the brave and 1. CYZONIC RAIN. The various pheno- capable Sir Robert Falcon Scott, who and similar delicacies were placed beside perished a few years later on his return the bed, but if they tempted him Ingras mena comprised by the terms "cyclone " and depression. of which we, read so

from the South Pole. It is the customSave no sign of an inward struggle. The continually in the weather reporte, are of the Society, to thank the lecturer, on battle between the will to live and the the chief source of rain over most of motion from some one in the audience. determination to die was not shown in England, and their functioning may That task was delegated to the Secretary the way he waved the dainties away. briefly outlined as follows: Two drifts of State for India, Lord Morley of Black And it seemed that his long battle against

Fife was to be crowned with success." of air at different temperatures are clash- ing, and the colder of the two (usually from E. or S.E.), being the denser, and therefore the heavier, forces the warmer and lighter drift (usually from W. or S.W.) to rise bodily over it. In so doing, the warmer air current becomes cooled by expansion as it mounts into the less dense layers above, and its moisture con sequently condenses, producing, first, cloud consisting of tiny water particles, and, finally, as these particles coalesce, tain. For the amount of water vapour that can remain in the uncondensed And invisible state in a mass of air depends solely on the temperature,

CAUSE OF "CLOUD BURSTS." & COSVRCTIONAL RAIN-The second way is exemplified by what happens in Bumper thunderstorm. In this case the layers of air near the ground are rapidly heated by the sun's rays, and so expand and rise far into the cold upper reaches of the atmosphere. Convection"" is the physical name for this process. The as fending air is charged with moisture that it has gathered from the ground, vegeta tion, or other sources, and as it goes on mounting and cooling the moisture con denses into cloud, and finally into rain when it reaches a height where it can no longer hold its water vapour in the in-

visible state..

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The food given by force did not have "It was this noble and highly cultured man who had prevented me from going the effect which food naturally consumed to Tibet from India, and who had been has. His energy waned, his body grew sold to all Lord Minto's appeala Now more sunken and emaciated, his com he thanked me for the lecture, in which plexion more ashen, while the unnatural I related the discoveries I had made. It brightness of his eyes grow more pro-

was and remains the most precious re- collection I have of the Royal Geo- graphical Society.

"Only a gentleman can speak this, a true knight who knows how to distinguish between fair play in research and petty intolerance in politics. It was probably at Lord Morley's suggestion that King Edward named me .C.L.E.

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"For 15 months on end I saw him fed by force. I do not care. I am going to die and cheat the prison' were his last words to me. I know he will not give

A curious coincidence in the case of Ingram is that he occupies the cell in Parkhurat which Stinie" Morrison "occu pied, when he carried out his prolonged. hunger strike on similar lines until it

Dr. Sven Hedis too gives an unexpectended fatally

The Home Office has refused to release ed glimpse of the character of the late Lord Kitchener, who he says "waa

The public ordered that he shall forfeit all remission furious at the unyielding attitude of his Ingrum on the grounds of health and has Government towards me. dinners and parties. given by him and of sentence for his stubbornness, the Viceroy surpassed anything that can be attained in that line in Europe and America: and the Maharajahs shimmered SUN DISAPPOINTS WATCHERS. with pearls and precious stonga..

"The entrance hall of Lord Kitchener'a house was hung with flags he had taken from the Mahdi and the Dervishes. at Omdurman, and trophies from the Trans vaal and Orange Free State. His apart

were decorated with busts of ments. Alexander and Cesar, and portraits of General Gordon, not to mention the magnificent collection of China from the Kang Hi and Chien Lung periods.

Six hundred people who gathered at. Stonehenge to watch the mid-summer sunrise were disappointed, for at the time of the sunrise the sky was a mass of cloud and a drizzling rain was falling.

The crowd began to assemble before midnight, and the night was passed with music on gramophones, violins, and saxo- phones.

"He also showed many sympathetic

The uprush of air in this case is often Bo rapid that it prevents the water drops and hailstones from falling until they have grown sufficiently large and beavy to overcome the resistance. This account for the great intensity of rain and hail think I may say without boasting. during thunderstorms, and. for the ex that I got very close to Kitchener during treme instances called "cloudbursts."

Hail 18, of course, formed-when-th those days. We were both of us unmar and simple traits hardly to be expected temperature at which the condensation red Werved undisturbed in the large. takes place is below freezing point, and palace, only two adjutants sharing our in this was of iron. When I first moved as low temperature in the upper air is meals. He had vanquished Africa with to his house he took me up to my rooms. arms: Asia had fallen to my lot. He They were tastefully decorated with bou- essential for thunderstorms, hail is was tireless in questioning me about quets of flowers in vases. The adjutants very general feature of such cases

details of the vast continent to which be told me that he himself had picked them 3. OROGRAPHIC RAIs.-This type of rain had now removed his activities. If in his garden. Why? I asked. Because occurs when air is cooled through being

A whole pile of books on Tibet lay to me of his life. I could make a whole

on the night table in my bed-room so pushed upwards by mountain ranges or now had notes of what he then related he wanted the colours to harmonise. bills, the condensation resulting from book out of his words alone....

that I might feel at home in my new sur- The up- the process already outlined.

He told me of his early years, of roundings. Kitchener was very parti lands of the West of Scotland, Wales and England are so notably wet because the Trebiznad and Bankim of his topogra- cular in some small things to which most prevailing warm S.W. winds, charged phical activities in Palestine, of Gordon generala would have given but slight with moisture accumulated during their Pasha, of the campaign against the attention."

When giving large dinners, he himself long journey over the Atlantic, are forced Mahdi and the Dervishes, of the battle. to ascend on reaching the mountains, and at Omdurman, of the South African War, supervised the laying of the table and so, becoming cooled, condense the water of the reforms introduced by him in the inspected it as critically as if it were a vapour then and there. The effects of Indian Army-all of which I could aug- battle formation. He would place him- this process are noticeable on a small ment from letters written in his own self at the end of the table, bend forward, scale even-in London, where Hampstead hand, from four continents. Every even-cock his eye, and make sure that every gets, on the average, 10 to 15 per cent. ing we took a long walk along the road wine glass, every spoon, knife and fork more rain than the lower districts, owing that led to Tibet. It was "then" that was in place in a rigidly straight line. And be would move them about until he was moved to speak. to its position on a hill 450 feet high-

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