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AN EXPLORER IN PERSIA

THE ROCK TOMB OF CYRUS.

PRESENT DAY CONDITIONS.

COL. P. H. FAWCETT.

DISCOVERED IN MID-JUNGLE,

BRAZILIAN ENGINEER'S

REPORT.

Roger Courterile, the Brazilian engineer who claims to have found Herman Norden, American ex- Col. J. H. Fawcett, noted British plorer and author, returned recent explorer, has given detalis of his ly to New York on the Holland-mesting with Cel. Fawcett, who has American liner Feendum from an not been heard from since May, expedition in Persin where he

1934 travelled by enravan from the North to the South over the 'route taken by Alexander the Great on his march to Indin.

On the way across the desert Mr. Norden, came upon the great rock tub of King Cyrus the Great. founder of the Persian Empire and conqueror of Babylon, The ex- plorer said the tomb had been hewn from the solid rock and would last

for ever.

Crossing the desert, the great avid plains and the chain of moun- tains of which Mount Demavend, 15.000 feet, is the highest," said

·Mr. Norden, *' was, the hardest ex- perience I have ever had in more than 30 years of travel is all quar

tees of the world,"

Leg Frozen

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. Courteville was on an automobile expedition for his Government, which proposes to construct a high- way that will enable a trip from the Parific to the Atlantic in four- | teen days, Starting from Rio Janeiro September 12th, 1926, the last and claims the distinction Fengineer-reached Lima August.luch.

being the first man to traverse by automobile the jungles of Brazil and Bolivia.

It

Tound. On Farm,

white crossing Mato Grosso Statg fast November Courteville reported, that he found Col. Fawcett living with his son and another white man on a farm about 3 miles, from Diamantina. State of Matto Grosso, in the.

South geographien!" centre of America.

When Col Fawcett arrived

At

Guysba, capital of the State of the same name, the engineer re lated, the explorer received 800,000 from the State Government in search for an ancient lost city, placed somewhere in Matto" Grosso territory. The city is said to have been founded by white Indians, and, although never seen by a white man, the legendary story of its existence has often been told. It is supposed to have great quantities of gold, diamonds and other riches.

"I had poates and a donker in my caravan as they travel better than camels and do not cat so neh. In one of the most desolate passes. where we reached 12,000 feet, the cold was so severe that my left leg was frozen and I was afraid that I might lose the limb "I stopped at Khans and car

Without An Owner. . avan-series in the big towns, but

Courteville's story is that Col. in the small villages I had to put Fawcett, anable to find the city. up with the mud huts of the pea- his son afflicted with malaria and sants who were always kind to us the Indians, returned to his start- the party experiencing trouble with and hospitable. When the caravaning point There he established sted I would go into the largest himself 49 + "fazendeiro, JF hut and select the place I required farmer in a region described as a veritable paradise land which, has for the night. The usual charge no owner, was one toman, a dollar, for a enravan like mine, including food for the animals, but I usually gave them two and was handed the vil- lage in return.

Life is easy there, with plenty of water and wild cattle. Being far struggles and problems which man from civilization and the daily

must face and sometimes fight in order not to starve, the white man "While on this expedition I dis-easily becomes fascinated with the primitive life, free from any covered there were two sects in the limitation, Mohammedan religion. I had Courteville decribed Col. Faw- known and mixed with Moslems nett' as a man of all spirit and the East and Near East for more plorer became fascinated by the a misanthrope. He said the ex-

than 30 years. I learned that there sorceraus jungle and declared Col dre two distinct sects. The Sunni Fawcett wishes to know nothing is the principal one and is the re-people. He spends his time fishing from the divilized world and its

ligion of the Mohammedans in in the rivers and shooting wild Turkey, Asia Minor, India and all cattle, game and the marvelously over the East except in Persia, feathered tropical birds and ap

pears to be enjoying his paradisi- ; where the religious cult practised en existence. is called Shiah.

The Fawcett farm settlement. "I believe mine was the last ex-ids, Courteville said, is not far coltiyated by the explorer and his

ploring expedition by caravan from the River of Doubt, discover- across the Persian desert. Ined by the late Theodore Roosevelt. future it will be traversed by au- tomobiles, although the natives will still continue their camel trains, as they have done thousands of years, for a

long time to come..

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RUBBER SHARES.

DIVIDENDS AND QUOATIONS.

Alessis Carroll-Bros--have been ́advised of the following dividend

and quotations on Rubber Shares

Dividend.

Pukit K.B.'s: 5 per cent. fioa.

..

Quotations,

Ayer Moleks

$2.00

Ayer Panas

Balgownies..........

10.00 2.02

Bassetts...

*1.10

Glenenlys

2.03

Jeram Kuantaps

1.35

Kedahs

3.95

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9.20

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Pajams....

2.20

$30 nom.

$49 buy.

Punggors Tembalaks

0.07

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354 nom.

$17 nom

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Canton Insurance........$570 dom. Chins Underwriters......$1.20 nom. North China Ins.

T. 143 nom. Union Insurance

$292 boy. Fangtaze

M. $46 buy. Inanrance .... The Persian Parliament has

Chins Fire Insurance....216 nom, granted permission for the "con- Reference was made in Hong Kong Fire Ina.......$590 pom.

$35 bay, struction of railroad

columns some time ago to the visit. Douglases from

.331 sel Steamboats to Buckingham Police where they Teheran to the Persian Gulf, a

were received by the King and H.K. Tags

Indo-Chinas (Pref.). | distance of 300 miles, and if it goes Queen of Prince and Princess Ra of 1

(Det) through it will cut off the old Korea. The Prince and Princess

Sall/Transports and their suite have now left Eng-Star Ferries capitals. Shipa and Ispuhan, ea Inad--where they have been staying Waterboats..

irely,

since August-for France, Belgium. China Sugarı Czecho Slovakia, Poland and Italy, Bengueta Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, Malabon Bugars

They visited-a-great-number-of-Kailan Mining Ad. the British fastories and the Prince

Lang kata (combined)...... 18.50 bay. found time to play on most of the Da. (single).........T. 5.40 bay. well-known golf courses in England Skat Explorations... T. 2,90 bay. i wc and Scotland, including St. An- Shanghas Loans....T, 5.30 buy, drews, Cleneagles, Deal and Walton Baubs........

buy.

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$80 201. ...bay.

62/8-ROM...

..19/3 Dora:

3/- EGIL. $11e nom $35 nom

The principal, product of Per- sis is oplum, and_il_that_is_sup pressed there will be no income for taxes. That is what the Gov. Prament told the delegates of the Lengre of Nations when they came, to Teberán to see what could be Heath.

Tronoh MineU done about stopping the manufac When he landed in England, one Ural Campins ture of opium.

of the first thingy he asked to see

H.K. & K. Wharfa The political life in Teheran was the place where the golf balls K. & W. Dock.... is tranquil.

Tis. 145. bay. When he was Warfare mede, and later he spent a Hongkow

Tis. 4 bay. Minister and later Prime Minister morning in the golf ball depart Now Engineerings..

Tis. 90 Reza was for the people but now ment of Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, Bhanghai Docks...

buy. 92 sel. ..1% prom, Luy. that he is the absolute Ruler he following with keen interest the B., G. Loan is all for himself and is filling his whole process from the extruding of H.K. &B. Hotels... nom.

K thesta with gold

$50 20 the soft rubber core to the wrap- Mr. Norden on his return few ping and packing of the complete Bhanghai Landa...Tla, 117 buy. from Teheran to Baku in five hours ball. Part of the motor tyre manu- Hong Kong Realty....16 10 buy

lisel. and then travelled by motor ear facturing plant was also inspected. H.K. Territorial and train and by steamer on the The Prince and Princess also visit Humphreys Matatas... Caspian Sea for 15 days to Coned Armstrong-Whitworth's great Prince's Buildings.........$110 buy, stantinople. He said Soviet rule engineering works at Newcastle, Bural Lands $1 nom.

and Devonport Dockyard and Ewo Cottons T. 7.16 bay, in Russia would last another tw Portsmouth Dockyard The firing Orientalstonia (old).......Tis, 47 DODA

Tis. 1.85 bay, 1.70 ms. Shanghai nt cice range of hardened lead

Do. (new)......Th.20.nom. bullets at a figura clad in a bullet China Busos...T. 6 14 Russia and Georgia," he said, proof steel helmet and body-shield K. Tramway: ............$20 13.

T. & buy. "have some of the finest young was watched by the royal party at Peak Trama (old) ..$14 sel. men to be met with in any part of Hudfields.works, Sheffield: This was

→ (269)..... ..$7 361. the world. When they see their to demonstrate the protection Singapore Tractions......18/9 pm, coinpanions arrested by order of afforded by the Resista bullet-proof T

years or more but was bound to fall eventually.

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Raox, October-28th.

Paris New York Brussels.... Geneva

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REBELLION OF THE

13TH CHILD.

FATHER BLAMES LAXITY ·

OF THE MOTHER.

- A man stated at Willesden Police Courc that he had brought up thirteen children.

"The last two have turned nut absolute rebels," he said. ""A son aged twenty-one and a daughter Aged nineteen will not work, and they keep the place in a continual. uproar.

"I locked the girl out last night. owing to her behaviour, and she took off her shoe and deliberately broke a window."

The magistrate: To what do you attribute this rebellion in the family?

The man: Laxity on the part of the mother. She has not exercised proper control over the last two The girl rules the house, and her mother upholds her.

The magistrate: Take a summons of wilful damage, and see what effect that has..

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of it for the British and American

(now) $1'ael, Mr. Norden said he would stop armies. At luncheon reference was China Lights (comb.)......$12'nom.

Do, in New York a month and then re- made to the cordial relations exist

(old)...$9 nom. Do, (new)....$61 nom turn to Paris, where he has an ing between the Japanese navy and apartment and finish his book on Hadfields and an address of wel-Chins Providents.

...$11 nom. Persia before starting on his next come was presented to the Prince. Constructions......... expedition which will be to the ex- The Royal party return to Korea Dairy Farm

...$15.10 wel. treme north of Japan.

early, in March of next year. (Continued at foot of next column.)

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