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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY DECEMBER 27 1935.

LONE ADVENTURES OF WOMAN

EXPLORER

Many 'Out-Of-The-Way Spots Visited By Mrs. R. T. Merrick: In Unknown Tibet.

around"

In

as 23 miles in one day.

Just because she likes to "poke (She stopped counting after the the out-of-way twelfth), rebuild paths along nar- place of the world Mrs. Richard row precipices and walk as many T (Henrietta Sands) Merrick of New York City has had in the past seven years some amazing adven- tures and a lot of fun.

SAW BOTH RANGES

the

ponfes subsist only on grazing the food cost is notning.

Travelling through these unia- habited sections of the world Mrs.

A FRANCIS JOSEPH MEMORIAL

Merrick describes as being ure Royalists Active In

Austria Preparing

visiting the world before creation. There is nothing more beautiful, in her opinion, than the glimpse, of a fantastic rock formation at sunrise.

Plans

An anergetic campaigu is goius on in favour of erecting a monu inent to the memory of the Emper or Francis Josaph.

Although she travela only for pleasure and not for any particular chlective two books have emerged

explains that they just wrote that the Emperor Francis Joseph 1, as a result of her wanderlaga · She

It will be twenty years next year themselves because she had died in his palace at Schoenbrunn. much material she just had" to use and the Royalists are arging that now is the time to erect à memor- tal to him.

They have suggested various play ros to the Mayor of Vienna, among them the Dr.

Dollfuss-square, which is in front of the double stoepled Gothic Votive-church; the Volksgarten, a park opposite the

it. The Arst book is "In The World's Attle" and concerns her Himalayan adventures. The second "Spoken In Tibet" and is the result of her Tibetan trek.

first dawn "after 'a cup of hot tea,

£6,000,000 GEMS IN

PORTRAIT

MAHARAJA OF PATIALA

Sittings To Be In India

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-London; 'Dec. 5. Mr. Frank O. Salisbury, the por- trait painter. has received a com- misalan which will take him half. way round the world to paint à sitter whose robes and Insignia"are too costly to be moved.

The Maharaja of Patiala when in London this year recognised and admired Mr. Salisbury's "The sari-clad Hindu girls whom he had Sen Bisters."" a picture of four known as children."

"When he suggested that I should

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paint his portrait," Mr. Sailsbury told a representative of The Dally perial Palace; the Kaisergarten, Telegraph yesterday, "he explained once the favourite park of the old that the State robes, in which he Emperor; the Heldenplatz, or the wished to be painted, included square in front of the new Hof-jewels valued at £8,000,000—maný there are already the equestrian cost of bringing them to London burg (Imperial Palace), where of them family heirlooms. The

On this trip Mrs. Merrick started at a place north of Lahore. Au- Mrs. Merrick, who arrived in thorities would not allow her to Shanghai a few days ago and is continue on this route so she re- stopping at the Cathay Hotel be-traced her steps, went to Kashmir fore going on to Peiping, is a de- instead and returned over

Mrs. Merrick believes in dressing Hightfully modest woman who gives same route she previously had the appearance of having known been refused permission to go over. properly for her treks and scorns 1othing but city comforts and After four months in tents on the fashionable things. Because she luxuries all of her life. It is hard western side of the Himalayas she starts in the cold greyness of the to imagine her in the role of a made a ten day trip to set the she dresses warmly at first and feminine explorer and to believe whole of the Kangchenjunga

then discards her heavy things for that she has walked as much as range and the whole of the Mtighter clothes when the ghastly. 23 miles a day for stretches of Everest range: This magnificent weeks at a time, and rising at the sight of the two ranges is possible stupefying heat breaks about 8 statues of Prince Eugene'of Savoy would be enormous, so he has in- at a certain point 12.000 feet high. a.m. She is dressed first in sever-und of Archduke Karl. Other sug-

On her last trip Mrs. Merrick ex- sweaters, a heavy woollen and lieve that not only has Mrs. Mer-perienced high altitudes. For two flannel-lined coat, heavy fur-lined boots which come to the knees, rick dore this but that she has weeks she was never below 18,000 several pairs of woollen stockings ventured into the very heart of feet. Her highest altitude Was Tibet: spent four months in tents 17,000 feet. "I had read," she said, and she tops all this with a water- a trek through desolate, unin of ghastly experiences of travell-proof slicker to break the wind and Habited sections of the Westerners who bled at the ears, became protect her from the snow, Himalayas in India-and that she cross-eyed sind had . terrific SENSIBLE TRAVEL CLOTHES has done all of this alone except for the native guides and servants

early hour of 3 am, to do it.

It is still more dimicult to be-

in her caravan...

headaches at such high altitude. About 7.30 am. she discards the However, I was fortunate and ex-woollen divided skirt and dons a perienced

such 'disastrous

light weight sun-proof coat, a cork

no

But it is true, nevertheless, and effects. And it was only at arse this soft voiced, immaculately that I felt exhausted at any exer- gcwned woman who is a city pertlon. Toward the last I found that son in appearance, enjoys her ex-I could even sleep lying down.” .ploring which she does" for The men suffered more-stomach pleasure only--so much that she is allments for the most part-be- anxious to return to uninhabited cause at such high altitudes it is regions after a year of civilization. impossible to boil water and cook

foods properly.

spine pad and & Mespot helmet

which she describes as А mar-

vellous protection against the sun.

On her last trip she included in her caravan equipment a regula

US Army cooking kit. A boy rries her thin basket and if the day's trek is too exhausting she ften stops for tea, chocolate or a tin of cold or heated beans. Her one meal is eaten usually whenever she makes camp, no matter what the hour.

This is Mrs. Merrick's frat visit Shanghai although she hopes to return again after her Petping sojourn of several months.

gestions are the Schmerling Platted me to go to Patia's for Febi- ----

small park next to the Parli uary and March

"I was unable to promise · de- ment building, and the park of Schoenbrunn, the favourite resid-Anitely, as I am not sure whether Price of Francis Joseph in his old can finish my Jubilee picture of days,

the

for Thanksgiving Service A committee has been formed to Buckingham Palace in time. Ap... prepare plans, and the Presidentparently February and March are of the Austrian Federal State, Herr the only suitable months for paint- Whilhelm Miklas, has accepted the ing in India, but the Maharaja has post of chairman. The funds for agreed to let me postpone my visit he monument will be raised by for a year if I am unable to fash voluntary contributions from men the King's picture in time. bers of the association, from the proceeds of a lattery, and from var ious theatrical performances.

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: Bunting people from all over the world will forgather in London on 8th February, when the sixth nn- nual United Hants BAT will be held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. under the patronage of the Duke of York.

MERELY AN ACCIDENT

ACROSS THE · HIMALAYAS Mrs. Merrick did not set out de- liberately to be an explorer. In

All in all, Mrs. Merrick estimates fact, she insists that she is not that on this last trip she rode ap- an explorer-only a woman who proximately 500 rifles across the enjoys travelling alone to un Himalayas on ponies and walked about 400 miles. Trekking she re- frequented spots.

It happened this way. In 1929 commends as being in extremely when Mrs. Merrick who has cheap mode of travel. It costs

She have concluded three years of con- travelled continually since child-only 15 rupees (about $5.80 UE. expects to sail for her home inuous travel.

Her next trip she says will be hood, was visiting India, she look-currency) to hire a pony to travel New York sometime in the rum- ed up at the mountains one day 250 miles. This price includes amer after a visit in Japan. "When ick to China for she anticipates

a trek into Mongolia, and Tolerd aloud her thoughts boy to look after the pony. As the she reaches New York she will that were she Marco Polo instead

WILL.

of just a mere mortal, and a wo- man at that, she would like the adventure of exploring those fascinating heights. Then the dis- covered that the Kashmir authori tles granted 24 permits each year for just such hardy travellers. She applied for a permit and much to her surprise it

granted Ashamed not to use it she set of Just a little bit frightened at first, and suddenly she found that she was enjoying herself tremendously. he liked this first trip so much "that she flew out from London. two years later, and made a journey into Tibet proper from Darjeeling. On this trek she got within three stages of Lhassa and che stage of Shigatae before she was forced by Tibetan authorities to turn back.

BAFFLED IN PERSIA

On her present trip Mrs. Merrick has been travelling for 18 months. Her first idea was to take a camel caravan across Persia but the Persian Government would not allow her to wander off the beaten track. The beaten path in Persia. according to Mrs. Merrick, is com- posed of 6,000 miles of heavily policed motor roads, constructed within the last few years.

The Persian Government in Mrs. Merrick's opinion, is extremely suspicious of travellers especially of women who desire to travel alone into unknown-territory, Suspicion, she says, is only natur-. al, however, when one stops to realize the everpresant fear of the authorities that the travellers may be interested in carrying off some valuable treasure just discovered in recent excavations.

"

Bo, because she was watched everywhere she went and also be- cause she did not fancy being 'snowed in" with nothing ex- citing to do Mrs. Merrick left Per- ada and travelled to Java Bali, Sumatra, and then back to India for her second yenture in solitary trekking.

Here Mrs. Merrick Blso....had trouble in securing permits, Final- ly after signing Innumerable papers relieving the government of all responsibility, she started off to visit parts of the country never before inhabited and where often her caravan's daily march. · was lengthened into a several days' ceaseless search for "grass" for the hungry ponies.

This four months trek, was marked by interesting, thrilling and amusing incidents It was necessary to ford immense rivers, go across dangerous avalanches

"In addition to the portrait of {\ the Maharaja himself, I am to paint nine other portraits, chiefly

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