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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1932.

DEATH RISK TÒ FIND PLANTS.

EXPLORER'S RARE HAUL IN TIBET.

ARMY DIVORCE SUIT:

cannot

SPAIN TO SELL WARSHIPS.

SIXTEEN VESSELS

"SCRAPPED."

ono ono

WIFE'S FRIENDSHIP WITH OFFICER.

"This case

Madrid, Jan. 14. be passed An extraordinary story of hard-

the

The Minister of Marino has been ship and adventura on the moun- without my observing that tainous borderland of Tibet and petitioner is an officer in the Army authorised to acli by nuction four Burma has reached the Natural, and the co-respondent, who is an cruisers, three destroyers, Illstory Museum, South Kensing-officer of some senior rank in the gunboat, six torpedo-boats, ton. from Mr. F. Kingdon Ward, Array, has seduced the petitioner's submarine, and a flahorics protec

vessel, necording to a wife." naturalist and explorer.

Indientes that Mr. The letter

This observation was made by published in the "official Journal."

What at first sight might appear | Ward auccessfully penetrated the President, Lord Merrivale, in

Disarmament 16,000ft, pass into Tihet, remained the Divorce Court recently in to be a first-clasa

a grimace, there for three weeks, and is now granting n decree nisi, with costa, gesture, if not actually a back in civiliantion with what lato, Major Herbert Orr Sutherland, on the part of Spain, appenra on expected to prove a rich haul of of the Northumberland Fusiliers, inspection to be more akin to the new and rare plants.

on the action of the Inte Lord Fisher when now atationed abroad. ground of the adultery of his wife, he ruthlessly scrapped a large part Elleen Dendy Sutherland, with of the Navy which he regarded as

this case the obsolete. In Colonel Guy George Waterhouse.

Mr. T. Buckalli, counsel for: warships are all vessels long since Major Sutherland, in reply to the "over-age," acording to the rules- President, sale that he understood of the London Naval Treaty, and that the Colonel was still on the the men and money released will thus be available for the five now active list.

The marriage took place in 1920 Spanish vessels now completing.

Though the residual Spanish at St. James's Plecadilly, and the parties afterwards lived together Ficet Is not large, it is a market, buyers being confined tot Walton and Hythe. There were balanced fighting force, consisting

Mr. Ward has obtained speel mens of 1,200 apecion, many of which are certain to be now, in addition to seeds of rare plants.

So great in the demand for new seeds from those unexplored moun- tains, particularly of rhododend- rons, that the finding of

a few new specles may be sufficient in Itacif to justify an expedition. Such Reeds are seldom on the

a limited number of rich horticul- turalists.

High prices are also paid for seed of rare primuin, magnolia, and new rock plants, while the great museums of the world pre- ent a ready tarket for dried «perimena. One specimen of each species found by. Mr. Ward whil Come to the South Kensington | Museum in return for the work of identikeation.

Describing his 3-urney from the bend of the Adung River in Upper Ruma inte Tibet, Mr. Ward writes:

"Our Alpine camp (at 12,000ft.), here we spent two and a half months in the rainy season, was at a few hours march from the Las (15,300ft.); in fact, I climb. ed to the pass and back in the day,

arted

Pouring Rain, "Eventually, on September 1, * nitia canti, cresced the pass in pouring ran, dewerking the other sched the Arst village in ibt en the third day. But the Tibetans were not as pleased to see us as we were to see them and were covertly hostile.

of:

16

woll-

2 Battleships, mounting 12in.

6 Cruisers,

two children. Major Sutherland mat Colonel Waterhouse in 1930, and afterwards became suspicions, guns, of his relations with Mra, Suther- land, who ultimately wrote refus ing to live with her husband again. Major Sutherland was given the custody of the children.

The petition was not lefended.

enolies, prodding and hauling a relnetant to be added to a village herd."

Cou

On arrival at his old base camp Mr. Ward found that the party had narrowly escaped death from an avalanche of hundreds of tone of uranite, which had descended In the night and wiped out the camp.

Narrow Escape. "The scene of devastation which greeted us was deeply impressive,"

"Apparently writes Mr. Ward.

A gold cloud-burst upstairs. dredger could not even yet have exhumed our remains if we had been sleeping in the camp that night. The three huts comprising the village escaped literally by yards."

Hitherto unknown ginciers

16 Destroyers.

12 Torpedo boats.

7 Gunboats.

16 Submarines.

Of the Ave Cruisers, two Arc well-designed and well-armed 10,- 000 ton vessels, mounting eight 8in. guns and six 4.7in. guns, and three are vesels of 7,800 tons, mounting elght Gin. guna and four 4in. guns The destroyers are of the latest type, and very similar to the new British vessels.

Of her submarine dotilla, 13 are modern vessels, within the terms of the London Naval Treaty,

I al Navles followed the ex- ample of Spain in accepting as obsolete their overage tonnage the residual Flects, unlike the Spanish Fleet, would shrink to a shadow of their present Imposing bulks.

PLOT TO SHOOT MINISTER.

UNEMPLOYED WAITER. "I hang on at our sutpost on the which are the source of the Adung Burma frontier until October 19.River were also explored by the

Vianna, Jan. 15. when we evacuated the position, expedition.

The police of Graz have dis- in the Hima- but had almost as much difficulty "Plant growth during our

further retirement layas." the Keeper of Botany at covered that an attempt on the down the Adung as during the ad- the museum informed a press re-life of the Minister of the Interior, presentative is notably luxuriant. Dr. Winkler, was being planned to vance into Tibet,

"Our cooltes, having exhausted The exploration of its flora and a be executed during the latter's their food-and us

geographical stay in Graz. too-left us knowledge of Its

The plan was thwarted by the like babes in the wood. Eventual distribution is of great scientific

timely arrest of an unemployed iy two naked coolles-nudism is importance.

"The Himalayas often prove the walter and two accomplices be- practiaed here less as a cult than

clue'

to the lines nlang which longing to the Heimwehr. A re-

sa necessity-ar-ived with the lants have spread, often to the volver was found in the

mall

walter's

The police were given warning

"My companion and I seized Malay and Western China along possession. them, and, with two loads, travel-the valleys on either side. A sec-

led light down the valley to the ond collector, from whom material of the plot by two Nazis to whom next camp, then sending the coolies may be expected for the museum, the waiter had confided his in- back for two more loads. Fortune is now working in Yunnan pra-tention of shooting Dr. Winkler amiled on us again and chose this vince, while a number of Japanese (when he came to Graz. Dr. Wink- precise moment to send us from collectors have obtained good re-ler in bitterly hated by the mem-

hers of the Heimwehr, Tibet a present of two unladen sulis."

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