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MYSTERY OF "LOST OASIS"

LONG QUEST FOR ZARZURA

The very sudden death of Sir Robert Clayton-East-Clayton, which tvus due, it is beloved, to some germ picked up during his recent visit to the Libyan Desert, recalla the young explorer's attempt to discover by means of aeroplanes the logondary Oasis,,

Zarzura.

In the early summer of this yenr Sir Robert, together with Count de Almasy, established a base at Dakhla, the most westerly of the Egyptian oares, and from the air reconnoltred the waste of sand that extends from Dakhin for a distance of some three hun- dred miles. They saw and photo graphed a wide wadi (valley) con taining a large amount of aunt (acacin) trees, and as this part of the Libyan Desert is devoid of of any kind it is vegetation thought that the trees can be ne-

counted for only by the presence of water rising to or near to the surface, and that the wadi Is pro- bably the famous lost onsis of Zarzura, Unfortunately, the ter ride heat and shortage of water mado the risk of a landing exceed- Ingly dangerous, and further ex-

'

PRES. HOOVER HITS BACK

CHINESE LABOUR STORY DENIED

Cleveland, Oct. 15. Aroused by Democratic attacks, President Hoover struck back sharply in strong language here to-night

and other important developmenta enlivened the pre- sidential campaign with the elec- tion little more than three weeks

He described

as "a calumny" one statement from "the copy of instructions Issued by the Demo cratic national committee."

awny.

THE

HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932.

AIR CRASH RIDDLE |

EXPERTS FAIL TO

FIND CAUSE

PLANE NOT STRUCK

BY LIGHTNING

This was.

ro-

the

ro-

£1,000,000 CAR SHOWROOMS

ELEVATED ROAD TO

TOP FLOOR

A £1,000,000 "motor contre" for London la to be provided by Mr. William Glass, the pioneer of the Used Motor Shows.

Boon

Ernest

After Investigation by Air

The buliding will be for the use Ministry experts, so much of the air crash at Churt, Surrey, in of traders and will accommodata which three lives were lost,

more than 6,000 motor-cars. Sev mains umexplained that all oral sites are in view. A meeting an adviaery ovidence has been passed on to a of traders to form body of scientists for further and it is hoped that it will

committoo will be held search.

be possible to start the Con- revealed when the struction of the building shortly afterwards. It is to be ready for He said the statement implied inquest was resumed at Farnham.

The victims of the accident, occupation within a year. that he had been "engaged in the which occurred on July 28, were slavery of humana" by contracting Mrs. A. C. Bossom, wife of Mr. Mr. Glass, and Mr. C. for cheap Chinese Inbour in his A. C. Besson, M.P. for Maidstone; Elcock, the architect, in collabora early engineering days which took Mr. Bruce Bossom, aged 21. her tion havo designed a Centre, which im to the Far East and Australia, sen, who was pilot, and Prince, it is hoped to erect to a height of He flatly denied this.

Otto Erbuch-Furstenau.

150ft., level with the top of the "I happen to have filed at Wash- ;

Nelson Column in Trafalgar- ington from the man who

Mr. A. C. Bossom told the square. penned those lines a statement coroner that his son had the "A" under oath humbly and abjectly

and "B" licences and the "blind withdrawing them," Hoover de- clared. It was the first time he had taken notice of the attacks made in a book and in speeches on his private life.

ploration was postponed unill the FIRST CONCERT

winter.

Whether the onals actually exista in the form that 00805 usually take, jo., a spring flowing to the surface with dense palm groves, is a very moot point, but The local Arab Tegends are very Arm on the matter, affil all ancient Arab, historians speak of a derful town set in ideal surround- ings, where a race of men cut off from the outside world have livedl since the days of the Persians.”.

Ancient Mystery.

Won-

SEASON

Arst

HELENA MAY INST.

PROGRAMME

flying" licence, and had passed all the tests possible. He had flown for several hundred hours, and was capable of flying any type of machine.

Saw Fliers Folling Emmanuel White, of Tilford, said

RADIO BROADCAST

THREE RECITALS FROM

THE STUDIO.

Broadcast by Z.D.W. on a wavelength of 355 mei (846 K.C.).

5-7 p.m. Chineso Programme. 6-6.20 p.m. Chinese Children's Pro gramme.

7-10.45 p.m. European Programme.

7-7.45 p.m. Recorded Programme.

7.45-8.16 p.m.

A Pianoforte Recital of Syncopate Musio from the Sindio.

Studio.

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather

Report.

8.13-9 p.m. Recorded Programme. 9-9.30 p.m. The Melody Team from the Studio..

and pavement round the outside of A 20ft-wide covered roadway each floor and connecting ramps will enable vehicles to be driven the Studio, from the street to the roof, a die- tance of 14 miles. There will be more than a milo of shop fronts wine. Women and Bong (Btraum). along this elevated covered road-tones of the South 1)

9.30-9.45 p.m. Recorded Programme. 9.45-10.45 p.m.

way.

OF he heard an explosion like a crack increase towards the top,

The gradients of the ramps will

of the of thunder. "I saw three bodies building, so that cars can be given come through a cloud, fulling in a hill tests ranging from. 1 in 10 to triangular formation," he contina, 1 in 3. There will be a restaurant, ed. When they were halfway to the ground a plane came through conference rooms on the roof.

a tea garden, a members' club and the cloud and travelled slowly in corkscrews and dips to the ground." Major Cooper, the Air Ministry The first concert of the season is

Inspector of Accidents, demon- to be held at the Helena Maystrated with a small model his Institute to-morrow at 5.30 puu theory of A most attractive programme has

nuchine. been arranged, na follows: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Jr S. Bach, Piano Solo: Miss Amelia Lee. (a) "Pensee d'Automne” Massenet (b) "Printemps Nouveau".... Vittaa?. Mr. Li Chor Chi (Tenor) Items by Request

For the better part of a century the neighbouring Oasis of Kufra,; recently captured fron the Senuasi by the Italians. was shrouded in mystery, and was described by Arabs as being a dream city with roofs of gold, but when Sir Ahmed Hassanein Bey.

Minor with Mrs. Rosita Forbes, dis | covered it shortly after the wor it

Miss Amelia Lee (Piano). was found to be a very ordinary | (n) "he Gelida Maning" ousis village with mud brick buildings, and its inhabitants

the failure

at tho

He said a minute examination of the wreckage had failed to deter mine the cause of the structural failure and had revealed no evid- ence of faulty material or work- nunship.

Mr. Ad On Tang (Violin). "It seems certain that the main Valse: Pas de Deus Chopin.planes of the aircraft failed down- The Misses Stelia and Helen 11o. wards under an extremely heavy Prelude in C Sharp Etude in E Major

Chopin fond certainly more Chopintimes the weight of the air craft. Valse in A Flat

.Chopin.

A Heavy Landing

From "Herodiende"

Puccini.

Mr. Li Cher Chi (Tenor),

.Cyril Scott. Polichinelle

S. Rachmaninof. Miss Amelia Lee (Piano).

were in almost every respect "Vision Fugitive" similar to the rather mixed race

to be found in Khurgu. Dakhla, Danse Negre.

nt the present and the Baharia time.

Pas pak m

THIRD PARTY MOTOR RISKS

SUMMONSES FAIL

than

four

"The only conclusion I have been able to conie to-it is a speculative deduction is that the fuselage was the part which failed in the air.

"This failure I attribute to slight damage or crippling of the fuselage or some member of it as the result of an abnormally heavy innding at some time,"

VILLAGE WIPED OUT BY FIRE

SECOND TIME IN A FEW YEARS

The Band of the "Empress of Japan" from

Orchestral.

7.7.15 p.m.

Chicago Bymphony Orchestra conducted

by Frederick Stock

D1452. The Barber of Serlilo-Overture (Rosaln

D1204.

Stato Orchestra. Verlin Blue Danube (Hirauss),

Tales from the Vienna Woods (fitrause)

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra

D$218. Midsummer Night's Dream Overture (Bien-

leinnon)

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

D1868.

| Rosamunde-Entr’Aclà (Hchuberi)_

Ban Francisco Symphony Orchestra

D150F. The Child from Alsace (Lebar).

Malden, My Halders (Lebar)

Marek Weber & His Orchestra D3388.

8 p.m.

(Local Time and Weather Report).

7.45-8.15 p.m.

From the Studio.

A Diagramine of Syncopation by Mr. Frank Taylormon (lanist).

8.15-9 p.m. Light Opera.

The Gendoliera--Belection (Sullivan)

Band of H.M. Coldstream Quarda

Milan, Sept. 16. For the second time in a few years the entire village of Ren- been destroyed by fire, Idena, 30 miles from Trento, has The Quaker Girl Vocal Gems (Muncktonl

кли

01273.

Light Opera Company Musical Comedy-Selection

C2015.

of

Tan

Carda Ball & George Dakor Les Cloches de Carneville Planquette)

Light Opera Company [1Ms. Pinafore--Selection (Sullivan)

Band of HM, Colltream Guards

C2112.

C2030.

church bells, the villagers

Aroused by the clanging

from their homes early to-day and flames sweeping towards them.

Fire-fighting parties were or- 'ganised, but they were powerless against a blaze which

way in- creased in fury by a high wind. The residents could only stand and watch homes, farms, a school, two churches, the Council houses and a year's crops being reduced to smoking ruins.

The police had to use force to

into the

Citan. The Three Musketeers-Vocal Cema (Grey

Frim-Wodehousej

Light Opera Company

C1800. 9-9.30 p.m. From the Studio. Selections by The Melody Texm.

9.30-9.45 p.m. Variety. Song-Old Folks at Home (Forter).

Madam Amolita Galli-Curet (Soprano)

1B06.

dechestral --The Langer That You Linger in

Virginia

Ambrose & flis Orch: Humorous Song-Abla1 Abulbul Amle

Frank Crumit

10:21.

In support of that opinion they prevent distracted villagers from Pianoforte Felo-Staccato Flude (Rabinstein) had the fact that a large portion of throwing themselves the fuselage was found the greatest, flames. distance away from where the main portion of the machine fell.

"I think," he added, "that all the

18209. Macha Lavitsk!

B1180. 9.46-10.45 p.m. From the Studio. Selections by the RM.8. "Empress of Japan" Fortunately, all the cattle be-Orchestra conducted by Mr. W. Burvy,

French Natiorial Bells March (Tarlet) longing to the village had been

Bullo (German)~(a) Valsa Gencleuse left on the mountain pastures for

(b) Scuvenir~ night grazing.

(e) Glory Daner

In the past a very considerable caravan trade from Equatorial Africa to Egypt via Kufra and the Baharia existed, and reports per- sisted of Araba, who had lost their way in the awe-inspiring waste of sand south-west of Bahurla, coming suddenly upon a' wonderful oasis with a golden

A summons alleging that Miss occupants were thrown out into the minaret rising above the palm Rosaleen Oak-Rhind, of Harcourt-air and were seriously injured, If trees and a lake of sparkling was terrace, S.W., drove a car without not killed, in breaking through the ter. Attempts were made by being insured for third-party riskstop of the fuselage.

Arabs to retrace

their was

dismissou at Whitehill "The most minute examination BALKAN MURDER FEUD tracks, but apparently they were. Hants).

has revealed no trace of anything always unsuccessful, and it seems A summons against Lieut. Wa- which would suggest that the air- reasonable to suppose that the liam E. M. Townsend, of Alder-craft was struck by lightning. delirium brought on by thirst and shot, alleging that he aided, and "The whole of the evidence avail- despair, coupled with a particn- abetted, was also dismissed. Jarly elene, mirage, was responsi- lite for these reports.

thene

Desert Travel

ANOTHER MACEDONIAN SHOT DEAD.

1. Spanib Serenado (Frimi)

INTERVAL.

1. Let's Try Agala (June)

From nim. to p.m. 13 Love You All the

Time (Morel)

3. In a Little Blue Cance" with "You (San-

ford)

INTERVAL

Porlle Server (Gosları)

f) In the Woods

(b) On the Mountain

2. A Musical Switch-Humorque (Allard) The Land of the Maple (Laurandau) 10.15 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press

News.

10.50 p.m.

Cinse Down.

All records ie the above programmer Kra

able has been referred to the The summonses were adjourned Agromantical Research Committee,

Sofia, Sept. 6. when Miss Oak-Rhind was fined a body of scientists, and endeavours

The murder feud between the £1 for driving the lieutenant's car will be made to throw some light val without a licence. and Lieutenant on this accident in the interests of emigres from Yugoslavia in Bur- factions of Macedonian Since the war improvement in Townsend was fined £1 for aidingying generally." motor-cars has made travel in the and abetting.

The coroner said that examina-lichael Poundeff, the brother of kindly suppiled by Mesara, N. Houtris & Co.

garia has broken out afresh. Dr. desert comparatively simple The clerk on that occasion saidtions and daily inspections had the late Vassil Poundeff who was compared with the vast difficulties that even if a car were insured it shown that the machine was air murdered last year, was shot dend attending a slow-moving camel became automatically uninsured if worthy. In

these circumstances as he was leaving a cafe in the convoy, but the sea of huge roll- it were driven by an unlicensed the owners were released from any centre of Sofia.

responsibility. They had carried out all the duties expected of them. The jury returned a vedict of

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Ing sand dunes that extends for a person. distance of three hundred miles Mr. Trimmer (for Miss

Oak-

The three assassins dashed for car in which two of them cs- the third lost his caped, while

a

west of Dakhla Oasis has proved Rhind) argued that if he could "Death by misadventure" in each balance on the running board be-

very formidable obstacle. It prove Miss Oak-Rhind had pre- has been found, however, that viously held a driving licence she there dunes run in straight lines could not be convicted nor be sus- from the north, that the interven. pended, neither conld Lieutenant ing spaces are of hard gravel, Townsend for aiding and aboiting. and that it is possible in sonie 1 He said she was covered by o parts, by using wire ladders, to clause on the lieutenant's insur- get cars over the elimins of dunes. ance certificate which read: "The In 1922 Prince Kamel el Din words licensed to drive hereon Hussein, the cousin of the King shall he deemed to mean holds a of Egypt who died this year, ac licence or has held and is not companied by Major C. S. Jarvis, disqualified by order of a court of the present Governor of Sinal law," and Dr. Ball, of the Survey of !

Oak-Rhind produceti Egypt, penetrated to a depth of driving licence she held in 1928, waste, and the magistrates dismissed the 200 miles into the sand

Miss

and in the two following years he summonkes.

further extended his operations, Binding amongst other things the dump made by Regen'cidt, the

German explorer, In 1879.

In fact, the only thing of any real interest discovered was the riump, of pottery water jars found by Prince Kamel el Din some bun-

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MARRIAGE POSTPONED

FOR M.C.C. TOUR

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case.

LOCAL ESTATES

FOUR DEALT WITH IN LATEST LIST

fore he could climb in and fell on to the road. He was immedinte- [ly arrested.

NEW YORK STOCK

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A.O.F.C. QUOTATIONS FOR YESTERDAY

New York, Oct. 18. Dow Jones averages:

Oct. 17. Oct. 18.

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Dr. Michael Poundeff belonged to the Macedonian faction for merly led by Protogueroff. He was best known as a journalist, 30 Industrials but he had joined the Bulgarian 20 Rails Diplomatic Service, being necre-

In the estate of the late Mr. tury to the Legation at Buc- Eugene Valdemar Mende,

en-harest. He was in Sofia on leave. gineer, of 6. East Point Terrace, who died intestate on May 16th. have been granted to Mr. Frank 1932, letters of administration

Gordon Maunder, chartered e- countant, of York Building, Chater Itoad, for the benefit of Mrs. Emerande Mente. widow of the deceased.

and

Letters of administration to the estate of Li Kam-wn, late of Sing Farr Village, Saigon, have been granted to Li Lin, 68, Cheung-

dred and fifty miles west of The inclusion of Bowes, the shawan Road, Shamshuipo. The

Yorkshire fast bowler, in the M.C.

widow of deconsed renounced ad- C. team for Australia has interrupt-ministration to the catate, which

was valued at $3,700.

Dakhla. For a time it was thought that possibly these were left by King Cambyses Persian ed a romance. Army which, about 500

B.C.,

He is engaged to London girl, Mr. Maria Antonia Da Silva, marched out from Dakhla to sub- and it is understond that the pair mercantile assistant Inte of 2, due the Animonites in Siwa Oasis were to be married during the Humphrey's Avenue, Kowloon, and who, according to Herodotus,, winter, but that is now impossible. who died on July 29th, left ostate were engulfed in a sand stormi

to the value of $3,900. Probate has been granted to his oldest

and utterly lost in the desert, Ex-

perts; however, gave it as their opinion that the jars were of type made in Equatorial Africa and were only two to three hun- dred years old.

From the huge encroachments of drift Band that have occurred in the Oases of Kharga and Dakhla in the lifetime of man it is obvious that a small, deep de- pression in the general level of

the desert might easily fill up in

daughter, Maria Alexandrina da less than a century. If Zarzura Silva Remedios, and his youngest ever existed, therefore, it is pro-son, Francisco de Paula Maria bably now lying at a denth of Pluce da Silva. some hundred feet below the sand and that in course of time the normal drift of dunes to the south may once again lay it bare, though whether it ever possessed a goldon minaret and thriving population in extremely doubtful.

I

Letters of administration in the estate of Mr. Wong Shoo-king, Into of Wonk Ok village, Kwongtung, who died intestate on June 13th 1932, live been granted to Weng Kwong-man, of the same address. The estate is valued at $15,200. -

Weddings are celebrated by the pealing of bells. They are followed by tle pealing of potatons.

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