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THEN South Australia celebrates its hundredth

birthday this year it will look back proudly on the heroic deeds of its early ex- plorers.

For they faced starvation and death, fierce heat in arid déserts, the spears and wad- dies of hostile blacks, and the perils of trackless bush

and a Sorvico worthy of it! EVERY month-big shipments of Bedford trucks leave Eng- land for every part of the world, And the rising export figures and many hundreds of enthusiastic letters from Bedford owners all over the world have shown that the Bedford is popular wherever it goes. Why this success? For, in designing the Bedford in order to blaze the trail for range, Vauxhall experts studied the later pioneers who har-

Many of the hardships they endured were peculiar to the vast new land they were opening

MEN WHO MADE

South Australia

By Clifford Twelftree

realising the untold wealth of silver that lay there, and came soon to a fine water supply at Rocky Glen.

Next morning the two of them THREE of the greatest and

Here they were marooned, for most daring of them were buried Baxter in a shallow grave,

Charles Sturt, Edward John Eyre, Captain and struggled forward. They the country was in the grip of a

and

John had practically no water and not terrible drought, and they dared overseas conditions at first hand.

an ounce of flour. And they not leave their water haven until After six weary They learnt what was wanted in nessed nature and brought McDouall Stuart,

were 600 miles from clvilleation, rain fell. trucks from the very men who the State into flourishing

months at Rocky Glen, the Eyre was one of the hardy

For seven days they went on drought broke and Sturt pushed were going to use them,

"overlanders" who drove grent

arid waste, almost on towards the heart of the con- And there is A world-wide prosperity.

mobs of cattle from New South through organisation to make Bedford

Wales to South Australia less maddened by thirst. Then they tinent. He was attacked by a service and genuino spares avail-

than two years after the latter found water, enabling them to scurvy, but gallantly rode on and discovered many creeks and ablo averywhere.

had been proclaimed a State un- go on refreshed.

They were still without food; rivers. Then summer drove him Tested at every stage in the

der the Old Gum Tree acar

back. When the relief expedi Adelaide in December, 1836. famous Luton works in England, up, and in overcoming them they But it is for his amazing exploit however, and the game would tion reached him he was ill and proved sound and reliable on the showed courage, bravery, and crossing the continent from have been up if Eyre had not depressed, but he had opened the roughest work in the world, the Bedford is a first-class Invest-resource equal to any in the east to west that his name will come upon a French barque in a Bight. With his clothes in rags, ment whatever the nature of world. Yet hitherto the world live for always in Australian Cove beyond the, head of the way to immense areas of pastoral

he and Wylle were taken on work !.

name of Sturt's com- There's a Bedford Model for

Eyre left the settlement of board and cared for until they

Eventually, THE every business.

Adelaide on his overland journey felt fit to go on.

panion, John McDouall Stuart, of 2,000 miles to Western Aus- with fresh provisions, they will always be remembered in tralia in June, 1840. He intend-reached Albany, Western Aus- Australia, for he was the first man to cross the continent. from

For Particulars and Terms apply

has heard little of South Aus- tralia's explorers.

history.

country;

HONGKONG HOTEL NOTES OF THE DAY ed to strike north from the head tralia, in July, 1841. south to north.

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Twice he set out from that would provide a safe route CAPT. STURT'S great voyage

down the River Murray and Adelaide, and twice he was to the west.

back in 1829-30 makes another forced back-by sickness, lack Yesterday morning a big Chinese

But there was no fertile thrilling chapter in South Aus- of food, desert country, and

hostile natives. aeroplane carried the first Paris country to be found-nothing tralia's history. bound mails out of Shanghai. It but stony desert, and sand, and

Sturt and his men came down Stuart began his third attempt headed for Hanoi, there to Bait tracts. So Eyre with his

five other white men and two the mighty river from New in 1801. He was so confident meet an Air France machine and blacks returned to the safety of South Wales to see whether it that he told the Governor of transfer its precious cargo. The Port Lincoln. There he decided had a navigablo mouth. Then, South Australia that he would Air France plane will not waste to go to the west along the disappointed with the miserable bathe in the Indian Ocean before

mouth they found, they faced he returned. time on its long vo age to Europe, forbidding coastline.

an upstream pull of 2,000 miles.

The party encountered scores In the scorching heat of an un- The men were on half rations but will deliver Shanghal's mail in Paris eleven days after posting. usually hot summer, the party because one of the provision of obstacles, but in July, 1882, It has long since been clear Later on this weekly service will tolled on. Eyre realised what boats had sunk, and nothing but the leaders felt that their a desperate task lay ahead of flour was left. Moreover menac- journey was ending. On July that, having failed in her carry passengers. One will be able him, and he decided to send his ing natives on the banks of the 25 they burst through the man- groves and shouted "The seal The seal" And Stuart bathed efforts to induce other nations to step aboard a plane in Canton, party back and reach Western river had to be pacified.

On they rowed, Sturt taking in it. The journey was over. to follow her example in dis-go in fast hops to Hanoi, transfer, Australia alone or perish.

His overseer, Baxter, implored his share of the pulling. At last to a French machine, and ten days

Stuart's boundless determina- armament, Britain will be

after leaving have dinner in Paris. Eyre to let him come, too. they reached their base depot on

His great expedition forced to spend huge sums on Such a service will mean much to Eyre agreed, and so the two the River Murrumbidgee and tion and grit had been well re-

white men, with three abari- found it deserted. So for an- warded. Home and Imperial defence. business, will facilitate trade and gines, set out on one of the most other 17 days they had to toil up captured the imagination of the Commonwealth, and he was One, report puts the figure as knit more closely the sympathetic hazardous enterprises in history, the difficult Murrumbidgee. given an enthusiastic reception high as £300,000,000. Whether relations between Oceldent and They pushed on with that Then, with Sturt partially when he returned to Adelaide. anything like that sum is con- Orient. We fully appreciate the endurance which comes only to blinded is a result of his suffer- He, too, paved the way for large- and Chinese those who know the odds are ings, two of the party were sent scale pastoral settlement in the templated will be revealed when stride the French

overwhelmingly against them. overland for help. When help north. have taken, and we the Prime Minister makes his authorities

it was not a One waterless stretch of sandy came, the last ounce of flour had

been distributed. promised statement on the sub- only regret that

ect

long, and for five days their

One of the party went mad as THESE men-Eyre, Sturt, and A factor which weighs British company, with Hongkong waste they crossed was 165 miles with the Government is obvious as its castern base of operations, horses had nothing to drink. a result of the hardship he had the scores of explorers who help- ly a desire to be able to speak which fetched this joint contract The men were crazed by the undergone.

for mail to Europe. It would be thirst during the long hot days, Sturt learned later that if he being.

Those who have come after more effectively in the councils

aboon to this port to participate and were racked by cold at night had reached the Murray mouth of the Powers when crises arise, in such a service. As it is, we

ten days later he would have met them have shown the same- Then came tragedy, swift and a ship which had been sent to energy, pluck, and enterprise in and to be in a position to act can make a fairly quick connection terrible. Eyre was away from search for him.

building up their State. The swiftly in co-operation with by arranging for posting In Canton the camp. Two of the blacks

achievements of these men, for a In 1844, Sturt went exploring population of only 600,000, arc nations pledged to the collective mail which is to be carried by this turned traitor. They murdered security system.

are international service. But it gives Buxter, plundered the camp, and again. With 16 men, including remarkable and are probably John McDouall Stuart, he left unsurpassed. They will be re- Adelaide for the centre of the membered during the centenary amongst the major objectives one a feeling of inferiority in made off into the night.

The other black boy, Wylie, continent. The party passed celebrations this year. of the Government, coupled foresight and business acumen that! with a determination to defend with the world around us develop remained faithful to his master, close to Broken Hill, without all parts of the Empire from ing these modern avenues of com- we still remain satisfied aggression should the necessity merce, arise. Issues having a relation with the old, slow-but-sure systems, to these points are being die- or scramble to take advantage of cussed at the London Naval someone else's enterprise. Conference. Differences of

These

view have been apparent re-gress has been made in aerial garding the size of battleships, power of attack during the past and it is not too much to say decade or two; warship desig- that some of the most anxiousners also have not been stand- problems of defence with which ing atill. Many British war- Britain is faced would appear ships have been modernised, to have been solved by the in- and anti-aircraft gunfire has be- much more effective. vestigations into the question of come the vulnerability of large war-According to Viscount Monsell, shipy against aerial attack, experiments have enabled ade There was recently a fear that quate protection to be made for no answer to the question was battleships against the air men- likely to be forthcoming at pre-jace both as regard anti-aircraft scnt, for the various categories guns and hull construction. In- of experts in national defence formation is thereby available were at sixes and sevens, some for the construction of the modern battleship. Admittedly, contending that the modern

the theories of experts are battleship with adequate deck sometimes blown sky-high in a protection has nothing to fear few moments of practical expor- from enemy bombs, and others ience. But this much is clear: that aeroplanes can attack war that despite the rapidly increas- ships with such accuracy and Ing air strength of many Euro- dendliness that the latter would pean and other nations, the day has not yet come when Great be little better than floating Britain can dispense with a coffins. In such a controversy powerful naval fleet. That re the lessons of the Great War mains one of the essential, pre are not of much use towards dominating conditions of Im- solving the problem. Vast properial security.

Still they pushed-on.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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"Ho's my daughter's youngest. We used to be great pale but I've sort of stopped going around till things broak.

little better."

Stuart--were leaders among

ed to bring South Australia into

are some of them:-

Here

South Australia was the first country in the world to introduce the system of voting by ballot, which has supplanted the prac tices typified in Dickens' Eatans- .wilt poll.

South Australia was the first State in Australia to give votes to women. The Act was passed in 1894, and women voted for the first time on April 25, 1896. South Australia had the first State-owned railway in the British Empire. It began run- ning between Adelaide and Port Adelaide in 1856,

Adelaide is the oldest munici- pality in Australasia. The city was incorporated in 1840, four years after the foundations of the State.

The Torrens system of land transfer, which has been taken as the pattern of similar legisla- tion in most other parts of the world, originated in South Aus- tralia in 1858.

By the completion in 1872 of a telegraph line across the con- tinent from Adelaide to Darwin, Adelaide, was the first city in Australia to be connected with London.

The University of Adelaide was the first in Australia to in- stituto a commercial cours

Adelaide was the first city in:" Australia to run a complete system of tramcars.

The Federal Convention, which Ted to the federation of the six" States into the Commonwealth the most important event In Australian history was held in Adelaide

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