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THURSDAY,

DECEMBER 23, 1937.

BUSH GIRL LEADS KILLER TRIBE

Named Clara

Clara And Speaks

(By Sean Fielding)

Dr. Donald Thomson. brilliant young British anthropologist and ' exporer, has solved a puzzle that for 13 years has intrigued the world-ho has found a mystery English-speaking woman whom legend described as leader of a nomad killer-aborigine tribe l the Australian bush.

English

"Old Man Wango kept his position as leader through his fighting ability und that of als many warrior sons. But he became Donald's best friend. Through the centuries-old 'grape vine telegraph' Old Man Wongo sent word to all tribes that my son Was เป receive help and friendship.

"Donald walked and canoed about 1,500 miles during his trek. Some of he tribes he met became tree dwellers in the wet seasons; some of them were very dangerous,

"He learned the lungunge and had

It was believed that the woman, sole survivor of the ill-fated Com- monwealth survey ship Douglas Muwson, lived somewhere fu rim, no trouble with any of them. In fact, the only trouble he did have uncharted Arnhem Land on north-east coast of northern terri-catable, but it affected his teeth and the was with the food, He found it quite

digestion. At times he was forced to

tory.

The Douglas Mawson had aboard eat snakes,

Dr. Thomson is married and hus

an English woman and her 11-year two children, boy twins. He won the

When the ship: foundered in Caledon Bay, Arnhem Harbinger-Higginbotham scholarship

old daughter.

Professor Albert von Szent-

Land, in 1923, mother and daugher at the University of Melbourne for Gyorgy, the Hungarian explorer. were held to have got ashore. The the "best work on the sociology of who has received this year's Nobel mother, It was stated, was murdered. the Australian aborigine ever Prize in physiology and medicine, for

written." but the daughter allowed to live.

He is to continue his anthropological, research studies at his discoveries of vitamines photo- AN AMAZON

Cambridge University under the graphed working at his laboratory in Rockefeller Foundation.

¡Szeged.

Pearlers told of hearing of a wo- man who spoke English, and who was a leader of the spearmen on the const.

Dr. Thomson has found that

after

15-months solllary trek in Arnhem Land. She does speak English fluently; she was blamed for most of the trouble on the coast.

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But she is not English. She called Clara, and of her Dr. Thomson says:

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"She showed extraordinary cour- age and Intelligence. She was abducted from her own tribe and brought to Caledon Bay, where she has been ever since."

Thot is all that is known of her.... COMING TO LONDON

Dr. Thomson is shortly salling for England to see his parents, who live! ut Finchley, N. He went to Arnhem ; Land nione and unarmed, except for u shot-gun to provide food, as speelal patrol officer for the Commonwealth Government.

He is the only white man to have penetrated Arnhem Land. The natives, killers and haters of intru- ders, made him their blood brother, showed him the secret quarry where they still chip flints for spearheads, allowed him to photograph sacred ceremonies.

He was adopted as a "son" of Old Man Wongo, à native officially_re-

Rector, 60, Weds Bride Of 17

CHURCH

DASH

OUTWITS CROWD

Yeovil (Somerset),

Nov. 19.

died by the Cornmonwealth Gov-UNDREDS of women trudged through

of crnment the worst of Arnhem | E]

Land's "bad-men" and killers.

I saw Dr. Thomson's father at his muddy Janes in the rain to

"There had been, a number ok

offered

ves and learn some-

Finchley home. He said to me: day to see the Rev. Gerald killings at Caledon Bay. Donald Stubbs, sixty-year-old rector

to go there to see if he could

of West Chinnock, married packly the natives thing of their country and habits. to his seventeen-year-old from the hinterland, and by per-organist, sunglon convinced Old mon Wongo Fewings.

Donald approached Caledon Bay

W. R. Loxley & Co., (China) Ltd, that he meant no harm,

Miss Betty

The marriage took place in

the

| village church. People shuttl in

the aisles to watch.

When the ceremony

ended the

side door of the church was quietly opened.

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Bride and bridegroom made sudden dash through it, jumped into a waiting

and were whisked away to the rectory.

car

The crowd rushed after them. stumbling over gravestones their excitement--but were too

late.

At the reception the rector said to Rixty guests: "At first we thought of getting married by special licence. more to talk about, so we made our But people might have had a little happy day a public one."

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As the couple left by car on touring honeymoon a woman slood

in their path and tried to stop them.

She shouted at them, but the car swerved past her and drove on. Footnote: The rector's parish of Chiselborough-with-West-Chin- nock has 500 people, yields a net income of £410 a year with house.

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