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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939.

ITALIAN FINCERS IN ARAB PIE

The Arab and Egyptian do not see eye to eye about Mus- solini.

Actually, of course, the Egyptinn is by race an Arab but his political outlook is ea sentially different. This essen- tial difference is due to the fact that the Egyptian has got what he wants-independence-and

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ADVENTURE

in Plenty

E have come to think of a world shrunk by rapid transport and communi- cations, of inaccessible. places traversed by aero- planes, of the North Pole as a base for an air service, the Antarctic as the place from which Admiral Byrd chatted casually to his United States radio audience.

A generation of young Alexanders is sighing for new worlds to conquer.

But Ahiva's Temple, the ascent of which has attracted world-wide attention, may re- mind us that we have not done the job of exploring as thor- oughly as we imagined.

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UNDREDS of thou- sands of holiday- *makers have gazed at Shiva's Tomple. The regular pir-services, night and day, cross the Grand Canyon 01 their way from Now York to San Francisco-a "Lost World " in the heart of civilisation.

I was speaking, the other day, to Dr. H. R. Mill, the famous geographer, a living encyclo- pædia of world-exploration, especially of the Antarctic. But, within sight of his own birth-' place-Thurso, in the far north of Scotland-there is an island which has never been explored. It is a "Shiva's Temple" on our own doorstep.

"I don't believe that the foot of man has ever trodden on' Clett," he said, "although it is within a stone's throw of Hol- burn Head. Its precipitous sides defy climbers, and the only way to land would be to drop from. an aeroplane or a balloon. There is not likely to be any- thing spectacular there, but there is life-in the form of vegetation, at least.

"Then there is the Old Man of Hoy, off the Orkneys...

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UT in the Atlantic, be- yond Bt. Kilda, and about a hundred miles

from the coast of Scotland, is Rockall," the Taland-that- Hates-to-be-Visited." Many ex-

ing of troops on the Libyan peditions have tried to land frontier and events in Abyssinia

are too recent to be forgotten. Consequently Great Britain, as

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powerful ally who is as in- terested as Egypt herself in maintaining the status quo, is increasing in popularity while Italian stock is at a discount.

Child's Death A Mystery

The mystery of the death of a small girl, Lam Yuct, who was brought dead to a hospital with in- ; juries which ladicated that she had

of Mr. Barnett and a jury at Kowloon been punched docupled the attention

yesterday.

Mr. Barnett remarked that the Jury would probably find it Im- possible to come to a verdict as there was a lack of suficient evidence.

and you may find it even on your doorstep

In the Antarctic, but it might be almost anywhere!

there-Dr. Mill orice borrowed a gun-boat to attempt it-but have been driven off by the breakers.

If these are too near homo for our ›modern adventurers, the Unknown World has plenty of other places to offer them..

There is the Matto Grosso, the Central Plateau of Brazli; about which less is known than about any area of equal size in the world. Vast tracts of jungle keep the secrets of its strange and dangerous tribes and of its animal life.

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OLONEL FAWCETT his son, and Raleigh Rimmel, both in their early twenties, perished there-in the summer of 1925. Or did they? That is one of the great question marks in the history of exploration.

Colonel Fawcett was in search of a "Lost World." It is an area · about which imagination could, and can still, run riot, unchai- lenged--White Indians, prehis- toric monsters, incalculable treasure, ruined cities and for- gotten civilisations.

But legends are begotten of such mysteries, and a trapper named Rattin brought back nows of a tall white man with a long beard dressed in skins... Fawcett??

Twelve years have passed. The quest of "The White God" of the Indians will tempt future expeditions into the treacherous Matto Grosso in the wake of Colonel Fawcett.

In the jungles of Central and South America are the relica of the-Aztec and Inca civilisations -maybe even Eldorado, which dangled its golden lure before the Spanish Conquistadors and before adventurers ever since.

British Gulana, although it is part of the Empire, has not yet been fully explored. Aeroplane

ato surveys

revealing the secrets of its hinterland, but only desperate" foot-slogging" will ever wrest from it the secrets of its birds and animal life, hints of which were brought back, by a recent expedition, in the form of golden frogs.

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N the frontiers of Bolivia and Peru les Fawcett believed in the cities.

Lake Tititaca the In a territory of hidden, hos- highest lako in the world, tile Indian tribes, his guides 12,500 feet above sea-level. deserted him. He and his young Hore legend (as usual) has it

that and,

the Incas dumped companions went

(tho 250,000,000

odd half- almost certainly, perished in an ambush.

pennies don't matter) into it to

THE "VERY IDEA"

on.

This Is How We Whipped

Those Corinthians

By Eddie Kelly, Full Back

VE have always dodged the lime-light as much as WE

possible.

We ourself are as modest as a Mexican parrot and avoid publicity like Madame Chiang Kai-shek and/or the smallpox epidemic.

"The situation is quite other in Palestine," says Hebe Spaull, noted League of Nations poli- tical expert. "The struggle between Jew and Arab in Pales- tino-due to no racial anta- gonism but solely to a conflict of

The girl, he said, was brought dead political aims-is precisely the to the Kwong Wah Hospital on kind of troubled water in which January 9, by a woman who sald she was her mother. Giving a false Fascist Italy knows well how to name and address she said the child

But we feel that we must tell you of the splendid game we fish.

and our grandfather played against the Corinthians prior to The intense political had died of fever but it was found

their first gama in Hongkong next Saturday. passions of the moment prevent that she had a fractured skull.

P. B. Clark, the Corinthians Dr. J. M. Gray, who performed a the Arab from taking an objec-post mortem declared that the girl captain, knowing our capabili- tive view of the profferred had a very marked blackening of ties on the fleld, didn't want us. friendship of Italy, and attacks the left eye, the bruise extended to to play, but at last grudgingly

the left temple. 9ho appeared to consented." on Great Britain as the Power have been punched. who is responsible for the pre- There sont regime find a ready echo haemorrhage around the left frontal "Otherwise," he said, "who is go- from the Arab. That Italy has region above the eye and a distincting to bring on the drinks?"

They aro 11 to our two," wo re-

on fracture. There was slight evidenca | plled. . "Let them bring-

the no interest in liberating subject of enteritis and pulmonary tuber-drinks." peoples from ́an Imperial yoke | coulosts and in his opinion, sho had may be obvious to almost every been a weakly child, body; but tho Arab Is an casy victim at the moment."

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much

Intra-cranial

The cause of death was fracture of the skull, haemorrhage and shock. The hearing was adjourned to March 3.

.Great Britain did a wiso thing in giving

Egypt her indepen- dence when she did. She gained tion. If the problem can be n good friend and the League solved in a way that will be Just

of Nations a loyal Member at a to the Jows and give reasonable time when added strength was satisfaction to the Arabs needed. Unfortunately the pro- should do a great deal to bring blem of Palosting is much more stability both to the Near East complicated and difficult of solu- and the Mediterranean.

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Our grandfather insisted on a third man in the team

"Not on your life," said the old man. So we made Bill Pryde third

man.

We stunned O. Longman, their goalie, with our first ball, which we shot into the goal so swiftly that the wind blow the maiting off the grand stand.

Clark came at us pretty niftily at Umes, but we had few dud ten cent pieces which we were able to scatter

around the field fairly indiscriminate

play we made in the second half. Buffice it to say that the Commitice to of the Football Association came us in a body and naked

us not to knock the visitors about too much, as they had to play three games against Hongkong taler in the week. "Listen," they said, "It's bad enough you belting Giese poor lads. But don't go knocking the balls about so much. You've already punctured eight of them. Go casy, ags 94

After that wo contented, ourself with lobbing them into the net tired or four times every minute. grandfather just sat down on the aide-lines, nibbling the oranges. He wasn't necessary.

·SCORES...".

Corinthians Kelly Team

NII **** 120.

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save it from the Spanish · in--- vaders.

But that is not what they? British scientific expedition- sponsored by Professor. J. 8. Gardiner, of Cambridge, the Percy. Bladen Trustees, the Royal Society and the British

· Museum-is seeking there, They went to find how certain sea- water fish and sea-level animais found their way to Tititaca, and to see whether, by any means, the mineral resources-copper, silver and lead-might bo developed.

N the Gobi Desert, vast, desolate, danger- ‘ous, with extremes of cold more severe than the Poles, mysterios still remain to tempt men and women to des- perate adventures. It holds in Its fossils and bone remains the secrets of primeval life and of prehistorie animals.

Tibet, still a Forbidden Land, although the priestly lamas, to- day, may listen-in on radio sets, beckons persistently to explorers, tempting them to furtive expeditions in search of 'dowers that may one day graca a suburban rockery, and in search of strange loro and strange customs. *

Western China is a land of mystery, and the Chinese would like to keep it so until their own explorers can chart it and reveal its secrets. But the "Shangri- "Lost la," the happy valley of Horizon." may not be merely the fancy of James Hilton or of the Hollywood nim-makers.⠀

Great valleys, locked by moun- tains that daunt the most adven- turous, lie on the frontiers of China and Tibot-volleys that our civilisation cannot touch,

but whose own, for all wo know. may be superior, in sanity, to ours.

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HERE Burma Joins with India thero aro mountains and valleys which have defled the white man. Jim Matthowa, who, with his comrade Hook, attempted a fight to Australia and crashed in the Burmese jungle, described to me vast mountain-locked valleys over which they passed, inaccessible to the outer world, even to airmen, who

could

never and a landing. ground.

and the glaciers Arctic Canada and the of the Rockies offer endless pos sibilities; and Antarcties, grave of the Scott and his companions, death-lure of Shackleton, the desperate dream of all great explorers, may be part of the Lost. Continent of Gondwanaland, which once filled the Indian Ocean and linked Africa, Asia and Australia. Beneath its ice-cap lmost certainly lie vast mineral

ГОБОИТСЯ.

One day 1 predict, Man will Inhabit that Continent. create there vast subterranean cities and 'fap ite. wonitha

Before then The White Unknown must be fully explored.

There 18 work in plenty for generations of explorórs,

Lake a bath. I'm feeling a bit grub-

by."

No wonder the chaps are not looke ing forward to playing against Hong- 1y. Yes, he comes from Scotland. kong to-morrow. They're thorough-

We headed beautifully from ly cowed. Wright, who sent us up an easy one. We were a bit cowed ourself when ni allly mid-chi, just near the three we went like this

After that they scomed to lose their "Can't you learn to wipe your fool

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you wear those nithy football things" -- to the Península.* Ved We will nat go into vainglorious and so online ka qen

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