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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 11, 1939.

By Walt Disney

UNCA DONALD!

WE'RE SORT O' PLANNIN'A LITTLE TUNNEL HERE,

UNCA DONALD!

EXPLORER HAD

MR.

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NEVER

[R. REYNOLD J. O. BRAY, twenty-seven-year-old explorer, news of whose death in the Arctic last September was brought by an Eskimo to civilisation recently, was the father of a baby daughter he never saw -born a month before he was drowned.

He married four years ago the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Butler, of Claygate, Surrey, and had spent much time since exploring in Hudson Bay and Baffin Land, regions where no white man had ever been.

His father, Major Jocelyn Bray, of Newark, near Ripley, Surrey, estate agent to Mary, Countess Loveture, said: "He was CL warierer. lis wife has always sald she would never have fallen in love with him if he had been any different."

Mrs. Butler said: "My daughter never put obstucics in his way. He was an ornithologist and a scientist, and this work took him away-well, he had to go. Men have to go their ways. This was to have been his last journey to the Arctic, at any rate for many years.

"He had a book lo write, already commissioned. He had much work to do. His life was planned for years nhead."

IN MISSION BOAT

Mr. Bray, along with Mr. Patrick Baird, son of Brigadier-General E. W. D. Baird, of Kelloe, Edrom, Ber- wickshire, and cousin of Lord Stone haven, was making his way up Fox

THE FORGOTTEN

BANK BOOK

FORTY-ONE years ago Mira. Stace, of Robertsbridge. Sussex, attended a lecture on economy.

So impressed was she that on January 1. 1808, she opened a Post Office banking account for her son, William George, with the sum of 24.

The book was put away-and forgotten.

Mrs. Stace died, and her bus- band found the book, which he handed over to his son.

Mir. Stace, fun., who now lives at Wellington Mews, Hastings, is Rending the book to the General Post Office for the 41 years' th- terest to be added.

the Foreign Office were asked to pre- vent them from entering Soviet Terri- tory in the Arctic.

His father said: "They had been refused the necessary visas for their passport at the Soviet Embassy in London to enable them to enter the territory for which they were mak-

ing.

Channel, near Igloolik, 800 miles thought they might not have north of Churchill, to rejon Mr. T. Happreciated the danger of what they Manning, of Dallington, Nortaan.pen. Intended doing. They were actually another young explorer, on Ballin

in prison for a fortnight in Island,

rad."

They started in a mission boat be- longing to a priest, but the lee became so thick that they took to their own snall open whale boat.

BABY SAW

LAMBETH WALKERS AT THE

MANSION HOUSE,

•On left~This was the scene in the Mansion House last week when the guests danced the Lambath Walk at ball given by the Lord Mayor in honour of hi grandson, Mr. Ray

Johnsen,

Two Dead Canaries Saved 7 Lives

Liverpool. to Stanley Hospital and revived with

In 1930 Mr. Bray Jeft with the Cam- bridge University expedition to the Canadian Aretle with Me. Baird.AKING early one morning re- The following year, during a year's W

cently with a choking feeling and was detained for several hours absence from civilisation, the obser-

before being taken home.

pred 51. of

oxygen,

Alice was completely unconscious

Liverpool, The gas is bellaved to have seeped through the house front a main beneath the street

The boat was crushed in lee and Mr. Bray was drowned. News was vations of these two young men add-. Peter Westhead,

Walton, Luton-grove, brought by an Eskimo to Repulseed 2,000 square miles to the land area noticed that the family's two cana- Bay, where it was relayed to of Canuda by correcting Inaccuracies Churchill and told to the world by of existing maps along the west coastles were lying dead in their cage.

of Bain Land.

Sensing danger, he jumped up and Mr. Bray was educated at Harrow They also found a new mountain tried to rouse his wife and family, and Ballol, Oxford, and in 1931 was range there,

Reuter.

but found them kalf-unconscious.

a member of the Oxford University It was in an effort to extend this They were gassed. Exploration Club expedition to Iud-work on the west coast of Ballin Land He had to carry them downstairs son Bay.

that Bray lost his life. He was the one by one-his wife, twin daugh In 1932,

with Mr. Manning, of first white man to make a journey on ters, Lily and Georgios, aged 21, an- Jesus College, Cambridge, with whom foot from a point in Bain Land near other daughter, Alice (24), and son, he was at Harrow, Mr. Bray was in the Fury and Hecla Straits down the aged five, and Mr. John Banka, aged the snow wastes of north-west Europe western coastline as far south as 27. when, at the request of his father, Hantsch River.

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