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WENTY-SEVEN years ago, on March 29, 1912, Captain R. F. Scott wrote in his diary: "It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake look after our people."

overcome.

To Die

By DONALD HODSON

chance, but spared them the pain of watching him die.

But the survivors were in little better condition. The ex- treme cold and the blizzards continued. On March 18, Scott writea; "My right foot has. gone, nearly all the toes." And a day later: "Amputation is the least I can hope for, but will the trouble spread?” · ˇ

That night, the 20th, they camped only eleven miles from their next depot. It was their Inst camp. They had food for only four days and practically no fuel.

For ten days he and the two companions that remained of the four that had reached the South Pole with him had been

Six hundred miles of the Ice Scaman Evans, the strongest held up by a blizzard. And for ten days they had been slowly Barrier were covered before a man of the party, began to His nose was badly dying of starvation and ex- blizzard came down on them at succumb.

Beardmore frost-bitten and his hands were the foot of the haustion.

That entry in Scott's diary glacier and held them up for covered with frost-bite blistera. was the last flicker of life in three days on end. It was a Ontes suffered from frozen feet.

On March 20 comes the last Blizzards overtook them, and entry. They had decided that one of the greatest but one of serious blow. Reserves of time, the most unfortunate of all food and energy were dissipated their marches were dangerously it should be a natural death. Wilson suffered agonics Seven months later the search voyages of exploration. From and the margin of safety was short.

from snow-blindness. the moment when they came reduced.

Evans party found them lying in the When the weather cleared, cut his knuckle and it festered. tent, as if asleep. across the traces of the Nor- wegian, Roald Amundson, who three teams of four men carried His flagernails were now rotting There have been many post- beat them to the Pole by a few on up the glacier. Near the top and falling out.

mortems held on the fate of Moro accidents befell them. Scott weeks, their luck had turned one team was sent back. Two

and his companions. ngainst them. The difficulties parties struggled on to the bleak Wilson strained a tendon, Scott There is nothing that can be they had to face were greater desolation of the 10,000 foot slipped on the ice and hurt his added now. Scott's own "Mes- than was humanly possible to high plateau where the Pole it- shoulder, and by the time they sage to the Public," written in self is situated. They were reached the glacier head and those last days, explained the Scott's second Antarctic ex- still 400 miles from their goal. left the plateau Bowers was the major reasons. "The causes of pedition was, unlike the first, Even at this late stage there only fit man.

the disaster are not dua to They started down the glacier faulty organisation, but to mis- entirely his own responsibility, was little wrong with anyone in He wanted to complete the the Polar party. When Lieuten- on February 8. On the way fortune in all risks which had knowledge of the South he had ant Evans (now, Admiral Sir down Evans fell and concussed to be undertaken." acquired on the Discovery ex. Edward Evans) turned back himself, and on February 17, at Their failure was duo first Hongkong Telegraph. pedition ten years earlier, and with two others 200 miles from the foot of the glacier, ho had and foremost to the weather,

his

primarily the Pole, he left the remaining another fall, was brought in on which was far worse than they purpose was scientific, It to attract five as strong and well as they the sledge, and died the same could reasonably have expected

Was

night without recovering con- from previous experience. Next, funds from the public that he could be expected to be.

With Scott were Dr. E. A. sciousness. made the Pole his objective.

the shortage of paraffin at the Wilson, zoologist; Captain L. E. Their morale severely shaken, depots, which Scott could not G. Oates, of the Inniskilling they pushed on, gradually explain, but was due to seepage On the outward voyage from Dragoons: Lieutenant H. R. weakening.

through the faulty stoppers of Defence and Nutrition England he had received a mes- Bowers, of the Royal Indian It suddenly became much the tin containers. Then, ac- Seaman Edgar colder. Temperaturca fell to cording to Mr. Cherry-Garrard, THE DIFFICULTIES of sessing "Am heading South."

sage from Amundsen, saying, Marine; and

From Evans, of the Royal Navy.

minus 30 degrees F. by day and one of the zoologists of the ex- that the scope of Ils Inquiries em-that moment it was a race be- Some way beyond 89 degrees minus 40 degrees F. by night. pedition, the food allowances braces extraneous subjects which are tween them, and Scott was well South the first Norwegian cairn The oil supply at their next de- were inadequate, both as re- required only for statistical purposes aware how heavy the odds were was sighted and they knew they pot was unaccountably short. gards calories existent. Even by the Colonini Office renders It

had been beaten. They pushed Oates's feet were much worse, certain that the sittings of the Hong-

aguinat him..

on full rations they were under- On March 10 Scott's diary nourished. kong Nutrition Commitice will be And if one is to judge by on to the Pole, reaching it on protracted into 1940.

fame alone, it was he who suc. January 17, and picked up reads: "Things steadily down-

Nervous energy alone drove In the meantime, presumably, cecded

and

He had hill"; on March 11, "Oates is them on. They refused until the not Amundsen. Amundsen's messages. proposed that

the Government Amundsen's brilliant feat is one camped there on December 16, very near the end, one feels." last moment to admit their de- should sit back and await the Com which one admires and no more. just a month earlier. "All the They divide up the medical feat. At the end of it, Scott mittee's Report before attempting to so much as tackle the problem of Scott's failure and death were day-dreams must go," wrote means of ending their lives. could write, "For my own sake, mal-nutrition in this Colony,

of the kind to catch the imagina Scott, "It will be a wearisome On March 17 Ontes managed I do not regret this journey, tion. The diary which he kept return.'

to struggle on with them till which has shown that English-

The

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 March 29, 1939

Is

nutrition values and the fact

It is abundantly clear, without calling for b Report from any Com- and infunts in Hongkong are being denied the nourishment they must have if they are to become healthy adult citizens

mittee, that thousands of chlidren

We have been informed that the cost of a bowl of soup containing the requisite vitamins that will allow a mother to nourish her child is but one cent.; that for less than $40,000 per annum, the Society for the Protection of Children can provide one free bowl of soup per day in every_day_of_the_year_to_ten_thou-

sund mal-nourished mothers.

Although this Colony con, reluz- tantly perhaps, find sufficient rc- venue to pay six million dollars per annum to the Imperial Government by o contribution" towards Imperial Defence, it can distribute but a fraction of this sum for charitable

until he had no more strength. The cold and the wind began they camped. That evening, men can endure hardships, help to write is one of the most mov- to get the better of them. On with a blizzard raging outside, one another and meet denth ing documents ever written. the high plateau the tempera- he got up and said, “I am just with as great a fortitude as ever

The outward journey was tures averaged minus 10 degrees going outside and may be some in the past.” fairly straightforward.

Fahrenheit, 51 degrees of frost, time."" They never saw him It is for this spirit with which Depots of food were left at and this, with a wind of any again. Ho walked out to his they faced the hardships that in intervals and the party was thing up to gale force. At the death so that he should no the end overcame them that gradually reduced as sections. Pole itself the temperature was longer be a drag on them. He their names have not been and returned to the base.

minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit. not only gave them another will not be forgotten.

Q.

"I ASKED MUSSOLINI"

purposes. The Colony has spent true?

enormous sums since the beginning of the century on Defence Contrl- butions-it would not be an over estimation to say that the total in

Some say you are Hit- ler's puppet. Is it

A "Our record in inter-

national affairs indi-

the past four decades has exceeded cates a sleepless vigilance

that,

if the

$100,000,000 and the not result is

to build peace and make entire population of Hongkong were wiped out to-mor-friends. More peace, more row by war, the loss in human life

would be infinitely less than If, in the friends.

sume period, a tenth part of $100,- 000,000 had been spent in tackling

Second article of a new series in which questions are put to the Duce by an interpreter-and answered from Mussolini's "My Autobiography.”

"We yield, nothing of our the problem of the under-nourished autonomy nor do we allow our child.

power to be used as pawn by Statistles reveal that the Colony's others." (p. 206.) infantile 'mortality ranks amongst "Speaking of foreign policy in re- the world's highest-Incomplete re-lation to the different groups of turns show that approximately one Powers, I summarised my thoughts In every three infants dies before with

'Wo this definition:

my country might abandon cannot But on the last occasion Ger- that it reaches the age of twelve months. allow ourselves elther a plan of Italy let down Germany and en-weight of war and unwarranted mis- many and Italy wore allies those who were crushed under the Death Is caused in the majority sane altruism or one of complete casos, not by lack of attention from subservience to the plans of the tered the great war on the side of fortune." (p. 30.) the infant's mother, but from lack other peoples. Ours is a policy of the Ailles. · Why? of nourishment from the mother's autonomy, then. It shall be firm breasts.

and severe.'” (pp, 204-5.)

annually remitted to London as this.

Colony's

defence

contribution. At

A.

"Italy a few years previously had renewed the Triple Al-

HAR

at

LA. "The event for Europe was the

end of a nightmare. The con- tinual disillusions, the reserves and protests of Germany and the dia- tribes between the Allies constituted a permanent danger and a reason for anxiety for many nations. The conclusion of the treaty was, there- fore, for them, a liberation.

"For

Italy, on the contrary, it was a complete shattering of ideals. "We had won the war; we were utterly defontext in the diplomatic battle. We were losing the whole of Dalmatia, our land by tradition and history. . The colonial problem was resolved for us in an absolutely negative way.” (p. 69.).

[Q A

What do you think of your new friends, the Jugo-Slave?

"The Serbian mentality which did, and still does, work itself along the subterranean tunncis of secret societies,

(p. 30.)

How would you define a good politician?

We are conscious of the fact--the "I am rated as a leader who pre-

Hitler confessedly alms War Offee, has been at pains to cedes and not one who follows." (p.liance Treaty,

world domination. What did make it publle this year-that the 151.)

"It had been a marriage without you think of German Ideas of do cost to the Imperial Government of

respect and without trust, brought misation in those days. maintaining the Army Garrison in

about more in order to counter- Hongkong is five-fold the amount

You have 215,000 Germans in balance milliary power than by

#A handful of intelligent and South Tyrol, touth of the political necessity.

strong-willed men began to a matter of fact the treatyk themselves if it was really right the same time, we are not convinced Brenner Pass. Do you think you called only for action if one or more for us to lend themselves to the that the bargain is a good one. The

We find ourselves of the of the nations of the Triple Alliance political alma of the King of Prussia, Harrison Is not here primarily to

was assaulted by a nation outside protect the citizen of Hangkung: it la here

dark, nithe alliance, We were kept in the and if that was good for the future Arue men, in politics, must British defence system in the Pack any price." (p. 120.)

enough to break the pact-to free putting fle, and we have no doubt that, if

sored limits of the us from further obligations to that most distinguished effort at journal-regard, a love and a deep vision strategy dictated such a move in Brenner." (p. 130.) time of war, Hongkong would quick- ly be left to Its fute, despite our substantial contributions towards the upkeep of the Army.

Brenner Pass now, and

an integral part of the at the Brennero we will remain

We realise that it is only just and right, in these times of international stress, that this Colony should con- tributo substantially towards the

་་

un 1 well knew, That was

alliance.

"One of the first courageous. ne- tions in which Italy showed the How long do you think you measure of her. Independence and

of Italy and of the world.

ism,"

be animated by the humane The and devout sense; they must havo of that question was my

(pp. 39-40.)

What do you think of Eng-

and Hitler will stick together? strength was recognition of this."Q. land's part in the war.

"Only in front of the mogal- tude and suggestiveness of common defence of the Empire. danger, only after having lived to-

But we are convinced

(p. 38.)

that in nogether in the anxieties and torments anys action in the war?

part of the Empire is a Government of war, van one measure the cound- called upon to contribute twenty per ness of friendship or measure in cent, of its total revenue, both muni-moon, bow long it is destined to cipal and general, towards the go on." (p. 31.)..

their fellow-creaturës, · · And all these qualities must not bo, do- flied by dissimulations, or rhetoric, or flatteries, or compromises, or betw. vite concessions" (p. 85.)

And do you At this dent- tion?

"I watched England; she was Akqj: pondering deoply upon the What did you think of Ger-step to take, and then, in order to keep her supremuey, and also for the sake of her pride and the sake of "On this ground at least I am

moved her formild-

proud to know myself as one- "Public opinion in Italy was humanity, she

deeply moved facing war with able war machinery and quickened not to be suspected-even by my its German Invasion of East France. the organisation of now, armies to self-and feeling as to my famoat There was the description, with hor- snatch from Germany's grip the con- moral dure that this fibro is invinci

(pp. 38-blo. cannot aco but that expen Uture on service to the public. The most ur-rid detalls, of German methods, and, trol of the old Continent. legitimate undertakings for the com- gent service we can think of is the above all, the every sense of right 39.) mon weal of the taxpayer is being service dictated by humanity--that and humanity. sinrved in order to contribute an un-of saving some of the thousands of "The future not of one nation, but fair and undue proportion of the lives that are being sacrificed to-day of many nations, was on the scale. There was also the feeling of revenue for military undertakings. on the altar of mni-nutrition.

upkeep of the Army.

Whichever way wo look at it, we

Hitler condemns the Treaty of Versailles, which resulted

It must be obvious that a lessening will always be able to keep them, common culture which was compel of the Defence burden would result in view of the rising tide of Hitler's ling us to forget past and present from this war. What do you think In a proportionate Increase in roal Pan-Germanium?..

quarrels I could not bear the idea of it?

bellove that this, above all else, huz been the stuff and fabric of my strengli and succoss”. (p. BB.)

TO-MORROW:

'I do not sleep my way

conclusiona

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