A trip round the world in a motor caravan is the romantic prospect which Commander John! Weston has planned when he is "demobbed" from the Royal Navy. He will be accompanied by hig wife and three children, the eldest of whom is a gir] of twelve. The Your will occupy nine years, Commander Weston and his wife are Boers of the Orange Free State. He is about 50 years old, d he became attached to the Navy after serving with the expedition against the Germans in South West Africa. He will start his tour in Asia Minor, and will go on through Syria, Palestine, Egypt. cross over to Damascus to Mespot and Persia, and, if possible, return to England through Russia.
This will occupy about 2 years, after which he will ship his caravan and sail away for South Africa, across which he will travel collecting and completing material for a lecturing tour in America and Canada.
"We are going off the beaten track, and probably into many places where man had never boom before," he told a "Star" reporter.
"Do you not fear attack nm some of these wild places?" he was asked.
"TE dare say," replied Commander Weston. "The point is to know, when to fight and when not to fight. To fight Bedouins and Persians would be certain death; but if, when they attack, you say What is it you would like to have?" they will just rob you and ride reports Eizo Kondo el Matsumoto and two Korea members of a Japanese Bolshevik association, recently on trial at. Tokio for attemptipg yo create civil disturbance, have been discharged on account of insufficient evidence. The _polica destroyed notes to the value of ¥.2,000 which Kondo was said to received from Bolsheviks in Shanghai and which were found to inibe counterfeit.
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