Depressing news from Shanhai-Kuan, doubted at first, causes jgerlous tone to conversation among who re laily papers. Perplexity ax to what Japan will next adds to anxiety. 'There is less of frothy indignation and Jmore concern as to what China herself-can do about it. An aviation feadet on short leave' is reported to a will resist equipment as she has on-hand until she can secure and train alr forces Sufficient. to attack and overwhelm the Superiority in the air more important than army oF navy. A few days ago, a govern ment bombing. plane. followed by several observers stopped fow hours at Kashing for slight repairs, At least 10,000 people went to see: 'A few more visits would make our joe crops have brought bands of famine refugees, who roam from place to place and occasionally by weight of numbers overwhelm the local police. At one place the police fired into the crowds and killed a few of them.
caused such a row and so much, fwouble, that it was found cheaper and easily to hand over a few piculs of rice with some bundles of fuel and point the way to the next town, A serious situation is developing in the small towns. It seems. that the end of the lunar year appron~ ches, the hongs or wholesale merchants insist, on collecting from the shops. or retailers. hose try to. collect from their country or farmer. customers." The farmers say. "we have rice but no money." At present lees, a tenant farmer who right one picul of rice in the spring or summer to make his crop autumn or winter to clour the debt. will have to pay three pienly in the armers feel aggrieved, merchants essed. A heavy snow fall Like Emmons he is keenly interest or what looked to be like them, beer occupying the building refusing is in every way a parallel with a. ed in the Int. Everest Expedition and would like to sce something the Tibetan mountains from the Indian side, Apart from a slight internal distarbanee, Moore appears to have verthered all the winds that blew across the Gong-Ga. With careful
return to normal' very soon. The sing his inteysal cavity should expedition had a very efficient wire. ess and Moore was in charge of We were fortunate in having in Tachienlu as we received the the event.
in the different States, the ups and the downs for Hoover trid, Roosevelt, and then came the final result, Moore plans to continue his stud-fes in Harvard probably returning. by India and England. Undoubtedly he is the climber of the expe: tion, a fellow with tremendous nerve, fon whom a yawning chasm has the same effect as an ice-cream auadwich. A. student of Economies, titude, attitude, and altitude, are merely x. y. and' z, in the formula, the' other members of the Tiriking Expedition Moore has climbed mountains in Alaska and Ecuador, and apparently the Gon, Ga, though dangerous and difficult prevented no insurmountable bar-viers, Burdsall and Ennmons atid Young all played their part but undoyptedly the success of the whold adventure lay with Terris Moor}. A daring climber when in high fatiitudes he lived continually clement, of e's, mie= hod ras usually to discuss the possibiigy and feasibility: of the yawning efevasse and precipitous cornice after' its negotiation. Apparently always found. this, the safest form of procedure. The Gong-Ga Expedition will always. remember Terris Moore by the words "come slong, it's all right"
October 28 will be a day long remembered by the different. mem: Lers of the Hsikang® Expedition' with Bmmons hors de combat, would Burdsall il the gap and rise to the Everything had already deen planned for the. following morning.
Emmons and. Moore had already been. to 22,500 fect October 16 and beyond that. there wor apparently. very little. diffcutty. Their present camp was 21,500; it was now merely a rush for the top. and back again. A_ situation similar to that of Mallory and nine faced the two climbers, with, however, a much longer distance to cover. 'The two men had no doubt Whatever that the summit could reached. But, and this but? at the Jast_ moment. ne upset everything. On the evening of October 27 Emmons' seriously cut his hand, bre this was probably a mistake. to budge until similar quarters ha robbery two months ago. Thieves: crops in 1998. A few more days of brings ray of hope for good By 10 am. some difficult points been found for them. 'This matter broke in the receiving office, brok cold weather' will freeze field ver~ had been surmounted. With Moore has, however, been" satisfactorily the table and took money. to min, "The schools are busy with nding, Burdsall came steadily on. settled. The' first. repercussion of value of over one hundred dole examinations. Hospitals have fewer The willows were placed at strategic the recognition of the Soviet has lars, leaving the bank cheques and Patients. "To cope with mid-winter Jeorners and by 12 o'clock the sum-shown itself here by the appearance some jewellery lett there by patients. traffic, "the railway' has added mit was within sight. By two of chiefly wines—in the 'Some of the coolies were. suspected local from Kashing, to" Hangchow je'elock the object of the Hsikang: and their rooms searched." One. making, the round' trip the. same Expedition had become an accom articular, appeared "guilty "and efficient, day, One Postal service in highly ished fact. The Chinese and American flags. were placed on the mmit, photographed, and the two activities, and this. lerer ating a as.taken io the police station where ched along with all the servants in he confessed. Lis room was sear-climbers commenced the dangerous!
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