The case of the French airmen Heine ard Serre, who have been held to ransom by nomad tribes in north-west Africa since July 2 is curious reminder that civilization and savagery are not very far apart, geographically speaking. The two men made a forced landing in the desert, in the Spe nown as' the Rio carrying mails from Paris on the way to South America by the new combined atr and steamship route between Paris and \Buenos Aires.
Gene Tunney, the unbeaten but championship aving in Paris retiring holder of tke world's boxing
before starting on a walking tour, and yesterday he was the guest the American Club at that body's weekly luncheon. Everyone was curious to see how he would comas an after-dinner entire-in his favour. He spoke pleasant and naturally, without ary aggressiveness and with the touches of humour befitting such an occa ion. He recalled his first boxing match in France, about three weeks after the armistice, when he came to Paris from Romorantin to tackle one "Knock-out Marchand" whom the defeated, thereby winning exact-Jy 100 francs. Whatever satisfac tion he-may have felt over this success was checked very soon afterwards The YOLCA, was organizing a series of boxing' matches in Italy, and Tunney. applied to be included in the team qriich was to be sent to Rome, but the manager looked him "Vim afraid you Tt unfortunately happened that' their capture was preceded by a [change of policy on the part of the French authorities at Daker towards the Arb nomads who haunt the frontiers of Mauritania and are always on the look-out for oppertunities to plunder the natives under French protection. The French had three principal officials who new the habits of these sons" the decart, spoke their dialects and succeeded in keeping them more or less in order by small concessions here and there and threats of what would happen if they raided the dependents of the great white chiefs too freely. The chief of these three officials retired not long ago, the other two were moved elsewhere, and the authorities at Dakar decided to abandon the "survit. in ynodo" and adopt the "fortitor in rec" The result was that the Arab leaders, as soon as they heard of the capture of the two forbade the small tribe which had taken them to give them up, under penalty of being completely wiped out, and the Preah were informed that
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