London, Feb. 3.
The death occurred here to-day, cat the age of 69, of the Hon. John Tu the course of his career, he travelled three times around' the world taking pictures of numerous countries with the camera. "He spent three years in Japan and was correspondent for "Harper's Weekly" with the Ist Japanese Army in Manchuria during the war with Russie, Ponting was Photographic-Officer Captain Scott's last expedition to the South Pole in 1910-13 and lectured more than 1,000 occasions about the expedition.
Tu 1082 he completed the firn "Ninety Degrees South," a motlonlecture record of the Scoit Expedition, Synchronized with his own story of, the expedition.
Ponting was a member of the Spltzbergen Expedition in 1018. He
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