Manek K. Vajifdar, world cyclist and lecturer, an unusual kind of visitor, turned up in Hangchow few days ego. Mr. Vajifdar is a fine young man, a Rover Scout of the Sist Bombay Scouts Group, and Ig on a world tour. He rides a BSA, bleyele and is loud in its praise for he has already covered over 6,000 miles with Its ald. His camping and personal equipment, which he carries, weighs the best part of a hundredweight, and his pedal bike shows none the worse for the strain. After reaching China, this young Scout made a start for his trek at Canton and traversed the Foods of Kuanglung and, what was until recently, the dangerous areas occupied by Communists of Kiangsi, He is very Interested In this city of charms and planned to sojourn for some days with the hope of opporttunities being given to lecture in the schools, Eveniually he will make for Shanghai and then to reach Japan whence he hopes to leave for the United States of America, "if", as he naively remarked "I am' allowed to Tand." His ultimate alm" is to visit England. 'This young traveller is a Parsee, of the stricter sort, but he speaks' with high esteem of the Christian missionaries who enter tained him In his journey, and his opinion of them is, that "they are altogether too earnest and zealous for the message they have come proclaim.
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