Shanghai, July 19. body of Mr. Bourdrez, Dutch water conservancy expert who was drowned in the Kingshakiang River on May 11, was recovered by Dr. R, Cecil Rob ertson, Head of the Division of Pathological Sciences of the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research in Shanghai, and brought to Kunming by the doctor and is two Chinese assistants, Mr. Yung Gin-sung and Mr. Chang Lib-sing on June 9, the "North-China Daily News" learned yesterday.
Tt will be recalled that Mr. Bouraand Mr, Yun-chow, an official of the " South-western Transportation Floods Play Havoc in Bureau, left Kunming on April 22 by road for Kingklangkal in the North China upper reaches of the Jingshakiang River, From here they sailed dow Chungking, July 17. river in a junk {0 explore navigation Heavy rains and flood waters are possibilities and when they reached playing havoc with Japanese. tra aochuntung in the Chiaochiahslen Portation in North China, particularly District the junk capsized and all long the northern section of the were drowned but the boatman, Peiping-Hankow Railway, according Dr, Robertson, who is in charge of to Chinese dispatches received here the British Unit of the League of today.
Nations Epidemic Commission, and Taliway trame between Pacting who has his headquarters in' Kun-and Shihchiachwang Is said to have ming, set out into the wild and been interrupted. mountainous country in search of the Practically" the entire town of body of Mr, Bourdrez, who had been Shihchiachwang, the reports claim, a close friend of his, Accompanied has "been flooded, affecting over bby his two Chinese assistants 10000 houses, 2.500 of which have instituted q hazardous search in the collapsed. wild country" and after ten days The Yungting River is said to: be rising continuously," The new branch succeeded Ju locating the body of the railway. built. by the Japanese bedead water conservancy expert. tween Sinhsiang and Kaifeng, Perilous Return rip reported to have been badly damaged flood waters.
The body, badly decomposed, was "AIL tivers in Hopei province, the placed in a coffin and the perilous dispatches continue, are overlowing Journey back to Kunming "in Dr.
Robertson's car got underway, a side. thei banks and flooding the county Journey which Div Robertson upset The steel railway bridge spanning describes as "terrible," During the the Bute River at Sinlo is said latter part of the trip the gear box have been washed away. of the motor car gave out and Me, South-bound traing-on the Peiping-'Yung managed to jam the cog wheels Hankow Railway, the reports add, can into low gear with the tyre lever. only reach Paoting. All bridges across with the car then in low gear he the Tang River, north of Tinghsien, drove for about 100 miles, all the have been washed away. way to Kunming. Dr. Robertson opel province 1s said to be facing drove the car for twenty continuous severe-famine, The spring drought hours over the most dreadful muddy hho made it impossible to. plant cot-tracks without food, and wheat, while the present 'When the car broke down la the heavy' rains and flood are expected mountains, Mr, Chang performed the to'ruin the havest—Reuter. amazing feat "of walking 72 kil over rongly mountainous country in ten hours to bring help to the suffering party. They were extricated from their difieulty and Trial of Col. Spear proceeded on their way to Kunming, completing what Dr. Robertson termed "an epic of adventure,"
Explained 'Dr, Robertson's unit Is conducting psig, July 19. epidemiological surveys along the 'The Japanese army' spokesman new Kunming-Burma highway. This here was today slightly more part of the work which was ins plicit concerning the position of Li stigated as a result of collaboration Colonel C. R. Spear, British Military between the League of Nations and Attache, who is still being detained the Chinese Government and to bby the Japanese authorities ut Kal-which 2,000,000 Swiss franes were gan. He denied the Tokyo report voted by the League Assembly. that the trial of the British emeer Doctors and engineers are concen-had already started. (ated on the new Burma road He recognized that Colonel Spear which pusses through areas infested was a military. attache and had a with malaria, In an effort to wipe certain diplomatic standing, but, the Out the dread disease and to make spokesman asserted, the crux of the the highway passable during the bad matter was whether he had exceeded season from June to November, Dr. his diplomatic duties and privileges, Robertson and his colleagues" are and the whole case revolved round doing splendid work. In addition to that point. his malaria work Dr. Robertson wus He indicated that if it was found algo conducting research into the that Colonel Spear had done someyoitre trouble in the mountains of thing against the Japanese army, it Yunnan. might be diMeult' to recognize hie Arrives in Rangoon diplomatic standing.
Completing a Journey, Dr. Robert-'The spokesman said he was not son arrived in Rangoon yesterday, aware whether the trial would be with Mr, Yung, after driving over the public or private.
highway' all the way from Asked if a British official would Kunming. The doctor announced his invited to attend the tral, the arrival at Rangoon in a brief cable spokesman replied that he hoped so, associates here which read "note He added that he was in favour of worthy automobile journey Yuns foreigners attending the court-mar-Robertson," Although several_per= ini of Colonel Spear—Reuter. sons have motored from Rangoon to Kunming, Dr, Robertson anda few others are the only ones who have completed the trip from Kunming
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