SECOND NEWS SECTION
V SPORTS AND WANT ADS
VOL. XLIX NO. 4.
LONDON ELITE
STILL QUIET
AND WITHOUT
GAY PARTIES
Nearly All Social Fixtures
Missing This Year; Even
Restaurant Life Much
. Curtailed.
London, July &. yay tne As
sociated Press.) The first summer
of the after-the-war era is passing
as a mere ghost of the old London
cnria! 3(nn whirli formerly for
three months after Easter trans
formed Bejgravia and Mayfair into
I spectacle by day and night.
In other years, before the war
wrought 'its changes, the early
. weeks- of summer saw the great
London houses thrown open for en
tertaining oil a scale which no other
European capital knew. Their
blazing windows at night told of
receptions and dances on a grand
scale. Court was held at Backing
ham palace with an array of uni
forms and jewels making an un
surpassable show. By day the en
tire west end was packed with cars
md carriages taking the women of
society about for their calls and
shopping. '
Four Blank Years Passed.
. . e Ll.1.
1 here nave neen lour oian.
from 1915 to 1918, and now most of
the establishments of the ducal and
old landed families who were the
if f . ! J 1 !..!.. rfirti T1 A , ri
closed, or their lives are ordered to
a quiet and subdued tone Not a
few bear the sign "for sale" or "to
let," testifying to the devastation of
'", old fortunes through war taxation
or the retirement cf families in
mourning. .
Nearly all of the social fixtures
, are missing this year. No courts
are being held at the palace for that
.presentation to royalty of debu
tantes and others which gave them
the formal seal of rank among the
. socially elect. One big garden party
is to take the place of these. The
shepherding of the exclusive world
into the royal enclosure at the Ascot
' races has been almost the only semi
official gathering of society, and
pressure upon the lord chamber
lain's office for admission conse
quently has been more fierce than
heretofore.
To the stranger London may seem
lively and even gay, but it is a res
taurant and theater going liveliness
like the customary life of New York
and Paris. The war profiteers are
spending recklessly in their way, but
among old-fashioned people there is
a general sentiment that display is
not in harmony with the times, and
for many it would be impossible, if
they desired it. '
Restaurant Life Curtailed.
Even the restaurant life .is much
curtailed. Suppers have been elim
inated and there are hardly a dozen
places in this largest metropolis of
the world found open later than 10
o'clock. The midnight wayfarer
sees women in evening dress with
men in guards' uniform or formal
black, buying coffee and sandwiches
at a sidewalk coffee stall elbow to
elbow wifh a crowd of soldiers, cab
men and miscellaneous night wan
derers, a picture undreamable for
. the old London.
Boating, cricket, tennis and golf
have burst forth with renewed en
thusiasm after four years of sports
famine. The Thames from London
to Oxford and beyond is a long
winding pageant of pleasure craft
with white flanneled young boat
men and rainbow-tinted dresses
everywhere.
The hundredsof young Ameri
cans at Oxford and Cambridge are
- learning a university life new to
them, where students come to do
everything but study in term time.
and save their books for vacations.
Not Much Interested
" - ' in Old; Wants New One
Kansas City, Mo., July 12.
"Seems to me there was a former
.suit by these parties," said Judge
- F. G. Hutchings, in his division of
the Wyandotte county circuit
court, addressing George Carr, a
negro who was the plaintiff.
"That's correct," replied Carr.
"Six years ago I filed suit for di
vorce in this very court. The case
.v .,1..n ,,nrlr 9r1vipmnt T
; never took the trouble to find out
' the decision."
Judge Hutchinson took the case
under advisement again until the
' records could be looked up to see
the disposition of the former case.
Cold-Blooded Robbery;
Thieves Loot Ice Plant
' Cleveland, O.. July 12. It was a
cold-blooded affair. The coolest df
burglars pulled off the job. At that
hey got a cool reception, accord
ing to Andrew Brenner, whose ice
substation was robbed. v The ice
was the only thing they didn't take,
Branner says, -
Rainbow Division In Beautiful Gity of Arlori
Taught Belgians How To Be Merry Again
The Wine That Was Too Good for the Germans and the Hospitality That the Ger
mans Demanded, Came Up From the Caves That the Americans Might Teach
Belgium to Laugh Again Yanks Found Germans Quiet and Self-Possessed,
But Ignored the Huns' Bows.
Belgium was too dMd by th suddenness of peace to do more than (tare at the American column
when It entered Belgian towni on Itt march to the Rhino. In thlt Installment of the history of the.
Rainbow division, Raymond 8. Tompkins tells, however, how they toon realized what the entry of the
Rainbow meant a real rainbow of hope It wai to them and they brought out their rarest old wines,
which had bean burled lor four years, to feast their liberators.
The next Installment of the history, which will take the division Into Germany, will appear In
The 8ee soon.
By RAYMOND S. TOMPKINS.
(CoryrHht 1919, by Kaymond 8. Tompklna. All BUhta Keeerred.)
Eleventh Installment.
Belgium came out of her cellars, bringing her ancient
wines and her precious bits of brass and tapestry when the
American army came through on the highroads to the Rhine.
As properly as she could, Belgium made merry. She had
almost forgotton how.
But she got what merriment she could out of talking
about her four and a half years of slavery to the men of the
Rainbow division.
Retaught Belgium How to Laugh.
She could talk about those years
now, because they were gone and
the slavery was over. And the wine
that was too good for the Germans
and the hospitality that the Ger
mans demanded with threatening
bayonets (and thought they were
getting- came up from the caves
that the Americans might make
merry and teach Belgium to laugh
again.
That is what the Rainbow division
did in the beautiful old city of Ar
lon it retaught Belgium how to
laugh.
First, though, let me tell of the
city of Virton, Belgium, close to the
border between France and Bel
gium, which ,was the first city in
Belgium the Rainbow division, saw
on its march to the Rhine. In Vir
ton it came upon the last of the Ger
man army in Belgium 400 wounded
German soldiers in the hospital
there, with the hospital's full com
plement of German medical officers
and German nurses.
They were the first Germans to
live under the nags of the allies.
From the tower of the big hospital
were flying on the day the Rainbow"
division was in and around Virton
the flags of France, Great Britain,
Belgium and America.
Germans Quiet and Self-Possessed.
In the streets the men of the
Rainbow division met German med
ical officers. The situation seemed
to produce a queer, sudden mixture
of emotion in both Americans and
Germans, and the Germans seemed
to be surer of themselves, than the
Americans. Probably the Germans
were more certain of this defeat
than the Americans were that they
believed they wefre defeated. At
any rate, the Germans bowed and
the Americans simply stared.
Heaven knows the men of the
Rainbow division had seen enough
Germans. They knew what Ger
man soldiers looked like, dead and
alive or. rather, first alive and then
dead. Their ideas of what to do
when they saw a German soldier
who was neither wounded nor a
prisoner included most of the things
the world puts under the heading
of "Decisive action," except polite
bows. But until Virton they had
seen German soldiers only on bat
tlefields most of the battlefields of
the four years of the war. They had
never seen them shopping in the
streets of a quiet city and carrying
bundles in their arms.
Ignored German's Bows.
So that it was a queer thing, to
watch the progress of the young
German soldier I saw walking from
shop to shop in Virton, and finally
striking off up the broad, tree-aisled
street -to the hospital a homey,
comfortable street like a shady ave
nue in an American college town.
He wore a neat-fitting uniform of
field-gray and a gray cap like our
fatigue cap, with a black patent
leather visor. He was young and
slim, with a fresh pink face and very
erect.
Group after group of our American
doughboys he passed strolling along
on their way to the regular after
noon "party" with French shopkeep
ers tall, lean boys from the west
and south; short, stout, snappy little
feilows from the east; Americans
from all over the United States, talk
ing about home, old fights, the com
ing arrivals in Germany, how much
money they had, what the cooks
were "coming across with," how
they had balwled out the sergeant
that morning and would do it again
if he got gay, and what they were
going to buy.
And whatever they were talking
about they stopped it when they saw
the young German soldier with the
bundles.
His head was up and his eyes
ahead like a man on parade, but as
he passed the American groups he
turned his eyes toward them, in
clined his head slightly with a mur
mur that was unintelligible and
passed on. '
Now, apparently those groups of
Americans thought no more of re
turning that bow than they would
have thought of returning the bow
of one' of the camels in a circus
parade.
Thoughts Revert To Beer.
"For Pete's sake, did you see that
bird bow his head?"
"Yeah whadd've know about that?
Mus' think he knows us!"
"He prob'ly knows ole Slim here, i
The Omaha
1 C
Frob'Iy tended bar back home in
some rathskeller where old Slim
usea to hang out."
"Yeah, and he can take me back
to that ole rathskeller too sweet if
lie wants to. Jus' so he don't put
no knockout drops in my beer,
that's all."
"Won't be any beer when you get
back there, Slim. All be drinkin'
prune juice or somethin.' "
"Tell yuh what I bet about these
Goiman," said a little black-eyed
soldier with curly black hair and a
high curved nose. "Bet yuh they've
been told to try to get in good with
the American army so people won't
believe these stories about killin'
babies an' boinin' choiches."
"Well, they gotta do somethin'
more'n bow to get in good with me.
Cap'n says don't frat-nize with 'em,
and y' ain't going to see me frat
nizin' with 'em."
"I wouldn't trust ole Slim if one
of 'em says 'Slim, come on in an'
have a stein o rils ner beer.
"Well, now, mebbe" Slim began,
1 and then they were out of earshot
and heading toward a postcard shop
that had a window full of picture's
of Virton.
Put German Out of Billet.
If the orders in the retreating
German army bade those left be
hind to "try to get in good" with
the American army, they were cer
tainly useless orders so far as the
Rainbow Division was concerned.
In Virton an American second lieu
tenant put a German medical lieu
tenant out of his billet. The Ger
man had lived there nearly four
years as long as the hospital had
been in operation. He had German
pictures on the walls; scenes of the
"Fatherland," groups of soldiers,
girls, and so on, and he had made
a homelike place of the room, with
an electric light at the head of the
bed and a reading lamp on the table
and all his books and records in
orderly cabinets around the walls.
But the town major having in
charge the listing and distribution
of the billets did not take into ac
count the fact that any part of the
German army was still in Virton.
So far as he was concerned, the
German army had gone away from
there and was still going. So this
billet in the home of a French
woman came to be listed among
the billets available for officers of
the Rainbow Division. '
They tell me the German was
scribbling away at his table .telling
the folks he'd be home soon, or
something, when an American sol
dier, the lieutenant's orderly, came
bumping through the door, bending
under a bedding roll as big as a
piano and dumped it down on the
floor with an awful thud. Behind
him came the young American of
ficer -with a musette bag over his
shoulder and a suitcase. Behind the
American officer came the lady of
the house.
German Plainly Astonished.
The German rose, dropping his
inky pen on the paper plainly as
tounded. "I think this is my billet," said
the American, coolly picking a
corner occupied by the German's
spare boots to deposit )s bag and
suitcase and removing the boots in
the prociss.
"Yes?" said the German. He
spoke English well. He hesitated
a second. "I have lived here for
four years," he said.
"Yes?" said the American. Then
to his orderly, "Any water in that
pitcher, Harry? If there isn't, ask
the madam to get some, will you?
I want to wash up."
Without another word the Ger
man left, acd came back with his
own orderly, and they both proceed
ed to move out the German's house
furnishings, while the American
sloshed his face and head and neck
in the cold water, brushed -his teeth
and hair and distributed his razor
and toilet articles around on the
washstand. Not a word of conver
sation passed between the Amer
ican and the German until, as the
latter was leaving with the last of
his stuff, the American looked up
from a manicuring operation and
said, "Sorry, old scout!" The Ger
man closed the door softly, with
never a reply.
Francs Delight Shopkeepers.
Wads of francs from the parts of
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1919.
ed piled into the little money boxes
of the French storekeepers, who
searched their poor stocks of goods
again and again to find things that
the Americans wanted. The money
of their own country was returning
to them, and the marks and pfennigs
they had accumulated during the
German occupation went into the
pockets of our doughboys.
They were poor enough stocks of
goods. Heavn knows what with
the ravages of the boche in the last
hours before he left. But as though
they were business folk who had
just completed a big deal, American
soldiers and Virton citizens sat
down to dinner together that night
in many a Virton kitchen or dining
room, and savory broiled steak and
hot French fried potatoes right
from the company's cook lay in
lordly state on hot platters before
them, and madame poured the cof
fee and sat down in the midst of the
young Americans, not understand
ing a word of the jokes they roared
at or the stories they listened to so
eagerly. But they were happy,
madame and monsieur and the
blushing mademoiselles, in contem
plation of the serene-faced, clear
eyed boys from America and of
their honest laughter and sincere
interest in madame and monsieur
and the blushing mademoiselles and
of their shameless appetites for
food.
From Brandeville through Mont
medy and Virton and beyond,
northern France and southern Bel
gium had been strangely well-preserved
for having been war coun
tries for, four years. Even near
Montmedy, supply depot on the
Germans' main army railroad line
between Loneuyon and Sedan,
which had been within range of our
great naval guns during the last
weeks of the war, the earth was but
little torn with shell fire and the
villages scarcely at all. Over this
country the hastily formed armies of
France had fallen back during the
fall of 1914, offering little resistance
to the steady, thoroughly planned
advance of the German force, and
the villages and fields here lay just
as they were when the horses of the
Uhlans had pranced into them and
they were claimed for Germany.
Comes to War's First Ruins.
Before noon, though, rolling on
ward through Belgium, the Rain
bow division came upon the war's
first ruins the wreckage wrought
when black despair was first set
tling over Europe, by guns so big
that the people blanched with terror
at the very mention of them.
They were ordinary ruins, just like
those the Rainbow had left in
France. People walked among them
trundling wheelbarrows or pulling
little cars, and most of them were i
women old women. Ihere were a
few children who stood and stared
at the slow column of horses, wag
ons, motors, guns and men. They
did not wave their hands or clap
them. What these tiny Belgian
children knew about soldiers didn't
call for waving or clapping of bands.
Here and there an older girl, stand
ing by a tangled pile of rocks that
had been her home, waved one hand
steadilv as though she had that day
set that hand aside for waving pur
poses and no other. The older girls
understood the slow-moving column
of olive drab.
Shortly after noon they reached
the city of Arlon.
Arlon, crowning a broad hill, un
obscured from view for a mile along
the broad, shady road, lay shin
ing in the sun-like descriptions of
old Jerusalem "with tow'rs of gold
and diadems of snow." Old Rain
bow veterans, starved through long
months of fighting among wrecks
of towns for the sight ot a big city,
rounded the curve of the road and
saw it. "Wot th' they said,
and became speechless.
Beautiful Building Stripped.
All day the Rainbow rolled into
Arlon. Division headquarters was-es-
tablished in the center of the city in
the great government building on
the place, where in some ot tne
rooms tne siik-coverea iurnuure,
taoestried walls and rich, thick
carpets were unhurt, and in others
were worn and slashed and heaped
up with dirty, worn-out German
gas masks and abandoned ammuni
tion cases. It was beautiful, the in
terior of this great building with
the beauty of an empty conch shell.
Hand-carved cases that had held
precious bronzes were open and
empty, the faces of richly carved
old grandfather clocks were empty,
1U har nf nirrnr.;. th heavvisome 590,000 more' males than fe
tables bare of covering.
(To be continued.)
Once Rich, Now Poor.
New York, July 12. George W.
Rector, formerly proprietor of one
of the most famous restaurants in
the world here, is reduced to living
on an income of $1,500 yearly and
running his own flivver, according
to his own statement, made in reply
to his wife's suit for alimony.
Bee Want Ads do the business.
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Women in Religious Frenzy
Offer Babes for Sacrifice
Revelations of the Orgies of the "Holy Rollers" Told in
Court; Women Commune With Holy Ghose at 2
O'clock in the Morning.
(By Universal Service.)
Chicago, July 12. Revelations of
orgies of the "Holy Rollers," which
were reported, to have caused two
women to try to offer their children
as living sacrifices to the Holy
Ghost were made in the Court of
Domestic Relations here.
When brought into court Mrs.
Barbara Stimmett and Mrs. Flor
ence McCall, became hysterical and
screamed, claiming they were con-
trolled by a power from heaven
which commanded them to sacrifice
their children to the Holy Ghost.
Edward Stimmett, husband of
Mrs. Stimmett, told an investigator
of the Illinois Humane society of
the orgies carried on in his home by
women members of the cult. He is
not a member of the society and
told freely all that he knew of it.
"She seemed to regard 2 oclock
in the morning as the auspicious
moment to communicate with th
Holy Ghost" he said, referring to
his wife. "At that time she is ac
customed to get out of bed and wan
der about the house, crying and
shrieking.
"Often we are visited at that un
holy hour by other women of the
order thirty tor forty sometimes
who make the night hideous by
their wails. They throw bricks
through the windows, smash' the
furniture and otherwise conduct
themselves as if possessed. They
work themselves up into a religious
Dangerous Tools!
Some very apposite figures are
embodied in the final report of
the dominions ' royal commission.
Whereas in the period 1891-1900
only 28 per cent went to the British
dominions and the remainder to for
eign countries, principally the
United States, in the period 1901
12 63 per cent settled within the
empire. In 1913 this proportion in
creased to 78 per cent. Emigration
during the 40 years 181-1911 ab
sorbed only 27 per cent of the nat
ural increase of the male popula
tion. In the case of women, it ab
sorbed only 22 per cent of the total
natural increase.
In the forty years from 1871-1911
males left England and Wales alone,
and, as the commissioners point
out, 'it is clear that such a condi
tion of affairs creates undesirable
problems both in the United King
dom and the dominions."
Between 1870 and. 1910 657,000
more boys than girls were born in
Jbngland and Wales; during the
same period 651,000 more males than
females died. It follows that prac
tically all the increase in the excess
number of females over males at all
ages in England and Wales between
1871 and 1911 was caused by the
frenzy on the verge of insanity, and
while under this influence are not
responsible for anything they do."
"Again and again I have had to
take my little laughter and leave
the home, and 1 know of a dozen
husbands in the neighborhood who
have been driven from their homes
by these crazy performances."
Following the session in the Do
mestic Court, the two women were
sent to Dr. Hickson, ofthePrycho
pathic Laboratory, for examination
as to their sanity.
A visit was made to the Pentecos
tal Mission, the readquarters of the
"Holy Rollers" here, to find out
whether human sacrifices were en
couraged by the cult. This was
denied by Mrs. Brinkman, who was
in charge of the mission while her
husband, George C. Brinkman, was
in the East gathering new converts.
Sitting at her desk in the mis
sion (an ex-delicatessen store, re
papered with the Pentacostal
Herald and various religious tracts)
Mrs. Brinkman explained that a
certain amount of frenzy and
hysteria was needed in order to get
into close communication with the
Holy Ghost. She admitted, though,
that some devotees carried this to
excess.
"Too high strung," was her ver
dict, when told of the two women
who believed they were called on to
destroy their babies.
excess of male over female migra
tion. This latter excess amounted
to 590,000.
With regard to women, in 1911'
there were in the United Kingdom
1,329,000 more females than males,
and in the seelf-governing domin
ions 762,000 more males than fe
males. During the war the sur
plus of females in the United King
dom "must unfortunately have .in
creased. In the dominions, on the
other hand, the war has caused,
temporarily at any rate, some ad
justment of the disproportion.
Obviously one of the problems for
solution in connection with imperial
migration is whether it is desirable
and possible to divert to the domin
ions any proportion of the surplus
of women in the mother country.
tWhat the dominions require espe
cially are agricultural laborers and
domestic servants. The commission
ers state that "there were clear in
dications before, 1914 that the agri
cultural population of the United
Kingdom, on which the dominions
had drawn so largely in past years,
was no longer capable of providing
any considerable supply of mjgrants.
The purely rural population of the
mother country was "not in excess
of her own necessity,
SOUtO
MUCH PROGRESS
MADE IN ROADS
IN LAST DECADE
Highways Today Show Con
trast From Those of 10
Years Ago; All Classes
Benefited.
"When one brings to mind the
toads of a decade ago," says W. S.
Johnson, All-American truck dis
tributor, Chicago, "and compares
them with the roads of the present
day, a contrast is presented which
is hardly believable roads which
only could be travelled by horses,
and then only after the weather had
been favorable for a sufficient length
of time to permit a wagon being
drawn over them, as against the
present day roads which can be
traveled practically 'during and after
all sorts of weather,
"At a glance the casual observer
may Comment upon the comparative
condition of roads 10 years ago and
now, but it is the user of those
roads who sees the advantages rath
er than the condition of the roads
themselves. He sees the possibilities
that the better roads have made;
constant hauling, more hauling, and
cheaper hauling under all conditions.
Would Cut Cost.
"It is estimated by the office of
public roads that the cost of haul
age of the surplus products of the
farm, forest and mine reach well
over $500,000,000 annually, and that
if further improvement were made
upon present roads this cost could
be cut in half. This means that bet
ter roads would increase the inef
ficiency of haulage 100 per cent. It
would mean that practically twice
the volume of work could be accom
plished with the same number of
trucks, and that the cost of haulage
wouid be materially reduced. This
is most important because it not
only affects the users of trucks but
it affects everyone. If the haulage
cost is reduced, the cost of the pro
duce as it is handled over the mer
chandising counter also is reduced.
Mistaken Idea.
"The idea that the truck user and
the automobile owner derive all the
benefit of the good roads toward
which everyone pays taxes, is a mis
taken ne. Regardless of whether.
man drives a truck or car over the
roads which are built and repaired
by the assistance of the taxpayer,
every individual derives a dividend
from the investment which may be
realized in the reduction of the cost
of food, wearing apparel, or other
necessities of life. No one' can af
ford to overlook the opportunity of
advocating good roads if it is con
sidered worth while to advocate the
reduction of the high cost of living."
Eats Thirty-Six Eggs Dies.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Michael Mesko
cy, 49, ate three dozen eggs as a
part of his Easter celebration. That
night he died of acute indigestion.
SECOND NEWS SECTION
SPORTS AND WANT ADS .
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS
AIRPLANE TO
MAKE FLIGHT
FROM CAIRO
TO M GAPE
British Royal Air Force Will
Cross Darkest Africa in .
Air; Start Survey
of the Route.
By Cnlvermal Service.
London, July 12. The royal tlr
force, middle east, was left in a
position to inaugurate at once the
preparation for establishing post
war aerial routes when the cessation
of hostilities against Turkey came,
on October 31, 1918. Advantage was
taken of the favorable opportun
ity by Major General Salmond and ,
parties were selected to survey the
possible air routes from Cairo to
the cape.
It may at first seem strange thai "
Africa, one of the least explorer!
continents, should be chosen as th (
first over which to make a trans
continental air service, but the
Cape-to-Cairo route possesses th
great advantage, from the air forci
point of view, of being entirely un
der British control. There wai
consequently no delay in negotiat
ing with other powers.
Two years previously the rout
from Solium to Cairo had been used
by Major MacLaren when flying
from England to Egypt, and over
this preliminary portion of the jour
ney from England aerodromes had
been established at Solium, Mersa,
Martruh and Amria (at the edge of
the Delta, near Alexandria), while
intermediate landing grounds had
been cleared for use in emergency. .
Planes in Sudan in 1915.
Also in 1915 aeroplanes had beec
employed in the Sudan against Ali
Dinar of Darfur, and an aerodrome
had been constructed at Khartum.
In the absence of good maps of
the Southern Sudan or Central
Africa it was a problem at Caire
to pick out a proposed route, but
with help from the Air Ministry in
London preparations were pushed
on with such speed that in about a
month after the signing of the ar
mistice with Turkey No. 1 African
survey party was ready to start
Parties Nos. 2 and 3 were ready a '
few1 weeks later.
The continent was divided into
three sections; No. 1 party was to .
survey Egypt, the Sudan, and as far .
south as Victoria Nyanza; No. 2
covered the central stretch from
iVctoria Nyanza (partly through
what was German East Africa) Kit
tita, at the southern end of the Lake
Tanganyika; No. 3 party had to in-
spect the line from Kituta to Cape .
Town.
Followed the Nile.
The first party, which had the
longest but easiest stretch to cover,
followed the course ot the Nile
almost throughout and were aided
by that river in the transportation
of men and stores. The second
party had a short stretch oyer little
known country, presenting immense
difficulties from every point o
view. The southern party covered
a tremendbus distance, but followed
the course of the railway almost
throughout. f
It was intended that each officer
should at once proceed to one or ,
more stations on the route and se
lect an aerodrome site. He ; was
then to engage local native labor to
clear and prepare the spot, advising
the leader of his party of the prog
ress made. Supplies of petrol and
cil were carried, so that the aero
dromes might be ready to receive
aeroplanes as soon as the sites
were cleared. ' 1 , -
Each party consisted of the ,
leader, five to eight other officers ; 1
and less than twenty other ranks,
all chosen from the Royal Air
Force in the Middle East.
The Route Outline.
In the original instructions the
following were the stations to be in
vestigated. The route prepared by
her.dquarters, Middle East, has been
followed out and found very satis
factory: -1
No. 1 party (commanded by
X ajor Long, D. S. O.). Cairo
Asriut. Assuan, Wadi Haifa, Meroe,
Atbara, Khartum, Kodok (Fas
hoda), Gondokoro, Jinga, Port
Victoria. :
No. 2 party (commanded by
Major Emmett). Mlunza (south
end of victoria Nyanza), Ujyi,
Kituta. - .
No. 3 party (commanded by Ma
jor Court-Treatt). Abercorn (near
Kituta), Broken Hill, Livingstone.
Salisbury, Buluwayo. Palachwe -
Mafeking (or Kimberley Pretoria),
Rloemfontein, Beaufort West Cane
Town, '
The three leaders of the expedi
tion are all well fitted for the work
required. Major Emmett being , a
well-known big-game hunter and
Major Court-Treatt having shortly
before the war journeyed through
the Sahara to Timbukttt.
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