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...beginning of the War, his immense wealth (his income last year was about $7,000,000) enabled him to fit out the hospital ship Loyalty and maintain it for the duration of the War. He also gave several airplanes and sums of money to the country, and his troops fought valiantly in France, Egypt, East Africa and Mesopotamia. At the Durbar of 1911, he was granted a salute of 21 guns; and, in 1917, his generosity was rewarded by making this salute (recognizing royal rank, a big factor in the life of an Indian Potentate) hereditary...
Meantime, a ship from Norway approached Spitzbergen bearing two seaplanes and their pilots, with instructions to scout the ice floes but not to attempt the hazardous penetration towards the Pole...
...France, Ida Rubenstein "the superb," lion huntress, onetime fiancée of Poet D'Annunzio of Italy, organized a charity fête to finance a search for Amundsen and Ellsworth in the Pourquoi Pas, ice-worthy ship of Explorer Jean Charcot...
...reflected in manners, these naive ones are of good report. "They are developing new resources in human intercourse." The Lady and the Carpet-More of the same mood, wherein globe-trotting female self-expressionists are contrasted with 1) a quiet, acute Circassian, the stay-at-home spouse of a ship's surgeon; 2) a self-made young business woman from Harlem who, gazing on Roman antiquities, simply remarked her preference for things brand...
They left their ship at Bombay, the railroad and motor cars in northernmost India at Srinagar. They gathered their pack beasts, guides, food, guns, blankets, maps and nerve, and bored on foot into the mountainous fastnesses of Kashmir. Last week, they telegraphed from Dras, 75 miles beyond Srinagar, that they had scrambled safely through fearsome Zoji Pass, were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose...