TRAVELLING JOURNALIST.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) . WELLINGTON, Thursday. A long series of adventures has been the lot of Mr. Bohumil Pospisil, a Czeclio-Slovakian journalist and author, who is visiting Wellington. He claims to have accomplished a world record by covering 62,500 miles through 50 countries. On August 10, 1926, he _ started out from Prague, the capital of Czecho-Slovakia, with one suit of clothes and no money, earning his living on the way and travelling on foot, by camel, donkey, horse, elephant, river boat and motor car. lie has been aided throughout by the knowledge of several | languages. (
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 186, 8 August 1930, Page 14
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