World News in Story and Picture

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 23 (Supplement)

World News in Story and Picture

POLAR EXPLORERS SAFE. News has come from the Antarctic that caused, feeling of joy and relief to people all over the world. . "Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth and Mr. HollickKenyon are alive and well at Little America." This was the message which came from the Discovery 11. last week. The Discovery arrived at the Bay of Whales oa January 15, and shortly afterwards a radio was dispatched saying that a man and a machine had been sighted from one of the aeroplanes. Other messages were, owing to bad atmospheric conditons, too indistinct and muddled to be decoded. It is gratifying to know that a British expedition succeeded in locating and rescuing the explorers. The Australian Government and all others concerned have won the admiration of the rest of the world for the speedy and efficient way in which they set about the enterprise. Lincoln Ellsworth and' his co-pilot left their base at Dundee Island in the Polar Star for the trans-Antarc-tic flight to the Bay of Whales. The day after they left a short message was picked up by the Dunedin, but, from that time till the rescue, nothing was heard of the explorers. ) The Wyatt Earp, which has been ] following the instructions Lincoln ] Ellsworth himself drew up for a pos-1 s

sible rescue, was about 320 miles from, the Bay of Whales when the 3 good news was broadcast. She has f been hindered in her course by a , seemingly unbroken ice-floe in the Boss Sea area. : KENILWORTH CASTLE. The local authorities of Kenilworth, \ Warwickshire, are making arrangements for acquiring the fam" ous Keni]worth Castle. Its present owner is Lord Clarendon, GovernorGeneral of South Africa. The property, including the site of the modern town, was granted by Henry I. to Geoffry de Clinton, one of his Norman subjects. Geoffry de Clinton built the castle, which was enlarged by succeeding owners. In the reign of King John it lapsed to the Crown and remained a Royal possession till Henry 111. granted it to Simon de Montfort. Through the years to the reign of Queen Elizabeth it was held by one or other of the prominent princes or noblemen of those times. j In 15G2 Queen Elizabeth gave it to 1 Robert Dudley, who became-Earl of Leicester. Sir Walter Scott makeja it ' the scene of many of the incidents in : "Kenihvorth," his famous novel of 1 Elizabethan times. It was there i that the ill-fated Amy Robsart met > her death. After Leicester died the ' property again came into the possession of the Crown. I s

s RUDYARD KIPLING. B g The death has occurred of Rudyard 1 Kipling, one of the most famous of 2 our modern writers. He was in his 71st year. There are few children throughout the English-speaking world who are . not familiar with "Just-so Stories," I j and other children, too, for they have ■ been translated many times. Little ' children and grown-ups will always be delighted with "How the Elephant Got His Trunk," "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Butterfly that Stamped" and the rest of these entrancing tales. The "Jungle Books"—stories of India's wild life— are' equally popular. '/ He wrote for adults several books ahd many short stories dealing with life in India. His greatest novel is "Kim," a tale of native life in India's cities, along her roads and in the Himalayas. The manuscript of "Kim" he gave to the British Museum, on condition that the gift was not announced till after his death. ! He won fame, too, as a poet. Though many of his poems were of ( I a topical nature and are of minor ; literary value, many will take a per- < manent place in our language. His i most famous serious poem is the £ "Recessional." s Rudyard Kipling, Stanley Baldwin I and Ramsay Mac Donald were cousins, i

A GOLDEN STATUETTE. 1 An officer of the British Army f recently purchased from a brass 3 dealer in Benares a statuette which he believed to be brass. After cleant ing it he became convinced it was of - considerably greater value and took it to an expert, who declared -it to be '■ solid gold. The eyes of the statuette, * thought at' first to' be glass, proved I to be rose diamonds. ' The officer paid £1 for the treasure and has since refused over £10,000. for it. The diamonds, however, he has sold for £3900. Hundreds of people are now flocking to the merchant's shop and are paying ridiculous prices for his wares in hopes that a similar good fortune may befall them. TO CHANGE HIS NATIONALITY. Professor Einstein, the discoverer of the general theory of relativity, is. to become an American citizen. He was born in Germany 52 years ago, but was expelled from that country in 1933, as he is an ardent Zionist. He lived and worked for a time in Switzerland, and became a naturalised Swiss. Now he has been appointed professor of mathematics at Princeton College, United States. He has now filled in his papers for naturalisation as an Am priori citizen.